gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
HashGAN:Attention-aware Deep Adversarial Hashing for Cross Modal Retrieval (2017)

As the rapid growth of multi-modal data, hashing methods for cross-modal retrieval have received considerable attention. Deep-networks-based cross-modal hashing methods are appealing as they can integrate feature learning and hash coding into end-to-end trainable frameworks. However, it is still challenging to find content similarities between different modalities of data due to the heterogeneity gap. To further address this problem, we propose an adversarial hashing network with attention mechanism to enhance the measurement of content similarities by selectively focusing on informative parts of multi-modal data. The proposed new adversarial network, HashGAN, consists of three building blocks: 1) the feature learning module to obtain feature representations, 2) the generative attention module to generate an attention mask, which is used to obtain the attended (foreground) and the unattended (background) feature representations, 3) the discriminative hash coding module to learn hash functions that preserve the similarities between different modalities. In our framework, the generative module and the discriminative module are trained in an adversarial way: the generator is learned to make the discriminator cannot preserve the similarities of multi-modal data w.r.t. the background feature representations, while the discriminator aims to preserve the similarities of multi-modal data w.r.t. both the foreground and the background feature representations. Extensive evaluations on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed HashGAN brings substantial improvements over other state-of-the-art cross-modal hashing methods.
Portfolio Management For New Products (1998)

In this fully updated edition of Portfolio Management for New Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company's product portfolio as you would a financial portfolio-investing for maximum long-term growth. With its field-tested, step-by-step framework, the book provides corporations and managers with the strategies they need to assess and realign their current RD determine which products are most worthy of resource allocation; design and implement a portfolio management process; maximize the value of their portfolios; and recognize and solve challenges as they arise. This book will be an essential resource for any company whose profitability, and very existence, relies on the products it chooses to develop and the speed with which it brings them to the market.
Theoretical and experimental studies of micromachined hot-wire anemometers (2002)

A new type of micromachined and batch-fabricated hot-wire anemometers has been developed. The systematic characterization of these devices, especially of the steady-state characteristics, frequency response, and directional dependence are presented. These micromachined anemometers can perform better than conventional ones because of their extremely small size. It is demonstrated that a 10 /spl mu/m long, 1 /spl mu/m wide, and 0.5 /spl mu/m thick polysilicon hot wire can have a unprecedented bandwidth of 1.4 MHz in constant-temperature mode.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
A Shropshire Lad in Process (1954)

Journal Article A Shropshire Lad in Process: The Textual Evolution of Some A. E. Housman Poems Get access WILLIAM WHITE WILLIAM WHITE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s5-IX, Issue 4, December 1954, Pages 255–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s5-IX.4.255 Published: 01 December 1954
Macromol. Mater. Eng. 2/2012 (2012)

Cover: Electrospun PLLA/PEG shell/core fibers were collected and deposited in series to form ‘standing’ membranes. After washing away PEG, a highly aligned, single-layered, hollow, fibrous PLLA membrane was obtained. High-speed videography captured its epitaxial growth and SEM revealed hundreds of microscale hollow fibers, arranged in connected, parallel monolayers, forming an ordered, 2D microtube array (MTA). By adjusting the applied field strength and solution viscosity, an operational map was constructed and validated independently. A 5x30 cm2 MTA membrane could be prepared. These membranes are easy to manipulate into various configurations and their ability to mimic several anisotropic tissue structures make them an excellent candidate for tissue engineering scaffolds. Further details can be found in the article by J.-C. Yang, S.-Y. Lee, W.-C. Tseng, Y.-C. Shu, J.-C. Lu, H.-S. Shie, and C.-C. Chen* on page 115.
« Already » from a Topological Point of View (2001)

Le point de départ de cette étude est un postulat : l'adverbe already n'exprime pas seulement de l'aspectualité, encore moins de la temporalité, mais de la modalité dans certains de ces emplois. Fondamentalement, il marque que l'on a accès à un espace abstrait de référence (domaine notionnel, espace mental,...). Plus précisément, il convoque deux éléments (l'un validé, l’autre envisagé), et évoque la priorité de l'un sur l'autre. L'élément non-prioritaire sert de repère à l'autre, et suivant la nature du repère, la priorité exprimée peut être de nature aspectuelle ou de nature modale. On assiste donc à un phénomène de mise à l'avant-plan / mise à l'arrière-plan des éléments reliés par already. C'est ainsi que l'on glisse d'un espace à un autre, et que l'on a accès au domaine. Cette étude est menée sur un corpus de langue oral (anglais britannique d'adolescents londoniens, Bergen Corpus of London Tennage Language, 1999).
Improving public transport ticketing through smart cards (2004)

