gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Modified Goniotomy for Inflammatory Glaucoma (1980)

A modified goniotomy (trabeculodialysis) was performed on both eyes of a 33-year-old woman who had glaucoma secondary to sarcoid uveitis. One month after trabeculodialysis, a cataract extraction was performed on one eye and a histologic specimen was obtained from the area of the filtration angle that was previously incised. Successful control of intraocular pressure has been maintained in both eyes for 18 months following trabeculodialysis. By light and electron microscopic examination, there was a nonhealed incision between the anterior chamber and Schlemm's canal. Trabeculodialysis, it is concluded, works by providing direct communication between the anterior chamber and Schlemm's canal, and might be effective in all trabecular obstructive glaucoma of short duration before secondary changes occur in the outer drainage channels.
Quantitative structure-activity relationships of antiarrhythmic drugs. (1998)

A Comprehensive review of quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies on antiarrhythmic agents is presented. From the discussion point of view, the antiarrhythmic agents have been put into two broad classes: specific and nonspecific. While the main members of the former class can be beta-adrenergic blocking agents (beta-blockers), any chemical that can act directly on the myocardial cell membrane, producing a cardiodepressant effect via changes in basic electrophysiological properties of the membrane, such as automaticity, excitability, conductivity, and refractoriness, has been put in the latter class. QSARs exhibit that the biological actions of a variety of drugs belonging to any class depend primarily on the lipophilic haracter of the molecule or substituents. Thus, the hydrophobic interaction is found to play a dominant role in the action of antiarrhythmic agents. In certain cases, the QSARs also exhibit the role of electronic parameters, suggesting that certain receptors may have electronic site also, permitting the drugs to involve in some electronic interactions, too.
Generation of Spectrally Efficient Nyquist-WDM QPSK Signals using DSP Techniques at Transmitter (2012)

We investigate complexity and performance of transmitter DSP for Nyquist-WDM QPSK and show that filters with less than 20 taps can reduce the channel spacing to 1.1 times the symbol rate within a 1-dB penalty.
DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS BASIC NEEDS OF THE FAMILY FOR NURSING CARE IN THE GARUT REGENCY OF WEST JAVA, INDONESIA (2015)

The implementation of family nursing care by nurses in the Garut Regency of West Java of Indonesia posses a problem. The is due to the lack of documentation of family nursing process. According to the report of Cilacap Inpatient Health Center (2010) the average assessment at this stage is only 23.81%. This study aims to provide a new option for nurses to conduct a study to assess the basic needs of the family.
This study used the method of investigation and development. Researchers prepare and developed assessment instruments and subsequently tested with the nurses to determine the suitability. The results of the study revealed that based on research development that the basic needs of the family consist of biological needs, economic, spiritual, social, and psychological.
Therefore it can be concluded that based on the results of research it can be stated that almost all of the respondents (76.5%) declared suitability of nursing care but only small proportion of respondents (23.5%) said that family nursing assessment is not suitable, based on the basic needs of the family.
Deployable Structural Element Based on Bennett Linkages (2001)

Abstract The Bennett linkage is a 3D over-constrained linkage consisting of four pieces with the axes of rotation neither parallel nor concurrent. In this paper, we present the result of our investigation of whether the Bennett linkage can achieve the highest expansion/packaging ratio for the purpose of using it as basic units of large foldable structures. Based on the conditions of compact folding and maximum expansion we have proved that special forms of the Bennett linkage exist which enables the mechanism to be folded to a bundle. Under certain circumstance, the said forms also allow the mechanism to be flattened (expanded) to a rhombus. Hence, effective deployable element can be created from the Bennett linkages. This work has paved the way for using such a 3-d mechanism as basic construction unit for large deployable structures.
A Survey of Proposed Architectures for the Execution of Functional Languages (1984)

Functional and imperative programming languages are characterized and compared with regard to programming style and efficiency. Machine design issues, are characterized by interconnection topology, evaluation strategy, program and data representation, process management, and dynamic optimization techniques; short descriptions of a number of "functional" machines are given in terms of these issues. Multiprocessor issues and systems are particularly emphasized. Outstanding problems in the area are reviewed and an overall evaluation of proposed machines is given.
Integration of omnidirectional wrapped microstrip antennas into laptops (2006)

The integration of a novel quasi-omnidirectional low-profile microstrip antenna element into laptop computers is proposed. The antenna structure is obtained by wrapping a patch element around the top edge of the laptop screen. The antenna is fed by a microstrip inverted line, which can be easily integrated inside the plastic display cover. Experimental results show that very good total power radiation pattern omnidirectionality and an adequate coverage of the whole 2.4-GHz ISM band are achieved. An antenna with six elements and low-mutual coupling, aiming at multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) arrangements, has been fabricated and tested. Experimental results confirm the fulfillment of the requirements for MIMO applications in laptops.
A framework for applications utilizing Web services with callbacks (2005)

