gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Study of soluble supports generation in 3d printed part (2017)

Additive manufacturing and/or 3D printing processes can use two different materials to build the main geometry of the prototype and the construction of the supports to ensure that the before mentioned geometry can be printed in the workspace (dual printed form). This study is intended to determine the proper conditions to eliminate the material used for the construction of the supports without affecting the material and the geometry of the main part.
A polymer scaffold for self-healing perovskite solar cells (2016)

Advancing of the lead halide perovskite solar cells towards photovoltaic market demands large-scale devices of high-power conversion efficiency, high reproducibility and stability via low-cost fabrication technology, and in particular resistance to humid environment for long-time operation. Here we achieve uniform perovskite film based on a novel polymer-scaffold architecture via a mild-temperature process. These solar cells exhibit efficiency of up to ∼ 16% with small variation. The unencapsulated devices retain high output for up to 300 h in highly humid environment (70% relative humidity). Moreover, they show strong humidity resistant and self-healing behaviour, recovering rapidly after removing from water vapour. Not only the film can self-heal in this case, but the corresponding devices can present power conversion efficiency recovery after the water vapour is removed. Our work demonstrates the value of cheap, long chain and hygroscopic polymer scaffold in perovskite solar cells towards commercialization.
Acamprosate for alcohol dependence (2010)

Acamprosate appears to be an effective and safe treatment strategy for supporting continuous abstinence after detoxification in alcohol dependent patients. Even though the sizes of treatment effects appear to be rather moderate in their magnitude, they should be valued against the background of the relapsing nature of alcoholism and the limited therapeutic options currently available for its treatment.
Noninterference blade-vibration measurement system for gas turbine engines (1989)

A noninterfering blade-vibration measurement system has been demonstrated in tests of a gas turbine firststage fan. Conceptual design of the system, including its theory, design of case mounted probes, and data acquisition and signal-processing hardware, was done in a previous effort. The current effort involved instrumentation of an engine fan stage with strain gages; data acquisition using shaft-mounted reference and casemounted optical probes; recording of data on a wideband tape recorder; and posttest processing using both off-line analysis in a facility computer and a minicomputer-based readout system designed for near-real time readout. Results are presented in terms of true blade-vibration frequencies, timeand frequency-dependent vibration amplitudes, and comparison of the optical noninterference results with strain-gage readings.
Clinical biology of small cell carcinoma: relationship to surgical therapy. (1978)

Theodore Roosevelt supports progressive and "well-nigh expropriatory taxation of swollen inheritance." He doesn't care for the income tax and dislikes taxes on small incomes and inheritances. Roosevelt objected to Amos Pinchot and George Record because they took positions "too far off to one side." He views the Industrial Workers of the World as representing destruction, not advancement.
High-power InGaAsP edge-emitting LEDs for single-mode optical communication systems (1985)

The letter describes 1.3 μm InGaAsP edge-emitting LEDs which couple 40 to 60 μW into a single-mode fibre. The 1.0 ns rise times and 30 to 45 nm spectral widths of these LEDs make suitable for optical communication systems operating at data rates as high as 400 Mbit/s.
Molecular cloning of bovine class I MHC cDNA. (1988)

Two cDNA cloned from a Hereford cow B cell line (BL-3) have allowed the determination of the complete coding region for two class I molecules encoded by the bovine MHC (BoLA). The predicted protein sequences have all the features expected of expressed class I molecules that present peptide Ag to cytotoxic T cells. Comparison with class I molecules from other species strongly suggests these cDNA are derived from different genes and provides evidence for the existence of a second expressed class I BoLA locus. The BoLA proteins show greater similarity to HLA than to H-2 molecules, correlating with the cross-reactions of W6/32 and other murine anti-HLA-A,B,C mAb with BoLA molecules. The basis for the W6/32 epitope and the preferential association of H-2 class I H chains with bovine beta 2-m is examined.
Machine learning for predictive maintenance of industrial machines using IoT sensor data (2017)

