gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Curculionidae and Chrysomelidae Found in Aquatic Habitats in Wisconsin (2017)

(excerpt) We became interested in aquatic weevils (Curculionidae) and leaf beetles (Chryso- melidae) during the Aquatic Entomology Course at the University of Wisconsin, in the spring of 1971. Many collections, taken from a variety of aquatic habitats in Wisconsin, contained weevils and leaf beetles. Most of the species were not fully treated in the keys found in aquatic entomology texts. We thought it would be useful to compile keys from the literature and present what is known of the distribution of these insects in Wisconsin. Nine species of weevils have been found in aquatic habitats in Wisconsin, representing seven genera, all belonging to the subtribe Hydronomi, and twenty-five species of leaf beetles, representing five genera in three subfamilies.
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Based Quantitative Bioassay on Aptamer-Functionalized Nanopillars Using Large-Area Raman Mapping (2013)

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been used in a variety of biological applications due to its high sensitivity and specificity. Here, we report a SERS-based biosensing approach for quantitative detection of biomolecules. A SERS substrate bearing gold-decorated silicon nanopillars is functionalized with aptamers for sensitive and specific detection of target molecules. In this study, TAMRA-labeled vasopressin molecules in the picomolar regime (1 pM to 1 nM) are specifically captured by aptamers on the nanostructured SERS substrate and monitored by using an automated SERS signal mapping technique. From the experimental results, we show concentration-dependent SERS responses in the picomolar range by integrating SERS signal intensities over a scanning area. It is also noted that our signal mapping approach significantly improves statistical reproducibility and accounts for spot-to-spot variation in conventional SERS quantification. Furthermore, we have developed an analytical model capable of predicting experimental intensity distributions on the substrates for reliable quantification of biomolecules. Lastly, we have calculated the minimum needed area of Raman mapping for efficient and reliable analysis of each measurement. Combining our SERS mapping analysis with an aptamer-functionalized nanopillar substrate is found to be extremely efficient for detection of low-abundance biomolecules.
Large-scale passive photonic switch architecture (1994)

This paper describes some scalable photonic switch architectures based on passive star couplers and wavelength-division multiplexing. The development of these architectures is motivated by several implications to the use of passive photonics: low access latency, large switching capacity, improved fault tolerance, and bandwidth/spatial reconfiguration. Due to crosstalk and power budget factors, the number of separable wavelength channels with direct detection devices is limited. Scalability in the described architectures is achieved by efficiently combining wavelength and space division, using multiple star couplers. Two approaches are presented, both feature conflict-free communication: multi-access based on interleaved time-division multiple-access and virtual point-to-point based on multi-hop lightwave shuffle networks. Results concerning realization, delay-throughput performance, and wavelength assignment are summarized.
An Improvement on A Three-Party Authentication Key Exchange Protocol Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2010)

The authentication key exchange protocol enables communication participants to authenticate each other and agree on the session key over an insecure public network. Recently, a three-party authentication key exchange protocol based on Elliptic curve cryptograph is proposed. In this paper, we improve the three-party encrypted key exchange protocol by bilinear maps. The proposed threeparty authentication key exchange protocol is provable secure under Computational Diffie-Hellman assumptions in the standard model. Furthermore, the novel protocol is more efficient.
Spatial 3D infrastructure: display-independent software framework, high-speed rendering electronics, and several new displays (2005)

We present a software and hardware foundation to enable the rapid adoption of 3-D displays. Different 3-D displays - such as multiplanar, multiview, and electroholographic displays - naturally require different rendering methods. The adoption of these displays in the marketplace will be accelerated by a common software framework. The authors designed the SpatialGL API, a new rendering framework that unifies these display methods under one interface. SpatialGL enables complementary visualization assets to coexist through a uniform infrastructure. Also, SpatialGL supports legacy interfaces such as the OpenGL API. The authors’ first implementation of SpatialGL uses multiview and multislice rendering algorithms to exploit the performance of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) to enable real-time visualization of 3-D graphics from medical imaging, oil & gas exploration, and homeland security. At the time of writing, SpatialGL runs on COTS workstations (both Windows and Linux) and on Actuality’s high-performance embedded computational engine that couples an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU, an AMD Athlon 64 processor, and a proprietary, high-speed, programmable volumetric frame buffer that interfaces to a 1024 x 768 x 3 digital projector. Progress is illustrated using an off-the-shelf multiview display, Actuality’s multiplanar Perspecta Spatial 3D System, and an experimental multiview display. The experimental display is a quasi-holographic view-sequential system that generates aerial imagery measuring 30 mm x 25 mm x 25 mm, providing 198 horizontal views.
Biodeterioration and biodegradation 8: proceedings of the 8th International Biodeteriorati on and Biodegradation Symposium, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 26-31 August 1990 (1991)

