gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Improvement in Peripheral Glucose Uptake After Gastric Bypass Surgery Is Observed Only After Substantial Weight Loss Has Occurred and Correlates with the Magnitude of Weight Lost (2009)

Improvement in peripheral glucose uptake following RYGB was observed only after substantial weight loss had occurred and correlated with the magnitude of weight lost.
Group-Sparse Representation With Dictionary Learning for Medical Image Denoising and Fusion (2012)

Recently, sparse representation has attracted a lot of interest in various areas. However, the standard sparse representation does not consider the intrinsic structure, i.e., the nonzero elements occur in clusters, called group sparsity. Furthermore, there is no dictionary learning method for group sparse representation considering the geometrical structure of space spanned by atoms. In this paper, we propose a novel dictionary learning method, called Dictionary Learning with Group Sparsity and Graph Regularization (DL-GSGR). First, the geometrical structure of atoms is modeled as the graph regularization. Then, combining group sparsity and graph regularization, the DL-GSGR is presented, which is solved by alternating the group sparse coding and dictionary updating. In this way, the group coherence of learned dictionary can be enforced small enough such that any signal can be group sparse coded effectively. Finally, group sparse representation with DL-GSGR is applied to 3-D medical image denoising and image fusion. Specifically, in 3-D medical image denoising, a 3-D processing mechanism (using the similarity among nearby slices) and temporal regularization (to perverse the correlations across nearby slices) are exploited. The experimental results on 3-D image denoising and image fusion demonstrate the superiority of our proposed denoising and fusion approaches.
EEC Law - Export Credits - Community has Exclusive Power to Negotiate Export Credit Agreements: Local Cost Standard Advisory Opinion, Re the OECD Understanding of a Local Cost Standard (1977)

export credits are, of course, necessary ingredients of international trade, export credit competition figures strongly as a non-tariff distortion of trade.
"PUT THE BRAKES ON FATALITIES" DAY (2001)

Each year, about 41,000 people in the U.S. lose their lives in traffic collisions. This article provides an overview of the 1st annual Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day, a program undertaken to help reduce fatalities and injuries on U.S. highways. The program is being promoted by the U.S. Department of Transportation and other state and local organizations as a highway safety campaign aimed at focusing public awareness on driver behavior, vehicle safety, and roadway improvements.
Do Women with Female Ejaculation Have Detrusor Overactivity? (2007)

Women who experience female ejaculation may have normal voiding patterns, no bothersome incontinence symptoms, and no demonstrable detrusor overactivity. Women who report female ejaculation, in the absence of other lower urinary tract symptoms, do not require further investigation, and may be reassured that it is an uncommon, but physiological, phenomenon.
Barr body frequency in esophageal cancer in Indian women. (1983)

In a retrospective study, Barr body frequency was analyzed in 50 consecutive cases of esophageal cancer in females. The majority (95%) of the tumors had less than 20% Barr body frequency (of which 80% showed less than 10%), while normal controls showed 30% to 45% Barr body frequency. The mechanism(s) involved in lowering the frequency is not known at present.
Tetanus Eight Days After Administration of Anti-tetanus Serum (1960)

BJORnrTetanus Eight Days After Administration of Anti-tetanus SerumThe following case, in which tetanus occurred after the prophylactic subcutaneous injection of 1,500 units of anti-tetanus serum, may be found of interest.CASE REPORT After an injury in 1952 a young married woman received an injection of anti-tetanus serum, but did not subsequently receive active immunization with toxoid.Nearly three years
Design and implementation of RFID system (2008)

This paper deals with the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and shows a full design for an RFID system. This system was designed as a security system for corporate and an office where a list of employees is provided in a database in the main computer and each employee is given a Tag that holds a specific identification number. The system will identify the employees as they pass nearby the Reader. A software application works as an interface application to the RFID system. The RFID system was designed using the concept of FSK modulation as a technique to transmit and receive the signal. The FSK modulator works on two discrete frequencies 14 MHz and 6 MHz. The Demodulator part of the RFID system was designed to detect the amplitude of the RF signal and then converting it to a digital signal that the microcontroller can read. The designed RFID system was able to function properly where a successful communication occurred between the Reader and the Tag.
An international comparison of childhood injuries in Hong Kong (2000)