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing which harnesses the machine data generated by various sensors and applies various analytics on it to gain useful information. The data captured by the machines is usually accompanied by a date time component which proves vital for predictive modelling. This paper explores the use of AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) forecasting on the time series data collected from various sensors from a Slitting Machine, to predict the possible failures and quality defects, thus improving the overall manufacturing process. The use of Machine Learning thus proves a vital component in IIoT having use cases in quality management and quality control, lowering the cost of maintenance and improving the overall manufacturing process.
Kinetic Study of the Inflammatory Response in <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> Experimental Pneumonia Treated with the Ketolide HMR 3004 (2001)

Patients still die from Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia after initiation of antibiotic therapy, when tissues are sterile and the pneumonia is clearing. There is growing evidence that overwhelming inflammation resulting from toxin release contributes to tissue injury, shock, and death. Monitoring host response may help us understand the consequences of antibiotic therapy for the inflammatory processes that occur in bacterial pneumonia. HMR 3004 is a ketolide that displays excellent in vitro activity against S. pneumoniae. In the present experiment, we investigated the chronology of inflammatory events that occur during pneumococcal pneumonia in mice treated with HMR 3004. Infection of mice with 10(7) CFU of living S. pneumoniae resulted in 100% mortality within 5 days. HMR 3004 given at 12.5 mg/kg of body weight/dose twice daily from 48 h postinfection achieved complete bacterial clearance from lungs and blood within 36 h and ensured survival of mice. Recruitment of neutrophils and monocytes from blood to lungs was significantly reduced, and nitric oxide release was totally prevented. Interleukin-6 secretion in lungs and blood became rapidly undetectable after initiation of therapy. Histological examination of lung tissue showed protection of interstitium against edema. By controlling bacterial invasion, HMR 3004 led to rapid and profound modifications of the host response in lungs, which may protect mice from deleterious inflammatory reactions.
Screening for Chlamydia — A Key to the Prevention of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (1996)

Pelvic inflammatory disease and its severe, costly consequences are preventable. “Pelvic inflammatory disease” refers to infection of the endometrium, fallopian tubes, and contiguous structures. Although it is often caused by multiple infectious organisms, pelvic inflammatory disease results most frequently from the ascent of sexually transmitted chlamydial or gonococcal infection from the cervix into the upper genital tract.1 More than 10 percent of women of reproductive age report a history of such disease,2 and it develops in more than 1 million American women annually.1 In 1994, the estimated costs associated with symptomatic pelvic inflammatory disease exceeded $5.5 billion.1,3 However, published . . .
Extrusion–spheronization a promising pelletization technique: In-depth review (2016)

First, different steps such as granulation, extrusion, spheronization and drying of the extrusion–spheronization process are mentioned. Then the parameters that can influence the pellet quality which involves formulation, equipment and process parameters are discussed. Finally, methods available for characterization of the pellets are explained. This review article deals with various aspects of the extrusion–spheronization technique. The first part includes different steps in the production process of pellets such as granulation, extrusion, spheronization, and drying. In the second part, the parameters which can influence the quality of pellets including formulation (moisture content, granulating liquid, excipients, and drugs), equipment (mixer, extruder, friction plate, and extrusion screen) and process (extrusion speed, extrusion temperature, spheronizer load, spheronization time, spheronization speed, and drying method) are discussed. In the final part, methods available for characterization (particle size distribution, surface area, shape and sphericity, porosity, density, hardness and friability, flow properties, disintegration, and dissolution) of the pellets are explained.
Genetic Survey of <i>Psilocybe</i> Natural Products (2022)

Psilocybe magic mushrooms are best known for their main natural product, psilocybin, and its dephosphorylated congener, the psychedelic metabolite psilocin. Beyond tryptamines, the secondary metabolome of these fungi is poorly understood. The genomes of five species (P. azurescens, P. cubensis, P. cyanescens, P. mexicana, and P. serbica) were browsed to understand more profoundly common and species-specific metabolic capacities. The genomic analyses revealed a much greater and yet unexplored metabolic diversity than evident from parallel chemical analyses. P. cyanescens and P. mexicana were identified as aeruginascin producers. Lumichrome and verpacamide A were also detected as Psilocybe metabolites. The observations concerning the potential secondary metabolome of this fungal genus support pharmacological and toxicological efforts to find a rational basis for yet elusive phenomena, such as paralytic effects, attributed to consumption of some magic mushrooms.
Advanced Incremental Conductance MPPT Algorithm with a Variable Step Size (2006)

