gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Design of kinematically redundant mechanisms (1985)

It has been noted that obstacles in the workspace can effectively reduce the number of degrees of freedom of a robot mechanism. For a nonredundant mechanism this can result in reduced functionallity, but it need not be a problem when there are extra degrees of freedom. Indeed. it is possible to design motion planning algorithms which in the process of steering the manipulator away from obstacles also resolve the redundancy.
Partitioning approach to find an exact solution to the fitting problem in an application-specific EPLD device (2002)

A new routing-driven partitioning approach for fitting a sequential circuit onto limited-connectivity EPLDs (electrically programmable logic devices) is presented. The fitting problem is stated as a graph monomorphism problem. Global, local, and adjacency routing constraints are used to define the partitioning properties of the graph representing chip resources. This approach very effectively limits the solution space of the graph monomorphism problem in the early stages of the search. The program which uses the proposed algorithm to solve the fitting problem for the CY7C361 device, from Cypress Semiconductor, has been implemented and tested. Solutions to a number of problems unsolved by the previous fitter were found. The experimental results are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Towards a framework for robot cognition (2003)

This work describes a framework for control of attention and for pattern categorization using a robot platform consisting of an articulated stereo-head with four degrees of freedom (pan, tilt, left verge, and right verge). As a practical result of this work, the system can select a region of interest, perform attention shifts involving saccadic movements, perform efficient feature extraction and recognition, incrementally construct a world map, and keep the map consistent with a current perception of the world. Another important result for the attentional mechanism is that the system is capable of analyzing all regions of its world, selected according to a salience map.
제품에 스토리가 부여된 사용자 감성 연구 - 애플 제품의 광고 사례를 통한 산업디자인의 스토리 경험 요소 추출을 중심으로 - (2017)

본 논문은 제품에 반영된 스토리를 통해 사용자 경험을 디자인 콘셉트에서부터 살펴보는 것으로, 제품을 사용하게 되면서 사용자에게 긍정적인 요소를 이끌어 낼 수 있을지에 대해 연구 하였다. 제품 광고 스토리를 디자인 과정인 콘셉트에서부터 고려된 측면으로 바라보아. 제품에 담긴 스토리에서 행동, 감성적 의미를 알아본다. 먼저, 존 듀이와 심리학자에서 추출한 긍정적 경험 감성 요소로, 산업디자인 분야에 해당하는 이미지들을 피험자들에게 각 긍정적 감성 요소에 대해 느끼는 제품 이미지를 고르게 했다. 그리고 애플의 제품 광고 스토리를 피험자에게 보여준 후, 감성적으로 느끼는 긍정적인 경험 요소 중 하나를 선택하게 하였고, 각 긍정적인 경험을 느끼는 정도를 알아보았다. 그 결과, 사용자가 긍정적 감성에 대해 생각하는 제품을 알아 볼 수 있었고, 애플의 제품에서 사용자의 감성이 상상ㆍ궁금함과 공감이 공통적으로 나타나는 것을 파악할 수 있었다. 이와 같이, 산업디자인 과정의 콘셉트에서 고려하여야 하는 제품에 대한 스토리로 제품과 사용자가 상호작용하는데 도움이 될 수 있는 긍정적 감성 사례의 결과를 마련하였다.
Statin Therapy Is Associated With Lower Total but Not Bioavailable or Free Testosterone in Men With Type 2 Diabetes (2008)

Assessing androgen status using total testosterone in men with type 2 diabetes treated with statins, particularly atorvastatin, may potentially lead to diagnostic error. Levels of bioavailable testosterone or free testosterone are recommended for the assessment of hypogonadism in this group if total testosterone levels are borderline.
Data-Driven Workflows for Microservices: Genericity in Jolie (2016)

