gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Ontong Java Plateau (1993)

The Ontong Java Plateau, a large, deep-water carbonate plateau in the western equatorial Pacific, is an ideal location for studying responses of carbonate sedimentation to the effects of changing paleoceanographic conditions. These carbonate responses are often reflected in the physical properties of the sediment, which in turn control the appearance of seismic reflection profiles. Seismic stratigraphy analyses, correlating eight reflector horizons to each drill site, have been conducted in an attempt to map stratigraphic data. Accurate correlation of seismic stratigraphic data to drilling results requires conversion of traveltime to depth in meters. Synthetic seismogram models, using shipboard physical properties data, have been generated in an attempt to provide this correlation.
Harnessing receive diversity in distributed multi-user MIMO networks (2013)

In existing multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) MAC protocols, a multi-antenna node sends as many concurrent streams as possible once it wins the contention. Though such a scheme allows nodes to utilize the multiplex gain of a MIMO system, it however fails to leverage receive diversity gains provided by multiple receive antennas across nodes. We introduce Multiplex-Diversity Medium Access (MDMA), a MU-MIMO MAC protocol that achieves both the multiplex gain and the receive diversity gain at the same time. Instead of letting a node pair use all the available degrees of freedom, MDMA allows as many contending node pairs to communicate concurrently as possible and share all the degrees of freedom. It hence can exploit the antennas equipped on different receivers to further provide some of concurrent streams more receive diversity, without losing the achievable multiplex gain. We implement a prototype on software radios to demonstrate the throughput gain of MDMA.
Biological Effects of Methoprene on the Sheep Bot Fly12 (1975)

A methoprene nasal treatment of lambs at dosages of 0.1, 0.5, 0.75, 1, and 1.5 mg/lamb significantly reduced pupation and emergence of adult Oestrus ovis L. but not larval development. Emergence of adults was inhibited by 86.4 to 100% but not necessarily in the order of increased dosage.
Superhydrophobic surfaces cannot reduce ice adhesion (2012)

Understanding the mechanism of ice adhesion on surfaces is crucial for anti-icing surfaces, and it is not clear if superhydrophobic surfaces could reduce ice adhesion. Here, we investigate ice adhesion on model surfaces with different wettabilities. The results show that the superhydrophobic surface cannot reduce the ice adhesion, and the ice adhesion strength on the superhydrophilic surface and the superhydrophobic one is almost the same. This can be rationalized by the mechanical interlocking between the ice and the surface texture. Moreover, we find that the ice adhesion strength increases linearly with the area fraction of air in contact with liquid.
Getting high-efficiency photoluminescence from Si nanocrystals in SiO2 matrix (2002)

Silicon nanocrystals in SiO2 matrix are fabricated by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition followed by thermal annealing. The structure and photoluminescence (PL) of the resulting films is investigated as a function of deposition temperature. Drastic improvement of PL efficiency up to 12% is achieved when the deposition temperature is reduced from 250 °C to room temperature. Low-temperature deposition is found to result in a high quality final structure of the films in which the silicon nanocrystals are nearly strain-free, and the Si/SiO2 interface sharp. The demonstration of the superior structural and optical properties of the films represents an important step towards the development of silicon-based light emitters.
Solubilities of perchlorates of iron(II) complexes of substituted 1,10-phenanthrolines in aqueous t-butyl alcohol (1968)

Solubilities of the perchlorates of 5-nitro- and 4,7-dimethyl-substituted tris-(1,10-phenanthroline)iron(II) cations in aqueous t-butyl alcohol have been determined. These solubilities are related to effects of the t-butyl alcohol on the structure of the water. They are compared with aquation rates previously reported for these complexes under similar conditions in order to assess the importance of initial-state solvation in determining reactivity. Solubility data for perchlorates of a variety of substituted tris-(1,10-phenanthroline)iron(II) cations in water are also presented and discussed.
Issuing the challenge: creating leadership for health information management. (1995)

Fundamental and profound changes are occurring within the health care industry that directly affect and change the roles and functions of health information managers. To meet and survive these changes, the health information management profession must exercise leadership and transform itself. A model of leadership consisting of systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning to accomplish this transformation is described.
Porous Media Characterization by Micro-Tomographic Image Processing (2011)

