gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Bridge Design and Construction (2003)

The success of Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) in structural rehabilitation has also led to the development of new structural concepts utilizing all FRP systems or FRP/Concrete composite systems. An overview of the research and development on applications for advanced composites to bridge engineering structures in general support of civil infrastructure renewal is presented.
Advanced pd inference in on-field measurements. part 2: identification of defects in solid insulation systems (2003)

Results of investigations performed to evaluate the effectiveness of a new inference method for the diagnosis of solid insulation systems, based on partial discharge (PD) measurements, are reported in this paper. Signal separation, noise recognition, and PD source identification are the main features of the proposed inference method. Techniques for signal separation and automatic noise rejection are reported in the 1st part of this paper, while the problem of the identification of PD phenomena, occurring in defects of insulation systems, is approached in this 2nd part. The identification is based on fuzzy logic and enables the recognition of PD generated from different basic sources, such as internal, surface and corona discharges. It is shown that the different source typologies can be identified by means of fuzzy rules applied to a selection of parameters derived from PD-pulse phase and amplitude distribution analysis, once PD phenomena have been clustered in homogeneous class through a fuzzy algorithm based on PD-pulse shape. The proposed identification procedure is finally applied to rotating machines and cables, affected by insulation defects, showing promising on-field applications.
Mint3/X11γ Is an ADP-Ribosylation Factor-dependent Adaptor that Regulates the Traffic of the Alzheimer's Precursor Protein from the<i>Trans</i>-Golgi Network (2007)

Beta-amyloid peptides (Abeta) are the major component of plaques in brains of Alzheimer's patients, and are they derived from the proteolytic processing of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP). The movement of APP between organelles is highly regulated, and it is tightly connected to its processing by secretases. We proposed previously that transport of APP within the cell is mediated in part through its sorting into Mint/X11-containing carriers. To test our hypothesis, we purified APP-containing vesicles from human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, and we showed that Mint2/3 are specifically enriched and that Mint3 and APP are present in the same vesicles. Increasing cellular APP levels increased the amounts of both APP and Mint3 in purified vesicles. Additional evidence supporting an obligate role for Mint3 in traffic of APP from the trans-Golgi network to the plasma membrane include the observations that depletion of Mint3 by small interference RNA (siRNA) or mutation of the Mint binding domain of APP changes the export route of APP from the basolateral to the endosomal/lysosomal sorting route. Finally, we show that increased expression of Mint3 decreased and siRNA-mediated knockdowns increased the secretion of the neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptide, Abeta(1-40). Together, our data implicate Mint3 activity as a critical determinant of post-Golgi APP traffic.
Imaging and machine learning techniques for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (2016)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common health problem in elderly people. There has been considerable research toward the diagnosis and early detection of this disease in the past decade. The sensitivity of biomarkers and the accuracy of the detection techniques have been defined to be the key to an accurate diagnosis. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the research performed on the diagnosis of AD based on imaging and machine learning techniques. Different segmentation and machine learning techniques used for the diagnosis of AD are reviewed including thresholding, supervised and unsupervised learning, probabilistic techniques, Atlas-based approaches, and fusion of different image modalities. More recent and powerful classification techniques such as the enhanced probabilistic neural network of Ahmadlou and Adeli should be investigated with the goal of improving the diagnosis accuracy. A combination of different image modalities can help improve the diagnosis accuracy rate. Research is needed on the combination of modalities to discover multi-modal biomarkers.
The drag coefficient of cylindrical spacecraft in orbit at altitudes greater than 150 km (1983)

The spacecraft of the Geopotential Research Mission (GRM) are cylindrical in form and designed to fly with their longitudinal axes parallel to their direction of flight. The ratio of length to diameter of these spacecraft is roughly equal to 5.0. Other spacecraft previously flown had corresponding ratios roughly equal to 1.0, and therefore the drag produced by impacts on the lateral surfaces of those spacecraft was not as large as it will be on the GRM spacecraft. Since the drag coefficient is essentially the drag force divided by the frontal area in flight, lateral impacts, when taken into account make the GRM drag coefficient significantly larger than the coefficients used before for shorter spacecraft. A simple formula is derived for the drag coefficient of a cylindrical body flying with its long axis along the direction of flight, and it is used to estimate the drag for the GRM. The formula shows that the drag due to lateral surface impacts depends on the ratio of length-to-diameter and on a coefficient C sub LS (lateral surface impact coefficient) which can be determined from previous cylindrical spacecraft flown with the same attitude, or can be obtained from laboratory measurements of momentum accommodation coefficients.
Optimum unambiguous discrimination between linearly independent nonorthogonal quantum states and its optical realization (2001)

