gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing (1994)

Preface, N. Sharkey and R. Reilly connectionist natural language processing semantics, M.D. Dyer, et al distributed symbol discovery through symbol recirculation - toward natural language processing in distributed connectionist networks, R.F.E. Stucliffe representing meaning using microfeatures, S. Wermter and W. Lehnert noun phrase analysis with connectionist networks, M. St John and J. McClelland parallel constraint satisfaction as a comprehension mechanism syntax, J. Rager self-correcting connectionist parsing, H. Schnelle and R. Doust a net-linguistic Earley parser representational adequacy, T. Bever the demons and the beast - modular and nodular kinds of knowledge, G. Berg representational adequacy and the case for a hybrid connectionis/market- parsing model, G. Dorffner a step toward sub-symbolic language models without linguistic representation computational psycholinguists, D. Massaro connectionist models of speech perception, D. Norris connectionism - a new breed of bottom up model?, P. O'Seaghdha, et al models of form-related priming in comprehension and production, M. Mozer and M. Behrmann reading with attentional impariments - a brain-damaged model of neglect and attentional dyslexias.
An embodied computational model of social referencing (2006)

Social referencing is the tendency to use the emotional reaction of another to help form one's own affective appraisal of a novel situation, which is then used to guide subsequent behavior. It is an important form of emotional communication and is a developmental milestone for human infants in their ability to learn about their environment through social means. In this paper, we present a biologically-inspired computational model of social referencing for our expressive, anthropomorphic robot that consists of three interacting systems: emotional empathy through facial imitation, a shared attention mechanism, and an affective memory system. This model presents opportunities for understanding how these mechanisms might interact to enable social referencing behavior in humans.
Recycling of styrene polymers from shredded screen housings containing brominated flame retardants (2006)

Abstract Recycling of plastics from screen housing poly mers is considered to be helpful to fulfill the requirements of the European waste of electric and electronic equipment directive. However, brominated flame retardants (BFR) and polybrominated dioxins and furans, which are partly limited in marketable products by European and German legislation, have been identified in waste screen housings and need to be eliminated. On application to housing shredder, sink and float was investigated as sorting technology, since BFR‐equipped styrene polymers exhibit higher densities compared to corres ponding non‐BFR types. The feasibility of this concept was proven by database studies and density monitoring of waste screen housing. Laboratory and small‐technical scale trials with different mixtures of TV‐sets and PC monitor housings revealed that only 5–20% of the original bromine load remained in the target fractions, resulting in bromine levels between 0.18–1.39%. Recycled polymers from fractions rich in HIPS‐based TV‐set casings did not exceed given threshold limits for PBDD/F and octabromodiphenylether. They were recovered with yields of 52–63% and exhibited mostly virgin‐like mechanical properties. In contrast, PC monitor housing fractions were characterized by low yield, high bromine levels in recycled products and brittle recycled polymers. Furthermore, pilot application of another separation approach, the specific swell and float technology, allowed the separation of upgraded HIPS qualities from bromine‐reduced TV‐set fractions. In contrast, this success has not yet been achieved with waste PC monitors. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 102: 1262–1273, 2006
Investigate of Electrical Conductivity of Shape-Memory Polymer Filled with Carbon Black (2008)

A new system of thermoset styrene-based shape-memory polymer (SMP) filled with carbon black (CB) is investigated. To realize the electroactive stimuli of SMP, the electrical conductivity of SMP filled with various amounts of CB is characterized. The percolation threshold of electrically conductive SMP filled with CB is about 3% (volume fraction of CB), which is much lower than many other electrically conductive polymers. When applying a voltage of 30V, the shape recovery process of SMP/CB(10 vol%) can be realized in about 100s. In addition, the thermomechanical properties are also characterized by differential scanning calorimetery (DSC).
Fast burst images denoising (2014)

This paper presents a fast denoising method that produces a clean image from a burst of noisy images. We accelerate alignment of the images by introducing a lightweight camera motion representation called homography flow . The aligned images are then fused to create a denoised output with rapid per-pixel operations in temporal and spatial domains. To handle scene motion during the capture, a mechanism of selecting consistent pixels for temporal fusion is proposed to "synthesize" a clean, ghost-free image, which can largely reduce the computation of tracking motion between frames. Combined with these efficient solutions, our method runs several orders of magnitude faster than previous work, while the denoising quality is comparable. A smartphone prototype demonstrates that our method is practical and works well on a large variety of real examples.
An Antibiotic-Inducible Cell Wall-Associated Protein That Protects <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> from Autolysis (2007)