The use of an electronic smart card as an alternative means for users to access and pay for transport services is now emerging as a viable option for many operators. With the recent introduction of the Oyster smart card by Transport for London and the plans by a number of passenger transport executives and transport operators to launch smart-card ticketing, the UK is on the verge of an influx of transport and local authority-led smart-card schemes. Interoperability between schemes is being tackled by ITSO (the Integrated Transport Smart-card Organisation) which will deliver a final version of a national specification for transport smart cards in early 2004. This paper examines what smart cards are, why smart cards are now being widely adopted, and finally will consider their benefits and impact on the public transport industry.
Analyzing spatial effects of hotspot policing with a simulation approach (2009)

Crimes tend to cluster in space.This clustering natural of crime induces criminologists and law enforcement practitioners to concentrate police resource on certain areas, i.e. crime hotspots.In general, this hotspot policing tends to reduce crime in the treatment area.This reduction may lead to either crime being displaced to the surrounding areas or the benefits of crime reduction being diffused to the surrounding areas.However, this controversy between crime displacement and diffusion of benefits is difficult to investigate with conventional empirical studies.In this article, we tackle this problem with experimentations in a virtual laboratory -SPACES.Our results reveal that crime cannot be easily displaced because crime opportunities are limited in low crime areas and offenders are often attached to the area where they perform their routine activities.Also, even if offenders are made to be highly mobile in an experiment, their crime places do not seem to change significantly and they are still vulnerable to hotspot policing.Our experiments also suggest that little evidence can be found to support that a diffusion of crime control benefits occurs in nearby areas.
Strangeness in Compact Stars (2006)

Astrophysicists distinguish between three different types of compact stars. These are white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. The former contain matter in one of the densest forms found in the Universe. This feature, together with the unprecedented progress in observational astronomy, makes such stars superb astrophysical laboratories for a broad range of exciting physical studies. This article studies the role of strangeness for compact star phenomenology. Strangeness is carried by hyperons, mesons, H-dibaryons, and strange quark matter, and may leave its mark in the masses, radii, cooling behavior, surface composition and the spin evolution of compact stars.
The Study of PD Propagation Phenomenon in Power Network (2006)

This paper presents the measured and analyzed responses of the partial discharge (PD) when it propagates in a power network from its origin to the measuring nodes. On and offline measurements are done in a power network consisting of a 16.5-kV/250-MVA-rated power generator, busbar, and step-up transformer. The simultaneously measured PD at two ends of the busbar indicated that the intensity of PD decreased as it traveled a longer distance and the time interval of its occurrence had a finite delay indicating the dominant mode of PD propagation as a transmission line. Frequency-domain analysis indicated the presence of characteristic resonance frequencies and the number increased as the measuring node moved away from the PD origin. The offline measurement by injecting an exponential PD signal at the neutral indicated that the signal will be absorbed in the generator, and the signal at the measuring node will be attenuated by 50 times and will be distorted. Pspice simulation is used to develop the network model for the propagation path. The Pspice analysis indicated that the distributed models of generator, busbar, and lumped parameter models of a transformer can be used to match the offline measurement. The model showed that each model can have the characteristic resonant peaks depending on the selected parameters and it can distort the simultaneously observed PD at two different nodes.
High-Voltage n-Channel IGBTs on Free-Standing 4H-SiC Epilayers (2010)

In this paper, we describe a process for fabricating high-voltage n-channel double-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) on free-standing 4H silicon carbide (SiC) epilayers. In this process, all critical layers are epitaxially grown in a continuous sequence. The substrate is then removed, and device fabrication takes place on the carbon face of a free-standing epilayer having a total thickness of about 180 ¿m. For a drift layer with doping and thickness values capable of blocking 20 kV, the n-channel IGBT carries 27.3-A/cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> current at a power dissipation of 300 W/cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> , with a differential on-resistance of 177 m¿·cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> . To our knowledge, this is the first detailed report of device fabrication on free-standing SiC epilayers.
An Efficient Scheme for Brain Tumor Detection of MRI Brain Images Using Euclidean Distance (2014)

