gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Design of an observer for the permanent magnet synchronous motor (1991)

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991.
On the Support Vector Machine (2003)

Classification is a fundamental problem at the intersection of machine learning and statistics. Machine learning methods have enjoyed considerable empirical success. However, they often have an ad hoc quality. It is desirable to have hard theoretical results which might highlight specific quantitative advantages of these methods. The statistical methods often tackle the classification problem through density estimation or regression. Theoretical properties of these statistical methods can be established, but only under the assumption of a fixed order of smoothness. Whether these methods work well when the assumptions are violated is not clear. The support vector machine (SVM) methodology is a rapidly growing area in machine learning, and is receiving considerable attention in recent years. The SVM has proved highly successful in a number of practical classification studies. In this paper we show that the SVM enjoys excellent theoretical properties which explain the good performance of the SVM. We show that the SVM approaches the the theoretical optimal classification rule (the Bayes rule) in a direct fashion, and its expected misclassification
Glioma chemotherapy sensitization mediated by base excision repair inhibition and its potential application (2010)

The incidence and mortality of brain tumors have not changed over the last 3 decades and pose a significant burden on the healthcare system of the United States. Temozolomide (TMZ) is the preferred chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of brain tumors and base excision repair (BER) is a major mechanism for the repair of TMZ-induced DNA base lesions. BER inhibition, either by interrupting the delicate balance of the expression of key BER proteins or by chemical inhibitors, enhances cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic DNA damaging agents such as TMZ. Understanding the mechanisms of enhanced cytotoxicity brought on by BER inhibition has great public health significance. By using DNA polymerase ß (Polß) deficiency as a model of BER inhibition, I report that DNA damage-induced cytotoxicity due to Polß deficiency triggers cell death dependent on PARP activation yet independent of poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) or PAR-catabolite signaling. Cell death is rescued by the NAD+ metabolite NMN and is synergistic with inhibition of NAD+ biosynthesis demonstrating that DNA damage-induced cytotoxicity mediated via BER inhibition is primarily dependent on cellular metabolite bioavailability. I offer a mechanistic justification for the elevated alkylation-induced cytotoxicity of Polß deficient cells, suggesting a linkage between DNA repair, cell survival and cellular bioenergetics. Resistance to TMZ is partially attributed to efficient repair of TMZ-induced DNA lesions. Using the human glioma cell lines LN428 and T98G, I report here that potentiation of TMZ via BER inhibition (methoxyamine (MX), the PARP inhibitors PJ34 and ABT-888 or depletion (knockdown) of PARG) is greatly enhanced by increasing BER initiation via over-expression of MPG. I also show that MX-induced potentiation of TMZ in MPG expressing glioma cells is abrogated by elevated-expression of the rate-limiting BER enzyme Polß, suggesting that cells proficient for BER readily repair AP sites even in the presence of MX. This study demonstrates that increased initiation of BER via MPG over-expression, together with inhibition of repair following initiation, further sensitizes glioma cells to alkylating agent TMZ, suggesting that the expression level of MPG might be used to predict the effectiveness of BER inhibition-induced potentiation of TMZ in glioma cells.
Statistics and Time Dependence of Mechanical Breakdown in Fibers (1958)

A new phenomenological approach to quantitative discussions of the statistics and time dependence of mechanical breakdown is presented. The theory permits the prediction of relationships between the lifetime distributions to be observed for fibers under different loading histories: dead loads, loads proportional to time, and periodic loads. It also permits the calculation of relationships between the strength of separated individual filaments and the strength of bundles of filaments. The present formulation of the theory is more general than the author's previous work on this subject in that the fibers considered here can ``remember'' their past history as far as breakdown is concerned. It is shown that in the case of periodic loadings, depending on the choice of certain arbitrary functions, the theory can be used to discuss either time-dependent fatigue or cycle-dependent fatigue. The relationships between the present approach and the static models used in classical theories of tensile strength distributions for single filaments and bundles are discussed. This article consists of a formal, axiomatic development of the theory. Future publications will contain detailed comparisons of the various results with available experimental data.
Silver and Antibiotic, New Facts to an Old Story (2018)

The therapeutic arsenal against bacterial infections is rapidly shrinking, as drug resistance spreads and pharmaceutical industry are struggling to produce new antibiotics. In this review we cover the efficacy of silver as an antibacterial agent. In particular we recall experimental evidences pointing to the multiple targets of silver, including DNA, proteins and small molecules, and we review the arguments for and against the hypothesis that silver acts by enhancing oxidative stress. We also review the recent use of silver as an adjuvant for antibiotics. Specifically, we discuss the state of our current understanding on the potentiating action of silver ions on aminoglycoside antibiotics.
Network Solutions Selling Database Information (2001)