In Bacillus subtilis, antibiotics that impair cell wall synthesis induce a characteristic stress response including the sigma(W) and sigma(M) regulons and the previously uncharacterized yoeB gene. Here we demonstrate that YoeB is a cell wall-associated protein with weak sequence similarity to a noncatalytic domain of class B penicillin-binding proteins. A yoeB-null mutant exhibits an increased rate of autolysis in response to cell wall-targeting antibiotics or nutrient depletion. This phenotype does not appear to be correlated with gross alterations in peptidoglycan structure or levels of autolysins. Promoter dissection experiments define a minimal region necessary for antibiotic-mediated induction of yoeB, and this region is highly conserved preceding yoeB homologs in close relatives of B. subtilis. These results support a model in which induction of YoeB in response to cell envelope stress decreases the activity of autolysins and thereby reduces the rate of antibiotic-dependent cell death.
Eicosapentaenoic Acid Could Permit Maintenance of the Original Ribavirin Dose in Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Patients during the First 12 Weeks of Combination Therapy with Pegylated Interferon-α and Ribavirin (2007)

EPA could prevent the RBV dose reduction during the first 12 weeks in combination therapy, although further large-scale double-blind randomized controlled trials are required.
Plant mitochondrial DNA (2016)

Plants possess mitochondrial genomes that are large and complex compared to animals. Nearly all animal mitochondrial genomes are about 16.5. kbp in length, whereas plant mitochondrial genomes range between 200-2,000 kbp. This is curious if we assume modern mitochondria originated from a common alpha-proteobacterial ancestor. Despite their size, plant mitochondrial genomes do not contain significantly more genes than their animal counterparts. Most of the additional DNA found in plant mitochondrial genomes consists of large introns, repeats and non-coding regions. Furthermore, plant mtDNA does not exist as large circular DNA molecules but mostly as a collection of linear DNA with combinations of smaller circular and branched molecules. Studies into these highly fragmented genomes heavily imply that recombination is the main mechanism driving replication of plant mtDNA.
Bronchiectasis insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? (2019)

Bronchiectasis is an increasingly common disease with a significant impact on quality of life and morbidity of affected patients. It is also a very heterogeneous disease with numerous different underlying etiologies and presentations. Most treatments for bronchiectasis are based on low-quality evidence; consequently, no treatments have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration or the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of bronchiectasis. The last several years have seen numerous clinical trials in which the investigational agent, thought to hold great promise, did not demonstrate a clinically or statistically significant benefit. This commentary will review the likely reasons for these disappointing results and a potential approach that may have a greater likelihood of defining evidence-based treatment for bronchiectasis.
The Decision on Turkish EU accession in December 2002: the logic of anarchy, collective action problems and rhetorical action (2004)

Studies of the EU accession of the East and Central European Countries have stressed the importance of neo-liberal institutionalism as an explanation for Member State preferences. In this paper it is argued that Member States’ preferences over Turkish EU accession are better explained by power politics and neo-realism. It seems therefore that Turkey’s way to the EU follows another path than the East and Central Countries. Turkish accession raises the question of the EU’s role in a uni-polar world order – whether the EU should develop into an independent actor on the world stage or not. However, when it comes to the interaction among the Member States in order to decide on when to open accession negotiations with Turkey the constitutive values of the EU seriously modify the outcome that pure power politics would have let to.
Cost-aware Pre-training for Multiclass Cost-sensitive Deep Learning (2015)

Deep learning has been one of the most prominent machine learning techniques nowadays, being the state-of-the-art on a broad range of applications where automatic feature extraction is needed. Many such applications also demand varying costs for different types of mis-classification errors, but it is not clear whether or how such cost information can be incorporated into deep learning to improve performance. In this work, we propose a novel cost-aware algorithm that takes into account the cost information into not only the training stage but also the pre-training stage of deep learning. The approach allows deep learning to conduct automatic feature extraction with the cost information effectively. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms other deep learning models that do not digest the cost information in the pre-training stage.
Long-Term Follow-up of Patients with Recurrent Malignant Gliomas Treated with Adjuvant Adoptive Immunotherapy (1991)

