gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Molecular adsorption on the surface of strongly correlated transition-metal oxides: A case study for CO/NiO(100) (2004)

It is well known that the physical properties of some transition-metal compounds (mostly oxides) are strongly affected by intra-atomic correlations. Very recently, investigations of the adsorption of small molecules such as CO on the surfaces of transition-metal oxides have led to rather surprising results: the weak adsorbate-substrate bonding and the asymmetric (tilted) adsorption geometries contrast sharply the strong bonding and symmetric geometries characteristic for metallic surfaces. Calculations based on either Hartree-Fock or density-functional methods have failed to explain these observations. For bulk transition-metal oxides it has been demonstrated that the addition of a Hubbard-type on-site Coulomb repulsion U to the local-density Hamiltonian leads to an improved description of the electronic structure of these materials, but a consistent description of all physical properties proved to be elusive. In the present work, we present a comprehensive investigation of bulk NiO and of clean and CO-covered NiO(100) surfaces. We demonstrate that adding the on-site Coulomb repulsion to the spin-polarized gradient-corrected density-functional Hamiltonian leads to a consistently improved description of a wide range of cohesive, electronic, and magnetic properties of NiO (bulk and surface) and a very accurate description of the adsorption properties of CO. The effects of the strong electronic correlations in the substrate on the adsorbate-substrate bonding are discussed in detail.
Kinetics and Equilibrium of Barium and Strontium Sulfate Formation in Marcellus Shale Flowback Water (2014)

Flowback water from natural gas extraction in Marcellus Shale contains very high concentrations of inorganic salts and organic chemicals. Potential reuse of this water in subsequent hydraulic-fracturing operations may be limited by high concentrations of divalent cations (e.g., Ba, Sr, and Ca). Kinetics of barite and celestite precipitation in flowback waters from different well sites was evaluated in this study. Ba reacted rapidly with sulfate and reached equilibrium within 30 min, whereas Sr reacted slowly and took days to reach equilibrium. Equilibrium concentrations of Ba and Sr predicted by thermodynamics models were compared with experimental results. Activity corrections based on the Pitzer equation provided the best agreement with experimental data for both Ba and Sr. Comparison of barite and celestite precipitation kinetics in actual and synthetic flowback water revealed that there was no observable impact of organics and other minor components in actual flowback water on barite precipitation rate. This was primarily due to the fact that barite precipitation occurred relatively quickly at the high saturation levels utilized in this study. By contrast, lattice poisoning and complexation with organic matter had a profound impact on the comparatively slower celestite precipitation. The presence of organic matter in actual flowback water increased Ba and Sr concentrations in solution, and contributed to the discrepancy between measured and predicted equilibrium concentrations.
Pure JSP : Java Server Pages (2000)

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Pure JSP gives a very concise conceptual overview of the JavaServer Pages technology and its related components. Once you have a firm foundation with the JSP technology, related topics such as JavaBeans, JDBC and Servlets are covered at a very high level. The book moves on to explain a large number of JSP techniques, which were determined by studying problems faced by JSP users in the professional world. The final section covers the more technical aspects of the JSP technology. Topics include related API's, server configuration, and charts and diagrams related to developing JSP applications.
A Continuous Integration-Based Framework for Software Management (2019)

Automated software-installation tools such as EasyBuild and Spack have enabled HPC support staff to more quickly deploy software environments for HPC. However, to provide reliable user-facing software environments, any change made to the environments should be recorded and tested. In this paper, we will describe a continuous integration-based framework for software management in use at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). In this framework, we rely on homegrown tools for automated software build and installation and the ReFrame framework to setup the testing system which can be triggered on commit to a local Gitlab repository. We will document the workflow and explain how we can deploy the software environment quickly and confidently using these tools.
The Safeway Culture – Quality Management in Retailing (1994)

