gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A New Apparatus for the Study of Fabric Drape (2005)

A new drape elevator is developed to analyze the drape generation mechanism. The drape elevator can measure drape shape, including node generation at various stages during drape formation. The drape elevator method indicates better reproducibility of the drape coefficient of the fabrics than the conventional method. The drape formation process is experimentally found to consist of three stages, seeds generation, their development, and the final stabilizing stages. A new parameter R, evaluating the shape of the drape, is defined in terms of the drape projection. Both the R parameter and the drape coefficient are expected to be useful parameters for the quantitative analysis of fabric drape formation.
Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2019)

Myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease is found in ≈5% to 6% of all patients with acute infarction who are referred for coronary angiography. There are a variety of causes that can result in this clinical condition. As such, it is important that patients are appropriately diagnosed and an evaluation to uncover the correct cause is performed so that, when possible, specific therapies to treat the underlying cause can be prescribed. This statement provides a formal and updated definition for the broadly labelled term MINOCA (incorporating the definition of acute myocardial infarction from the newly released "Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction") and provides a clinically useful framework and algorithms for the diagnostic evaluation and management of patients with myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease.
Method for providing slip energy control in permanent magnet electrical machines (2023)

An electric machine (40) has a stator (43), a permanent magnet rotor (38) with permanent magnets (39) and a magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) for inducing a slip energy current in secondary coils (47). A dc flux can be produced in the uncluttered rotor when the secondary coils are fed with dc currents. The magnetic coupling uncluttered rotor (46) has magnetic brushes (A, B, C, D) which couple flux in through the rotor (46) to the secondary coils (47c, 47d) without inducing a current in the rotor (46) and without coupling a stator rotational energy component to the secondary coils (47c, 47d). The machine can be operated as a motor or a generator in multi-phase or single-phase embodiments and is applicable to the hybrid electric vehicle. A method of providing a slip energy controller is also disclosed.
Performance Evaluation of Glucometer Barozen H Based on ISO 15197 Standards (2014)

Background: We have evaluated the analytical performance of Barozen H (i-SENS Inc. Seoul, Korea), which was developed for glucose testing and can be connected to hospital information network systems. Methods: We evaluated the precision of ten glucometers based on repeatability and intermediate preci...
The International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology moves to ‘true continuous publication’ at the beginning of 2021: Proposals to emend Rule 24b (2), Note 1 to Rule 27 and Note 2 to Rule 33b of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (2021)

The <i>International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</i> (IJSEM) will move to 'true continuous publication' during the first months of 2021 to modernize the workflow and align it with the current online-only nature of the journal. In the new format, articles will be cited using an article number rather than page numbering. The article number will be the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) suffix, i.e., the last six digits of the DOI. Benefits of the new system include streamlining in-house processes, hence, reducing time and costs, and speeding up the publication time of the final 'Version of Record'. Because of the new format of the IJSEM, it is necessary to emend Rule 24b (2) and Note 1 paragraph 3 of Rule 27 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) to regulate matters of priority for papers published after January 2021. We also propose adding another example to Note 2 of Rule 33b to clarify how nomenclatural authorities of names published in the IJSEM from 2021 onward must be cited.
A variational EM algorithm for large-scale mixture modeling (2003)

Mixture densities constitute a rich family of models that can be used in several data mining and machine learning applications, for instance, clustering. Although practical algorithms exist for learning such models from data, these algorithms typically do not scale very well with large datasets. Our approach, which builds on previous work by other authors, offers an acceleration of the EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures by precomputing and storing sufficient statistics of the data in the nodes of a kd-tree. Contrary to other works, we obtain algorithms that strictly increase a lower bound on the data log-likelihood in every learning step. Experimental results illustrate the validity of our approach.
Optical parallel logic gate using spatial light modulators with the Pockels effect (1985)

This paper describes a new optical gate for logical processing in parallel. The gate consists of two spatial light modulators which spatially modulate a lightwave by the longitudinal electrooptic or Pockels effect. The gate can perform in parallel all sixteen logic functions of two binary variables in both the bright-true logic and the dark-true logic. The gate has the capability of operating on large arrays of binary variables.
A Novel Approach for Dynamic Load Balancing with Effective Bin Packing and VM Reconfiguration in Cloud (2016)