This paper proposes an advanced incremental conductance MPPT algorithm with a variable step size for a solar array regulator (SAR) system. This approach adjusts automatically a step size to the solar array operating point, thus improving the MPPT (maximum peak power tracking) speed and accuracy compared with the conventional method with a fixed step size. For the analysis of stability of the proposed algorithm near the maximum power point, the small signal modeling is carried out. Also, it is verified by experiment using a 180 W parallel connected prototype hardware
A Closer Look at the Active Site of γ-Class Carbonic Anhydrases:  High-Resolution Crystallographic Studies of the Carbonic Anhydrase from <i>Methanosarcina thermophila</i><sup>,</sup> (2000)

The prototype of the gamma-class of carbonic anhydrase has been characterized from the methanogenic archaeon Methanosarcina thermophila. Previously reported kinetic studies of the gamma-class carbonic anhydrase are consistent with this enzyme having a reaction mechanism similar to that of the mammalian alpha-class carbonic anhydrase. However, the overall folds of these two enzymes are dissimilar, and apart from the zinc-coordinating histidines, the active site residues bear little resemblance to one another. The crystal structures of zinc-containing and cobalt-substituted gamma-class carbonic anhydrases from M. thermophila are reported here between 1.46 and 1.95 A resolution in the unbound form and cocrystallized with either SO(4)(2)(-) or HCO(3)(-). Relative to the tetrahedral coordination geometry seen at the active site in the alpha-class of carbonic anhydrases, the active site of the gamma-class enzyme contains additional metal-bound water ligands, so the overall coordination geometry is trigonal bipyramidal for the zinc-containing enzyme and octahedral for the cobalt-substituted enzyme. Ligands bound to the active site all make contacts with the side chain of Glu 62 in manners that suggest the side chain is likely protonated. In the uncomplexed zinc-containing enzyme, the side chains of Glu 62 and Glu 84 appear to share a proton; additionally, Glu 84 exhibits multiple conformations. This suggests that Glu 84 may act as a proton shuttle, which is an important aspect of the reaction mechanism of alpha-class carbonic anhydrases. A hydrophobic pocket on the surface of the enzyme may participate in the trapping of CO(2) at the active site. On the basis of the coordination geometry at the active site, ligand binding modes, the behavior of the side chains of Glu 62 and Glu 84, and analogies to the well-characterized alpha-class of carbonic anhydrases, a more-defined reaction mechanism is proposed for the gamma-class of carbonic anhydrases.
Improving indoor localization with social interactions (2012)

In this paper, we propose Social-Loc, which uniquely utilizes social interactions in addition to common on-board sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope on modern smartphones, to localize indoor mobile users. Specifically, Social-Loc takes the potential locations for individual users estimated by a novel particle filter tailored for indoor localization as input, and exploits both social encounter and non-encounter events to further improve the localization accuracy. We have implemented Social-Loc on the Android platform and extensively evaluated its performance. The simulation results demonstrate that Social-Loc improves the accuracy of the particle-filter-only scheme by as much as 560% on average and is able to achieve accuracy of few meters without any external ranging device or system training.
An embedded stack microprocessor for SDH telecommunication applications (2002)

In this paper we present an application-specific microprocessor core with a stack architecture optimized for use in broadband telecommunication ASICs. The microprocessor was integrated in an application on the same die as the complete data path of an SDH add-drop multiplexer (ADM). It handles over 1 million interrupts per second from 29 asynchronous sources. Due to this high interrupt rate extremely efficient context switching is required: only two extra cycles per interrupt call. The top four stack elements are directly accessable as registers and ALU instructions are computed in parallel with push or pop commands. An independent ALU for address processing enables compact and very efficient code generation. A prototype ASIC has been implemented in 0.8 /spl mu/m CMOS technology.
Radiometric compensation of global illumination effects with projector-camera systems (2006)

