gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
When Layered Nickel–Cobalt Silicate Hydroxide Nanosheets Meet Carbon Nanotubes: A Synergetic Coaxial Nanocable Structure for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation (2015)

Developing robust earth-abundant electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an ongoing scientific challenge, which is coupled with a number of important electrochemical processes and many key renewable energy systems, such as water splitting, rechargeable metal-air batteries, and regenerative fuel cells. Here, we proposed a rational design and fabrication of the synergetic coaxial nanocable structures by intimate growth of the layered nickel-cobalt silicate hydroxide nanosheets on the outer surfaces of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs@NCS) and demonstrated their high efficiency in electrocatalytic OER from water splitting. The electrocatalytic activities of the MWCNTs@NCS were found to be significantly higher than that of bare NCS and pristine MWCNTs, synergetically determining by such the constituted individual components. Among them, the MWCNTs@NCS-2 exhibited best electrocatalytic OER performance, showing a small OER onset potential, large anodic current and long-term durability, which was favorably comparable to the previously reported NiCo-based OER electrocatalysts in alkaline electrolytes. To the best of our knowledge, this was a first example on the earth-abundant metal silicate hydroxides utilized in electrochemical water splitting.
Dynamic Peptide Library for the Discovery of Charge Transfer Hydrogels (2015)

Coupling of peptide self-assembly to dynamic sequence exchange provides a useful approach for the discovery of self-assembling materials. In here, we demonstrate the discovery and optimization of aqueous, gel-phase nanostructures based on dynamically exchanging peptide sequences that self-select to maximize charge transfer of n-type semiconducting naphthalenediimide (NDI)-dipeptide bioconjugates with various π-electron-rich donors (dialkoxy/hydroxy/amino-naphthalene or pyrene derivatives). These gel-phase peptide libraries are characterized by spectroscopy (UV-vis and fluorescence), microscopy (TEM), HPLC, and oscillatory rheology and it is found that, of the various peptide sequences explored (tyrosine Y-NDI with tyrosine Y, phenylalanine F, leucine L, valine V, alanine A or glycine G-NH2), the optimum sequence is tyrosine-phenylalanine in each case; however, both its absolute and relative yield amplification is dictated by the properties of the donor component, indicating cooperativity of peptide sequence and donor/acceptor pairs in assembly. The methodology provides an in situ discovery tool for nanostructures that enable dynamic interfacing of supramolecular electronics with aqueous (biological) systems.
Automatic whole brain tract‐based analysis using predefined tracts in a diffusion spectrum imaging template and an accurate registration strategy (2015)

Automated tract-based analysis of diffusion MRI is an important tool for investigating tract integrity of the cerebral white matter. Current template-based automatic analyses still lack a comprehensive list of tract atlas and an accurate registration method. In this study, tract-based automatic analysis (TBAA) was developed to meet the demands. Seventy-six major white matter tracts were reconstructed on a high-quality diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) template, and an advanced two-step registration strategy was proposed by incorporating anatomical information of the gray matter from T1-weighted images in addition to microstructural information of the white matter from diffusion-weighted images. The automatic analysis was achieved by establishing a transformation between the DSI template and DSI dataset of the subject derived from the registration strategy. The tract coordinates in the template were transformed to native space in the individual's DSI dataset, and the microstructural properties of major tract bundles were sampled stepwise along the tract coordinates of the subject's DSI dataset. In a validation study of eight well-known tracts, our results showed that TBAA had high geometric agreement with manual tracts in both deep and superficial parts but significantly smaller measurement variability than manual method in functional difference. Additionally, the feasibility of the method was demonstrated by showing tracts with altered microstructural properties in patients with schizophrenia. Fifteen major tract bundles were found to have significant differences after controlling the family-wise error rate. In conclusion, the proposed TBAA method is potentially useful in brain-wise investigations of white matter tracts, particularly for a large cohort study.
Effects of PGPR Co-inoculation on Growth,Phosphorus Nutrition and Phosphatase/PhytaseActivities of Faba Bean under DifferentPhosphorus Availability Conditions (2020)