A large proportion of falls, along with low proportion of poisonings and burns, are characteristics of childhood injury profile in Hong Kong. From the results of age external cause correspondence analysis, prevention strategies for different external cause should be developmentally specific.
On two-dimensional polyphase filter banks (1986)

It is well known that short time spectral analysis and synthesis can be done efficiently by using the combination of polyphase networks (PPN) and fast Fourier transform (FFT) processors in the one-dimensional (1-D) case [1], [3]-[6], whereas no comparable solution has been proposed for the two-dimensional (2-D) case. This paper shows an extension of polyphase filter banks to the 2-D case and gives applications on variable filters, e.g., for geophysical problems (fan filters). The procedure described can be easily extended to any dimension.
Gold nanoparticles containing redox-active supramolecular dendrons that recognize H2PO4– (2001)

Gold nanoparticles have been functionalized with thiol dendrons containing three redox active amidoferrocenyl or silylferrocenyl units; using cyclic voltammetry, these dendronized gold nanoparticles recognize H2PO4-.
The Breeding of Grain Sorghums (1911)

The Breeding of Grain Sorghums Get access Carleton R. Ball Carleton R. Ball Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Heredity, Volume os-6, Issue 1, January 1911, Pages 192–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/os-6.1.192 Published: 01 January 1911
High Efficiency Tracking Scheme for Magnetic Resonance based Wireless Power Transfer System (2016)

Objective: The motivation of the work is to track the maximum efficiency of magnetic resonance based wireless power transfer system which uses either two, three or four coils. Analysis: The system consists of two sections namely transmitter side and receiver side, where the supply is given to the transmitter side and when any receiver is connected to the load by tracking the maximum energy efficiency operating point of the system and controlling the duty cycle ratio. The analysis is carried out for 2, 3 and 4 coil system in simulation and experimental test setup. Findings: This paper implements the maximum energy efficient tracking method for the 2, 3 and 4 coil wireless power transfer system. Applications: This system can be employed in electric vehicle charging, Bio implants, micro robots and so on. Keywords: Magnetic Resonance, Maximum Energy Efficiency, Wireless Charging
Relationship of cerebral blood flow to cardiac output, mean arterial pressure, blood volume, and alpha and beta blockade in cats (1980)

The relationship among cerebral blood flow (CBF), blood volume, cardiac output (CO), and mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) at varying levels of arterial CO2 tensions (PaCO2) were studied in 70 normal cats. The CBF was measured from the clearance curve of xenon-133 and CO with a thermal dilution catheter placed in the pulmonary artery. The CBF, CO, and MABP values varied appropriately with changes in PaCO2, confirming the reliability of the preparations and the presence of normal autoregulatory responses. Moderate hypovolemia that did not change MABP did, nevertheless, significantly decrease CO and CBF. In an effort to determine if this decrease in CO and CBF were coupled responses, the effects of beta stimulation, hypervolemia, and alpha and beta blockade were investigated. Propranolol, in a dosage insufficient to change MABP, decreased both CO and CBF. This agent abolished the CO response to elevations in PaCO2 but not the CBF response, making it unlikely that this CBF reduction resulted from impaired cerebral autoregulation. Isoproterenol, which, in contrast to propranolol, does not cross the normal blood-brain barrier, alone or in combination with phenoxybenzamine, produced a 38% and 72% increase in CO, respectively, without a change in CBF. Alpha blockade (no major change in CO) and beta blockage (major decrease in CO) did not significantly effect cerebral autoregulation to changes in MABP from angiotensin. The ability of the brain to resist increases in MABP and CO and maintain normal CBF is explained by normal cerebral autoregulation. However, its vulnerability to modest decreases in blood volume, which cannot be attributed to variations in perfusion pressure, is unexplained but obviously has important therapeutic implications. This may be related to reduction in CO, changes in autonomic activity, or a decrease in the size of the perfused capillary bed.
Building Blocks of the Internet of Things: State of the Art and Beyond (2011)

