gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
SCALE-MODEL TESTS FOR FULL-DEPTH PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL-DECKED COMPOSITE BRIDGE SPAN (1984)

The Texas Transportation Institute under the joint sponsorship of the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the FHWA, has undertaken a multi-year research program to investigate the strength and structural performance of a bridge deck system using fuIl-depth precast concrete slab panel modules supported on steel stringers. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the full range of behavior of a composite bridge deck system that uses epoxy mortar and shear studs as joint material for a modular construction using full-depth, full-width precast concrete panels with block-outs. Understanding this behavior would facilitate the use of such a method for rapid bridge deck construction and rehabilitation. The first phase of this program, a series of static load testing on a one-third scale laboratory model, has recently been completed. The design and detailed construction of the scale model, the details and results of the load testing and the evaluation of the results are presented in this paper. The results indicate that within the elastic stress range, the construction system described here would develop composite action in a satisfactory manner.
Fluoreszenz-in-situ-Hybridisierung (FISH): eine Methode zur Detektion von Tumorzellen in Präparaten mit niedriger Zellzahl beim nichtkleinzelligen Bronchialkarzinom (2005)

Einleitung: Die Entstehung von nichtkleinzelligen Bronchialkarzinomen (NSCLC) ist das Ergebnis einer Akkumulation multipler genetischer Veränderungen in einem mehrstufigen Prozess. Dementsprechend müsste die Entdeckung molekularer Alterationen die Diagnose eines NSCLC auch in Proben mit geringer Zellzahl erlauben. Das Ziel dieser Pilotstudie war es unter Anwendung des LAVYsion kits mithilfe der "multicolor Fluorescence in situ hybridization" (FISH) Tumorgewebe und benachbartes tumorfreies Bronchialepithel von Patienten mit NSCLC und langjähriger Raucheranamnese zu vergleichen. Als Kontrollgruppe dienten Lungengewebeproben von Nichtrauchern. An allen Präparaten wurden neben histologischen Untersuchungen auch Mikrosatellitenanalysen durchgeführt.
All-optical Logic Gates (NAND and AND) Based on Multi-injection in Single Mode Fabry-Perot Laser (2011)

All-optical NAND and AND gate using single mode Fabry-Perot Laser diode (SMFP-LD) is demonstrated. The operating principle is based on the intensity modulation of SMFP-LD with combined input power of the logic gates.
Edge Intelligence for the Industrial Internet of Things (2019)

Presents the introductory editorial for this issue of the publication.
Joint Belief and Intent Prediction for Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles (2015)

This paper describes a novel method for allowing an autonomous ground vehicle to predict the intent of other agents in an urban environment. This method, termed the cognitive driving framework, models both the intent and the potentially false beliefs of an obstacle vehicle. By modeling the relationships between these variables as a dynamic Bayesian network, filtering can be performed to calculate the intent of the obstacle vehicle as well as its belief about the environment. This joint knowledge can be exploited to plan safer and more efficient trajectories when navigating in an urban environment. Simulation results are presented that demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to calculate the intent of obstacle vehicles as an autonomous vehicle navigates a road intersection such that preventative maneuvers can be taken to avoid imminent collisions.
Analysis of Apoptosis by Laser-Scanning Cytometry (2003)

One of the major goals in applications of cytometry in analysis of apoptosis is to identify and quantify dead cells and often to discriminate between apoptosis and necrosis. Recognition of dead cells relies on the presence of a particular biochemical or molecular marker that is characteristic for apoptosis, necrosis, or both. A variety of methods have been developed, especially for the identification of apoptotic cells (see reviews in refs. , , ). These methods were initially designed to be used by flow cytometry. The drawback of flow cytometric methods stems from the fact that identification of apoptotic or necrotic cells relies on a single attribute that is assumed to represent a characteristic feature (hallmark) of apoptosis or necrosis. However, this attribute may often be absent, particularly in the case of “atypical apoptosis,” which is common in the case of cells of epithelial or fibroblast lineage (e.g., refs. , , ). The apoptotic attribute may also be absent when apoptosis is induced by the agents that directly or indirectly suppress the appearance of this attribute. The characteristic changes in cell morphology (), therefore, still remain the gold standard for recognition of apoptotic cell death.
Three-phase transformerless grid connected Quasi Z-Source Inverter for solar photovoltaic systems with minimal leakage current (2012)