Abstract Between August 1986 and October 1987, the Denver Brain Tumor Research Group conducted a clinical trial using autologous human recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2)-activated lymphocytes to treat 20 patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas. The trial involved surgical resection and/or decompression followed by intracavitary implantation of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells and autologous stimulated lymphocytes (ASL) along with rIL-2 in a plasma clot. One month later, stimulated lymphocytes and rIL-2 were infused through a Rickham reservoir attached to a catheter directed into the tumor bed. The LAK cells were rIL-2-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes cultured for 4 days; the ASL were lectin- and rIL-2-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes cultured for 10 days. Of the 20 patients treated, 11 were evaluated as a group (mean age, 44 years, range, 15-61 years; mean Karnofsky rating, 69, range, 50-100; mean Decadron dose at entry, 14 mg/d. range, 0-32). The average number of lymphocytes implanted was 7.6 × 109 (range, 1.9-27.5 × 109), together with 1 to 4 × 106 U of rIL-2. To date, 10 of the 11 patients died, all from recurrent tumor growth. The median overall survival time was 63 weeks (range, 36-201; mean, 86). The median survival time after immunotherapy was 18 weeks (range, 11-151; mean, 39). No significant difference in survival after immunotherapy was found between those patients who had received previous chemotherapy and those who had not. The use of steroids or prior chemotherapy did not influence the in vitro generation of ASL or LAK cells. Prior chemotherapy did correlate, however, with diminished in vitro cytotoxicity against the natural killer-sensitive (K562) target cell by LAK cells (P &lt; 0.05) but not that by ASL. There were no major adverse side effects. Although adoptive immunotherapy was safe and well tolerated, its therapeutic potential remains in question.
Compositionally graded C-doped In/sub 1-x/Ga/sub x/As base in InP/InGaAs D-HBTs grown by MOCVD with low base sheet resistance and high current gain (2002)

MOCVD-grown carbon (C)-doped InGaAs layers using CBr/sub 4/ as a C source were investigated with the van der Pauw method and PL measurement. A hole concentration of as high as 7/spl times/10/sup 19/ cm/sup -3/ was obtained at a growth temperature of 385/spl deg/C. However, PL intensity of the C-InGaAs depends on the growth temperature, and was weaker than that of Mg- or Zn-doped InGaAs at a range of over 1/spl times/10/sup 19/ cm/sup -3/. Furthermore, DC measurement of D-HBTs revealed that there existed a strict tradeoff between the current gain and base sheet resistance of C-InGaAs uniform-base D-HBTs. To break through the tradeoff, we have fabricated D-HBTs with 150-nm-thick strain-compensated graded-In/sub 1-x/Ga/sub x/As-base (X=0.42/spl rArr/0.53). As a result, a current gain of 55 with a base sheet resistance of 480 /spl Omega///spl square/ was achieved.
Energy dependence of the sputtering yield of silicon bombarded with neon, argon, krypton, and xenon ions (1983)

Sputtering yields of Si were determined for bombardment with Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe ions at normal incidence in the energy range 0.2–20 keV under ultrahigh vacuum conditions (&lt;10−7 Pa). Mass selection was employed and the energy spread was limited to a few electron volts. High fluences in excess of 1018 cm−2 were used to obtain stationary state yields. A special method was adopted for the yield determination, involving accurate current integration and eroded crater volume measurement with a micromechanical stylus. As a spinoff of the adopted technique, relative sputtering yields for Mo could also be determined. Our data agree with the sparse other recent experimental results. Discrepancies with older data sets are sizeable but can be attributed to our improved beam definition and better surface conditions. The measured yields are, even quantitatively, in surprisingly good agreement with predictions from Sigmund’s linear cascade theory in the low and intermediate energy range. At higher energy the yields fall off more rapidly than the theory predicts, the deviations increasing with decreasing projectile mass. This behavior cannot be explained entirely in terms of the parameters and assumptions entering the Sigmund model. Various proposed empirical modifications and alternatives for Sigmund’s theory are critically examined and a new quite useful simplification of the latter is derived.
A dynamic ID-based authentication scheme with smart token (2009)

Hardware smart tokens are gaining popularity in strong online remote authentication. Das introduced a dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme with one-way hash function using the smart card. Lee, Hwang, Jian and others made alternative dynamic ID-based authentication schemes with smart card. This paper proposes an improved dynamic ID-based authentication scheme based on Jian's scheme by Adding public key cryptographic layer and using hardware smart token. Our proposed scheme will be more flexible because the using of dynamic ID-based authentication scheme with hardware token makes it easier and more secure.
Sensory Study on the Character Impact Odorants of Roasted Arabica Coffee (1999)

The potent odorants were quantified in a sample of roasted Arabica coffee. On the basis of the results, 27 odorants were dissolved in an oil/water mixture. The flavor profile of the model obtained was very close to that of the real sample. In duo and triangle tests, the model was compared with models missing one or more odorants. These experiments indicated that 2-furfurylthiol, 4-vinylguaiacol, several alkyl pyrazines, furanones, acetaldehyde, propanal, methylpropanal, and 2- and 3-methylbutanal had the greatest impact on the coffee flavor.
Importance of energetics in the design of small bandgap conducting polymers (1990)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTImportance of energetics in the design of small bandgap conducting polymersYong Sok Lee, Miklos Kertesz, and Ronald L. ElsenbaumerCite this: Chem. Mater. 1990, 2, 5, 526–530Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1990Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1990https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cm00011a012https://doi.org/10.1021/cm00011a012research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views172Altmetric-Citations40LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Vapor grown carbon fiber for space thermal management systems (1990)

