gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Sugar−Glycerol Cofermentations by Lactobacillus hilgardii Isolated from Wine (2009)

Glycerol catabolism was studied in Lactobacillus hilgardii X(1)B from wine, growing on glycerol and limiting glucose or fructose concentrations in anaerobiosis and microaerophilia. Glycerol consumption occurred simultaneously with sugar use, and it was higher with fructose as a cofermenting sugar in microaerophilia. Enzymatic activities of the glycerol kinase and glycerol dehydratase pathways were detected in both incubation conditions. In anaerobiosis, the main products were lactate, acetate, ethanol, and the intermediary product of the glycerol dehydratase pathway, 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde. However, in microaerophilia, 1,3-propanediol was also detected. In anaerobic glucose + glycerol and fructose + glycerol cultures as in microaerophilic glucose + glycerol cultures, glycerol was degraded mainly through the reductive pathway. However, when L. hilgardii X(1)B was grown on fructose + glycerol cultures in microaerophilia, glycerol dissimilation occurred mainly via the glycerol kinase way. According to these results, L. hilgardii X(1)B can degrade glycerol by producing 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde and acetic acid, both undesirable products for wine sensorial quality.
Angiotensin-(1-7)–Stimulated Nitric Oxide and Superoxide Release From Endothelial Cells (2001)

-The stimulation of endothelium-dependent NO release by angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] has been indirectly shown in terms of vasodilation, which was diminished by NO synthase inhibition or removal of the endothelium. However, direct measurement of endothelium-derived NO has not been analyzed. With a selective porphyrinic microsensor, NO release was directly assessed from single primary cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells. Ang-(1-7) caused a concentration-dependent release of NO of 1 to 10 µmol/L, which was attenuated by NO synthase inhibition. [D-Ala(7)]Ang-(1-7) (5 µmol/L), described as a selective antagonist of Ang-(1-7) receptors, inhibited Ang-(1-7)-induced NO release only by approximately 50%, whereas preincubation of bovine aortic endothelial cells with the angiotensin II subtype 1 and 2 receptor antagonists EXP 3174 and PD 123,177 (both at 0.1 µmol/L) led to an inhibition of 60% and 90%, respectively. A complete blockade of the Ang-(1-7)-induced NO release was observed on preincubation of the cells with 1 µmol/L concentration of the bradykinin subtype 2 receptor antagonist icatibant (HOE 140), suggesting an important role of local kinins in the action of Ang-(1-7). Simultaneous direct measurement of superoxide (O(2)(-)) detected by an O(2)(-)-sensitive microsensor revealed that the moderately Ang-(1-7)-stimulated NO release was accompanied by a very slow concomitant O(2)(-) production with a relative low peak concentration in comparison to the O(2)(-) production of the strong NO releasers bradykinin and, especially, calcium ionophore. Thus, Ang-(1-7) might preserve the vascular system, among others, due to its low formation of cytotoxic peroxynitrite by the reaction between NO and O(2)(-).
Formic acid as a hydrogen storage material – development of homogeneous catalysts for selective hydrogen release (2016)

Formic acid (FA, HCO2H) receives considerable attention as a hydrogen storage material. In this respect, hydrogenation of CO2 to FA and dehydrogenation of FA are crucial reaction steps. In the past decade, for both reactions, several molecularly defined and nanostructured catalysts have been developed and intensively studied. From 2010 onwards, this review covers recent advancements in this area using homogeneous catalysts. In addition to the development of catalysts for H2 generation, reversible H2 storage including continuous H2 production from formic acid is highlighted. Special focus is put on recent progress in non-noble metal catalysts.
Scatter correction with kernel perturbation (2013)

