gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
The protective effect of early intraoperative injection of viscoelastic material in trabeculectomy. (1992)

In a prospective study, we evaluated the effect of intracameral injection of sodium hyaluronate (HA) in trabeculectomy on short- and long-term results, including the effect on the corneal endothelium. Twenty-two patients were randomly assigned into two groups: group A, consisting of 11 patients, underwent standard trabeculectomy; in group B (11 patients), additionally, HA was injected into the anterior chamber immediately following paracentesis in an attempt to minimize shallowing of the chamber after the subsequent trabeculectomy. Both groups had comparable age distributions, preoperative intraocular pressures (IOPs), preoperative endothelial cell counts, postoperative IOPs after 3 months, and glaucoma medication indices. The reduction in the number of endothelial cells after 1 month was significantly greater in group A than in group B (16.1% vs 6.7%). Also, significantly more shallow anterior chambers occurred in group A (three eyes vs one eye). However, 1 day postoperatively, the average IOP was 16.4 mm Hg in group A, as compared with 25 mm Hg in group B. Thus, although HA, injected early in trabeculectomy, appeared to protect against corneal endothelial loss and flat anterior chamber, it also seemed to be associated with early IOP spikes.
On the method for the pH measurement of plant cells by means of vital staining. (1950)

Most pH value of plant were measured are of the expressed sap of tissues. The expressed juice, however, consists of water which lies in the intercellular spaces or conducting tissues and cell sap with some plasm substances. It is impossible to measure the pH value of a definite part of a individual cells by such a method. Nevertheless, we might know the relation between the pH value and disease by this method, when the plant tissue set up necrosis. However, in the case of studing the mechanism of the resistance to disease, the pH values we need to know are of the earlyer or normal stage of cells rather than necrosis. In such a case, the most ideal method is vital staining one. Thus, a number of pH value by this method were obtained by others. But it is regrettable that this method is not yet popularized. Then, to tried to it, we tested about 80 kinds of dyes on the permeability, intrability, and toxic character to vegetable plasms, and tried to reform microscopic colorimeter (not microcolorimeter). In this paper, we should like to report chiefly the microscopic colorimeter with some results obtained as a sample. On the rests, we shall report in another chance. The principle of the microscopic colorimeter divised is utilized conversely the principle of Abbe's drawing apparatus as shown in figure. We made standard colour solutions by adding original dye solutions (0.1%) in buffer solutions, and then set them in apparatus. We can compare tone of colour between stained cells and standard. By using this apparatus, we may distinguish acculately to the first place of decimal in pH value. Furthermore, it has good points required when using this method as follows : (1) It is possible to change easily the concentration or components of standard solutions. (2) It is possible to use any artificial light as a light source of microscope, owing to make equal quality of light by changing filter which illuminate standard solutions. The plant cell used were the 4-5 th layer of cortex of root-tip at 8mm. from the top of Barley. Dyes solved in tap water (pH 6.8) and the concentration is 0.01%. Dyes used are neutral red, neutral violet, cresol red, bismarck brown, brom thymol blue, methyl red, congo red, alizalin red S, congo rubin, phenol red, brom cresol purple, and rosolic acid. Results obtained are as follows : vacuole pH 7.4, plasm 6.6, nucleus 7.4-7.2, and membrane 6.0. [figure] C. Standard pH solutions, c is a side view of it. P. Plisms. F1, F2, f1, f2. Glass filters. T1, T2. Electric transformers. S. Slide glass with a subject. M. Microscope.
Supplemental Tables 1-4 from Selenium- or Vitamin E–Related Gene Variants, Interaction with Supplementation, and Risk of High-Grade Prostate Cancer in SELECT (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Supplemental Table 1: Minor allele frequencies and Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) p-values for SNPs across antioxidant &amp; transport related genes. Supplemental Table 2: Full results for the associations between antioxidant SNPs x selenium supplementation. Supplemental Table 3: Full results for the associations between antioxidant, transport, &amp; DNA repair SNPs x vitamin E supplementation and risk of high-grade and overall prostate cancer (N=1,538) in SELECT. Supplemental Table 4: Full results for the independent associations of SNPs and risk high-grade and overall prostate cancer in the placebo arm of SELECT.&lt;/p&gt;
Kinematic Analysis of Olympic Hurdle Performance: Women's 100 Meters (1985)

