gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A survey of post mortem findings in 480 horses 1958 to 1980: (1) Causes of death (1981)

The causes of death recorded in 480 consecutive post mortem examinations of horses performed at the department of pathology, Veterinary Field Station, University of Liverpool, between February 1958 and February 1980, are reported. The alimentary, locomotor and nervous systems were those most frequently diseased. The most common specific entities were those associated with grass sickness, fractures and endoparasitism.
Online Ship Control System using Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) (2014)

This paper is practical design and implementation of open architecture ship control, alarm and monitoring system using Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) .Modern ships have an automatic system control which includes control, alarm and monitoring system that have access to all process control station and can monitor them. All the screens for different sensors in our design are considered as the HMI (Human Machine Interface) of the SCADA system monitoring a group of sensors, which can help the operator in the control room to make online control on ship. WinCC Flexible is used to create screens. The control system control several types of self-running process as voyage data recorder, GPS, hull opening, hull stress, Radar, ship speed, tank fuel level, fuel and machinery temperature, wind speed and direction. Communication, fire doors control station, each type is dictated to specific task. The alarm system is connected to sensors everywhere in the ship and continuously monitors them, if any sensor reading is outside the preset limits we get an alarm. The monitoring system can record any alarm status and save it in hard disk or printer with time stamp. The alarm system depends mainly on data coming from different sensors connected to corresponding measuring points, also an inhibit control can be applied to certain alarm group for disable at certain conditions for the system.
A New Kind of Cache Coherence Protocol with SC-Cache for Multiprocessor (2010)

Aiming at the Cache coherence problem that brings by multiple processor cores of CMP(Chip multiprocessors) sharing the single memory space, this paper introduces a new kind of Cache coherence--CSC(Coherence with SC-Cache) based on write-through and write-back mechanism, which contains SC-Cache (Shared Coherence Cache) module. Experiments show that the protocol reduces the number of bus transactions, to a certain extent improves the efficiency of processor data access.
Molecular Microdomains in a Sensory Terminal, the Vestibular Calyx Ending (2011)

Many primary vestibular afferents form large cup-shaped postsynaptic terminals (calyces) that envelope the basolateral surfaces of type I hair cells. The calyceal terminals both respond to glutamate released from ribbon synapses in the type I cells and initiate spikes that propagate to the afferent's central terminals in the brainstem. The combination of synaptic and spike initiation functions in these unique sensory endings distinguishes them from the axonal nodes of central neurons and peripheral nerves, such as the sciatic nerve, which have provided most of our information about nodal specializations. We show that rat vestibular calyces express an unusual mix of voltage-gated Na and K channels and scaffolding, cell adhesion, and extracellular matrix proteins, which may hold the ion channels in place. Protein expression patterns form several microdomains within the calyx membrane: a synaptic domain facing the hair cell, the heminode abutting the first myelinated internode, and one or two intermediate domains. Differences in the expression and localization of proteins between afferent types and zones may contribute to known variations in afferent physiology.
Routing Scheme Based on Mobile Agent in Ad hoc Wireless Networks (2005)

Ad hoc network is a multi-hop self-organized temporary system composed of mobile nodes with routing and transferring ability.Current proactive routing protocols or on-demand routing protocols can't meet the requirements of Ad hoc network.Ad hoc wireless mobile networks and mobile agent technology are first introduced in this paper.Based on the analysis of two kinds of techniques with mobile agent technology in on-demand routing protocols,a new method which integrate the two kinds of techniques mentioned above is proposed based on mobile agent.Finally,the simulating results and future work are described.
Combining statistical machine translation and translation memories with domain adaptation (2013)

Since the emergence of translation memory software, translation companies and freelance translators have been accumulating translated text for various languages and domains. This data has the potential of being used for training domain-specific machine translation systems for corporate or even personal use. But while the resulting systems usually perform well in translating domain-specific language, their out-of-domain vocabulary coverage is often insuffi-cient due to the limited size of the translation memories. In this paper, we demonstrate that small in-domain translation memories can be successfully complemented with freely available general-domain parallel corpora such that (a) the number of out-of-vocabulary words (OOV) is reduced while (b) the in-domain terminology is preserved. In our experiments, a German– French and a German–Italian statistical machine translation system geared to marketing texts of the automobile industry has been significantly improved using Europarl and OpenSubtitles data, both in terms of automatic evaluation metrics and human judgement.
Polyarylsulfones, synthesis and properties, (1970)