Examines Safeway as a national company and the services which it provides. Investigates its management system which is called “The Safeway Culture” in the light of their recent acquisition by the Argyll Group. Shows how quality is maintained within Safeway’s retailing sector. Concludes that success is maintained by a regard for moral as well as legal responsibilities, through providing customers with the best deal possible.
Hypoxia primes endotoxin-induced tissue factor expression in human monocytes and endothelial cells by a PAF-dependent mechanism (1996)

Tissue factor (TF) is a glycoprotein which acts as a trigger of the coagulation cascade. TF expression may be induced at the surface of monocytes and endothelial cells by several stimuli including bacterial endotoxin (LPS) and cytokines (IL 1 beta, TNF alpha) and there is a large body of evidence for the involvement of hypoxia as a primaring factor in the process leading to thrombosis. To define the molecular basis underlying this phenomenon, we evaluated the relative role of platelet activating factor (PAF). PAF primed human monocytes and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) for TF expression following exposure to E coli LPS but was unable to enhance the induction of TF expression by IL 1 beta. The priming effect of PAF with regard to LPS occurred in a time- and dose-dependent manner and was inhibited by the PAF receptor antagonist SR 27417. When HUVEC or monocytes were exposed to an hypoxic environment, a significant rise in LPS-induced TF expression was observed. Hypoxia had no effect on IL 1-induced TF expression. The enhanced LPS-induced TF expression in both cell types was mediated by PAF as indicated by the inhibition obtained with SR 27417, added during hypoxia. Although the importance of hypoxia in the etiology of venous thrombosis has been acknowledged for a long time, evaluation of the relative importance of PAF in the process leading to thrombus formation is still lacking. Stasis-induced thrombosis performed in the rabbit jugular vein was enhanced in a dose-dependent manner by the prior i.v. administration of LPS (0.05 to 100 micrograms/ kg, i.v.). SR 27417 administered simultaneously with LPS prevented thrombus formation with an ED50 value of 0.1 +/- 0.04 mg/kg. These results therefore show that hypoxia promotes LPS-induced TF expression in HUVEC and human monocytes through a PAF-dependent mechanism in vitro and in vivo.
Analysis and design of rate compatible serial concatenated convolutional codes (2005)

We provide a performance analysis of a new class of serial concatenated convolutional codes (SCCC) where the inner encoder can be punctured beyond the unitary rate. The puncturing of the inner encoder is not limited to inner coded bits, but extended to systematic bits. We derive analytical upper bounds to the error probability of this particular code structure and address suitable design guidelines for the inner code puncturing patterns. We show that the proportion of systematic and parity bits to be deleted strongly depends on the SNR region of interest. Furthermore, we show that puncturing of the inner code systematic bits should be interleaver dependent. Based on these considerations, we derive design guidelines to obtain well-performing rate-compatible SCCCs families. Throughout the paper, the performance of the proposed codes are compared with analytical bounds, and with the performance of PCCC and SCCC proposed in literature
Production of cobalamin and sirohaem in <i>Bacillus megaterium</i>: an investigation into the role of the branchpoint chelatases sirohydrochlorin ferrochelatase (SirB) and sirohydrochlorin cobalt chelatase (CbiX) (2002)

One of the four operons required for cobalamin biosynthesis in Bacillus megaterium is also associated with sirohaem synthesis, and contains three genes, sirA, sirB and sirC. By undertaking functional complementation experiments and in vitro assays using recombinantly produced enzymes, we have been able to demonstrate that (1) SirA acts as a uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase, transforming uroporphyrinogen III into precorrin-2, (2) SirC acts as an NAD(+) dehydrogenase, responsible for the oxidation of precorrin-2 into sirohydrochlorin, and (3) SirB acts as a ferrochelatase, responsible for the insertion of a ferrous ion into sirohydrochlorin to give sirohaem. Comparative sequence analysis reveals that the primary structure of SirB is highly similar to that of the cobalt chelatase involved in cobalamin biosynthesis in Bacillus megaterium, CbiX, with the exception that CbiX contains a C-terminal histidine-rich motif. Surprisingly, CbiX has been shown (using EPR) to contain a 4Fe-4S centre, a redox centre that is absent from SirB.
How Many Factors of Paranormal Belief Are There? A Critique of the Paranormal Belief Scale (1995)