Brain tumor is one the most common or major reason for death among individuals. It is apparent that survival of chances of patient could be expanded if tumor is identified at its initial stage. In this research work, we have developed a simple approach for detection of brain tumor which is based on the method using Euclidean distance classifier and making use of feature vector table and which over comes the limitations of conventional in which combination of supervised and unsupervised learning have been implemented to build cancer detection system, as there is huge overhead in this approach and there is a need to maintain large size training datasets. The new proposed method first convert the image into indexed image, than after de noising it with 3*3 mean filter, it conducts the block wise scanning to get feature set of statistical features in both frequency and time domain and finally based on Euclidean distance measures an optimized tumor part is segmented which is ROI (region of interest) then this segmented part is validated and test to arrive at exact brain tumor part required. The result show high reduction of time, increases specificity with better accuracy in terms of true positive rates.
The Phoenix and the Dragon (1996)

The Phoenix and the Dragon It used to be all so lush Monique says we stare from the apartment at the brown steep hill terraced with stones we can see long black scars where the bamboo and vines were raked into bundles for burning there is a low shack close against a narrow rift where the hill folds into the lips of a vulva the shack is without windows or doors but the iron, or worse, the asbestos is fluted out a pleated skirt spinning around the bamboo struts You know, I think someone lives there I've seen washing hanging I say They're the farmers planting a lychee orchard How do they get the water? It looks so barren There's a trough further down and a spring they used the other place just for bathing and washing I think the other place is a broken bamboo frame for a tent or a teepee above our cement cliff built against mud slides during typhoons Since then I have seen six men squatting outside the shack washing clothes in buckets chewing on corn their voices crossing my dreams in the night they sweep the hill and burn by day like industrious housewives in history books today after school the teepee was covered with loose canvas and tonight it is a cone of light golden, in the groin of the hill the hill used to be so lush, Monique says you'd have loved it you would But surely the hill will fly again a green phoenix with her pink eggs small prickly baubles shining on her gorgeous tail so when we suck that smooth sweet flesh we're really dining on the food of myths well, perhaps even of the Empress XiXi the Dragon Lady who spent China's entire navy budget building her Summer Palace lake with a great marble boat in winter you can walk on the ice around it watching where other tourists far out on the lake are whirled around on sleds like babies in prams while the faultlines in the ice boom through your legs like guns XiXi dragon-phoenix also had the corpse of her nephew's concubine stamped into the narrow well of her Summer Palace a spite ghost to defeat the British and American invaders well, that's my story it's not told quite like that in history books …
APLIKASI MONITORING PENGADAAN BARANG BERBASIS WEB PADA PT MITRA BERSAUDARA JAKARTA (2020)

Perkembangan di bidang teknologi informasi memberikan kemudahan bagi pelaku bisnis untuk membuat cara kerja yang lebih praktis dalam melakukan monitoring proses kegiatan untuk mencapai tujuan bisnis. Demikian halnya dengan PT Mitra Bersaudara Jakarta, penerapan teknologi informasi di dalam pelaksanaan kegiatannya semakin berkembang. Sebagai contoh, teknologi informasi dapat diterapkan di dalam pelaksanaan kegiatan monitoring keluar masuk barang pada PT Mitra Bersaudara Jakarta. Dimana saat ini sistem monitoring dan pelaporan realisasi pengadaan barang dan jasa yang digunakan masih belum terkomputerisasi dengan baik dan permasalahan kesalahan input masih sering terjadi sehingga belum maksimalnya tingkat keakuratan laporan yang dihasilkan. Oleh karena itu diperlukan adanya sebuah sistem yang mampu meminimalisir kesalahan input sekaligus dapat menyajikan laporan yang lebih efisien dan akurat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode waterfall sebagai metode pengembangan aplikasi dengan bahasa pemrograman PHP, database MySQL sehingga menghasilkan aplikasi berbasis web yang dapat digunakan oleh unit kerja pengadaan barang.
Thoracotomy Increases Peripheral Airway Tone and Reactivity (1995)

Our goal was to investigate the extent to which thoracotomy for chronic vascular instrumentation alters peripheral airway tone and reactivity. Using the wedged bronchoscope technique to measure peripheral airway resistance (RP), pentobarbital-fentanyl anesthetized, ventilated dogs were studied before and (16 +/- 2 d) after a left thoracotomy for chronic implantation of instrumentation to measure the left pulmonary vascular pressure-flow relationship. A map of the airways was constructed as bronchoscopes were advanced and wedged in the middle lobes of both the left and right lung. This allowed us to measure RP in the same sublobar region of the left and right lung both pre- and postoperatively. At the time of postoperative experimentation, all dogs appeared fully recovered from the surgical procedure. Compared with preoperative values, baseline RP (cm H2O.ml-1.s-1) was selectively increased (p < 0.03) postoperatively in the left (0.41 +/- 0.07 versus 1.27 +/- 0.36) but not in the right (0.29 +/- 0.06 versus 0.35 +/- 0.07) lung. Peripheral airway responses to acetylcholine, histamine, hypocapnia, and dry air challenges were all increased (p < 0.05) in both magnitude and duration in the left but not the right lung postoperatively. Total lung volume (helium dilution technique) was decreased (p < 0.01) by 10 +/- 3% postoperatively. However, similar reductions in lung volume were observed in the left and right lung. These results indicate that left thoracotomy for chronic instrumentation selectively increases left lung peripheral airway tone and reactivity, but has no effect on the right lung.
Evaluation of properties microcrystalline chitosan as a drug carrier. Part 1. In vitro release of diclofenac from mictocrystalline chitosan hydrogel. (2001)