Abstract A new class of high molecular weight polyarylsulfones is described. Polymer synthesis and structure–property relationships are discussed. The polymers are prepared by Friedel‐Crafts type polycondensation of aromatic sulfonyl chlorides with aromatic hydrocarbons. A number of Lewis acids in small quantities are useful as catalysts for the polymerization. The polymerization reaction is carried out at elevated temperatures in the melt or in solution. Inert, nonbasic solvents which are compatible with the Lewis acid catalysts such as nitrobenzene and dimethyl sulfone are useful for conducting the polymerization. Many of the polyarylsulfones are amorphous, rigid thermoplastics with unusually high softening points, having glass transition temperatures in the range of 200–350°C. Outstanding resistance to air oxidation at high temperatures is derived from incorporation of the deactivating sulfone groups in the aromatic polymer backbone. Melt stability and solubility in selected solvents are emphasized as basis for processibility by conventional solution casting and molding techniques. The combination of properties, which in addition to thermal stability includes a high level of mechanical and electrical properties, chemical inertness, and hydrolysis resistance makes these new arylsulfone polymers useful over a wide temperature range and in severe and corrosive environments.
Slow and Fast Light (2015)

The pursuit of understanding the propagation of light has fascinated generations of scientists as well as the general public. In the last decade, scientists have explored a vast amount of various approaches to achieve slow light, which typically fall into one of the two general categories: material slow light and structural slow light. One of the most promising applications that use slow and fast light is optical tunable delay lines. The most dominantly used media to carry optical signals is optical fiber. Besides the optical fiber, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are playing more and more important rule in communication and signal processing. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) is employed in a wide variety of remote sensing applications, such as measuring atmospheric properties, detecting chemical and biological agents, vehicle surveillance, and aerial/bathymetric surveying.
The Catalase C-262T Gene Polymorphism and Cancer Risk (2015)

Many studies suggest that catalase C-262T gene polymorphism is associated with cancer risk, but with inconsistent results. This study aimed to summarize the overall association between catalase C-262T polymorphism and cancer risk. Literature search was performed in PubMed, Embase, and other databases, studies regarding the association between catalase C-262T polymorphism and cancer risk were identified, and data were retrieved and analyzed by using Review Manager 5.0.24 and STATA 12.0. A total of 18 publications with 22 case-control studies, including 9777 cancer patients and 12,223 controls, met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis results showed significant association between catalase C-262 T polymorphism and cancer risk (TT vs CT + CC: odds ratio [OR] = 1.17, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.03-1.31, P = 0.01). Subgroup analyses stratified by cancer types suggested the catalase C-262T polymorphism was significantly associated with an increased prostate cancer risk (TT vs CT + CC: OR = 1.61, 95% CI = 1.17-2.22, P = 0.004); for subgroup analyses stratified by ethnicity, no associations between this polymorphism and Asians or whites were identified (CT + TT vs CC: OR = 1.11, 95% CI = 0.98-1.26, P = 0.09 for whites; OR = 1.19, 95% CI = 0.78-1.80, P = 0.42 for Asians). In summary, the catalase C-262T polymorphism may be a risk factor for cancer with cancer type-specific effects. Further studies should be performed to confirm these findings.
Coating with paclitaxel improves graft survival in a porcine model of haemodialysis graft stenosis (2007)

Double-coating with paclitaxel improved graft survival. Coated PTFE grafts may be effective for the prevention of graft failure in patients on haemodialysis.
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Additional evidence regarding the role of imperfections in the gamma-ray coloring and optical bleaching of the alkali halides has been obtained by comparing crystals with and without $U$ centers. Parameters varied were gamma-ray exposure rate, crystal temperature, hydride concentration, $F$-band illumination intensity, and thermal history of the crystal. The coloring efficiency increased with temperature, trap depth and vacancy or $U$-center concentration. Under $F$-band illumination, both pure and $U$-centered crystals exhibited an initial period of rapid bleaching, followed by a long slow-bleaching period. Interrupting the bleaching in $U$-centered crystals by storage in the dark restored the higher bleaching rate. The slow bleaching was temperature-dependent, increased slightly with $F$-band illumination intensity, and was essentially independent of the $U$-center concentration. The results support the hypothesis that coloring and bleaching rates are primarily controlled by the availability of suitable holes and vacancies. Crystals containing the hydride color more efficiently than pure crystals because all constituents of the $F$ center are present in the parent $U$ center; whereas pure crystals bleach faster because of the accessibility of the holes.
Carcinoembryonic Antigen in the Urine of Patients with Urothelial Carcinoma (1972)