Selected kinematic variables in the performance of the Gold and Silver medalists and the eighth-place finisher in the women's 100-meter hurdles final at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games were investigated. Cinematographic records were obtained for all track hurdling events at the Games, with the 100-meter hurdle performers singled out for initial analysis. In this race, sagittal view filming records (100 fps) were collected at the 9th hurdle of the performance. Computer generated analysis variables included both direct performance variables (body velocity, support time, etc.) and body kinematics (upper leg position, lower leg velocity, etc.) that have previously been utilized in the analysis of elite athlete hurdlers. The difference in place finish was related to the performance variables body horizontal velocity (direct), vertical velocity (indirect), and support time (indirect). The critical body kinematics variables related to success included upper and lower leg velocity during support into and off the hurdle (direct), relative horizontal foot position (to the body) at touchdown into and off the hurdle (indirect), and relative horizontal foot velocity (to the body) at touchdown into the hurdle.
Content and Illumination Invariant Blur Measures for Realtime Video Processing (2007)

This paper presents an approach to optical blur estimation in images based on the measuring of the spread of edges. Two measures based on this approach are proposed. The first measure defines a model of amplified Gaussian with background for the profile of edges. The second measure is an approximation that does not require the extraction of profiles at edges. Both measures do not depend on the content or illumination of the image, making them suitable for dynamic videos. The behaviour of the proposed measures is finally presented in the context of dynamic videos from a surveillance camera embedded in a transportation vehicle.
Synthesis of Silver Nanodisks Using Polystyrene Mesospheres as Templates (2002)

We report the synthesis of Ag nanodisk using polystyrene mesospheres as templates. TEM measurements show that the average disk thickness is 9.0 +/- 1.0 nm and the diameter is 36 +/- 8 nm. The particles exhibit an intense electronic spectrum that differs markedly from that for spheres (purple vs yellow solutions). We present electromagnetic theory calculations which exhibit a qualitative match with the observed spectrum, enabling us to assign several of the plasmon resonance features.
Mutually constrained multimodal mapping for simultaneous development: Modeling vocal imitation and lexicon acquisition (2010)

This paper presents a method of simultaneous development of vocal imitation and lexicon acquisition with a mutually constrained multimodal mapping. A caregiver is basically assumed to give matched pairs for mappings, for example by imitating the learner's voice or labelling an object that it is looking at. However, the tendency cannot be always expected to be reliable. Subjective consistency is introduced to judge whether to believe the observed experiences (external input) as reliable signal for learning. It estimates the value of one layer by combining the values from other layers and external input. Based on the proposed method, a simulated infant robot learns mappings among the representations of its caregiver's phonemes, those of its own phonemes, and those of objects. The proposed mechanism enables correct mappings even when caregivers do not always give correct examples, as real caregivers do not for their infants.
Phosphoreceptor tyrosine kinase and phosphokinase array analyses of the EGFRvIII in the transiently transfected IMR32 cells from A Novel EGFR Extracellular Domain Mutant, EGFRΔ768, Possesses Distinct Biological and Biochemical Properties in Neuroblastoma (2023)

&lt;p&gt;S7. EGFRvIII activation resulted in phosphorylation of EphA10, RYK and ALK in these cells. Noted the strong EGFRvIII phosphorylation signal detected by the array.&lt;/p&gt;
Health education at La Ribera universitary hospital (2013)

This paper describes the potential of learning platforms offering at the La Ribera Health Department. More than 100 activities have been designed and at least 5000 users have been participating. The paper concludes, first, that there are important factors to achieve a successful implementation of such elearning project. In second place it remarks that elearning platform can be used for other support activities rather than only online courses. Finally, the study emphasizes that training in electronic medical record of our professionals is a key element of hospital business.
Combination of RSS newsfeeds and forms for driving Web-based workflow (2005)