Microservices is an architectural style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gainingpopularity. Jolie is a programming language based on the microservices paradigm: the main building block of Jolie systems are services, in contrast to, e.g., functions or objects. The primitives offered by the Jolie language elicit many of the recurring patterns found in microservices, like load balancers and structured processes. However, Jolie still lacks some useful constructs for dealing with message types and data manipulation that are present in service-oriented computing. In this paper, we focus on the possibility of expressing choices at the level of data types, a feature well represented in standards for Web Services, e.g., WSDL. We extend Jolie to support such type choices, and enable Jolie processes to act on data generically (without knowing which type it has in the choice). We show the impact of our implementation on some of the typical scenarios found in microservice systems. This shows how computation can move from a process-driven to a data-driven approach, and leads to the preliminary identification of recurring communication patterns that can be shaped as design patterns.
Promotion of double-strand break repair by human nuclear extracts preferentially involves recombination with intact homologous DNA (1987)

Parameters of DNA double strand break (dsb) repair catalysed by human nuclear extract were analysed using, as substrate, the replicative form (RF) of M13 mp8 in which a single double strand break (dsb) was introduced by restriction. After incubation with the extract, the dsb repair was estimated by the ability of the incubated RF to produce plaques following transfection into JM 109 (Rec A-) bacteria. The possibility of recombination with a purified fragment from M13 mp8 RF enhances up to 20 times the plaquing ability of the RF. The repair by recombination occurs under several conditions: i) the break in the RF must be located in the region of homology with the fragment. ii) the fragment has to be intact in the region corresponding to the break in the RF. iii) a minimal length of homology between the region surrounding the dsb in the RF, and the fragment is required. The in vitro reaction is ATP dependent and dNTP's partially dependent. Dephosphorylation of the free ends in the RF decreases the repair by ligation but is without effect on the recombination.
The Reaction of Trialkylboranes with Dimethyloxosulfonium Methylide (1966)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTThe Reaction of Trialkylboranes with Dimethyloxosulfonium MethylideJ. J. Tufariello and L. T. C. LeeCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1966, 88, 20, 4757–4759Publication Date (Print):October 1, 1966Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 October 1966https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja00972a062https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00972a062research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views297Altmetric-Citations48LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Credit Risk Scoring Analysis Based on Machine Learning Models (2019)

In the big data era, institutions can easily access a massive number of data describing different aspects of a user. Therefore, credit scoring models are now building from both the past credit records of the applicant, and other personal information including working years and characteristics of owned properties. A wide variety of usable information has required models to extract more expressive features from data and apply the effective models to fit the features. This paper reports our efforts in using feature engineering techniques and machine learning models for credit scoring modeling. Based on the Kaggle Home Credit Default Risk dataset, several current feature engineering techniques and machine learning models have been tested and compared in terms of the AUC score. The results have shown that the LightGBM model training on expert knowledge generated datasets can achieve the best result (About 78% AUC score).
Native Land Claims in Quebec Considered in a Canadian Context (1993)

Current land claims by indigenous peoples in Canada are considered in relation to their history and the judicial and legislative backgrounds and the different attitudes to land ownership from that of western capitalist society. The James Bay and Northern Quebec agreement signed in 1975 is then considered. Some of the consequences of this agreement to the economic development of Quebec and to the James Bay environment are discussed, eurrent Cree attitudes and possible future developments are outlined and some possible research agendas are suggested. An objective assessment of the validity of native claims against Hydro-Quebec is attempted and possible ways forward are presented. Comparisons between land claims in northern Quebec and others elsewhere in Canada are made.
Intramolecular DNA triplexes in supercoiled plasmids. (1988)

A series of inserts with oligopurine.oligopyrimidine mirror repeat sequences was investigated at the base pair level with specific chemical probes (OsO4 and diethylpyrocarbonate) to evaluate the in vitro existence of intramolecular triplexes. Two parent inserts in recombinant plasmids with (GAA)9 and (AG)12 sequences and three mutant inserts (containing transitions or transversions) revealed that base pair changes at one location affected the chemical reactivity 13 base pairs away. The specificity and nature of these reactions, as well as the thermal stability of the complexes, provide direct evidence for the existence of a triplex with a portion of the pyrimidine-rich strand folded back and Hoogsteen-paired in the major groove of the Watson-Crick duplex. The biological implications of this unorthodox DNA structure are discussed.
Treatment of type 2 hepatorenal syndrome in patients awaiting transplantation: Effects on kidney function and transplantation outcomes (2015)

