gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Torsion Test of Fiber Carbon Composite Core Rod Used in Overhead Stranded Wires (2015)

This paper analyzes the performance of fiber carbon composite core rod under torsion load through finite element simulation and full-scale test, providing technical basis for the failure mode and key parameter design of fiber carbon composite core rod.
Guidance and Autopilot for Missiles Steered by Aerodynamic Lift and Divert Thrusters Using Second Order Sliding Mode Control (2006)

A new smooth second-order sliding mode control is proposed and proved for a system driven by uncertain sufficiently smooth disturbances. The main target application of this technique (combined with second order sliding mode control based on a nonlinear dynamic sliding manifold) - the guidance-control of a kinetic-kill missile against targets performing evasive maneuvers with an autopilot steering the missile trajectory by the combination of aerodynamic lift and divert-thrusters (dual-thrusters control) and with its attitude oriented by attitude-thrusters is presented. The proposed approach, being robust to target maneuvers, may increase the total divert acceleration capability by up to 100% improving the “end-game” intercept accuracy, when such capability is required. A robust high accuracy tracking of the missile normal acceleration guidance command is achieved in presence of considerable model uncertainties created by the interactions between the airflow and the thrusters jets. The designed second order sliding mode control-based robust guidance-control system performance is verified via computer simulations.
Image Registration for MRI (2004)

To register two images means to align them so that common features overlap and differences — for example, a tumor that has grown— are readily apparent. Being able to easily spot differences between two images is obviously very important in applications. This paper is an introduction to image registration as applied to medical imaging. We first define image registration, breaking the problem down into its constituent component. We then discuss various techniques, reflecting different choices that can be made in developing an image registration technique. We conclude with a brief discussion.
III–V/silicon photonic integrated circuits for communication applications (2011)

In this paper we outline our work in the field of heterogeneously integrated III–V on Si photonic integrated circuits. Photodetectors and laser sources integrated on a silicon waveguide circuit are demonstrated.
Reporting the results of diagnostic neuromuscular ultrasound: An educational report (2012)

NMUS reports should provide comprehensive information along with a succinct conclusion, mirroring guidelines for electrodiagnostic reports.
Human papilloma virus specific T cells infiltrating cervical cancer and draining lymph nodes show remarkably frequent use of HLA‐DQ and –DP as a restriction element (2007)

Human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced malignancies are frequently infiltrated by lymphocytes. To comprehend the contribution of HPV-specific T cells in this anti-tumor response we developed a method that allowed the analysis of the presence and specificity of cervix-infiltrating and draining lymph node resident T cells in a group of 74 patients with cervical malignancies, 54 of which were induced by HPV16 or HPV18. We detected the presence of HPV16 or HPV18-specific T cells in at least 23 of the 54 HPV-16 or -18 positive patients, and not in the 20 controls. Detailed studies resulted in the identification of 17 novel CD4+ and CD8+ T cell epitopes and their HLA-restriction elements, and also revealed that the HPV-specific immune response was aimed at both E6 and E7 and showed no preferential recognition of immunodominant regions. Unexpectedly, the vast majority of the CD4+ T cell epitopes were presented in the context of the less abundantly expressed HLA-DQ and HLA-DP molecules. Since the identified T cell epitopes constitute physiological targets in the immune response to HPV16 and HPV18 positive tumors they will be valuable for detailed studies on the interactions between the tumor and the immune system. This is crucial for the optimization of cancer immunotherapy in patients with pre-existing tumor-immunity.
Effect of altered fatty acid composition on soybean oil stability (1988)