X-ray scatter degrades image contrast, uniformity and CT number accuracy in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Correction methods based on the scatter kernel superposition (SKS) technique are efficient and suitable for many clinical applications but still produce residual errors due to limitations in the scatter kernel models. To reduce these errors, we propose to generate a first-pass reconstruction using a set of default SKS parameters followed by limited Monte Carlo simulations that are then used to perturb and refine key kernel parameters in order to obtain an improved second-pass correction. To test the approach, we used the fast adaptive scatter kernel model (fASKS) employing asymmetric kernels for the first-pass scatter correction and then used GEANT4 to simulate scatter-to-primary ratios in selected projections allowing for refined scatter estimates. The results show that a minimal number of projections require simulation in order to adequately perturb scatter kernel parameters for all projections. Compared to the default asymmetric kernels, the refined kernels reduced CT number errors from 24 HU to 15 HU in a large pelvis phantom resulting in a more uniform and accurate image.
Hybrid acoustic metamaterial as super absorber for broadband low-frequency sound (2017)

A hybrid acoustic metamaterial is proposed as a new class of sound absorber, which exhibits superior broadband low-frequency sound absorption as well as excellent mechanical stiffness/strength. Based on the honeycomb-corrugation hybrid core (H-C hybrid core), we introduce perforations on both top facesheet and corrugation, forming perforated honeycomb-corrugation hybrid (PHCH) to gain super broadband low-frequency sound absorption. Applying the theory of micro-perforated panel (MPP), we establish a theoretical method to calculate the sound absorption coefficient of this new kind of metamaterial. Perfect sound absorption is found at just a few hundreds hertz with two-octave 0.5 absorption bandwidth. To verify this model, a finite element model is developed to calculate the absorption coefficient and analyze the viscous-thermal energy dissipation. It is found that viscous energy dissipation at perforation regions dominates the total energy consumed. This new kind of acoustic metamaterials show promising engineering applications, which can serve as multiple functional materials with extraordinary low-frequency sound absorption, excellent stiffness/strength and impact energy absorption.
Snippet generation using textbook corpus - an NLP approach based on BERT (2020)

Abstract In today’s technology-driven world, most millennials are tech-savvy. They have neither the time nor the interest in reading textbooks, newspapers or journals. They would like to immediately get instant answers and clarifications for all their doubts and questions. On many occasions, we are unable to find the exact word or meaning which we are searching for. So, if we have a clear, concise summary of a piece of literature, and we could understand what it contains with just a glimpse, we would be able to save a lot of time. This paper dwells about utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) to summarize a given text/textbook/paper. The state-of-the-art technology in this field has been demonstrated by Google’s Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), one of the latest developments in NLP. BERT is believed to understand English better than other models because of its underlying bidirectional architecture. The present proposal is to use BERT as a sentence similarity extractor. By applying the TextRank algorithm, the sentences holding the most important information are extracted. This comes under the domain of extractive summarization. Abstractive summarization is much talked about, but since Google BERT is not built for generating text, we are utilizing it in a different way to achieve the requirement. This paper intends to discuss the use of BERT for the gen-next kids which will save time and initiate further interest for researchers in developing new programs continuously in the future.
Thrombogenicity of Teflon versus copolymer-coated guidewires: evaluation with scanning electron microscopy. (1989)

Utilizing the scanning electron microscope, we compared a new guidewire with copolymer coating with standard Teflon-coated, coiled-spring guidewires in both clinical and in vitro settings. Intense thrombogenicity was observed with the Teflon-coated guidewires with formed thrombi ranging in size from 50-100 microns. No formed thrombus was noted on any of the specimens of the copolymer guidewire, although isolated clumps of platelets and erythrocytes without fibrin strands were seen infrequently. We conclude that the copolymer guidewire is markedly less thrombogenic than Teflon-coated guidewires.
Identification of a Chemical Probe for Family VIII Bromodomains through Optimization of a Fragment Hit (2016)

