gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
NS-CIM: A Current-Mode Computation-in-Memory Architecture Enabling Near-Sensor Processing for Intelligent IoT Vision Nodes (2020)

In recent years, Neural networks (NNs) present vast potential for innovative applications. However, energy efficiency continues to remain a challenge in deploying NNs on the edge. In this context, computation-in-memory (CIM) architecture becomes an emerging trend in the area of energy-efficient hardware design, because it reduces data movement of multiply-accumulate (MAC) computation significantly. However, many recent works employ massive data converters to feed input data and transform output results, which may counteract the benefits of in-memory processing. To tackle this limitation, we propose a combined architecture cooperating sensor with CIM macro to achieve local processing of sensory signals. Current-mode computing techniques are exploited to achieve high energy efficiency while eliminating data conversion overhead. Moreover, we thoroughly analyze the non-idealities of the proposed mixed-signal circuits and present a co-design scheme to mitigate these imperfections. We have fabricated a 2K-bit CIM macro in the proposed architecture with TSMC 65-nm technology. The fabricated chip achieved 60.6 TOPS/W energy efficiency while consuming 845.5 μW power and 0.3 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> core area, presenting a promising solution for energy-constrained edge devices.
Preparation of type 4A zeolite from Iraqi kaolin: Characterization and properties measurements (2010)

Molecular sieves or zeolites are important widespread industrial materials of unique chemical structure, which are used in most industrial plants as an adsorbent for gases or even as catalysts.
The Role of Polarization Diversity for MIMO Systems Under Rayleigh-Fading Environments (2006)

Polarization diversity techniques have not received as much attention as others due to the significant difference in mean signal level between copolarized and cross-polarized branches when one polarization is transmitted. However, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems where the multipath fading is only partially correlated could use polarization diversity to provide a high diversity gain. Hence there is a need to fully understand the role of true polarization diversity in such systems. In this letter, progressive (true) polarization diversity performance for 3 times 3 MIMO systems under Rayleigh-fading environments is evaluated through simulations and measurements. True polarization diversity was found to be as significant as spatial diversity at improving diversity gain, and hence MIMO system capacity
Spectrum sensing using multiple antenna-aided energy detectors for cognitive radio (2009)

In this paper, a new energy detection-based scheme is introduced for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems. This employs multiple receive antennas to mitigate the channel fading. Partial decisions are first made by employing the conventional energy detector at each antenna, based on which a final decision on the presence of the signal is reached. Performance of the proposed and conventional energy detection schemes is presented in terms of the complementary receiver operating characteristic (ROC), when considering a Suzuki channel. The effect of the sensing duration and mobile speed on the sensing performance is also investigated.
Evaluation of a new Recombinant BCG which Contains Mycobacterial Antigen ag85B–mpt64<sub>190–198</sub>–mtb8.4 in C57/BL6 Mice (2008)

Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis continues to be one of the major public health problems in the world. The eventual control of this disease will require the development of a safe and effective vaccine. Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), the only vaccine against TB, is not perfect for its limited ability to protect against the adult form of TB. Some improvements of TB vaccines relied to strengthening the immunogenicity and/or persistence of genetically modified recombinant BCG (rBCG) strain. Antigen 85B (Ag85B) and Mtb8.4 are importantly immunodominant antigens of M. tuberculosis, and both are very promising vaccine candidate molecules. MPT64(190-198), is presented to CD8(+) T cells during mycobacterial infections. In this study, we combined these above genes into one recombinant gene of ag85B-mpt64(190-198)-mtb8.4. Then we constructed the new rBCG containing this united gene. This rBCG can induce an increased Th1-type immune response in mice, characterized by an elevated level of interferon-gamma in antigen-stimulated splenocyte culture and a strong IgG2a antibody response. Also, it can elicit longer immune responses than BCG. The results show that this rBCG is a promising candidate for further study.
Method of determining the necessary number of observations for video stream documents recognition (2018)

This paper discusses a task of document recognition on a sequence of video frames. In order to optimize the processing speed an estimation is performed of stability of recognition results obtained from several video frames. Considering identity document (Russian internal passport) recognition on a mobile device it is shown that significant decrease is possible of the number of observations necessary for obtaining precise recognition result.
Pilot Clinical Trial of Type 1 Dendritic Cells Loaded with Autologous Tumor Lysates Combined with GM-CSF, Pegylated IFN, and Cyclophosphamide for Metastatic Cancer Patients (2011)