We present the design of 3-phase transformerless grid connected Quasi Z-Source Inverter with minimal leakage current, suitable for application in solar photovoltaic systems. A modified space vector pulse width modulation technique with a reduced number of commutations per sector was used to minimize the leakage current without adding extra circuitry (filters and/or leakage current isolation/bypass circuits) in a transformerless Quasi Z-Source Inverter. Theoretical analysis of the proposed system is presented in detail and verified using Matlab Simulink®.
Synchronous and metachronous primary malignancies in organs other than the stomach in patients with early gastric cancer. (1996)

These results suggest the importance of long-term follow-up for detection of metachronous carcinomas at sites other than the stomach for patients with early gastric cancer.
Answering “What-If” Deployment and Configuration Questions With WISE: Techniques and Deployment Experience (2013)

Designers of content distribution networks (CDNs) often need to determine how changes to infrastructure deployment and configuration affect service response times when they deploy a new data center, change ISP peering, or change the mapping of clients to servers. Today, the designers use coarse, back-of-the-envelope calculations or costly field deployments; they need better ways to evaluate the effects of such hypothetical “what-if” questions before the actual deployments. This paper presents What-If Scenario Evaluator (WISE), a tool that predicts the effects of possible configuration and deployment changes in content distribution networks. WISE makes three contributions: 1) an algorithm that uses traces from existing deployments to learn causality among factors that affect service response time distributions; 2) an algorithm that uses the learned causal structure to estimate a dataset that is representative of the hypothetical scenario that a designer may wish to evaluate, and uses these datasets to predict hypothetical response-time distributions; 3) a scenario specification language that allows a network designer to easily express hypothetical deployment scenarios without being cognizant of the dependencies between variables that affect service response times. Our evaluation, both in a controlled setting and in a real-world field deployment on a large, global CDN, shows that WISE can quickly and accurately predict service response-time distributions for many practical what-if scenarios.
Experimental study on BTI variation impacts in SRAM based on high-k/metal gate FinFET: From transistor level Vth mismatch, cell level SNM to product level Vmin (2015)

Aging induced variability has been shaving away the design margins in advanced SRAM which may become more serious with highly scaled process node. This paper provides a systematical study of the BTI variation impacts in FinFET SRAM based on 14nm 128Mbit SRAM, including the characterization from transistor and cell level to product. For transistor level, despite the effective process optimization for BTI shifts, SRAM transistor Vth mismatch shows non-negligible increase after aging due to the intrinsic Sqrt(1/WL) BTI variability trend as time=0 variations. For cell level, BTI distribution is found to be the dominant factor comparing with the circuit level parameters such as Vdd or inverter (PU/PD) ratio in terms of read SNM shifts after aging. An empirical model of EOL SNM is further proposed for the circuit level quick evaluation and HTOL fail prevention. For product level, the FBC (Failure Bit Count) slope from cell-to-cell variation and Vmin distribution from chip-to-chip variation also show non-negligible impacts due to BTI variability. The results indicate that besides the process optimization for BTI mean shifts, reliability aware circuit design is necessity to consider intrinsic BTI variation increase with transistor scaling down.
Quantitative Timing Analysis of UML Activity Diagrams Using Statistical Model Checking (2016)

Unified Modeling Language (UML) activity diagrams are widely used in modeling the dynamic aspects of system designs. However, due to frequent interactions between systems and external uncertain environment, the current version of UML activity diagrams cannot be used to accurately capture and quantify the overall timing behaviors of complex systems. To address this issue, this paper extends the UML activity diagrams to enable the stochastic modeling of user inputs and action executions, which strongly affect the overall timing behaviors of systems. Based on the statistical model checker UPPAAL-SMC, this paper proposes an automated framework that can perform quantitative reasoning under various functional and non-functional queries. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Changes in non-histone nuclear proteins during postnatal myocardial development (1983)

Myocardial-cell nuclei isolated from ventricles of rats between 4 days and 15 months of age showed a progressive loss of DNA-synthetic activity in vitro. Correlated with this loss is the differential appearance of three major groups of non-histone nuclear proteins. Group a, with pI5.7-6.5 and Mr 67000, appeared in detectable amounts in rats more than 10 days of age, whereas group b, consisting of proteins with pI6.8-7.2 and Mr 45000, appeared in rats older than 33 days. The third group (group c), with pI6.5-8.5 and Mr 32000-42000, was present throughout postnatal development, but the amount of these proteins appeared to be greater in the 10-day-old rat than in the 15-month-old rat. All groups of these specific proteins were localized within the nucleus and did not reflect cytoplasmic constituents. Furthermore, the amino acid compositions of these polypeptides were also analysed and compared with those of actin and tubulin.
Intravenous Cholangiography in Acute Cholecystitis (1964)

