gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Unstable angina pectoris (2000)

This excellent review looks at the pathogenesis, medical management and revascularisation procedures involved in this coronary syndrome. The trials involving aspirin, ticlopidine, clopidogrel, platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists and antithrombin therapies in unstable angina are highlighted, and conventional medical therapies discussed (beta-blockers, nitrates and calcium-channel blockers). The changing attitudes regarding revascularisation procedures, with the advent of coronary stenting and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibition, are explored. In addition, investigations are summarised which stratify the risk of further coronary events and influence decisions on whether medical management can be safely continued, or whether angiography and myocardial revascularisation procedures are required.Finally a flow diagram of treatment strategies is presented which stratifies patients into low, intermediate and high risk groups.
ChemInform Abstract: SYNTHESIS AND STEREOCHEMISTRY OF β‐SUBSTITUTED GLYCERONITRILES (1981)

Abstract Es wird eine Synthese der Glycerinsäurenitrile (III) auf Basis der Aldehyde (I) über die Bisulfitaddukte (II) beschrieben.
BROMELAIN PROTEINASE-F9 AUGMENTS HUMAN LYMPHOCYTE-MEDIATED GROWTH-INHIBITION OF VARIOUS TUMOR-CELLS IN-VITRO (1994)

Bromelain, a crude extract from pineapple stem containing various thiol proteases, has previously been suggested for adjuvant therapy of malignant diseases. We hence tested in vitro whether a highly purified bromelain proteinase (F9) would affect the antitumor activity by human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) against MCF-7 breast cancer, KB squamous carcinoma and SK-MEL-28 melanoma cells. The antiproliferative effects by pretreated PBL were determined using the microculture tetrazolium (MTT) assay. All three cell lines were susceptible to F9-treated PBL and KB cells were selected to examine the kinetics, the dose dependency and the specificity of the F9 effects on PBL. Maximal antitumor effects were obtained when PBL were incubated with 25 mug/ml of F9 for 3 days at which the proteolytical activity of the added F9 was 1.6 U/mg. The F9-induced PBL antitumor activity was dependent on the applied proteolytical activity and abolished when F9 was inactivated by iodoacetamide. In contrast to F9, trypsin or pronase were not able to induce PBL-mediated growth inhibition of KB target cells. In response to F9, the concentration of interleukin-2 (IL-2) and tumor necrosis factor-a increased 10 and 19 fold in the PBL supernatant, respectively. F9 was found to synergize LAK cell activity in addition to suboptimal concentrations (0.625-2.5 U/ml) of rIL-2. In contrast to rIL-2-activated PBL, no cytolytic effect by F9-activated PBL was measured in the BCECF release assay, suggesting that F9 acts by a mechanism different from that of IL-2. F9 was also found to be growth inhibitory in the MTT assay, when it was directly added to the tumor cells: The concentration, at 50% growth inhibition by F9, was in the range of 25-38 mug/ml at which the proteolytical activity of the added F9 was 2.5 U/mg. On the basis of the present study we suggest that F9 alone, or in combination with rIL-2, may be used as a potential biological response modifier in specific immunotherapy of distinct cancer diseases.
The synthesis of cloth objects (1986)

In image synthesis, cloth objects such as clothes are most often modelled as textures mapped onto rigid surfaces. However, in order to represent such objects more realistically, their physical properties must be examined. This paper describes a method for modelling cloth material hanging in three dimensions when supported by any number of constraint points. The cloth synthesized with this model contains folds and appears more realistic than simple texture mapping. This paper also describes a method for rendering the cloth once its free-hanging shape has been determined.The computation of the surface of a free-hanging cloth is performed in two stages. The first stage approximates the shape of the surface which is interior to the constraint points, and the second stage performs a relaxation process on all points on the surface to arrive at a close approximation to its shape. The rendering of the surfaces is done using a ray-tracer which treats the surface as a mesh of line segments.
The Efficiency and Delay of Distributed Source Coding in Random Access Sensor Networks (2007)

The reliability and delay of Slepian-Wolf distributed source coding (DSC) in sensor networks is analyzed under the random access setting. Consider a network of N sensors that observes correlated information from the environment and sends the local data to a central processor through direct transmission links. Due to the low message rate in sensor networks, we adopt the slotted ALOHA random access protocol where the time is divided into synchronized time slots and each sensor is allowed to access the time slots with independent probabilities. To eliminate the redundancy in the transmitted data, the sensors encode the local messages based on the Slepian-Wolf DSC method. Specifically, we assume that the sensors' message are encoded with a sequential dependency among each other and, thus, must be decoded one after the other such that the decoding of a particular message is reliant on the successful decoding of all the messages encoded earlier in the sequence. In this case, the loss of one message may result in the failure of other messages and the delay in the successful decoding of a particular message also varies from sensor to sensor. In this work, we analyze the performance of Slepian-Wolf DSC in random access networks in terms of the rate of successful decoding and the average delay of each message. Specifically, we propose and compare different transmission probability assignments for DSC in the ALOHA network and emphasize the importance of the MAC design.
The relationship of sodium sensitivity to insulin resistance. (1994)