VeriSign, the Web’s largest domain name registrar, said it is stepping up its efforts to sell marketers some of the routine information gathered when a company registers a Web address with its subsidiary, Network Solutions Inc.
UP-DETR: Unsupervised Pre-training for Object Detection with Transformers (2020)

DEtection TRansformer (DETR) for object detection reaches competitive performance compared with Faster R-CNN via a transformer encoder-decoder architecture. However, trained with scratch transformers, DETR needs large-scale training data and an extreme long training schedule even on COCO dataset. Inspired by the great success of pre-training transformers in natural language processing, we propose a novel pretext task named random query patch detection in Unsupervised Pre-training DETR (UP-DETR). Specifically, we randomly crop patches from the given image and then feed them as queries to the decoder. The model is pre-trained to detect these query patches from the input image. During the pre-training, we address two critical issues: multi-task learning and multi-query localization. (1) To trade off classification and localization preferences in the pretext task, we find that freezing the CNN backbone is the prerequisite for the success of pre-training transformers. (2) To perform multi-query localization, we develop UP-DETR with multi-query patch detection with attention mask. Besides, UP-DETR also provides a unified perspective for fine-tuning object detection and one-shot detection tasks. In our experiments, UP-DETR significantly boosts the performance of DETR with faster convergence and higher average precision on object detection, one-shot detection and panoptic segmentation. Code and pre-training models: https://github.com/dddzg/up-detr.
Speaker Adaptive Training and Mixup Regularization for Neural Network Acoustic Models in Automatic Speech Recognition (2018)

International audience
Mixed Barrier Model for the Mixed Glass Former Effect in Ion Conducting Glasses (2009)

Mixing two types of glass formers in ion conducting glasses can be exploited to lower conductivity activation energy and thereby increasing the ionic conductivity, a phenomenon known as the mixed glass former effect (MGFE). We develop a model for this MGFE, where activation barriers for individual ion jumps get lowered in inhomogeneous environments containing both types of network forming units. Fits of the model to experimental data allow one to estimate the strength of the barrier reduction, and they indicate a spatial clustering of the two types of network formers. The model predicts a time-temperature superposition of conductivity spectra onto a common master curve independent of the mixing ratio.
Control Efficacy of Fungicide Injection on Oak Wilt in the Field (2014)

참나무 시들음병(병원균 Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae)은 2004년 국내에 처음 발견되어 그 피해가 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 이번 연구에서는 참나무 시들음병 방제를 위한 나무주사용 살균제를 선발하기 위해 실내시험과 포장시험을 실시하였다. 실내검정에서는 10종의 살균제와 1종의 항생제를 이용하여 국내균주 R. quercus-mongolicae와 일본균주 R. quercivora에 대한 생육억제효과를 조사하였다. 국내균주에 대해서는 chlorothalonil, benomyl, propiconazole 순으로 생육억제효과가 높게 나타났으며, 일본균주에 대해서는 propiconazole, benomyl, bitertanol 순으로 나타났다. 국내균주와 일본균주에 대하여 실내 항균효과가 우수하였던 약제 중 침투이행성이 우수한 propiconazole을 이용하여 약제방제 포장시험을 실시하였다. 그 결과 나무주사 처리 당해 연도 방제효과는 87.5%, 처리 다음 연도 방제효과는 66.7%까지 나타나 약제처리 효과는 적어도 1년 이상이었다. Oak wilt caused by Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae was first noticed in South Korea in 2004 and, ever since, its distribution and damage have been increasing. To screen a fungicide effective for oak wilt control by tree injection, laboratory and field experiments were conducted. Ten fungicides and one antibiotic were examined in vivo for their effectiveness in restricting the growth of R. quercus-mongolicae and R. quercivora (Japanese oak wilt pathogen) isolates. To the Korean isolates of R. quercus-mongolicae, chlorothalonil showed the highest fungicidal effects, followed by benomyl and propiconazole. To the Japanese one, propiconazole was highest in the fungicidal effectiveness, followed by benomyl and bitertanol. Propiconazole was selected for field-testing of its control efficacy because it showed good fungicidal effects in vitro and systemic activity. The control efficacy in the field was 87.5% in the first year of injection and 66.7% in the second year, indicating the fungicidal effects last at least over one year.
3D Image-Based Rendering Technique for Mobile Handheld Devices (2006)

This paper presents an architecture for the rendering of 3D scenes on wireless and mobile devices that comprises a novel lightweight rendering algorithm and a fault tolerant local cache management mechanism. Both the rendering algorithm and the cache management mechanism are based on the interpolation model of image-based rendering. Our proposed algorithm places loose restriction on source camera placement and uses easily available source data. Results have shown that the rendering performance of the proposed algorithm is better compared to other known algorithms described in literature. Moreover, the achieved real-time response time obtained from the results makes our algorithm a promising solution for 3D rendering in wireless devices.
Perceptual masking of spondees by combinations of talkers (1975)