ICT has simplified and automated many tasks in the industry and services sector. Computers can monitor and control physical devices from very small to very large scales: they are needed in order to produce semiconductor wafers and can help operating ships, airplanes or manufacturing devices. Until some years ago though, these solutions were monolithic and thus application specific. In the field of monitoring and control, the wide adoption of modular design patterns and standardization, together with the improvements in communication technologies, paved the way to the diffusion of single component products that could be integrated as building blocks for ever more complex applications. An array of embedded devices and autoID technologies are now available as well as off-the-shelf platforms (ref Oracle, IBM, Arduino, Arch Rock, Sensinode) which can be used and customized for addressing specific purposes. One of the biggest paradigms behind this trend is the Internet of Things (IoT) which foresees a world permeated with embedded smart devices, often called “smart objects”, interconnected through the Internet1. These devices should help blending together the digital and the physical world by providing Things with “identities and virtual personalities” (European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration [EPoSS], 2008) and by providing pervasive sensing and actuation features. This scenario is very challenging as not all the building blocks of the IoT are yet in place. Standardization efforts are essential and have only recently been made and a reference architecture is still missing. Other researches on this topic nowadays focus on hardware and software issues such as energy harvesting, efficient cryptography, interoperability, communication protocols and semantics. The advent of IoT will also raise social, governance, privacy and security issues. This work provides a historical and conceptual introduction to the IoT topic. In the second part of the chapter, a wide perspective on the aforementioned issues is provided. The work also outlines key aspects in the process of moving from the current state of the art of IoT, where objects have digital identities, towards a network of objects having digital personalities and being able to interact with each other and with the environment. In the last part, a selection of the possible impacts of the IoT is analyzed.
Variational Blue Noise Sampling (2012)

Blue noise point sampling is one of the core algorithms in computer graphics. In this paper, we present a new and versatile variational framework for generating point distributions with high-quality blue noise characteristics while precisely adapting to given density functions. Different from previous approaches based on discrete settings of capacity-constrained Voronoi tessellation, we cast the blue noise sampling generation as a variational problem with continuous settings. Based on an accurate evaluation of the gradient of an energy function, an efficient optimization is developed which delivers significantly faster performance than the previous optimization-based methods. Our framework can easily be extended to generating blue noise point samples on manifold surfaces and for multi-class sampling. The optimization formulation also allows us to naturally deal with dynamic domains, such as deformable surfaces, and to yield blue noise samplings with temporal coherence. We present experimental results to validate the efficacy of our variational framework. Finally, we show a variety of applications of the proposed methods, including nonphotorealistic image stippling, color stippling, and blue noise sampling on deformable surfaces.
Synthesis of a Carbon Nitride Structure for Visible‐Light Catalysis by Copolymerization (2009)

Strukturell ähnlich zu Liebigs Melon (Poly(aminoimino)heptazin) sind Kohlenstoffnitrid-Photokatalysatoren (siehe Formel), die durch direkte Copolymerisation von Dicyandiamid mit Barbitursäure erhalten werden können. Das Bild zeigt, wie sich die optische Absorption der Produkte bei steigendem Barbitursäure-Anteil in der Copolymerisationsmischung (Pfeile) weiter in die sichtbare Region ausdehnt, was von Vorteil für Solarenergieanwendungen ist.
Human localization and activity recognition using distributed motion sensors (2014)