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium devoted to Biodeterioration and Biodegradation held August 26-31, 1990 at the University of Windsor, Canada. Including 23 communications and 121 extended summaries on the following topics: biodeterioration of materials; biodeteriogens and disease; biodegradation, biotransformation, bioremediation; vertebrate pest management and control and pesticide impact; pulp and paper biodeterioration; biodegadation of surfactants; biodeterioration of cultural properties, library and material archives; post- harvest biodeterioration by insects; detection of microbiological biodeterioration; biodegration of libricants; biodeterioration of textiles; biodegradation of fuels; biofilms and biodeterioration and biodegradation; biodeterioration of polymers,paints and organic coatings; biodeteriogens as agents of disease; use of microbicides to control biodeterioration; biodegradation of industrial wastwater; biodegradation of wood; biodeterioration of food; biodegradation of aromatic compounds; microbially induced corrosion.
A Fatal Central Nervous System Enterovirus 68 Infection (2011)

Abstract The anticipated eradication of poliovirus emphasizes the need to identify other enteroviral causes of severe central nervous system disease. Enterovirus 68 has been implicated only in cases of respiratory illness. We therefore report a case of fatal meningomyeloencephalitis caused by enterovirus 68 in a 5-year-old boy, which required neuropathology, microbiology, and molecular techniques to diagnose.
GPS spoofer countermeasure effectiveness based on signal strength, noise power, and C/N<sub>0</sub> measurements (2012)

SUMMARY Spoofing sources can effectively disrupt a GPS receiver during the acquisition phase by generating multiple false correlation peaks and increasing the noise floor. Such deceptive correlation peaks can mislead the GPS receiver into acquiring the spoofer generated signals rather than the authentic signals. Also, the spoofer can increase the receiver noise floor to bury the authentic signals in the noise and at the same time generate correlation peaks with amplitudes commensurate with reasonable C/N 0 expectations. The main focus of this paper is on assessment of the reduced effectiveness of the GPS spoofer countermeasure during acquisition where the GPS receiver utilizes C/N 0 discrimination. As shown, whereas the C/N 0 discrimination is of limited effectiveness, with a modest circuit modification, the receiver can measure the absolute power of the correlation peaks, which is an effective means of detecting and discriminating spoofer sources. It will be shown that employing absolute power monitoring technique considerably reduces the vulnerability region of the receiver compared with the C/N 0 monitoring techniques. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
From Plk1 to Plk5 (2011)

Mammalian polo-like kinases (Plks) are characterized by the presence of an N-terminal protein kinase domain and a C-terminal polo-box domain (PBD) involved in substrate binding and regulation of kinase activity. Plk1-4 have traditionally been linked to cell cycle progression, genotoxic stress and, more recently, neuron biology. Recently, a fifth mammalian Plk family member, Plk5, has been characterized in murine and human cells. Plk5 is expressed mainly in differentiated tissues such as the cerebellum. Despite apparent loss of catalytic activity and a stop codon in the middle of the human gene, Plk5 proteins retain important functions in neuron biology. Notably, its expression is silenced by epigenetic alterations in brain tumors, such as glioblastomas, and its re-expression prevents cell proliferation of these tumor cells. In this review, we will focus on the non-cell cycle roles of Plks, the biology of the new member of the family and the possible kinase- and PBD-independent functions of polo-like kinases.
PBX1 Genomic Pioneer Function Drives ERα Signaling Underlying Progression in Breast Cancer (2011)

Altered transcriptional programs are a hallmark of diseases, yet how these are established is still ill-defined. PBX1 is a TALE homeodomain protein involved in the development of different types of cancers. The estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is central to the development of two-thirds of all breast cancers. Here we demonstrate that PBX1 acts as a pioneer factor and is essential for the ERα-mediated transcriptional response driving aggressive tumors in breast cancer. Indeed, PBX1 expression correlates with ERα in primary breast tumors, and breast cancer cells depleted of PBX1 no longer proliferate following estrogen stimulation. Profiling PBX1 recruitment and chromatin accessibility across the genome of breast cancer cells through ChIP-seq and FAIRE-seq reveals that PBX1 is loaded and promotes chromatin openness at specific genomic locations through its capacity to read specific epigenetic signatures. Accordingly, PBX1 guides ERα recruitment to a specific subset of sites. Expression profiling studies demonstrate that PBX1 controls over 70% of the estrogen response. More importantly, the PBX1-dependent transcriptional program is associated with poor-outcome in breast cancer patients. Correspondingly, PBX1 expression alone can discriminate a priori the outcome in ERα-positive breast cancer patients. These features are markedly different from the previously characterized ERα-associated pioneer factor FoxA1. Indeed, PBX1 is the only pioneer factor identified to date that discriminates outcome such as metastasis in ERα-positive breast cancer patients. Together our results reveal that PBX1 is a novel pioneer factor defining aggressive ERα-positive breast tumors, as it guides ERα genomic activity to unique genomic regions promoting a transcriptional program favorable to breast cancer progression.
Differentiation of pancreatic cysts with optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging: an ex vivo pilot study (2011)