The acetyl post-translational modification of chromatin at selected histone lysine residues is interpreted by an acetyl-lysine specific interaction with bromodomain reader modules. Here we report the discovery of the potent, acetyl-lysine-competitive, and cell active inhibitor PFI-3 that binds to certain family VIII bromodomains while displaying significant, broader bromodomain family selectivity. The high specificity of PFI-3 for family VIII was achieved through a novel bromodomain binding mode of a phenolic headgroup that led to the unusual displacement of water molecules that are generally retained by most other bromodomain inhibitors reported to date. The medicinal chemistry program that led to PFI-3 from an initial fragment screening hit is described in detail, and additional analogues with differing family VIII bromodomain selectivity profiles are also reported. We also describe the full pharmacological characterization of PFI-3 as a chemical probe, along with phenotypic data on adipocyte and myoblast cell differentiation assays.
Effects of proton irradiation on dc characteristics of InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (2011)

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter Facebook Reddit LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Reprints and Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation C. F. Lo, L. Liu, F. Ren, H.-Y. Kim, J. Kim, S. J. Pearton, O. Laboutin, Yu Cao, J. W. Johnson, I. I. Kravchenko; Effects of proton irradiation on dc characteristics of InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 1 November 2011; 29 (6): 061201. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.3644480 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAVS: Science & Technology of Materials Interfaces and ProcessingJournal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Search Advanced Search |Citation Search
Studies on Healing of Debrisan-Treated Wounds (1976)

AbstractStudies on Healing of Debrisan-Treated WoundsDebrisan® (Pharmacia AB, Sweden) is a highly hydrophilic dextran polymer in the form of dry, spheric beads. When dry Debrisan beads are placed on a wound, the wound secretions are sucked up into and between the beads. No crust is formed on the wound. Bacteria and granular substances are removed with, the secretions. Treatment with Debrisan was found to be very effective in cleansing discharging wounds. Since Debrisan treatment removes substances from the wound area, e.g. prostaglandins, this might affect the process of repair. The morphology of wounds was studied with the aid of histological and histochemical methods. In 15 patients, donor sites on one thigh, treated with Debrisan, were compared with donor sites on the contralateral thigh, subjected to open treatment. In pigs, comparison was made between Debrisan-treated and Vaseline-gauze-covered dermal burns. In man, the inflammatory reaction was less pronounced in the Debrisan-treated wound and located more superficially than in the wound left open, where perivascular inflammatory cell infiltrates were found even deep in the dermis. In pigs the burns exhibited similar differences. Thus the inflammatory reaction in the Debrisan-treated wounds was less pronounced than in the control wounds. Debrisan beads were never seen below the wound surface. No unfavourable influence of Debrisan treatment was observed on the process of repair.
Anxiety is associated with higher levels of global DNA methylation and altered expression of epigenetic and interleukin-6 genes (2014)

This study provides novel insight into the relationship between anxiety, epigenetics and IL-6. Moreover, our findings support the hypothesis that changes in DNA methylation profiles may contribute to the biology of anxiety.
Reduced Pressure Carbon Dioxide Cycle for Vehicle Climate Control (1999)

<div class="htmlview paragraph">Environmental concerns have spawned renewed interest in naturally occurring refrigerants such as carbon dioxide. CO<sub>2</sub> has attractive features such as high enthalpy of evaporation and low cost compared to halocarbons. However, the vapor pressure of CO<sub>2</sub> is high at temperatures normally encountered in refrigeration and air conditioning systems when compared to traditional and alternative refrigerants such as CFC-12 and HFC-134a. Major research efforts are underway to investigate the transcritical CO<sub>2</sub> cycle, in which a gas cooler instead of a condenser accomplishes heat rejection to ambient, since carbon dioxide under these conditions is above the critical point. The vapor pressure in the gas cooler may exceed 120 bar (1,740 lb/in<sup>2</sup>).</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">In this paper a reduced pressure carbon dioxide system is reported (<span class="xref">Ref 1</span>). Two companion papers will address properties of working fluids (<span class="xref">Ref 2</span>) and thermodynamic and cycle models (<span class="xref">Ref 3</span>) for the low pressure carbon dioxide cycle. The working fluid is a mixture of CO<sub>2</sub> and a non-volatile liquid, referred to as a co-fluid, in which CO<sub>2</sub> is highly soluble and readily absorbed and desorbed. This mixture is circulated throughout the system and the vapor pressure is greatly reduced to less than 35 bar (507.5 lb/in<sup>2</sup>) in the condenser (referred to as the resorber). A full-scale test stand has been constructed, which simulates operating conditions encountered by automotive air-conditioning systems. With this facility, the cooling capacity and coefficient of performance of the low pressure carbon dioxide system are compared to HFC-134a. Results for several different co-fluids are also presented.</div>
Classifying chart cells for quadratic complexity context-free inference (2008)

