gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Fast and Fluid Human Pose Tracking (2019)

Recent advancements in human motion behaviors based on camera images made human motion tracking much more robust than in the past. However, they are still computationally expensive and they do not allow for online reconstruction of the human pose. In this context, this work presents a framework for tracking 2D human pose at high frequency while keeping the robustness of state-of-the-art methods. We achieved this result by combining, by means of Kalman filtering, the recent success of OpenPose, a robust deep learning-based 2D human pose estimation technique, with the fast Lucas-Kanade features matching method. This allows for processing images at different framerates, thus having multirate measurement updates. The frequency of the estimation is kept high by setting the Kalman filter time step. The method was tested on videos of several activities which include both fast and slow motion. The results show an improvement on the reconstruction error, an increased speed of reconstruction, better tracking during fast motion, and the capability to cover loss of tracking from the two measurements. The achieved intraframe (between two available measurements) trajectory estimation frequency was as high as 1 kHz.
Dielectric properties of strained (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films epitaxially grown on Si with thin yttria-stabilized zirconia buffer layer (2001)

We have grown epitaxial (Ba0.5, Sr0.5)TiO3 (BST) thin films on Si with very thin yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) buffer layer. The thin YSZ buffer layer affects the stress state of the epitaxial BST layer as well as the growth behavior of the BST layer, i.e., the degree of epitaxy. The epitaxial BST films grown on Si are in two-dimensional tensile stress. We have found that the dielectric constant of the BST films increased with decreasing the lattice distortion in the state of tensile stress. The dielectric constant of the BST films reaches 1300 when the lattice distortion (surface normal lattice constant/in-plane lattice constant) is 0.993.
Association Thickener by Host-Guest Interaction of β-Cyclodextrin Polymers and Guest Polymers (2000)

Host polymers with pendant β-cyclodextrin side groups and guest polymers with pendant hydrophobic 4-t-butyl anilide side groups were synthesized by polymer analogous reactions starting fromcopolymers of maleic anhydride. The host guest interaction of these polymers with suitable monomeric counterparts was proven bytitration microcalorimetry. The interaction of the host polymer and the guest polymer in aqueous solution leads to a tremendous increase in viscosity. Polymer chains appear to form a physical network due to host guest interactions. This interaction can be switched off either by dilution or by addition of a competitive monomeric host or guest.
General Methods for Monitoring Convergence of Iterative Simulations (1998)

Abstract We generalize the method proposed by Gelman and Rubin (1992a) for monitoring the convergence of iterative simulations by comparing between and within variances of multiple chains, in order to obtain a family of tests for convergence. We review methods of inference from simulations in order to develop convergence-monitoring summaries that are relevant for the purposes for which the simulations are used. We recommend applying a battery of tests for mixing based on the comparison of inferences from individual sequences and from the mixture of sequences. Finally, we discuss multivariate analogues, for assessing convergence of several parameters simultaneously.
G3D: A gaming action dataset and real time action recognition evaluation framework (2012)

In this paper a novel evaluation framework for measuring the performance of real-time action recognition methods is presented. The evaluation framework will extend the time-based event detection metric to model multiple distinct action classes. The proposed metric provides more accurate indications of the performance of action recognition algorithms for games and other similar applications since it takes into consideration restrictions related to time and consecutive repetitions. Furthermore, a new dataset, G3D for real-time action recognition in gaming containing synchronised video, depth and skeleton data is provided. Our results indicate the need of an advanced metric especially designed for games and other similar real-time applications.
Antigenic variation among isolates of infectious salmon anaemia virus correlates with genetic variation of the viral haemagglutinin gene (2001)

Infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV), an orthomyxovirus-like virus, is an important fish pathogen in marine aquaculture. Virus neutralization of 24 ISAV isolates in the TO cell line using rabbit antisera to the whole virus and comparative sequence analysis of their haemagglutinin (HA) genes have allowed elaboration on the variation of ISAV isolates. The 24 viruses were neutralized to varying degrees, revealing two major antigenic groups, one American and one European. Sequence analysis of the HA gene also revealed two groups of viruses (genotypes) that correlated with the antigenic groupings. The two HA subtypes had nucleotide sequence identity of only < or =79.4% and amino acid sequence identity of < or =84.5% whereas, within each subtype, the sequence identities were 90.7% or higher. This grouping was also evident upon phylogenetic analysis, which revealed two distinct phylogenetic families. Between the two groups, the amino acid sequence was most variable in the C-terminal region and included deletions of 4-16 amino acids in all isolates relative to ISAV isolate RPC/NB-980 280-2. In order to view the relationships among these sequences and the HA sequences of the established orthomyxoviruses, a second phylogenetic tree was constructed which showed the ISAV sequences to be more closely related to sequences from Influenzavirus A and Influenzavirus B than to sequences from Influenzavirus C and Thogotovirus. The extensive deletions in the gene of European ISAV isolates lead us to speculate that the archetypal ISAV was probably of Canadian origin.
A Practical Application to Calculating Corrosion Growth Rates by Comparing Successive ILI Runs From Different ILI Vendors (2010)

Corrosion growth rates are an essential input into an Integrity Management Program but they can often be the largest source of uncertainty and error. A relatively simple method to estimate a corrosion growth rate is to compare the size of a corrosion anomaly over time and the most practical way to do this for a whole pipeline system is via the use of In-Line Inspection (ILI). However, the reported depth of the anomaly following an ILI run contains measurement uncertainties, i.e., sizing tolerances that must be accounted for in defining the uncertainty, or error associated with the measured corrosion growth rate. When the same inspection vendor performs the inspections then proven methods exist that enable this growth error to be significantly reduced but these methods include the use of raw inspection data and, specialist software and analysis. Guidelines presently exist to estimate corrosion growth rates using inspection data from different ILI vendors. Although well documented, they are often only applicable to “simple” cases, pipelines containing isolated corrosion features with low feature density counts. As the feature density or the corrosion complexity increases then different reporting specifications, interaction rules, analysis procedures, sizing models, etc can become difficult to account for, ultimately leading to incorrect estimations or larger uncertainties regarding the growth error. This paper will address these issues through the experiences of a North American pipeline operator. Accurately quantifying the reliability of pipeline assets over time requires accurate corrosion growth rates and the case study will demonstrate how the growth error was significantly reduced over existing methodologies. Historical excavation and recoat information was utilized to identify static defects and quantify systemic bias between inspections. To reduce differences in reporting and the analyst interpretation of the recorded magnetic signals, novel analysis techniques were employed to normalize the data sets against each other. The resulting uncertainty of the corrosion growth rates was then further reduced by deriving, and applying a regression model to reduce the effect of the different sizing models and the identified systemic bias. The reduced uncertainty ultimately led to a better understanding of the corrosion activity on the pipeline and facilitated a better integrity management decision process.
Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US (2016)

Medical error is not included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death. <b>Martin Makary</b> and <b>Michael Daniel</b> assess its contribution to mortality and call for better reporting
A 16384-electrode 1024-channel multimodal CMOS MEA for high-throughput intracellular action potential measurements and impedance spectroscopy in drug-screening applications (2018)

Patch clamp is currently the gold standard for studying cell electrophysiology in preclinical drug discovery. Since it is a time-consuming technique, passive and active multielectrode arrays (MEAs) have been introduced for increased throughput in extracellular (ExC) in vitro measurements [1-3]. However, most of these tools cannot capture the essential features of intracellular (InC) action potentials (APs) used for studying drug toxicity. It has been shown that InC access can be achieved by highly localized electroporation [4], which allows low-impedance electrical recording of the InC voltage. While this technique was explored in recent designs [4-5], a tool that enables high-throughput InC measurements is not yet available. Impedance measurement is also used to study cell morphology, adhesion, differentiation and contractility [6]. Recent designs [1-3] already include impedance spectroscopy (IS), but their methods are not fast enough to capture in detail the contractile activity of cardiomyocytes. Since some drugs can inhibit cell beating without affecting the APs [6], ExC/InC recording and impedance measurement are complementary.
Numerical Simulations of Heat Transfer Problems Using an Immersed Boundary Method on Non-Staggered Grids (2004)

