gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
THE USE OF LIVE TRAPS TO REMOVE STARLINGS AND PROTECT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON (1967)

Live traps have been used successfully to trap European starlings causing damage to cherry orchards in Washington State since 1960. The most suitable trap is a modified Australian crow trap, and we have acquired such a trap mounted on a trailer, capable of being handled by one man. On several occasions, this trap has rapidly reduced local flock buildup and contributed greatly to crop protection.
Nursing assessment of patients with non-acute wounds (1999)

Accurate and thorough assessment of patients with wounds is essential in order to provide correct treatment. In relation to patients with open, non-acute wounds, the areas that need assessing include general health and specific underlying disease process, care being given and local wound environment. This article outlines specific details of the assessment process. It includes a breakdown of factors affecting healing, a discussion of the importance of diagnosis of cause, an outline of factors within care provision that may have a negative effect on healing, and areas relevant to the wound itself that should be assessed.
Metachromasia of basic dyes induced by mercuric chloride. II (1974)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTMetachromasia of basic dyes induced by mercuric chloride. IIM. K. Pal and Sudhir K. AshCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1974, 78, 5, 536–540Publication Date (Print):February 1, 1974Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 February 1974https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100598a016https://doi.org/10.1021/j100598a016research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views54Altmetric-Citations12LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access options Get e-Alerts
Comparison of Segmentation Approaches (2015)

You’ve attended the alignment meeting with all key stakehold-ers during which business and research objectives have been thoroughly discussed. All have agreed that segmentation is the appropriate research approach to fulfill our goals. Qualitative research has been conducted to illuminate the end-user’s ex-perience with the product or service. Insightful questionnaire items have been constructed and implemented in the quantita-tive survey. The survey has been fielded to a sufficient sample of respondents. The analysis has been conducted. Results have been reported. Stakeholders are happy. The project is a success, but you are left wondering, was the best segmentation approach used? What if another approach had been implemented? How would the seg-ments have differed? Which segmentation method would be most appropriate to use?
A transcultural journey: An ensemble of Canadian, Chinese, and Australian doctoral students’ experiences (2019)

This article is multi-authored by three doctoral students who participated in an International Doctoral Forum in Brisbane, Australia in October and November 2017. One specializes in educational leadership at the University of Calgary (UC); another specializes in educational management at Beijing Normal University (BNU); and the third specializes in cloud computing at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The doctoral forum started many years ago and it has been three years since UC, BNU, and QUT students have collaborated. The three graduate students, among a group of 17, met to learn about and experience a transcultural journey (Slimbach, 2005). Collaborative autoethnography (Chang, Ngunjiri, & Hernandez, 2013) will be used as methodology to share our experiences in formal and informal settings. The formal learning encompassed opening activities as well as the Faculty of Education Higher Degree Research Conference where research students were invited to share their doctoral work. The informal activities of the doctoral forum included educational cultural immersions: a school visit, a koala sanctuary experience, as well as a rainforest excursion. The authors will present how the International Doctoral Forum has inspired us to think, grow, and shift in the transcultural journey.
Computer Modeling and Simulation of Human Movement (2001)

Recent interest in using modeling and simulation to study movement is driven by the belief that this approach can provide insight into how the nervous system and muscles interact to produce coordinated motion of the body parts. With the computational resources available today, large-scale models of the body can be used to produce realistic simulations of movement that are an order of magnitude more complex than those produced just 10 years ago. This chapter reviews how the structure of the neuromusculoskeletal system is commonly represented in a multijoint model of movement, how modeling may be combined with optimization theory to simulate the dynamics of a motor task, and how model output can be analyzed to describe and explain muscle function. Some results obtained from simulations of jumping, pedaling, and walking are also reviewed to illustrate the approach.
Can eye-tracking technology improve situational awareness and student feedback during simulation? (2014)

This seed project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of eye-tracking technology for improving feedback and situation awareness in nursing and paramedic students. The management of deteriorating patients is known to be poor and is well documented in the ‘failure to rescue’ literature. Non-technical skills such as decision making and situation awareness are essential for patient safety, but are rarely taught in undergraduate curricula. In a simulated setting, this project used an innovative combination of techniques: namely video recording and eye tracking in order to understand and inform participants’ responses to an acutely deteriorating patient.
Comments on "The noise figure of optical amplifiers" (1999)

In a recent letter, Haus proposes a new definition for the noise figure of optical amplifiers, which would be consistent with previous IRE/IEEE standards concerning microwave amplifiers. This new noise figure is signal-independent and is therefore most general, unlike the current one. The purpose of these comments is not to discuss the deep implications of such a possible change in standards, but only to provide additional clarifications on how the two definitions are connected.
Distributed Power Processing: The Systems Solution (1983)

