gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of a commercial microbial identification system based on fatty acid profiles for rapid, accurate identification of plant pathogenic bacteria (1992)

D.E. STEAD, J.E. SELLWOOD, J. WILSON AND I. VINEY, 1992. Fatty acid profiles of 773 strains representing 25 taxa of plant pathogenic and related saprophytic bacteria were compared with two commercially available broad‐spectrum libraries and one self‐generated library based primarily on cultures from the National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. The accuracy of identification at specific level was often 100%, although for some closely related species and infraspecific taxa accuracy was sometimes significantly less than this. The accuracy of identification of Xanthomonas campestris pathovars was much better than for Pseudomonas syringae pathovars. Almost all identifications were made within24–48 h. Standardization of cultural conditions was essential. Hydroxy fatty acids were of great taxonomic value in classification of Gram‐negative bacteria. Improved library development and standardization of cultural and analytical techniques will further increase the accuracy of identification. Fatty acid profiling offers a valuable rapid, accurate method for identification of many bacteria.
Immunosuppressive Effect of Ovine Uterine Secretory Protein upon Lymphocytes in vitro12 (1981)

The immunosuppressive effect of ovine uterine protein upon phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes was investigated in vitro. Uterine secretory protein was collected and concentrated in sheep uterine flushings (SUF) obtained from nonpregnant and pregnant Dorset ewes on Days 4, 9, and 14 of the cycle. Varying concentrations of protein (2.5–1600μg/ml) were added to cultures each containing 1 × 106 ovine lymphocytes and 0.6 μg of PHA. Lymphocyte response to PHA was suppressed in cultures containing SUF protein from Day 4, 9, and 14 nonpregnant and pregnant ewes. The regression of SUF protein concentration with lymphocyte suppression (as percent of control) for each day and reproductive stage was significant (P<0.001). Almost complete suppression occurred with much less SUF protein (100 μg/ml) obtained on Day 14 of pregnancy than was obtained at most other times (1600 μg/ml). Ovine serum and bovine serum albumin had no significant immunosuppressive effect. The immunosuppressive effect of SUF protein was not mediated by cytotoxicity. It is unknown whether lymphocyte suppression observed in vitro occurs in vivo. If a parallelism exists, data from this investigation strongly suggest that the ovine uterus may possess a continual immunosuppressive substance(s) during pregnancy and the estrous cycle and that the activity of this substance increases considerably by Day 14 of pregnancy.
The Clinical Study on 1 Case of Patient with Adult-onset Still's Disease who had a Diffuse Cerebral Dysfunction developed after Hypoxia. (A case of Adult-onset Still's Disease and Diffuse Cerebral Dysfunction) (2003)

Objective : There were few reports on the treatment of Adult-onset Still's disease and Diffuse cerebral dysfunction. This oriental medical treatment shows the possibility of healing Adult-onset Still's disease and Diffuse cerebral dysfunction, therefore we announce this. Methods : The acupuncture, herbal medicine, herbal acupucture(Jahageo, Nockyong) therapies were applied for treating this patient's chief symptom(chest discomfort, palpitation, rigidity, mentality change, global aphasia, dysphagia, coughing and sputum) Results : 1. Adult-onset Still's disease is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology, characterised by salmon-colored rash, intermittent spiking high fever, arthralgia and variety of systemic features. This is one type of Juvenile arthritis. 2. Diffuse cerebral dysfunction is an anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and most cause of this is the hypoxia caused by hypotention or respiratory distress. 3. After oriental medical treatments, his chief symptoms were improved. Conclusion : The more study about oriental medical treatment on Adult-onset Still's disease and Diffuse cerebral dysfunction is needed.
A unification-grammar-directed one-pass search algorithm for parsing spoken language (1991)