The purpose of this thesis is to localize a human and recognize his/her activities in indoor environments using distributed motion sensors. We propose to use a test bed simulated as mock apartment for conducting our experiments. The two parts of the thesis are localization and activity recognition of the elderly person. We explain complete hardware and software setup used to provide these services. The hardware setup consists of two types of sensor end nodes and two sink nodes. The two types of end nodes are Passive Infrared sensor node and GridEye sensor node. Passive Infrared sensor nodes consist of Passive Infrared sensors for motion detection. GridEye sensor nodes consist of thermal array sensors. Data from these sensors are acquired using Arduino boards and transmitted using Xbee modules to the sink nodes. The sink nodes consist of receiver Xbee modules connected to a computer. The sensor nodes were strategically placed at different place inside the apartment. The thermal array sensor provides 64 pixel temperature values, while the PIR sensor provides binary information about motion in its field of view. Since the thermal array sensor provides more information, they were placed in large rooms such as living room and bed room. While PIR sensors were placed in kitchen and bathroom. Initially GridEye sensors are calibrated to obtain the transformation between pixel and real world coordinates. Data from these sensors were processed on computer and we were able to localize the human inside the apartment. We compared the location accuracy using ground truth data obtained from the OptiTrack system. GridEye sensors were also used for activity recognition. Basic human activities such as sitting, sleeping, standing and walking were recognized. We used Support Vector Machine (SVM) to recognize sitting and sleeping activities. Gait speed of human was used to recognize the standing and walking activities. Experiments were performed to obtain the accuracy of classification for these activities.
Cell Wall Composition of the Yeast and Mycelial Forms of <i>Paracoccidioides brasiliensis</i> (1969)

Isolation and chemical analyses of the cell walls of the yeast (Y form) and mycelial forms (M form) of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Blastomyces dermatitidis revealed that their chemical composition is similar and depends on the form. Lipids, chitin, glucans, and proteins are the main constituents of the cell walls of both forms of these fungi. There is no significant difference in the amount of lipids (5 to 10%) and glucans (36 to 47%) contained by the two forms. In both fungi, the Y form has a larger amount of chitin (37 to 48%) than the M form (7 to 18%), whereas the M form has a larger amount of proteins (24 to 41%) than the Y form (7 to 14%). Several properties of the glucan of P. brasiliensis were studied. Almost all of the glucan in the Y form was soluble in 1 n NaOH, was weakly positive in the periodic acid-Schiff reaction, was not hydrolyzed by snail digestive juice, and had alpha-glycosidic linkage. Glucans of the M form were divided into alkali-soluble (60 to 65%) and alkali-insoluble (35 to 40%) types. The alkali-soluble glucan was similar to that of the Y form; the alkali-insoluble glucan was positive in the periodic acid-Schiff reaction and was hydrolyzed by snail digestive juice.
WOMEN AND THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE (2010)

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually 'work'. Money Makes Us Relatives asks why Turkish society devalues women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labor for the world market. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using fascinating case studies throughout, Jenny B. White shows how women's paid work is viewed in terms of kinship relations of reciprocity and obligation - an extension of domestic work for the family, which is culturally valued but poorly compensated. Whilst offering the benefits of social identity and long-term security, women's work also reflects global capitalism's ability to capture local cultural norms, and to use these to lower production costs and create exploitative conditions. This fully revised second edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated references, comparative material on women's labor elsewhere in the world, and brand new material on Islam, globalization, gender and Turkish family life. It is an important contribution to debates about women's participation in late global capitalism.
Orígenes histórico-renacentistas del concepto actual de educación física para la salud: aportaciones del humanista inglés Richard Mulcaster (2007)

El presente articulo trata de poner de manifiesto las relaciones existentes entre las consideraciones actuales sobre ejercicio fisico, educacion fisica y salud, y las que el humanista ingles, Richard Mulcaster, defendia ya en el siglo XVI en su obra educativa Positions. De este modo, se pretende contribuir a la fundamentacion historica de las teorias actuales sobre educacion para la salud y ejercicio fisico. El concepto de salud, los habitos de vida y el ejercicio fisico como estrategia para mantenerla y mejorarla, son aspectos que ya eran tratados por el humanista renacentista hace mas de cuatrocientos anos.
New formulations of sunflower based bio-lubricants with high oleic acid content – VOSOLUB project (2016)

