gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Multi-perspective enterprise modeling (MEMO) conceptual framework and modeling languages (2003)

For many companies, the strategic as well as the organizational fit of their information systems is a pivotal factor for staying competitive. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for integrating business processes and informations systems with those of customers and suppliers. The resulting need for organizational changes and the introduction of corresponding information systems is a challenging task. The complexity of the task requires a separation of concerns. At the same time it causes language barriers between various stakeholders, especially between business people and information technology professionals. Enterprise models provide various abstractions that help with the design of corporate information systems which are in line with a company's organization and its long term strategy. They also promise to provide a common conceptual foundation to foster the communication between people with different professional backgrounds. In this paper we introduce a model for enterprise modelling that is based on an extendable set of special purpose modeling languages, e.g. for describing corporate strategies, business processes, resources or information. The visual languages provide intuitive abstractions for various observers. The languages are defined in metamodels which in turn are specified through a common meta-metamodel. Similar to a specialized technical language, they provide concepts that help with structuring and analyzing a domain according to specific objectives. Since the languages are specified in a semi formal way, the models allow for the generation of software prototypes. The languages share common concepts which allow for a tight integration of the various parts of an enterprise model. In addition to offering specialized modeling languages, the modeling method also includes examples, case studies and reference models - to promote the re-use of concepts and artefacts. The use of the method is illustrated by an example, where two different partial models are being integrated.
N2 Heads Are Better than One: Collaborative Learning, Utilizing an Integrated  Knowledge Repository, Facilitated through a Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) Paradigm (2008)

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) framework will be utilized to enhance learning in a distributed collaborative learning environment (CLE). The goal is to create a single interconnected learning environment that spans multiple courses. These online courses will share a reusable knowledge repository that contains information relevant to a field of study. We have selected four interrelated network security courses; computer networks, computer security, computer forensics and emergency management to create a self-sustaining interconnected learning environment. This model can then be utilized in other disciplines. A five- level MMOG game will be developed that requires the collaborative skills of students in multiple courses to engage in problem solving scenarios. As the students' knowledge progresses they will be assigned to increasingly higher levels of problem- solving complexity, incorporated into an engaging 3D gaming framework. It is our hypothesis that students will learn faster and develop more complex interdisciplinary skills utilizing an MMOG than the current method of teaching individual separate courses.
Concentrations of Unconjugated Morphine, Codeine and 6-Acetylmorphine in Urine Specimens from Suspected Drugged Drivers (2002)

Concentrations of unconjugated morphine, codeine and 6-acetylmorphine (6-AM), the specific metabolite of heroin, were determined in urine specimens from 339 individuals apprehended for driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) in Sweden. After an initial screening analysis by immunoassay for 5-classes of abused drugs (opiates, cannabinoids, amphetamine analogs, cocaine metabolite and benzodiazepines), all positive specimens were verified by more specific methods. Opiates and other illicit drugs were analyzed by isotope-dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The limits of quantitation for morphine, codeine and 6-AM in urine were 20 ng/mL. Calibration plots included an upper concentration limit of 1000 ng/mL for each opiate. We identified the heroin metabolite 6-AM in 212 urine specimens (62%) at concentrations ranging from 20 ng/mL to > 1000 ng/mL. The concentration of 6-AM exceeded 1000 ng/mL in 79 cases (37%) and 31 cases (15%) were between 20 and 99 ng/mL. When 6-AM was present in urine the concentration of morphine was above 1000 ng/mL in 196 cases (92%). The concentrations of codeine in these same urine specimens were more evenly distributed with 35% being above 1000 ng/mL and 21% below 100 ng/mL. These results give a clear picture of the concentrations of unconjugated morphine, codeine and 6-acetylmorphine that can be expected in opiate-positive urine specimens from individuals apprehended for DUID after taking heroin.
The aesthetic nose: do we agree? (1995)

The surgeon and patient use the preoperative consultations to develop an agreement regarding the aesthetic goals of a rhinoplasty. This study was designed to evaluate whether people do agree on what makes a nose attractive. Computerized video-imaging technology was used to create nine case studies. The graphics software permitted precise modification to either tip projection, tip rotation, or size of the dorsal hump. Only one parameter was altered in each case. Two hundred fifty judges were asked to identify the most attractive image in each case study. Significant trends were observed in each case, but every image received the preference of some judges. Most judges preferred midrange values in eight of nine cases, but overrotation of the tip was preferred to tip droop, overremoval of the dorsal hump was preferred to underremoval, and overprojection of the tip was preferred to underprojection. The discrepancy in what constitutes an aesthetic nose reinforces the need for the surgeon to clearly understand the patient's specific requests rather than to aim to produce a "standard nose.".
A human lens model of cortical cataract: Ca2+-induced protein loss, vimentin cleavage and opacification. (2000)