Twenty-four patients with metastatic cancer received two cycles of four daily immunizations with monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC). DC were incubated with preheated autologous tumor lysate and subsequently with IFN-α, TNF-α, and polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid to attain type 1 maturation. One DC dose was delivered intranodally, under ultrasound control, and the rest intradermally in the opposite thigh. Cyclophosphamide (day -7), GM-CSF (days 1-4), and pegIFN alpha-2a (days 1 and 8) completed each treatment cycle. Pretreatment with cyclophosphamide decreased regulatory T cells to levels observed in healthy subjects both in terms of percentage and in absolute counts in peripheral blood. Treatment induced sustained elevations of IL-12 in serum that correlated with the output of IL-12p70 from cultured DC from each individual. NK activity in peripheral blood was increased and also correlated with the serum concentration of IL-12p70 in each patient. Circulating endothelial cells decreased in 17 of 18 patients, and circulating tumor cells markedly dropped in 6 of 19 cases. IFN-γ-ELISPOT responses to DC plus tumor lysate were observed in 4 of 11 evaluated cases. Tracing DC migration with [(111)In] scintigraphy showed that intranodal injections reached deeper lymphatic chains in 61% of patients, whereas with intradermal injections a small fraction of injected DC was almost constantly shown to reach draining inguinal lymph nodes. Five patients experienced disease stabilization, but no objective responses were documented. This combinatorial immunotherapy strategy is safe and feasible, and its immunobiological effects suggest potential activity in patients with minimal residual disease. A randomized trial exploring this hypothesis is currently ongoing.
특집 3 : 포스트모던 페미니즘과 유토피아 - 여성은 주체로서 가능한가 - (1999)

지난 수 세기동안 우리는 세계를 유토피아적으로 전망해 왔다. 진보와 발전으로 묘사되는 근대는 이성을 통해서 세계를 인식하고 지배할 수 있다는 믿음으로 점철되어 왔다. 또한 헤겔을 비롯한 철학자들은 주체성을 근대의 원리로 삼았다. 그렇다면 주체를 강조한 근대의 세계관이 비판받아야 할 이유는 어디에 있는가? 페미니즘의 시각에서 보자면 근대적 계몽이 인간과 자유를 외치긴 했지만, 정작 그 속에 여성은 없었기 때문이다. 그러나 근대의 남성 중심적 시각의 주체를 비판하자마자 페미니즘은 여성주체를 새워야 한다는 논리와 이것은 곧 본질주의일 수 있다는 딜레마에 빠진다. 포스트모더니즘은 이러한 여백을 공격한다. 포스트모더니즘은 차이와 다양성을 앞세우며 구성적 담론을 제안한다. 대표적으로 푸코는 인간에 대한 본질주의적 접근을 반대하면서 성격 특성이 본질적 성격이 아니라 사회적 관계 속에서 구성된 것이라고 말한다. 결국 여성주체를 어떻게 말할 것인가라는 주제는 대개 생물학적 본질주의에서의 주체론과 사회 구성론으로서의 주체론으로 환원된다. 결국 페미니즘과 포스트모더니즘의 결합 가능성은 주체와 해체 사이의 줄타기에 놓이게 된다. 이러한 딜레마를 극복하려는 한 예로 버틀러를 들 수 있다. 버틀러는 젠더 패러디를 통해 주체와 해체 사이의 딜레마를 극복하려고 시도한다. 버틀러는 몸의 개념과 경계를 통해서 성과 젠더를 논하고 있지만 그 의도가 무엇인지는 불분명하다. 포스트모던의 전략이 유효한 부분이 많음에도 불구하고, 해체의 전략이 해방을 담보하지는 않는다. 여성 없이 여성을 논하는 것은 내용 없는 추상적 형식에 불과하다. 여성주체를 논하기 위해서는 그것을 형성하는 물적 토대와 이데올로기가 어떻게 섹슈얼리티 장치와 만나게 되는지를 인종, 민족, 계급, 국가, 세계체제 등의 범주와 관련하여 살펴 보아야 한다.
Quantitative Organellar Proteomics Analysis of Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum from Normal and Acute Pancreatitis Rat Pancreas (2009)