Increased amounts of carcinoembryonic antigen (C.E.A.) or C.E.A.-like material are found in the urine of many patients with transitional cell carcinomas of the bladder, including those presumed to be at an early stage of development. It is suggested that measurement of urinary C.E.A. is of clinical diagnostic value in the detection and follow-up of urothelial carcinomas.
Real-time automatic vehicle management system using vehicle tracking and car plate number identification (2003)

This paper proposes a real-time vehicle management system using a vehicle tracking and a car plate number identification technique. The system uses two cameras: one for tracking vehicles and another for capturing LP (license plate). We track the vehicles by applying the CONDENSATION algorithm over the vehicle's movement image captured from the first camera. To render the CONDENSATION algorithm more effective, we build a discrete vehicle shape model by training vehicle patterns with a SOM (self organizing map), which makes the system suitable for real-time application. Next, we take the probabilistic dynamic model such as HMM (hidden Markov model) to reflect the temporal change in shape of various vehicles. As a vehicle reaches the designated target line, a signal is sent to the second camera for capturing the vehicle's front side. The captured image is transferred to an LPR (vehicle LP recognition system) which recognizes the vehicle's category and LP. LPR system detects the vehicle LP using the only the vertical edge of the captured vehicle image, and effectively accomplishes the character segmentation of the LP region using the geometric transformation without respect to the position and angle of the CCD camera. The segmented characters are recognized using the SVM (support vector machine). By combining these two techniques, we construct a real-time automatic vehicle management system that can be used to control vehicle parking and searching for specific vehicles.
Top-down visual saliency via joint CRF and dictionary learning (2012)

Top-down visual saliency facilities object localization by providing a discriminative representation of target objects and a probability map for reducing the search space. In this paper, we propose a novel top-down saliency model that jointly learns a Conditional Random Field (CRF) and a discriminative dictionary. The proposed model is formulated based on a CRF with latent variables. By using sparse codes as latent variables, we train the dictionary modulated by CRF, and meanwhile a CRF with sparse coding. We propose a max-margin approach to train our model via fast inference algorithms. We evaluate our model on the Graz-02 and PASCAL VOC 2007 datasets. Experimental results show that our model performs favorably against the state-of-the-art top-down saliency methods. We also observe that the dictionary update significantly improves the model performance.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNIZATION IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS WITH REDUCED DOSES OF ADSORBED DIPHTHERIA TOXOID (1981)

A study was undertaken in Schick-positive university students and schoolchildren to determine the diphtheria antitoxin response to vaccines containing a reduced dose of adsorbed diphtheria toxoid. It was found that the majority of participants, apparently previously sensitized, responded with an increase in antitoxin titre to protective levels after performance of the Schick test, or after the first dose of vaccine. A group of non-immune students required three doses of vaccine to reach adequate antitoxin levels to ensure durable immunity. Only one local reaction was observed in the group of 51 students, and this was attributed to an Arthus-type reaction involving the tetanus toxoid component of a combined adsorbed diphtheria and tetanus vaccine.
A Quantum Neural Network Approach for Portfolio Selection (2011)

A new field of computation is emerging which integrates quantum and classical computation. This is applied to solve the financial engineering problem of portfolio selection. Hopfield neural network is used for portfolio selection. A quantum inspired hybrid model of quantum neurons and classical neurons is proposed for the prediction of stock prices. An effort is made, probably the first time to develop and use a hybrid quantum neural network for the prediction of stock prices. The suggested multilayer hybrid quantum neural network contains hidden layer of quantum neurons while the visible layer is of classical neurons. The asset distribution is done by a modified greedy algorithm. It is assumed that quantum computers when come into existence shall provide huge potential in the form of computational power and memory. Classical Neural networks(CNN) have shown tremendous acceptability in solving problems with non-linear formulations that requires huge processing power and large memory which a quantum computer can provide, when they will come into existence.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STANDARD FLOATING POINT MAC USING IEEE 754 FLOATING POINT ADDER (2018)