Diagnosis of acute cholecystitis usually can be established firmly on the basis of an accurate history and physical examination and routine laboratory studies. Occasionally, however, typical findings may lead to errors in diagnosis. In other cases the exact cause of upper abdominal pain may remain in doubt after completion of the routine diagnostic evaluation. Intravenous cholangiography has become a well-established diagnostic procedure for the detection of biliary tract disease.<sup>1-5</sup>In an attempt to confirm the usefulness and determine the accuracy of this procedure as an aid in the evaluation of acute abdominal pain, case records were reviewed of 211 consecutive patients in whom intravenous cholangiography was employed in the emergency room of the city-county charity hospitals of Houston and Harris County, Texas. Final diagnoses were established either by operative removal of the diseased tissue and pathological examination, or, as was the case with illnesses not requiring surgical intervention, adequate
Quality assessment of online patient education resources for peripheral neuropathy (2013)

Given its practicality, the internet is a primary resource for patients afflicted with diseases like peripheral neuropathy. Therefore, it is important that the readily available online resources on peripheral neuropathy are tailored to the general public, particularly concerning readability. Patient education resources were downloaded from the US National Library of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Neuropathy.org, GBS/CIDP Foundation International, Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association, Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy, and Neuropathy Action Foundation websites. All patient education material related to peripheral neuropathy was evaluated for its level of readability using the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. The FRE scores averaged 43.4 with only the US National Library of Medicine scoring above 60 (76.5). The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level scores averaged 11.0. All scores were above a seventh-grade level except the US National Library of Medicine, which had a score of a fifth-grade reading level. Most Americans may not fully benefit from patient education resources concerning peripheral neuropathy education on many of the websites. Only the US National Library of Medicine, which is written at a fifth-grade level, is likely to benefit the average American.
William fitz Aldelin (1907)

Journal Article William fitz Aldelin Get access JAMES WILSON JAMES WILSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXII, Issue LXXXVIII, October 1907, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXII.LXXXVIII.730 Published: 01 October 1907
ROLE OF PIGMENTS AND TANNINS IN THE REACTION OF TAN AND RED NEAR-ISOGENIC SORGHUM LINES TO LEAF DISEASES (1994)

Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) plant pigments have been\nassociated with resistance to leaf diseases and grain deterioration.\nFour near-isogenic pairs of tan and non-tan (red) sorghum lines were\nassayed for their phenolic content and evaluated for their reaction to\nleaf diseases along with six other sorghum lines. Leaves, stems,\nsheaths, glumes and seeds of mature plants were assayed for tannins,\npigments, and precursors of these pigments. No tannins were detected in\nthe various plant tissues although other genotypes can have high levels\nof these compounds in seed coats. The red plants (especially the glumes\nand sheath) were found to accumulate 3-deoxyanthocyanidins, the major\npigments in sorghum, but these were absent in the tan plants. The\nglumes and sheath of tan plants accumulated apigenin. Near-isogenic\npairs were tested for differential reactions to anthracnose (\nColletotrichum graminicola Ces.) at Tifton, Georgia and to rust (\nPuccinia purpurea Cooke) at Isabella, Puerto Rico during the 1991\ngrowing season. Tan and red isogenic pairs, which differ significantly\nin phenolic composition, did not show significant differences in their\ndisease reaction. The six other sorghum lines which showed marked\ndifferences in their reaction to leaf diseases also showed differences\nin their phenolic composition. However, for the phenols that were\nanalyzed, there was no correlation with resistance or susceptibility.\nIt is proposed that tannins, pigments, and pigment precursors are not\nresponsible for disease resistance in these genotypes.
Neuroplasticity-Based Brain Stimulation Interventions in the Study and Treatment of Schizophrenia: A Review (2013)

We reviewed novel brain stimulation approaches that modify neuroplasticity and are used in the treatment and study of schizophrenia. We searched PubMed and Scholars Portal using search terms related to schizophrenia, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity. Various brain stimulation approaches simulating a range of experimental protocols that induce synaptic long-term potentiation or depression have been developed. By far, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been the most widely used in the field of schizophrenia. Its application has been associated with mixed results in treating treatment-resistant symptoms and cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia. Compared to the other approaches, rTMS is probably the least similar to plasticity-inducing cellular paradigms. Other approaches, such as paired associative stimulation, theta-burst stimulation, and transcranial direct current stimulation, are in their incipient stages in the study and treatment of schizophrenia, with promising early results. Numerous brain stimulation approaches have been developed to treat resistant dimensions of schizophrenia. Notwithstanding some promising reports, optimization of the methods and large randomized controlled trials are still needed.
Magnetic field effects on the ablation phase of wire array Z-pinches, as observed with end-on imaging (2010)