Conventional radiometric compensation approaches such as [Bimber et al. 2005] rely on a direct mapping between projector and camera pixels. Global illumination effects such as reflections, refractions, scattering, dispersion, diffraction etc are completely ignored since only local illumination is taken into account. We propose a novel approach that applies the light transport matrix for performing an image-based radiometric compensation that accounts for all possible lighting effects.
Mathematical modeling of intracellular signaling pathways (2006)

Dynamic modeling and simulation of signal transduction pathways is an important topic in systems biology and is obtaining growing attention from researchers with experimental or theoretical background. Here we review attempts to analyze and model specific signaling systems. We review the structure of recurrent building blocks of signaling pathways and their integration into more comprehensive models, which enables the understanding of complex cellular processes. The variety of mechanisms found and modeling techniques used are illustrated with models of different signaling pathways. Focusing on the close interplay between experimental investigation of pathways and the mathematical representations of cellular dynamics, we discuss challenges and perspectives that emerge in studies of signaling systems.
Why Did the Byrd Amendment Not Fly with the WTO? Technical Annex (2005)

This document is the technical annex to the full paper "Why Did the Byrd Amendment Not Fly with the WTO?" which is available separately.
Guaranteeing statistical QoS to regulated traffic: the multiple node case (2002)

We design and evaluate traffic management schemes for multimedia traffic in multihop packet-switched networks. Our traffic management schemes give multimedia connections statistical quality of service (QoS) guarantees while simultaneously permitting the network to have a large connection-carrying capacity. We consider a QoS requirement that is particularly appropriate for multimedia connections which typically can tolerate some loss but have rigid delay constraints. Our design allows for connection specific end-to-end delay limits and loss bounds. In order for the network to be able to provide these statistical QoS guarantees, we assume that each connections' traffic is regulated. We propose a pragmatic scheme for multimedia traffic which consists of: 1) leaky buckets for traffic regulation, 2) smoothers at the network edges, and 3) bufferless statistical multiplexing within the network. We also develop a call admission procedure for our traffic management scheme. Finally, we compare the connection-carrying capacity of our scheme with that of guaranteed service schemes using GPS and RCS.
Interleukin (IL)‐19, IL‐20 and IL‐24 are produced by and act on keratinocytes and are distinct from classical ILs (2006)

Due to their structural similarity, interleukin (IL)-19, IL-20, IL-22, IL-24 and IL-26 were combined with IL-10 in the so-called IL-10 family. To expand the knowledge on IL-19, IL-20 and IL-24, we systematically and quantitatively analysed the expression of these mediators and their receptor chains in vitro and in vivo under various conditions and in comparison with other IL-10 family members. In vitro, IL-19, IL-20 and IL-24 were produced not only by activated immune cells, particularly monocytes, but also to a similar extent by keratinocytes. IL-1beta increased the expression of these mediators 1000-fold (IL-19) and 10-fold (IL-20 and IL-24) in keratinocytes. In vivo, these cytokines were expressed preferentially in inflamed tissues. The absence of either R1 chain for the two types of receptor complexes for these cytokines (IL-20R1/IL-20R2 and IL-22R1/IL-20R2) on immune cells implies that they cannot act on these cells. In fact, IL-19, IL-20 and IL-24 did not induce activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) molecules in immune cells. Instead, several tissues, particularly the skin, tissues from the reproductive and respiratory systems, and various glands appeared to be the main targets of these mediators. Keratinocytes expressed both receptor complexes; however, the expression of IL-22R1 was 10 times higher than that of IL-20R1. Interferon-gamma further increased the expression of IL-22R1 and decreased that of IL-20R1, suggesting that under T1 cytokine conditions these mediators primarily affect keratinocytes via the IL-22R1/IL-20R2 complex. In summary, these data support the notion that IL-19, IL-20 and IL-24 are distinct from classical ILs and constitute a separate subfamily of mediators within the IL-10 family.
Lymphocytic Infundibuloneurohypophysitis as a Cause of Central Diabetes Insipidus (1993)

