gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Some Prosodic Details of American English (1971)

General principles for prosodic rules for English, reported previously [C. Coker and N. Umeda, “Acoustical Properties of Word Boundaries in English; On the Vowel Duration and Pitch Prominence,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 47, 94 (1969)] are now implemented in a computer program. Surprisingly, the rules depend mainly on the surface structure of the sentence and on properties of the words. To provide better prosidic features for automatic synthesis, however, additional rules have been added. A good measure of the difficulty of speech material is found to be the proportion of content words to function words. According to this ratio, stress and pause assignment should be different. A paragraph redundancy rule, promoting first occurrences of content words and demoting subsequent repetitions, is found to improve naturalness and reduce monotony of the synthetic speech. Several special verb classes are assumed for assignment of clause, phrase, and word boundaries. These verbs, although different from auxiliary verbs, behave like auxiliaries in the sense that the main idea is conveyed by the remainder of the predicate. Stress and boundary assignment are altered according to verb class. Local phonetic interactions require adjustments in durations of phonemes according to specific contexts. Details of these rules and examples from synthesis are presented.
Loxoscelism and negative pressure wound therapy (vacuum‐assisted closure): an experimental study (2010)

Brown recluse spider (Loxosceles) bites cause lesions ranging from chronic necrotic ulcers to acute life-threatening sepsis. Based on our experience in treating acute and chronic wounds with negative pressure, we postulated that vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) would be valuable in this application. Chester pigs were procured and injected with purified brown recluse spider venom, 1 µl of venom in two anterior sites and 0·1 µl of venom in two posterior sites on their dorsum. For each concentration of venom, treatment consisted of either VAC or dry, non adherent dressings (control group). Each day, the wounds were inspected and measured. For wounds receiving 1·0 µl of venom, the control wounds decreased in surface area to 50% of initial size after 7 days and none had healed, whereas VAC-treated wounds were less than 50% after 48 hours and completely healed and reepithelialised after 8 days. Wounds with 0·1 µl of venom had 50% reduction after 5 days with no complete healing for control wounds, and the VAC wounds were 50% after 48 hours and all had closed and reepithelialised after 5 days. Our experimental study showed an accelerated healing time in the animals treated with the VAC as compared with controls.
ChemInform Abstract: A Noble Chemistry by Refinement of Natural Products (1991)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Wireless System Validation using VHDL-AMS Behavioral Antenna Models : Radio-Frequency Identification case study (2004)

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Scaling AI-based industry 4.0 projects in the medical device industry: An exploratory analysis (2023)

As technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate, the effect it has on the adoption of Industry 4.0 is significant. The adoption of AI-based Industry 4.0 projects creates a significant opportunity to generate new revenue streams and high-value customer-centric products. However, medical device manufacturing organisations are strictly scrutinised by regulatory authorities due to the critical nature of these devices and their impact on humans. This presents a challenging environment for medical device manufacturers to experiment with and implement new technologies. However, the significance and impact of AI-based projects are acknowledged by regulatory authorities such as the FDA and EMA and PMDA, allowing the incorporation of AI-based devices. This change in regulations, although limited, opens up immense opportunities for medical device manufacturers. Although extensive studies on the barriers, challenges, and failure factors of AI projects are available, very few studies explore these from a medical device manufacturing perspective. This is essential due to the significant limitations posed by the regulations governing medical device development. This study analyses the challenges and factors affecting the scaling of AI-based Industry 4.0 projects in medical device manufacturing organisations. The study found three major factors influencing the scaling of AI-based Insutry 4.0 projects. They comprise infrastructural costs, security risks and a change management migration plan. However, investing in these factors with a view to scaling may create additional revenue sources and also help in reaching a faster return on investment. Such investments can also improve the overall productivity of the industry, allowing the creation of high-value customer-centric products. The perceived security risks in the industry were found to be higher than the risks analysed in previous literature, suggesting a need to create an informed workforce. The study also found that for effective implementation of scalable AI-based industry 4.0 projects a skilled workforce with a shared long-term vision is required.
Contribution of the Fermi Contact Term to the Magnetic Field at the Nucleus in Ferromagnets (1960)