The author presents an efficient parsing algorithm for integrating the search problems both in speech and language processing in general use for spoken language systems (SLSs). The parsing algorithm is an extension of the finite-state-network (FSN)-directed, one-pass search algorithm to one directed by a context-free grammar or a unification-based grammar with retention of the frame-synchronous procedure. This integrating algorithm can approximately find a global optimal sentence hypothesis, and it avoids the overhead of hierarchical systems based on the lattice parsing approach. The computational complexity of this algorithm is proportional to the length of the input utterance. As the search process in speech recognition can directly account for the predictive information, this framework can be extended to the SLS to deal with dynamically varying constraints in a dialogue situation.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Computing the propagation characteristics of radially stratified fibers: an efficient method (1977)

An efficient method is introduced in this paper to compute the dispersion characteristics as well as the Poynting flux distribution of radially stratified fibers. Only 4 x 4 matrix operations were needed. Detailed results are given for several representative radially inhomogeneous fibers of practical interest.
Decimal Versus Common Fractions (1956)

COMMON FRACTIONS were being used in Egypt at about 1600 B. C. and Decimal fractions were invented about 1600 A. D. Thus the common fraction has had a 30,000 year handicap over the decimal by virtue of its priority in time. This handicap has been so strong that its influence is still in force as evidenced by the fact that the common fraction is taught before the decimal despite the evidence that decimals are easier to learn and to use.
Nouveaux Filtres Interférentiels Pour Le Proche Ultraviolet (1980)

Nous présentons ici une étude sur des filtres interférentiels réalisés avec des couches de cryolithe et de fluorure de plomb. Pour ces types d'empilements, la nature de la surface du substrat influe notablement sur les caractéristiques optiques du filtre et nous montrons que des couches préliminaires peuvent amener une amélioration du profil expérimental. De plus, malgré l'absorption important du fluorure de plomb, on peut réaliser des filtres double onde ayant des caractéristiques intéressantes (T max ⩾ 50 pour cent, Δ λ ⩽ 4 nm). Cependant, nos résultats expérimentaux sont nettement inférieurs aux prévisions théoriques. Nous pensons que ceci peut être attributé principalement au manque de sensibilité de notre système de contrôle pour certaines couches très critiques.
The Quivering Mutant Mouse: Hereditary Deafness of Central Origin (1983)

Mice homozygous for the recessive quivering gene are largely unresponsive to sound, although their cochleas appear normal by light microscopy and cochlear hair cells do not degenerate with age. Cochlear potentials and inferior colliculus evoked responses were recorded in quivering mice (qv/qv) and in littermate controls (+/qv or +/+). There were no significant differences between mutants and controls in cochlear microphonic amplitudes or compound action potential thresholds, amplitudes and latencies. However, inferior colliculus evoked responses in mutants were small in amplitude and abnormal in waveform. Latencies were long and thresholds were elevated by at least 50 dB at all frequencies tested. These data suggest that the genetic hearing impairment in quivering mice is retrocochlear.
An All-Solid-State Electrochemical Supercapacitor Based on Poly3-(4-fluorophenylthiophene) Composite Electrodes (2002)

Poly3-(4-fluorophenylthiophene), which can be both n- and p-doped, has been chemically synthesized by using as an oxidant and is used as an electrode-active material in composite electrodes. To fabricate an all-solid-state electrochemical capacitor, a liquid electrolyte solution was replaced by a gel polymer electrolyte. Then the laminated capacitor was electrochemically characterized by cyclic voltammetry, a frequency response analyzer, and a charge-discharge instrument. The proposed device was charged at a constant current of 250 up to 2.7 V and discharged at the same current up to 0 V demonstrating an energy density of 1.64 Wh/kg and a power density of 268.36 W/kg based on the total weight of active materials in a unit cell at the 1000th cycle. Furthermore, the interfacial resistance decreases from 18 Ω (or 72 Ω to 8 Ω (or 32 Ω after 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. © 2002 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
A brupt Channel Slope Change in the Lower Watarase River Caused by Thresholds in Gravel and Sand Mobility (1994)

