gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
The Use of Vertical Interference Testing to Improve Reservoir Characterization (2000)

Stratified or layered carbonate reservoirs are common in the UAE and throughout the Middle East. For field development and reservoir management it is important to describe the layering in terms of the vertical and horizontal layer permeabilities and the vertical communication between layers. Vertical communication between layers affects the overall development plan, the economics and management of enhanced recovery projects. The number and placement of both injector and producer wells will require an accurate description of the layering.In this paper, we discuss the use Interval Pressure Transient Testing (IPTT), which is also commonly called Vertical Interference Testing, and Vertical Pressure Profiling in a major oil field in UAE. The objective was to characterize the vertical and horizontal layer permeabilities and vertical communication through the main producing reservoir section.In a newly drilled and uncompleted well, eight IPTT tests were conducted with a Formation Tester Dual Straddle Packer and two Probe Modules. The vertical pressure profile along the wellbore was also obtained for information about the geology and flow units as well as depletion.The interval pressure test at each location was interpreted using an appropriate geological model with the packer and probe pressure and flow rate measurements. The interpretation procedure consisted of identification of the different flow regimes followed by history (type curve) matching for the estimation of vertical and horizontal permeabilities for each layer. The interpretation of two of the interval pressure transient tests is presented.
Palladium(0)‐Catalyzed <i>syn</i> ‐1,4‐Addition of Carboxylic Acids to Cyclopentadiene Monoepoxide: <i>cis</i> ‐3‐Acetoxy‐5‐Hydroxycyclopent‐1‐Ene (2003)

Abstract Palladium(0)‐catalyzed syn ‐1,4‐addition of carboxylic acids to cyclopentadiene monoepoxide: cis ‐3‐acetoxy‐5‐hydroxycyclopent‐1‐ene product: cis ‐3‐acetoxy‐5‐hydroxycyclopent‐1‐ene product: 4‐Acetoxy‐2‐cyclopentenone
The Concentration, Gene Expression, and Spatial Distribution of Aggrecan in Canine Articular Cartilage, Meniscus, and Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligaments: A New Molecular Distinction Between Hyaline Cartilage and Fibrocartilage in the Knee Joint (2005)

The concentration, spatial distribution, and gene expression of aggrecan in meniscus, articular cartilage, and the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments (ACL and PCL) was determined in the knee joints of five mature dogs. An anti-serum against peptide sequences specific to the G1 domain of aggrecan was employed in competitive-inhibition ELISA of guanidine HCl extracts and immunofluorescence microscopy. Gene expression was determined by Taqman real-time PCR. The concentration of aggrecan in articular cartilage (240.1 +/- 32 nMol/g dry weight) was higher than that in meniscus (medial meniscus: 33.4 +/- 4.3 nMol/g) and ligaments (ACL: 6.8 +/- 0.9 nMol/g). Aggrecan was more concentrated in the inner than the outer zone of the meniscus. Aggrecan in meniscus showed an organized, spatial network, in contrast to its diffuse distribution in articular cartilage. Thus, differences in the concentration, gene expression, and spatial distribution of aggrecan constitute another molecular distinction between hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage of the knee.
New Insight into the Discharge Mechanism of Lithium/Sulfur Cells (2011)

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Exhaled nitric oxide to predict sputum eosinophils count >3% in a cohort of unselected asthmatics (2009)

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On the Decomposition of Networks in Minimally Interconnected Subnetworks (1969)

The problem of decomposing a network into different groups of electrical components, which are interconnected by the minimum number of leads, is discussed. For this purpose, minimal groups of components are defined as the ones fulfilling a chosen minimality criterion, and a number of their properties are illustrated. Some of these properties are directly employed in a procedure for the determination of all the minimal groups for a given network.
An approach to designing optimal imaging systems (1985)

Liver no-flow-reflow directly induces myocardial, pulmonary, and vascular dysfunction. These are likely mediated by XO and ROS. The tested drugs protected against these pro-oxidants, even in the presence of circulating XO.
The preliminary study of in vitro cultural conditions of mycorrhizal fungi isolated from Dendrobium officinale (2013)