A case study is described of a telecommunications system wherein the utilization of power was given serious consideration from the point of inception. The objective was to determine the power processing architecture that optimized such figures of merit as efficiency, life cycle cost, first cost and reliability without imposing any of the traditional constraints that result from initiating powering-system design after the powered-system design is complete. The two designs were considered in parallel as a total system design. The resulting system has power processing integrated both physically and functionally so that the sharp line that traditionally delineates powering-system from powered-system is not at all apparent. Paramount is the fact that every figure of merit in improved substantively over that of the less distributed, bulkier powering architectures that are common today in telecommunications systems. The use of board mounted power modules, BMPMS throughout the system provides peripheral, efficient control of power so that idle circuitry can be powered down. This is accomplished with no loss of function or perceivable delay. Simulations project that this can reduce operating electrical energy to 30 percent of what it would have been. First cost of the distributed powering scheme was significantly lower than that of traditional powering schemes. Life cycle cost is greatly reduced by the lower first cost and lower operating cost provided by distributed power processing. Reliability was very closely scrutinized by computer modeling because two effects act in opposition.
Integrated weed management improves grain sorghum growth and yield on Vertisols 48 (2003)

Field trials were conducted to investigate the potential of newly introduced herbicides, smother cropping, and integration of chemical and cultural methods for effective control of weeds in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. All treatments reduced density and dry weights of dominant weeds, and increased sorghum grain yields compared to weed control plots. Three treatments gave grain yields comparable to the weed-free control, viz., smother cropping using cowpea or mungbean and using metolachlor or pendimethalin pre-emergent at 1.0 kg active ingredient (ai) ha-1 followed by one manual weeding at 45 days after seeding and metolachlor at 1.5 kg ai ha-1. All the weed management treatments were remunerative over the unweeded control and resulted in substantial economic gains. However, substantial additional profit over the clean-weeded check was obtained only with metolachlor pre-emergent at a rate of 1.5 kg ai ha-1, smother cropping using cowpea or mungbean, and with treatments that included chemical and manual weeding.
A new chemical amplification resist system based on novolac and t-BOC protected phosphazene as a dissolution inhibitor. (1992)

t-BOC protected hexakis(4-t-BOC-phenoxy)cyclotriphosphazene, TBP, was synthesized from a semiinorganic phosphazene compound and its acid-catalyzed thermal deprotection was utilized in the design of a three-component positive resist system based on the combined principles of chemical amplification and dissolution inhibition. The new resist system, PTPNS(NRI TBP/PAG), is formulated with novolac resin (NR), TBP and a photoacid generator (PAG). The dissolution characteristics of PTPNS in alkaline development are ideally suited for application to positive type resists which are based on a dissolution inhibition mechanism. The t-BOC protected TBP of the PTPNS resist system effectively acts as an acid-labile dissolution inhibitor of novolac resin when TBP concentration is more than 10 % by weight. As a representative, PTPNS(100/15/5) (by weight parts) exhibited high sensitivity in the range of 20 to 25 mJ/cm2 with contrast of 5 after exposure at 250nm light and PEB treatment at 100 to 130C. Appropriately formulated PTPNS resist rendered positive-tone patterns down to sub-half micron with high sensitivity when the resist was exposed to KrF excimer laser or electron beam and developed with 2.38 wt% tetramethylamonium hydroxide solution.
FOG BANK DETECTOR FIELD TESTS: A TECHNICAL SUMMARY (1971)

The report summarizes the results of field experiments performed at Pt. Bonita, California. The system under study, a laser LIDAR and a vertical-scanning infrared radiometer, have been discussed in detail in Report No. DOT-TSC-CG-71-3. Measurements of the peak power and shape of the return LIDAR pulse, and of the background levels, support the assumptions made in that report. The largest value of background spectral radiance measured, when a sunlit cloud fills the LIDAR receiver field-of-view, is 2 micro w/sq cm/A/sr (at 6943A). The infrared radiometer was found to be susceptible to ambiguities serious enough to eliminate this method from use as a reliable fog detector at the present time. Based on the laser backscatter results, a LIDAR fog bank detector, using a GaAlAs laser diode array as the transmitting source, is recommended and conclusions regarding its technical performance are presented.
A Tangled Web – Tau and Sporadic Parkinson's Disease (2010)