Received 10 November 1960DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.498©1960 American Physical Society
Fast Enhanced CT Metal Artifact Reduction Using Data Domain Deep Learning (2019)

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners, and can produce excellent images in many cases. However, the presence of dense materials, such as metals, can strongly attenuate or even completely block X-rays, producing severe streaking artifacts in the FBP reconstruction. These metal artifacts can greatly limit subsequent object delineation and information extraction from the images, restricting their diagnostic value. This problem is particularly acute in the security domain, where there is great heterogeneity in the objects that can appear in a scene, highly accurate decisions must be made quickly, and processing time is highly constrained. The standard practical approaches to reducing metal artifacts in CT imagery are either simplistic nonadaptive interpolation-based projection data completion methods or direct image post-processing methods. These standard approaches have had limited success. Motivated primarily by security applications, we present a new deep-learning-based metal artifact reduction approach that tackles the problem in the projection data domain. We treat the projection data corresponding to dense, metal objects as missing data and train an adversarial deep network to complete the missing data directly in the projection domain. The subsequent complete projection data is then used with conventional FBP to reconstruct an image intended to be free of artifacts. This new approach results in an end-to-end metal artifact reduction algorithm that is computationally efficient textcolorredand therefore practical and fits well into existing CT workflows allowing easy adoption in existing scanners. Training deep networks can be challenging, and another contribution of our work is to demonstrate that training data generated using an accurate X-ray simulation can be used to successfully train the deep network, when combined with transfer learning using limited real data sets. We demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of our algorithm on simulated and real examples.
On an Antibiotic Produced by a New Species of Fungi Imperfecti (1956)

1. AntiblastinはpH 2.5,温度2～5°で有機溶剤へ完全に移行し.これから更にpH 8附近のアルカリ水溶液で抽出できる.この操作を反覆して,ほぼ1/400容まで濃縮したメチレンクロライド溶液をアセトン-CO2により-40°以下に冷却することによつてAntiblastinの白色針状結晶を得ることができた. 2. 紫外部および赤外部の吸収曲線,或いは水添生成物たる飽和脂肪酸の検討により, AntiblastinはMycomycinに酷似することが判明した. 3. Antiblastinは溶液中の濃度が高まるにつれて不安定を増大し,結晶の状態では室温で単時間に褐色樹脂状物質に変化して活性を失うから, -40°以下の低温で保存することが必要である.
Autonomous parameter optimization of a heterogeneous wireless network aggregation system using machine learning algorithms (2012)

By increase of various radio access network (RAN) services, available spectrum resources for mobile communications get decrease, and efficient use of the radio resource is becoming a very important issue. In order to optimize the radio resource usage and maxmize the throughput and quality of service (QoS), the link aggregation technologies to utilize multiple different available RANs have been studied. However, in such heterogeneous wireless networks, it is difficult to improve the throughput by their aggregation because of the differences among the QoSs of the different RANs. In this paper, we propose an autonomous parameter optimization scheme using a machine learning algorithm, which maximize the throughput of the heterogeneous RAN aggregation system. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme implemented on a cognitive wireless network system called Cognitive Wireless Cloud (CWC) system, connected to real wireless network services, such as HSDPA, WiMAX and W-CDMA. Our experimental results of the proposed system show that the aggregation throughput can be improved with increase of the training samples, which are collected autonomously.
Species and Time-resolved Photoluminescence of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes (2006)

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MOLECULAR AND BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISMS OF NICOTINE SELF-ADMINISTRATION IN RATS (1996)

CHIAMULERA, C; TESSARI, M; PAGLIUSI, S*; DEVEVEY, S*; VALERIO, E; REGGIANI, A; TRIST, D G; GAVIRAGHI, G; MERLO, PICH E* Author Information
Reducing Premature Cardiovascular Mortality By 2025: The World Heart Federation Roadmap (2015)