The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) is a central organelle for synthesizing and processing digestive enzymes and alteration of ER functions may participate in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (AP). To comprehensively characterize the normal and diseased RER subproteome, this study quantitatively compared the protein compositions of pancreatic RER between normal and AP animals using isobaric tags (iTRAQ) and 2D LC-MALDI-MS/MS. A total of 469 unique proteins were revealed from four independent experiments using two different AP models. These proteins belong to a large number of functional categories including ribosomal proteins, translocon subunits, chaperones, secretory proteins, and glyco- and lipid-processing enzymes. A total of 37 RER proteins (25 unique in arginine-induced, 6 unique in caerulein-induced and 6 common in both models of AP) showed significant changes during AP including translational regulators and digestive enzymes, whereas only mild changes were found in some ER chaperones. The six proteins common to both AP models included a decrease in pancreatic triacylglycerol lipase precursor, Erp27, and prolyl 4-hydroxylase beta polypeptide as well as a dramatic increase in fibrinogen alpha, beta and gamma chains. These results suggest that the early stages of AP involve changes of multiple RER proteins that may affect the synthesis and processing of digestive enzymes.
Genomics, proteomics and evolution of dengue virus (2016)

The genome of a pathogenic organism possesses a specific order of nucleotides that contains not only information about the synthesis and expression of proteomes, which are required for its growth and survival, but also about its evolution. Inhibition of any particular protein, which is required for the survival of that pathogenic organism, can be used as a potential therapeutic target for the development of effective drugs to treat its infections. In this review, the genomics, proteomics and evolution of dengue virus have been discussed, which will be helpful in better understanding of its origin, growth, survival and evolution, and may contribute toward development of new efficient anti-dengue drugs.
On Your Social Network De-anonymizablity: Quantification and Large Scale Evaluation with Seed Knowledge (2015)

Author(s): Shouling Ji, Weiqing Li, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Prateek Mittal, Raheem Beyah Download: Paper (PDF) Date: 7 Feb 2015 Document Type: Briefing Papers Additional Documents: Slides Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2015 Abstract: In this paper, we conduct the first comprehensive quantification on the perfect de-anonymizability and partial de-anonymizability of real world social networks with seed … Continued
Control of a woofer tweeter system of deformable mirrors (2006)

This paper describes the control of two deformable mirrors (DM) and a tip tilt mirror for adaptive optics. The purpose of this experimental adaptive optics system at the University of Victoria is to prove the Woofer Tweeter concept for use in instruments for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) which is currently under development. The first deformable mirror is a large stroke DM (Woofer) capable of lower frequency correction in both the temporal and spatial domains. The other DM (Tweeter) is capable of the high temporal and spatial frequency corrections of the turbulence. The response speed of the Woofer is incorporated into the Tweeter controller in order to allow for appropriate offloading from the Tweeter to the Woofer. In order to determine which Tweeter shapes must compensate for the slower Woofer and which are not coupled to the Woofer, the cross correlation of the devices is determined. The method of converting the wave front sensor (WFS) measurements to control signal error is given. The transfer functions of the controller are provided, along with rejection ratio plots, bandwidths and amplitude response to system noise.
Management Recommendations for Soybean Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the United States (2012)

Soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae), is the primary pest of soybean, Glycine max L., in the north central region. After more than a decade of research and extension efforts to manage this pest, several consensus management recommendations have been developed for sustainable and profitable soybean production. A summary of integrated pest management (IPM) tactics for soybean aphid are discussed, including cultural, genetic, economic, and chemical controls. To date, sampling and timely foliar insecticides are routinely recommended to protect yield and delay genetic resistance to insecticides. Host plant resistance is a new tool that can regulate populations and reduce the reliance of insecticides to control soybean aphid. A combination of these management tools also will reduce overall production costs and minimize negative environmental effects such as human exposure, and mortality of beneficial insects and other animals.
NoWait-RPC: extending ONC RPC to a fully compatible message passing system (2002)