Background/Objectives: In cloud computing, the existing job scheduling algorithms were focused either on efficient job scheduling or optimal load balancing among the Virtual Machines. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This paper introduces a novel approach called Dynamic Load Balancing with effective Bin Packing and VM Reconfiguration (DLBPR) in the cloud. In the proposed work, the jobs are initially classified using the deadline based job scheduler and stored in a different job queue based on the expected processing speed of the job. After classification, the jobs in the various queues are prioritized using their attributes. Findings: The proposed approach dynamically splits and coalesces the VMs based on the required processing speed of the job. The VMs in the data center are dynamically clustered based on their processing speed with the support of VM live migration and the jobs are processed using the VMs in the cluster. Applications/Improvements: The proposed work is experimented in a cloudsim that minimizes the physical machine nearly 22% compared to other existing algorithms. Keywords: Bin Packing, Cloud Computing, Load Balancing, VM Reconfiguration
Crossroads risk assessment using GPS and inter-vehicle communications (2007)

Recent developments in inter-vehicle communications (IVC) focus on the conception of suitable hardware and communications protocols. We contribute to this effort by analysing the performance of IVC through a vehicular application approach. The study aims to measure the contribution of IVC in comparison with traditional safety sensors on an advanced driver assistance scheme (ADAS) system. We choose to study the risk assessment in crossroads approaching. The system is based on a standard 802.11 technology combined to a standard low-cost GPS receiver. The performance is analysed regarding the application showing the feasibility of the system and its integration on board our prototype LARA.
Fabrication and characterization of polyester and acrylic polyurethane optical waveguides (1989)

Asystematic study of the fabrication and characterization of planar optical waveguides based on polyester and acrylic polyurethane coatings has been made. Mode effective refractive-index measurements have been made on a large number of these waveguides fabricated on glass prepared in different conditions. The results show that the mixture of polyester and acrylic polyol in the initial solution can be used to control the refractive index from 1.563 to 1.595. The propagation losses are estimated to be 10-20 and 6-12 dB/cm for polyester and acrylic-based waveguides, respectively.
Investigation of different configurations and operation regimes of fiber pulse generators based on nonlinear spectral re-shaping (2018)

In this work, we investigate the operation of linear fiber pulse generator circuits, based on self-phase modulation-induced spectral broadening and offset-alternating spectral filtering. The influence of fiber chromatic dispersion and other parameters of the circuit for stable pulse generation and the characteristics of generated pulses are described by numerical calculations and confirmed by experiments. Self-starting pulse generation is demonstrated experimentally, and conditions allowing the achievement of self-starting are discussed.
Bionic quadruped robot dynamic gait control strategy based on twenty degrees of freedom (2017)

Quadruped robot dynamic gaits have much more advantages than static gaits on speed and efficiency, however high speed and efficiency calls for more complex mechanical structure and complicated control algorithm. It becomes even more challenging when the robot has more degrees of freedom. As a result, most of the present researches focused on simple robot, while the researches on dynamic gaits for complex robot with more degrees of freedom are relatively limited. The paper is focusing on the dynamic gaits control for complex robot with twenty degrees of freedom for the first time. Firstly, we build a relatively complete 3D model for quadruped robot based on spring loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model, analyze the inverse kinematics of the model, plan the trajectory of the swing foot and analyze the hydraulic drive. Secondly, we promote the control algorithm of one-legged to the quadruped robot based on the virtual leg and plan the state variables of pace gait and bound gait. Lastly, we realize the above two kinds of dynamic gaits in ADAMS-MATLAB joint simulation platform which testify the validity of above method.
4×4 High-Speed Switching Subsystem with VOA (< 10 µs) Using PLZT Beam-Deflector for Optical Burst Switching (2006)

We developed a 4×4 high-speed optical switch subsystem using PLZT beam-deflector with variable optical attenuation (VOA). We demonstrate 5.5 µs switching with automatic power control by VOA to obtain the desired output power for optical burst switching.
Failure to detect Xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in Chinese patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (2010)

This study failed to show XMRV in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and plasma of Chinese patients with CFS. The absence of XMRV nucleic acids does not support an association between XMRV infection and the development of CFS in Chinese.
Model-based deployment generation for safety-critical avionics systems (2017)

To reduce the growth in size, weight and power of avionic electronic systems, the avionics industry tends to integrate more and more functions on less electronic computing units. Particularly, the use of multicore processors seems ineluctable in this domain. These changes, however, bring new challenges regarding, among others, methods and tools to proof safety and timing requirements for new platform architectures. One complex task to be solved during the design phase is the so-called deployment problem, which analyzes possible mappings between software applications and hardware execution units. Without the help of dedicated tools and due to the large number of constraints avionics systems need to fulfill, this problem becomes intractable. In this paper, we employ a model-based development tool, called AutoFOCUS 3, to generate deployment solutions for an industrial case study based on a flight control system with strict requirements regarding safety, timing, storage and communication aspects. We have also customized AutoFOCUS 3 to seek optimized deployment solutions with respect to the number of cores and other hardware resources.
A practical 256K GMR NV memory for high shock applications (2002)