小玉・井口 (1986) によれば,渡良瀬川において,河床勾配の急変は砂礫床区間で生じており,しかも勾配急変点を挟んで河床の表面砂礫の堆積状況が急変する.本稿では小玉・井口 (1986) の調査以来8年が経過した渡良瀬川において,表面砂礫の堆積状況の急変を再度検討し,表面砂礫の堆積相の縦断的変化を定量的なデータとして示した.さらに河床砂礫の運搬に関する最近の研究成果を踏まえ,河床勾配の急変を引き起こす要因を考察した. 表面砂礫の堆積相を5タイプに分類し, 8つの櫟州において線格子法により各堆積相の出現頻度を調査した.その結果,河床勾配急変点を挟んで表面砂礫の堆積状況が急変することが再確認された.つまり,勾配急変点よりも上流側では,礫が相互に噛み合った堆積相 (Type 1)が河床表面に広く分布しているのに対して,下流側では砂で間隙が埋め尽くされ表面が滑らかになった砂礫層の上に,表面礫が存在する.このような表面砂礫の堆積状況の急変は,河床全体でみた砂礫の易動性の急変を招き,その結果,流送砂礫量の縦断方向での連続を成立させる機能として,河床勾配が急変していると考える.
Massively parallel stream processing with latency guarantees (2016)

A new class of stream processing engines has recently established itself as a platform for applications in numerous domains, such as personalized content- and ad-serving, online recommender systems or social media analytics. These new engines draw inspiration from Big Data batch processing frameworks (Google's MapReduce and its descendants) as well existing stream processing engines (e.g. Borealis and STREAM). They process data on-the-fly without first storing it in a file system and their core programming abstractions hide the complexity of distributed-parallel programming. Although stream processing applications commonly need to process ingested data within time bounds, this new class of engines so far computes results "as fast as possible". As variations in workload characteristics are often hard to predict and outside the control of the application, this may quickly lead to a situation where "as fast as possible" becomes "not fast enough" for the application. This thesis revisits the design of this new class of stream processing engines. The core question addressed by this thesis is how latency requirements can be specified and continuously enforced within these engines in a resource-efficient manner. To this end, this thesis contributes (1) a formalism and associated semantics for expressing latency requirements for stream processing applications, (2) a set of techniques for engines to enforce them and (3) an evaluation of the effectiveness of the presented techniques. The proposed techniques optimize resource efficiency by automatically adjusting the data shipping strategy between data flow tasks and adapting the mapping between tasks and execution threads at runtime. Furthermore, based on workload statistics measured at runtime, they adapt the application's parallelism by exploiting the elasticity of shared, resource-managed compute clusters. To evaluate their effectiveness, they have been implemented in a research prototype and an experimental evaluation with several application workloads has been conducted on a large commodity cluster.
Whole blood filterability in diabetics. Influence of age, complications and duration of diabetes (1981)

AbstractTwo diabetic populations were determined, one for those under 30 years of age who had no complications and had been insulin-treated for less than 5 years (I), the other for those over 50 who had complications and insulin treatment for more than 5 years (II). In both groups, whole blood filtration (WBF) was tested on Nucleopore 5μm filters (Reid et al., 1976), and current factors known to influence WBF were also tested. In addition, erythrocyte 2–3 diphosphoglycer-ate (2–3 DPG) was measured. WBF was statistically increased in the group I (P<0.02).Key Words: Blood glucoseDiabeticsDeformability2–3 DPGfibrinogentriglyceridewhole blood filterability
TV Borehole Camera--A Visual Approach to Geophysical Logging: ABSTRACT (1963)

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A low-power reduced swing global clocking methodology (2004)

In this brief, we investigate the potential of reduced swing clock networks for low-power applications. We designed and laid out a full swing conventional and a reduced swing H-tree clock distribution network in 0.13-/spl mu/m CMOS technology operating at 500 MHz. In the reduced swing clock network, the swing was reduced in the global clock distribution network and was restored to the full swing in the local clock distribution domains. The post-layout simulation results of this research shows that a power saving of 22% under nominal operating condition is feasible.
A single regulatory gene integrates control of vitamin B12 synthesis and propanediol degradation (1992)