Locally and functionally distributed applications realized on different system architectures demand a universal, portable and intuitive software utility for interprocess communication. Remote Procedure Calling (RPC) fulfills these requirements but suffers unnecessarily strict synchronization and the danger of deadlocks with complex client/server relations. Using message passing to avoid the inherent problems of RPC, however requires additional knowledge and sometimes a complete structural redesign. This paper presents NoWait-RPC, an extended but fully compatible version of SUN's Open Network Computing Group's ONC RPC, which adds message passing capabilities to form an easy to use programming environment for robust system integration. NoWait-RPC was developed to resolve potentially arising deadlocks in an already RPC-based complex application. It is designed to be a plug-and-play substitute for ONC RPC and consists of the library and the extended protocol compiler nwrpcgen. Additionally, applications using the asynchronous (non-blocking) features of NoWait-RPC may experience a major speedup compared to ONC RPC through pipelining calls to different servers. It has successfully been employed in a research programme dealing with the development of autonomous mobile robots.
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 DNA Is Immunostimulatory In Vitro and In Vivo (2003)

Recently, prokaryotic DNAs containing unmethylated CpG motifs have been shown to be intrinsically immunostimulatory both in vitro and in vivo, tending to promote Th1-like responses. In contrast, CpG dinucleotides in mammalian DNAs are extensively methylated on cytosines and hence immunologically inert. Since the herpes simplex virus (HSV) genome is unmethylated and G+C rich, we predicted that CpG motifs would be highly prevalent in the HSV genome; hence, we examined the immunostimulatory potential of purified HSV DNA in vitro and in vivo. Mouse splenocyte cultures treated with HSV DNA or HSV-derived oligodeoxyribonucleotides (ODNs) showed strong proliferative responses and production of inflammatory cytokines (gamma interferon [IFN-gamma], tumor necrosis factor [TNF], and interleukin-6 [IL-6]) in vitro, whereas splenocytes treated with mammalian CV-1 DNA or non-CpG ODN did not. After immunization with ovalbumin (OVA), only splenocytes from mice immunized with HSV DNA or HSV-ODN as the adjuvants proliferated strongly and produced typical Th1 responses, including CD8(+) cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses, upon restimulation with OVA. Furthermore, HSV-ODN synergized with IFN-gamma to induce nitric oxide (NO), IL-6, and TNF production from macrophages. These results demonstrate that HSV DNA and HSV-ODN are immunostimulatory, driving potent Th1 responses both in vitro and in vivo. Considering that HSV DNA has been found to persist in nonneuronal cells, these results fuel speculation that HSV DNA might play a role in pathogenesis, in particular, in diseases like herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) that involve chronic inflammatory responses in the absence of virus or viral antigens.
Complete tyrosine assignments in the high field proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (1975)

The low-field portions of the 250-MHz 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) specra of native and chemically modified bovine basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) have been studied as a function of pH over the range pH 5-13. Resonances associated with the 16 protons of the aromatic rings of the four BPTI tyrosines have been located and assigned to specific tyrosyl residues. Titrations of pH yielded pK's for tyrosines-10, -21, -23, and -35 of 10.4, 11.0, 11.7, and 11.1, respectively. The resonances associated with the nitrotyrosine-10 protons of mononitrated BPTI and the nitrotyrosine-10 and -21 protons of dinitrated BPTI have been similarly located, assigned and titrated yielding pK's for nitrotyrosine-10 and -21 of 6.6 and 6.4, respectively. The high-field NMR spectrum indicates that the aromatic ring of tyrosine-35 rotates less than 160 times per second at 25 degrees for pH's in the range 5-9.
Optimization Techniques for the Dimensioning and Reconfiguration of MPLS Networks (2004)

The calculation of virtual topologies on mapped onto physical topologies is one of the main techniques in traffic engineering. For a given physical network topology with fixed capacities, and a traffic matrix to route, the problem is the one of finding a virtual topology which will optimally route the given traffic matrix over the physical topology. When the traffic matrix evolves on long timescales, we will need to recalculate such optimal layout. Our first contribution consists in the definition of cost functions which better represent the actual costs of operation from an operator's standpoint. The second contribution consists in taking into account the costs of reconfiguring the layout to adapt it to the new optimal layout. Considering actual operation and maintenance costs, it would be interesting to reduce the layout complexity, measured as a function of the number of virtual paths required by the layout. We have formulated different optimization problems minimizing layout complexity, under QoS constraints. This realistic model results in hard to solve problems. We have developped heuristic methods to approximatelly solve large network topologies. We have shown the interest of reducing the layout complexity compared to results obtained when optimizing the layout with classical cost functions. The layout reconfiguration induces first a cost of operation, and second a cost associated to the service disruption times needed to reconfigure. We have formulated a family of problems which take into account the reconfiguration costs when calculating the new layout. One of the above mentioned heuristics has been adapted to solve the reconfiguration problem.
Time to death after withdrawal of treatment in donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors (2013)