Research that uses a novel, highly graphitic, vapor grown carbon fiber (VGCF) to fabricate composites for thermal management applications is described. These VGCF/Carbon composites have shown a specific thermal conductivity with values of twenty-to-ten times that of copper in the 500-900 K temperature range needed for waste heat management. It is concluded that development of this high specific thermal conductivity composite for thermal radiator panels will provide the foundation for a reevaluation of space power designs heretofore limited by the mass of waste heat dissipation systems. Further, it is suggested that through optimization of fiber handling and composite processing, thermal conductivities exceeding 1000 W/m-K (at 300 K) are achievable in composites reinforced with VGCF.
A Dynamic Characterization Approach for a Complex Naturally Fractured Reservoir (2019)

Abstract The Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFR) constitute a challenge for the oil industry due to its importance in hydrocarbon production and the technical complexity they represent, because well’s productivity in carbonated formations is influenced by fracture systems that govern the fluids motion within reservoirs. This approach is oriented to the analysis of a very complex NFR, where we show the results obtained through a dynamic characterization methodology focused on new opportunities in a High Pressure-High Temperature (HP-HT) coastal mature oilfield with high water cut production. The proposed methodology is based on a full analysis starting from the pressure-production historical data, fluids properties, dual-porosity material balance, a detailed static model update (petrophysics, core analysis, petrography, fracture analysis, sedimentology-diagenesis and structural geology), flow units discretization, Water-Oil Contact (WOC) advance monitoring in each block, Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) (determination of preferential flow direction and interference), and Rate Transient Analysis (RTA). This methodology allowed to determine the real Original Oil in Place (OOIP) and the proper recovery factor according to the type of NFR and its characteristics, to detect different WOC’s for each block that were hydraulically connected to each other but with a different dynamic behavior among them, the detection of heterogeneities, facies changes and faults that originally were not mapped, sweet spots location, better distribution of the petrophysical properties, fracture analysis, static model reinterpretation based on the dynamic behavior, reservoir connectivity analysis (among blocks) and the generation of improved production forecasts based on an exploitation strategy especially designed for the current conditions and needs of the field; all of this contributed to have a better understanding of the reservoir and a good numerical simulation model.
Orthonormal (Fourier and Walsh) models of time-varying evoked potentials in neurological injury (1993)

Estimation of time-varying changes in evoked potentials (EP's) has important applications, such as monitoring high-risk neurosurgical procedures. We test the hypothesis that injury related changes in EP signals may be modeled by orthonormal basis functions. We evaluate two models of time-varying EP signals: the Fourier series model (FSM) and the Walsh function model (WFM). We estimate the Fourier and Walsh coefficients with the aid of an adaptive least-mean-squares technique. Results from computer simulations illustrate how selection of model order and of the adaptation rate of the estimator affect the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The FSM results in a somewhat higher steady-state SNR than does the WFM; however, the WFM is less computationally complex than is the FSM. We apply these two orthonormal functions to evaluate transient response to hypoxic hypoxia in anesthetized cats. Trends of the first five frequencies (Fourier) and sequencies (Walsh) show that the lower frequencies and sequencies may be sensitive indicators of hypoxic neurological injury.
Organic Liquids-Responsive β-Cyclodextrin-Functionalized Graphene-Based Fluorescence Probe: Label-Free Selective Detection of Tetrahydrofuran (2014)

In this study, a label-free graphene-based fluorescence probe used for detection of volatile organic liquids was fabricated by a simple, efficient and low-cost method. To fabricate the probe, a bio-based β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) was firstly grafted on reduced graphene surfaces effectively and uniformly, as evidenced by various characterization techniques such as Ultraviolet/Visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The subsequent inclusion of Rhodamine B (RhB) into the inner cavities of the β-CD grafted on the graphene surfaces was achieved easily by a solution mixing method, which yielded the graphene-based fluorescent switch-on probe. In addition, the gradual and controllable quenching of RhB by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer from RhB to graphene during the process of stepwise accommodation of the RhB molecules into the β-CD-functionalized graphene was investigated in depth. A wide range of organic solvents was examined using the as-fabricated fluorescence probe, which revealed the highest sensitivity to tetrahydrofuran with the detection limit of about 1.7 μg/mL. Some insight into the mechanism of the different responsive behaviors of the fluorescence sensor to the examined targets was also described.