The cob operon of Salmonella typhimurium encodes enzymes required for synthesis of adenosyl-cobalamin (vitamin B12). The pdu operon encodes enzymes needed for use of propanediol as a carbon source, including an adenosyl-cobalamin-dependent enzyme, propanediol dehydratase. These two operons both map near min 41 of the S. typhimurium linkage map and are transcribed divergently. Here we report that the cob and pdu operons form a single regulon. Transcription of this regulon is induced by either glycerol or propanediol. The metabolism of these compounds is not required for induction. Propanediol induces the regulon either aerobically or anaerobically during growth on poor carbon sources. Aerobically glycerol induces only if its metabolism is prevented by a mutational block such as a glpK mutation. Under anaerobic conditions, glycerol induces in both glpK+ and glpK mutant strains during growth on poor carbon sources. A new class of mutations, pocR, prevents induction of the cob/pdu regulon by either propanediol or glycerol and causes a Cob- Pdu- phenotype. The pocR gene is located between the cob and pdu operons and appears to encode a trans-acting protein that acts as a positive regulator of both operons. Transcription of the pocR regulatory gene is induced, even without the PocR protein, during aerobic growth on poor carbon sources and during anaerobic respiration. With the functional PocR protein, transcription of the pocR gene is autoinduced by propanediol but not by glycerol. The growth conditions that increase pocR gene expression correlate with growth conditions that allow high induction of the cob/pdu regulon. A model for control of this regulon suggests that the PocR protein is a transcriptional activator of both the cob and pdu operons and that both glycerol and propanediol can individually serve as effectors of the PocR protein. We suggest that global control mechanisms cause variation in the level of the PocR protein; an increased level of the PocR protein permits higher induction by propanediol or glycerol.
A hybrid inter-cell interference mitigation scheme for OFDMA system (2008)

In OFDMA cellular system, the inter-cell interference is the main interference of the system, which greatly degrades the system performance. In order to enhance cell average throughput and the cell-edge user's peak bit rate, a hybrid inter-cell interference mitigation scheme is proposed. The hybrid scheme combines the fractional frequency reuse scheme and the frequency hopping scheme, in which cell-edge user transmits data through frequency hopping method in a restricted subcarrier group and inner-cell user is scheduled by frequency-selective scheduler in the left subcarriers. The hybrid scheme can improve the peak bit rate of cell-edge user while getting high cell average throughput. According to the different hopping pattern, the hybrid scheme has two manners: mirroring frequency hopping with fractional frequency reuse and multi-cell joint frequency hopping. The simulation result demonstrates that the cell-edge peak bit rate increases 7% with the proposed hybrid method.
The composition of grape cuticle wax (1965)

The cuticle wax of the grape is composed of a soft wax (30%) readily removed by light petroleum and a hard wax (30%), mainly oleanolic acid, removed by chloroform. The soft wax of the fresh grape is composed chiefly of long-chain alcohols together with smaller amounts of aldehydes, esters, fatty acids, hydrocarbons, oleanolic acid, and small amounts of high molecular weight substances. The soft wax of dried grapes is similar in composition but contains no aldehydes and larger amounts of high molecular weight substances and oxidation products. The aldehydes, unusual wax components, are straight chain and range from C16 to C32 with the even chain-lengths predominating. They were destroyed by neutral alumina but can be chromatographed on silicic acid.
Differential Regulation of Sterol Regulatory Element-binding Protein 1c Transcriptional Activity by Insulin and Liver X Receptor during Liver Development (2004)

Sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) are transcription factors involved in the synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids. In adults, the isoform SREBP-1c is the predominant transcript in the liver of fed animals, and it activates triglyceride production from glucose when diet is enriched in carbohydrates. Studies have shown that SREBP-1c expression is dependent on insulin but also on the availability of oxysterols, ligands of the nuclear liver X receptor (LXR). The aim of this study was to investigate the regulation of the hepatic SREBP-1c expression in vivo in situations where drastic nutritional and hormonal changes occur, from the gestation to the weaning period. In this paper, we report the discovery of LXR-independent SREBP-1c transcriptional activity during late gestation. In utero insulin injection prior to the natural rise in insulin in late gestation triggers SREBP-1c mRNA elevation, nuclear SREBP-1c binding activity, and expression of its target genes independently of LXR transactivation. On the other hand, during suckling, we observed strong SREBP-1c mRNA expression despite very low plasma insulin, an expression that may be due to LXR transactivation. In contrast to insulin, LXR is not sufficient to trigger nuclear SREBP-1c binding activity and target gene induction. This could be due to the concomitant induction of INSIG-2a by LXR and subsequent retention of SREBP-1c in the endoplasmic reticulum.
Synthesis of crosslinked chitosan‐crown ethers and evaluation of these products as adsorbents for metal ions (1998)