The growth status of mycorrhizal fungi isolated from Dendrobium officinale were studied in different culture conditions through the screening of temperature,light,pH value and carbon source.The result showed that the suitable light was 12 h and 12 h dark,the temperature was 25℃,the pH value was 6.5.when sucrose and glucose were used individually as the carbon source,the mycorrhizal fungi(001) grew in good condition.
Commercial cooking-equipment improvement. Volume V. Development of a commercial power-burner-range open-top section. Final report, July 1982-October 1984 (1984)

The report describes a project aimed at improving the thermal efficiency of gas-fired commercial cooking equipment, specifically the development of a commercial open top section employing power burners. Three approaches to designing power burners were developed which have efficiency improvements of up to 50 percent over contemporary open top burner systems. Two of the designs have turndown capabilities while the third system is designed to be a single input auxiliary system. Results indicated that the time to heat water can be cut in half.
Graves-Basedow Disease Goiter: A Model of Bax-Bcl2 Regulated Apoptosis (1999)

This study demonstrates the involvement of a Bax-Bcl2-dependent apoptotic process in Graves-Basedow thyroid disease, a pathological condition known for its spontaneously oscillating evolution. A continuous series of 86 cases of surgically treated Graves' thyroid was evaluated for apoptotic cell content identified by histological criteria and confirmed by terminal desoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated desoxyuridine triphosphate nick end-labeling (TUNEL). A significant correlation was found between tissue features of Graves' disease (epithelial hyperplasia, cellular hypertrophy, colloid content) and the amount of apoptotic cells. No correlation was found with lymphocytic infiltrates. Significantly, 11 cases (about 12% of the series) with high-level apoptosis displayed the typical features of active Graves' disease over all tissue sections. In contrast, cases with no detectable apoptosis exhibited regressive tissue features of Graves' disease. An intermediate group of cases was characterized by tissue heterogeneity with hyperactive foci, rich in apoptosis, alternating with regressive areas lacking apoptosis. In this group the participation of apoptosis to the remodeling of Graves' thyroid parenchyma, in a tight balance with cell proliferation, was best illustrated. Moreover, the thyroid follicle by accumulating apoptotic cells and bodies, allowed a tentative chronological ordering of apoptosis steps in correlation with Bax-Bcl2 tissue distribution and cellular pattern. Our observations suggest that the initiation of apoptosis corresponds to a loss of cellular cohesion, a drop in Bcl2 expression, and a delocalization of Bax from a putative Golgi storage location to a mitochondrial distribution.
Enhanced ceramide generation and induction of apoptosis in human leukemia cells exposed to DT388–granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a truncated diphtheria toxin fused to human GM-CSF (2001)

DT(388)-GM-CSF, a targeted fusion toxin constructed by conjugation of human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) with the catalytic and translocation domains of diphtheria toxin, is presently in phase I trials for patients with resistant acute myeloid leukemia. HL-60/VCR, a multidrug-resistant human myeloid leukemia cell line, and wild-type HL-60 cells were used to study the impact of DT(388)-GM-CSF on metabolism of ceramide, a modulator of apoptosis. After 48 hours with DT(388)-GM-CSF (10 nM), ceramide levels in HL-60/VCR cells rose 6-fold and viability fell to 10%, whereas GM-CSF alone was without influence. Similar results were obtained in HL-60 cells. Examination of the time course revealed that protein synthesis decreased by about 50% and cellular ceramide levels increased by about 80% between 4 and 6 hours after addition of DT(388)-GM-CSF. By 6 hours this was accompanied by activation of caspase-9, followed by activation of caspase-3, cleavage of caspase substrates, and chromatin fragmentation. Hygromycin B and emetine failed to elevate ceramide levels or induce apoptosis at concentrations that inhibited protein synthesis by 50%. Exposure to C(6)-ceramide inhibited protein synthesis (EC(50) approximately 5 microM) and decreased viability (EC(50) approximately 6 microM). Sphingomyelinase treatment depleted sphingomyelin by about 10%, while increasing ceramide levels and inhibiting protein synthesis. Diphtheria toxin increased ceramide and decreased sphingomyelin in U-937 cells, a cell line extremely sensitive to diphtheria toxin; exposure to DT(388)-GM-CSF showed sensitivity at less than 1.0 pM. Diphtheria toxin and conjugate trigger ceramide formation that contributes to apoptosis in human leukemia cells through caspase activation and inhibition of protein synthesis.
Microtomography observation of precipitates in semi-insulating GaAs materials (1988)