This paper describes the use of the immersed boundary technique for simulating fluid flow and heat transfer problems over or inside complex geometries. The methodology is based on a fractional step method to integrate in time. The governing equations are discretized and solved on a regular mesh with a finite volume non-staggered grid technique. Several phenomenologically different fluid flow and heat transfer problems are simulated using the technique proposed in this study. The accuracy of the method is second-order, and the efficiency is verified by favorable comparison with previous numerical and experimental results.
How to implement GBN-ARQ the hard way: DECT (2002)

The European standard for digital cordless telecommunication DECT is considered as a means for data communication. Up to now, most applications of DECT concerned speech transmission on a single full-duplex 32 kbit/s channel, but DECT provides ways for allocating more bandwidth, even in an asymmetric fashion, called the multi-bearer service. The ETSI defined a number of different automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes to enable DECT to control retransmissions of lost or corrupted data packets. A general critique of the way ETSI standardized DECT's go-back-N (GBN) ARQ scheme is given. The performance loss through the unnecessary combination of a MAC-MOD2-ARQ (send-and-wait) with a GBN is demonstrated by the use of examples.
NAAG inhibits KCl‐induced [<sup>3</sup>H]‐GABA release via mGluR3, cAMP, PKA and L‐type calcium conductance (2001)

The peptide neurotransmitter, N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG), is a selective agonist at the type 3 metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR3) where it acts to decrease cAMP levels. Rat cortical interneurons express both NAAG and glutamic acid decarboxylase, as well as mGluR3 mRNA. In the presence of ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists, both NAAG and the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, DCG-IV, reduced the calcium-dependent, KCl-induced [(3)H]-GABA release from rat cortical neurons by 35%. This release process was unaffected by tetrodotoxin. The group II antagonist, ethyl glutamate, reversed the effects of DCG-IV and NAAG. The mGluR3-selective antagonist, beta-N-acetylaspartylglutamate, reversed the effect of NAAG. While pretreatment of cortical neurons with forskolin alone did not significantly affect KCl-stimulated [(3)H]-GABA-release, forskolin abolished the inhibition of release produced by NAAG. The protein kinase A inhibitor, H-89, decreased [(3)H]-GABA release while NAAG produced no additional inhibition in the presence of H-89. In contrast, the protein kinase C inhibitor, Ro 31--8220, had no effect on KCl-stimulated release, nor did it affect the inhibition of release produced by NAAG. The L-type calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, also inhibited the release of [(3)H]-GABA and coapplication with NAAG resulted in no significant additional inhibition of release. These data support the hypothesis that the inhibition of KCl-stimulated [(3)H]-GABA release by NAAG is mediated via presynaptic mGluR3 on GABAergic cortical neurons and that this effect is obtained by decreasing cAMP with a consequent decrease in protein kinase A activity and L-type calcium channel conductance.
Effect of shift work on body mass index and metabolic parameters (2007)

Shift work is considered to be a risk factor for excess weight. However, no significant difference in the biomarkers was found between daytime workers and shift workers.
Behavioral Pharmacology of σ-Ligands (2004)