In this paper, we report on a client-side framework that allows applications to consume Web services that adhere to the callback pattern in the context of network security schemes. This framework supports extensions of the callback pattern such as the one-request-multiple-response pattern, also allows the applications to consume the callback results in a flexible way.
Management of chronic hepatitis B infection (2015)

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a global health problem that can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although HBV vaccination has reduced the prevalence Of HBV infection, the burden of disease remains high. Treatment with antiviral drugs reduces the risk of liver disease and the development of HCC, and it can even reverse liver fibrosis. However, challenges remain regarding optimal timing, as well as the modality and duration of treatment. Currently approved drugs include pegylated interferon and nucleos(t)ide analogs. Nucleos(t)ide analogs are better tolerated and provide excellent viral suppression with a low risk of antiviral resistance, but pegylated interferon offers the benefit of a finite duration of treatment. Monitoring of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels may help to predict the likelihood of response to treatment, particularly for pegylated interferon. Prolonged treatment is usually needed with oral antiviral agents, and relapse is common if treatment is discontinued. New treatments that result in sustained clearance of HBV DNA and the clearance of HBsAg are needed.
The 21st ACM North American computer chess championship (1991)

After twenty years of traveling from city to city across the United States, the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship came back to the place of its birth, the New York Hilton Hotel, where the competitions began in 1970. This latest five-round event ended in a two-way tie for first place between MEPHISTO and DEEP THOUGHT/88. Finishing in a two-way tie for third place were HITECH and M CHESS. A total of 10 teams participated, and the level of play was at the low grandmaster level. A special three-round end-game championship was won by MEPHISTO, who also captured the prize for the best Small Computing System. A total of $8000 in prizes was divided up among the winners.
Character of Channel Polarization in Symmetric Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channel (2016)

Channel polarization is a new method for constructing capacity-achieving codes on binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC). How the block length, the erasure probability and threshold of the polarization affect the level of polarization is studied in this paper. Simulation results show that the polarization phenomenon becomes more and more obviously with the increase of the block length and the decrease of the erasure probability. Furthermore, the smaller the threshold of the polarization, the fewer the number of polarization channels is.
High-volume fly ash concrete technology (1992)

A research project is being carried out at the Center for By-Products Utilization, UW-Milwaukee on structural grade concrete containing low cement and high volumes of fly ash. This report is primarily concerned with the literature information on high-volume fly ash concrete. Information regarding mixture proportioning techniques, fresh concrete properties, mechanical and durability properties of hardened concrete, etc. were reviewed. The properties of fresh concrete included workability, pumpability, cohesiveness, bleeding, water demand, time of set, etc. The mechanical properties of concrete reviewed were compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural strength, modulus of elasticity, shrinkage, creep, fatigue strength, etc. The concrete durability related properties studied were permeability, abrasion resistance, freeze-thaw resistance, and fatigue strength.
A Physically-Based Approach to Reflection Separation: From Physical Modeling to Constrained Optimization (2013)

We propose a physically-based approach to separate reflection using multiple polarized images with a background scene captured behind glass. The input consists of three polarized images, each captured from the same view point but with a different polarizer angle separated by 45 degrees. The output is the high-quality separation of the reflection and background layers from each of the input images. A main technical challenge for this problem is that the mixing coefficient for the reflection and background layers depends on the angle of incidence and the orientation of the plane of incidence, which are spatially varying over the pixels of an image. Exploiting physical properties of polarization for a double-surfaced glass medium, we propose a multiscale scheme which automatically finds the optimal separation of the reflection and background layers. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our approach can generate superior results to those of previous methods.
Pharmacological investigations of the cholinergic imbalance hypotheses of movement disorders and psychosis. (1978)