Abstract During the last 15 years, hybridization and induced mutation breeding of soybeans have been successful in producing an altered fatty acid composition in the extracted oil. The objective of those investigations was to produce a low‐linolenic acid soybena oil. Crude oils extracted from the seeds of three such genotypes were processed in laboratory simulations of commercial procedures to finished deodorized oils. Analysis of the fatty acid composition of the three oils showed the linolenic acid content to be 3.3%, 4.2% and 4.8%. The stability of these finished oils was compared to that of oil from a soybean variety having a linolenic acid content of 7.7% and of a commercial hydrogenated‐winterized soybean oil (3.0% linolenic acid). Test and control oils were evaluated by a trained sensory panel initially, after accelerated storage at 60 C and during use at 190 C in room tests. Peroxide values were determined at the time of sensory evaluation. Results indicated there was no significant difference in flavor stability during storage between test and control oils. There was no significant difference, between the oils, in peroxide development during accelerated storage. Compared to control oils, the test oils had improved overall room odor intensity scores and lacked the fishy odors of non‐hydrogenated soybean oil and the hydrogenated odors of commercial cooking oil.
Brew: A Security Policy Analysis Framework for Distributed SDN-Based Cloud Environments (2017)

The ease of programmability in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) makes it a great platform implementation of various initiatives that involve application deployment, dynamic topology changes, and decentralized network management in a multi-tenant data center environment. However, implementing security solutions in such an environment is fraught with policy conflicts and consistency issues with the hardness of this problem being affected by the distribution scheme for the SDN controllers. In this paper we present Brew, a security policy analysis framework implemented on an OpenDaylight SDN controller, that has comprehensive conflict detection and resolution modules to ensure that no two flow rules in a distributed SDN-based cloud environment have conflicts at any layer; thereby assuring consistent conflict-free security policy implementation and preventing information leakage. We present techniques for global prioritization of flow rules in a decentralized environment, extend firewall rule conflict classification from a traditional environment to SDN flow rule conflicts by recognizing and classifying conflicts stemming from cross-layer conflicts and provide strategies for unassisted resolution of these conflicts. Alternately, if administrator input is desired to resolve conflicts, a novel visualization scheme is implemented to help the administrators view the conflicts graphically. We demonstrate the correctness, feasibility and scalability of our framework through a proof-of-concept prototype.
Detecting multipath signals with the matched-lag filter (1999)

A detection problem is considered for a single broadband source of unknown waveform and emission time. The signal travels to the receiver along multipath with unknown delays and temporal separation exceeding the inverse bandwidth of the signal. The received noise has uncertain variance. The travel times of the multipath are impractical to predict because of uncertainties in the environment. The presence or absence of the signal is estimated from the auto-correlation function. Instead of stochastically modeling the multipath in terms of their received auto-correlation function, receivers are constructed which constrain the signal-related lags in the auto-correlation function to have physically possible arrangements. For simple cases, this approach, called a matched-lag filter, yields probabilities of detection that are 1.35 times greater (for a false-alarm probability of 0.001) than conventional filters which base their decision on the signal-to-noise ratio in the autocorrelation function.
A Hyaluronic Acid-Rich Node and Duct System in Which Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells Circulate (2015)

Regenerative medicine is in demand of adult pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). The "Bonghan System (BHS)" was discovered and suggested to contain cells with regenerative capacity in the early 1960s. It had been ignored for a long time due to the lack of sufficient details of experiments, but about 37 years after the initial report, the BHS was rediscovered and named as the "primo vascular system." Recently, we have discovered a similar structure, which contained a high level of hyaluronic acid, and hence, named the structure as hyaluronic acid-rich node and duct system (HAR-NDS). Here we discuss the HAR-NDS concept starting from the discovery of BHS, and findings pointing to its importance in regenerative medicine. This HAR-NDS contained adult PSCs, called node and duct stem cells (NDSCs), which appeared to circulate in it. We describe the evidence that NDSCs can differentiate into hemangioblasts that further produced differentiated blood cells. The NDSCs had a potential to differentiate into neuronal cells and hepatocytes; thus, NDSCs had a capability to become cells from all three germ layers. This system appears to be a promising alternative source of adult stem cells that can be easily delivered to their target tissues and participate in tissue regeneration.
Angiotensin IV AT<sub>4</sub>-receptor system in the rat kidney (1998)

