gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Blood-Sugar Monitoring by Reflection of Millimeter Wave (2007)

Diabetes mellitus has now emerged as a serious public health problem in Asia. To control blood glucose level, blood-sugar monitoring is necessary. Nevertheless non-invasive blood-sugar monitoring technique has not been in practical use. Complex permittivity of blood is very sensitive to the glucose concentration in microwaves. In this paper, a new technique is proposed to obtain blood glucose level using a resonant applicator non-invasively. It is found from in vivo measurement of reflection coefficient using the resonant applicator, blood glucose level can be obtained by measuring the value of reflection coefficient at the resonant frequency.
State holding circuit using heterojunction bipolartransistors and resonant tunnelling diodes (1994)

A state holding circuit, similar to the Muller C-element used as a latch, a register or a counter, has been successfully fabricated using GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Using the negative resistance in a resonant tunnel diode, the circuit has a simpler configuration than the C-element and the potential for use in high speed circuits.
mTOR Inhibition Mitigates Enhanced mRNA Translation Associated with the Metastatic Phenotype of Osteosarcoma Cells <i>In Vivo</i> (2016)

Metastatic competence of osteosarcoma cells is dependent on efficient mRNA translation during stressful periods of metastatic progression, and the mTOR inhibitor, rapamycin, can mitigate this translation and inhibit metastasis in vivo Our data suggest that mTOR pathway inhibitors should be reconsidered in the clinic using rationally designed dosing schedules and clinical metrics related to metastatic progression. Clin Cancer Res; 22(24); 6129-41. ©2016 AACR.
Manufacturing cell formation problem: a graph partitioning approach (2002)

The design of a cellular manufacturing system requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine groups called manufacturing cells. A new graph partitioning heuristic is proposed to solve the manufacturing cell formation problem (MCFP). In the proposed heuristic, The MCFP is represented by a graph whose node set represents the machine cluster and edge set represents the machine‐pair association weights. A graph partitioning approach is used to form the manufacturing cells. This approach offers improved design flexibility by allowing a variety of design parameters to be controlled during cell formation. The effectiveness of the heuristic is demonstrated by comparing it to two MCFP published solution methods using several problems from the literature.
A mechanistically-based method for scaling pipeline tests for settling slurries. (1982)

The difficulties in predicting the frictional energy gradient for pipeline flow of settling slurries are well known. Whenever possible, it is desirable to carry out tests on a representative sample of the material to be conveyed, and scale the results to other pipe sizes. This paper presents a mechanistic approach to scaling tests results, based on the physical processes of solid trnapsort identified in the work of Newitt, Shook and Wilson. A basic distinction is drawn between solids conveyed in pseudo-homogeneous suspension, and solids stratified at higher concentration in the lower part of the pipe. The suspended and non-suspended solids are assumed to contribute independently to the friction gradient, in a fashion characterised by material constants which depend on the slurry under consideration. The proportion of solids conveyed as stratified load is taken to vary with mixture velocity in the general manner proposed by Wilson. The tests were designed to determine the material constants which describe the variation of pressure drop with mixture velocity in heterogeneous flow. The approach is illustrated by results obtained for three settling slurries of foundry sand, masonry sand and crusted granite, in horizontal pipes of diameter 0.20 m and 0.44 m (8 inch and 18 inch nominal). In each case, the validity of the scaling method is demonstrated. (A)
Chicken Cathelicidins Display Antimicrobial Activity against Multiresistant Bacteria without Inducing Strong Resistance (2013)

The increased prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in combination with the relatively limited development of new antibiotics presents a serious threat to public health. In chicken, especially Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase (ESBL) carrying Enterobacteriaceae are often asymptomatically present but can infect humans. Due to their broad range antimicrobial activity cathelicidins and other host defence peptides, are considered to be an attractive alternative to conventional antibiotics. In this study, the antimicrobial activity of three chicken cathelicidins against a broad array of multidrug resistant bacteria was determined. All three peptides showed high antibacterial activity independent of the presence of MDR characteristics. Induction experiments using S. aureus and K. pneumoniae showed that although an increase in resistance was initially observed, susceptibility towards chicken cathelicidins remained high and no major resistance was developed. The combined results underline the potential of chicken cathelicidins as a new alternative to antibiotics.
Endogenous lung stem cells and contribution to disease (2008)