This paper proposes a novel application of the popular content syndication format RSS (really simple syndication) to improve the user experience of humans interacting with electronic workflows. We will discuss this in relation to a more general solution, formidable, for developing and deploying electronic business processes that consist of a mixture of automatic and human-facing steps
A multi-band OFDM system for UWB communication (2004)

In this paper, a multi-band OFDM system for ultra-wideband communication (UWB) is described. In this system, the UWB spectrum is divided into bands that are 528 MHz wide and the data is transmitted across the bands using a time-frequency code. Within each sub-band, an OFDM modulation scheme is used to convey the information. An overview of the multi-band OFDM system and various system design trade-offs are discussed within this paper. In addition, bit precision requirements, power consumption estimates and performance results in realistic multi-path environments are provided for the multi-band OFDM system.
Editorial: Male Infertility Redefined–Back to the Basics (1996)

No AccessJournal of UrologyClinical Urology: Editorial1 May 1996Editorial: Male Infertility Redefined–Back to the Basics Paul J. Turek Paul J. TurekPaul J. Turek More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(01)66151-2AboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookLinked InTwitterEmail "Editorial: Male Infertility Redefined–Back to the Basics." The Journal of Urology, 155(5), p. 1643 References 1 : The cost of a successful delivery with in vitro fertilization. New Engl. J. Med1994; 331: 239. Google Scholar 2 : Biochemical analysis of electroejaculates in spinal cord injured men: comparison to normal ejaculates. J. Urol1991; 145: 73. Link, Google Scholar 3 : Surgery of seminal vesicles, ampullae, vasa deferentia and spermatic cord. In: The Sexual Glands of the Male. Edited by . New York: Oxford University Press1942. Google Scholar Department of Urology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.© 1996 by American Urological Association, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by (2018) EDITORIAL COMMENTJournal of Urology, VOL. 171, NO. 1, (235-235), Online publication date: 1-Jan-2004. Volume 155Issue 5May 1996Page: 1643 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 1996 by American Urological Association, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Paul J. Turek More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...
Serine phosphorylation of human P450c17 increases 17,20-lyase activity: implications for adrenarche and the polycystic ovary syndrome. (1995)

Microsomal cytochrome P450c17 catalyzes both steroid 17 alpha-hydroxylase activity and scission of the C17-C20 steroid bond (17,20-lyase) on the same active site. Adrenal 17 alpha-hydroxylase activity is needed to produce cortisol throughout life, but 17,20-lyase activity appears to be controlled independently in a complex, age-dependent pattern. We show that human P450c17 is phosphorylated on serine and threonine residues by a cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Phosphorylation of P450c17 increases 17,20-lyase activity, while dephosphorylation virtually eliminates this activity. Hormonally regulated serine phosphorylation of human P450c17 suggests a possible mechanism for human adrenarche and may be a unifying etiologic link between the hyperandrogenism and insulin resistance that characterize the polycystic ovary syndrome.
Synthesis of New 7-Alkylated Theophyllines by Chemical Modification of Dyphylline (2001)

Chemical modification of the propyl side chain of 7-(2,3-dihydroxyprop-1-yl)theophylline led to a variety of hetero-cyclic compounds linked to the theophylline by a methylene group.
Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education (2014)

Presentation on “Backpacks for Kids” Program Barb Bondioli, School Social Worker at Grove Elementary, provided an overview of the “Backpack for Kids” program which was developed to assist families in poverty. A partnership with UW Extension, the United Way, United Healthcare, and River Cities High School has been formed to support the program. River Cities High School assists with housing the food and packing the bags which contain low sodium, high fiber items to prepare a meal. Families from Grove, Mead, Howe, and River Cities are currently served through the program. Recently, a Heart of Wisconsin leadership group adopted the program as corporate partners, which is allowing the program to be further enhanced. Ms. Bondioli explained that over the last 17 years in her career, she has witnessed more and more financial struggles for families in the community due to employment cutbacks, and felt the need to do something to help these families. The Board thanked Ms. Bondioli for her presentation, and for all of the entities and individuals involved in supporting district families through the Backpack for Kids program.
Elastic scattering of surface plasmon polaritons: Modeling and experiment (1998)