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) may improve crop yield and reduce or optimize the use of chemical fertilizers. We investigated the effect of co-inoculation on growth, phosphorus nutrition, and phosphatase-phytase activities of Vicia faba under different phosphorus availability conditions. The studied strains possess several PGPR traits such as nitrogen fixation ability, solubilization of phosphate and potassium, and production of exopolysaccharides, auxins, and siderophores. Based on their 16S rDNA sequences, the strains were identified as Rahnella aquatilis (PGP30), Pseudomonas brassicacearum (PGP291) and Rhizobium sp. (RhOF57A). In a greenhouse experiment, plants were inoculated with an individual strain or co-inoculated with two strains in addition to uninoculated controls. Each setup was supplemented either with tricalcium phosphate Ca 3 (PO 4 ) 2 (TCP treatment) or irrigated with potassium phosphate KH 2 PO 4 (PO 4 treatment). Regardless of the applied phosphorus source, co-inoculation significantly increased biomass and phosphorus concentrations in plants as well as in bean pods. Moreover, especially co-inoculation increased phosphatase-phytase activities in roots supplemented with tricalcium phosphate. This study suggests that co-inoculation of plants is a means to prevent phosphorus limitation and for judicious use of chemical fertilizers.
Adhesion improvement of RF-sputtered alumina coatings as determined by the scratch test (1993)

One of the most important problems to overcome in the production of coatings, a major technology in surface modification, is the maximization of coating to substrate adhesion. In spite of its limitations, the scratch technique is most used in adhesion characterization studies. In this study, the adhesion of alumina coatings deposited by RF magnetron sputtering on AISI M2 high speed steel (HSS) was evaluated by the scratch test. An attempt to improve the adhesion of the alumina coatings was investigated by the deposition of an intermediate layer of Ti or TiN. The influence of the substrate surface roughness, the intermediate layer thickness, and the sputter etch cleaning on the coating adhesion was studied.
The CHI '95 conference electronic publication (1996)

article The CHI '95 conference electronic publication: introduction to an experiment Share on Authors: Robert Mack View Profile , Linn Marks View Profile , Dave Collins View Profile , Keith Instone View Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCHI BulletinVolume 28Issue 2April 1996 pp 62–75https://doi.org/10.1145/226650.226674Published:01 April 1996 0citation247DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads247Last 12 Months0Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
Efficacy and safety of brimonidine and dorzolamide for intraocular pressure lowering in glaucoma and ocular hypertension (2007)

Brimonidine and dorzolamide are both efficacious and reasonably well tolerated. Possible overall distinctions in efficacy were obscured by differences in study designs and treatment regimens, but adjunctive therapy with brimonidine may reduce IOP as effectively or more effectively than adjunctive or fixed combination dorzolamide therapy. In certain patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension brimonidine may be a better choice than dorzolamide for second-line treatment.
Cyclodextrin-Containing Polymers: Versatile Platforms of Drug Delivery Materials (2012)

Nanoparticles are being widely explored as potential therapeutics for numerous applications in medicine and have been shown to significantly improve the circulation, biodistribution, efficacy, and safety profiles of multiple classes of drugs. One leading class of nanoparticles involves the use of linear, cyclodextrin-containing polymers (CDPs). As is discussed in this paper, CDPs can incorporate therapeutic payloads into nanoparticles via covalent attachment of prodrug/drug molecules to the polymer (the basis of the Cyclosert platform) or by noncovalent inclusion of cationic CDPs to anionic, nucleic acid payloads (the basis of the RONDEL platform). For each of these two approaches, we review the relevant molecular architecture and its rationale, discuss the physicochemical and biological properties of these nanoparticles, and detail the progress of leading drug candidates for each that have achieved clinical evaluation. Finally, we look ahead to potential future directions of investigation and product candidates based upon this technology.
Clinical Indications and Compassionate Use of Phage Therapy: Personal Experience and Literature Review with a Focus on Osteoarticular Infections (2018)

The history of phage therapy started with its first clinical application in 1919 and continues its development to this day. Phages continue to lack any market approval in Western medicine as a recognized drug, but are increasingly used as an experimental therapy for the compassionate treatment of patients experiencing antibiotic failure. The few formal experimental phage clinical trials that have been completed to date have produced inconclusive results on the efficacy of phage therapy, which contradicts the many successful treatment outcomes observed in historical accounts and recent individual case reports. It would therefore be wise to identify why such a discordance exists between trials and compassionate use in order to better develop future phage treatment and clinical applications. The multitude of observations reported over the years in the literature constitutes an invaluable experience, and we add to this by presenting a number of cases of patients treated compassionately with phages throughout the past decade with a focus on osteoarticular infections. Additionally, an abundance of scientific literature into phage-related areas is transforming our knowledge base, creating a greater understanding that should be applied for future clinical applications. Due to the increasing number of treatment failures anticipatedfrom the perspective of a possible post-antibiotic era, we believe that the introduction of bacteriophages into the therapeutic arsenal seems a scientifically sound and eminently practicable consideration today as a substitute or adjuvant to antibiotic therapy.
Identification of novel genetic susceptibility loci for Behçet's disease using a genome-wide association study (2009)