Angiotensin IV, [[des-Asp1,Arg2]ANG II or ANG-(3-8)], has been shown to preferentially bind to a novel angiotensin binding site (AT4 receptor). The cellular location and function of this receptor in the rat kidney is unknown. Autoradiography localized AT4 receptors to the cell body and apical membrane of convoluted and straight proximal tubules in the cortex and outer stripe of the outer medulla. ANG IV (0.1 pM-1 microM) elicited a concentration-dependent decrease in transcellular Na+ transport (as measured by proximal tubule O2 consumption rates) in fresh suspensions of control or nystatin-stimulated (bypasses rate-limiting step of apical Na+ entry) rat proximal tubules. The inhibitory effect of 1 pM ANG IV was unaltered by either 1 microM losartan (AT1-receptor antagonist) or 1 microM PD-123319 (AT2-receptor antagonist) and yet was abolished by 1 microM divalinal-ANG IV (AT4-receptor antagonist) or ouabain pretreatment. These results demonstrate that the kidney AT4-receptor system is localized to the proximal tubule and suggests that one potential biological role of this system is in the regulation of Na+ transport by inhibiting a ouabain-sensitive component of Na(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase activity in the rat.
Constrained-storage vector quantization with a universal codebook (2002)

Many compression applications consist of compressing multiple sources with significantly different distributions. In the context of vector quantization (VQ) these sources are typically quantized using separate codebooks. Since memory is limited in most applications, a convenient way to gracefully trade between performance and storage is needed. Earlier work addressed this problem by clustering the multiple sources into a small number of source groups, where each group shares a codebook. As a natural generalization, we propose the design of a size-limited universal codebook consisting of the union of overlapping source codebooks. This framework allows each source codebook to consist of any desired subset of the universal codevectors and provides greater design flexibility which improves the storage-constrained performance. Further advantages of the proposed approach include the fact that no two sources need be encoded at the same rate, and the close relation to universal, adaptive, and classified quantization. Necessary conditions for optimality of the universal codebook and the extracted source codebooks are derived. An iterative descent algorithm is introduced to impose these conditions on the resulting quantizer. Possible applications of the proposed technique are enumerated and its effectiveness is illustrated for coding of images using finite-state vector quantization.
Probabilistic regression suites for functional verification (2004)

Random test generators are often used to create regression suites on-the-fly. Regression suites are commonly generated by choosing several specifications and generating a number of tests from each one, without reasoning which specification should be used and how many tests should be generated from each specification. This paper describes a technique for building high quality random regression suites. The proposed technique uses information about the probability of each test specification covering each coverage task. This probability is used, in turn, to determine which test specifications should be included in the regression suite and how many tests should be generated from each specification. Experimental results show that this practical technique can be used to improve the quality, and reduce the cost, of regression suites. Moreover, it enables better informed decisions regarding the size and distribution of the regression suites, and the risk involved.
Development of new low transformation temperature welding consumable to prevent cold cracking in high strength steel welds (2007)

A low transformation temperature (LTT) welding consumable has been developed to prevent cold cracking in high strength steel welded joints without preheating. In the LTT welded joint, the residual tensile stress is reduced by martensitic expansion of weld metal formed by the LTT consumable. In the weld cracking tests, cold cracking in the LTT weld metal is successfully prevented under high restraint conditions, but cold cracking occurs at very low joint restraint strength in case the weld metal is fully martensitic. Chemical compositions of the consumable are designed to retain austenite in martensite in the newly developed weld metal to absorb the diffusible hydrogen into the austenite to prevent cold cracking. In the newly developed LTT weld metal, cold cracking is almost fully suppressed without preheating under every joint restraint condition.
Physiogenomic Analysis of CYP450 Drug Metabolism Correlates Dyslipidemia With Pharmacogenetic Functional Status in Psychiatric Patients (2011)