Human lenses can be successfully maintained in vitro, remaining transparent for extended periods. Increased intracellular Ca2+ induces cortical opacification in the human lens. Ca2+-dependent cleavage and cross-linking of vimentin supports possible roles for calpain and transglutaminase in the opacification process. This human lens calcium-induced opacification (HLCO) model enables investigation of the molecular mechanisms of opacification, and the data help to explain the loss of protein observed in human cortical cataractous lenses in vivo.
Common-sense measures improve PDC bit performance (1982)

Penetration rates are increased and drilling costs are reduced by matching PDC bits to the formation, avoiding cutter damage when handling and tripping and by experimenting with WOB and rotary rpm. In addition, this article describes how to deal with bit balling, plugged nozzles and torque windup.
HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY ANALYSIS AND ANTI-METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ACTIVITY OF OLIVE FRUIT ETHANOLIC EXTRACT (2017)

The current study explores the antibacterial activity and HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) profiles of olive (Elaeocarpus floribundus) fruits. The ethanolic extract of olive fruit parts: seed (OSE) and mesocarp-epicarp (OME), were prepared, and tested for their antibacterial activity, by agar-well diffusion method using 1.875 -6.25 mg/well, against the clinical isolates of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA; n=3). The HPLC profiles of the extracts were prepared. For the test MRSA isolates, the OSE, at concentrations 1.875, 3.125 and 6.25 mg/well, had ZDI (zone diameter of inhibition) values 8 1.73 mm (range: 6 -9 mm), 9 1.73 mm (range: 7 -10 mm) and 11.67 1.53 mm (range: 10 -13 mm), respectively, and the ZDIs for OME recorded were 12.33 2.51 mm (range: 10 -15 mm), 13.66 2.08 mm (range: 12 -16 mm) and 16.33 1.53 mm (range: 15 -18 mm), respectively (when the values expressed as mean standard deviation). The HPLC chromatograms for both OSE and OME displayed 9 major compounds with retention times 1.54 -6.14 min and 1.79 -9.47 min, respectively. Thus, the olive fruit extracts (OME and OSE) possessing various phytochemicals, showed anti-MRSA activity, suggesting the plausible usage of the extracts in the preparation of antibacterial leads in combating various life threatening diseases caused due to S. aureus infection, including MRSA.
Tetrandrine treatment of severe type acute pancreatitis (2011)

Objective To study the effect and mechanism of tetrandrine (Tet) treatment of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). Methods 45 SD rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, severe acute pancreatitis group (SAP group) and tetrandrine group (Tet group). 5 rats were randomly taken from each group 3, 6, and 12 h after operation, and then underwent laparotomy for testing. Detection targets included calciumion concentration, pancreatic acinar calcium fluorescence intensity and pancreas pathological evaluation. Results In terms of the value of all detection targets, there was no statistical difference for the control group between different time points (P ＞0.05 )while there was statistical difference for SAP group and TET group in different time points (P＜0.05). Conclusion The experiment confirms that Tet, as a calcium blocker, can inhibit calcium to penetrate into pancreatic acinar cells, thus effectively reduce the pathological damage to pancreas of the experimental rats. Calcium overload plays an important role in SAP development.

Key words: 
Severe acute pancreatitis; Tetrandrine; Calcium ions; Calcium overload
Designing Resistance Training Programs, Third Edition <i>Steven J. Fleck, William J. Kraemer</i> (2005)

"Designing Resistance Training Programs, Third Edition Steven J. Fleck, William J. Kraemer." Physiotherapy Canada, 57(3), pp. 244–245
On Arbitrarily Perfect Imagery with a Finite Aperture (1969)

In theory, an optical system with a finite aperture can be coated to produce arbitrarily perfect imagery over a limited field. When the object is of limited extent, this field can be made the optical conjugate to the object, so that the whole object is imaged with arbitrary precision. The required pupil coating approximates low-contrast cosine fringes over its central region, with a frequency and amplitude that rapidly accelerate as the aperture edge is approached. Here the maximum occurs as a narrow spike. The frequency near the central region varies directly with the total extent of the conjugate field, and inversely with the required central core width Δ in the point amplitude response. As Δ is made arbitrarily narrow, the point amplitude response approaches the form of a sinc function over the field of view. This function is precisely the point amplitude for a diffraction-limited pupil with a magnified aperture of 1/Δ times the given pupil aperture ! The only image property that is not in compliance with this effective aperture magnification is that of total illumination. This is severely reduced from that of the original, uncoated aperture, and is the major restriction on practical use of the derived pupil. Applications to microscopy and telescopy are discussed.
Bonjour (1989)