VOSOLUB project is a demonstration project supported by Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) that aims at testing under real operating conditions new formulations of sunflower-based biolubricants with high oleic acid content. These biolubricant formulations (including hydraulic fluids, greases, and neat oil metal-working fluids) will be tested in three European demonstrating sites. Their technical performance will be evaluated and compared to corresponding mineral lubricants ones. In order to cover the demand for the sunflower base oil, a European SMEs network will be established to ensure the supply of the base at a competitive market price. Results presented concerns the base oil quality confirmed to be in accordance with the specification required, in particular on Free Fatty acid content, Phosphorus content, rancimat induction time and oleic acid content (ITERG). The oil characteristics specific for lubricant application analyzed by BfB Oil Research under normalized methods, match with lubricant specifications requirement such as viscosity, cold & hot properties, surface properties, anti-oxidant properties and thermal stability, anti-wear and EP properties, anti-corrosion properties Performance of the new biolubricant have been assessed by formulators and TEKNIKER First results on the use of new lubricant on real condition for rail Grease (produced by RS CLARE and tested with Sheffield Supertram), Hydraulic oil (produced by BRUGAROLAS) and cutting oil (produced by MOTUL TECH and tested with innovative machining, turning) are described.
An Investigation of the Inertial Properties of Backpacks Loaded in Various Configurations (1982)

In this study, the inertial properties of three, external-frame backpack systems were examined under six loading configurations. Two of the backpacks were developed by the Army and one was a commercially-available product. For each configuration, a 12.00-kg load, consisting of military clothing and equipment, was placed in the packs. The locations of the items were manipulated such that the densest were placed low, high, or in an intermediate position within the pack. In addition, two, 4.56-kg weights were strapped to the top, bottom, sides, or front of the pack and tested in combination with the intermediate position of the basic load. The mass, centers of mass, and inertia tensors of each backpack were obtained under each of the six loading configurations. the inertial properties of the backpacks and of the loading configurations were compared with respect to properties which are desirable in a backpacking system.
Recording Microwave Hygrometer (1958)

This paper describes a rapid response microwave hygrometer for continuously recording the water vapor pressure of atmospheric air over a wide ambient range. The principle employed involves the measurement by means of a cavity resonator of the contribution of water vapor to the refractive index of atmospheric air. The device described also has potential application to the continuous measurement of the degree of contamination of one gas (or of gas mixtures) by another gas (or gases).
Histologic Evaluation of High Speed Burr Shavings Collected During Spinal Decompression Surgery (2009)

In spinal decompression and fusion surgery, a high speed burr is often used to remove bony material. The generated bone shavings are typically washed away and discarded. This study histologically examined the content of burr shavings to determine whether the collected tissue has the potential to augment local autograft. Our findings verified that burr shavings collected during spinal decompression are primarily composed of bone (65%) with blood product (32%). The bone shavings appear to remain viable after burring, as there was no microscopic evidence of damage to the cells. These findings indicate that bone shavings can be easily collected and could be added to local laminectomy bone with minimal cost. This technique is also beneficial given that it does not increase morbidity, as does iliac crest bone graft harvesting. Furthermore, the putty-like consistency of the bone shavings may facilitate the placement of morselized autograft bone. Despite these advantages, collected bone shavings are by no means a substitute for autograft or allograft bone. Their osteogenic potential is not comparable to that of iliac crest bone and the shavings lack the structural scaffolding of allograft bone. This technique, however, provides a resource for augmenting local autograft during spinal fusion, and is not associated with any significant cost or effort. Future studies should compare the clinical and radiographic fusion outcomes of high speed burr bony shavings combined with local laminectomy bone versus either iliac crest autograft or local laminectomy bone used with other bone graft extenders.