Global Heart is the official and primary publication of the World Heart Federation, offering a platform for the dissemination of knowledge on research, developments, trends, solutions and public health programmes in the area of cardiovascular disease. Global Heart welcomes research results, points of view and educational material on the prevention, treatment and control of cardiovascular disease with a special focus on low and middle-income countries which are facing the brunt of epidemiological transition.Global Heart strongly encourages authors to adhere to CONSORT, STROBE, STARD, and PRISMA guidelines for reporting of clinical trials, observational studies, diagnostic test accuracy papers, and systematic reviews or meta-analyses. Authors are required for submission to download and complete the appropriate Equator Network checklist: http://www.equator-network.org/.
COM2023 – Laboratório de Jornalismo Impresso III (2011)

The HIV-1 variant that contains the GWG amino acid sequence in the crown of the principal neutralizing determinant (PND) has been detected in a few patients in Japan, France, and Brazil by direct sequencing. We describe for the first time the use of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and limited DNA sequencing of the C2-V3 region of the HIV-1 envelope (env) gene to determine the prevalence of the variant in 75 HIV-1-infected Brazilian patients. Overall prevalence of the GWG sequence as indicated by RFLP was 57% (43 of 75). The prevalence in females (72%) was higher than that in males (32%) and newborns (40%). Two GFG sequences and 1 GLG sequence were also detected. This finding is relevant for the planning of vaccines and for studies of the epidemiology of HIV-1 in Brazil.
Properties of silicon nitride films by plasma-CVD used SiH4-N2 gas system. (1986)

Recently, plasma-CVD silicon nitride has been used for LSI passivation films. In this study, to deposit SiN films by the plasma-CVD method, SiH4 and N2 are used as reactant gases. The correlations between SiH4/N2 gas ratio and properties of SiN films were investigated. When SiH4/N2 gas ratio is varied in a range from 1.0% to 2.5%, the properties of SiN films are varied as follows; deposition rate 200-350 Å/min. refractive index 1.77-2.15, Si/N ratio 0.5-2.0. When SiH4/N2 gas ratio becomes smaller, the oxygen content is remarkably increased, and some properties of SiN as passivation films deteriorate with the oxygen content in the films. The optimum SiH4/N2 gas ratio in this study was 2.0%, at which the buffered HF etch rate was the minimum value of 60 Å/min., the electric field strength at the step region was the maximum value of 4.8 MV/cm and the Na+ blocking effect was the strongest.
provided valuable research assistance. The partici (1981)

We present a series of 1,540 corneal allografts studied since 1982. Corneal edema was the major lesion in 439 corneal specimens (28.4%). Keratitis was the largest group with 378 cases (24.5%), including 134 cases of corneal scarring (8.7%). There were 113 cases of herpes simplex virus keratitis (7.3%), mostly of the disciform stromal type, and 60 cases of non herpetic interstitial keratitis (3.9%), 44 of superficial keratitis (2.8%) and 10 of ulcerative keratitis (0.6%). Among the 17 other cases (1.1%), there were 3 of fungal keratitis, 2 syphilitic keratitis and one case of acanthamoebic keratitis. The third group was formed by corneal dystrophies with 376 cases (24.4%). There were 192 keratoconus (12.5%), 121 Fuchs' dystrophies (7.9%), 28 calcific band keratopathies (1.8%), 18 had corneal dystrophies with amyloid deposits and 16 did not. There were 169 regrafts (11%) and 135 traumatic lesions (8,8%). Among the 43 miscellaneous cases (2,8%), there were 22 cases with previous refractive eye surgery, one corneal myxoma, 5 cases of dysplasia, 5 pterigia, 3 sclerocornea, one fish-eye disease, one floppy eyelid syndrome and 5 unclassifiable cases. The mechanisms of these lesions are mainly related to an autoimmune disease in most cases of herpes keratitis. Some rare forms of corneal dystrophies contain amyloid deposits produced by an abnormal kerato-epithelin. Cases of graft failure are not particulary frequent, due to the avascularity of the cornea and its particular immune status.
Evaluating trauma care capabilities in Mexico with the World Health Organization's Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care publication (2006)