The hypotheses of relative cholinergic underactivity in Huntington's disease, tardive dyskinesia, mania, and schizophrenia were pharmacologically investigated, using physostigmine and choline chloride. Intravenous physostigmine improved the involuntary movements of all of four patients with tardive dyskinesia and three of six patients with Huntington's disease. Physostigmine infusion also decreased manic symptoms in six of nine patients with mania, but had no beneficial effects in three patients with schizophrenia. Precursorloading with choline chloride may increase brain acetylcholine levels and central cholinergic activity. In patients with movement disorders a transient improvement during physostigmine infusion predicted a positive response to a trial of oral choline chloride. One manic patient may have been improved by choline chloride, however choline chloride did not improve symptoms in four of six schizophrenix patients. Chronic treatment with oral choline chloride increases plasma levels of choline during administration and for approximately 48 hr after discontinuation of treatment. A single 5-g dose of choline chloride also transiently raises plasma choline levels. These results with physostigmine support the hypotheses of cholinergic underactivity in Huntington's disease, tardive dyskinesia, and mania. Agents which might chronically increase cholinergic activity such as choline chloride should be further tested in these disorders.
Gestão socioambiental em ONGS:um olhar a partir do desempenho empresarial e suas percepções como stakeholders de outras organizações / Social environmental management in NGOS: a look from the business performance and their perceptions as stakeholders (2014)

The reflection of environmental management is felt by the entire chain of stakeholders of an organization. Within the environmental context, the NGOs act as important actors in the dissemination and engagement, being one of the key stakeholders which relate to the company. This article aims to discuss the concept of environmental management from the performance of environmental NGOs in Uberlândia/MG, checking their perception as one of all stakeholders from organizations. The research is descriptive and exploratory. Data collection started from semi-structured interviews with managers and research websites of entities. The results of this study show the relevance of the subject; how the environmental management of the NGOs involves both aspects of environmental and social; and the difficulty to relate and act together with government agencies and private sector, given the different goals that each ball has when it comes to environmental management.
Chasing errors through the network stack: a testbed for investigating errors in real traffic on optical networks (2005)

A testbed is described that allows both physical layer errors to be observed and analyzed, as well as monitoring network performance via frame loss. Real network traffic loads can be used for testing so that all measurements taken are representative of what would be seen in a deployed system. We illustrate our testbed with an examination of the behavior of a well-known networking standard, Gigabit Ethernet, in conditions of reduced receiver power on optical fiber. Our testbed results show that the line codes used to represent the data in the network affect the bit error rate for that data. Along with the previously reported result that bit error rate and packet error rate have only a weakly deterministic relationship, this highlights the need for testing of all network layers within a complete system carrying real-world traffic.
Domain modeling for reuse (2002)

The paper presents a theory for reuse of domain knowledge during requirements engineering. The theory includes a set of formal and reusable domain abstractions, a computational analogical reasoning mechanism for their retrieval and tool support to enable both effective requirements modeling and critiquing and guided fact capture prior to retrieval. It was developed as part of the ESPRIT 6353 'Nature' basic research action. The paper argues that the theory has implications for domain modeling as well as domain knowledge reuse during requirements engineering.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
105 Extraction Method of Fault Component on Acoustic Signals Generated by an Outboard Marine Engine Based on Characteristic of Paralleled Auto Regressive Model with Extra Input. (2010)

The fault diagnosis by acoustic signals on reciprocal engine is more difficult than independent mechanical elements, because almost reciprocal engine is composed of great number of structural bodies and mechanical elements. Reciprocal engine find it hard to identify of fault elements to exist a number of noise sources within the engine. This paper experimentally examines the possibility of diagnose fault conditions about a four stroke outboard marine engine based on generated acoustic signals measured by two microphones. Artificially assumed fault condition in the outboard engine is concerning intake and exhaust valve spring. Identification of above the fault conditions has been carried out based on cross correlation function of close two points signals and paralleled ARX model (Auto Regressive with Extra Input) at diagnosed location within the engine. It is possible to diagnose above fault condition by the proposal SN ratio improvement method.
Preclinical toxicologic evaluation of ICRF-187 in dogs. (1980)

Single- and multiple-treatment schedule in dogs were used to evaluate the toxicity of ICRF-187. The major target organs were the bone marrow, lymphoid tissue, gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidney. Liver, kidney, and intestinal toxic effects were most severe at lethal doses. Toxic effects on the kidney and intestinal tract were reduced or absent at lower doses. Hepatotoxicity was most severe after single doses and was only slowly reversible at high doses. Repeated dosage regimens had the greatest effect on circulating blood cells, and anemia and neutropenia were most prominent after three series of five daily doses with rest periods between series. ICRF-187 was more toxic to dogs in terms of total dose received when administered in five daily doses than in single doses. A rest period between series of five daily doses allowed a larger total dose to be administered.
Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Residual Stresses of Advanced Polymer Composites (2007)

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Evaluation of Established Methods of Decarbonating Beer (1992)