Masked threshold for spondees were obtained in (1) steady-state speech spectrum noise, (2) speech spectrum noise modulated by seven talker combinations, and (3) the seven talker combinations. These combinations were 1, 2, 3, 16, 32, 64, and 128 voices speaking continuous discourse. The longterm spectra of all maskers were equalized to a common level by averaging their intensity disparities across the 20 AI bands that contribute to intelligibility. Subsequent excesses in masking by a talker combination over masking by the companion condition of modulated noise are attributable to centrally mediated interference arising because the speech masker and the target signal are more perceptually similar than the target and the modulated noise are. This interference, which we have termed perceptual masking, appeared in the presence of all seven combinations of voices. It averaged 6.2 dB with the one talker and 7.2 dB with the two-voice background. The maximum (9.8 dB) was reached with three talkers. Thereafter it decreased, stabilizing at about 3 dB with 64 talkers. [Supported by NINCDS, NS-09442.]
The role of the molecular laboratory in the investigation of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections. (1999)

The importance of infections with Streptococcus pneumoniae is being increasingly recognized. This has been emphasised by the emergence and international dissemination of penicillin-resistant strains. These factors challenge modern microbiologists to use molecular tools to speed the process of the diagnosis of S pneumoniae at each of the stages: rapid diagnosis, culture identification, and typing. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been used to amplify a number of different targets for primary diagnosis of pneumonia, meningitis, otitis media, and bacteraemia. This may provide a rapid diagnosis in patients who have been partially treated with antibiotics and increase the diagnostic yield in clinical trials of antimicrobial agents and new vaccines. A new development is the use of PCR to rapidly determine penicillin susceptibility. Several different experimental protocols are reviewed. In the past serotyping using the capsule swelling, or Quellung reaction was the only typing method available. Recent insight into epidemiology and population genetics of S pneumoniae has shown that this technique is inadequate to study the transmission of this organism. New molecular typing techniques have been developed including Field version gel electrophoresis, ribotyping, restriction fragment end labeling, BOX PCR, and random amplification of polymorphic DNA. As these methods become available to clinicians, they will gain more understanding of the way in which this organism interacts with human populations.
Moody Tunes: The Rockanango Project. (2006)

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Design and implementation of face recognition-aided IPTV adaptive group recommendation system based on NLMS algorithm (2012)

The prototype of multi-facial recognition technique-aided internet protocol television (IPTV) system named “EyeTV” is introduced in this study. EyeTV applies Xbox's IP camera - KINECT to be the eye of TV for capturing facial features of users, and the multi-facial recognition technique is employed to recognize the user's identity. The users who watch the videos together are taken as a group, and then the system would automatically memorize the watching history for that group. Besides, the proposed normalized least mean square (NLMS)-based group recommendation technique is embedded in EyeTV for making video recommendation to the memorized groups via their watching history. Group recommendation technique helps group members to make decision quickly without too much time in discussion or debate of video selection. The proposed NLMS-based group recommendation method takes the interactions among the group members for providing more reasonable recommended results.
Antimycotic activity of Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil and its major components (2003)

This study provides a sample large enough to determine the antifungal properties of TTO and terpinen-4-olo and suggests further studies for a possible therapeutic use.
Setting Multiple Relations in dBASE III (1987)

Inexperienced database builders may mistakenly build an all‐in‐one record format, a sort of data grab bag into which they toss all the entities that they are tracking. The bill for this careless approach comes due when they have to maintain this clumsy hodge‐podge.
Ultrafast graphene and carbon nanotube film patterning by picosecond laser pulses (2016)

Carbon nanomaterials is among the most promising technologies for advanced electronic applications, due to their extraordinary chemical and physical properties. Nonetheless, after more than two decades of intensive research, the application of carbon-based nanostructures in real electronic and optoelectronic devices is still a big challenge due to lack of scalable integration in microelectronic manufacturing. Laser processing is an attractive tool for graphene device manufacturing, providing a large variety of processes through direct and indirect interaction of laser beams with graphene lattice: functionalization, oxidation, reduction, etching and ablation, growth, etc. with resolution down to the nanoscale. Focused laser radiation allows freeform processing, enabling fully mask-less fabrication of devices from graphene and carbon nanotube films. This concept is attractive to reduce costs, improve flexibility, and reduce alignment operations, by producing fully functional devices in single direct-write operations. In this paper, a picosecond laser with a wavelength of 515 nm and pulse width of 30 ps is used to pattern carbon nanostructures in two ways: ablation and chemical functionalization. The light absorption leads to thermal ablation of graphene and carbon nanotube film under the fluence 60-90 J/cm<sup>2</sup> with scanning speed up to 2 m/s. Just under the ablation energy, the two-photon absorption leads to add functional groups to the carbon lattice which change the optical properties of graphene. This paper shows the results of controlled modification of geometrical configuration and the physical and chemical properties of carbon based nanostructures, by laser direct writing.
설문조사에서의 질문문항순서 및 선택지순서 효과: 한국문화 측정 문항을 중심으로 (2017)