Defects introduced in GaAs materials during growth and post-growth thermal processes are known to largely influence the specifications of transistors. Various techniques have been improved to detect these defects and obtain images of their organization. Laser scanning tomography provides us with macroscale images of fault structures, the details of which up to now have not been resolved. In this paper we show that extending this technique to a microscopic scale reveals small individual scatterers which are at the origin of the tomography images: these scatterers are microprecipitates located on dislocations or condensed on point defects. Several examples of undoped, In doped, and annealed materials are reported and discussed: apart from the decoration precipitates which look rather large, smaller and abundant microprecipitates are observed, even in dislocation-free materials; their number is found to be consistent with microetched pit density responsible for the ‘‘microroughness’’ of etched surfaces. Ingot annealed materials developing a conventional cell structure are also shown to contain clouds of such microprecipitates concentrated in the central region of the cells. It is likely that the type and the arrangement of these particles are strongly related to the dislocation network and to the thermal history. There is no doubt that the chemical species involved play an important role at a microscale level in the local electronic properties of the material.
High Developmental Competence of Pig Oocytes after Meiotic Inhibition with a Specific M-Phase Promoting Factor Kinase Inhibitor, Butyrolactone I1 (2002)

Butyrolactone I specifically inhibits M-phase promoting factor activation and prevents the resumption of meiosis. These experiments were conducted to examine effects of butyrolactone I on pig oocytes in a serum-free maturation system. The first experiment was conducted to determine the effect of butyrolactone I (0-100 microM) on nuclear maturation. At concentrations of > or =12.5 microM, germinal vesicle breakdown was prevented in >90% of the oocytes after 24 h of culture. In the second experiment, the kinetics of in vitro maturation of butyrolactone I-treated oocytes was investigated. Oocytes were treated with 0 or 12.5 microM butyrolactone I and FSH for 20 h and then cultured with LH in the absence of butyrolactone I for another 24 h. Fewer butyrolactone I-treated oocytes reached MII stage at 36 h compared with controls (5.8% vs. 62.4%, P < 0.01). However, by 44 h, 83.4% of butyrolactone I-treated oocytes reached MII compared with 88.6% of controls. In the third experiment, butyrolactone I-treated oocytes were fertilized and cultured in vitro. No differences (P > 0.05) were found between controls and treated groups in cleavage rate, blastocyst rate, or mean number of cells per blastocyst. Effects of butyrolactone I on mitogen-activated protein kinase activation and localization of microfilaments and active mitochondria were examined by Western blot analysis and laser scanning confocal microscopy, respectively. The results suggested that although butyrolactone I reversibly inhibited germinal vesicle breakdown and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, it did not affect mitochondrial and microfilament dynamics. Butyrolactone I is a potent inhibitor of nuclear maturation of porcine oocytes, and the inhibition is fully reversible.
An Experiment in Approval Voting (1988)