In this thesis, we have focused our attention on the characterization of porous media through micro-tomographic image processing. A porous medium can be simply seen as a solid material with "holes" in it, which, connected or isolated, may or may not eventually allow the flow of one or more fluids. They have various applications in common practice and are widely used in many disciplines, both scientific and industrial. Porous media are strongly characterized by their internal microstructure, which needs to be accurately described in order to determine their performance and macroscopic properties. Despite recent technological advances and the introduction of imaging techniques such as X-ray micro-tomography, methods to characterize quantitatively the porous media internal structure are still few and related to some specific applications. To this regards, we propose new algorithms for the analysis of the 3D micro-architecture of porous media based on image processing and the mathematical morphology theory. In particular, the opening operator properties have been exploited in the "successive opening" algorithm which represents the starting point for the construction of three morphological synthetic indicators. They are the dimensional curves, Pore Size Distribution (PoSD) and Trabecular Size Distribution (TrSD), which provide information about the pores or solid phase structure, the connectivity curves, which allow to identify how the structural elements are interconnected, and the effective porosity, which represents the porous fraction concerned with the transport of fluids. Experimental results show that the proposed indicators together represent an effective tool for the porous media internal structure characterization. Since noise is a primary cause of reduced image analysis capability in micro-CT, we have dedicated a part of our research to the reduction of the strong noise that corrupts tomographic images. After evaluating experimentally the characteristics of noise, we propose a filtering technique for correlate noise based on the Block-Matching 3D (BM3D) algorithm. Experimental results prove the proposed technique effectiveness and its potential to improve the performance of the algorithms proposed in the first part. Although micro-tomographic image processing presents considerable difficulties, both for the intrinsic characteristics of the images, and for the nature of analyzed objects, this thesis proves that reliable and useful indications about the structure of porous media can be obtained through the use of the mathematical morphology theory.
Chatter detection using principal component analysis in cold rolling mill (2018)

Most cold rolling mills are prone to chatter problem. Chatter marks are often observed on the strip surface in cold rolling mill leading to downgrade and rejection of rolled material. Chatter impact product quality as well as productivity of mill. In absence of online chatter detection no corrective action can be taken immediately and whole campaign gets affected. Most conventional approach for online chatter detection is by using vibration measurement of mill stands in time & frequency domain. Present work proposes two approaches to detect chatter in cold rolling mill using a statistical technique called Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In this paper two methods are used for chatter detection. First method applies PCA on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to differentiate between chatter and non-chatter condition. Second method applies PCA on statistical parameters calculated from raw vibration data to detect chatter.
Fusion of CTLA-4 with HPV16 E7 and E6 Enhanced the Potency of Therapeutic HPV DNA Vaccine (2014)

Preventive anti-HPV vaccines are effective against HPV infection but not against existing HPV-associated diseases, including cervical cancer and other malignant diseases. Therefore, the development of therapeutic vaccines is urgently needed. To improve anti-tumor effects of therapeutic vaccine, we fused cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) with HPV16 E7 and E6 as a fusion therapeutic DNA vaccine (pCTLA4-E7E6). pCTLA4-E7E6 induced significantly higher anti-E7E6 specific antibodies and relatively stronger specific CTL responses than the nonfusion DNA vaccine pE7E6 in C57BL/6 mice bearing with TC-1 tumors. pCTLA4-E7E6 showed relatively stronger anti-tumor effects than pE7E6 in therapeutic immunization. These results suggest that fusing CTLA-4 with E7E6 is a useful strategy to develop therapeutic HPV DNA vaccines. In addition, fusing the C-terminal of E7 with the N-terminal of E6 impaired the functions of both E7 and E6.
Perceptual distortion measure for edgelike artifacts in image sequences (1998)

This paper presents an objective perceptual distortion measure quantifying the visibility of edge-like blocking artifacts in coded image sequences resulting from popular transform coding techniques. The prime motivation for this work is the awareness that properties of the human visual system should be central to the design and evaluation of image coding algorithms. The perceptual metric is the output of a visual model incorporating both the spatial and temporal characteristics of the visual system. Parameters of the model are based on results from a number of visual experiments in which sensitivities to simulated blocking artifacts were measured under various spatio-temporal background conditions. The visual model takes a pair of original and distorted sequences as inputs. Distortions are calculated along the vertical and horizontal directions. Visibility dependencies on spatial, temporal and motion activities of the background are incorporated using linear Altering and motion estimation. Pixel-based distortions are combined over local spatial and temporal regions to generate an overall distortion measure for each orientation. The final model output is the sum of the vertical and horizontal distortion measures. The model was applied to coded image sequences and the resulting distortion measures were compared to outcomes of subjective ranking tests. Results indicate that the perceptual distortion measure agrees well with human evaluation.
Integration of GalnP/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors and high electron mobility transistors (1996)