Most school-aged children and families in this sample coped well with the demands of intensive treatment. However, intensive psychosocial support may also be indicated because managing a complex chronic illness is stressful and potentially difficult for some families.
Investigation and analysis on amebic infection in Ma Yiqi Region of Madagascar (2014)

Objective To investigate the infection of amebic dysentery in Ma Yiqi Region of the Republic of Madagascar.Methods From January to December,2013,the fresh stool specimens of all patients of suspected amebic dysentery,treated by the Chinese medical team assisting to Ma Yiqi Hospital were collected for three times consecutively and were examined for the trophozoites and cysts of histolytic ameba under microscope.Furthermore,all original records of histolytic amebic dysentery confirmed microscopically from 2009 to 2012 in this hospital were summarized.The amebic dysentery infection rate in each year and different seasons and the ratio of different age groups with amebic dysentery were statistically analyzed and epidemiologically studied.Results From 2009 to 2013,254,303,320,263,and 316 cases of suspected patients were detected respectively,among them 126,152,165,152,and 176 cases were confirmed respectively.The infection rates were 49.7％,50.2％,51.5％,54.4％ and 55.7％.Through comparative analysis on the infection rates in each year,the difference showed no statistical significance (x2=1.46,P ＞ 0.05).The infection rates in rainy season were 80.2％,78.5％,81.7％,80.3％ and 82.1％,they were obviously higher than those in dry season.The diference showed statistical significance (x2=83.82,P ＜ 0.01).The infection cases in children group aged 0-6 accounted for 85.7％ of the total cases and the infection rate was obviously higher with statistical significance,compared with that in other age groups (x2=1.067.6,P＜0.01).Conclusion Amebic dysentery attacks all the year round in Ma Yiqi of Madagascar.The children aged 0-6 are most susceptible.The infection rate in rainy season is obviously higher than that in dry season.

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Madagascar;  Amebic dysentery;  Stool examination under microscope
An Efficient Approach for Requirement Traceability Integrated With Software Repository (2013)

Traceability links between requirements of a system and its source code are helpful in reducing system conception effort. During software updates and maintenance, the traceability links become invalid since the developers may modify or remove some features of the source code. Hence, to acquire trustable links from a system source code, a supervised link tracing approach is proposed here. In proposed approach, IR techniques are applied on source code and requirements document to generate baseline traceability links. Concurrently, software repositories are also mined to generate validating traceability links i.e. Histrace links which are then called as experts. Now a trust model named as DynWing is used to rank the different types of experts. DynWing dynamically assigns weights to different types of experts in ranking process. The top ranked experts are then fed to the trust model named as Trumo. Trumo validates the baseline links with top ranked experts and finds the trustable links from baseline links set. While validating the links, Trumo is capable of discarding or re-ranking the experts and finds most traceable links. The proposed approach is able to improve the precision and recall values of the traceability links.
Significant Improvement of the Survival of Seminoma Cells In Vitro by Use of a Rat Sertoli Cell Feeder Layer and Serum-Free Medium (1991)

Seminoma cell lines, essential to the study of the biology of seminoma, do not exist. Tissue culture conditions for establishing such cell lines have to be developed. Under conventional culture conditions, seminoma cells usually die within the first 3 days after plating. The enhanced survival of rat gonocytes when cocultured with rat Sertoli cells in serum-free medium suggests that seminoma cells, the neoplastic counterparts of gonocytes, might benefit from the same conditions. Indeed, when cocultured with rat Sertoli cells in a serum-free medium, viable seminoma cells could be demonstrated on the 11th day of culture. This result is a significant improvement over the results with conventional methods.
Increased numbers and functional activity of <scp>CD</scp>56<sup>+</sup><scp>T</scp> cells in healthy cytomegalovirus positive subjects (2014)