Two new crosslinked-crown ethers (CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6) were synthesized by the reaction of crosslinked chitosan (CCTS-NH2) with 4`-formyl benzo-15-crown-5 and 4`-formyl benzo-18-crown-6. Their structures were confirmed with elemental analysis, infrared spectra analysis, solid-state 13C NMR analysis, X-ray diffraction analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry thermogram analysis. In the infrared spectra of CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6, the characteristic peak of C=N stretch vibration appeared at 1650 cm−1. The X-ray diffraction analysis showed that the peak at 2θ = 20° decreased greatly in CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6. In the 13C NMR spectra of CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6, the characteristic peak of aromatic carbon appeared at 128-ppm, the characteristic peak of carbon in the C=N group appeared at 151 ppm. The adsorption and selectivity properties of CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6 for Ag+, Pd2+, Pb2+, Cd2+, and Cr3+ were studied. The experimental results showed that the two crosslinked chitosan-crown ethers have not only good adsorption capacities for Ag+ and Pd2+, but also high selectivity for the adsorption of Ag+ or Pd2+ with the coexistence of Pb2+ and Cr3+. The selectivity coefficients of CCTS-N=CH-B-15-C-5 and CCTS-N=CH-B-18-C-6 were respectively. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 70: 501–506, 1998
Definition and implementation of general-purpose IoT cloud backend (2020)

As a goal of this thesis is to define and implement general-purpose IoT cloud backend. Thesis work utilized cloud services provided by cloud service provider called Amazon Web Services (AWS). The commissioner of this thesis, SADE Innovations Oy, defined a set of requirements which should be met in implemented cloud backend. The core idea was that the implemented cloud backend should be as general-purpose as possible so that the commissioner could use it as basis of IoT related client projects. The implementation is meant to be expanded with client specific requirements.\n\nFirst thesis focuses on set requirements by the commissioner and reasoning behind them. After requirements, thesis goes through technical backgrounds and technologies which are related to defining and implementing the general-purpose IoT cloud backend. The chapter focuses also to briefly present different kind of cloud services provided by AWS. Next, thesis focuses on actual definition and implementation work. In the definition and implementation chapter, thesis opens key points in the general-purpose cloud backend. At the end, thesis goes through analysis from perspectives of meeting the set requirements, future development possibilities and the benefits of the implementation.\n\nAs a main result of the thesis, a general-purpose IoT cloud backend was defined and implemented. The implementation met the set requirements well. The resulted implementation has been used as basis of several projects of the commissioner’s clients. Based on already realized projects, it can be stated that the implementation works well and provides benefits to clients as savings in time and money which would have otherwise gone into implementing similar project basis. The commissioner gets benefit from license revenues of realized client projects which use the implementation as basis of the project.
A latitudinal cline and response to vernalization in leaf angle and morphology in<i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>(Brassicaceae) (2008)

Adaptation to latitudinal patterns of environmental variation is predicted to result in clinal variation in leaf traits. Therefore, this study tested for geographic differentiation and plastic responses to vernalization in leaf angle and leaf morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Twenty-one European ecotypes were grown in a common growth chamber environment. Replicates of each ecotype were exposed to one of four treatments: 0, 10, 20 or 30 d of vernalization. Ecotypes from lower latitudes had more erect leaves, as predicted from functional arguments about selection to maximize photosynthesis. Lower-latitude ecotypes also had more elongated petioles as predicted by a biomechanical constraint hypothesis. In addition, extended vernalization resulted in shorter and more erect leaves. As predicted by functional and adaptive hypotheses, our results show genetically based clinal variation as well as environmentally induced variation in leaf traits.