There are two types of processors. The first category is arithmetic processors and the second category is signal processing processors. For arithmetic processors in general precision is less where as for the signal processing processors precision is high because the signal is to be reconstructed at the receiving end. In the arithmetic processors the basic building block is Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). In the signal processing processors the basic building block is Multiplier Accumulator Content (MAC). For the Standard floating point MAC, more precision is essential compared with the traditional fixed point MAC because the former is to be designed by the IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic and the lateral is designed with fixed-point arithmetic i.e, the precision is limited to integer. But, in general if the precision is more, the accuracy is more. Hence, to improve the performance of the traditional fixed point MAC, in this work we implemented the standard floating point MAC using IEEE 754 floating point adder. This can be used to design all floating point DSP processors through the standard floating point MAC.
Pavement Preventive Maintenance: Description, Effectiveness, and Treatments (1998)

The level of funding by various highway agencies is inadequate to keep roads at the current condition if current maintenance and rehabilitation policies are continued. Through a preventive maintenance program, pavements can be maintained in a cost-effective manner leading to a better pavement quality at lower total costs. Preventive maintenance is a program strategy that can arrest light deterioration, retard progressive failures, and reduce the need for routine maintenance activities. The objective of such a program strategy is to extend the functional life of the pavement by applying treatments before the pavement deteriorates to a condition that requires a corrective treatment, such as a structural overlay. An effective strategy would feature a combination of different treatments, such as periodic crack treatment followed by chip sealing. A number of highway agencies have used preventive maintenance strategies for both low and high volume roads and found them to be successful. Preventive maintenance treatments for flexible pavements include fog seal, chip seal, slurry seal, micro-surfacing, crack treatment, and thin hot-mix dense, open and gap graded overlays. The selection of a preventive maintenance treatment should be based on the condition of the existing pavement, traffic volume, and environmental conditions. Other factors include experience, budget constraints, and political reality.
3D Elastic Registration of Ultrasound Images Based on Skeleton Feature (2005)

In order to eliminate displacement and elastic deformation between images of adjacent frames in course of 3D ultrasonic image reconstruction, elastic registration based on skeleton feature was adopt in this paper. A new automatically skeleton tracking extract algorithm is presented, which can extract connected skeleton to express figure feature. Feature points of connected skeleton are extracted automatically by accounting topical curvature extreme points several times. Initial registration is processed according to barycenter of skeleton. Whereafter, elastic registration based on radial basis function are processed according to feature points of skeleton. Result of example demonstrate that according to traditional rigid registration, elastic registration based on skeleton feature retain natural difference in shape for organ's different part, and eliminate slight elastic deformation between frames caused by image obtained process simultaneously. This algorithm has a high practical value for image registration in course of 3D ultrasound image reconstruction.
Estimation of Miner Hash Rates and Consensus on Blockchains (draft) (2017)

We make several contributions that quantify the real-time hash rate and therefore the consensus of a blockchain. We show that by using only the hash value of blocks, we can estimate and measure the hash rate of all miners or individual miners, with quanti able accuracy. We apply our techniques to the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains; our solution applies to any proof-of-work-based blockchain that relies on a numeric target for the validation of blocks. We also show that if miners regularly broadcast status reports of their partial proof-of- work, the hash rate estimates are signi cantly more accurate at a cost of slightly higher bandwidth. Whether using only the blockchain, or the additional information in status reports, merchants can use our techniques to quantify in real-time the threat of double-spend attacks.
Factors Determing Ignition and Efficient Combustion in Modern Engines Operating on Gaseous Fuels (2012)

© 2012 Mitianiec, licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Factors Determing Ignition and Efficient Combustion in Modern Engines Operating on Gaseous Fuels
A Consortium Proposal: "The Rice Inversion Project" (1992)

This document details a proposal for an industrially sponsored consortium for research in seismic inversion at Rice University. This consortium project will be directed by Professor William W. Symes in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (formerly called The Department of Mathematical Sciences), George Brown School of Engineering. This project will develop novel approaches pioneered by Professor Symes to velocity and reflectivity estimation from waveform data, and will offer its sponsors both pilot software for state-of-the-art vector and parallel computing platforms, and a database of experience in waveform inversion. Participants will include graduate student assistants, postdoctoral research associates, and (whenever possible) short-and long-term visitors from the sponsoring organizations.
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF ‘ELASTIC’ DISTANCES (1966)

A new orientation to the problem of multidimensional scaling is presented using the notion of ‘elastic’ distances. Making use of a rational theory of judgement variability (in line with Thurstone's remarks about discriminal processes); a monotonic distance function (in line with Shepard's suggestions); an algorithm for determining the monotonic transformations at each iteration (as provided by Kruskal); and a criterion which yields information about the tolerance for variability of judgement that any solution demands, a hybrid analytical approach is proposed as a practical multidimensional scaling procedure. The approach is illustrated using experimental data.