Elastic (in-plane) scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP's) is modeled by considering isotropic pointlike scatterers whose responses to the incident SPP field are phenomenologically related to their effective polarizabilities. Numerical simulations of single, double, and multiple scattering are presented for randomly situated scatterers showing the interplay between different orders of scattering and localization phenomena. Correlation between the scattering regimes and spatial Fourier spectra of the corresponding SPP intensity distributions is considered. Various optical microcomponents (e.g., straight and curved micromirrors) formed by sets of point scatterers are also simulated, and the stability and dispersion of their characteristics are investigated. The appropriate experimental results for SPP scattering by both random and specially configured sets of microscatterers are reported for two excitation wavelengths (594 and 633 nm) and different metal (silver and gold) films. The near-field optical images obtained are related to the calculated SPP intensity distributions demonstrating that the model developed can be successfully used in studies of SPP elastic scattering, e.g., to design the microcomponents for SPP's.
Airway smooth muscle in health and disease; methods of measurement and relation to function (2000)

Smooth muscle is present and probably functional in the airways in utero and increases in absolute area during growth with little further change during adulthood. It encircles the entire airway below the level of the main bronchus, in a roughly circular orientation, except at high lung volumes. It occupies relatively more of the airway wall in the peripheral airways, reaching a maximum in the membranous bronchioles. Measurement of smooth muscle area in the airway wall is confounded by clinical classification of cases, methods of tissue retrieval and preparation, staining and orientation of sections, magnification, image analysis and statistical methods of comparison between groups. Airway smooth muscle area is pathologically increased in inflammatory conditions of the airways such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in relation to airways obstruction, and asthma, in relation to severity and airway size (between 25 and 250% compared with control cases). It is increased in sudden infant death syndrome, but there are few studies in other conditions such as bronchiectasis. In asthma, smooth muscle must shorten (not necessarily to an abnormal degree) for the structural abnormalities of the airway to manifest as excessive airway narrowing. Not surprisingly there is renewed interest in the relationships between the mechanical and contractile properties of smooth muscle, parenchymal properties and lung volume and how these interact to determine smooth muscle length. The relative importance of smooth muscle area and mechanical properties, altered airway structure and airway inflammation in disease are yet to be determined.
P2‐522: Immunomodulation of app processing via the endosomal pathway (2011)

The endocytic pathway is responsible for the internalization and initial processing of cell surface APP. Neurons appear to be especially dependent on healthy endocytic function, and endosome dysfunction is increasingly related to a range of neurodegenerative diseases. Recent findings show that reduction in trophic support alters the processing of APP towards BACE cleavage that mediates a reduction in synaptic transmission, synaptic loss, neurite retraction and, ultimately, programmed cell death, suggesting that BACE inhibitors may have an advantage over Aß-targeted therapies, at least where endosome dysfunction is concerned. Here we propose a novel immunotherapy based on antibodies directed to the ß-secretase site of APP which are presumed to affect endocytic pathways of APP processing, interfering with cell surface APP-BACE interaction. Trangenic mice (Tg) models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were treated with antibodies against APP under different regimes. The antibody administration reduced intracellular AßP levels and amyloid burden in all brain sections, including 50% reduction in deposition of fibrillar Aß in the blood vessels which accompany the pathology in the parenchyma. In addition, the antibody treatment of AD Tg mice reduced sAPPß levels and significantly reduced phosphorylated tau. Improved cognitive functions were associated with reduced levels of microglia activation, reduced occurrence of brain hemorrhage, and did not induce any inflammatory or autoimmune responses in either the brain or periphery. If upregulation of endocytosis leads to accelerated ß-amyloidogenesis in more than 90% of all Alzheimer's and/or other neurodegenerative diseases in the absence of gene mutation, then antibody interference in APP and BACE interaction may affect intracellular APP processing and, thus, become a therapeutic approach.
Training LSTM Networks With Resistive Cross-Point Devices (2018)