본 연구에서는 설문조사에서 설문을 구성하는 방식, 특히 설문문항 자체의 질문 순서(응답자들이 응답하게 되는 순서) 및 각 문항의 선택지 순서효과에 대해 실증적으로 검증하였다. 다른 조건들을 동일하게 한 상태에서 질문문항 및 선택지 순서효과만을 분석하기 위해, 동일한 응답자를 대상으로 서로 다른 2번의 시점에서 자료를 수집하였고, 이렇게 수집한 299개의 자료에 대하여 요인분석 및 선형혼합모형분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과 질문문항순서에서 범주 제시방식·순차 제시방식·무작위 제시방식으로 각각 문항의 배열을 달리하였을 때 일부 요인구조에 유의미한 차이가 있음을 발견하였다. 선택지순서 역시 같은 문항에 대해 선택지 순서만 달리하여도 각각의 응답 평균값 간에 유의미한 차이가 있음을 발견하였다. 본 연구는 지금까지 행정학 분야에서 중요하게 여기지 않았지만 설문결과에 영향을 줄 수 있는 순서효과에 대한 이해와 실증적 분석결과를 제시했다는 점에서 학술적 의미를 가진다고 볼 수 있다.
The Solexol Process (1949)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTThe Solexol ProcessHerbert J. PassinoCite this: Ind. Eng. Chem. 1949, 41, 2, 280–287Publication Date (Print):February 1, 1949Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 February 1949https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ie50470a016https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50470a016research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views136Altmetric-Citations57LEARN 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
Effects of step salinity gradients on salmon lice larvae behaviour and dispersal (2019)

In trying to deal with the problematic salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis in salmon aquaculture, strategies to better prevent infestations are gaining traction. Successful prevention requires an accurate understanding of the environmental influences that alter the distribution of the planktonic stages of lice in the water column in space and time. Here, we tested the salinity preferences of nauplii and copepodid larval stages using step salinity column experiments. Under consistent temperature and lighting conditions, we created step gradients using a bottom layer of full salinity (34.7 ppt), with an upper layer of equal or lower salinity (~34.7 to 16 ppt). Lice entered the column in the lower layer and dispersed for 1 h before their position was recorded. Both nauplii and copepodids increasingly avoided the overlying layers as they became more brackish. However, the strength of avoidance differed between nauplii and copepodids. Nauplii almost completely avoided salinities below 30 ppt. For copepodids, there was a more gradual decline in the proportion preferring the less saline overlying layer, and the presence of some individuals occurred even at 16 to 20 ppt. Both stages aggregated at or just below the halocline, with no aggregation evident in isohaline columns at the same depth. For nauplii, clustering within the halocline was particularly strong. When integrated into a sea lice dispersal model, the new salinity preferences we determined markedly altered dispersal patterns in scenarios when salinity gradients were present. Our results have implications for the mapping of salmon lice larval behaviour and dispersal, with benefits for aquaculture planning and management.
Health and lifestyles of homeless people: an analysis of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority survey of the "temporary" homeless population (1993)

EVIDENCE of the extensive interest now exhibited in the lifestyle of different populations is provided by the growth of district and regionally based health and lifestyle surveys. Typically, such studies under-represent the less privileged members of society such as homeless people. In North West Thames RHA such a survey was undertaken in spring 1991 amongst the 'temporary' homeless population living in bed and breakfast hotels, as well as regional residents. Overall, 319 homeless people and 8,251 regional residents were interviewed. A high prevalence of smoking, low rates of exercise and poor diet were observed amongst the homeless sample as compared to the resident population. Rates of completed childhood immunisation compared favourably with that observed for the regional resident population. Implications for policy-making are discussed, including the need to address the root causes of homeless people's disadvantage, linking health promotion and the wider arena of social policy.
Determination of Thickness, Dielectric Constant of Thiol Films, and Kinetics of Adsorption Using Surface Plasmon Resonance (2004)

This paper describes the formation of a self-assembled monolayer of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA) under different concentrations on a gold sensor disk, monitoring in situ and in real time using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR). The film thickness and dielectric constant were determined for a fully formed monolayer using one-color approach SPR. The kinetic studies of the film formation in ethanol solution indicated that the self-assembled monolayer is formed in a two-step adsorption process. In this sense, this unpublished route was applied on the basis of a model where many molecules are adsorbed at an initial step and then can be desorbed and/or rearranged to form a perfect monolayer.