Integration of carbon-doped GaInP/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is demonstrated by growing an HBT on the top of a HEMT. A current gain of 60, a cutoff frequency of 59 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 68 GHz were obtained for a 5×15 μm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> self-aligned HBT. The HEMT, with a gate length of 1.5 μm has a transconductance of 210 mS/mm, a cutoff frequency of 9 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 22 GHz. It is shown that the GaInP/GaAs HBT on the HEMT is a simple Bi-FET technology suitable for microwave and mixed signal applications.
Auto-antibodies against proteins of spinal cord cells in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). (2006)

Aetiology and pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is still a mystery. Among several hypotheses autoimmune mechanisms are also taken into account. We report here our investigations of auto-antibodies against proteins of spinal cord cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum of ALS patients. The results were correlated with the severity of disease course. The subjects were 57 ALS patients (29 severe, 28 mild) and 10 normal controls. The major finding in CSF was the presence of antibodies against a 70 kD protein in the majority of ALS patients. This protein was identified as neurofilament 68. The second protein of high reactivity and frequency of appearance was a 82 kD protein, which was identified as a-actinin. Less reactive and less frequent were antibodies directed against 55 kD and 40 kD proteins. They were immunologically defined to be related to desmin and actin, resp. The difference between the reactivity of anti-neurofilament and anti-desmin related protein in the severe and mild ALS groups was significant. More frequent were the anti-neurofilament antibodies in the severe ALS cases as compared to the milder ones. In normal CSF, antibodies directed against 55 kD, 70 kD and 82 kD proteins were present in traces and appeared in 5%, 20% and 10% of cases, respectively. In the serum of 30% of severe ALS patients traces of antibodies against 70 kD protein were detected. The morphological studies in the presence of CSF of ALS patients revealed pronounced immunoreactivity of spinal cord neurons, mainly within anterior horns. The significance of the presence of auto-antibodies in CSF of ALS patients against cellular proteins of the spinal cord is hard to define. It is conceivable that they appear as a secondary immunological consequence of neuronal death. It is also possible that they may accelerate the course of neuronal degeneration.
Goethe als Dramatiker (1996)

Nicht wenige G.-Philologen neigen zu der Annahme, der Weimarer Dichter sei alles andere als ein genuiner Dramatiker gewesen. Einmal abgesehen von seiner Sturm und Drang-Zeit habe er, so wird von dieser Seite argumentiert, die Gattung des Schauspiels eher stiefmütterlich behandelt. Längere Produktionsunterbrechungen zeigten das ebenso wie die geraume Zeit stillschweigend vorgenommene Rubrizierung des zweiten Faust-Teils als bloßes ›Lese-drama‹. Manche stehen sogar nicht an zu behaupten, G. habe sich bewußt in der zweiten Hälfte seines Lebens vom Drama weithin abgekehrt. Derartig extremen Folgerungen steht freilich der kontinuierliche Fluß dramatischer Arbeiten G.s über mehr als sechs Jahrzehnte hindurch als Faktum entgegen. Naturgemäß gibt es in seinem ebenso weitläufigen wie vielfältigen Dramenschaffen mehr oder minder deutlich akzentuierte Phasen.
Mixed hydrogel bead-based tumor spheroid formation and anticancer drug testing (2014)

Three-dimensional multicellular tumor spheroids have become critical for anticancer study since they may provide a better model than conventional monolayer cultures of cancer cells. Various methods for tumor spheroid formation have been explored. However, only one kind of hydrogel was used in these methods, which has an influence on the size and morphology of the obtained tumor spheroids. Herein, we present a microfluidic droplet-based method for the formation of multicellular tumor spheroids using alginate and matrigel mixed hydrogel beads. By on-chip changing the flow rate of the two hydrogel solutions, mixed hydrogel beads with different volume ratios between alginate and matrigel are obtained. Meanwhile, human cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cells are encapsulated in the mixed hydrogel beads. Acridine orange and propidium iodide double-staining assay shows that the viability of cells encapsulated in the mixed hydrogel beads was more than 90%. After 4 day culture, the multicellular tumor spheroids were successfully formed with spherical shape and uniform size distribution compared with spheroids formed in pure alginate beads. Cytoskeletal analysis by TRITC-phalloidin staining show that HeLa cells in the mixed hydrogel beads closely link to each other. The dose-dependent response assay of HeLa cell spheroids to vincristine show that multicellular spheroids have more powerful resistance to vincristine compared to conventional monolayer culture cells. Taken together, this novel technology may be of importance to facilitate in vitro culture of tumor spheroids for their ever-increasing utilization in modern cell-based medicine.
Load impedance estimation for fast and accurate configuration of tunable matching networks (2011)