Epithelial branching during the process of lung development results in the establishment of distinct functional zones, each of which is characterized by a unique cellular composition and repertoire of local progenitor cells. Significant new insights into cellular and molecular mechanisms of epithelial maintenance that provide insights into the pathophysiology of lung disease have been made in recent years. This review focuses on the complex structure-function relationship in the airway epithelium, how this epithelium is maintained in the normal state and repaired following injury, and how deregulation may contribute to airway disease and cancer.
Art and Woman as Thresholds of the Sublime: the Gendered Limits of "the Method of BETWEEN" in Godard's <i>Passion</i> (2012)

In the 1980s, Jean-Luc Godard embarked on an exploration of the relationship between the mundane and the sublime that spanned three films: Passion (1982), Prenom: Carmen (1983), and Je vous salue Marie (1985). The first of these works shows the power of cinema to create a space where the two spheres converge. This is achieved through the use of what Gilles Deleuze termed the of BETWEEN, an approach to montage and sound editing that dismantles oppositions and emphasizes betweenness while preserving alterity. This article examines Godard's use of this method in Passion, where the investigation of its potential also reveals its limits, found in the film's treatment of gender difference. While the film productively reconfigures the relationship between art, the sublime, and the mundane, it upholds the problematic equation of women with mystery, presenting Woman as a threshold to the sacred.
Layer‐by‐Layer Fabrication of Covalently Crosslinked and Reactive Polymer Multilayers Using Azlactone‐Functionalized Copolymers: A Platform for the Design of Functional Biointerfaces (2011)

We report a method for modulating the physicochemical properties of surfaces that is based on the reactive layer-by-layer fabrication of covalently crosslinked thin films using azlactone-functionalized copolymers. We demonstrate that copolymers containing different molar ratios of methylmethacrylate (MMA) and 2-vinyl-4,4-dimethylazlactone (VDMA) can be alternately deposited with poly(ethyleneimine) to assemble covalently crosslinked thin films. Characterization using ellipsometry demonstrates that, in general, film growth and thickness decrease as the content of reactive, azlactone functionality in the copolymer used to assemble the film decreases. Reflective infrared spectroscopy experiments demonstrate that films fabricated from MMA:VDMA copolymers contain residual azlactone functionality and that these reactive groups can be exploited to modify film-coated surfaces. Fabricating films from MMA:VDMA copolymers containing different compositions permitted modulation of the density of reactive groups within the films and, thus, the extent to which the films are functionalized by exposure to small molecule amines. For example, functionalization of MMA:VDMA copolymer films with the small molecule D-glucamine resulted in films with water contact angles that varied with the composition of the copolymer used to fabricate the film (e.g., as the azlactone content in the film increased, glucamine-modified films became more hydrophilic). We demonstrate further that treatment of copolymer-containing films with glucamine resulted in changes in the numbers of mammalian cells that grow on the surfaces of the films. Our results suggest the basis of methods that could be used to modulate or tune the density of chemical and biological functionality presented on surfaces of interest in a variety of fundamental and applied contexts.
Correlation of interferon‐inducible chemokine plasma levels with disease severity in systemic sclerosis (2012)

The IFN-inducible chemokine score is a stable serologic marker of a more severe form of SSc and may be useful for risk stratification of patients, regardless of disease type (limited or diffuse) or duration of disease.
Improved electrical and material characteristics of HfTaO gate dielectrics with high crystallization temperature (2005)