AbstractVarious methods of decarbonating beer were evaluated to identify the best method of preparing a beer sample for chemical analysis, particularly for the determination of alcohol and real extract. Beer samples were decarbonated by ultrasonic bath, filtration, a combination of ultrasonic bath and filtration, pouring (the repeated transfer of beer from one beaker to another), and ASBC method Beer-1A. The samples then were analyzed by a Servo Chem Automated Beer Analyzer for alcohol and real extract and by a LAN-1 carbonation analyzer for carbon dioxide. Samples prepared by ASBC method Beer-1A and the pouring method showed the lowest levels of carbon dioxide and real extract. An alcohol loss of from 0.05 to 0.07% (w/w) was observed in samples prepared by the pouring method; samples prepared by all other methods showed alcohol values within 0.02% (w/w), with samples prepared by ultrasonic bath tending to show the highest alcohol values. In addition, samples prepared by ultrasonic bath, filtration, and a combination of ultrasonic bath and filtration all showed approximately the same level of carbon dioxide and real extract. The error introduced by residual carbon dioxide in a sample was calculated to be approximately 0.0125% (w/w) real extract for each 0.1 volume of carbon dioxide.KeywordsAlcoholCarbon dioxideDecarbonationLAN-1 carbonation analyzerReal extractSCABA
Automatic Texturing of 3D Models of Urban Areas Using Image Sequences from Airborne TIR Cameras (2015)

The goal of this work is to investigate an automatic texturing of 3D building models by airborne thermal infrared image sequences taken in an oblique view. For an exact co-registration, a line-based model-to-image matching considering uncertainties of image and model features was developed. A quality measure to assess the texture extraction was introduced. Experiments on an urban scene captured by helicopter shown that additional line tracking through the image sequence supports significantly the matching.
The Prognostic Implications of Microscopic Satellites in Patients With Clinical Stage I Melanoma (1991)

Controversy exists as to whether microscopic satellites influence prognosis or patterns of progressive disease in patients with clinical stage I melanoma. Fifty patients with clinical stage I melanoma and microscopic satellites were prospectively studied from 1972 to 1984. To allow for complete histopathology assessment, 30 patients with microscopic satellites who were prospectively seen from 1972 to 1979 were matched to a cohort of 77 patients with vertical growth-phase melanoma without microscopic satellites according to six attributes. The matched cohort study showed that the presence of microscopic satellites appeared to be associated with increased local regional cutaneous and regional nodal disease and a significantly decreased actuarial disease-free survival. A Cox multivariate regression analysis that involved 384 patients with vertical growth-phase clinical stage I melanoma showed that the presence of microscopic satellites independently predicted a poorer disease-free survival and overall survival. Therefore, this study demonstrated that the presence of microscopic satellites correlated with a significantly decreased survival.
New Biochemical Markers for Heart Diseases (1998)

The practice of cardiology continues to evolve with a better understanding of the pathophysiology of coronary artery diseases and the development of new therapeutic modalities. Although many groups, such as the American Heart Association, have been successful in making the general public better aware of risk factors, the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD)* continues to be very high, because the average age of the population in Western countries continues to increase. As such, there are new demands being placed on the in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) industry to improve the performance of existing cardiac markers and to develop novel markers for new cardiac disease indications.
Degradation of tomato pathogenesis‐related proteins by an endogenous 37‐kDa aspartyl endoproteinase (1989)

As a response to the stress induced by different afflicting agents, tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum) produce the so-called 'pathogenesis-related' proteins. Here we report the degradation of some of these proteins by a constitutive endoproteolytic activity that co-distributes with pathogenesis-related proteins in the intercellular spaces of tomato leaves infected with citrus exocortis viroid. This endoproteinase was purified, showing a pH optimum of 2.5-3.5, a Mr of 37,000 and selective inhibition by pepstatin. In crude homogenates, the enzyme does not seem to degrade other cellular proteins. This specificity indicates that the proteinase might be involved in the extracellular degradative pathway of pathogenesis-related proteins and in the regulation of their biological function.
An introduction to wavelet transforms: a tutorial approach (2003)

Non-destructive testing (NDT) and condition monitoring techniques are among the most rapidly developing engineering disciplines. In the past decade methods have been sought to enable real-time or on-line analysis of degradation in structures ( 1 - 3 ) . Methods developed in the 1980s based on modal analysis ( 4 ) have resurfaced, partly due to new developments in signal processing. Many of the on-line NDT techniques currently under research utilise wavelet transforms ( 5 - 9 ) to decompose spatial signals into the time/frequency domain. The aim of this paper therefore, is to provide a friendly tutorial to the two most commonly used forms of the wavelet transform. It is hoped that this article will provide interested readers with sufficient knowledge of the subject to allow productive usage of the various software packages offering wavelet technologies. Being aware of the building knowledge provided both by literature and the internet, a list of useful references and world-wide-web links has been provided at the end of the paper.