gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Fabrication of Soft and Stretchable Electronics Through Integration of Printed Silver Nanoparticles and Liquid Metal Alloy (2018)

Liquid metal (LM) alloys such as eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) and gallium-indium-tin (Galinstan) have been used in the fabrication of soft and stretchable electronics during the past several years. The liquid-phase and high electrical conductivity of these materials make them one of the best candidates for fabrication of deformable electronics and multifunctional material systems. While liquid metals are highly reliable for fabrication of simple circuits and stretchable microfluidic devices, their application for producing complex circuits faces fabrication challenges due to their high surface tension and surface oxidization. In this study, we propose a scalable, cost-effective, and versatile technique to print complex circuits using silver nanoparticles and transform them into stretchable electronics by incorporating eutectic gallium indium alloys to the circuit. As a result, the deposited liquid metal considerably increases the electrical conductivity and stretchability of the fabricated electronics. The reliability and performance of these stretchable conductors are demonstrated by studying their electromechanical behavior and integrating them into skin-like electronics, termed electronic tattoos.
<title>Laser properties of an improved average-power Nd-doped phosphate glass</title> (1994)

The Nd-doped phosphate laser glass described herein can withstand 2.3 times greater thermal loading without fracture, compared to APG-1 (commercially available average-power glass from Schott Glass Technologies). The enhanced thermal loading capability is established on the basis of the intrinsic thermomechanical properties (expansion, conduction, fracture toughness, and Young's modulus), and by direct thermally induced fracture experiments using Ar-ion laser heating of the samples. This Nd-doped phosphate glass (referred to as APG-t) is found to be characterized by a 29% gain cross section and a 25% longer low-concentration emission lifetime.
On the Search for Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Signatures of and Above 3 MeV (2010)

Nuclear resonance fluorescence is a physical process that provides an isotope-specific signature that could be used for the identification and characterization of materials. The technique involves the detection of prompt discrete-energy photons emitted from a sample that is exposed to MeV-energy photons. Potential applications of the technique range from detection of high explo- sives to characterization of special nuclear materials such as . We conducted a pair of measurements to search for a nuclear res- onance fluorescence response of above 3 MeV and of above 5 MeV using an 8 g sample of highly enriched uranium and a 90 g sample of depleted uranium. No new signatures were ob- served. The minimum detectable integrated cross section for varies from 4 eV b at 3 MeV up to 120 eV b at 8 MeV. Index Terms—Bremsstrahlung, gamma rays, nuclear physics, uranium.
Dissipative solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers (2008)

Mode-locked fiber lasers in which pulse shaping is based on filtering of a frequency-chirped pulse are analyzed with the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. An exact analytical solution produces a variety of temporal and spectral shapes, which have not been observed in any experimental setting to our knowledge. Experiments agree with the theory over a wide range of parameters. The observed pulses balance gain and loss as well as phase modulations, and thus constitute dissipative temporal solitons. The normal-dispersion fiber laser allows systematic exploration of this class of solitons.
Studies on heat-resistant thermosetting phthalocyanine polymers (1984)

New thermosetting poly(copper phthalocyanine) imide polymers with good toughness, superior thermal stability, chemical inertness, and fire resistance characteristics have been prepared. The studies of polymerization of two bisphthalonitriles were made using metal powder or metalic salt. Infrared, differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric studies were used in determining the optimum conditions for polymerization and in characterizing the polymers produced. These polymers are noteworthy for their high char yield (73–76%) at 800°C in nitrogen atmosphere. These phthalocyanine, imide-thermosetting polymers are expected to be useful in preparing heat-resistant molded articles or laminates.
EFFICIENT PROCESS MIGRATION FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING ON NON-DEDICATED NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS (1996)