N -type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (N-MOSFETs) using HfTaO with varying Ta composition (20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%) have been fabricated and characterized. Crystallization temperatures of HfTaO with varying Ta composition were also measured. It was found that HfTaO with 40% Ta exhibited the highest crystallization temperature of 900 °C, while 35% and 52% HfTaO showed crystallization temperature of 800 °C. The results demonstrate that HfTaO N-MOSFETs exhibit higher electron mobility than controlled HfO2 devices. Among them, the transistor with 40% Ta shows the highest electron mobility.
Picture similarity retrieval using the 2D projection interval representation (1996)

Spatial relationships are important ingredients for expressing constraints in retrieval systems for pictorial or multimedia databases. We have proposed a unified representation for spatial relationships, 2D Projection Interval Relationships (2D-PIR), that integrates both directional and topological relationships. We develop techniques for similarity retrieval based on the 2D-PIR representation, including a method for dealing with rotated and reflected images.
Application of GPS navigation to space flight (2005)

The NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) initiated GPS navigation projects for the space shuttle, International Space Station (ISS) and the X-38 (prototype crew return vehicle, or CRV) in the 1990s. While application of GPS technology to the shuttle and the ISS was successful, far more technical difficulties were encountered than were originally anticipated, and many lessons were learned. GPS receivers should be treated as computers, rather than as "plug and play" devices. A close relationship with the GPS vendor, open communication among team members, receiver design insight and thorough ground and flight-testing are keys to successful application of GPS to spaceflight
The Web Application Messaging Protocol (2015)

This document defines the Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP).
WAMP is a routed protocol that provides two messaging patterns:
Publish & Subscribe and routed Remote Procedure Calls. It is intended
to connect application components in distributed applications. WAMP
uses WebSocket as its default transport, but can be transmitted via
any other protocol that allows for ordered, reliable, bi-directional,
and message-oriented communications.
Tramadol HCL has Promise in On-Demand Use to Treat Premature Ejaculation (2007)

Tramadol, a drug with a proven safety record as an anti-inflammatory agent, shows promise as a drug for treating rapid ejaculation.
Imaging of Biomolecular NMR Signals Amplified by Reversible Exchange with Parahydrogen Inside an MRI Scanner (2017)

The Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange (SABRE) technique employs exchange with singlet-state parahydrogen to efficiently generate high levels of nuclear spin polarization. Spontaneous SABRE has been shown previously to be efficient in the milli-Tesla and micro-Tesla regimes. We have recently demonstrated that high-field SABRE is also possible, where proton sites of molecules that are able to reversibly coordinate to a metal center can be hyperpolarized directly within high-field magnets, potentially offering the convenience of <i>in situ</i> hyperpolarization-based spectroscopy and imaging without sample shuttling. Here, we show efficient polarization transfer from parahydrogen (<i>para</i>-H<sub>2</sub>) to the <sup>15</sup>N atoms of imidazole-<sup>15</sup>N<sub>2</sub> and nicotinamide-<sup>15</sup>N achieved via high-field SABRE (HF-SABRE). Spontaneous transfer of spin order from the <i>para</i>-H<sub>2</sub> protons to <sup>15</sup>N atoms at the high magnetic field of an MRI scanner allows one not only to record enhanced <sup>15</sup>N NMR spectra of <i>in situ</i> hyperpolarized biomolecules, but also to perform imaging using conventional MRI sequences. 2D <sup>15</sup>N MRI of high-field SABRE-hyperpolarized imidazole with spatial resolution of 0.3×0.3 mm<sup>2</sup> at 9.4 T magnetic field and a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of ~99 was demonstrated. We show that <sup>1</sup>H MRI of <i>in situ</i> HF-SABRE hyperpolarized biomolecules (<i>e.g</i>. imidazole-<sup>15</sup>N<sub>2</sub>) is also feasible. Taken together, these results show that heteronuclear (<sup>15</sup>N) and <sup>1</sup>H spectroscopic detection and imaging of high-field-SABRE-hyperpolarized molecules are promising tools for a number of emerging applications.
Preface (2002)

