gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Password Authentication Using Hopfield Neural Networks (2008)

Password authentication is a common approach to system security. The conventional verification table approach has significant drawbacks. Recently, neural networks have been used for password authentication to overcome the shortcomings of traditional approaches. In neural network approaches to password authentication, no verification table is needed; rather, encrypted neural network weights are stored within the system. Existing layered neural network techniques have their limitations such as long training time and recall approximation. This study proposes the use of a Hopfield neural network technique for password authentication. In comparison to existing layered neural network techniques, the proposed method provides better accuracy and quicker response time to registration and password changes.
XNoC: A non-intrusive TDM circuit-switched Network-on-Chip (2016)

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is known as a scalable and high performance interconnect in Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with multiple processing elements (PEs). Recently, the design paradigm of SoCs has shifted from static to dynamic runtime reconfigurable system. In these systems, the PEs can be loaded/unloaded on demand. Therefore, the NoC should be able to adapt as quickly as possible to the changes to maintain the performance of the systems. In this work, we present a non-intrusive runtime reconfigurable time-division-multiplexed circuit-switched NoC, XNoC, which offers the following benefits (1) it switches between different routes within a predictable latency that is strictly determined by the length of the route and the number of time slots; (2) the configuration process can be masked effectively by overlapping with communication and (3) the multi-cast service is supported with aggregate feedback from sink nodes. We propose an XSwitch which requires 3.5X less resource than the conventional switch with similar features. The overall resource cost of XNoC is also smaller than the most known NoC and the clock timing is up to 50% better. We also propose a novel distributed control plane to accelerate the reconfiguration process and to improve the scalability of NoC. The achieved reconfiguration speedup compared to the centralized control unit is up to 7.6X in certain conditions. On average, it takes only 74 clock cycles to activate a 12-hop connection.
REACTIONS OF PHTHALIMIDE AND POTASSIUM PHTHALIMIDE WITH SULFUR MONOCHLORIDE (1966)

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Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS). (2007)

The authors describe a new self-report instrument, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), which was designed to assess specific symptom dimensions of major depression and related anxiety disorders. They created the IDAS by conducting principal factor analyses in 3 large samples (college students, psychiatric patients, community adults); the authors also examined the robustness of its psychometric properties in 5 additional samples (high school students, college students, young adults, postpartum women, psychiatric patients) who were not involved in the scale development process. The IDAS contains 10 specific symptom scales: Suicidality, Lassitude, Insomnia, Appetite Loss, Appetite Gain, Ill Temper, Well-Being, Panic, Social Anxiety, and Traumatic Intrusions. It also includes 2 broader scales: General Depression (which contains items overlapping with several other IDAS scales) and Dysphoria (which does not). The scales (a) are internally consistent, (b) capture the target dimensions well, and (c) define a single underlying factor. They show strong short-term stability and display excellent convergent validity and good discriminant validity in relation to other self-report and interview-based measures of depression and anxiety.
HARNESSING MICROREACTIONS (2005)

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTHARNESSING MICROREACTIONSResearchers find that processes run in microreactors open doors to more efficient and novel chemistry useful for fine chemicals and intermediatesANN M. THAYERView Author Information C&EN HOUSTONCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2005, 83, 22, 43–52Publication Date (Print):May 30, 2005Publication History Published online14 November 2010Published inissue 30 May 2005https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-v083n022.p043https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v083n022.p043newsACS PublicationsCopyright © 2005 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views25Altmetric-Citations66LEARN 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 options SUBJECTS:Elements,Explosives,Mass transfer,Microreactors,Selectivity Get e-Alerts
An Extensible Abstract Service Orchestration Framework (2009)

Service composition is complex. It has to reach a set of pre-defined non-functional qualities, like security for instance, which requires the production of complicated code.This code, often distributed between client and server sides, is highly error-prone and difficult to maintain. In this paper, we present a generative environment for the orchestration of abstract services and the separate specification of non-functional properties. This environment has been built within the European SODA project and validated on several industrial use cases. In this paper, we focus on an alarm management scenario with stringent security requirements.
Operational Criteria for the Determination of Suicide (1988)