Human T cells expressing CD56 are capable of tumour cell lysis following activation with interleukin-2 but their role in viral immunity has been less well studied. Proportions of CD56(+) T cells were found to be highly significantly increased in cytomegalovirus-seropositive (CMV(+) ) compared with seronegative (CMV(-) ) healthy subjects (9.1 ± 1.5% versus 3.7 ± 1.0%; P < 0.0001). Proportions of CD56(+) T cells expressing CD28, CD62L, CD127, CD161 and CCR7 were significantly lower in CMV(+) than CMV(-) subjects but those expressing CD4, CD8, CD45RO, CD57, CD58, CD94 and NKG2C were significantly increased (P < 0.05), some having the phenotype of T effector memory cells. Levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and CD107a were significantly higher in CD56(+) T cells from CMV(+) than CMV(-) subjects following stimulation with CMV antigens. This also resulted in higher levels of proliferation in CD56(+) T cells from CMV(+) than CMV(-) subjects. Using Class I HLA pentamers, it was found that CD56(+) T cells from CMV(+) subjects contained similar proportions of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells to CD56(-) T cells in donors of several different HLA types. These differences may reflect the expansion and enhanced functional activity of CMV-specific CD56(+) memory T cells. In view of the link between CD56 expression and T-cell cytotoxic function, this strongly implicates CD56(+) T cells as being an important component of the cytotoxic T-cell response to CMV in healthy carriers.
Denoising Magnetic Resonance Images Using Fourth Order Complex Diffusion (2009)

Complex diffusion is a comparatively new Partial Differential Equations (PDE) based method introduced for removing noise from images. The efficiency of 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">nd</sup> order complex diffusion for image denoising is already proved by many researchers. 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">nd</sup> order non linear complex diffusion can behave like 3 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">rd</sup> and 4 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> order real PDEs enabling a variety of new options with standard 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">nd</sup> order numerical schemes. Extending 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">nd</sup> order non linear complex diffusion to 4 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> order can produce a much better result. In this paper we present a 4 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> order non linear complex diffusion. Our experimental results show that this 4 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> order complex PDE is a good choice for denoising Magnetic Resonance images. The efficacy of the algorithm is demonstrated on both simulated and real magnetic resonance images.
Newer antipsychotics: Brexpiprazole, cariprazine, and lumateperone: A pledge or another unkept promise? (2021)

Antipsychotic agents are used for various indications in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Despite their proven roles in multiple conditions, the treatment-emergent side effects of antipsychotic medications, such as metabolic side effects, are often the limiting factor for their long-term and short-term uses. Moreover, antipsychotic medications are often criticized for being less effective in treating different disabling symptoms such as negative symptoms of schizophrenia. As a result, the search for safer and more efficacious antipsychotic agents is ongoing. Newer antipsychotic agents are gaining attention related to emerging efficacy and tolerability data in treating neuropsychiatric conditions. In this review, we attempt to appraise the scientific data on psychopharmacology, safety profile, and efficacy of the newer additions to the list of second-generation antipsychotics, namely brexpiprazole, cariprazine, and lumateperone. We conducted a selective review utilizing PubMed, clinicaltrials.gov, and Cochrane databases to gather appropriate publications, keeping broad inclusion criteria. There were no restrictions on the age of the study population or the year of publication. We also cross-referenced articles and references to capture all existing studies. Our review of the current literature indicates that all three antipsychotic agents appear to be promising based on their short-term studies, while long-term studies remain limited. There is also a need for a head to head comparison between the newer antipsychotics with the other antipsychotic agents to ascertain if the newer agents are any better than the others.
Additive fabrication of integrated ferroelectric thin‐film capacitors using self‐assembled organic thin‐film templates (1997)