In October 2001 the IBM eServer pSeries 690 was announced. The p690, known in development by the code name Regatta, introduced the POWER4 microprocessor to the high end of the UNIX market. It embraces the IBM eServer objectives. Initially targeted for the pSeries, the POWER4 will also be used in iSeries servers. This technology will be rapidly deployed in the midrange and low end of the pSeries and iSeries offerings. It is the fastest 64-bit microprocessor shipping in the industry today after being introduced at 1.3 GHz.
Adapting swarm intelligence for the self-assembly and optimization of networks (2011)

While self-assembly is a fairly active area of research in swarm intelligence and robotics, relatively little attention has been paid to the issues surrounding the construction of network structures. Here, methods developed previously for modeling and controlling the collective movements of groups of agents are extended to serve as the basis for self-assembly or "growth" of networks, using neural networks as a concrete application to evaluate this novel approach. One of the central innovations incorporated into the model presented here is having network connections arise as persistent "trails" left behind moving agents, trails that are reminiscent of pheromone deposits made by agents in ant colony optimization models. The resulting network connections are thus essentially a record of agent movements. The model's effectiveness is demonstrated by using it to produce two large networks that support subsequent learning of topographic and feature maps. Improvements produced by the incorporation of collective movements are also examined through computational experiments. These results indicate that methods for directing collective movements can be extended to support and facilitate network self-assembly. Additionally, the traditional self-assembly problem is extended to include the generation of network structures based on optimality criteria, rather than on target structures that are specified <italic>a priori</italic>. It is demonstrated that endowing the network components involved in the self-assembly process with the ability to engage in collective movements can be an effective means of generating computationally optimal network structures. This is confirmed on a number of challenging test problems from the domains of trajectory generation, time-series forecasting, and control. Further, this extension of the model is used to illuminate an important relationship between particle swarm optimization, which usually occurs in high dimensional abstract spaces, and self-assembly, which is normally grounded in real and simulated 2D and 3D physical spaces.
Content Recommendation System Based on Private Dynamic User Profile (2007)

Internet is overwhelming, personalized content recommendation system offers spam filtering service and suggests useful information to the end users. It is a hotspot in the research area of content management on WWW. Traditional recommendation systems do the data mining on web access logs, discover user's access patterns, and filter the information on behalf of the user at the server side. One critical limitation of traditional recommendation system is the lack of user's private daily data, such as schedules, favorite websites and personal emails. The reason for this limitation is the privacy leak issue when the server holds much more private user data. To solve this problem, this paper presents an agent-based personalized recommendation method called Content REcommendation System based on private Dynamic User Profile (CRESDUP). The system collects and mines the private data of user at the client side, discovers, stores and updates private Dynamic User Profile (DUP) at the client side. The system fetches preferred message from the content server according to DUP. An important usage of this technology is a personalized advertising system in the RSS (Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary) reader application. Our experiment shows that the system can utilize DUP to identify the customers' potential preferences and deliver the more preferred messages, especially the advertisements, to people who are interested.
Countermeasure of ECC against Side-Channel Attacks: Balanced Point Addition and Point Doubling Operation Procedure (2009)

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has become widely deployed in embedded cryptographic devices. However, power analysis attacks may retrieve secret keys by exploiting the power consumption of ECC devices. This paper proposes a countermeasure with balanced operation procedure of point doubling and addition during the scalar multiplication implementation of ECC algorithms. Experiment results on smart cards demonstrate this balanced method can largely enhance the secure against side-channel attacks.
Optimizing Performance of Web Service Providers (2007)

A workflow orchestrates the underlying Web services in a manner consistent with the desired functionality. Since CWS can orchestrate atomic and other CWS they foster the development of service layers and reuse of already existing functionality. An important issue in the deployment of services is their run-time performance under various loads. Due to the constantly inflating complexity of the underlying services interaction, a CWS can exhibit problematic and often difficult to predict behaviours in overload situations. This paper focuses on the use of request scheduling for improving CWS performance in overload situations. Different scheduling policies are investigated in regards to their effectiveness in helping with constant and fluctuating loads.
Sniffing in Infant Rats During Sleep and Wakefulness. (2004)