Suicide is an important public health problem for which we have an inadequate public health database. In the United States, decisions about whether deaths are listed as suicides on death certificates are usually made by a coroner or medical examiner. These certification decisions are frequently marked by a lack of consistency and clarity, and laws and procedures for guiding these decisions vary from state to state and even from county to county. Without explicit criteria to aid in this decision making, coroners or medical examiners may be more susceptible to pressures from families or communities not to certify specific deaths as suicide. In addition, coroners or medical examiners may certify similar deaths differently at different times. The degree to which suicides may be underreported or misclassified is unknown. This makes it impossible to estimate accurately the number of deaths by suicide, to identify risk factors, or to plan and evaluate preventive interventions. To remedy these problems, a working group representing coroners, medical examiners, statisticians, and public health agencies developed operational criteria to assist in the determination of suicide. These criteria are based on a definition of suicide as "death arising from an act inflicted upon oneself with the intent to kill oneself." The purpose of these criteria is to improve the validity and reliability of suicide statistics by: (1) promoting consistent and uniform classifications; (2) making the criteria for decision making in death certification explicit; (3) increasing the amount of information used in decision making; (4) aiding certifiers in exercising their professional judgment; and (5) establishing common standards of practice for the determination of suicide.
Spin Filter Culture: The Propagation of Mammalian Cells in Suspension (1969)

A spin filter device has been used for the propagation in vitro of cells of mnouse leukemia L1210 to densities approaching 10(8) cells per milliliter. By manipulation of flow rates, cells may be exposed to exponentially declining, drug concentrations with half-times of 1.5 hours or less, providing a more realistic parallel to in vivo drug treatment than is obtained by other culture methods.
Incorporating guidelines for health assistance into a socially intelligent robot (2006)

The world population is getting older and more and more people suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes. The need for medical (self-)care therefore increases, and we think a personal (robot) assistant could help. This paper gives guidelines for self-care that supports and shows how it could be incorporated in a (embodied) personal assistant. These guidelines were derived from motivational interviewing, persuasive technology, and from existing guidelines for personal assistants. Questions this paper addresses include: Is it possible to incorporate them in a personal assistant? Can a robot have the same kind of dialogs as a text interface? A first experiment, conducted with young participants, showed that the guidelines were best expressed in a socially intelligent iCat in comparison with a nonsocially intelligent iCat, a social and nonsocially intelligent Tiggie, and a text interface. Furthermore it showed that people indeed preferred the iCat over the text interface, possibly because the iCat's social intelligence
Evaluation and performance comparison of power swing detection algorithms (2005)

This paper presents performance comparisons and evaluations of several power swing detection algorithms. Any sudden change in the configuration or the loading of an electrical network causes power swing between the load concentrations of the network. In order to prevent the distance protection from tripping during such conditions, a power swing blocking is utilized. The decreasing impedance, the Vcos/spl phi/ and the superimposed currents methods are conventional algorithms for power swing detection. In this paper, the behavior of these algorithms is evaluated. Different conditions have been generated by EMTDC software and voltage and current waveforms have been given to the power swing detectors. Operation of the power swing detectors has been investigated for different conditions and the operation of different algorithms are compared.
A carbamate insecticide: a case study of aldicarb. (1994)

Aldicarb, the active ingredient in the insecticide TEMIK, was introduced to the agricultural community over 25 years ago. It has been registered worldwide to control a wide variety of insect, mite, and nematode pests in agriculture. The toxicological research database supporting the registration and use of aldicarb was generated over more than 25 years and contains more than 280 animal studies on 12 species of animals, 2 clinical human trials, and over 20 human monitoring studies. This database, which includes biochemical aspects (metabolism and mode-of-action studies), acute toxicity and special short-term toxicity studies, long-term toxicity studies, and epidemiological observations in humans, serves as the starting point for the evaluation of the risks associated with the acceptance of levels of aldicarb residues in food and drinking water and for the more direct occupational exposure. This article highlights the available toxicological data and reviews worldwide regulation of aldicarb. Included in these discussions is a brief description of the toxicological end point upon which regulatory decisions have been based, namely acetylcholinesterase depression. Aldicarb, the N-methylcarbamic acid ester of 2-methyl-2-(methylthio) propionaldehyde oxime, was the first of a limited group of insecticidal oxime N-methylcarbamates that have properties distinct from N-methylcarbamates which have a phenolic constituent, instead of the oxime moiety. Aldicarb is highly water-soluble (approximately 6000 ppm), nonvolatile, relatively stable under acidic conditions, and is easily degraded under alkaline conditions. These properties are important determinants of its systemic action in plants and of its problematic environmental behavior. Possible environmental hazards involving the chemical include groundwater contamination and (more recently) excessive terminal residues in certain foods.
The Final Instance - Unemployment Insurance Going Private? A Study of a Future Social Security Scenario in the UK and Germany (2000)