In this paper, we consider classifying word positions by whether or not they can either start or end multi-word constituents. This provides a mechanism for "closing" chart cells during context-free inference, which is demonstrated to improve efficiency and accuracy when used to constrain the well-known Charniak parser. Additionally, we present a method for "closing" a sufficient number of chart cells to ensure quadratic worst-case complexity of context-free inference. Empirical results show that this O(n2) bound can be achieved without impacting parsing accuracy.
Excitation transfer, lifetimes, and satellite bands in Cs(7<i>p</i>)–Xe collisions (1975)

Observation of the time-dependence of excitation transfer between Cs 7p 2P1/2 and 2P3/2 levels caused by collisions with xenon are reported. The 2P levels were selectively excited with an N2 laser-pumped dye laser, and the spectrum of the fluorescence radiation was observed with 5 nsec time resolution. The lifetimes of the levels were found to be (2P1/2) 154±2 nsec and (2P3/2) 135±2 nsec, and the 2P1/2 to 2P3/2 transfer cross section at 325±10 °K is 0.150±0.002 Å2. An analysis of the time-dependent decay versus xenon partial pressure shows that the cross section for quenching or collision induced radiation is less than 4×10−3 Å2. This demonstrates that collision induced transitions cannot be important in the formation of near red satellites on the Cs 6s–7p lines perturbed by Xe. In addition, the radiative decay constant for the satellite is identical to that for the line within experimental uncertainty. The correspondence of satellite and line decay curves provides a method of identifying satellites with their parent line.
Mitral valve repair as an alternative treatment for heart failure patients. (2003)

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalization worldwide. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a known complication of end-stage cardiomyopathy and is associated with a poor prognosis. Historically, these patients were managed medically and frequently with mitral valve replacement, both of which have unfavorable long-term outcomes. Over a 10-year period, we studied 167 patients with cardiomyopathy and severe MR who underwent mitral valve repair. These patients with 4+ MR, a mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 14+/-6 and New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV congestive heart failure (CHF) were prospectively studied. All patients underwent mitral valve repair with an undersized annuloplasty ring. There was one intra-operative death and eight 30-day mortalities. Intra-operative echocardiography revealed no MR in most patients and trivial to mild MR in seven patients. There were 26 late deaths; two of these patients had progression of CHF and underwent transplantation. The 1-, 2-, and 5-year actuarial survival rates were 82%, 71%, and 52%, respectively. NYHA class was improved for all patients from a pre-operative mean of 3.2+/-0.2 to 1.8+/-0.4 postoperatively. At 24-month follow-up, all patients demonstrated improvement in LVEF, cardiac output, and end-diastolic volume, with a reduction in sphericity index and regurgitant volume. Mitral valve repair utilizing an undersized annuloplasty ring is safe and effectively corrects MR in cardiomyopathic patients. All of the observed changes contribute to reverse remodeling and restoration of the normal LV geometric relationship. Mitral valve repair offers a new strategy for patients with MR and end-stage cardiomyopathy.
Cross-topic Argument Mining from Heterogeneous Sources (2018)

Argument mining is a core technology for automating argument search in large document collections. Despite its usefulness for this task, most current approaches are designed for use only with specific text types and fall short when applied to heterogeneous texts. In this paper, we propose a new sentential annotation scheme that is reliably applicable by crowd workers to arbitrary Web texts. We source annotations for over 25,000 instances covering eight controversial topics. We show that integrating topic information into bidirectional long short-term memory networks outperforms vanilla BiLSTMs by more than 3 percentage points in F 1 in two-and three-label cross-topic settings. We also show that these results can be further improved by leveraging additional data for topic relevance using multi-task learning.
Combinations of Morphine with Ketamine for Patient-controlled Analgesia (2003)