Unambiguously distinguishing between nonorthogonal but linearly independent quantum states is a challenging problem in quantum information processing. In principle, the problem can be solved by mapping the set of nonorthogonal quantum states onto a set of orthogonal ones, which then can be distinguished without error. Such nonunitary transformations can be performed conditionally on quantum systems; a unitary transformation is carried out on a larger system of which the system of interest is a subsytem, a measurement is performed, and if the proper result is obtained the desired nonunitary transformation has been performed on the subsystem. We show how to construct generalized interferometers (multiports), which when combined with measurements on some of the output ports, implement nonunitary transformations of this type. The input states are single-photon states in which the photon is divided among several modes. A number of explicit examples of distinguishing among three nonorthogonal states are discussed, and the networks that optimally distinguish among these states are presented.
Altered expression of microRNA during fracture healing in diabetic rats (2018)

Our findings provide information to further understand the pathology of impaired fracture healing in a diabetic rat model. These results may allow the potential development of molecular therapy using miRNA for the treatment of impaired fracture healing in patients with DM.<b>Cite this article</b>: S. Takahara, S. Y. Lee, T. Iwakura, K. Oe, T. Fukui, E. Okumachi, T. Waki, M. Arakura, Y. Sakai, K. Nishida, R. Kuroda, T. Niikura. Altered expression of microRNA during fracture healing in diabetic rats. <i>Bone Joint Res</i> 2018;7:139-147. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.72.BJR-2017-0082.R1.
Purification and Heterogeneous Localization of <i>Sarcophaga</i> Lectin Receptor on the Surface of Imaginal Discs of <i>Sarcophaga peregrina</i> (Flesh Fly) (1993)

Previously, we reported autocrine involvement of Sarcophaga lectin in the development of Sarcophaga imaginal discs (Kawaguchi et al., Dev. Biol. 144, 86-93 (1991)). In this study, we purified Sarcophaga lectin binding protein from the membrane fraction of cultured embryonic cells of Sarcophaga to near homogeneity and raised a monoclonal antibody against it. Histochemical analysis using the monoclonal antibody revealed that this binding protein is distributed heterogeneously on the surface of leg imaginal discs. This binding protein was especially clearly localized in the central region of the basal side of leg discs which forms the junction between the leg and body, suggesting the participation of Sarcophaga lectin in morphogenesis of the basal region of the developing leg.
Health‐related quality of life in nonsplenectomized immune thrombocytopenia patients receiving romiplostim or medical standard of care (2012)

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by platelet destruction and insufficient platelet production. The resulting thrombocytopenia reduces patient health-related quality of life (HRQOL). In a randomized, open-label, 52-week study of non-splenectomized ITP patients treated with romiplostim or medical standard of care (SOC), patients completed the 10-scale ITP-patient assessment questionnaire (PAQ) at the start of the study and after 12, 24, 36, 48,and 52 weeks of treatment. HRQOL changes were examined for all patients in both treatment groups and by responder status, splenectomy status, and after the use of rituximab. Patients in both groups showed marked increases in all HRQOL scales over 52 weeks of treatment.These change scores exceeded the minimally important difference values (a measure of clinical relevance) for most of these scales,especially in responders to treatment. Compared with baseline,patients receiving romiplostim showed statistically significant improvements compared to SOC over 52 weeks for the ITP-PAQ scales of Symptoms, Bother, Activity, Psychological Health, Fear, Overall QOL,and Social QOL. Overall, treatment of ITP was associated with improvement in HRQOL. Patients receiving romiplostim had greater HRQOL improvements than those receiving SOC, but the magnitude ofthe difference is of uncertain clinical benefit.
Enhanced Multiuser Superposition Transmission through Structured Modulation (2018)