We demonstrate for the first time that optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging can reliably distinguish between morphologic features of low risk pancreatic cysts (i.e., pseudocysts and serous cystadenomas) and high risk pancreatic cysts (i.e., mucinous cystic neoplasms and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms). In our study fresh pancreatectomy specimens (66) from patients with cystic lesions undergoing surgery were acquired and examined with OCT. A training set of 20 pathology-OCT correlated tissue specimens were used to develop criteria for differentiating between low and high risk cystic lesions. A separate (validation) set of 46 specimens were used to test the OCT criteria by three clinicians, blinded to histopathology findings. Histology was finally used as a 'gold' standard for testing OCT findings. OCT was able to reveal specific morphologic features of pancreatic cysts and thus to differentiate between low-risk and high-risk cysts with over 95% sensitivity and specificity. This pilot study suggests that OCT could be used by clinicians in the future to more reliably differentiate between benign and potentially malignant pancreatic cysts. However, in vivo use of OCT requires a probe that has to fit the bore of the pancreas biopsy needle. Therefore, we have developed such probes and planned to start an in vivo pilot study within the very near future.
A systematic approach to practically efficient general two-party secure function evaluation protocols and their modular design (2013)

General two-party Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) allows mutually distrusting parties to correctly compute any function on their private input data, without revealing the inputs. Two-party SFE can benefit almost any client-server interaction where privacy is required, such as privacy-preserving credit checking, medical classification, or face recognition. Today, SFE is a subject of immense amount of research in a variety of directions and is not easy to navigate. In this article, we systematize the most practically important works of the vast research knowledge on general SFE. We argue that in many cases the most efficient SFE protocols are obtained by combining several basic techniques, e.g., garbled circuits and (additively) homomorphic encryption. As a valuable methodological contribution, we present a framework in which today's most efficient techniques for general SFE can be viewed as building blocks with well-defined interfaces that can be easily combined into a complete efficient solution. Further, our approach naturally allows automated protocol generation (compilation) and has been implemented partially in the TASTY framework. In summary, we provide a comprehensive guide in state-of-the-art SFE, with the additional goal of extracting, systematizing and unifying the most relevant and promising general SFE techniques. Our target audience are graduate students wishing to enter the SFE field and advanced engineers seeking to develop SFE solutions. We hope our guide paints a high-level picture of the field, including most common approaches and their trade-offs and gives precise and numerous pointers to formal treatment of its specific aspects.
Importance of methylammonium iodide partial pressure and evaporation onset for the growth of co-evaporated methylammonium lead iodide absorbers (2021)

Vacuum-based co-evaporation promises to bring perovskite solar cells to larger scales, but details of the film formation from the physical vapor phase are still underexplored. In this work, we investigate the growth of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI[Formula: see text]) absorbers prepared by co-evaporation of methylammonium iodide (MAI) and lead iodide (PbI[Formula: see text]) using an in situ X-ray diffraction setup. This setup allows us to characterize crystallization and phase evolution of the growing thin film. The total chamber pressure strongly increases during MAI evaporation. We therefore assume the total chamber pressure to be mainly built up by an MAI atmosphere during deposition and use it to control the MAI evaporation. At first, we optimize the MAI to PbI[Formula: see text] impingement ratios by varying the MAI pressure at a constant PbI[Formula: see text] flux rate. We find a strong dependence of the solar cell device performance on the chamber pressure achieving efficiencies > 14[Formula: see text] in a simple n-i-p structure. On the road to further optimizing the processing conditions we vary the onset time of the PbI[Formula: see text] and MAI deposition by delaying the start of the MAI evaporation by t = 0/8/16 min. This way, PbI[Formula: see text] nucleates as a seed layer with a thickness of up to approximately 20 nm during this initial stage. Device performance benefits from these PbI[Formula: see text] seed layers, which also induce strong preferential thin film orientation as evidenced by grazing incidence wide angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) measurements. Our insights into the growth of MAPbI[Formula: see text] thin films from the physical vapor phase help to understand the film formation mechanisms and contribute to the further development of MAPbI[Formula: see text] and related perovskite absorbers.
EVALUATING COMPETENCES STRATEGIES DURING COVID-19 (2021)

Appears in: INTED2021 Proceedings Publication year: 2021Pages: 9191-9197ISBN: 978-84-09-27666-0ISSN: 2340-1079doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.1921Conference name: 15th International Technology, Education and Development ConferenceDates: 8-9 March, 2021Location: Online Conference
Detection and typing of human papillomaviruses in mucosal and cutaneous biopsies from immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients and patients with epidermodysplasia verruciformis: a unified diagnostic approach. (1998)

