gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Microwave Resonance Plasma Source (2005)

Abstract This article summarizes important aspects of a microwave resonance plasma source (MRPS ) based on the resonance phenomenon and running at atmospheric pressure. The novel MRPS using the high‐efficiency tunable cylindrical resonant cavity of TM 013 mode and operating at 2.45 GHz, was designed and manufactured. The MRPS was successfully approved with different carrier gases (N 2 , Ar, He) and precursor (gases, liquids, and powders) for creation of thermal plasma torch. Some examples of technological applications are highlighted. The feasibility of using the MRPS for nitriding/oxinitriding of Ti, 304 and 316 stainless steel, and 5140 steel by pure N 2 and with air (the mixture of N 2 78 vol% +O 2 21 vol%) was confirmed. For the purpose of plasma chemistry applications, two gaseous systems were chosen. The first one is CO 2 –H 2 O–N 2 , which imitates exhaust/flue gases. The second one is CO 2 –N 2 , which is of interest for deposition of superhard nanocrystalline carbon nitride (C 3 N 4 ), the hardness of which is comparable to that of diamond. The MRPS commercially applicable in industry is practical for plasma chemistry, materials processing, coating deposition, surface treatment, and other applications.
The development and prospect of personalized TV program recommendation systems (2003)

Aspects of personalized TV program recommendation systems are reviewed. An introduction and relevant work are presented, and philosophies of program description, user profiling and the matching mechanism are illustrated, especially for strategies such as implicit and explicit feedback, and content-based and collaborative filtering techniques. A new system quality evaluation method is then presented. In addition, we propose a next generation conceptual architecture for integrating a real-time program rating mechanism with a personalization system using Web services.
Influence of caffeine on movement characteristics, fertilizing capacity and ability to penetrate cervical mucus of human spermatozoa (1983)

When added to frozen-thawed human semen, the 3 doses of caffeine tested (2, 5 and 10 mM) induced a significant increase in the percentage of motile spermatozoa but did not influence the quality of movement. Considerable variability was noted between samples in their responsiveness to caffeine which, at the 5 and 10 mM doses, was significantly correlated with the degree of motility lost during cryostorage. Caffeine treatment of frozen-thawed human spermatozoa also increased the number of spermatozoa penetrating cervical mucus in unit time, by increasing the frequency rather than the success of collisions between spermatozoa and the cervical mucus interface. When caffeine-stimulated spermatozoa were washed free of seminal plasma containing this compound they were no longer at an advantage with respect to their motility or fertilizing ability. When 2 mM-caffeine was added to washed suspensions of capacitated spermatozoa it failed to stimulate motility but did significantly enhance the fertilizing ability of the spermatozoa, indicating a possible clinical role for this compound in in-vitro fertilization therapy.
Somatic Embryogenesis in Leguminous Plants (2000)

Abstract: This review examines recent advances in the induction and development of somatic embryos in leguminous plants. Emphasis has been given to identify the current trends and successful strategies for the establishment of somatic embryogenic systems, particularly in the economically important species. It appears that, in legumes, somatic embryogenesis can be realized relatively easily especially in young meristematic tissues such as immature embryos and developing leaves. In the majority of the species examined, chlorophenoxyacetic acids remained the most active inductive compounds; however, the new generation growth regulators such as thidiazuron are emerging as successful alternatives for high‐frequency direct regeneration of somatic embryos, even from well differentiated explant tissues. Low‐frequency embryo production, poor germination and conversion of somatic embryos into plantlets and somaclonal variation are the major impediments limiting the utility of somatic embryogenesis for biotechnological applications in legumes. These limitations, however, may be considerably reduced in the near future, as more newly developed growth regulators with specific morphogenic targets become available for experimentation. From the published data, it is apparent that more effort should be given to develop repetitive embryogenic systems with high frequency of germination and regeneration, since such systems will find immediate application in mass propagation and other crop improvement programmes. As our understanding of various morphogenic processes, including growth and differentiation of zygotic embryos, is fast expanding, it is conceivable that development of highly efficient somatic embryogenic systems with practical application can be anticipated, at least for the important leguminous crops, in the foreseeable future.
Formosanin C-inhibited pulmonary metastasis through repression of matrix metalloproteinases on mouse lung adenocarcinoma (2011)

