gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Warm Partner Contact Is Related to Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity (2003)

The authors investigated the relationship between brief warm social and physical contact among cohabitating couples and blood pressure (BP) reactivity to stress in a sample of healthy adults (66 African American, 117 Caucasian; 74 women, 109 men). Prior to stress, the warm contact group underwent a 10-minute period of handholding while viewing a romantic video. Followed by a 20-second hug with their partner, while the no contact group rested quietly for 10 minutes and 20 seconds. In response to a public speaking task, individuals receiving prestress partner contact demonstrated lower systolic BP diastolic BP, and heart rate increases compared with the no contact group. The effects of warm contact were comparable for men and women and were greater for African Americans compared with Caucasians. These findings suggest that affectionate relationships with a supportive partner may contribute to lower reactivity to stressful life events and may partially mediate the benefit of marital support on better cardiovascular health.
Synchronous Twin-Pulse Technique to Improve Efficacy of SWL: Preliminary Results of an Experimental Study (2001)

This new technique of SWL may improve the efficacy of treatment of urinary tract stones. It also may be less harmful to the renal tissues, but animal experiments must be carried out to prove this.
An integrated spatio-temporal approach to automatic visual guidance of autonomous vehicles (1990)

The Kalman filter approach to recursive state estimation making use of dynamic models for the motion of massive objects has been extended to image sequence processing. This confines image processing to the last frame of the sequence only, and derives a direct spatial interpretation including spatial velocity components by smoothing integrations of prediction errors. Results are presented for road-vehicle guidance at high speeds including obstacle detection and monocular relative spatial state estimation. The corresponding data-processing architecture is discussed; the system has been implemented on a MIMD parallel processing system. Speeds up to 100 km/h have been demonstrated.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Multiresolution 3D facial model compression (2002)

We propose an approach to efficiently compress and transmit multiresolution 3D facial models for multimedia and very low bit rate applications. A personal facial model is obtained by a 3D laser digitizer, and further re-quantized at several resolutions according to different scope of applications, such as animation, video game, and video conference. By deforming 2D templates to match and re-quantize a 3D digitized facial model, we obtain its compressed model. In the present study, we create hierarchical 2D facial wireframe templates at five resolutions. In the deformation procedure, 2D templates are adapted according to facial feature points and the proposed piecewise chainlet affine transformation (PCAT) method. The 3D digitized model after requantization are reduced significantly without perceptual loss. Moreover, the proposed multiresolution facial models possessed a hierarchical data structure and are apt to be progressively transmitted and displayed across the Internet.
18 ~ 24 세 한국인 여성의 표준체형에 관한 연구 ( 제 2 보 ) - 표준프로포션과 표준체형에 대하여 - (2002)

The purpose of this study is to suggest the standard bodytype which offers the criterion for the sizes and shapes to interpret various bodytypes, to estimate fitting, and to Construct ready-made clothing. There were two ways of analyzing bodytypes of subjects from the viewpoint of statistic and beauty. We had carried on the analysis from the viewpoint of statistic in the Part(1) and we carried on the analysis from the viewpoint of beauty in this Part(2). Taken as a sample, the subjects were ninety-seven females who were between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. They were measured on November 1999. The data of seven hundred and four females, 18∼24 year-old, from the National Somatometry Survey of 1997 were used for analysis, too. The first analysis from the viewpoint of beauty was executed to the front and side photographs of the subjects to analyze the general traits of the beautiful bodytype. The second analysis from the viewpoint of beauty was executed to subjects who were in both High-frequency proportion range and Beautiful bodytype group. As the result, four groups in Beautiful and High-frequency proportion range were selected. The standard proportion was analyzed with the size and shape of four groups. Based on the standard proportion, the size, shape and silhouette of the standard bodytype were analyzed. To verify the size, shape and silhouette of the standard bodytype, the location of the standard bodytype in the 1997 National Somatometry Survey group was analyzed. As the result, the standard bodytype was verified as proper criterion to interpret various body types, to estimate fitting, and to construct ready-made clothing.
Efficient Incorporation of HLA Class II onto Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Requires Envelope Glycoprotein Packaging (2000)

HLA class II DR is one of the most abundant cell surface proteins incorporated onto human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) during budding. The mechanism for HLA class II protein incorporation is not known and may involve a viral protein. To determine whether Env affects HLA class II protein incorporation, HIV-1 virions, either with or without Env on their surface, were produced from HLA class II-expressing cells and analyzed by whole-virus immunoprecipitation with antisera against HLA class II proteins. HLA class II proteins were detected on virions only when wild-type Env was incorporated, while similar experiments showed that HLA class I proteins were incorporated independent of Env packaging. Therefore, the packaging of HIV-1 Env protein is required for the efficient incorporation of HLA class II but not class I proteins into the virion. Analysis of two Env mutants revealed that the presence of a 43-amino-acid sequence between amino acids 708 and 750 in the gp41(TM) cytoplasmic tail was required for efficient incorporation of HLA class II proteins. These data show that HIV-1 actively incorporates HLA class II proteins in a process that, either directly or indirectly, requires Env.
A Multiframe Perspective of Leadership and Organizational Climate in Intercollegiate Athletics (1999)

This study used the “multiframe” (structural, human resource, political, and symbolic) organizational theory of Bolman and Deal (1991b) to examine aspects of leadership and organizational climate in intercollegiate athletic departments. Top-5 finalist athletic departments from 4 collegiate divisions (NCAA I, II, and III and NAIA) for the 1993-96 Sears Directors’ Cup award served as tie sample. The 4 frames were all useful as descriptors of leadership and climate among the departments. However, ADs and head coaches differed significantly in their perceptions of the frame best describing AD leadership. · There was evidence of strong agreement on perceptions of climate within several departments, but the political frame was perceived as least descriptive at every level of analysis. A MANOVA uncovered no significant differences in perceptions of the 4 frames with gender and division of competition as independent variables. Multiple regression revealed that different frames predict how employees perceive their ADs’ effectiveness as managers and leaders.
What has my classifier learned? Visualizing the classification rules of bag-of-feature model by support region detection (2012)

In the past decade, the bag-of-feature model has established itself as the state-of-the-art method in various visual classification tasks. Despite its simplicity and high performance, it normally works as a black box and the classification rule is not transparent to users. However, to better understand the classification process, it is favorable to look into the black box to see how an image is recognized. To fill this gap, we developed a tool called Restricted Support Region Set (RSRS) Detection which can be utilized to visualize the image regions that are critical to the classification decision. More specifically, we define the Restricted Support Region Set for a given image as such a set of size-restricted and non-overlapped regions that if any one of them is removed the image will be wrongly classified. Focusing on the state-of-the-art bag-of-feature classification system, we developed an efficient RSRS detection algorithm and discussed its applications. We showed that it can be used to identify the limitation of a classifier, predict its failure mode, discover the classification rules and reveal the database bias. Moreover, as experimentally demonstrated, this tool also enables common users to efficiently tune the classifier by removing the inappropriate support regions, which can lead to a better generalization performance.
Converting a textbook to hypertext (1992)

Traditional documents may be transformed into hypertext by first reflecting the document's logical markup in the hypertext (producing first-order hypertext) and then by adding links not evident in the document markup (producing second-order hypertext). In our transformation of a textbook to hypertext, the textbook is placed in an intermediate form based on a semantic net and is then placed into the four hypertext systems: Emacs-Info, Guide, HyperTies, and Super-Book. The first-order Guide and SuperBook hypertexts reflect a depth-first traversal of the semantic net, and the Emacs-Info and HyperTies hypertexts reflect a breadth-first traversal. The semantic net is augmented manually, and then new traversal programs automatically generate alternate outlines. An index based on work patterns in the textbook is also automatically generated for the second-order hypertext. Our suite of programs has been applied to a published textbook, and the resulting hypertexts are publicly available.
Performance, temperature behavior, and first-order modeling of ISL (1980)

The minimum propagation delay time of integrated Schottky logic (ISL) made in a standard LS process is determined by saturation of the vertical p-n-p clamp transistor. A performance improvement is obtained by increasing the dope of the substrate to prevent this saturation effect. When using 5 /spl mu/m minimum dimensions the minimum propagation delay is then well below 3 ns over the full temperature range from -55 up to 150/spl deg/C chip temperature. It is shown that a vertical p-n-p clamp transistor is essential to obtain a high speed when relaxed design rules are used. Furthermore, it is shown that ISL can be modeled in a relatively simple manner with one n-p-n transistor and one or two p-n-p transistors, depending on the resistivity of the substrate.
Unequal crossing-over between two alu-repetitive DNA sequences in the low-density-lipoprotein-receptor gene. A possible mechanism for the defect in a patient with familial hypercholesterolaemia (1987)

We have previously identified a patient with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), where the defect appears to be caused by a deletion in the 3' region of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-receptor gene. We have now isolated the LDL-receptor gene from the patient and have studied the defect at the DNA level. Restriction mapping and sequence analysis demonstrate that a 4-kb DNA deletion has occurred between two alu-repetitive sequences that are in the same orientation, one in intron 12 and the other in intron 14. This deletion eliminates exons 13 and 14, and changes the reading frame of the resulting spliced mRNA such that a stop codon is created in the following exon. Immuno- and ligand-blot analysis using cultured fibroblasts from this patient revealed the normal gene product, but failed to detect any smaller receptor protein. This implies that the truncated receptor protein that is synthesised is rapidly degraded. We suggest that in this patient the deletion is caused by an unequal crossing-over event that occurred between two homologous chromosomes at meiosis.
Potential of flaxseed and flaxseed oil in baked goods and other products in human nutrition (1993)