Parkinson's disease (PD) represents a major challenge for health care systems around the world: it is the most common degenerative movement disorder of old age, affecting over 100,000 people in the UK alone (Schrag et al., 2000). Despite the remarkable success of treatments directed at potentiating or replacing dopamine within the brain, which can relieve symptoms for over a decade, PD remains an incurable and invariably fatal disorder. As such, efforts to understand the processes that lead to cell death in the brains of patients with PD are a priority for neurodegenerative researchers. A great deal of progress has been made in this regard by taking advantage of advances in genetics, initially by the identification of genes responsible for rare Mendelian forms of PD (outlined in Table 1), and more recently by applying genome wide association studies (GWAS) to the sporadic form of the disease (Hardy et al., 2009). Several such GWAS have now been carried out, with a meta-analysis currently under way. Using over 6000 cases and 10,000 controls, two of these studies have identified variation at a number of loci as being associated with an increased risk of disease (Satake et al., 2009; Simon-Sanchez et al., 2009). Three genes stand out as candidates from these studies - the SNCA gene, coding for α-synuclein, the LRRK2 gene, coding for leucine rich repeat kinase 2, and MAPT, coding for the microtubule-associated protein tau. Mutations at all three of these loci have been associated with Mendelian forms of disease presenting with the clinical syndrome of Parkinsonism, however only SNCA and LRRK2 have been previously associated with pathologically defined PD (Hardy et al., 2009). Point mutations in α-synuclein, along with gene multiplication events, result in autosomal dominant PD, often with a significant dementia component. In addition to this, α-synuclein is the principle component of the main pathological hallmark of idiopathic PD, the Lewy body, making it an unsurprising hit in the GWAS (Spillantini et al., 1997). Mutations in LRRK2 are the most common genetic cause of PD, and so again made this gene a likely candidate as a susceptibility locus for the sporadic form of disease (Kumari and Tan, 2009). More surprising, perhaps, was the identification of tau as a susceptibility factor for Parkinson's. In this review we will outline the role of tau in neurodegeneration and in different forms of Parkinsonism, and speculate as to what the functional basis of the association between MAPT and PD might be.
Dopant-Segregated Schottky Source/Drain FinFET With a NiSi FUSI Gate and Reduced Leakage Current (2010)

Enhanced Dopant-segregated Schottky-barrier (DSSB) FinFETs combined with a fully silicided (FUSI) gate were fabricated via single-step Ni-silicidation. Both workfunction control of the gate and a lowered effective SB-height in the source/drain junctions are simultaneously achieved by the dopant-segregated silicidation process. Moreover, the leakage current was significantly reduced with the aid of deep source/drain implantation. Therefore, it can be expected that a DSSB device with a FUSI gate have several advantages as both a logic and nonvolatile memory device. First, for a logic device, it can provide low parasitic resistance and a tunable threshold voltage. Second, for a nonvolatile memory device, the increased workfunction due to the FUSI gate can enhance the erasing characteristics by suppressing the back tunneling of electrons from the gate side as well as the programming characteristics.
NEUROPROTECTION IN ACUTE STROKE: IS THERE STILL HOPE? (2002)

SUMMARY ∑ Efficacious treatment of acute stroke is a major challenge in modern medicine. Therapeutic neuroprotection acting towards minimization of ischemic neuronal injury in penumbral tissue in the regions of reduced cerebral blood flow seems to be an appealing concept in the treatment of acute stroke and brain trauma. The ‘ischemic cascade’, a complex mechanism of metabolic events initiated by brain ischemia, offers many pathways by which the neuroprotective agents may act. Time to treatment remains a major limiting factor for many potential neuroprotective agents. Although the exact therapeutic window is not known, evidence from many animal models and clinical research suggest that neuroprotective therapy can only be efficacious if administered very early after the onset of ischemia. Various neuroprotective agents have been tested in many clinical stroke trials during the past 20 years. Large phase III clinical trials of several classes of neuroprotectants (mainly NMDA receptor antagonists, free radical scavengers, and calcium channel blockers) have recently failed to demonstrate efficacy of neuroprotection. After initial disappointment, the active research continues and some new exciting neuroprotective models emerge on the horizon.
Comparison of six media, including a semisolid agar, for the isolation of various Campylobacter species from stool specimens (1991)