Formosanin C (FC) isolated from Rhizoma Paridis, showed pro-apoptosis and immunoregulation with antitumor activity in cultured cells and animal systems. However, there is no report about its anti-metastatic effect on cancer cells. This research used the wound healing and the migration assay to detect the anti-invasive effect of FC on LA795 cells. Through the gelatin zymography assay and immunofluorescence analysis, FC showed suppression of enzyme activity of MMP-2 and MMP-9, and protein expression of MMP-1, -2, -3, -9 and -14 excreted from LA795 cells. Finally, FC exhibited much more effective inhibition of tumor growth and pulmonary metastasis in T739 mice than cisplatin did. Overall, the strong inhibition of MMP expression by FC might provide a potential therapeutic modality for lung tumors.
Fast detection of diffuse axonal damage in severe traumatic brain injury: comparison of gradient-recalled echo and turbo proton echo-planar spectroscopic imaging MRI sequences. (2005)

Owing to its very short scan time and high sensitivity to the hemorrhage foci, the t-PEPSI sequence may be used as an alternative to the GRE to assess brain DAI in severe TBI patients, especially if uncooperative and medically unstable.
Introducing PVSPITCH: a Pitch Tracking Opcode for Csound (2005)

An accurate pitch tracker has many useful applications, whether for creating interactive electroacoustic compositions, music transcription, ethnomusicological research and numerous others. Designed for the Csound sound synthesis and signal processing language, PVSPITCH is an opcode that can be utilised for such purposes. The opcode performs a mathemathical analysis upon Csound's phase vocoder data streams and from this examination, ascertains what it determines to be the signal's pitch. The algorithm handles well many types of signals, including those missing various harmonics, even a fundamental, and also signals with inharmonic partials. The only signal restriction are that it be single voiced, strongly pitched and slowly changing. This paper introduces the opcode and illustrates PVSPITCH's pitch determination algorithm. Schouten's pitch determination hypothesis and the concept of tonal fusion are briefly discussed as the background to the opcode's development. Three case studies are also explored to demonstrate the accuracy of the algorithm.
Influence of supplementary vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids on the antisocial behaviour of young adult prisoners (2002)

Antisocial behaviour in prisons, including violence, are reduced by vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids with similar implications for those eating poor diets in the community.
Decreasing TNF-α results in less fibrosis and earlier resolution of granulomatous experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (2006)

Granulomatous experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (G-EAT) is induced in DBA/1 mice by adoptive transfer of mouse thyroglobulin (MTg)-primed spleen cells. TNF-alpha is an important proinflammatory cytokine and apoptotic molecule involved in many autoimmune diseases. To study its role in G-EAT, anti-TNF-alpha mAb was given to recipient mice. Disease severity was comparable between mice with or without anti-TNF-alpha treatment at days 19-21, the time of maximal severity of G-EAT, suggesting TNF-alpha is not essential for development of thyroid inflammation. However, thyroid lesions resolved at day 48 in anti-TNF-alpha-treated mice, while thyroids of rat Ig-treated controls had fibrosis. These results suggested that reducing TNF-alpha contributed to resolution of inflammation and inhibited fibrosis. Gene and protein expression of inflammatory molecules was examined by RT-PCR and immunostaining, and apoptosis was detected using TUNEL staining and an apoptosis kit. Thyroids of anti-TNF-alpha-treated controls had reduced proinflammatory and profibrotic molecules, e.g., IFN-gamma, IL-1beta, IL-17, inducible NOS and MCP-1, at day 19 compared with thyroids of rat Ig-treated mice. There were more apoptotic thyrocytes in rat Ig-treated controls than in anti-TNF-alpha-treated mice. The site of expression of the anti-apoptotic molecule FLIP also differed between rat Ig-treated and anti-TNF-alpha-treated mice. FLIP was predominantly expressed by inflammatory cells of rat Ig-treated mice and by thyrocytes of anti-TNF-alpha-treated mice. These results suggest that anti-TNF-alpha may regulate expression of proinflammatory cytokines and apoptosis in thyroids, resulting in less inflammation, earlier resolution, and reduced fibrosis.
Electrodeposition of Carbon Nanotubes−Chitosan−Glucose Oxidase Biosensing Composite Films Triggered by Reduction of <i>p</i>-Benzoquinone or H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (2007)