This paper presents the design and preliminary implementation of MpPVM, a software system that supports process migration for PVM application programs in a non-dedicated heterogeneous computing environment. New concepts of migration point as well as migration point analysis and necessary data analysis are introduced. In MpPVM, process migrations occur only at previously inserted migration points. Migration point analysis determines appropriate locations to insert migration points; whereas, necessary data analysis provides a minimum set of variables to be transferred at each migration pint. A new methodology to perform reliable point-to-point data communications in a migration environment is also discussed. Finally, a preliminary implementation of MpPVM and its experimental results are presented, showing the correctness and promising performance of our process migration mechanism in a scalable non-dedicated heterogeneous computing environment. While MpPVM is developed on top of PVM, the process migration methodology introduced in this study is general and can be applied to any distributed software environment.
Stereo signal reproduction system (1992)

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 Junichi Kasai, Hiroshi Imai, Hiroshi Tsuda; Stereo signal reproduction system. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 February 1992; 91 (2): 1202. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.402515 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 ContentAcoustical Society of AmericaThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Search Advanced Search |Citation Search
Mass analysis in islands of stability with linear quadrupoles with added octopole fields (2007)

Mass analysis with linear quadrupole mass filters is possible by forming "islands" in the stability diagram with auxiliary quadrupole excitation. In this work, computer simulations are used to calculate stability boundaries, island positions, and peak shapes and ion transmission for mass analysis with linear quadrupole mass filters that have added octopole fields of about 2 to 4%. Rod sets with exact geometries that have quadrupole and octopole fields only in the potential, and round rod sets, with multipoles up to N = 10 (the twenty pole term) included in the calculations, show the same stability boundaries, island positions, and peak shapes. With the DC voltage applied to the rods so that the Mathieu parameter a < 0, conventional mass analysis is possible without the use of an island. With the DC polarity reversed so that a > 0, the resolution and transmission are poor preventing conventional mass analysis. In principle, mass analysis in an island is possible with operation at either of two tips. Provided the correct island tip is chosen for mass analysis, peak shapes comparable to those with a > 0 and no excitation are possible, both with a > 0 and with a < 0. In the latter case, the use of an island of stability allows mass analysis when the added octopole otherwise prevents conventional mass analysis.
Simultaneously Tailoring Surface Energies and Thermal Stabilities of Cellulose Nanocrystals Using Ion Exchange: Effects on Polymer Composite Properties for Transportation, Infrastructure, and Renewable Energy Applications (2016)

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have great potential as sustainable reinforcing materials for polymers, but there are a number of obstacles to commercialization that must first be overcome. High levels of water absorption, low thermal stabilities, poor miscibility with nonpolar polymers, and irreversible aggregation of the dried CNCs are among the greatest challenges to producing cellulose nanocrystal-polymer nanocomposites. A simple, scalable technique to modify sulfated cellulose nanocrystals (Na-CNCs) has been developed to address all of these issues. By using an ion exchange process to replace Na<sup>+</sup> with imidazolium or phosphonium cations, the surface energy is altered, the thermal stability is increased, and the miscibility of dried CNCs with a nonpolar polymer (epoxy and polystyrene) is enhanced. Characterization of the resulting ion exchanged CNCs (IE-CNCs) using potentiometry, inverse gas chromatography, dynamic vapor sorption, and laser scanning confocal microscopy reveals that the IE-CNCs have lower surface energies, adsorb less water, and have thermal stabilities of up to 100 °C higher than those of prepared protonated cellulose nanocrystals (H-CNCs) and 40 °C higher than that of neutralized Na-CNC. Methyl(triphenyl)phosphonium exchanged cellulose nanocrystals (MePh<sub>3</sub>P-CNC) adsorbed 30% less water than Na-CNC, retained less water during desorption, and were used to prepare well-dispersed epoxy composites without the aid of a solvent and well-dispersed polystyrene nanocomposites using a melt blending technique at 195 °C. Predictions of dispersion quality and glass transition temperatures from molecular modeling experiments match experimental observations. These fiber-reinforced polymers can be used as lightweight composites in transportation, infrastructure, and renewable energy applications.
Reaction of <i>N</i>-Monosubstituted Hydrazones with Nitroolefins:  A Novel Regioselective Pyrazole Synthesis (2006)