Using an unbiased whole-genome genetic association approach, we identified novel candidate genetic loci that are associated with increased susceptibility for Behçet's disease. These findings will help to better understand the pathogenesis of Behçet's disease and identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention.
Stomatal and Boundary-Layer Conductances in an Amazonian terra Firme Rain Forest (1990)

John Roberts, Osvaldo M. R. Cabral, Leandro Ferreira De Aguiar, Stomatal and Boundary-Layer Conductances in an Amazonian terra Firme Rain Forest, Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Apr., 1990), pp. 336-353
Multi-Label Prediction via Compressed Sensing (2009)

We consider multi-label prediction problems with large output spaces under the assumption of output sparsity -- that the target (label) vectors have small support. We develop a general theory for a variant of the popular error correcting output code scheme, using ideas from compressed sensing for exploiting this sparsity. The method can be regarded as a simple reduction from multi-label regression problems to binary regression problems. We show that the number of subproblems need only be logarithmic in the total number of possible labels, making this approach radically more efficient than others. We also state and prove robustness guarantees for this method in the form of regret transform bounds (in general), and also provide a more detailed analysis for the linear prediction setting.
¿Ajeno Siempre Será (Foreigners Forever)?: (Un)Making Dominican/Haitian Identity and Implications of Human Rights and Modernity (2016)

This article examines Dominican state actions leading up to the September 23rd, 2013 constitutional court decision in Dominican Republic which changed the country’s citizenship policy and applied it retroactively to 1929. This amendment violates their own Constitution and several human rights laws because it creates over a quarter of a million stateless people within the Dominican Republic, a majority of whom are of Haitian descent. The court and government officials argue that this is not racist nor a human rights violation by citing the “in transit” clause in their 1929 citizenship policy, Article 9 of the Haitian constitution and espousing nativist arguments that question immigrants capacity to assimilate and to progress the nation towards Dominican ideals of “modernity.” I argue that the constitutional decision is part of a long-standing “pro urban, light-skinned non-Haitian, non-poor” tradition of Dominican governments and the minority elites which disguise power-seeking, racist and discriminatory policies that systematically disenfranchised Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, the poor rural communities and ultimately the Dominican identity. These actions fall in line with generations of Dominican nationalist discourse and practice that changes the factors of Dominican identity by defining who has the right to belong to the nation-state. In this article, I will examine the case of the Japanese immigrant community in the Dominican Republic and in doing so highlight the contradictions in and implication of inherent of the 2013 Dominican Constitutional Court Amendment.
Managing distributed shared arrays in a bulk‐synchronous parallel programming environment (2004)

Abstract NestStep is a parallel programming language for the BSP (bulk‐hronous parallel) programming model. In this article we describe the concept of distributed shared arrays in NestStep and its implementation on top of MPI. In particular, we present a novel method for runtime scheduling of irregular, direct remote accesses to sections of distributed shared arrays. Our method, which is fully parallelized, uses conventional two‐sided message passing and thus avoids the overhead of a standard implementation of direct remote memory access based on one‐sided communication. The main prerequisite is that the given program is structured in a BSP‐compliant way. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Enteroinsular Axis (2005)

The concept that signals arising from the gut have the ability to affect endocrine responses and the disposal of carbohydrates has a long history that has classically centered around the modulation of insulin secretion. The term enteroinsular axis was coined to embrace all those factors that contributed to enhance insulin secretion after a meal, and the putative gut hormones were called incretins. Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) was isolated from porcine intestine in 1969, and, initially characterized for its ability to inhibit gastric-acid secretion, was named gastric-inhibitory polypeptide. The relative importance of GIP and Glucagon-like peptide-1 in stimulating insulin secretion in healthy human subjects is difficult to resolve. The importance of the enteroinsular axis in healthy individuals gave rise to the possibility that an incretin defect might be partially responsible for the metabolic abnormalities observed in type 2 diabetes.
Neural network modeling of altered facial expression recognition in autism spectrum disorders based on predictive processing framework (2021)

The mechanism underlying the emergence of emotional categories from visual facial expression information during the developmental process is largely unknown. Therefore, this study proposes a system-level explanation for understanding the facial emotion recognition process and its alteration in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the perspective of predictive processing theory. Predictive processing for facial emotion recognition was implemented as a hierarchical recurrent neural network (RNN). The RNNs were trained to predict the dynamic changes of facial expression movies for six basic emotions without explicit emotion labels as a developmental learning process, and were evaluated by the performance of recognizing unseen facial expressions for the test phase. In addition, the causal relationship between the network characteristics assumed in ASD and ASD-like cognition was investigated. After the developmental learning process, emotional clusters emerged in the natural course of self-organization in higher-level neurons, even though emotional labels were not explicitly instructed. In addition, the network successfully recognized unseen test facial sequences by adjusting higher-level activity through the process of minimizing precision-weighted prediction error. In contrast, the network simulating altered intrinsic neural excitability demonstrated reduced generalization capability and impaired emotional clustering in higher-level neurons. Consistent with previous findings from human behavioral studies, an excessive precision estimation of noisy details underlies this ASD-like cognition. These results support the idea that impaired facial emotion recognition in ASD can be explained by altered predictive processing, and provide possible insight for investigating the neurophysiological basis of affective contact.
Catalysts of plant cell wall loosening (2016)