This study identified several low-cost ways to strengthen trauma care in Mexico. The study also highlighted the usefulness of the recommended norms in the Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care publication in providing a standardized template by which to assess trauma care capabilities in nations worldwide.
Errata (1977)

Get PDF Email Share Share with Facebook Tweet This Post on reddit Share with LinkedIn Add to CiteULike Add to Mendeley Add to BibSonomy Get Citation Copy Citation Text C. H. F. Velzel, "Errata," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 1695-1695 (1977) Export Citation BibTex Endnote (RIS) HTML Plain Text Citation alert Save article
Neoclassical Aspects of Transport in ITER Plasmas with High Axial Safety Factors (1998)

The neoclassical bootstrap current, parallel electrical resistivity and radial particle and heat transport properties are examined for a reference ITER low current plasma with elevated axial safety factor, q(0), and reverse shear, q′ < 0. The results are compared with two other reference cases at full current and differing plasma profiles. In each of the cases it is found that higher Z impurities are fairly robustly expelled from the core by ion temperature gradient screening, although the screening is weaker in the high q(0) plasma because of its lower collisionality. The bootstrap current is strongly enhanced in the high q(0) case as expected. Potato orbits do not significantly modify the results.
Simultaneous observations of polar stratospheric clouds and HNO<sub>3</sub> over Scandinavia in January, 1992 (1997)

Simultaneous observations of Polar Stratospheric Cloud (PSC' aerosol extinction and HNO 3 mixing ratios over Scandinavia are examined for January 9–10, 1992. Data measured by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS', Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES', and Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS' experiments on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS' are examined at locations adjacent to parcel trajectory positions. Regression coefficients, obtained from Mie calculations, are used to transform aerosol extinctions into aerosol volume densities. Graphs of volume density versus temperature, and importantly, HNO 3 mixing ratio versus temperature, show volume increases and simultaneous loss of HNO 3 as temperatures decrease. The data is consistent with initial PSC growth processes which transform sulfate droplets into ternary droplets or nitric acid dihydrate (NAD' particles.
The influence of mononucleosis infection on atopic disease development in children (2008)

The aim of the study was to determine whether infectious mononucleosis may trigger atopic symptoms or modulate their clinical course. Data from literature point out to such a relationship and attribute it to the influence of EBV on lymphocytes B and IL-4,IL-5,IL-10 and vIL-10 secretion stimulation. The authors examined 30 children who had suffered from symptomatic infectious mononucleosis 2-4 years previously, evaluating symptoms of allergic diseases and performing skin prick tests with selected inhalant and food allergens. The symptoms of atopic disease were found in 57 % in the mononucleosis group, a significantly higher percentage (p<0.0001) than in general population of children in Lódź (16%). The frequency of positive skin prick tests with common allergens was also significantly higher (60% vs 27%, respectively).
ChemInform Abstract: Rapid and Slow Generation of 1‐Trifluoromethylvinyllithium: Syntheses and Applications of CF<sub>3</sub>‐Containing Allylic Alcohols, Allylic Amines, and Vinyl Ketones. (2010)

Abstract Two protocols are developed for the synthesis of (trifluoromethyl)vinyl compounds by rapid and slow lithium halogen exchange processes generating thermally unstable vinyllithium compounds.
Detection of IgG Aggregates or Immune Complexes Using Solid‐Phase C1q and Protein A‐Rich Staphylococcus aureus as an Indicator System (1975)

A radioimmunoassay for detection of C1q-binding IgG aggregates and antigen-IgG antibody complexes is described. The assay makes use of solid-phase C1q and 32p-labelled protein A-rich Staphylococcus aureus as an indicator system. Both 19S and heavier IgG aggregates that fixed C1q were detected. The sensitivity of the assay permitted detection of heavy (19-25S) IgG aggregates at a concentration of 8 mug/ml or less. The results indicated that detection of IgG in this assay is dependent on the degree of IgG polymerization and the molar ratio between the solid-phase C1q and the IgG polymers. Albumin-anti-albumin complexes, preformed at equilibrium with antibody to antigen molar ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 and at antigen concentrations of 25 to 40 mug/ml, were also detectable using the described radioimmunoassay.
Atlas of Signaling for Interpretation of Microarray Experiments (2010)