Catrine* from Paris and Michel, Florence, Michel, Véréna, and France from Bordeaux introduce themselves, giving details about their lives and who they are. (*A personalized spelling of Catherine.)
Diagnosis of Enzootic Pneumonia in Danish Cattle: Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Detection of Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Naturally and Experimentally Infected Cattle (1999)

A reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was developed for detection of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) in lung tissue of naturally and experimentally infected cattle. Primers were selected from the gene coding the F fusion protein, which is relatively conserved among BRSV isolates. The RT-PCR assay was highly specific, it yielded positive reactions only when performed on BRSV-infected cell cultures or tissues. The detection limit of the RT-PCR assay was assessed as 5 TCID50. BRSV was detected in tissues of the respiratory tract and in the tracheobroncheal lymph node of calves euthanized 2-8 days after experimental infection with BRSV, whereas samples of other tissues and samples from mock-infected animals were negative at all time points. Examination of lung samples from 8 different regions of the lungs revealed that although the virus was most often found in the cranioventral lobules, it was frequently present in all lung lobules. Microbiologic examinations of all acute fatal cases of pneumonia (135 animals) in cattle submitted for diagnostic purposes during 1 year revealed that Actinomyces pyogenes (11%), Haemophilus somnus (10%), Pasteurella sp. (7%), and Pasteurella haemolytica (7%) were the most common bacterial agents found in the lungs. BRSV was identified using a conventional antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 23 (17%) animals. The established BRSV-specific RT-PCR assay yielded positive results for the same 23 animals. In addition, 10 animals that were negative with the ELISA were positive with the RT-PCR assay. These results indicates that the RT-PCR assay can be a sensitive, reliable alternative to conventional diagnostic procedures.
Semiparametric Regression (2003)

Semiparametric regression is concerned with the flexible incorporation of non-linear functional relationships in regression analyses. Any application area that benefits from regression analysis can also benefit from semiparametric regression. Assuming only a basic familiarity with ordinary parametric regression, this user-friendly book explains the techniques and benefits of semiparametric regression in a concise and modular fashion. The authors make liberal use of graphics and examples plus case studies taken from environmental, financial, and other applications. They include practical advice on implementation and pointers to relevant software. The 2003 book is suitable as a textbook for students with little background in regression as well as a reference book for statistically oriented scientists such as biostatisticians, econometricians, quantitative social scientists, epidemiologists, with a good working knowledge of regression and the desire to begin using more flexible semiparametric models. Even experts on semiparametric regression should find something new here.
Robust Real-Time Multiprocessor Interrupt Handling Motivated by GPUs (2012)

Architectures in which multicore chips are augmented with graphics processing units (GPUs) have great potential in many domains in which computationally intensive real-time workloads must be supported. However, unlike standard CPUs, GPUs are treated as I/O devices and require the use of interrupts to facilitate communication with CPUs. Given their disruptive nature, interrupts must be dealt with carefully in real-time systems. With GPU-driven interrupts, such disruptiveness is further compounded by the closed-source nature of GPU drivers. In this paper, such problems are considered and a solution is presented in the form of an extension to LITMUS^RT called klmirqd. The design of klmirqd targets systems with multiple CPUs and GPUs. In such settings, interrupt-related issues arise that have not been previously addressed.
Measurement of the retinal nerve fibre layer with scanning laser polarimetry in patients with previous demyelinating optic neuritis (1998)

Scanning laser polarimetry can provide a quantitative measure of RNFL loss after demyelinating optic neuritis, demonstrating its occurrence in a high percentage of patients recovering normal visual acuity.
Normalization of sun/view angle effects in vegetation index using BRDF of typical crops (2004)

Vegetation indices are subjected to many external perturbations such as soil background variations, atmospheric conditions, geometric registration, and especially sensor viewing geometry. Subsequent use of these indices to estimate crop yield and monitor crops growth would result in substantial uncertainties. To reduce the uncertainties due to sun-view angle variations, some methods mere generated by use the reflectance or albedo generated from the BRDF models. MODIS vegetation composition algorithm uses the empirical BRDF model (developed by Walthall et al. to normalize the sun/view angles to certain angle, and then composite the VI by several day's data. In this paper, we present a new method based on prior knowledge to normalise vegetation index on pure pixels of crops, which can be recognized from MODIS image by high resolution land cover map. We simulated different BRDFs of winter wheat in different grow stages by radiative transfer models, using the plant canopy parameters obtained from prior knowledge. Then, we use this BRDF to normalize vegetation indices. The method was tested by the ground based measurements and MODIS Data. It shows our results are good consistent with the ground based measurements. We compare our methods with the algorithm of MODIS vegetation composition, it proved that the result calculated by our method is in better agreement with the surface reflectance characterizations and our method is more effective to monitor the crop growth in regional scale
Improving distortion correction for isotropic high‐resolution 3D diffusion MRI by optimizing Jacobian modulation (2021)