The use of tunable matching networks (TMNs) for antenna tuning and efficiency enhancement is well-known. However, finding the optimum TMN state or configuration is not an easy task and an incorrect process may lead to a poor performance. If we are able to estimate the load impedance, the TMN state choice can be done quickly and properly with some previous off-line calculations. In this paper we propose a new technique to estimate a complex load impedance with scalar measurements at three different states of the TMN. With an appropriate calibration process, following the idea of six-port measurements, accurate load estimation will be obtained, leading to an optimum TMN state configuration.
Dimerization of ethylene and propylene catalyzed by transition-metal complexes (1986)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTDimerization of ethylene and propylene catalyzed by transition-metal complexesS. Muthukumaru Pillai, M. Ravindranathan, and S. SivaramCite this: Chem. Rev. 1986, 86, 2, 353–399Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1986Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1986https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr00072a004https://doi.org/10.1021/cr00072a004research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views2012Altmetric-Citations191LEARN 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 optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Women in History--Grace Abbott: A Leader in Social Reform. (2006)

One of the earlier 20th century American women leaders in Progressivism was Grace Abbott who led the way so others might be the voices for those unheard. Abbott's heritage influenced her lifetime commitment to social improvement. She was born on November 17, 1878 in Grand Island, Nebraska into a family of activists. Her Quaker mother, Elizabeth Griffin Abbott, came from an abolitionist family and participated in the Underground Railroad. Elizabeth was also actively involved in the women's suffrage movement and often hosted suffrage meetings and events in her home. Susan B. Anthony frequently stayed with the Abbotts when visiting Grand Island. Her father, Othman Ali Abbott, a Canadian abolitionist, served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He read law in Illinois and in 1867 moved to Nebraska and established his law practice. A leader in state politics, he became a state senator and eventually the lieutenant governor, where he was pivotal in the creation of Nebraska laws protecting female. workers.
Physical and chemical behavior of stabilized sewage sludge blocks in seawater (1989)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPhysical and chemical behavior of stabilized sewage sludge blocks in seawaterChih Shin Shieh and Frank J. RoethelCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 1989, 23, 1, 121–125Publication Date (Print):January 1, 1989Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 January 1989https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es00178a017https://doi.org/10.1021/es00178a017research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views80Altmetric-Citations10LEARN 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 optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Cheetah (2013)

Cheetah Ellen Bass (bio) Even with my good binocularsit’s a buff-colored smudge in the distance.A smudge that pivotsso the outline of an earbecomes visible, briefly,before it’s consumed into the whole again.That’s it. And yetit’s as if the world unbuttoned her dressand we can’t get enoughof looking. This is happiness—without the freight of happiness. Onlythe machinery of our eyesworking so hard to speed throughthe air, thick with dust and sun,through the tall, tangled grasses.We’re looking through a pinprickin the universe, boundto any aperture, no matter how small,glad to be swallowed completely. Hunger,thirst, the need to peeall disappear. We’re focusingin now, our pupils opening. We’re way pastpast regrets, failures, promises,sunk deepinto that bit of tawny fur. [End Page 12] Ellen Bass Ellen Bass is the author of The Human Line and Mules of Love. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, American Poetry Review, and New Republic. Her newest collection, Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon P), is forthcoming. Copyright © 2013 University of Nebraska Press
Mind in the Organized Social Environment (2006)

In considering “bridging” social psychology, I outline a general position and then make some related points about the study of prejudice. Unless one holds to some vision of the sovereignty of social psychology, drawing on the knowledge of other relevant sciences must always be necessary for a full description and understanding of any concrete instance of human social life. What is less obvious is that theory in social psychology, the delineation of general principles and processes, is also inescapably tied up with bridging.
Semi-Supervised Learning with Normalizing Flows (2019)

Normalizing flows transform a latent distribution through an invertible neural network for a flexible and pleasingly simple approach to generative modelling, while preserving an exact likelihood. We propose FlowGMM, an end-to-end approach to generative semi supervised learning with normalizing flows, using a latent Gaussian mixture model. FlowGMM is distinct in its simplicity, unified treatment of labelled and unlabelled data with an exact likelihood, interpretability, and broad applicability beyond image data. We show promising results on a wide range of applications, including AG-News and Yahoo Answers text data, tabular data, and semi-supervised image classification. We also show that FlowGMM can discover interpretable structure, provide real-time optimization-free feature visualizations, and specify well calibrated predictive distributions.