Ground and whole flaxseed continues to be used in baked goods and other foods in Europe and Asia. Approximately 2,340,000 bu (60,000 metric tons) of flaxseed are used for food annually in Germany. Although cold-pressed flaxseed oil is not considered suitable for frying at high temperatures, flaxseed oil is used for low-temperature stir-frying in hundreds of villages in the flax-growing region of the People's Republic of China
Molecular Characterization of the Gene Encoding for the Salivaricin B Activity and its Flanking Sequences (2001)

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) produce many different antimicrobial proteins, some of which have potential in food preservation. The molecular analysis of bacteriocins has gained much attention and has advanced rapidly in recent years, and it became routine to analyze the way in which bacteriocins are expressed and translocated. Since they are associated with foods of plant and animal origins, the shared interest is that they can be utilized as a vector to deliver the active constituents at the target in the gastrointestinal tract after digestion and be used in therapy. In this respect, the molecular pattern of the expression and translocation of salivaricin B (SalB), a bacteriocin, from Lactobacillus salivarius M7 was studied at the molecular level. The gene encoding SalB and the flanking sequences were obtained and sequenced. The gene encoding SalB comprised an open reading frame (ORF) of 171 bp having a 57 bp long leader sequence and a 114 bp long structural part. Ribosomal binding site (GAGG, RBS) is located at a cannonical distance of 8 bp upstream from the start site.
The effect of expanded graphite on the thermal stability, latent heat, and flammability properties of <scp>EVA</scp>/wax phase change blends (2015)

This article reports on the morphology, melting and crystallization behavior, thermal stability, flammability and thermal conductivity of shape‐stabilized phase‐change materials (PCM) for thermal energy storage, based on a soft Fischer–Tropsch paraffin wax, the PCM, blended with ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). These immiscible blends were melt‐mixed with expanded graphite (EG) (up to 9 wt%) to improve the thermal conductivity and flame resistance of the material. It was observed that the EG particles agglomerate in the absence of wax, but disperse much better in the EVA/wax blend, probably because the wax penetrates in between the EG layers (there seems to be a better interaction between wax and EG than between EVA and EG) and separates the layers, giving rise to smaller and better dispersed EG particles. This gives rise to better thermal conductivity and flame resistance. There were no significant changes in the melting temperature of EVA in the EVA/EG composites, while the crystallinities of EVA were observably lower in the presence of EG. The thermal stability and flammability results show an increase in thermal stability and flame resistance of EVA, which further improved in the presence of wax because of the smaller and better dispersed EG particles in these systems. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 55:1255–1262, 2015. © 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers
Soft interference cancellation receiver for SC-FDMA uplink in LTE (2013)

In this paper, a new soft interference cancellation (SIC) receiver is proposed for the single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems. The receiver works in an iterative fashion between the equalizer and decoder, by using the feedback from the decoder to cancel interfering spatial streams. In addition, the receiver also cancels inter-symbol interference of the desired stream caused by frequency selective fading channel, which reduces the well known “noise enhancement” effect in SC-FDMA. Two types of structures, parallel SIC (P-SIC) and serial SIC (S-SIC) are presented, and an iterative channel estimation method is introduced to further improve the performance of the SIC receiver. Feedback reliability metrics are defined and applied during equalization to avoid catastrophic error propagation. Simulation results demonstrate that with proper reliability metrics, hard slicing on feedback symbol generation can be used to save computational complexity with very small performance loss compared to soft slicing.
Detection Algorithm for Small Signals in theBackground of Sea and Sky (2005)

A method for measuring the water-sky-line in astronomy navigation system is proposed to overcome the problemes caused by pitch and roll movement of the ship.It is based on the edge detection by using the wavelet transform.
Securing IoT for smart home system (2015)

This paper presents an approach to incorporate strong security in deploying Internet of Things (IoT) for smart home system, together with due consideration given to user convenience in operating the system. The IoT smart home system runs on conventional wifi network implemented based on the AllJoyn framework, using an asymmetric Elliptic Curve Cryptography to perform the authentications during system operation. A wifi gateway is used as the center node of the system to perform the system initial configuration. It is then responsible for authenticating the communication between the IoT devices as well as providing a mean for the user to setup, access and control the system through an Android based mobile device running appropriate application program.
Theory and analysis of leaky coaxial cables with periodic slots (2001)