Using a novel method to analyze drug combinations, the study supports combinations of morphine with ketamine in a ratio of 1:1 and a lockout interval of 8 min for postoperative PCA following spine and hip surgery.
Wide hybridization of <i>Hordeum vulgare</i> × <i>Zea mays</i> (1991)

Two barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) varieties ('Klages' and 'Harrington') were crossed with an array of maize (Zea mays L.) stocks carrying active transposons. From 1204 florets pollinated and cultured, 98 embryos were rescued. Forty-one of these embryos germinated to give green plants, 38 of which were haploid (2n = 7) and 3 of which were diploid (2n = 14). The overall efficiency of barley haploid production was 4.7% with 'Klages' and 1.5% with 'Harrington'. No maize DNA introgression was detected cytologically or in DNA hybridizations using maize transposable elements and highly repeated sequences as probes.Key words: barley, maize, haploids, DNA hybridization.
Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network (2020)

Fact Verification requires fine-grained natural language inference capability that finds subtle clues to identify the syntactical and semantically correct but not well-supported claims. This paper presents Kernel Graph Attention Network (KGAT), which conducts more finegrained fact verification with kernel-based attentions. Given a claim and a set of potential evidence sentences that form an evidence graph, KGAT introduces node kernels, which better measure the importance of the evidence node, and edge kernels, which conduct fine-grained evidence propagation in the graph, into Graph Attention Networks for more accurate fact verification. KGAT achieves a 70.38% FEVER score and significantly outperforms existing fact verification models on FEVER, a large-scale benchmark for fact verification. Our analyses illustrate that, compared to dot-product attentions, the kernelbased attention concentrates more on relevant evidence sentences and meaningful clues in the evidence graph, which is the main source of KGAT's effectiveness.
Blue Phosphorescent Ir(III) Complex with High Color Purity: <i>fac</i>-Tris(2′,6′-difluoro-2,3′-bipyridinato-<i>N,C</i><sup>4′</sup>)iridium(III) (2008)

A blue phosphorescent iridium(III) complex (1) bearing fluorine-substituted bipyridine (dfpypy) has been synthesized and characterized to investigate the effect of the substitution and replacement of the phenyl ring in ppy (phenylpyridine) with pyridine on the solid state structure and its photoluminescence. The optical properties and electrochemical behaviors of 1 have also been systematically evaluated. The structure of 1 has also been determined by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. There are varied intermolecular interactions caused by the pyridine and fluorine substituents, such as C-H...N, C-H...F, and pi...pi interactions of either face-to-face type or edge-to-face C-H...pi and halogen...pi in crystal packing. In electrochemistry, the remarkably higher oxidation potential than that of FIrpic was observed. The emission lambda(max) of 1 at room temperature is at 438 nm with a higher PL quantum efficiency. Complex 1 exhibits intense blue emission with high color purity (CIE x = 0.14, y = 0.12), which has been attributed to metal-to-ligand charge-transfer triplet emission based on DFT calculations.
Designing efficient microlens arrays: lessons from Nature (2004)

Nature provides a whole host of superior multifunctional structures that can be used as inspirational systems for the design and synthesis of new, technologically important materials and devices. We review here the exceptional optical performance of microlens arrays formed by light-sensitive brittlestars, their structural and compositional features, and advantageous properties. We show that brittlestars form a nearly perfect optical device with micron-scale, lightweight, mechanically strong, aberration-free, birefringence-free, individually-addressed lenses, which offer a unique focusing effect, signal enhancement, intensity adjustment, angular selectivity, and photochromic activity. We discuss first materials fabrication strategies that were inspired by the principles involved in the formation of echinoderm calcitic structures. The biomimetic synthetic microlens arrays could be potentially used as highly tunable optical elements for a wide variety of applications.