Sniffing, a behavior that enhances detection and localization of odorants, is typically assumed to require behavioral arousal. In an effort to determine whether sniffing and arousal are dissociable, dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) was presented to 8-day-old rats while respiration and behavioral state were monitored. Pups sniffed in response to the highest concentrations of DMDS, exhibiting a lower olfactory threshold when awake. Surprisingly, sniffing occurred even while pups remained asleep. Sniffing was mediated by the olfactory system, as evidenced by the abolition of sniffing when the lateral olfactory tracts, were cut and the retention of rapid arousal in response to a trigeminal stimulant, acetic acid. Finally, sleeping pups presented with acetic acid awakened without sniffing. Thus, although olfactory threshold increases during sleep, sleeping does not preclude sniffing.
Integrated active slot dipole antenna amplifier (1993)

Abstract This article presents the design and performance of a slop dipole antenna integrated directly with an FET amplifier. The measured radiation patterns of the antenna are linear with cross‐polarization levels of 11 dB down in E plane and 17.5 dB down in H plane. The measured gain of the antenna is 10 dB at 7.1 GHz. Compared with a passive antenna, the active antenna has an extra gain of 7 dB.
PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF A 3D SUBGRIDDING FDTD ALGORITHM FOR LARGE SIMULATIONS (2011)

In a previous paper, we proposed and tested a robust and efficient three-dimensional (3-D) subgridding algorithm for the FDTD solution method of the Maxwell's curl PDEs system. Its characteristic feature is the straight, non-recursive, embedding of Yee grids -refined by factors of 3, 5, 7 and even larger -within coarser ones. There, the algorithm's implementation was described with the traditional serial programming approach. In the present paper, we propose and test its parallel programming implementation. The goal is to make it suitable and efficient for large scale electromagnetic simulations.
Rhinovirus inhibition by bufadienolides. (1988)

An evaluation of thirty-four bufadienolides and two related cardenolides against a series of rhinoviruses in vitro has been completed. Most of the bufadienolides were found to display some inhibitory activity. Scillarenin and 3-O-[N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)hydrazido]succinylbufalin were found to be the most active with chemotherapeutic indices of 32 and 16, respectively. In general, the 14β-hydroxy-bufadienolides showed the strongest antiviral activity, and were found more toxic than the corresponding 14β, 15β-epoxy-bufadienolides. Introduction of a 16β-hydroxy or 16β-acetoxy substituent into the 14β, 15β-epoxybufadienolides enhanced their antiviral activity. Substituents at the 3β-, 5β-, and 19-positions appeared to affect only the level of toxicity.
Orthogonal-Coil RF Probe for Implantable Passive Sensors (2006)

A versatile orthogonal-coil radio frequency (RF) probe suitable for detecting the resonant frequency of miniature implantable passive sensors has been designed and tested. The probe sensitivity has been tested using printed-circuit spiral inductors of various sizes (3-15 mm) in series with discrete surface-mount capacitors designed to resonate over a range of frequencies (50-200 MHz). Close agreement between theoretical calculations and experimental results has been obtained. An equation is derived for transmit/receive (T/R) isolation that agrees with experimental measurements over the frequency range 1-500 MHz. The probe includes an additional coil to compensate for the effect of eddy currents in the human body on the probe. T/R isolation of at least 90 dB over the frequency range 1-100 MHz can be achieved when the probe is placed in close proximity to the human body.
Evans Blue: A Specific Inhibitor of Factor VIII-Induced Platelet Agglutination (1975)

Low concentrations of Evans Blue (less than 1 muM) inhibit the agglutination of formalin-treated platelets by bovine Factor VIII or by human Factor VIII in the presence of the antibiotic ristocetin. Evans Blue is a specific inhibitor of this reaction and acts by inhibiting the binding of Factor VIII to the platelet surface.