We report here on the electroreduction of p-benzoquinone (BQ) or H2O2 as a new trigger for simple, fast, uniform, and controllable electrodeposition of chitosan (CS) hydrogels and biosensing nanocomposite films of CS, multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and glucose oxidase (GOD). The multiparameter electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) based on crystal electroacoustic impedance analysis was used to dynamically monitor the deposition processes. When the EQCM Au electrode was immersed in a weakly acidic solution (here pH 5.1 acetic buffer) containing BQ (or H2O2) and CS, the proton consumption during BQ (or H2O2) electroreduction increased the local solution pH near the electrode surface and led to the deposition of CS hydrogel on the electrode surface at local pH near and above the pKa value of CS. The concentration of BQ (or H2O2) required for CS electrodeposition was theoretically evaluated based on an electrogenerated base-to-acid titration model and supported by experiments. Co-deposition of GOD and MWCNTs with the CS hydrogel was achieved, and the resulting MWCNTs-CS-GOD nanocomposite films were demonstrated for glucose biosensing. The MWCNTs-CS-GOD enzyme electrode prepared by BQ reduction exhibited a current sensitivity of 6.7 microA mM-1 cm-2 to glucose, and the linear range for glucose detection at 0.7 V vs SCE was from 5 microM to 8 mM, with a detection limit of 2 microM and a Michaelis-Menten constant of 6.8 mM. The BQ-electroreduction protocol exhibited the best sensor performance, as compared with H2O2-reduction and previously reported water-reduction values. The present protocol via electroreduction of a deliberately added oxidant that is accompanied by a local pH change is highly recommended for wider applications in pH-dependent deposition of other films.
The Effects of Mode Filters on the Transmission Characteristics of Circular Electric Waves in a Circular Waveguide (1958)

Departures from perfect geometry in a multi-mode circular waveguide used for circular electric ware transmission will cause coupling between the TE <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">01</inf> signal mode and the other propagating modes. Such coupling causes serious degradation of signal fidelity after long travel distances. These effects have been studied in a long 5-inch-diameter guide in the 9000-mc band, for effective pulse travel distances up to 12 miles. Mode filters have been developed which suppress all spuriously generated modes in this guide. It is found that the insertion of these mode filters at reasonable intervals along the waveguide reduces pulse distortion to a negligible level and smooths the variations in the loss versus frequency characteristic.
The <i>Aeneid</i> - Egil Kraggerud: Aeneisstudien. Pp. 247. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1968. Paper, Kr. 25. (1970)

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Experience with an on-line monitoring system for 400 kV XLPE cables (2002)

The use of high voltage cables is today recommended and sometimes mandatory in order to avoid environmental concerns of the public, especially when the power system crosses areas of dense population. The reunion of the former GDR with the Federal Republic of Germany has stimulated the interest in this settlement especially for the city of Berlin, where the increase of energy demand requires the use of innovative solutions. The paper reports the activities that BEWAG, the electrical utility of Berlin, performs in order to investigate the feasibility of setting up an urban bulk power connection using 400 kV XLPE cables. During a first accelerated voltage endurance test (at CESI in Milan/Italy) on cables and accessories of six major European manufacturers several failures in joints and SF/sub 6/ terminations were encountered. Therefore the cable links for the actual second testing period were additionally equipped with partial discharge sensors for an insulation monitoring system. Sensors of this type will in the future be integrated into the cable accessories to improve after laying quality control. It is thought that this partial discharge test will replace high voltage DC-tests which were found unsuitable for the 400 kV XLPE cable technology.
Temperature Mapping of 3D Printed Polymer Plates: Experimental and Numerical Study (2017)

In Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which is a common thermoplastic Additive Manufacturing (AM) method, the polymer model material that is in the form of a flexible filament is heated above its glass transition temperature (T<sub>g</sub>) to a semi-molten state in the head's liquefier. The heated material is extruded in a rastering configuration onto the building platform where it rapidly cools and solidifies with the adjoining material. The heating and rapid cooling cycles of the work materials exhibited during the FDM process provoke non-uniform thermal gradients and cause stress build-up that consequently result in part distortions, dimensional inaccuracy and even possible part fabrication failure. Within the purpose of optimizing the FDM technique by eliminating the presence of such undesirable effects, real-time monitoring is essential for the evaluation and control of the final parts' quality. The present work investigates the temperature distributions developed during the FDM building process of multilayered thin plates and on this basis a numerical study is also presented. The recordings of temperature changes were achieved by embedding temperature measuring sensors at various locations into the middle-plane of the printed structures. The experimental results, mapping the temperature variations within the samples, were compared to the corresponding ones obtained by finite element modeling, exhibiting good correlation.
Synthesis of bowed strings (1982)

A model for the bowed string is derived which is inexpensive to implement in digital hardware. Since it requires a pulse-train input, it is ideal for use in conjunction with automatic signal modeling such as linear prediction and system identification methods. Due to the physical nature of the model, it is typically easy to add subtle refinements based on advances in the understanding of bowed strings. [Work supported by a Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship.]
Quantum teleportation via mixed two-mode squeezed states in the coherent-state representation (2003)

Quantum teleportation for continuous variables is generally described in phase space by using the Wigner functions. We study quantum teleportation via a mixed two-mode squeezed state in Hilbert-Schmidt space by using the coherent-state representation and operators. This shows directly how the teleported state is related to the original state. PACS numbers: 03.67.-a, 89.70.+c
Hubert Van Gijseghem (sous la direction de), L’enfant mis à nu — L’allégation d’abus sexuel : la recherche de la vérité, Montréal, Édition du Méridien, 286 p. (1993)

Hubert Van Gijseghem (sous la direction de), L’enfant mis à nu — L’allégation d’abus sexuel : la recherche de la vérité, Montréal, Édition du Méridien, 286 p.. Un article de la revue Nouvelles pratiques sociales (Jeunes et enjeux sociaux) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
Is a medical humanities test needed in the National Medical Licensing Examination of Korea? Opinions of medical students and physician writers (secondary publication) (2014)

The purpose of this study was to examine the opinions of medical students and physician writers regarding the medical humanities as a subject and its inclusion in the medical school curriculum. Furthermore, we addressed whether an assessment test should be added to the National Medical Licensing Examination of Korea (KMLE). A total of 192 medical students at Inha University and 39 physician writers registered with the Korean Association of Physician Essayists and the Korean Association of Physician Poets participated in this study. They were asked to answer a series of questionnaires. Most medical students (59%) and all physician writers (100%) answered that the medical humanities should be included in the medical school curriculum to train good physicians. They thought that the KMLE did not currently include an assessment of the medical humanities (medical students 69%, physician writers 69%). Most physician writers (87%; Likert scale, 4.38±0.78) felt that an assessment of the medical humanities should be included in the KMLE. Half of the medical students (51%; Likert scale, 2.51±1.17) were against including it in the KMLE, which they would have to pass after several years of study. For the preferred field of assessment, medical ethics was the most commonly endorsed subject (medical students 59%, physician writers 39%). The most frequently preferred evaluation method was via an interview (medical students 45%, physician writers 33%). In terms of the assessment of the medical humanities and the addition of this subject to the KMLE, an interview-based evaluation should be developed.
DeepBugs: a learning approach to name-based bug detection (2018)