Substantial epidemiologic evidence has indirectly implicated sodium intake in the pathogenesis of hypertension. The concept of sodium-sensitivity as a cause of essential hypertension has been addressed by many investigators, yet the pathogenesis of this salt-sensitivity remains unclear. Although not well appreciated, most studies have shown that regardless of sodium intake or the presence or absence of hypertension, sodium-sensitive subjects tend to weigh more than sodium-resistant subjects. Insulin-resistance has been postulated to be responsible for enhanced sodium retention in obese individuals; therefore, insulin-resistance may be critical to the pathogenesis of sodium-sensitivity in individuals with essential hypertension. This article summarizes the data relating insulin and or insulin-resistance to sodium sensitivity in obesity, diabetes, and in non-obese subjects with essential hypertension.
Warm Discharges for Fuel Conversion (2010)

Abstract The sections in this article are Introduction Fuel Conversion Thermal, Cold, and Warm Plasma Industrial Fuel Conversion Using Thermal Plasma Warm Plasma for Plasma‐Assisted Partial Oxidation ( PAPO ) Low current (Gliding) Arcs and Glow Discharges Microwave Discharges for PAPO and Plasma Catalysis Warm Plasma for Other Fuel Conversion Processes Outlook Summary
Measurement of variation of multimode fibre bandwidth with wavelength in 850 nm region using mode-locked styryl-9 dye laser (1988)

A tuneable mode-locked dye laser has been used to measure the frequency response of a multimodc fibre as a function of wavelength in the 850 nm region. The narrow spectral width of the dye laser gives an improved accuracy for large lengthbandwidth product fibres. The results are compared with those obtained using both pulsed and CW semiconductor lasers.
Parking Home Page (2004)

Elmbridge car parks, season tickets and penalty charge notices, cashless pay by phone parking
Simultaneous measurements of Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity across superlattice (2002)

A method is developed to simultaneously measure the Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity in the cross-plane direction of thin films and applied to an n-type Si/Ge quantum-dot superlattice. In this method, an Au/Cr pattern serves as both a heater and a thermometer, and a microprobe is prepared between the heater and the thin film to extract the Seebeck voltage. Using a differential measurement between the thin films with different thickness, the temperature and voltage drops across the thin film are determined to deduce its cross-plane thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficient. At room temperature, the cross-plane Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity are 312 μV/K and 2.92 W/mK, respectively, for the n-type Si(75 Å)/Ge(15 Å) quantum-dot superlattice doped to 8.7×1019 cm−3.
Predicting CO2 injectivity properties for application at CCS sites (2014)

This project was established to investigate the potential injectivity of Australian reservoirs, and to provide some understanding of their ability to store CO 2 .Injectivity requires experimental and numerical analysis of rock cores, taken from the reservoirs, in terms of the rock's ability to allow CO 2 flow (by core flooding), the CO 2 flow dynamics (CT scanning during flood), rock strength and any observed changes in rock strength after flooding with CO 2 (geomechanical testing), and the ability to monitor the movement of CO 2 in the reservoir over time, typically using 4-D time-lapse surface seismic methods (rock physics by ultrasonic testing).The plan was to develop a parallel work-flow to allow the efficient movement of a core through the four laboratory test stages with minimum interruption (in factory processing manner).This meant that as one plug was having its geomechanical properties tested after CO 2 injection, another plug was undergoing CT-scanning and so on in the four co-located laboratories.This worked well for the initial three samples up to a point-it may take one week to perform the geophysical tests, but four hours to perform the CT-scanning and two weeks to perform the CO 2 flooding tests-and so a truly parallel work-flow which was meant to result in rapid turn-around time benefits of an efficient parallel work-flow, was not simple.Add to this the fact that a core-flood may give anomalous results and then if so, the flooding process would require repeating to ensure consistent results.Consequently, the smoothly-operating work-flow would be interrupted due to further investigation and it became clear that an efficient parallel work-flow would only be feasible when core analyses were not interrupted.
Growth simulations of silver shells on copper and palladium nanoclusters (2002)