Frequency band and coupling loss are the two important parameters of leaky coaxial cables with periodic slots. The frequency band can be predicted by analyzing the arrangement of the slots on the outer shield of the cable, but the coupling loss is not so easy to determine by classical methods. In this paper, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is used to calculate the electric field distribution in the slot cut in the outer conductor of the coaxial cable. The dyadic Green's function is then used to calculate the radiation field of the equivalent surface magnetic current densities. By these two methods, the coupling losses of the leaky coaxial cables with different periods, sizes and shapes of the slots can be accurately obtained. Some results in this paper were verified by the experimental results of leaky coaxial cables designed for railway mobile communications with a frequency band of 100-500 MHz.
Relationship between growth and protein turnover rates and nucleic acids in the liver of rainbow trout (<i>Oncorhynchus mykiss</i>) during development (1998)

We have studied the nucleic acid concentrations and protein turnover rates, fractional protein synthesis (K S ), degradation (K D ), and accumulation (K G ) rates, synthesis capacity (C S ), synthesis efficiency (K RNA ), synthesis per DNA unit (K DNA ), and protein retention efficiency (PRE) in the liver of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at different stages of development (fingerling: 7 g; juvenile: 45, 65, and 170 g; adult: 420 g; represented by 14-, 24-, 28-, 40-, and 96-week-old fish). Our results show that liver growth is characterized by linear increases in both total DNA (reflecting hyperplasia) and the protein:DNA ratio (reflecting hypertrophy); hyperplasia was more pronounced than hypertrophy. Development was accompanied by a significant decrease in K S , while K G did not change significantly. There was a concomitant fall in RNA concentration measured as milligrams per gram of protein (C S ) and as milligrams per gram of liver, while K RNA only decreased slightly. The alterations in K S were thus probably due to a decrease in C S . The pronounced fall in K S together with the slight increase in the protein:DNA ratio may be responsible for the decline in K DNA . PRE increased concomitantly with an increase in whole-body weight.
Network Discovery Mechanisms for Fast-handoff (2006)

Proactive handoff mechanisms involving secure pre-authentication and proactive configuration help reduce the delay and transient data loss for real-time communication during movement between homogeneous or heterogeneous access networks. Pre-authentication is meant to perform authentication with a network before a mobile moves into the network. To achieve secure pre- authentication with a target neighboring network, a mobile needs to obtain an IP address of the authentication server from the target network when the mobile is still outside the target network and then to establish a security association with the authentication agent in the target network. This requires the mobile to discover the parameters of various network elements in the target network ahead of time so that the mobile can communicate with these network elements to establish proactive security associations. We describe several approaches for a mobile to discover the network elements in target networks before moving into these target networks. We also describe how network discovery can help provide fast-handoff using secure pre-authentication and proactive IP address acquisition during handover between different access networks.
The clinician's choice of antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial skin infection (1998)

The development of modern antibiotics has vastly improved the therapy of cutaneous bacterial infections, particularly those caused by Staphylococcus aureus. This organism and beta-haemolytic streptococci are the most common cutaneous pathogens. A growing body of evidence suggests that proteins from S. aureus and some strains of streptococci can act as superantigens and cause polyclonal T-cell activation by binding directly to antigen-presenting cells. This process is a likely explanation of Kawasaki's syndrome as well as staphylococcal and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Sudden aggravation of atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis and some cases of psoriasis can be similarly explained. Bacterial toxins can precipitate the staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. Specific and effective eradication of bacteria and programmes to prevent recurrences are important, particularly in immune suppressed persons. Topical antibiotics used primarily for superficial infections of limited extent and for the prevention of recurrences in carriers of S. aureus should be combined with the use of topical disinfectants. The treatment of selected bacterial skin infections based on clinical examples will be discussed. These include secondarily infected dermatoses, cellulitis and streptococcal carriage in the ano-genital region and staphylococcal folliculitis and nasal carriage.
A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites (2013)

The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in stimuli-responsive shape memory polymers (SMPs) with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil engineering, bionics engineering, energy, electronic engineering, and household products. Shape memory polymer composites (SMPCs) have further enhanced and broadened the applications of shape memory polymers. In addition to reinforcement, SMPCs can enable or enhance athermal stimuli-active effects, novel shape memory effect, and new functions. Many athermal stimuli-responsive effects have been achieved such as electroactive effect, magnetic-active effect, water-active effect, and photoactive effect. The typical examples of novel shape memory effects are multiple-shape memory effect, spatially controlled shape memory effect, and two-way shape memory effect. In addition, new functions of SMPCs have been observed and systemically studied such as stimuli-memory effect and self-healing. This feature article presents an up-to-date review on these versatile SMPCs. The various methods to fabricate these SMPCs and the performances of the SMPCs are discussed. The potential directions for future advancement in this field are also discussed.