There is little information on the effects of treatment with vasoconstrictors plus albumin in patients with type 2 hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), particularly those awaiting liver transplantation (LT). This study reports the effects of treatment of type 2 HRS in patients on the waiting list for LT. We included 56 patients with type 2 HRS who were awaiting LT. Out of these 56 patients, 31 were treated with terlipressin and albumin. Nineteen (61%) of these 31 patients had response to therapy, and 11 of them relapsed after treatment withdrawal. There were no differences in mortality on the waiting list between responders and nonresponders. Among the 46 (82%) patients who underwent transplantation, 15 underwent transplantation with reversal of type 2 HRS, whereas the remaining 31 underwent transplantation with type 2 HRS. There were no significant differences in serum creatinine or estimated glomerular filtration rate between the 2 cohorts of patients at 3, 6, and 12 months after transplantation. There were no significant differences regarding development of acute kidney injury, need for renal replacement therapy, frequency of chronic kidney disease 1 year after transplant, length of hospitalization, and survival. In conclusion, treatment of patients with type 2 HRS with terlipressin and albumin does not appear to have beneficial effects either in pretransplantation or in posttransplantation outcomes.
Clinical significance of bcl2 and p53 protein expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a population-based study. (1996)

bcl2 protein is frequently expressed in LCL and is a strong independent prognostic factor for DFS. p53 expression is related with high tumor burden, but is not an independent risk factor for CR and survival.
Gas Permeable Membranes Composed of Carboxylated Poly(vinyl chloride) and Polyurethane (1999)

Gas-permeable polymeric membranes containing carboxyl groups which are suitable for enzyme immobilization were investigated in order to use them as gas electrode membranes in biosensors. Carboxylated polyurethane (CPU) was synthesized via a reaction between 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid as a chain extender and prepolymers prepared from polycarprolactone (Mn=2,000) and 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocynate. It was difficult to prepare membranes from the pure CPU because of its high elasticity and cohesion. However, transparent free-standing membranes were easily prepared from the blend solutions of CPU and carboxylated poly(vinyl chloride) (CPVC) in tetrahydrofuran. Both elasticity and cohesion of the CPU/CPVC membranes were decreased with increasing the content of CPVC. DSC experiment suggests that CPU and CPVC may be well mixed. Permeability coefficients for O 2 and CO2 (PO2 and PCO2) in the membranes increased as the proportion of CPU increased. The addition of dioctyl phthalate (DOP), a plasticizer, significantly enhanced the P O2 and PCO2 which were 4.4 and 30 Barrer, respectively, in the CPU/CPVC (80/20 wt/wt) membranes containing 20% of DOP at 25 o C and 100 psi. Thus this type of membranes may have a potential for the use as gas electrode membranes in biosensors.
Thermal stimulated current study of core‐shell impact modifier/PVC blends (1997)

Abstract This study examines the efficacy of core‐shell structure impact modifers, having different particle sizes and core/shell compositions, for modifying PVC's impact strength. The core and the shell's main compositions are polybutyl acrylate and polymethyl methacrylate, respectively. Also, the TSC is used to obtain the fundamental states of the blended impact modifier/PVC systems, thereby allowing them to be correlated to the above observed efficacy. Results of this study can provide valuable information toward exploring the feasibility of using the TSC data as a product development guide for designing PVC impact modifiers.
Inhibition of caspase‐1 induces cell death in pancreatic carcinoma cells and potentially modulates expression levels of bcl‐2 family proteins (2001)