Sigma (sigma) receptors, first defined as a subclass of opioid receptors, later confounded with the high affinity phencyclidine (PCP) binding sites, now are regarded as unique binding sites, distinct from opiate and PCP receptors, and related to higher brain function. The investigation of functional significance of sigma receptors in the brain has been hampered for many years by relative lack of specific tool drugs and by the unavailability of their coherent classification into postulated agonists and antagonists. However, a potential involvement of sigma receptors in psychotic disorders was first suggested soon after their discovery. The sigma receptors are classified into two subtypes, sigma (1) and sigma (2) receptors, of which the first was recently cloned from rodent and human tissues while the second has not yet been fully characterized. Although the precise mechanism of the functional response of these receptors is still uncertain, it is accepted that sigma receptors can modulate a number of central neurotransmitter systems, including noradrenergic, glutamatergic and dopaminergic ones. The sigma receptors have been postulated to be involved in numerous pharmacological and physiological functions, including motor disorders, psychotic disorders, neuroprotective mechanisms. In the last years, a number of compounds with a high affinity and selectivity for sigma binding sites have been discovered and investigated for their therapeutic potential. In this review, we try to summarize the behavioral effects of sigma receptor ligands that have been described, and their activity in animal models related to some brain disorders, especially schizophrenia and affective disorders.
Palladium-Catalyzed Deracemization of Allylic Carbonates in Water with Formation of Allylic Alcohols:  Hydrogen Carbonate Ion as Nucleophile in the Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution and Kinetic Resolution (2003)

The palladium-catalyzed deracemization of racemic cyclic and acyclic allylic methyl carbonates in water in the presence of N,N'-(1R,2R)-1,2-cyclohexanediylbis[2-(diphenylphophino)benzamide] proceeds with high enantioselectivities to give the corresponding allylic alcohols in high yields. This deracemization involves a palladium-catalyzed allylic substitution with the in-situ-formed hydrogen carbonate ion and an irreversible decomposition of the intermediate allylic hydrogen carbonates, with formation of the corresponding allylic alcohols. The palladium-catalyzed reaction of racemic cyclic allylic acetates with potassium hydrogen carbonate in water in the presence of the chiral bisphosphane proceeds with a highly selective kinetic resolution to give the corresponding allylic alcohols and allylic acetates.
New radiopaque polyHEMA-based hydrogel particles (1997)

New iodine-containing polymeric hydrogel particles were prepared by suspension radical copolymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), 3-(methacryloylamidoacetamido)-2,4,6-triiodobenzoic acid (MABA) and ethylene dimethacrylate (EDMA) in an aqueous medium using azobisisobutyronitrile as an initiator and magnesium hydroxide as a suspension stabilizer. To impart porosity to the product, cyclohexanol and 1-dodecanol were added as inert diluents to the polymerization mixture. Particles containing 27 wt % iodine produced radiopacity sufficient to observe a clearly visible X-ray image. The equilibrium swelling behavior of the particles in water was characterized. Swelling of the particles dramatically increased by converting the acid groups of MABA into their Na+ form. The more MABA the copolymer particle contain, the higher is their swelling in the Na+ form.
A Simple Method for Evaluating the Performance of Louvered Fixtures Designed for Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (2016)

The primary objective of the present work was to develop and validate a simple method for measuring the ultraviolet (UV) emission rate of louvered UV fixtures designed for upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). A secondary objective was to compare the emission rates and energy usage of a few commercially available fixtures and explain the reasons for the differences observed. The ultraviolet emission rate of fixtures designed for upper-room UVGI is clearly an important metric for specifying the UV dosing requirements for a particular application—that is, determining how many UV fixtures should be installed in a given room. UV emission rate is also important for evaluating how efficiently the fixture utilizes the required electrical power input. The ratio of the UV emission rate to the electrical input is a useful parameter for ranking or improving fixtures. In this article, we describe “UV sensor traverse” and its validation. UV sensor traverse is a simple method for measuring UV emission rate by traversing the louvered face of a fixture with a UV sensor. Using this method, we show that a commercially available fixture with a cylindrical parabolic reflector with a tubular lamp has about 84% of the UV radiation exiting the fixture emitted from the back of the lamp, compared to only 21% for a fixture with a flat reflector and compact lamps. The energy-use efficiency of the former fixture is about five times greater than that of the latter fixture. In the fixture with the parabolic reflector, UV rays are redirected by the reflector so that they tend to be parallel to the louvers, allowing significantly more of the UV radiation emitted from the back of the lamp to exit the fixture than a fixture with a flat reflector, which simply alters the direction of the UV rays. To conserve energy and minimize the number of louvered UV fixtures required, well-designed parabolic reflectors are essential.
Phase-slip flux qubits (2005)