The influence of microcrystalline chitosan hydrogel, alone (MCCh) as well as in combination with methylcellulose (MC) or Carbopol (CP), on the release of diclofenac free acid (DA) and its salt (DS) was studied in vitro. Commercial Olfen gel (Mepha Ltd., Switzerland) was applied as a reference preparation. The influence of hydrophilizing agents (1,2-propylene glycol and glycerol) and methycellulose hydrogel on the rheological properties of the vehicle and on the release of drug from modified MCCh hydrogel was studied. The quantity of the released substance was determined by UV-spectroscopy. The results confirmed that release was dependent on the chemical character of the drug and on the type of vehicle. The process of diclofenac release from MCCh hydrogels as well as from Carbopol hydrogels runs in two phases. The first phase is characterised by rapid release whereas in the second phase the release is much slower. The most suitable basis for diclofenac is microcrystalline chitosan hydrogel with addition glycerol, 1,2-propylene glycol, and methylcellulose hydrogel.
A Secure Multicoupon Solution for Multi-merchant Scenarios (2011)

Electronic multicoupons are the equivalent of paper-based coupons booklets, offered to customers in order to achieve discounts or gifts from one or more merchants for goods or services. To date, most of the previous proposals have focused in scenarios where multiple customers can interact with a single merchant. But this restriction is a serious drawback for the expansion of the use of electronic coupons, since each customer needs a preestablished relationship with each merchant. In this paper, we propose a new multicoupon scheme for multi-merchant scenarios, preserving security properties of previous single merchant schemes, but enhancing the efficiency and the security of the few solutions that deal with multi-merchant scenarios.
Association of cadmium with renal cancer (1976)

Sixty-four cases of renal cancer in white males were compared with controls (197 cases of nonmalignant diseases of the digestive system and 72 cases of colon cancer) for past exposures to cadmium. Controls were also white males, and were group-matched to the cases on age for the analyses. Data on the three main sources of exposure to cadmium--diet, cigarette smoking and occupation--were obtained by interview. The results showed a significant association of renal cancer with exposure to cadmium, and favored a synergistic effect between occupational exposure and smoking. The relative risk for men who both smoked and worked in high-risk occupations was more than four times that for men who did neither. The apparent synergism, however, suggests that the agent in cigarette smoke contributing to this association may not be cadmium.
Enzyme replacement therapy (2004)

Abstract This chapter traces the development of the field of enzyme replacement. It explores the major remaining problem — i.e., treatment of lysosomal storage diseases with a major neurologic component, because of insulation of the brain from the therapeutic enzyme by the blood-brain barrier.
Genetic diversity and phylogenetic analysis of glycoprotein 5 of European-type porcine reproductive and respiratory virus strains in Spain (2003)

The gene encoding glycoprotein 5 (ORF5) of 21 porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) isolates from Spain and two European-type vaccines currently available in that country were analysed using RT-PCR and sequencing. Sequences were then compared with other European-type sequences available through GenBank. Results showed percentages of similarity to Lelystad virus (LV), which, in most cases, were below 90 %. In contrast, two strains were very similar (>99 %) to a PRRSV variant from the Czech Republic. Evolutionary trees showed three types of strains: one grouped old Spanish sequences; a second grouped isolates from this study together with two Czech variant strains; and the third comprised other GenBank sequences. Regarding the predicted protein sequences, some isolates from this study showed a low degree of similarity to LV (below 50 %) and most of the strains examined had additional N-linked glycosylation sites compared to LV. These results provide evidence of the existence of variant PRRSV strains in Spain with characteristics that may be advantageous for immune evasion.
Application of Solar Heating System in Residential Design (2008)

The paper describes design of solar heating system for residential buildings.For multi-storey and minor-highrise building,the design of solar heating system should comply with water saving,energy saving,low cost,easy operation and calculation and safety principle for providing residents with best quality,low cost and comforable hot water.