The use of a combined degenerate primer PCR approach considerably improves HPV DNA detection over individual primer sets and allows detection of mixed infections. The findings may help explain the discrepancies in published reports relating to HPV DNA detection in benign and malignant skin lesions. Further modifications to this method are in progress which should significantly improve comprehensive HPV detection and typing for diagnostic purposes.
Highly multiplexed and quantitative cell-surface protein profiling using genetically barcoded antibodies (2018)

Human cells express thousands of different surface proteins that can be used for cell classification, or to distinguish healthy and disease conditions. A method capable of profiling a substantial fraction of the surface proteome simultaneously and inexpensively would enable more accurate and complete classification of cell states. We present a highly multiplexed and quantitative surface proteomic method using genetically barcoded antibodies called phage-antibody next-generation sequencing (PhaNGS). Using 144 preselected antibodies displayed on filamentous phage (Fab-phage) against 44 receptor targets, we assess changes in B cell surface proteins after the development of drug resistance in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and in adaptation to oncogene expression in a Myc-inducible Burkitt lymphoma model. We further show PhaNGS can be applied at the single-cell level. Our results reveal that a common set of proteins including FLT3, NCR3LG1, and ROR1 dominate the response to similar oncogenic perturbations in B cells. Linking high-affinity, selective, genetically encoded binders to NGS enables direct and highly multiplexed protein detection, comparable to RNA-sequencing for mRNA. PhaNGS has the potential to profile a substantial fraction of the surface proteome simultaneously and inexpensively to enable more accurate and complete classification of cell states.
<i>In‐situ</i> enzyme histochemistry on plastic‐embedded plant material. The development of an artefact‐free β‐glucuronidase assay (1992)

Summary An in‐situ enzyme histochemical method is described that preserves the tissue and cell structure as well as the enzyme activities. Flower buds at different developmental stages from wild‐type and transgenic Brassica napus plants, the latter containing the GUS gene under the control of a tapetum‐specific promoter, were used as starting material. The method is based on the following principles: processing of the tissue on crushed ice, no fixation but a pretreatment with spermidine, partial dehydration with acetone, and a final embedding in a water‐miscible glycol methacrylate resin at 5°C. This method was used to set up a sensitive p‐glucuronidase histochemical assay with a high resolution. A succinate dehydrogenase assay was included as a control for tissue and cell viability as well as a standard for the relative metabolic activities between different tissues and cell types.
Software defined radio (SDR) special military applications (2003)

Emerging conflict scenarios are highlighting US vulnerabilities to terrorist engagements and espionage. Warfighters and intelligence agencies must leverage the electromagnetic spectrum in new ways to "put steel on target" and collect information on adversaries. Emerging software defined radio systems (SDR) can be used well beyond their intended JTRS communications mission to locate threats in a "stand-in" signal collection mode, and coordinate offensive resources and other JTRS systems to neutralize the threat. In this manner, the programmable communication system is transformed into a flexible signal collection resource that locates hostile signals both in spectrum and geography, becoming an intelligence and combat multiplier. Ultimately, this approach will leverage the ubiquitous presence of SDR platforms on the near-future battlespace to significantly enhance warfighter survivability while presenting new opportunities for distributed signal collection and analysis.
A New Production Scheduling Module Using Priority-Rule Based Genetic Algorithm (2015)

Production scheduling is an important function that determines the efficiency and productivity of a production system. Many optimization methods, techniques, tools, and heuristics have been used to solve production scheduling problems, accordingly priority rules are implemented for customers' orders in real-world applications. Simulations and heuristic methods are quite useful for making decisions, and they are used mostly to design and improve production systems by reducing their complexity. In this study, a Priority Rule-Based Genetic Algorithm Scheduling (PRGA-Sched) module was developed to provide shorter total completion time in production scheduling. The module was integrated with the Faborg-Sim simulation tool. As a case study, a heating boiler manufacturing system was analyzed and simulated with six products and customers' orders by using production data from the PRGA-Sched module in Faborg-Sim. The results showed that a shorter total completion time is obtained and saved than the initial situation by via PRGA-Sched module.
Fabrication of silicon on plasma synthesized SiO/sub x/N/sub y/ by ion-cut process (2005)

One of the main disadvantages of conventional silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials is that the buried oxide layer has poor thermal conductivity and so the self-heating effect becomes a problem. In order to mitigate this effect, the single crystalline Si/SiO/sub x/N/sub y//Si substrate structures were successfully formed using Si/SiO/sub x/N/sub y/ direct wafer bonding and the hydrogen induced layer transfer method. Cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and spreading resistance (SPR) reveal that the bonded interface is abrupt and the top Si layer exhibits nearly perfect single crystalline quality.