Overall, we demonstrated how a multigene approach to CYP450 genotype analysis yields more accurate and significant results than single-gene analyses. Ranking the individual with respect to the population represents a potential tool for assessing risk of dyslipidemia in major depressive disorder patients who are being treated with psychotropics. In addition, the drug-specific indices appear useful for modeling a variable of potential relevance to an individual's risk of drug-related dyslipidemia.
<title>Method for color gamut compression based on subjective evaluation</title> (2002)

As many color devices, such as color displays, color printers, digital cameras, are commonly used, it is well known that colors displayed on two color devices are different from each other. This difference in color necessitates the use of color matching techniques, especially gamut compression, to compress the colors displayed on the device having the larger gamut onto a device having a smaller color gamut. In this paper we introduce a modified method of gamut compression using correlate with modified perceptible difference. Previously we introduced a color difference in HVC color space and also sensitivity coefficients to improve the subjective quality of the gamut compression that is to compress out of gamut color to inside gamut color. That was to have determined the sensitivity coefficients for Hue, Value and Chroma in HVC color space based on the subjective evaluations between different color devices. Then we applied the sensitivity coefficients to gamut compression. Carrying out subjective experiment, the result showed that this method was more effective than conventional method. Then, we also leaded the correlate to cross term Hue, Value and Chroma. We analyzed with variance to know the relation between cross term each attribute. We modified the color difference and applied it to gamut compression.
Supplementary tables from Spatial Architecture and Arrangement of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes for Predicting Likelihood of Recurrence in Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer (2023)

<p>Table S1. List of all SpaTIL features. Table S2. List of the most discriminating spaTIL features for predicting recurrence in NSCLC. In this study, density is defined as the ratio of the number of cells within the cluster to the cluster pixel area, betweenness centrality is a measure of centrality in a graph based on shortest paths, and closeness centrality is a measure of centrality calculated as the sum of the length of the shortest paths between the node and all other nodes in the graph. Table S3: Summary of clinical and pathological features of the studied NSCLC cohorts. Table S4: Multivariable survival analysis on the test sets including SpaTIL. Table S5. Treatment information for the datasets included in this study.</p>
TENSIOMETER FOR SHALLOW AND DEEP MEASUREMENTS OF WATER PRESSURE IN VADOSE ZONE AND GROUNDWATER (2000)

To measure water pressure at any depth (including depths below 5 to 7 m) in the vadose zone and groundwater, a two-cell, omni-depth tensiometer has been developed. Water level in the lower cell in this tensiometer is maintained at a relatively constant height above the porous tip. An isolated volume of air above the water level in the lower cell changes air pressure in proportion to the water pressure changes of the soils that surround the tensiometer porous tip. The upper cell replenishes water in the lower cell when needed. Several tensiometers can be installed at different depths in boreholes. The air pressure is measured in both cells remotely above the land surface. The tensiometer can be used for long-term monitoring of negative pressure under drying and wetting cycles in the vadose zone and for monitoring of positive pressure below the water table. This paper describes a tensiometer design and the results of testing the tensiometer models.
Gene Therapy of Cancer: Activation of Nucleoside Prodrugs with<i>E. coli</i>Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase (1999)

During the last few years, many gene therapy strategies have been developed for various disease targets. The development of anticancer gene therapy strategies to selectively generate cytotoxic nucleoside or nucleotide analogs is an attractive goal. One such approach involves the delivery of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase followed by the acyclic nucleoside analog ganciclovir. We have developed another gene therapy methodology for the treatment of cancer that has several significant attributes. Specifically, our approach involves the delivery of E. coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase, followed by treatment with a relatively non-toxic nucleoside prodrug that is cleaved by the enzyme to a toxic compound. This presentation describes the concept, details our search for suitable prodrugs, and summarizes the current biological data.
Argon recovery from hydrogen depleted ammonia plant purge gas using a HARP Plant (1987)