In our previous work we have shown that resistive cross point devices, so called resistive processing unit (RPU) devices, can provide significant power and speed benefits when training deep fully connected networks as well as convolutional neural networks. In this work, we further extend the RPU concept for training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) namely LSTMs. We show that the mapping of recurrent layers is very similar to the mapping of fully connected layers and therefore the RPU concept can potentially provide large acceleration factors for RNNs as well. In addition, we study the effect of various device imperfections and system parameters on training performance. Symmetry of updates becomes even more crucial for RNNs; already a few percent asymmetry results in an increase in the test error compared to the ideal case trained with floating point numbers. Furthermore, the input signal resolution to the device arrays needs to be at least 7 bits for successful training. However, we show that a stochastic rounding scheme can reduce the input signal resolution back to 5 bits. Further, we find that RPU device variations and hardware noise are enough to mitigate overfitting, so that there is less need for using dropout. Here we attempt to study the validity of the RPU approach by simulating large scale networks. For instance, the models studied here are roughly 1500 times larger than the more often studied multilayer perceptron models trained on the MNIST dataset in terms of the total number of multiplication and summation operations performed per epoch.
Spontaneous Formation of Inorganic Paper‐Like Materials. (2004)

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Absorbing boundary conditions for the finite-difference time-domain calculation of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation (1991)

The absorbing boundary conditions for the finite-difference calculation of the time-dependent one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation are presented. These are the local boundary conditions that approximate the one-way wave equation of a wave function. The conditions minimize undesirable reflections at the artificial boundaries of the area of computation, thus enabling us to limit the computation area efficiently. The calculations of the transmission coefficient of multibarrier tunneling show the validity of the method.
Synthesis of N‐tert‐butyl‐α‐(4‐[18F]fluorophenyl)‐nitrone ([18F]FPBN) for in vivo detection of free radicals (1995)

Abstract We have synthesized the fluorine‐18 labeled derivative of N ‐ tert ‐butyl‐α‐phenylnitrone (PBN), a free radical spin trapping agent widely used with electron spin resonance (ESR). N ‐ tert ‐Butyl‐α‐(4‐[ 18 F]fluorophenyl)‐nitrone ([ 18 F]FPBN) could be prepared with low radiochemical yield (3% decay corrected) by the direct aromatic nucleophilic substitution of N ‐ tert ‐butyl‐α‐(4‐nitrophenyl)nitrone with [ 18 F]fluoride. An alternate two step synthesis route consisted of the nucleophilic [ 18 F]fluoride substitution of 4‐ N , N , N ‐trimethylammoniumbenzaldehyde triflate to yield 4‐[ 18 F]fluorobenzaldehyde, which was distilled into a vial containing N ‐ tert ‐butyl‐hydroxylamine in 2N NaOH. 4‐[ 18 F]Fluorobenzaldehyde readily reacted with the hydroxylamine to form [ 18 F]FPBN. [ 18 F]FPBN was obtained in overall decay corrected yields of 24% in a total synthesis time &lt; 45 min. and was suitable for further applications in in vivo studies of free radicals.
3-D unstructured adaptive supercomputing for transient problems of volcanic blast waves (1998)

The paper presents numerical approach to threedimensional volcanic blast wave simulation over the real ground surface geometry of Mt. Aso Nakadake, Kyushu Island, Japan. The final aim of the numerical simulations is to conclude about the volcano explosive eruption mechanism on the basis of comparative analysis of computed pressure histories for different eruption models with the planned direct field measurements. To achieve this goal, an efficient numerical technique is developed capable to simulate accurately 3-D effects of blast wave propagation and interaction with the ground surface. The method is based on a conservative Godunov-type finite-volume second-order accurate shock-capturing scheme coupled with an unstructured tetrahedral grid. The latter undergoes dynamic local refinement/derefinement which drastically improves resolution while maintaining restricted amount of total grid nodes, thus contributing to computational efficiency. Special attention is given to implementation 1. Visiting Professor;