A novel regioselective synthesis of substituted pyrazoles from N-monosubstituted hydrazones and nitroolefins is described. The reaction is performed in a one-pot manner and the yields range from moderate to excellent. A key nitropyrazolidine intermediate is characterized and a plausible mechanism is proposed.
Evaluation of Burkholderia mallei ΔtonB Δhcp1 (CLH001) as a live attenuated vaccine in murine models of glanders and melioidosis (2019)

Our data indicate that CLH001 serves as an effective live attenuated vaccine to prevent glanders and melioidosis. The quantity and quality of antibody responses as well as improving cell-mediated immune responses following vaccination need to be further investigated prior to advancement to preclinical studies.
Distributed fiber-optic sensor for real-time monitoring of energized transformer cores (2017)

Real-time temperature mapping is important to offer an optimized thermal design of efficient power transformers by solving local overheating problems. In addition, internal temperature monitoring of power transformers in operation can be leveraged for asset monitoring applications targeted at fault detection to enable condition based maintenance programs. However transformers present a variety of challenging environments such as high levels of electromagnetic interference and limited space for conventional sensing systems to operate. Immersion of some power transformers within insulation oils for thermal management during operation and the presence of relatively large and time varying electrical and magnetic fields in some cases also make sensing and measurement technologies that require electrical wires or active power at the sensing location highly undesirable. In this work, we investigate the dynamic thermal response of standard single-mode optical fiber instrumented on a compact transformer core by using an optical frequency-domain reflectometry scheme, and the spatially resolved on-line monitoring of transformer core temperature rise has been successfully demonstrated. It is found that spectral shifts of the fiber-optic sensor induced by the temperature rises are strongly related to the locations inside the transformer as would be expected. Correlation between thermal behavior of the transformer core as derived from standard IR-based thermal imaging cameras and fiber-optic sensing results is also discussed. The proposed method can easily be extended to cover situations in which high accuracy and high spatial resolution thermal surveillance are required, and offers the potential for unprecedented optimization of magnetic core designs for power transformer applications as well as a novel approach to power transformer asset monitoring.
Wide-band single-mode photonic band-gap fiber with extended triangular lattice and capillary core (2006)

We propose a single-mode photonic band-gap fiber with an extended triangular lattice cladding and a capillary core. We numerically optimize the design of the core and show that the fiber has a very wide transmission window, such as from 1200 nm to 2300 nm
Training-Free, Generic Object Detection Using Locally Adaptive Regression Kernels (2009)

We present a generic detection/localization algorithm capable of searching for a visual object of interest without training. The proposed method operates using a single example of an object of interest to find similar matches, does not require prior knowledge (learning) about objects being sought, and does not require any preprocessing step or segmentation of a target image. Our method is based on the computation of local regression kernels as descriptors from a query, which measure the likeness of a pixel to its surroundings. Salient features are extracted from said descriptors and compared against analogous features from the target image. This comparison is done using a matrix generalization of the cosine similarity measure. We illustrate optimality properties of the algorithm using a naive-Bayes framework. The algorithm yields a scalar resemblance map, indicating the likelihood of similarity between the query and all patches in the target image. By employing nonparametric significance tests and nonmaxima suppression, we detect the presence and location of objects similar to the given query. The approach is extended to account for large variations in scale and rotation. High performance is demonstrated on several challenging data sets, indicating successful detection of objects in diverse contexts and under different imaging conditions.
4-Pyridylureas are surprisingly potent cytokinins. The structure-activity relationship. (1981)