The first major experimental comparison of approval voting with regular plurality voting occurred in the 1985 annual election of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). In approval voting a person votes for (approves of) as many candidates as desired, the winner being the candidate with the most votes. By permitting more votes than the number of positions to be filled, approval voting collects more information from the voter than does plurality voting. This can make a difference, for example, when three candidates compete for a single office. In such situations two candidates with wide but similar appeal sometimes split a majority constituency so that, under plurality voting, a minority candidate is elected. By contrast, approval voting is likely to identify the candidate who is most broadly acceptable to the electorate as a whole. In the TIMS experiment society members received an experimental approval ballot along with their official plurality ballot. Two contests involved three candidates running for a single office and a third, five candidates for two positions. Surprisingly, in two of the three contests, approval voting would have produced different winners and neither of the changes was of the type usually emphasized in the approval voting literature. The experiment demonstrated the practicality of approval voting and showed that it can elect a set of candidates different from that which plurality voting would. Direct comparison of ballots makes it possible to determine why the experimental switches occurred. It is shown that in each reversal the approval winner had broader support in the electorate than the plurality winner. The experiment also provided empirical data on how voters distribute approvals across candidates and indicated that, in this case, their behavior was roughly, but not exactly, consistent with theoretical analyses of voting efficacy.
Identification of a Ribosomal L10-Like Protein from <i>Flavobacterium psychrophilum</i> as a Recombinant Vaccine Candidate for Rainbow Trout Fry Syndrome (2007)

The psychrophilic bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a rapidly emerging, virulent pathogen of a variety of commercially important finfish species, including salmonids. No vaccines against F. psychrophilum are currently available, partly due to its recalcitrant growth in vitro. Consequently, we explored the possibility of constructing recombinant vaccines in Escherichia coli as a prophylactic biotechnological strategy to counter F. psychrophilum infections. An immunoreactive clone from a F. psychrophilum expression library was found to express a approximately 16 kDa protein antigen. A proteomics approach was taken to identify the ORF encoding the approximately 16 kDa protein. Tryptic fragments of the approximately 16 kDa protein were analyzed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and compared to theoretical (in silico) tryptic fragments of translated ORFs predicted within the cloned DNA. The target protein was identified as a 166 amino acid protein (named 7-166) with homology to rplJ which encodes bacterial ribosomal protein L10. Whenhighly expressed in E. coli as an N-terminal fusion protein, this chimera reacted with convalescent rainbow trout serum. When adjuvanted and administered intraperitoneally to immature rainbow trout a high level of protection (82% RPS) was afforded against virulent F. psychrophilum challenge; thus establishing F. psychrophilumrplJ homologue 7-166 as a promising vaccine candidate for RTFS.
Experimental Validation<sup>1</sup> (2014)

A priori information given by the complete modeling of the ballistic behavior (trajectory, attitude) of a projectile is simplified to give a pertinent reduced evolution model. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is designed to estimate three attitude angles from measurements of the magnetic field of the earth given by a three axis magnetometer sensor embedded on the projectile, completed with a three axis accelerometer. The algorithm has been tested on real data recorded during a free flight test over a distance of 400 meters. The results show that we can estimate milliradians with non-linear equations and approximations, with good accuracy.
Fuzzy adaptive robust control of a class of nonlinear systems (2001)

A fuzzy adaptive robust tracking controller for a class of uncertain nonlinear dynamical systems is proposed and analyzed. The controller's construction and its analysis involve sliding modes. The proposed controller consists of two components. A robust feedback component is employed to eliminate the effects of disturbances, while a fuzzy logic component equipped with an adaptation mechanism reduces modeling uncertainties by approximating the model's nonlinearities on-line. A projection method is used to prevent the adaptation parameters from going unbounded in the presence of disturbances. It is shown that the closed-loop system driven by the proposed controller is stable and the adaptation parameters are bounded. A guaranteed transient performance and a guaranteed final tracking accuracy in the presence of parametric uncertainties and disturbances are achieved. Furthermore, if there are no disturbances and the unknown model's nonlinearities are within the approximation range of the fuzzy logic system, asymptotic output tracking is also achieved.
Generation of a 75-MW 5-kHz Pulse Train from an Inductive Energy Store (1984)