Diabetes insipidus can be caused by lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis, which can be detected by MRI. The natural course of the disorder is self-limited.
Detecting and Matching Related Objects with One Proposal Multiple Predictions (2021)

Tracking players in sports videos is commonly done in a tracking-by-detection framework, first detecting players in each frame, and then performing association over time. While for some sports tracking players is sufficient for game analysis, sports like hockey, tennis and polo may require additional detections, that include the object the player is holding (e.g. racket, stick). The baseline solution for this problem involves detecting these objects as separate classes, and matching them to player detections based on the intersection over union (IoU). This approach, however, leads to poor matching performance in crowded situations, as it does not model the relationship between players and objects. In this paper, we propose a simple yet efficient way to detect and match players and related objects at once without extra cost, by considering an implicit association for prediction of multiple objects through the same proposal box. We evaluate the method on a dataset of broadcast ice hockey videos, and also a new public dataset we introduce called COCO +Torso. On the ice hockey dataset, the proposed method boosts matching performance from 57.1% to 81.4%, while also improving the meanAP of player+stick detections from 68.4% to 88.3%. On the COCO +Torso dataset, we see matching improving from 47.9% to 65.2%. The COCO +Torso dataset, code and pre-trained models will be released at https://github.com/foreverYoungGitHub/detect-and-match-related-objects.
Ferroelectric HfO2 Thin Films for FeFET Memory Devices (2016)

Silicon-doped hafnium oxide has been shown to exhibit ferroelectric properties under the certain small thicknesses with appropriate applied stress and annealing conditions. Utilizing Si:HfO2 as the dielectric with a TiN capping layer in a ferroelectric field-effect-transistor (FeFET) is promising as a potential emerging memory device due to the ease in integration with standard CMOS process flows. The process developed at RIT was successful in fabricating n-channel FeFETs of varying dimensions. The work done here utilizes a 10 nm thick ALD Si:HfO2 film that has a remnant polarization of 10.34 micrometerC=cm2 and an average memory window of 572.3 mV . The subthreshold characteristics were consistent in both the on and off state with a calculated subthreshold swing around 110 mV=dec.
HadA is an atypical new multifunctional trimeric coiled-coil adhesin of<i>Haemophilus influenzae</i>biogroup<i>aegyptius</i>, which promotes entry into host cells (2009)

The Oca (Oligomeric coiled-coil adhesin) family is a subgroup of the bacterial trimeric autotransporter adhesins, which includes structurally related proteins, such as YadA of Yersinia enterocolitica and NadA of Neisseria meningitidis. In this study, we searched in silico for novel members of this family in bacterial genomes and identified HadA (Haemophilus adhesin A), a trimeric autotransporter expressed only by Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius causing Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF), a fulminant septicemic disease of children. By comparative genomics and sequence analysis we predicted that the hadA gene is harboured on a mobile genetic element unique to BPF isolates. Biological analysis of HadA in the native background was limited because this organism is not amenable to genetic manipulation. Alternatively, we demonstrated that expression of HadA confers to a non-invasive Escherichia coli strain the ability to adhere to human cells and to extracellular matrix proteins and to induce in vitro bacterial aggregation and microcolony formation. Intriguingly, HadA is predicted to lack the typical N-terminal head domain of Oca proteins generally associated with cellular receptor binding. We propose here a structural model of the HadA coiled-coil stalk and show that the N-terminal region is still responsible of the binding activity and a KGD motif plays a role. Interestingly, HadA promotes bacterial entry into mammalian cells. Our results show a cytoskeleton re-arrangement and an involvement of clathrin in the HadA-mediated internalization. These data give new insights on the structure-function relationship of oligomeric coiled-coil adhesins and suggest a potential role of this protein in the pathogenesis of BPF.