The growing cell wall in plants has conflicting requirements to be strong enough to withstand the high tensile forces generated by cell turgor pressure while selectively yielding to those forces to induce wall stress relaxation, leading to water uptake and polymer movements underlying cell wall expansion. In this article, I review emerging concepts of plant primary cell wall structure, the nature of wall extensibility and the action of expansins, family-9 and -12 endoglucanases, family-16 xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase (XTH), and pectin methylesterases, and offer a critical assessment of their wall-loosening activity.
Further Advances on B.V.A. Quartz Resonators (1980)

In the 1976 and 1977 Annual msia on Frequency Cmtrol a new piezo-electric resonator desicp was introduced. The recent results on 5 WIZ resamtors ccnceming anplitude frequency effect , aging (versus drive level and quartz material) will be given. Especially it will be shown that extrenely high drive levels can be used (up to 30 m) and that the increase in drive level
The Applicability of Lean and Six Sigma Techniques to Clinical and Translational Research (2009)

Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methods are well suited to help achieve NIH's goal of making clinical and translational research more efficient and cost-effective, enhancing the quality of the research, and facilitating the successful adoption of biomedical research findings into practice.
A phase II clinical trial of idarubicin administered to children with relapsed brain tumors (1998)

IDR, given at a dose of 5 mg/m2/day x 3 days, is not sufficiently active against relapsed medulloblastoma, ependymoma, or brain stem tumors to warrant further study of this agent in a Phase III setting. The response rate for patients with relapsed high grade astrocytoma was 15% (95% confidence interval, 3.3-40%).
A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Calcium Propionate and Calcium Chloride for the Prevention of Parturient Paresis in Dairy Cows (1998)

The efficacy of calcium propionate for the prevention of parturient paresis (milk fever) was compared with that of calcium chloride using 194 cows that had experienced milk fever during the previous calving. The cows were mainly of the Swedish Red and White and Swedish Friesian breeds and were divided randomly into an experimental group (n = 99) and a control group (n = 95). The cows in the experimental group received up to six boluses of 20 g of calcium as calcium propionate between 36 h before and 24 h after calving; the cows in the control group received up to four doses of 54 g of calcium as a commercially available oily solution of calcium chloride during the same period. Incidence of milk fever was recorded as the percentage of cows that were treated by a veterinarian because they showed clinical signs of the disease and had a blood calcium concentration less than 8.0 mg/dl. Twenty-five (25.3%) cows in the experimental group and 22 cows (23.2%) in the control group developed milk fever. The incidence of milk fever for cows in both groups was significantly lower than the 36.0% found in 713 cows that had experienced milk fever during their previous calving but received no prophylactic treatment. Therefore, calcium propionate was considered to have had a significant preventive effect, comparable with that of calcium chloride.
A Review of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Efficient Computation (2019)

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is the pre-processing step to remove redundant features, noisy and irrelevant data, in order to improve learning feature accuracy and reduce the training time. Dimensionality reductions techniques have been proposed and implemented by using feature selection and extraction method. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) one of the Dimensions reduction techniques which give reduced computation time for the learning process. In this paper presents most widely used feature extraction techniques such as EMD, PCA, and feature selection techniques such as correlation, LDA, forward selection have been analyzed based on high performance and accuracy. These techniques are highly applied in Deep Neural Network for medical image diagnosis and used to improve the classification accuracy. Further, we discussed how dimension reduction is made in deep learning.
Field-induced resistive switching based on space-charge-limited current (2007)

Polycrystalline (Ba,Sr)(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films sandwiched between two Pt electrodes have been revealed to exhibit hysteretic current-voltage (I-V) characteristics and resistive switching at room temperature. High- and low-resistance states, as well as a less abrupt state transition, occur during the voltage cycle. The maximum ratio between these two resistance states is about 230. Analyses of I-V behaviors have been executed, and it is proposed that space-charge-limited-current conduction in higher voltage region caused by asymmetric electron trapping centers is responsible for such transition of resistance states.