Caspase-1 (interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme) is reported to play an important role in the regulation of apoptosis. We investigated the inhibition of caspase-1 by the cell permeable caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-AAVALLPAVLLALLAP-YVAD.CHO in pancreatic carcinoma cells. Inhibition of caspase-1 induced a non-apoptotic/"necrotic-like" cell death in AsPC-1, BxPC-3, MiaPaCa-2 and Panc-1 cells. Expression levels of bcl-2 and bax were up-regulated in caspase-1 inhibitor-treated cells while that of bcl-x(L) remained unaltered. Our observations support our previous findings that caspase-1 is potentially involved in anti-apoptotic processes in pancreatic carcinoma.
Alkaloids of the Australian Rutaceae. The Structure and Reactions of Acronycidine (1950)

Acronycidine, C15H15O5N, is shown to be 4,6,7,8-tetramethoxyfurano-(2', 3'-2, 3)-quinoline (VI). It has been degraded to 2,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid by a series of reactions, one of which involves the conversion of 3-nitroso-5,7,8-trimethoxy-2,4-dihydroxyquinoline to 4,6,7-trimethoxyisatin by heating with mineral acid. This process appears to be of general application for the conversion of 2,4-dihydroxyquinolines to isatins. Acronycidine readily undergoes oxidative demethylation with either nitric or nitrous acid giving a 1,4-quinone. Quinones are likewise formed from several acronycidine derivatives.
Toughening Self-healing Epoxy Resin by Addition of Microcapsules (2011)

Microcapsules, filled with healing agent, not only has the ability to heal automatically the epoxy materials but also it can increase the virgin fracture toughness of epoxy. We investigated the effect of microcapsules on the fracture toughness of epoxy resins. The fracture toughness are measured using a tapered double-cantilever beam (TDCB) specimen. The fracture toughness depend strongly on the concentration of microcapsules added to the epoxy. Fracture of the neat epoxy is brittle, exhibiting a mirror fracture surface. Addition of 10 wt.% poly (urea-formaldehyde) (PUF) yields up to 58.2% increase in fracture toughness and induced a change in fracture plane morphology to hackle markings. Toughening mechanisms was study by observing the morphology of fracture plane by SEM.
The Influence of Adhesive on Roof Tiles Product from Water Hyacinth Fiber Residues (2019)

Problem statement: In general, the water hyacinth is a biennial aquatic plant for many seasons with propagated quickly to become serious weeds in general water sources. The water hyacinth is caused carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a greenhouse effect, which leads to climate change, the environmental concerns of the world today. The agricultural residue materials are the most used manufactured material in the world through a lot of water hyacinth plant but a little is used efficiently. One approach to reduce agricultural waste and add value to them is to produce a fiber composite like roof tiles. Roof tiles are a product developed to replace natural fiber by mixing agricultural residues materials containing fiber such as rice straw, kenaf, corn cob, rice husk and palm fruit bunch. with adhesives, waterproof adhesives or other materials. Approach: This work is also aimed to investigate the influence of adhesive on roof tiles product from water hyacinth fiber. The urea-formaldehyde adhesive was added into the water hyacinth roof tile in 10%, 12%, and 14% weight ratios. It is then hot pressed and tested to determine physical, mechanical and thermal properties according to the industrial standard. Other factors are considered: temperature compression, the shape of roof tiles and distribution of moisture to roof tiles, heat transfer between sheets during compression, compression time, suitable compression and hardening before or after glueing of the adhesives.
Computers in Manufacturing (1982)

Computers are now widely used in product design and in automation of selected areas in factories. Within the next decade, the use of computers in the entire spectrum of manufacturing applications, from computer-aided design to computer-aided manufacturing and robotics, is expected to be practical and economically justified. Such widespread use of computers on the factory floor awaits further advances in computer capabilities, the emergence of systems that are adaptive to the workplace, and the development of interfaces to link islands of automation and to allow effective user communications.
Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Diagnosis (2010)

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing in incidence in many countries, and is the most common cause of death in patients with cirrhosis. With regular surveillance, small early HCC lesions can be identified. An algorithm has been developed that allows for diagnosis of these lesions. Very early HCC lesions have high cure rates with appropriate treatment. If all these factors are in place most HCCs can be cured.
The sedimentology of sandstone formations within the Upper Old Red Sandstone and lowest Calciferous Sandstone Measures west of Stirling, Scotland (1967)

Synopsis Between Stirling and Fintry the beds between the Lower Old Red Sandstone and the Clyde Plateau Lavas fall naturally into four lithological formations named, from below upwards, the Gargunnock Sandstones, the Cornstone Beds, the Ballagan Beds and the Downie’s Loup Sandstones. All of these formations except the Ballagan Beds consist dominantly of sandstone and are thought to be fluvial deposits. The Ballagan Beds are alternating thin dolomites and mud-stones and are not dealt with in this paper. The Gargunnock Sandstones rest unconformably upon the Lower Old Red Sandstone. Apart from the basal conglomerates they are uniform, brick-red sandstones with few argillaceous beds and may possibly be the deposits of braided streams which carried detritus from a source area of wind blown sand. The Cornstone Beds and Downie’s Loup Sandstones closely resemble each other despite their being separated by a considerable thickness of Ballagan Beds. Both formations comprise a series of ‘fining-upwards’ cycles, each with a lower sandstone member which is commonly white and an upper siltstone or mudstone member which is commonly red and contains caliche-like cornstones. It is thought that these formations were deposited by meandering streams. Cross-strata dip samples from each formation show that all three were laid down by currents flowing dominantly from the north and west. Statistical tests—chi-squared and Steinmetz’s (1962) method—show that only the sample s from the lower two formations are likely to belong to a single population.
A new SBP‐box gene <i>BpSPL1</i> in silver birch (<i>Betula pendula</i>) (2004)

The SBP-box gene family represents a group of plant-specific genes encoding putative transcription factors. Thus far, SBP-domain protein binding sites have been found in the promoters of Arabidopsis APETALA1 and Antirrhinum SQUAMOSA. A putative SBP-domain binding element has been observed in the promoter of BpMADS5, a close homologue of Arabidopsis FRUITFULL in silver birch (Betula pendula). A novel SBP-box gene from birch named BpSPL1 has been cloned and characterized. The nucleotide sequence of BpSPL1 is similar to Antirrhinum SBP2 and Arabidopsis SPL3, apart from the unique finding that BpSPL1 does not contain an intron typical to all other known SBP-box genes studied thus far. According to Northern blot analysis, BpSPL1 is expressed in birch inflorescences as well as in shoots and leaves. Studies using electrophoretic mobility shift assay demonstrate that there are nuclear proteins in birch inflorescences which specifically bind to the SBP binding element of the promoter of BpMADS5. BpSPL1 expressed in Escherichia coli also specifically binds to this element. According to Southern blot analysis, there are at least two SBP-box genes in birch. The results suggest that SBP-box genes are involved in the regulation of flower development in birch.
ON THE CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF NON-PATHOLOGIC ECCENTRIC FIXATION (1963)

School of Optometry, The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio *Submitted on September 21, 1962, for publication in the January, 1963, issue of the American Journal of Optometry and Archives of American Academy of Optometry. †Optometrist, Ph.D., Professor of Physiological Optics. Fellow, American Academy of Optometry.
RoSmEEry: Robotic Simulated Environment for Evaluation and Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping Algorithms (2021)

Human-robot interaction requires a common understanding of the operational environment, which can be provided by a representation that blends geometric and symbolic knowledge: a semantic map. Through a semantic map the robot can interpret user commands by grounding them to its sensory observations. Semantic mapping is the process that builds such a representation. Despite being fundamental to enable cognition and high-level reasoning in robotics, semantic mapping is a challenging task due to generalization to different scenarios and sensory data types. In fact, it is difficult to obtain a rich and accurate semantic map of the environment and of the objects therein. Moreover, to date, there are no frameworks that allow for a comparison of the performance in building semantic maps for a given environment. To tackle these issues we design RoSmEEry, a novel framework based on the Gazebo simulator, where we introduce an accessible and ready-to-use methodology for a systematic evaluation of semantic mapping algorithms. We release our framework, as an open-source package, with multiple simulation environments with the aim to provide a general set-up to quantitatively measure the performances in acquiring semantic knowledge about the environment.