Abstract This paper explores the scope for privatizing unemployment insurance in Britain and Germany. The research builds on two consecutive projects, undertaken in the two countries between 1996 and 2000. The studies investigated people's attitudes towards the welfare state and private insurance, and families' strategies to manage the financial risk of unemployment. About 6% of the working population of both Britain and Germany claimed to possess private unemployment insurance. A further 23% in Britain and 12% in Germany expressed an intention to acquire private unemployment insurance. Attitudes towards private unemployment insurance were influenced by perceptions of unemployment risk, household circumstances, private money management strategies, and perceptions of the welfare state and the efficiency and trustworthiness of its institutions. The risk of exclusion from insurance in the two countries, either voluntary or as a result of actuarial risk assessment, is investigated. There is at present little evidence of adverse selection, nor would an expansion of the private unemployment insurance market necessarily entail that risk. However, the study found some, albeit limited, evidence of moral hazard. Significant country-specific differences were apparent in all aspects of the study.
Tumor Biomarkers in Melanoma (2009)

The process of biomarker identification and validation is providing a rapidly changing molecular view of melanoma, a strategy that is necessary for developing truly stratified or even personalized prevention or management.
Optimal Placement of Fault Indicators Using the Immune Algorithm (2010)

This paper examines the application of the immune algorithm for the problem of optimal placement of fault indicators to minimize the total cost of customer service outage and investment cost of fault indicators. The reliability index of each service zone is derived to solve the expected energy not served due to fault contingency, and the customer interruption cost is then determined according to the customer type and power consumption within the service zone. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed IA methodology and solve the optimal placement of fault indicators, a practical distribution feeder of Taiwan Power Company is selected for computer simulation to explore the cost benefit of fault indicator placement.
Local motion tracking in semantic-based coding of videophone sequences (1997)

Reliable and fast tracking of facial features in 'head and shoulders' scenes is of paramount importance for analysis of motion in model-based coding techniques. A new method of tracking the position of important facial features is presented here. The algorithm enables tracking of local motion of important facial features (eyes open-close, mouth open-close). It is therefore possible to determine not only the spatial location of the investigated facial feature, but also its shape. The method is based on eigenvalue decomposition of the sub-images extracted from the video sequence. The motion and shape of each facial feature is tracked separately. The algorithm can be used for tracking objects in scenes other than 'head-and-shoulders'.
Fabrication of Hollow Zeolite Fibers through Layer-by-Layer Adsorption Method (2000)

Abstract Hollow fibers with nanozeolite walls are firstly fabricated through layer-by-layer (LbL) technique, using carbon fibers as templates, coupled with removal of the templates by calcination. The thickness and the composition of the walls can be readily controlled by varying the number of the deposition cycles and the zeolite types used, respectively.
Hypobetalipoproteinemia and abetalipoproteinemia (2014)

Mutations causing low LDL-cholesterol and apoB have provided insight into lipid metabolism, disease associations, and the basis for drug development to lower LDL-cholesterol in disorders causing high levels of cholesterol. Early diagnosis and treatment are necessary to prevent adverse sequelae from familial hypobetalipoproteinemia and abetalipoproteinemia.
3-D shape measurement by composite pattern projection and hybrid processing (2007)

This article presents a projection system with a novel composite pattern for one-shot acquisition of 3D surface shape. The pattern is composed of color encoded stripes and cosinoidal intensity fringes, with parallel arrangement. The stripe edges offer absolute height phases with high accuracy, and the cosinoidal fringes provide abundant relative phases involved in the intensity distribution. Wavelet transform is utilized to obtain the relative phase distribution of the fringe pattern, and the absolute height phases measured by triangulation are combined to calibrate the phase data in unwrapping, so as to eliminate the initial and noise errors and to reduce the accumulation and approximation errors. Numerical simulations are performed to prove the new unwrapping algorithms and actual experiments are carried out to show the validity of the proposed technique for accurate 3- D shape measurement.
Design Evaluation System with Visualization and Interaction of Mobile Devices Based on Virtual Reality Prototypes (2008)

In this paper, we present a design evaluation system with visualization and interaction of mobile devices using virtual-reality-based prototypes which can be used to easily change design parameters and simulate embedded software. To evaluate and predict affective-engineering-based design preferences for mobile devices under a virtual environment, we have developed a high quality visualization platform which creates images that look similar to real mobile devices in addition to real-time simulation of realistic motions and functions of mobile devices. To support a quantitative usability test scenario for external design shape, we also have built a system which consists of a mixed-reality-based testing platform for measuring hand load.
Energy from olive mill waste: Pyrolysis and oxidation kinetics of olive mill waste (2012)