The growth of Ag-Pd and Ag-Cu core-shell nanoclusters is studied by molecular-dynamics simulations on realistic time scales. The metals are modeled by many-body potentials derived in the framework of the second-moment approximation to the tight-binding model. First, the energy barriers of the most relevant diffusion processes of Ag adatoms on Pd and Cu cores are calculated, and then growth simulations are performed for several values of the deposition flux and of the temperature. We find that well-defined Ag shells on both Pd and Cu cores are grown. In particular, single-layer shells with a few defects can be obtained in a wide range of temperatures. The main difference between the Ag-Pd and the Ag-Cu systems is that in the former better structures are obtained at low temperatures, while in the latter, the best shells are grown at high temperatures. These behaviors are explained in terms of the ability (inability) to incorporate Ag adatoms into the Pd or Cu cores.
Atheroarteriosclerosis induced by infection with a herpesvirus. (1979)

Atheroarteriosclerosis closely resembling that in humans was induced in normocholesterolemic and hypercholesterolemic chickens by infection with Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDV). Four comparably sized groups of chickens were used. Each group was initially fed a diet relatively poor in cholesterol. Group I and II were inoculated intratracheally at 2 days of age with MDV. At 15 weeks, one group of virus-infected chickens (Group II) and one group of uninfected controls (Group IV) were fed a 2% cholesterol supplement for an additional 15 weeks. Group I, infected, and III, uninfected, were continued on a cholesterol-poor diet. All groups were killed at 30 weeks. Striking grossly visible atherosclerotic lesions were seen in large coronary arteries, aortas, and major aortic branches of both Groups I and II but not in those of Groups III and IV. Microscopically, arterial changes in infected animals were characterized by occlusive fibromuscular intimal thickening, which formed fibrous caps overlying areas of atheromatous change. This change closely resembled chronic atherosclerosis in humans. These results may be important to our understanding of human arteriosclerosis, since there is widespread and persistent infection of human populations with as many as five herpesviruses.
Black humour ‐ making light of death (1995)

This paper explores one aspect of how a police oral tradition works, and the ways a savage black humour is brought to bear as the members assuage problems in scavenging for society, as they tidy up a constant stream of what are often extremely messy or ‘bad’ deaths. Plowing an interstitial furrow between the victims of these ‘sudden deaths’ and the surviving relatives and grieving friends creates a ‘piggy in the middle’ situation, while a crucial need to be economic with or to temper the truth on many of these occasions helps create a further boundary between them and the public they allegedly serve. The paper thus reveals the complexity of one small area of police culture which is often hidden from the outsider; for the stories about ‘bad’ deaths and the savage black humour these generate becomes a performative mediator, allowing the young constables to face the realities of these mortifying processes, and always be in command of situations that are often incongruous and usually appalling.
Development of a Miniature VTOL Tail-Sitter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2008)

The design, analysis, construction and flight testing of a miniature Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) tail-sitter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) prototype is presented in detail. Classic aircraft design methods were combined with numerical analysis to estimate the aircraft performance and flight characteristics. The numerical analysis employed a propeller blade-element theory coupled with momentum equations to predict the influence of a propeller slipstream on the freestream flow field, then the aircraft was analyzed using 3-D vortex lifting-line theory to model finite wings immersed in the flow field. Four prototypes were designed, built, and tested and the evolution of these prototypes is presented. The final prototype design is discussed in detail. A method for sizing control surfaces for a tail-sitter was defined. The final prototype successfully demonstrated controllability both in horizontal flight and vertical flight. Significant contributions included the development of a control system that was effective in hover as well as descending vertical flight, and the development of a strong but light weight airframe. The aircraft had a payload weight fraction of 14.5% and a maximum dimension of one meter, making it the smallest tail-sitter UAV to carry a useful payload. This project is expected to provide a knowledge base for the future design of small electric VTOL tail-sitter aircraft and to provide an airframe for future use in tail-sitter research.
The physico-chemical properties of tumor cells with different metastatic potential. (1985)

Authors investigated the total and surface sialic-acid content and elpho mobility of Lewis lung lines with low (LLT-parent) and high (LLT-HH selected) metastatic capacity. They pointed out, that the total and surface sialic-acid content of LLT-HH primary tumor cells is higher than in the cells of the LLT line. Despite the increase of sialic-acid on the cell surface, the electrophoretic mobility of the cells was unchangeable. The changes in sialic acid content are the markers of the metastasizing cells, but not of the highly metastatic cell lines.
The Stakes in Vietnam (1968)

Essay| January 01 1968 The Stakes in Vietnam Kenneth T. Young Kenneth T. Young President, The Asia Society Kenneth T. Young has been a specialist on Asia for 30 years, as student, official and author. From 1954 to 1958, he was Director of Southeast Asian Affairs in the State Department; during 1954, he attended the Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina and was later involved with several aspects of the 1962 Geneva Conference on Laos. Mr. Young served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and as SEATO Council Representative from 1961 to 1963. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1968) 54 (317): 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1968.54.317.22 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kenneth T. Young; The Stakes in Vietnam. Current History 1 January 1968; 54 (317): 22–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1968.54.317.22 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1968 by The Regents of the University of California1968 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
A Non-Visual Photo Collection Browser based on Automatically Generated Text Descriptions (2010)