Nonvolatile memory components used in shock recorders have unique requirements compared to other applications. These include fast write speeds, unlimited operation without wear-out, no data loss with high shock and power loss, and small chip size. A nonvolatile memory component that has the characteristics needed for high shock recorders and other microcontroller applications can be constructed in a cost effective and shock resistant die which is 0.25" on a side using standard CMOS processing. The 256K component described here uses giant magnetoresistive material (GMR), which provides a larger signal than anisotropic magnetoresistive material (AMR) based devices and can be used in bits scaled to sub-/spl mu/m sizes. Small conventional mode bits can be used effectively in intermediate size magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) components that fit a large microcontroller application market. Built-in dual redundant bits and spare sense lines allow a high product yield, thus providing additional potential production cost reductions. Future size reductions will occur when the pseudo spin valve bit has been sufficiently developed to be dropped into this design.
A large-scale wavelength routing optical switch for data center networks (2013)

Intra-data-center traffic is estimated to be about four times global Internet traffic and is continuously increasing. Applying optical switching to data center networks will increase network bandwidth and reduce power consumption while meeting the traffic requirements. One of the major attributes of the optical switch must be scalability. The wavelength routing switch is a promising technology for the development of 1000 × 1000 scale large port count optical switches. Recent advances are demonstrated.
Analysis of apoptosis during hair follicle regression (catagen) (1997)

Keratinocyte apoptosis is a central element in the regulation of hair follicle regression (catagen), yet the exact location and the control of follicular keratinocyte apoptosis remain obscure. To generate an "apoptomap" of the hair follicle, we have studied selected apoptosis-associated parameters in the C57BL/6 mouse model for hair research during normal and pharmacologically manipulated, pathological catagen development. As assessed by terminal deoxynucleotide transferase dUTP fluorescein nick end-labeling (TUNEL) stain, apoptotic cells not only appeared in the regressing proximal follicle epithelium but, surprisingly, were also seen in the central inner root sheath, in the bulge/isthmus region, and in the secondary germ, but never in the dermal papilla. These apoptosis hot spots during catagen development correlated largely with a down-regulation of the Bcl-2/Bax ratio but only poorly with the expression patterns of interleukin-1beta converting enzyme, p55TNFR, and Fas/Apo-1 immunoreactivity. Instead, a higher correlation was found with p75NTR expression. During cyclophosphamide-induced follicle dystrophy and alopecia, massive keratinocyte apoptosis occurred in the entire proximal hair bulb, except in the dermal papilla, despite a strong up-regulation of Bax and p75NTR immunoreactivity. Selected receptors of the tumor necrosis factor/nerve growth factor family and members of the Bcl-2 family may also play a key role in the control of follicular keratinocyte apoptosis in situ.
Neutralization of Ocular Surface TNF-α Reduces Ocular Surface and Lacrimal Gland Inflammation Induced by In Vivo Dry Eye (2013)

Topical TNF-α blockers effectively suppressed lacrimal gland and corneal inflammation by suppressing IFN-γ, IL-21, and IL-6. Differences in TNF-α affinity, clearance, and local concentration of blockers may account for the anti-inflammatory effects in different ocular regions.
Uncoupling Malt1 Threshold Function from Paracaspase Activity Results in Destructive Autoimmune Inflammation (2014)

The paracaspase Malt1 is a central regulator of antigen receptor signaling that is frequently mutated in human lymphoma. As a scaffold, it assembles protein complexes for NF-κB activation, and its proteolytic domain cleaves negative NF-κB regulators for signal enforcement. Still, the physiological functions of Malt1-protease are unknown. We demonstrate that targeted Malt1-paracaspase inactivation induces a lethal inflammatory syndrome with lymphocyte-dependent neurodegeneration in vivo. Paracaspase activity is essential for regulatory T cell (Treg) and innate-like B cell development, but it is largely dispensable for overcoming Malt1-dependent thresholds for lymphocyte activation. In addition to NF-κB inhibitors, Malt1 cleaves an entire set of mRNA stability regulators, including Roquin-1, Roquin-2, and Regnase-1, and paracaspase inactivation results in excessive interferon gamma (IFNγ) production by effector lymphocytes that drive pathology. Together, our results reveal distinct threshold and modulatory functions of Malt1 that differentially control lymphocyte differentiation and activation pathways and demonstrate that selective paracaspase blockage skews systemic immunity toward destructive autoinflammation.
Current Summary of the Practical Using of Optical Correlators (2012)

Optical Computing has long been a reportable as the solution of real -time high resolution data processing.Optical processing uses the fastest medium (light) to same calculations as serial electronic systems so process time of these calculations is shorter.The best results in data processing can be obtained by using hybrid, digital -optical, processors as a Optical Correlators which use speed of light (optical part) in cooperation with the electronic components, (digital part).Optical Correlator is optical device to compare two images or two -dimensional data in real time.There are two main types of Optical Correlators, Match Filter and Joint Transform Correlator.In this paper are described both types of correlators and there are shown examples of realized Optical Correlators.Optical Correlators use Optical Fourier Transform to produce transformed image from input image and then second Fourier Transform to obtained correlations in correlation plane.Optical Fourier Transform vs. Fast Fourier Transform process time comparison will be discussed.Main components of Optical Correlators will be presented.Optical Correlators thanks its fast process time and recent advances in liquid crystal technology become more commercially available.Potential applications of these optical processors will be also presented and discussed.
Joint On-Demand Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Cognitive Radio Networks (2007)

In cognitive radio networks, nodes can work on different frequency bands. Existing routing proposals help nodes select frequency bands without considering the effect of band switching and intra-band backoff. In this paper, We propose a joint interaction between on-demand routing and spectrum scheduling. A node analytical model is proposed to describe the scheduling-based channel assignment progress, which relief the inter-flow interference and frequent switching delay. We also use an on-demand interaction to derive a cumulative delay based routing protocol. Simulation results show that, comparing to other approaches, our protocol provides better adaptability to the multi- flow environment and derives paths with much lower cumulative delay.
Parallel and distributed state estimation (1995)

The need for higher frequency in state estimation execution covering larger supervised networks has led to the investigation of faster and numerically more stable state estimation algorithms. However, technical developments in distributed Energy Management Systems, based on fast data communication networks, open up the possibility of parallel or distributed state estimation implementation. In this paper, this possibility is exploited to derive a solution methodology based on conventional state estimation algorithms and a coupling constraints optimization technique. Numerical experiments show suitable performance of the proposed method with regard to estimation accuracy, convergence robustness and computational efficiency. The results of these experiments also indicate the decoupled nature of the state estimation problem.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Detecting Structural Similarities Between XML Documents (2002)

Abstract. In this paper we propose a technique for detecting the similarity in the structure of XML documents. The technique is based on the idea of representing the structure of an XML document as a time series in which each occurrence of a tag corresponds to a given impulse. By analyzing the frequencies of the corresponding Fourier transform, we can hence state the degree of similarity between documents. The efficiency and effectiveness of this approach are compelling when compared with traditional ones. 1
<title>Contour-tracing algorithm that preserves common boundaries between regions</title> (1990)

In most literatures, contour of a region R is defined as the set of pixels in R that have at least a neighbor outside R . Applying this definition to images with multi-labels, for example, results of segmentation, one will end up with nonoverlapping boundaries between regions. This contradicts with the definition of contour in analog plane and makes shape analysis among regions difficult. This paper uses the concept of extended boundary [FP75][Pa77] and presents a new, efficient contour tracing algorithm that maintains common boundaries between regions. It is shown that, in additional to the common boundary representation, the new algorithm has many advantages over the old approaches.
Activity Forecasting in Routine Tasks by Combining Local Motion Trajectories and High-Level Temporal Models (2019)

Human activity forecasting from videos in routine-based tasks is an open research problem. There are numerous applications in robotics, visual monitoring and skill assessment. Currently, activity forecasting has many challenges because human actions are not fully observable from continuous recording. Additionally, a large number of activities involve fine-grained articulated human motions that are hard to capture using frame-level representations. To overcome these challenges, we propose a method that forecasts human actions by learning the dynamics of local motion patterns. We employed dense trajectories to extract local atomic action patterns and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks for high level action dependencies modeling. The experiments on a public dataset validated the effectiveness of our proposed method in activity forecasting and demonstrated large improvements over the baseline two-stream end-to-end model. We learned that human activity forecasting benefits from learning both the short-range motion patterns and long-term dependencies between actions.