This study investigates the utilization of the olive mill waste stream before and after the removal of entrained phenolic compounds. The kinetics of pyrolysis and oxidation were analyzed via thermogravimetric analysis. Particle size, heating rate, and extraction process of the phenolic compounds affected the apparent activation energies. The pits and pulp in the olive mill waste had apparent activation energies ranging for pyrolysis from 91-137 kJ/mol and 72-87 kJ/mol, respectively. The analysis of the oxidation of olive mill waste was divided into two distinct zones: the devolatilization and oxidation of volatiles zone and the char oxidation zone. The oxidation had very high apparent activation energies ranging from 221-338 kJ/mol and 191-238 kJ/mol for pits and pulp, respectively. The specific surface areas of the pit bio-chars (>420m²/g) were much higher than the pulp bio-chars (<15m²/g). The extraction of the phenolic compounds resulted in higher surface areas of the bio-chars.
Absorption and luminescence of Cr<sup>2+</sup>(d<sup>4</sup>) in II-VI compounds (1979)

Infrared absorption and luminescence measurements of substitutional Cr 2+ (d 4 ) in the II-VI compounds ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe and CdTe are reported. The experimental results are interpreted in the framework of crystal field theory with spin-orbit coupling and a substantial Jahn-Teller interaction in the 5 T 2 ground state and a much smaller, but significant, Jahn-Teller interaction in the excited 5 E state. With a semiclassical model and a Monte Carlo computing technique convoluted shapes of absorption and luminescence spectra are obtained. The Jahn-Teller energy for the 5 T 2 ground state is found to be approximately 350 cm -1 . For the first time a Jahn-Teller energy for the excited 5 E state is reported, and has a value of approximately 50 cm -1 . The inclusion of ligand field effects in the spin-orbit coupling constant was found to be important.
Interleaving sparse arrays: a new way to polarization-agile array antennas? (2007)

A new strategy to obtaining polarization-agile array antennas was discussed. It makes use of the interleaving of sparse (complementary) sub-arrays characterized by mutually orthogonal, linear polarizations. The validity of this approach was demonstrated by examining two examples of arrays designed for obtaining adjustable linearly-polarized waves. The advocated technique allows a significant reduction of the control circuitry's complexity and the use of simple radiators, while guaranteeing the possibility to obtain complex and reconfigurable polarization states of the radiated field.
Toward a unified theory of modulation—Part II: Zero manipulation (1966)

Part I of this two-part paper began with a study of band-limited signals which exhibit simultaneous phase and envelope fluctuations. The real and complex zeros of such signals were shown to be crucial parameters, and a viewpoint was established wherein zeros are regarded as fundamental informational attributes of signals. In Part II, the concept of modulation as zero manipulation is developed. This concept allows one to manipulate the zeros of a signal (i.e., to modulate the signal) in any practically convenient manner provided that the original zeros can be recovered in a demodulation process. The major portion of Part II is an illustrated survey of modulation processes. Narrow-band processes are dealt with first. Both well-known techniques, such as AM and SSB, and unconventional techniques are classified and explained in terms of zero manipulations. Conventional and single-sided forms of angle modulation are studied next. The zero-manipulation concept provides insight into the nature of the redundancy in wide-band angle modulation and suggests why angle modulation is both noise resistant and inefficient as a coding process. The final portion of the paper shows that the zero-manipulation concept can be used constructively as well as interpretively. Two topics are discussed: angle coding via zero conjugation, and interpolation of binary signals.
Maltitol-based biodegradable polyesters with tailored degradation and controlled release for bone regeneration (2016)

Polyesters based on maltitol and different dicarboxylic acids promoted mineral deposition and directed cells towards osteogenic lineage.
Acoustic vaporization threshold of lipid-coated perfluoropentane droplets (2018)

Phase shift droplets vaporizable by acoustic stimulation offer the advantages of producing microbubbles as contrast agents in situ as well as higher stability and the possibility of achieving smaller sizes. Here, the acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) threshold of a suspension of droplets with a perfluoropentane (PFP) core (diameter 400-3000 nm) is acoustically measured as a function of the excitation frequency in a tubeless setup at room temperature. The changes in scattered responses-fundamental, sub-, and second harmonic-are investigated, a quantitative criterion is used to determine the ADV phenomenon, and findings are discussed. The average threshold obtained using three different scattered components increases with frequency-1.05 ± 0.28 MPa at 2.25 MHz, 1.89 ± 0.57 MPa at 5 MHz, and 2.34 ± 0.014 MPa at 10 MHz. The scattered response from vaporized droplets was also found to qualitatively match with that from an independently prepared lipid-coated microbubble suspension in magnitude as well as trends above the determined ADV threshold value.