This study presents a textual photo collection\nbrowser that automatically and quickly analyses large personal\nphoto collections and produces textual reports that can be\naccessed by blind users using either text-to-speech or Braille\noutput devices. The textual photo browser exploits recent\nadvances in image collection analysis and the strategy does not\nrely on manual image tagging. The reports produced by the\ntextual image browser gives the user a gist about where, when\nand what the photographer was doing in the form of a story.\nAlthough yet crude, the strategy can give blind users a\nvaluable overview about the contents of large image collections\nand individual images which otherwise are totally inaccessible\nwithout vision.
Temperature dependence and mechanism of the reaction between atomic oxygen (3P) and chlorine dioxide (1992)

Second-order rate constants for the decay of O(^3P) in excess chlorine dioxide, k_(11), were measured by flash photolysis-atomic resonance fluorescence as a function of total pressure (20-600 Torr argon) and temperature (248-312 K). It was found that (1) k_(11) is pressure dependent with a value, k_b, that is nonzero at zero pressure and (2) both the third-order rate constant (dk_(11)/d[M])_(lMl=O) = k_0, and k_b have negative temperature dependences. These results are consistent with an association reaction leading to an intermediate having two decomposition channels: O + OClO ⇌ ClO_3* (1, 2); ClO3_* + M → + ClO_3 + M (3); ClO_3* → ClO + O_2* (4), with E_(o2) > E_(o4). The measured k_0 values were used in conjunction with Troe's expression for unimolecular decomposition rates in the low-pressure limit to derive a critical energy for ClO_3 of 10 700 cm^(-1), which leads to ΔH_f(ClO_3) = 51.9 ± 5 kcal/mol. This is ~4 kcal/mol smaller than the value derived in our previous room temperature study of this reaction.
Teaching "Like a Girl": Student Reflection of the Benefits and Challenges of Feminist Pedagogy (2014)

Current unemployment rates, job market competition, and the thirst for the college experience has more millennials attending college than any other previous generation, but with the increase in university tuition and courses that feature both online and face-to-face segments for over-sized classrooms, approaches to teaching that keep students engaged can be challenging. Using my own personal reflection, anonymous midterm survey results, and Student Perception of Instruction survey results, the author analyzes the challenges and benefits of feminist pedagogy—a student-centered teaching method that focuses on student responsibility for learning, a decentralized classroom hierarchy, and strategies that promote self-reflection and participation—utilized in a course titled Women in Literature at the University of Central Florida. The author finds that the elements of feminist pedagogy used in the course were effective in motivating students to learn more about themselves and each other in a community that is becoming more ethnically and socially diverse. Though there exist many challenges to the ways feminist pedagogy can be implemented in a large, technologically-centered class, this research paper explains that even non-ambitious implementations can beneficial to students, teachers, and the university as a whole.
A comparison of three rapid methods for the detection of beta-lactamase activity in Haemophilus influenzae. (1977)

Three methods for rapidly detecting beta-lactamase activity in Haemophilus influenzae are compared. The chromogenic cephalosporin method was found to be the most easily performed and the reagents could be stored for up to three weeks. The phenol red method was simple to perform but the iodometric method was more time consuming. All three tests gave identical results.
Disturbance Decoupling of Boolean Control Networks (2010)

Disturbance decoupling problem (DDP) of Boolean control networks is considered. Using semi-tensor product of matrices and the matrix expression of logical functions, a working procedure is proposed to solve the problem. This procedure consists of two key design steps. First, how to convert a system into an output-friendly coordinate frame. An algorithm is provided to calculate the output-friendly subspaces. Secondly, it was shown how to find proper controllers to solve the problem if it is solvable. A state variable separation form is introduced to guide the design of controllers. Based on the design technique, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the solvability of DDP.
Common purslane: a source of omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants. (1992)

omega-3 fatty acids, alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene and glutathione determined in leaves of purslane (Portulaca oleracea), grown in both a controlled growth chamber and in the wild, were compared in composition to spinach. Leaves from both samples of purslane contained higher amounts of alpha-linolenic acid (18:3w3) than did leaves of spinach. Chamber-grown purslane contained the highest amount of 18:3w3. Samples from the two kinds of purslane contained higher leaves of alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid and glutathione than did spinach. Chamber-grown purslane was richer in all three and the amount of alpha-tocopherol was seven times higher than that found in spinach, whereas spinach was slightly higher in beta-carotene. One hundred grams of fresh purslane leaves (one serving) contain about 300-400 mg of 18:3w3; 12.2 mg of alpha-tocopherol; 26.6 mg of ascorbic acid; 1.9 mg of beta-carotene; and 14.8 mg of glutathione. We confirm that purslane is a nutritious food rich in omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants.