gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
DLAB: a class of daylight-based uniform color space (2014)

CIELAB is based on the CIE 1931 color matching functions. If we are given a new set of color matching functions, how do we define a CIELAB-like uniform color space for the new functions? This problem arises because the CIE recommended its physiological cone fundamentals in 2006 and is considering a new set of color matching functions based on them. In fact, the same problem exists for many practical applications in digital imaging. Typical solutions involve using illuminant-dependent color correction matrices to transform the device-dependent color space into the CIE XYZ color space. This conversion process suffers information loss unless the two sets of color matching functions are linear combinations of each other. In this paper, we propose a design process that allows us to develop a CIELAB-like color space using the native sensor fundamentals. The basic idea is to choose the daylight locus as the yellow-blue opponent color process. We call this class of color space DLAB. We describe the design procedures and compare the resulting Munsell color uniformity under CIELAB (L*, a*, b*) and DLAB (L(+) ,a(+), b(+)).
[Enterocutaneous fistula after Marlex net implantation. A rare complication after incisional hernia repair]. (1995)

Erosions of intraabdominal hollow viscus are possible complications following reconstructive surgery of the abdominal wall after hernia repair with non-absorbable biomaterials. A rare case of manifestation of a enterocutaneous fistula by chronical erosion of a Marlex mesh after repair of an incisional hernia is presented. Successful treatment was achieved by fistulectomy, small bowel segmental resection and limited resection of the implanted Marlex mesh.
Flow injection voltammetric determination of nitrate after reduction to nitrite (1983)

Nitrate can be determined conveniently by chemical reduction to nitrite, which is then injected directly into an acidic bromide eluent in a flow injection system and monitored using its reduction signal at a glassy carbon electrode held at + 0.3 V versus a saturated calomel electrode. Chemical reduction was best carried out on a batch basis but partial success was experienced in using a method in which a nitrate sample solution was passed continuously through a cadmium sponge column and then through the injection loop of the flow injection valve from which aliquots were injected into the flow injection system. Determinations were also made by injection of nitrate sample solution directly into an acidic bromide eluent and reducing the nitrate on-line with cadmium wire.
S-Check: a tool for tuning parallel programs (2002)

We present a novel tool, called S-Check, for identifying performance bottlenecks in parallel and networked programs. S-Check is a highly-automated sensitivity analysis tool for programs that extends benchmarking and conventional profiling. It predicts how refinements in parts of a program are going to affect performance by making focal changes in code efficiencies and correlating these against overall program performance. This analysis is a sophisticated comparison that catches interactions arising from shared resources or communication links. S-Check's performance assessment ranks code segments "bottleneck" according to their sensitivity to the code efficiency changes. This rank-ordered list serves as a guide for tuning applications. In practice, S-Check code analysis yields faster parallel programs. A case study compares and contrasts sensitivity analyses of the same program on different architectures and offers solutions for performance improvement. An initial implementation of S-Check runs on Silicon Graphics multiprocessors and IBM SP machines. Particulars of the underlying methodology are only sketched with main emphasis given to details of the tool S-Check and its use.
The Russian Philosophical Context (2012)

Abstract This chapter discusses Cosmism in relation to major previous trends in Russian philosophy. Traditionally, compared to the west, Russian philosophy has been more nearly a passion than an academic discipline. Characteristics include emphasis on the destiny of Russia, a search for totalitarian solutions to perennial problems, and a tendency to treat thought as a call for action. Thinkers discussed include Chaadaev, the Slavophiles and Westernizers, the Populists, and the Marxists. The Cosmist thinkers Fedorov and Solovyov drew upon and attempted to synthesize the major previous tendencies.
The sensor network using DC power line communication bus (2015)

This work proposes a sensor network using the power line communication (PLC) technique in master-slave sensor/control network applications especially using in DC power systems. In the accustomed microcontroller-based master-slave sensor/control network are designed by the serial communication topology and communicates with a controller and coupled the signals with modems in the both ends used the transmission port, nevertheless, coupling modulated digital data signals through modulation circuits to the power line is a challenging task in noising cancelation. Therefore, the time division multiplexing (TDM) technique to separate the timing into two phases, Powering Phase and Communication Phase, on the DC power line was proposed in this work. This method can easily resolve the complexity and the noise effect of the master-slave sensor/control network.
Analysis of a plate piezoelectric gyroscope by equations for a piezoelectric parallelepiped (2003)

Zero-dimensional equations for motions of a rectangular piezoelectric parallelepiped are derived from the three-dimensional equations of linear piezoelectricity. The resulting equations are employed in the analysis of a ceramic plate thickness-shear piezoelectric gyroscope.
The Organs of Adhesion in the Aphid <i>Megoura Viciae</i> (1988)

ABSTRACT The anatomy of the adhesive organs is described in Megoura viciae Buckton. The claws serve as grappling hooks which are locked in position by the retractor unguis tendon. The pulvilli, pliable cuticular sacs, are everted from the tibiotarsal articulation. They bear a surface adhesive, a non-volatile oil, which is secreted through the cuticle. The pulvilli are everted by blood pressure and are withdrawn inside the tibia by contraction of the tibial muscles. The adhesion of these organs to various types of surface was tested by covering over the pulvilli or by claw amputation. Pulling forces were applied by progressively loading the aphid with weights. The pulvilli perform best on relatively smooth surfaces. Aphids are dislodged from the underside of polished glass by a mass of approx. 9-14 mg (a pulling force of 8·8-13·7xl0-5N). The claws cannot engage a completely smooth surface but are highly effective on rough ones, withstanding a load of approx. 57 mg on dry filter paper. Adhesion of the pulvilli to waxy surfaces is only slightly less than on glass but is greatly reduced on surfaces with still lower free energies, such as Teflon. On a glass surface the pulvilli sometimes leave ‘footprints’ consisting of oily droplets of variable size. Nevertheless, in many instances such deposits are small or absent, indicating that the bond sometimes breaks between the adhesive and the substratum. In a selected series of footprints with large deposits, their volume was found to be sufficient to form a layer at least 17·7xl0-9m in thickness over the area of pulvillar contact. This is consistent with the view that surface tension forces would adequately account for adhesion, an additional limiting factor being the physical properties (wettability) of the substratum. Viscous forces would impede the very rapid (less than 0-02 s) removal of the pulvilli, were it not for the retraction mechanism which peels off the pulvillus from the distal edge, like a piece of adhesive tape. The ultrastructure of the pulvillar gland is described. The epidermal cells discharge into a cavity which is confluent with a further reservoir within the spongy endocuticle, itself a meshwork of dissociated cuticular microfibrils. The points of exit of the secretion appear to be the epicuticular filaments. The product of the gland, which can be collected by pricking the pulvilli, is water soluble and proteinaceous, differing entirely from the hydrophobic lipid-soluble end-product on the pulvillar surface. We presume that the lipoprotein precursor is dissociated enzymatically at the level of the inner epicuticle.
A Self-Organizing Search Engine for RSS Syndicated Web Contents (2006)

The exponentially growing information published on the Web relies largely on a few major search engines like Google to be brought to the public nowadays. This raises issues such as: 1. how many percents of coverage do these search engines provide for the whole shared contents over the Internet? 2. how easy is it to find less popular contents from the Web through the page ranking system of these search engines? In fact, the increasing dynamics of the information distributed on the Internet challenge the flexibility of these centralized search engines. With the amount of structured and semi-structured data increase on the Internet, self-organizing search engines that are capable of providing sufficient coverage for data that follow certain structures get more and more attractive. In this paper, we propose a self-organizing search engine soSpace for RSS syndicated web data. soSpace is built on structured peer-to-peer technology. It enables indexing and searching of frequently updated web information described by RSS feed. Our experiment results show that it has good scalability as the contents increase. The recall and precision rate of the result are satisfactory as well.
Model for Public Sector Design-Build Project Selection (1998)

Public sector owners are rapidly identifying new construction procurement methods. Changing procurement laws and documented project success are encouraging owners to attempt the design-build method of project procurement. Design-build is a radical departure from the traditional design-bid-build method. This paper reports on the analysis of 122 case studies and the resulting automated tool for public sector design-build project selection. Prediction models are developed for five performance criteria that correlate specific project characteristics to success. Performance criteria and associated models include budget variance, schedule variance, conformance to expectations, administrative burden, and overall user satisfaction. Project characteristics are categorized as project, owner, market, and relationship variables. Statistically significant correlations with success include scope definition, schedule definition, budget definition, project complexity, agency experience, agency staffing, owner design input, design-build market, design-builder prequalification, and method of selection.
The Protective Effect of Ketotifen in Bronchial Asthma (1978)

Thirty-six patients with confirmed allergic bronchial asthma were divided into 3 parallel groups and treated with ketotifen 1 mg b.i.d. (Group I), ketotifen 2 mg b.i.d. (Group II), and clemastine I mg b.i.d. (Group III) respectively for 6 months. Nine out of 12 patients in Group I and 10 out of 12 in Group II experienced a statistically significant improvement in dyspnoea and in pulmonary function (Tiffeneau test). Likewise there was a marked reduction in the number, severity and average duration (minutes per week) of asthmatic attacks. By the 12th week, 8 out of 12 patients in the clemastine group had dropped out because of inefficacy. Ketotifen was very well tolerated by all the patients. In both ketotifen groups pathological eosinophil counts returned to normal during treatment. It can be concluded that ketotifen is effective in the long-term prophylaxis of bronchial asthma.
Neuronal Regulators and Vascular Dysfunction in Raynauds Phenomenon and Systemic Sclerosis (2009)

Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) results from an exaggerated cutaneous vasospastic response to cold or emotional stress. The mechanisms that lead to impaired cutaneous vascular tone are complex. The regulation of cutaneous vasoconstriction and vasodilation, involves altered sympathetic nerve activity and a host of neuronal regulators, including adrenergic and non-adrenergic, as well as REDOX signalling and other signalling such as the RhoA/ROCK pathway. This review summarises the literature concerning the regulation of vascular tone by neurohumoral factors that may be involved in RP and systemic sclerosis (SSc).
An efficient location cache scheme for three‐level database architecture in PCS networks (2001)

Abstract Recently, hierarchical architecture for location databases has been proposed in order to accommodate the growing number of personal communication systems users. With the three‐level hierarchical database architecture, which is compatible with the current cellular mobile systems, newly developed additional databases, including the regional location database (RLR), are positioned between the HLR and the VLRs. We propose an efficient cache scheme, the double T‐thresholds location cache scheme , which could reduce the network and database costs to lookup a portable using the three‐level architecture. This scheme extends the existing T‐threshold location cache scheme, which is effective only under the two‐level architecture of location databases currently adopted by IS‐41 and GSM. The idea behind our proposed scheme is to use two pieces of cache information, VLR and RLR, which serve the called portables. These two pieces are required in order to exploit not only the locality of a registration area (RA), but also the locality of a regional registration area (RRA), a wide area covered by the RLR. We also use two threshold values in order to determine whether the two pieces are obsolete. In order to model the RRA residence time, the branching Erlang‐∞ distribution is introduced. The cost analysis presented in this paper shows that the double T ‐thresholds location cache scheme significantly reduces the network and database costs for most patterns of portables. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Emily Brontë and Dogs: Transformation Within the Human-Dog Bond (2000)

Abstract This paper examines the bond between humans and dogs as demonstrated in the life and work of Emily Bronte (1818-1848). The nineteenth century author, publishing under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell, evinced, both in her personal and professional life, the complex range of emotions explicit in the human-dog bond: attachment and companionship to domination and abuse. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë portrays the dog as scapegoat, illustrating the dark side of the bond found in many cultures. Moreover, she writes with awareness of connections - unknown in the nineteenth century - between animal abuse and domestic violence. In her personal life, Brontë's early power struggles with her companion animal mastiff, Keeper, evolve into a caring relationship. In a human-dog bond transformation that survives Brontë's death, Keeper, becomes both bridge and barrier to other human relationships. A dog may, and in this case Keeper does, take on a comprehensive role in which he both mourns his own loss and comforts others in their collective grief.
Diabetes and the Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease in Denmark (2011)

We found that a diagnosis of, or treatment received for, diabetes was significantly associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease, especially younger-onset Parkinson's disease. Our results suggest a common pathophysiologic pathway between the two diseases. Future studies should take age at Parkinson's disease onset into account.
Relations between family situation and some connate qualities of adolescent pupils (1998)

Obitelj je jedan od osnovnih cimbenika koji sudjeluju u razvoju licnosti djeteta i prvo socijalno okruženje u koje je dijete integrirano. U kojoj mjeri je taj utjecaj vidljiv u konativnim dimenzijama djeteta? Ispitivanjem je obuhvacen uzorak ucenika osmih razreda osnovnih skola u Zagrebu ( n=397), a prikupljeni su podaci o uvjetima života unutar obitelji i konativnih osobina djece-adolescenata. Kanonickom i kvazikanonickom koleracijskom analizom dobijena je statisticki znacajna veza između obiteljskih prilika i osobina licnosti adolescenta. Ova veza govori o losem obiteljskom funkcioniranju koje se ocituje kroz svađe, fizicko razracunavanje, zanemarivanje djeteta i poremecajima agresivnosti, disociranosti, te prvenstveno niske razine socijalizacije kod adolescenata. Povoljnost obiteljskog, bracnog, roditeljskog i socioekonomskog funkcioniranja obitelji izvjestan je amortizer svim mogucim poremecajima regulatora konativnog funkcioniranja adolescenata.
Dichotic Listening in Good and Poor Readers (1983)

Dichotic listening performance using CV pairs was investigated in a group of 30 children, 15 good readers and 15 poor readers, aged 10–13 years. The results indicate that the poor readers did not demonstrate atypical laterality or phonetic processing effects, although there was significant difference in their ability to identify both items on dichotic trials correctly. However, when the same stimuli were presented monotically, there was no difference in the performance of the groups. Additional testing indicated that the poor performance for the double-correct response class was also demonstrated in conditions where the dichotic stimuli were separated by as much as 500 and 1000 msec. These results support previous findings that reading-disabled children exhibit a deficit in their capacity to process two items on dichotic tasks. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of both neurological and auditory processing interpretations, and it is suggested that dichotic tasks are useful for investigating auditory processing problems in reading-disabled children.
Networking, entrepreneurship and microbusiness behaviour (2000)

It has been argued that networking by owner-managers of small businesses will enhance business performance. Yet to define and demonstrate the presence of networking activity is suffused with methodological difficulties. In this paper the authors attempt to disentangle some of these difficulties. The paper draws on quantifiable data from 104 owner-managers and qualitative data from 34 critical incident interviews from a study of microbusinesses to assess the nature and extent of networking activity. The paper shows: a high proportion of owner-managers use their trading contacts as sources of useful additional information; they use ‘weak ties’ for purposes such as recruitment; a sparse use of institutional networks; an association between networking activity and business performance, although it seems that this must be qualified by sectoral differences; an association between type of owner-manager on a scale of entrepreneurship and networking activity. The policy implications of this paper suggest that economic development agencies continue to have problems reaching out to the microbusiness. This paper recommends that such agencies might use a tool to differentiate more finely amongst the microbusiness population.
Genomic Bayesian functional regression models with interactions for predicting wheat grain yield using hyper-spectral image data (2017)

We observed that the models with B × E interaction terms were the most accurate models, whereas the functional regression models (with B-splines and Fourier basis) and the conventional models performed similarly in terms of prediction accuracy. However, the functional regression models are more parsimonious and computationally more efficient because the number of beta coefficients to be estimated is 21 (number of basis), rather than estimating the 250 regression coefficients for all bands. In this study adding pedigree or genomic information did not increase prediction accuracy.
Fokker-Planck and Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equations for classical ferromagnets (1997)

A macroscopic equation of motion for the magnetization of a ferromagnet at elevated temperatures should contain both transverse and longitudinal relaxation terms and interpolate between the Landau-Lifshitz equation at low temperatures and the Bloch equation at high temperatures. It is shown that for the classical model where spin-bath interactions are described by stochastic Langevin fields and spin-spin interactions are treated within the mean-field approximation (MFA), such a ``Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch'' (LLB) equation can be derived exactly from the Fokker-Planck equation, if the external conditions change slowly enough. For weakly anisotropic ferromagnets within the MFA the LLB equation can be written in a macroscopic form based on the free-energy functional interpolating between the Landau free energy near ${\mathrm{T}}_{\mathrm{C}}$ and the ``micromagnetic'' free energy, which neglects changes of the magnetization magnitude |M|, at low temperatures.
Endogenous Cerberus activity is required for anterior head specification in<i>Xenopus</i> (2003)

We analyzed the endogenous requirement for Cerberus in Xenopus head development. 'Knockdown' of Cerberus function by antisense morpholino oligonucleotides did not impair head formation in the embryo. In contrast, targeted increase of BMP, Nodal and Wnt signaling in the anterior dorsal-endoderm (ADE) resulted in synergistic loss of anterior head structures, without affecting more posterior axial ones. Remarkably, those head phenotypes were aggravated by simultaneous depletion of Cerberus. These experiments demonstrated for the first time that endogenous Cerberus protein can inhibit BMP, Nodal and Wnt factors in vivo. Conjugates of dorsal ectoderm (DE) and ADE explants in which Cerberus function was 'knocked down' revealed the requirement of Cerberus in the ADE for the proper induction of anterior neural markers and repression of more posterior ones. This data supports the view that Cerberus function is required in the leading edge of the ADE for correct induction and patterning of the neuroectoderm.
Nutritional issues in perinatal alcohol exposure. (1985)

Animal models are important in perinatal alcohol research because they provide an opportunity to study the effects of alcohol while controlling for biological, social and environmental factors which are difficult to control in human studies. One of the variables which has often been overlooked in animal studies, however, is nutrition. Even when there has been an awareness of the need for nutritional controls, such controls have been particularly difficult to implement because alcohol and nutrition interact at so many levels. In this review the interactions of alcohol and nutrition are discussed and some of the methods used to separate effects of alcohol from effects of alcohol-induced malnutrition are considered. In particular, the issues of method of alcohol administration as well as effects of alcohol on nutrient intake, nutrient digestion, absorption and utilization, and nutrient requirements are reviewed. Potentiation of ethanol effects by dietary deficiencies during pregnancy, and possible synergistic effects of alcohol and nutritional deficiencies are described. Finally, the problems inherent in pair-feeding and ad lib feeding control procedures, as well as the issues of diet composition and feeding schedule are discussed.
Necrotizing Fasciitis and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (1991)

We have presented a case of fulminant necrotizing fasciitis that occurred after excessive NSAID intake with granulocytopenia. This case parallels those previously reported as outlined in the above discussion. We concur with previous investigators who have concluded that NSAIDs should be used with caution in patients with phlebitis or apparently benign inflammatory cutaneous lesions.