A recently described semisolid blood-free selective motility medium (SSM) (J. Goossens, L. Vlaes, I. Galand, C. Van den Borre, and J. P. Butzler, J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:1077-1080, 1989) was compared with two charcoal-based selective media (charcoal-based selective medium [CSM] and modified charcoal cefoperazone deoxycholate agar [CCDA]), two blood-based media (Skirrow medium [SKM] and CampyBAP), and a passive, 0.65-microns-pore-size cellulose acetate membrane filter technique for the recovery of campylobacters from stools of patients with diarrhea. A total of 1,980 specimens were tested, 161 of which were found to be positive for campylobacters. Campylobacter jejuni was isolated in 148 specimens (91.9%), C. coli was isolated in 27 (7.5%), and "C. upsaliensis" was isolated in 1 (0.6%). After 72 h of incubation with a single medium, the cumulative percentages of Campylobacter-positive specimens isolated on CSM, CCDA, SKM, and SSM were 87, 83, 80, and 72%, respectively. The filter method alone enabled us to recover 61% of all campylobacters. The "C. upsaliensis" strain was isolated by this method only. The highest isolation rates were observed when two media, including CSM, were combined. The combination of CSM and SSM yielded the highest rates (96%), but these were not statistically different from the rates observed with combinations of CSM and SKM (94%) or of CSM and the filter method (91%). Extending the incubation time from 48 to 72 h led to an increase in the isolation rate regardless of the medium used (P less than 0.001). CSM and CCDA were the most selective media. SKM and CampyBAP appeared to be the most inhibitory media for the isolation of C. coli.
Investment Casting (2008)

Abstract This article reviews the pattern materials used in investment casting. It describes patternmaking process, pattern tooling, and pattern and cluster assembly. The article provides information on melting equipment, casting methods, and the inspection and testing of investment casted materials. It presents recommendations that which serve as a useful guide to the design of investment castings. The article tabulates the applications of the process and illustrates the Shellvest system for investment casting of small parts. It explains the manufacturing process of ceramic shell molds and cores. Binders and materials used for ceramic shell molds; slurry and cluster formulation; and pattern removal methods in the manufacturing process are summarized. The article discusses the coating and drying process of clusters and slurries.
Holography and integral photography (1968)

RECENT REVIVAL of interest in things optical, at least for those of us who have had only a desultory brush with formal training in optics, has been stimulated in the main by the emergence of the laser. Aimed with helium–neon, argon cw lasers and ruby pulsed lasers, many former microwave or laser physicists and electrical engineers have turned to exploring and exploiting that art of lensless photography called “holography.” Applying concepts from other disciplines to their new field, optical neophytes have done much to reveal the manifold potential of holography. Unlettered in optical lore, they have also at times blundered into the often unrewarding task of reinventing processes whose properties and limitations have long been investigated. Nevertheless such unwitting archeology does, on occasion, exhume an old idea that may be significant to current efforts and technology. While working with laser-illumination methods for recording and reconstructing three-dimensional images without lenses, holographers have become aware of older 3D image-recording techniques requiring myriads of lenslets. Whether lensless or lenslet, each of these (autostereoscopic) methods allows observation of a 3D image without special viewing apparatus.
Challenges in Coding Adverse Events in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review (2012)

There is a lack of evidence that coding of adverse events is a reliable, unbiased and reproducible process. The increase in categories has made detecting adverse events harder, potentially compromising safety. It is crucial that readers of medical publications are aware of these challenges. Comprehensive interobserver studies are needed.
Excimer laser photolysis studies of photoinduced aggregation in polymers containing spiropyran units (1985)

Recent study of photoinduced processes in spiropyran systems of monomers and polymers with units such as I-A and II-A, leading to aggregation and quasi-crystal formation, has led to several publications.1-4 To determine whether there is a relationship between photoinduced conformational changes in polymers containing spiropyran units and photoinduced processes leading to spontaneous aggregation in I-A and II-A1 we have conducted a time-resolved study of homopolymer and copolymer solutions.5
Employment Status Among Cancer Survivors (2009)

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Quantum computing classical physics (2002)

In the past decade, quantum algorithms have been found which outperform the best classical solutions known for certain classical problems as well as the best classical methods known for simulation of certain quantum systems. This suggests that they may also speed up the simulation of some classical systems. I describe one class of discrete quantum algorithms which do so--quantum lattice-gas automata--and show how to implement them efficiently on standard quantum computers.
Renal Damage Associated with Silicon Compounds in Dogs (1970)

A number of oral preparations of various forms of silicon were fed to young adult Beagle dogs and young rats of both sexes for a period of four weeks. During the test period the animals were observed for clinical symptoms and urine and blood measurements were made. At the end of the experimental period all animals were sacrificed and subjected to a complete necropsy and histopathologic study. Polydipsia, polyuria, and soft stools in some animals fed sodium silicate and magnesium trisilicate were the only untoward clinical signs observed; all clinical tests on blood and urine were within normal limits. Gross and microscopic renal lesions were observed in dogs fed sodium silicate and magnesium trisilicate but no changes were seen in those animals fed silicon dioxide or aluminium silicate. Lesions were not observed in any of the rats. In view of the large number of commercial preparations which contain sodium silicate and magnesium trisilicate used in human medicine, these compounds deserve further study.