The utility of non‐lithographic patterning methods for the integrated fabrication of prototypical thin‐film‐device architectures is demonstrated. An additive patterning technique based on printed organic thin films is used to fabricate ferroelectric capacitors consisting of a Pt/PZT/Pt thin‐film structure, where PZT is lead zirconium titanate. This type of material, which has applications in high performance information storage, micromachine, and thermal imaging devices, cannot be created using the conventional fine‐scale patterning methods.
Automatic Sign Detection and Recognition in Natural Scenes (2006)

Visually impaired individuals are unable to utilize the significant amount of information in signs. VIDI is a system for detecting and recognizing signs in the environment and voice synthesizing their contents. The wide variety of signs and unconstrained imaging conditions make the problem challenging. We detect signs using local color and texture features to classify image regions with a conditional maximum entropy model. Detected sign regions are then recognized by matching them against a known database of signs. A support vector machine classifier uses color to focus the search, and a match is found based on the correspondences of corners and their associated shape contexts. Our dataset includes images of downtown scenes with several signs exhibiting both illumination differences and projective distortions. A wide range of signs are detected and recognized including both text and symbolic information. The detection and the recognition components each perform well on their respective tasks, and initial evaluations of a complete detection and recognition system are promising.
Sambot: A Self-Assembly Modular Robot System (2010)

The design and structure of a self-assembly modular robot (Sambot) are presented in this paper. Each module has its own autonomous mobility and can connect with other modules to form robotic structures with different manipulation abilities. Sambot has a versatile, robust, and flexible structure. The computing platform provided for each module is distributed and consists of a number of interlinked microcontrollers. The interaction and connectivity between different modules is achieved through infrared sensors and Zigbee wireless communication in discrete state and control area network bus communication in robotic configuration state. A new mechanical design is put forth to realize the autonomous motion and docking of Sambots. It is a challenge to integrate actuators, sensors, microprocessors, power units, and communication elements into a highly compact and flexible module with the overall size of 80 mm × 80 mm × 102 mm. The work describes represents a mature development in the area of self-assembly distributed robotics.
An easy synthesis of monomethyl malonate derivatives. (1983)

Monomethyl malonates (IIIa-c and Va) were synthesized from Meldrum's acid (Ia) by treating with an excess of diazomethane in the corresponding alcohols and piperidine, respectively, in quantitative yields. In a similar manner, 5-p-chlorobenzyl Meldrum's acid (Ib) afforded the corresponding monomethyl malonate derivatives (IIIe, f, and Vb). The mechanism proposed for this reaction is described.
Morphological and Biochemical Aspects of Apoptosis, Oncosis and Necrosis (2002)

Recent investigations have demonstrated the need for a precise differentiation of various forms of cell death such as apoptosis, oncosis, necrosis and programmed cell death. Apoptosis is marked by cellular shrinking, condensation and margination of the chromatin and ruffling of the plasma membrane with eventually breaking up of the cell in apoptotic bodies. Cell death marked by cellular swelling should be called oncosis, whereas the term necrosis refers to the morphological alterations appearing after cell death. Apoptosis and oncosis are therefore pre-mortal processes, while necrosis is a post-mortal condition. The term programmed cell death refers to the 'fixed' pathway followed by dying cells, whether or not with the characteristic morphology of apoptosis. Three mechanisms are actually known to be involved in the apoptotic process: a receptor-ligand mediated mechanism, a mitochondrial pathway and a mechanism in which the endoplasmic reticulum plays a central role. All three mechanisms activate caspases which are responsible for the characteristic morphological changes observed during apoptosis. A review of the different methods used for detecting apoptotic cells demonstrates that most of these techniques are not entirely specific.
Watchdog Sensor Network with Multi-Stage RF Signal Identification and Cooperative Intrusion Detection (2012)

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