Microarray-based expression profiling of living systems is a quick and inexpensive method to obtain insights into the nature of various diseases and phenotypes. A typical microarray profile can yield hundreds or even thousands of differentially expressed genes and finding biologically plausible themes or regulatory mechanisms underlying these changes is a nontrivial and daunting task. We describe a novel approach for systems-level interpretation of microarray expression data using a manually constructed ''overview'' pathway depicting the main cellular signaling channels (Atlas of Signaling). Currently, the developed pathway focuses on signal transduction from surface receptors to transcription factors and further transcriptional regulation of cellular ''workhorse'' proteins. We show how the constructed Atlas of Signaling in combination with an enrichment analysis algorithm allows quick identification and visualization of the main signaling cascades and cellular processes affected in a gene expression profiling experiment. We validate our approach using several publicly available gene expression datasets.
Instability in Nonequilibrium and Nonthermal Plasma Discharges (2017)

Microplasma, or plasma in micron scale interelectrode separation, is an effective way to attain nonthermal plasma operation at atmospheric and higher pressure. However, the small size causes the effect of other operating parameters to be crucial in stable operation and make the microplasma discharge system to be susceptible to instabilities. The two major instabilities that are commonly observed are the instability in the negative differential resistance (NDR) region and the Striations or the ionization waves. The physics and reaction kinetics of NDR instability for high pressure system is not well understood. This study pursues both experimental characterization and development of mathematical models to understand the physicochemical processes of direct current driven self pulsing non-thermal plasma discharge. The second category of instability that is observed in microplasma discharges is striations, which was previously found in the low pressure discharges. Striations in the positive column is a major efficiency barrier for many potential applications in microplasma discharge system. However, even though there are several investigations, a consistent theoretical framework for describing this phenomenon, especially for diatomic gases, is absent. For this purpose, we propose a detailed mathematical model that considers elaborate vibrational kinetics that is associated with diatomic gases and has shown that for diatomic gases the energy cascades from electrons to vibrational excited states, contributing to the striation formation. We studied a low pressure discharge system for the Striaions modeling due to the availability of experimental data in such conditions. One of the important applications of plasma discharge is the application in plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition and micro patterning where the smallest feature size is dictated by smallest discharge current at which stable discharge can be attained. There are no existing method that is aimed at suppressing the instability of atmospheric and high pressure. In this study, a mathematical model was developed to suppress the NDR instability through an external circuit. The mathematical model was validated experimentally and found that the instability in the NDR region can be modulated and suppressed using an external circuit element. Although microplasma offers significant technical benefits, the small size of the system makes it extremely difficult to perform diagnostics and ion detection. In addition traditional OES, Laser or other spectroscopic measurements are challenging due to the high collisionality of microplasma discharge at elevated pressure. In this study a mathematical model is proposed to predict the ion number density in the microplasma discharges based on the readily available relaxation frequency in the NDR region. The model was validated experimentally and was found to be in a good quantitative agreement with the multiphysics numerical model.
Neuroendocrinology (2002)

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Overview of Components and Control Mechanisms Limitations of Stimulation Tests The Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal Axis The Biology of Corticotropin-releasing Factor The Effects of Changes in Glucocorticoid Availability Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal Axis Abnormalities in Depression Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal Axis Alterations in Other Psychiatric Disorders Overview of Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid Axis Components and Function Disorders of the Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid Axis Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid Axis Dysfunction in Patients with Primary Psychiatric Disorders Bipolar Disorder and Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid Axis Abnormalities Treatment of Hypothyroid States Hyperthyroid States Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid Axis: Conclusions The Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonad Axis The Hypothalamic-prolactin Axis Oxytocin and Vasopressin The Pituitary Growth Hormone Axis Summary and Conclusion Acknowledgements References