In thin superconducting wires, phase-slip by thermal activation near the critical temperature is a well-known effect. It has recently become clear that phase-slip by quantum tunnelling through the energy barrier can also have a significant rate at low temperatures. In this paper it is suggested that quantum phase-slip can be used to realize a superconducting quantum bit without Josephson junctions. A loop containing a nanofabricated very thin wire is biased with an externally applied magnetic flux of half a flux quantum, resulting in two states with opposite circulating current and equal energy. Quantum phase-slip should provide coherent coupling between these two macroscopic states. Numbers are given for a wire of amorphous niobium-silicon that can be fabricated with advanced electron beam lithography.
Synthetic Examples Improve Generalization for Rare Classes (2020)

The ability to detect and classify rare occurrences in images has important applications - for example, counting rare and endangered species when studying biodiversity, or detecting infrequent traffic scenarios that pose a danger to self-driving cars. Few-shot learning is an open problem: current computer vision systems struggle to categorize objects they have seen only rarely during training, and collecting a sufficient number of training examples of rare events is often challenging and expensive, and sometimes outright impossible. We explore in depth an approach to this problem: complementing the few available training images with ad-hoc simulated data.Our testbed is animal species classification, which has a real-world long-tailed distribution. We present two natural world simulators, and analyze the effect of different axes of variation in simulation, such as pose, lighting, model, and simulation method, and we prescribe best practices for efficiently incorporating simulated data for real-world performance gain. Our experiments reveal that synthetic data can considerably reduce error rates for classes that are rare, that as the amount of simulated data is increased, accuracy on the target class improves, and that high variation of simulated data provides maximum performance gain.
Role of Reversible Oxidation-Reduction of Enzyme Thiols-Dilsulfides in Metabolic Regulation (1985)

The Hippo pathway was initially discovered in Drosophila melanogaster as a key regulator of tissue growth. It is an evolutionarily conserved signaling cascade regulating numerous biological processes, including cell growth and fate decision, organ size ...Read More
A novel offset compensation biquad switched-capacitor filter design (2003)

Based on the architecture of traditional biquad switch-capacitor (SC) filter, placing a low-frequency zero in the transfer function of the filter by the method of adding a SC integral in the feedback path of the circuit, we designed a novel biquad SC filter used in the RFID reader. The new architecture can compensate the DC offset comes from the input and the internal offset originated by the mismatch within the differential circuit of the filter. And the output offset of our design is determined by the input offset of the integrator in the feedback path. The result of simulation show the output offset of this new architecture can be controlled within 30 mv if the input offset change from 50 mv to 500 mv.
Cyclic (Amino)(aryl)carbenes (CAArCs) as Strong σ‐Donating and π‐Accepting Ligands for Transition Metals (2015)

Cyclic (amino)(aryl)carbenes (CAArCs) result from the replacement of the alkyl substituent of cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbenes (CAACs) by an aryl group. This structural modification leads to enhanced electrophilicity of the carbene center with retention of the high nucleophilicity of CAACs, and therefore CAArCs feature a small singlet-triplet gap. The isoindolium precursors are readily prepared in good yields, and deprotonation at low temperature, in the presence of [RhCl(cod)]2 and [(Me2S)AuCl] lead to air-stable rhodium and gold CAArC-supported complexes, respectively. The rhodium complexes promote the [3+2] cycloaddition of diphenylcyclopropenone with ethyl phenylpropiolate, and induce the addition of 2-vinylpyridine to alkenes by CH activation. The gold complexes allow for the catalytic three-component preparation of 1,2-dihydroquinolines from aniline and phenyl acetylene. These preliminary results illustrate the potential of CAArC ligands in transition-metal catalysis.