Magnetic field measurements inside wire-array Z-pinches have shown significant field penetration during the ablation phase, as wire material streams toward the axis producing the mass distribution that ultimately determines the implosion characteristics. End-on imaging is especially useful for observing the dynamical effects of the magnetic field on the ablation streams. Quantitative end-on imaging with X-pinches has been successfully developed on Cornell's COBRA accelerator by Isaac Blesener. These images show both the radial distribution of mass in the ablation streams and the transverse (azimuthal) structure of the streams, which tend to be focused into narrow sheets of plasma from the individual wires that merge into a quasi-axisymmetric distribution only quite near the axis.basic result of the magnetic measurements is that the magnitude of magnetic field inside the array is not strongly dependent on wire number or interwire gap, except for gaps of about 1mm or smaller. Aluminum arrays on COBRA with 5 mm radius and 700 micron gap (45 wires) show significantly less field penetration than arrays with interwire gaps above 1 mm. The end-on imaging shows changes in the transverse focusing of the ablation streams with varied interwire gap. Smaller interwire gap gives weaker focusing and probably results in merging of the streams at a larger radius. Recent magnetic measurements have confirmed a difference between Al and W arrays in the radial distribution of magnetic field. Al arrays have steadily increasing field throughout the ablation phase at all radii measured. W arrays also show an initial rise, but then a later decrease in the field magnitude closer to the axis, even though the field continues to rise at larger radius (2 mm inside the wires). This phenomenon appears to be related to the more rapid radiation cooling and tighter pinching of the precursor in W arrays. The radial mass distribution, as given by end-on X-pinch imaging, will aid understanding of this behavior. New results will be discussed.
Application guide for transmission line non-ceramic insulators. Final report (1998)

Although there has been a dramatic increase in NCI use over the last decade, there is a wide variation in NCI design procedures, procurement specifications, installation and handling practices, live working techniques, and inspection and maintenance methods. Consequently, practicing utility engineers need a source of relevant information and recommendations on these subjects. EPRI has responded to this need by investing in a major multiyear research program on NCI. This report provides guidelines for electric utilities considering the use of non-ceramic insulators (NCI). It includes information on new installations, the replacement of conventional porcelain or glass (ceramic) insulators with NCI on existing transmission lines, and the assessment of NCI in service on transmission lines.
Low-dimensional and data fusion techniques applied to a supersonic multistream single expansion ramp nozzle (2017)

Low-dimensional models of experimental and simulation data for a complex supersonic jet are fused to reconstruct time-dependent coefficients. Data fusion techniques use the strengths of experimental statistical ensembles and the time resolution of large-eddy simulation to provide a more complete view of the flow.
Performance Enhancement of a Sub-Sampling Circuit for Ultra-Wideband Signal Processing (2007)

An ultra-wideband (UWB) sampling mixer has been developed based on utilizing the combined advantages of two known circuit topologies: a wideband balun and a balanced-feed mixer. The developed sampler is integrated with a step-recovery diode strobe-step generator to sub-sample UWB signals. The fabricated sub-sampler demonstrated a 3.5-dB radio frequency to intermediate frequency (RF-IF) conversion loss up to 1 GHz (without the IF amplification), and a wide 3 dB bandwidth that exceeded 3.5-GHz. It has a reduced spurious level of better than -38 dBc, a lower sensitivity to the Schottky diode-placement, an excellent input match, and good isolation.
Electron transport in bipyridinium films (2004)

Bipyridinium dications are versatile building blocks for the assembly of functional materials. In particular, their reliable electrochemical response has encouraged the design of electroactive films. Diverse and elegant experimental strategies to coat metallic and semiconducting electrodes with bipyridinium compounds have, in fact, emerged over the past two decades. The resulting interfacial assemblies span from a few nanometers to several micrometers in thickness. They incorporate from a single molecular layer to large collections of entangled polymer chains. They transport electrons efficiently from the electrode surface to the film/solution interface and vice versa. Electron self-exchange between and the physical diffusion of the bipyridinium building blocks conspire in defining the charge transport properties of these fascinating electroactive assemblies. Often, the matrix of electron-deficient bipyridinium dications can be exploited to entrap electron-rich analytes. Electrostatic interactions promote the supramolecular association of the guests with the surface-confined host matrix. Furthermore, chromophoric sites can be coupled to the bipyridinium dications to produce photosensitive arrays capable of harvesting light and generating current. Thus, thorough investigations on the fundamental properties of these functional molecule-based materials can lead to promising applications in electroanalysis and solar energy conversion, while contributing to advances in the basic understanding of electron transport in interfacial assemblies.