Cytokinins initiate or promote cell division and cell differentiation of plants. N-(4-Pyridyl)-N'-phenylureas with an electronegative substituent (s) at positions 2 and 6 of the pyridine ring are the strongest cytokinins so far known. Structure-activity relationships between urea- and purine-cytokinins were discussed.
Materials to Improve Performance of Discharge Lamps (2012)

Lighting is responsible for the consumption of more than 2650 TWh of energy per year, corresponding to about 20 of the global electricity consumption. All the strategies and international policies pushing for the adoption of more efficient light sources are assuming a real important role for energy saving and for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This paper will illustrate technological approaches that can contribute at improving the performance of low-pressure mercury lamps and high-intensity-discharge lamps. Advancements and optimization of materials, such as getters, active amalgams, and starting amalgams, can allow to produce light sources with superior characteristics. Concerning the aspect related to innovative materials, it is worth underlining that many of the fluorescent lamps today available on the market are using advanced technological solutions based on stable mercury compounds for accurate and reliable Hg dosing, down to very low levels.
Physical Layer Security Enhancement in Multiuser Mixed RF/FSO Relay Networks under RF Interference (2017)

In this paper, the impact of radio frequency (RF) co-channel interference (CCI) on the performance of multiuser (MU) mixed RF/free space optical (FSO) relay network with opportunistic user scheduling is studied. In the considered system, a user is opportunistically selected to communicate with a single destination through an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay in the presence of a single passive eavesdropper. The RF/FSO channel models are assumed to follow Rayleigh/Gamma-Gamma fading models, respectively with pointing errors and identical RF CCI signals. Exact closed-form expression for the system outage probability is derived. Then, an asymptotic expression for the outage probability is obtained at the high signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) regime. The asymptotic results are used to formulate a power allocation problem to obtain optimal RF transmission power. Then, the secrecy performance is studied in the presence of CCI at both the authorized relay and eavesdropper by obtaining exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions for the intercept probability. The derived analytical formulas herein are supported by numerical and simulation results to clarify the main contributions of the work.
Early intermediates in the biosynthesis of ansamycins. III. Isolation and identification of further 8-deoxyansamycins of the rifamycin-type. (1980)

A number of minor compounds were isolated from fermentations of the protorifamycin I producing strain Nocardia mediterranei F 1/24(1,2)) and identified by means of chemical and spectroscopic methods. Two types of structures were identified: Type 1: modified protorifamycins (derived from protorifamycin I) Type 2: defective rifamycins (8-deoxyrifamycins).
Production of a novel silk-like protein from sea anemone and fabrication of wet-spun and electrospun marine-derived silk fibers (2013)

Silk-based biomaterials, which for centuries were primarily used as the raw materials for textile fabrics, are now being used in the medical, food and industrial fields because of their extraordinary properties. Their advantageous characteristics include high strength, extensibility, biocompatibility, biodegradability and minimal production of inflammatory reactions. To date, only silkworm silk has been applied in mass-produced technological applications, but spider silk proteins have been extensively studied because of their superior mechanical stability. Here we report the discovery of a novel silk-like protein (named aneroin) from the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis and the successful fabrication of wet-spun and electrospun silk fibers from purified recombinant aneroins. Aneroin fibers have promising mechanical properties, similar to those of recombinant spider silks with molecular weights of B100 kDa and those of natural mammalian tendon collagen. The results of this study demonstrate that aneroin, a new repertoire of silk-like protein found in sea anemones, has potential for use as a novel fibrous biomaterial. Its use would expand the applications of silk in the development of multifunctional and bio-inspired materials.
Accurate Lungs Segmentation on CT Chest Images by Adaptive Appearance-Guided Shape Modeling (2016)