The 5G air interface, namely, dynamic multiple access (MA) based on multiuser superposition transmission (MUST) and orthogonal multiple access (OMA), may require complicated scheduling and heavy signaling overhead. To address these challenges, we propose a a unified MA scheme for future cellular networks, which we refer to as structured multiuser superposition transmission (S-MUST). In S-MUST, we apply complex power allocation coefficients (CPACs) over multiuser legacy constellations to generate a composite constellation. In particular, the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of the legacy constellation of each user are separately multiplied by those of the CPACs. As such, the CPACs offer an extra degree of freedom for multiplexing users and guarantee fairness in symmetric broadcast channels. This new paradigm of superposition coding allows us to design IQ separation at the user side, which significantly reduces the decoding complexity without degrading performance. Hence, it supports low-complexity frequency-selective scheduling that does not entail dynamically switching between MUST and OMA. We further propose to quantize the CPACs into complex numbers where I and Q components of each quantized coefficient are primes, facilitating parallel interference cancellation at each user via modulo operations, last but not least, we generalize the design of S-MUST to exploit the capabilities of multiantenna base stations. The proposed S-MUST exhibits an improved user fairness with respect to conventional MUST (134% spectral efficiency enhancement) and a lower system complexity compared with dynamically alternating MUST and OMA.
Fabrication of a compact reflective long-period grating sensor with a cladding-mode-selective  fiber end-face mirror (2009)

A long-period grating (LPG) based compact optical fiber sensor working in reflection mode is demonstrated. A technique to make a mirror on the cladding region of a fiber end-face to reflect only the cladding modes was realized by growing a polymeric microtip on the core region of the fiber end-face, by photopolymerization, followed by coating the fiber end-face with an aluminum film. Using the cladding-mode-selective fiber end-face mirror, the transmission spectrum of the LPG was "inverted" and reflected. Preliminary results of using the sensor to measure the refractive index of glycerol/water solutions were successfully demonstrated.
Parasitology and Vector biology (2015)

Parasitology and vector biology , Parasitology and vector biology , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران
The effect of thermal treatment on the quality changes of Antartic krill meal during the manufacturing process: High processing temperatures decrease product quality (2014)

The quality of krill products is influenced by their manufacturing process and could be evaluated by their degradation products from lipid oxidation and non‐enzymatic browning reactions. The main objectives of this study were: (i) to investigate the effect of thermal treatment on these two reactions in krill products during their manufacturing process; and (ii) to understand and postulate the possible mechanisms for non‐enzymatic browning reactions in krill products. Characterisation of krill products at different stages was obtained by determination of their lipid composition (lipid classes and phospholipids), antioxidant (α‐tocopherol and astaxanthin esters) and volatile profiles (degradation products from lipid oxidation and Strecker degradation). The use of thermal treatment resulted in lipid oxidation and subsequently led to the development of non‐enzymatic browning reactions in krill products during their manufacturing process. It is hypothesized that non‐enzymatic browning reactions in krill products might occur through Maillard reaction or lipid peroxidation pathways. Practical applications: The quality of krill products is influenced by the temperature used during their manufacturing process, and the occurrence of their degradative reactions is influenced by the chemical composition and matrix of krill products. This work provides information about the possible mechanisms of the two most commonly found reactions in the food system namely, lipid oxidation and non‐enzymatic browning reactions. This information is not only applicable to krill products but also to other food matrices containing lipid, protein, sugar, etc. The quality of krill based products is influenced by the thermal treatment used during their manufacturing process and could be evaluated by their degradation products derived from lipid oxidation and non‐enzymatic browning reactions. Therefore, the processing temperature needs to be kept as low as possible to prevent the occurrence of these reactions and subsequently preserve the quality of krill products.
Enhancement of glucose uptake and utilization in cultured human muscle fibres overexpressing muscle glycogen phosphorylase (1997)

Conference Article| February 01 1997 Enhancement of glucose uptake and utilization in cultured human muscle fibres overexpressing muscle glycogen phosphorylase A. M. Gómez-Foix; A. M. Gómez-Foix 1Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1.08028-Barcelona, Spain Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar J. J. Guinovart; J. J. Guinovart 2Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1.08028-Barcelona, Spain Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar S. Baqué; S. Baqué 3Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1.08028-Barcelona, Spain Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar J. C. Jiménez-Chillarón J. C. Jiménez-Chillarón 4Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1.08028-Barcelona, Spain Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem Soc Trans (1997) 25 (1): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1042/bst0250007 Article history Received: August 02 1996 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation A. M. Gómez-Foix, J. J. Guinovart, S. Baqué, J. C. Jiménez-Chillarón; Enhancement of glucose uptake and utilization in cultured human muscle fibres overexpressing muscle glycogen phosphorylase. Biochem Soc Trans 1 February 1997; 25 (1): 7–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bst0250007 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Society Transactions Search Advanced Search Keywords: NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, AdCMV-MGP, recombinant adenovirus carrying the muscle glycogen phosphorylase cDNA This content is only available as a PDF. © 1997 Biochemical Society1997 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
Connectivity in a UAV Multi-static Radar Network (2006)

This paper describes a multi-static radar network composed of multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Time-delay and Doppler measurements taken by the UAV team are passed to a centralized processor to determine optimal heading commands for the UAV team to reduce tracking error. However, due to power and communication constraints on the UAVs, the optimal heading could cause individual UAVs or perhaps the entire network to become disconnected from the base station. In this paper, we ensure that the UAV team remains connected to the base by adding a connectivity constraint to the optimization criterion. This constraint is a modification to the “geometric connectivity robustness” metric proposed recently by Spanos and allows for a balance between the sensor network’s performance and connectivity, while ensuring the appropriate connections for necessary information flow.
Regulatory T Cells Are Expanded in Blood and Disease Sites in Patients with Tuberculosis (2005)

Regulatory T cells are expanded in patients with TB and may contribute to suppression of Th1-type immune responses.
Switching characteristics and maximum repetitive frequency of InGaAsP/InP bistable injection lasers (1988)

Switching characteristics of nonuniformly pumped InGaAsP/InP buried-heterostructure bistable lasers are investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The automatic turn-on phenomenon, which is a random process, was observed. For repetitive operation, turn-on delay time and the necessary duration of the switch-off pulse practically limited the maximum repetitive frequency. For switch-on, triggering the saturable absorption region is more effective. For reducing the minimum switch-off pulse width, either higher doping of reverse biasing at the absorption region is recommended. The tradeoff of OFF pulse width with threshold current, and stable operation are discussed. With some improvements in device parameters, bistable operation at a repetitive frequency over 1 GHz is expected.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
True hermaphroditism with bilateral ovotestis: a case report (1989)

A true hermaphrodite with a 46 XX/47 XXY karyotype, gynaecomastia, hypospadia and scrotal gonads was investigated. Gonadectomy performed at 14 years of age revealed bilateral ovotestes. The ovarian portion contained follicles of all developmental stages. The testicular portion was immature consisting of seminiferous cords with Sertoli cells at various steps of differentiation and few germ cells within massive aggregates of collagenous connective tissue. Leydig cells as well as germ cells remained in an embryonic stage of development. Sections of a differentiated Wolffian duct (ductuli efferentes, epididymis, vas deferens) as well as of a Müllerian duct (hypoplastic fallopian tube) were found adjacent to both gonads. Postoperative treatment consisted of androgen substitution therapy leading to progression of puberty.
Publishing Semantic Descriptions of Services (2003)

Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic descriptions have been advocated as the key to expressive service discovery, but the most commonly used service descriptions and registry protocols do not support such descriptions in a general manner. In this paper, we present an approach and implementation for service registration and discovery that uses an RDF triple store to express semantic service descriptions and other task/user-specific metadata, using a mechanism for attaching structured and unstructured metadata. The result is an extremely flexible service registry that can be the basis of a sophisticated semantically-enhanced service discovery engine, an essential component of a Semantic Grid.
Nucleus double electrode array: a new approach for ossified cochleae. (1997)

The nucleus double electrode array is an advanced treatment option for patients with ossified cochleae. The receiver/stimulator is a regular nucleus cochlear implant.
One-handed behind-the-display cursor input on mobile devices (2009)

Behind-the-display interaction has gained popularity for interactions on handheld devices as researchers have demonstrated the viability of such interactions on small devices. However, most designs have investigated the use of direct input behind the screen. We demonstrate that behind-the-display interaction with cursor input is promising and can be a useful augmentation to handheld devices. We developed a prototypical system on a PDA to which we affixed a wireless mouse. The mouse is mounted on the rear of the PDA with the optical sensor facing outwards. The system is designed to be used with one hand, and prevents occlusion and finger-reach. Through several applications we propose the benefits associated with behind-the-display cursor interaction. A preliminary user evaluation indicates that users can benefit from such an interaction when operating a handheld using one hand.