Natural language elements in source code, e.g., the names of variables and functions, convey useful information. However, most existing bug detection tools ignore this information and therefore miss some classes of bugs. The few existing name-based bug detection approaches reason about names on a syntactic level and rely on manually designed and tuned algorithms to detect bugs. This paper presents DeepBugs, a learning approach to name-based bug detection, which reasons about names based on a semantic representation and which automatically learns bug detectors instead of manually writing them. We formulate bug detection as a binary classification problem and train a classifier that distinguishes correct from incorrect code. To address the challenge that effectively learning a bug detector requires examples of both correct and incorrect code, we create likely incorrect code examples from an existing corpus of code through simple code transformations. A novel insight learned from our work is that learning from artificially seeded bugs yields bug detectors that are effective at finding bugs in real-world code. We implement our idea into a framework for learning-based and name-based bug detection. Three bug detectors built on top of the framework detect accidentally swapped function arguments, incorrect binary operators, and incorrect operands in binary operations. Applying the approach to a corpus of 150,000 JavaScript files yields bug detectors that have a high accuracy (between 89% and 95%), are very efficient (less than 20 milliseconds per analyzed file), and reveal 102 programming mistakes (with 68% true positive rate) in real-world code.
Block diagram transfer function model of a generator including damper windings (1994)

A transfer function model of a system provides an excellent basis for the analysis, explanation and assessment of its dynamic behaviour and in the case of a turbogenerator, the model proposed by de Mello and Concordia (1969) has been extensively used for such purposes for many years. The paper presents an extended transfer function block diagram model of a generator based on a standard, widely used and accepted representation, which includes damper windings on both d and q axes and is capable of providing a much more reliable basis for analysis and performance assessment. Frequency response analysis is employed to demonstrate the relative capabilities of the model form and to explain fundamental dynamic characteristics.
The Dynamics of Water-Protein Interactions (1996)

The magnetic field and temperature dependence of the water proton nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate requires that the motion timescale for water molecules in contact with proteins is close to that for pure water at room temperature. Nevertheless, there are a few water molecules, which may be detected by high-resolution, cross-relaxation spectroscopy, that must have relatively long protein-bound lifetimes and that carry the bulk of the relaxation coupling between the protein and the water. The water-protein magnetic coupling affects the interpretation of water relaxation rates in heterogeneous protein systems, such as tissues, and provides new ways to extract useful information about the immobilized components through the effects on the water NMR spectrum. The discussion shows that the conclusions concerning the rapid water molecule motions at the interface are not in conflict with the observations of many water oxygen atom positions in protein crystal structures.
Sheet Printability - a Primary Driving Force for Current Trends and Developments in Porous Pressing Media (2002)

An overview of porous pressing media technologies currently being used to address sheet smoothness and printability issues on paperboard/packaging grades will be presented. Areas covered will include a discussion of recent developments in base fabric, batt fiber, and needling technology along with conditioning considerations and a glimpse into the future from an R and D perspective. The overview is presented from a practical perspective with an emphasis on new technologies and processes currently utilized on production paper machines and a discussion of documented field results.
Systematic Study of the Photoluminescence Dependence of Thiol-Capped CdTe Nanocrystals on the Reaction Conditions (2005)

A modified method to prepare high-quality thiol-capped CdTe nanocrystals (NCs) was reported in this paper. The experimental results showed that the different molar ratios of the ligands (thioglycolic acid) to monomers (Cd2+ ions) in the precursor solution played an important role in the photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) of the as-prepared CdTe NCs. When [ligand]/[monomer] = 1.2, the maximum fluorescent emission peak appeared in the orange-red window, and the PL QY increased up to 50% at room temperature without any postpreparative treatment. In the meantime, suitable reaction conditions were in favor of the optimization of the surface structure of NCs, resulting in the relatively high PL QY from green to red. In addition, some differences between hydrothermal synthesis and traditional aqueous synthesis of CdTe NCs were discussed.