To accurately segment pathological and healthy lungs for reliable computer-aided disease diagnostics, a stack of chest CT scans is modeled as a sample of a spatially inhomogeneous joint 3D Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF) of voxel-wise lung and chest CT image signals (intensities). The proposed learnable MGRF integrates two visual appearance sub-models with an adaptive lung shape submodel. The first-order appearance submodel accounts for both the original CT image and its Gaussian scale space (GSS) filtered version to specify local and global signal properties, respectively. Each empirical marginal probability distribution of signals is closely approximated with a linear combination of discrete Gaussians (LCDG), containing two positive dominant and multiple sign-alternate subordinate DGs. The approximation is separated into two LCDGs to describe individually the lungs and their background, i.e., all other chest tissues. The second-order appearance submodel quantifies conditional pairwise intensity dependencies in the nearest voxel 26-neighborhood in both the original and GSS-filtered images. The shape submodel is built for a set of training data and is adapted during segmentation using both the lung and chest appearances. The accuracy of the proposed segmentation framework is quantitatively assessed using two public databases (ISBI VESSEL12 challenge and MICCAI LOLA11 challenge) and our own database with, respectively, 20, 55, and 30 CT images of various lung pathologies acquired with different scanners and protocols. Quantitative assessment of our framework in terms of Dice similarity coefficients, 95-percentile bidirectional Hausdorff distances, and percentage volume differences confirms the high accuracy of our model on both our database (98.4<sub>±1.0</sub>%, 2.2<sub>±1.0</sub> mm, 0.42<sub>±0.10</sub>%) and the VESSEL12 database (99.0<sub>±0.5</sub>%, 2.1<sub>±1.6</sub> mm, 0.39<sub>±0.20</sub>%), respectively. Similarly, the accuracy of our approach is further verified via a blind evaluation by the organizers of the LOLA11 competition, where an average overlap of 98.0% with the expert's segmentation is yielded on all 55 subjects with our framework being ranked first among all the state-of-the-art techniques compared.
Eco‐Friendly and Versatile Brominating Reagent Prepared from a Liquid Bromine Precursor. (2007)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF.
Secure Ultrafast Data Communication and Processing Interfaced with Optical Storage (2003)

Abstract A secure ultrafast data communication system interfaced with an encrypted optical storage system is presented. In the encrypted storage system, a large amount of data frames is stored in a holographic memory system, after each data frame to be stored is encoded by optical encryption techniques. These encrypted data readout from the storage can be sent to remote users with spatial‐temporal converters using ultrashort pulses via optical fibers. At the remote users, the retrieval of the original data can be achieved when the correct key is used in the decryption system. The operation for encryption and decryption together with data transmission using spatial‐temporal converters is described. Numerical analysis of the binary data transmission in the proposed system is also presented.
Discovery of (1<i>R</i>,2<i>S</i>)-2-{[(2,4-Dimethylpyrimidin-5-yl)oxy]methyl}-2-(3-fluorophenyl)-<i>N</i>-(5-fluoropyridin-2-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (E2006): A Potent and Efficacious Oral Orexin Receptor Antagonist (2015)

The orexin/hypocretin receptors are a family of G protein-coupled receptors and consist of orexin-1 (OX1) and orexin-2 (OX2) receptor subtypes. Orexin receptors are expressed throughout the central nervous system and are involved in the regulation of the sleep/wake cycle. Because modulation of these receptors constitutes a promising target for novel treatments of disorders associated with the control of sleep and wakefulness, such as insomnia, the development of orexin receptor antagonists has emerged as an important focus in drug discovery research. Here, we report the design, synthesis, characterization, and structure-activity relationships (SARs) of novel orexin receptor antagonists. Various modifications made to the core structure of a previously developed compound (-)-5, the lead molecule, resulted in compounds with improved chemical and pharmacological profiles. The investigation afforded a potential therapeutic agent, (1R,2S)-2-{[(2,4-dimethylpyrimidin-5-yl)oxy]methyl}-2-(3-fluorophenyl)-N-(5-fluoropyridin-2-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (E2006), an orally active, potent orexin antagonist. The efficacy was demonstrated in mice in an in vivo study by using sleep parameter measurements.