A number of ammonia plants employ membranes or cryogenic hydrogen recovery units to separate hydrogen contained in the purge gas for recycle to the ammonia synthesis loop. The resulting hydrogen depleted purge gas, which is usually used for fuel, is an attractive source of argon. This paper presents the novel features of a process which employs a combination of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and cryogenic technology to separate the argon from this hydrogen depleted purge gas stream. This new proprietary Hybrid Argon Recovery Progress (HARP) plant is an effective alternative to a conventional all-cryogenic plant.
Lidar wind speed measurements from a rotating spinner (2010)

We report our latest results from an experimental development in which a fast data acquisition continuous wave (cw) wind lidar (ZephIR) has been installed and operated in the rotating spinner of a large 80 m , 59 m hub height wind turbine (Vestas NM80) located at Tjaereborg Enge in western Denmark.To the best of our knowledge we have achieved a "World first" successful operation of a forward-looking wind lidar integrated in the spinner of an operating wind turbine.This new measurement concept allows for an unimpeded view of the approaching wind field, which we have interrogated using several different wind scan patterns.Information on wind speed, shear and direction has been extracted and compared to the output from an adjacent met mast.
Impact of polarization dependent loss on the propagation of entangled photons over fiber optic links (2016)

Quantum network functionalities rely on the distribution of entangled photons to remote nodes interconnected by optical fibers. Polarization dependent loss (PDL) could potentially impair transmissions of entangled photon pairs. We propose a compact model that accounts for the deleterious effect of PDL of any orientation.
Sweetzyme — A New Immobilized Glucose Isomerase (1975)

Abstract The enzymatic isomerization of glucose to fructose is attracting significant attention from scientific as well as industrial quarters. In recent years, high fructose syrups (“isosyrups”) produced by enzymatic isomerization of high DE‐syrups have been introduced successfully, primarily in the U.S.A. A decisive factor for the ability of isosyrups to compete is enzyme costs. The development of immobilized glucose isomerase makes multiple use of the enzyme possible and thus makes the economy of the isomerization process more attractive. Sweetzyme is the trade name of an immobilized glucose isomerase. The enzyme is presently being marketed for batch/re‐use isomerization. A special quality suited for continuous column plug‐flow isomerization is under development. The properties of the two qualities and conditions for use in batch and column isomerization processes are described.
Energy Scaling of SBS Phase Conjugate Mirrors to 4J (1992)

Phase conjugation (PC) via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is widely used, convenient technique for improving the performance of many pulsed lasers. For laser output energies ~1J, satisfactory performance can generally be achieved using a simple SBS phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) in which the beam to be conjugated is simply focussed into a bulk SBS medium. Exploitating PC in lasers producing output energies >10J requires a PCM that produces good conjugation fidelity at energies >1J.
High-quality passive facial performance capture using anchor frames (2011)

We present a new technique for passive and markerless facial performance capture based on anchor frames . Our method starts with high resolution per-frame geometry acquisition using state-of-the-art stereo reconstruction, and proceeds to establish a single triangle mesh that is propagated through the entire performance. Leveraging the fact that facial performances often contain repetitive subsequences, we identify anchor frames as those which contain similar facial expressions to a manually chosen reference expression. Anchor frames are automatically computed over one or even multiple performances. We introduce a robust image-space tracking method that computes pixel matches directly from the reference frame to all anchor frames, and thereby to the remaining frames in the sequence via sequential matching. This allows us to propagate one reconstructed frame to an entire sequence in parallel, in contrast to previous sequential methods. Our anchored reconstruction approach also limits tracker drift and robustly handles occlusions and motion blur. The parallel tracking and mesh propagation offer low computation times. Our technique will even automatically match anchor frames across different sequences captured on different occasions, propagating a single mesh to all performances.