This study improves the distortion correction for isotropic high-resolution whole-brain 3D diffusion MRI by optimizing Jacobian modulation. The optimized method outperforms the conventional J<sub>Field</sub> method regarding intensity variation correction and accuracy of diffusion metrics estimation, and outperforms the original J<sub>RPG</sub> method regarding SNR performance.
Preliminary description and nutritional characterization of a chemoorganotrophic archaeobacterium growing at temperatures of up to 110 ° isolated from a submarine hydrothermal vent environment (1991)

Summary: An extremely thermophilic coccoid bacterium, designated strain ES4, was isolated from a flange (a newly described geological structure associated with massive sulphide mounds) at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent system. The organism is a salt-requiring obligately anaerobic chemoorganotroph which reduces elemental sulphur but can grow very poorly in the absence of sulphur. Organic substrates utilized include yeast extract, peptone and amino acid hydrolysate as well as individual amino acids, the peptide Leu-Ser and starch. When growing on a defined medium, ES4 requires a supplement of vitamins and 20 amino acids at trace concentrations. Growth is most rapid in the temperature range 90-99 °C, with a maximum growth temperature of about 110 °C. In the optimal temperature range for growth, ES4 has a doubling time of about 1 h and can reach densities of 10 9 cells ml -1 . Insensitivity to the antibiotics vancomycin, streptomycin and chloramphenicol, and the presence of di- and tetra-ether phytanyl lipids, indicate that ES4 is an archaeobacterium.
Conclusion (1985)

The ancient Romans worshipped Vulcan, the god of fire, with an unusual festival that is especially relevant to acid rain. Gathering in the northern part of the forum in late August, the heads of Roman families would toss small fish, brought by fisherman from the Tiber, into a roaring fire.165 The sacrifice is thought to have been an appeasement to Vulcan, an offering of a creature normally impervious to fire. Today, more than two thousand years later, fish are no longer beyond Vulcan's reach. As acidic pollutants from the burning of fossil fuels find their way into lakes and streams, the earth's watery creatures are again being sacrificed on the altar of fire — but no longer is it a festival.KeywordsAcid RainMental Protection AgencyStage CombustionSulfur CoalRespiratory IrritantThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of a Fischer–Tropsch Packed Bed Reactor and Its Thermal Management for Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuel Production using Biomass Syngas (2012)

A mathematical modeling and numerical simulation study has been carried out for a liquid hydrocarbon production system using syngas from biomass gasification. The system is based on a Fischer–Tropsch packed bed reactor with an external heat removal sink. To ensure the accurate prediction of exothermic heat release, the chemical reaction kinetics is modeled with a comprehensive product distribution scheme based on a novel carbon number dependent chain growth concept and stoichiometric relationship between the syngas and hydrocarbons produced. The Fischer–Tropsch synthesis involves a three-phase phenomenon: gaseous phase—syngas, water vapor and light hydrocarbons; liquid phase—heavy hydrocarbon; solid phase—catalyst. A porous medium model has been used for the two-phase flow through an isotropic packed bed of spherical catalyst pellets. An Eulerian multiphase continuum model has been applied to describe the gas–liquid flow through the porous medium. Heterogeneous catalytic chemical reactions convert syngas into hydrocarbons and water. Intraparticle mass transfer limitation has also been considered in this model. Two independent validation cases have been demonstrated to show a successful implementation of the computational schemes. In this study, major attention has been paid to reactor temperature profiles because thermal management is highly important for the current exothermic catalytic reaction. We believe that our model could provide optimum operating conditions for achieving the maximum yield for desired products, liquid hydrocarbon fuels, without the thermal deactivation of the catalyst.
Fourier theorems in <i>L<sub>p</sub></i> (1987)

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Verkoop nieuw appelras dankzij opzetten miniketen (2003)

Korte presentatie van enkele resultaten van het biologisch onderzoeksprogramma open teelten. Thema;s zijn kwaliteitsproductie, schoon milieu, meststoffen, pesticiden, multifunctioneel, natuur en landschap, duurzaam beheer van productiemiddelen en continuïteit bedrijf.