The first demonstration of fully controlled high-power high-repetition-rate burst-mode operation of an inductive energy storage and transfer system with nondestructive switches was achieved with fast-recovery vacuum switches and a new repetitive transfer circuit. The system delivered a S-kHz pulse train with a peak power of 75 MW (at 8.6 kA) to a 1-Ω load.
ChemInform Abstract: HYDROFORMYLATION OF FORMALDEHYDE CATALYZED BY RHODIUM COMPLEXES (1980)

Abstract Die Hydroformylierung von Formaldehyd (I) führt zu Glykolaldehyd (V) und dem Hydrierungsprodukt Methanol (VI).
Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α)-Induced and Interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-Induced Shedding of TNF Receptors from Gingival Fibroblasts (2000)

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) exerts its functions by binding two different receptors (TNFR55 and TNFR75). Both TNFR55 and TNFR75 exist in cell-associated and soluble forms. Soluble TNF receptors (sTNFR), sTNFR55 and sTNFR75, are proteolytically shed upon inflammatory stimuli and then modulate various TNF-alpha bioactivities. As human gingival fibroblasts (HGF) can be potential targets for TNF-alpha in inflamed gingiva, we hypothesized that HGF partially modulate the cellular responses to TNF-alpha by regulating their own TNFR. In this study, the kinetics of expression of cell-associated and soluble forms of both receptors from cultured HGF in response to proinflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) were investigated in vitro. Both TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta upregulated the gene expression of TNFR75 and did not affect that of TNFR55. TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta decreased binding of [(125)I]TNF-alpha to HGF. Moreover, TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta upregulated the release of sTNFR75 from HGF but not that of sTNFR55. These results suggest that HGF under inflammatory conditions may contribute to the inactivation of circulating TNF-alpha through the preferential induction and shedding of TNFR75.
Laparoscopy-Assisted Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair. First Case Reports From Japan. (2002)

Laparoscopy-assisted abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair consists of retroperitoneal laparoscopic dissection of the AAA and graft replacement performed via a mini-laparotomy. Two patients with infrarenal AAA underwent successful straight graft replacement using this hybrid approach. The retroperitoneal space was bluntly dissected under carbon dioxide pneumoretroperitoneum and further dissection was performed laparoscopically. This enabled proximal and distal control of the aneurysm, and occlusion of the lumbar arteries and the inferior mesenteric artery with hemoclips. A 7 cm mini-laparotomy was sufficient for the straight graft replacement. Laparoscopy-assisted repair is a less invasive technique for the treatment of AAA and can be regarded as the initial step towards totally endoscopic repair.
Partition Equilibria of Lead and Antimony between Liquid Copper and MgO Saturated Cu<SUB>2</SUB>O-SiO<SUB>2</SUB>, Cu<SUB>2</SUB>O-CaO and Cu<SUB>2</SUB>O-CaO-SiO<SUB>2</SUB> Systems (2006)

The partition ratios of Pb and Sb between liquid copper and MgO saturated Cu2O-SiO2, Cu2O-CaO and Cu2O-CaO-SiO2 systems were measured from 1523 to 1673 K.For Cu2O-SiO2-MgOsatd. system at 1573 K, the effect of SiO2 content on partition ratios of Pb and Sb was small and their partition ratios were lower than 20. For Cu2O-CaO-MgOsatd. system, the partition ratio of Pb was not affected by the CaO concentration, while the partition ratio of Sb and the activity coefficient of SbO1.5 were dependent on the CaO concentration. When CaO concentration increased, the partition ratio of Sb increased and the activity coefficient of SbO1.5 decreased.For Cu2O-CaO-SiO2-MgOsatd. system, two liquid phases, which one was calcium silicate rich phase and another was Cu2O rich phase, were observed at 1573 K. The partition ratios of Pb and Sb between calcium silicate phase and liquid copper were dependent on the ratio of (mass%CaO)/(mass%SiO2). When the ratio (mass%CaO)/(mass%SiO2) increased, the partition ratio of Pb decreased and that of Sb increased.