Future studies should aim to define clinical and physiological variables during the withdrawal period that can be used to maximize well tolerated use of organs from potential DCD donors; these thresholds are likely to differ according to organ type.
Fast preparation of a polyclonal antibody against chicken protocadherin 1 (2013)

Protocadherins constitute a large family belonging to the cadherin superfamily; they function in various tissues of a wide variety of multicellular organisms. However, their functions and expression modes are still unknown in many of these species and tissues. We developed a fast and low-cost method to produce polyclonal antibody against chicken protocadherin 1 (Pcdh1) that could be used in assays for immunological assessment of protein expression levels of chicken Pcdh1. Primers were designed with DNAStar, using the nuclear sequence of pcdh1 as a template; the pcdh101 fragment was amplified, identified by sequencing and cloned into expression vectors pGEX-2TK and pET-32a, separately, resulting in 2 recombinant plasmids, pGEX-2TK-pcdh101 and pET-32a-pcdh101. These were confirmed by double-enzyme digestion and sequencing. The recombinant expression vectors were transformed and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21. The recombinant oligopeptides glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-Pcdh101 and (His)6-Pcdh101 fused with the carrier protein GST and (His)6 separately, and were purified. Rats were immunized by injecting the emulsified GST-Pcdh101 antigen subcutaneously into their hind footpads, followed by a booster injection after 2 weeks. One week after the booster, the sera were collected and examined for antibody titer by indirect ELISA. The optimal dilution of this antiserum was 1:300. The specificity of the antiserum was confirmed by Western blotting. This antiserum had good specificity and could be used to detect chicken Pcdh1 in Western blot analysis. This method allows production of specific rat polyclonal antisera for Western blots in less than 1 month at a relatively low cost.
Electroantennogram and behavioural responses of the malaria vector <i>Anopheles gambiae</i> to human‐specific sweat components (2001)

Afrotropical malaria vectors of the Anopheles gambiae complex (Diptera: Culicidae), particularly An. gambiae sensu stricto, are attracted mainly to human hosts. A major source of human volatile emissions is sweat, from which key human-specific components are the carboxylic acids (E)- and (Z)-3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid and 7-octenoic acid. Electrophysiological studies on the antennae of An. gambiae s.s. showed selective sensitivity to these compounds, with a threshold at 10(-6) g comparable to that of known olfactory stimulants 1-octen-3-ol, p-cresol, isovaleric acid, and lower than threshold sensitivity to L-lactic acid and the synthetic mosquito repellent N,N-diethyltoluamide (DEET). A combination of the acids released at concentrations > 10(-5) g in wind tunnel bioassays significantly reduced the response to CO2, the major attractant released by human hosts, for strains of An. gambiae s.s. originating from East and West Africa. Field trials with odour-baited entry traps (OBETs) in Burkina Faso showed that 7-octenoic acid significantly increased (by 1.7-fold) the catch of females of An. gambiae sensu lato (comprising two sibling species: An. arabiensis Patton and An. gambiae s.s.) in OBETs baited with CO2, whereas combinations of the acids significantly reduced the catch in CO2-baited traps (by 2.1-fold) and in whole human odour-baited traps (by 1.5-fold). The pure (E) and (Z) geometric isomers of 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid gave comparable results to the (EIZ) isomer mixture. These results provide the first experimental evidence that human-specific compounds affect the behaviour of highly anthropophilic An. gambiae s.l. mosquitoes. The compounds appear to inhibit the upwind flight' response to known long-range attractants, and may serve either to mask' the attractants present or, more probably, to 'arrest' upwind flight when mosquitoes arrive at a host under natural conditions. In the final approach to hosts, vectors are known to reduce their flight speed and increase their turning rate, to avoid overshooting the source. In our experimental apparatus, these changes in flight behaviour would reduce the number of mosquitoes entering the ports of the collection devices.