gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Web-based instruction (1997)

A magneto-photothermal therapy for cancer (in vitro photothermal therapy of prostate cancer cells and in vivo photothermal therapy of human glioblastoma tumors in the presence of an external magnetic field) was developed using superparamagnetic zinc ferrite spinel (ZnFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>)-reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanostructures (with various graphene contents). In vitro application of a low concentration (10 μg mL<sup>-1</sup>) of the ZnFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>-rGO (20 wt%) nanostructures under a short time period (∼1 min) of near-infrared (NIR) irradiation (with a laser power of 7.5 W cm<sup>-2</sup>) resulted in an excellent destruction of the prostate cancer cells, in the presence of a magnetic field (∼1 Tesla) used for localizing the nanomaterials at the laser spot. However, in the absence of a magnetic field, ZnFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>-rGO and also rGO alone (10 μg mL<sup>-1</sup>) resulted in only ∼50% cell destruction at the most in the short photothermal therapy and also in a typical radiotherapy (∼2 min gamma irradiation with a dose of 2 Gy). The minimum concentrations required for the successful application of the nanostructures in the photothermal and radiotherapeutic methods were found to be ∼100 and 1000 μg mL<sup>-1</sup>, while in the proposed magneto-photothermal therapy it was only ∼10 μg mL<sup>-1</sup>. The in vivo feasibility of this method was also examined on mice bearing glioblastoma tumors. Furthermore, the localization of the magnetic nanomaterials injected into the tumors was studied in the presence and absence of an external magnetic field. These results will stimulate more applications of magnetic graphene-containing composites in highly efficient photothermal therapy.
Adhesion of neutrophil leucocytes under conditions of flow (1984)

By passing a suspension of polymorphonuclear leucocytes through a parallel-plate chamber their adhesiveness can be assessed by scoring the number of cells trapped on the lower plate, and the fluid shear stress can be defined for a given flow rate. Since the adhesiveness of the cell at the instant of collision must exceed the distractive shear if the cell is to stop, the kinetics of cell accumulation provide a measure of the adhesiveness of the leucocytes and the adhesive interaction can be quantified. This measure of adhesion does not suffer from the complication that the force required to remove the cells from the surface will be greater if the cells have the opportunity to spread before the distractive force is applied. The assay is described in detail and the results of modifying the surface of the flow chamber and altering the composition of the suspension medium are used to illustrate the method. Plasma proteins generally seemed to reduce the adhesiveness of neutrophil leucocytes, whether they were present as a coat of adsorbed protein or in the suspension medium during perfusion. Neutrophil leucocytes, unless suspended in relatively high concentrations of plasma, were considerably more adhesive than other cells that have been tested in this assay system.
Associations of GH gene variants with performance traits in F<sub>2</sub> generations of European wild boar, Piétrain and Meishan pigs (1997)

The role of the porcine GH gene was investigated in 292 F 2 animals of mating Wild Boar × Piétrain and in 310 F 2 animals of mating Meishan × Piétrain. Forty‐three traits of fattening, carcass composition, meat quality and stress resistance were recorded. For the analysis of associations between GH gene variants and quantitative traits, two restriction fragment length polymorphisms were examined. In the Meishan × Piétrain family eight traits related to fatness were significantly associated with GH genotypes, while in the Wild Boar × Piétrain family no significant associations were found. In the Meishan × Piétrain cross, the GH locus explained 11·7% to 17·7% of the total phenotypic variance in the F 2 population. The possibility of multiple alleles at the GH locus is discussed. Based on these results, we conclude that the GH locus should be further investigated in commercial breeds to determine its suitability for use in marker‐assisted selection programmes.
Thermal expansion of bismuth telluride (2011)

The results of X-ray and dilatometric measurements of the thermal expansion of bismuth telluride in the temperature range of 4.2–850 K have been critically analyzed. The joint statistical processing of the experimental data has been performed by the least squares method and the most reliable temperature dependences of the linear thermal expansion coefficients along the principal crystallographic axes α a and α c and the average linear coefficient $\bar \alpha _L $ , as well as the density of Bi2Te3, have been recommended. The results indicate that the linear thermal expansion coefficients along the directions parallel and perpendicular to the cleavage planes decrease with an increase in the temperature in a narrow temperature range. At temperatures below 298 K, the character of the temperature dependences of the linear thermal expansion coefficients of Bi2Te3 has been analyzed in terms of the anharmonicity of the chemical bonding forces in the layer structure and anisotropy of the elastic constants. In terms of the deviations of the composition of the Bi2Te3 compound from the stoichiometric one and the real (defect) structure of the compound, a model has been proposed to explain the minimum in the (α a T) dependence of Bi2Te3 near the melting temperature of bismuth. A method for calculating the temperature dependence of the linear thermal expansion coefficients of the anisotropic layer crystals using the data on the specific heat has been discussed, which provides good agreement of the calculated linear thermal expansion coefficients with the experimental data within the accuracy of the measurements of the linear thermal expansion coefficients.
Agricultural Data Quality (2004)

Abstract Since the late 19th century, the Agricultural Census has been an important source of data on land use and numbers of livestock and farm workers. It works well as a general source of large area results, but in late 2003, in response to customer demand to make data available at smaller geographical scales, the Welsh Assembly released a spreadsheet of results at the small area level from the 2002 Agricultural Census. In this case study, Stuart Neil discusses the issues of data quality that arose in compiling these data.
Cardioprotective effects of acutely administered ramipril and losartan on myocardial infarct size in cholesterol-fed and salt-fed rats (2001)

Objective: To evaluate the cardioprotective actions of acutely administered ramipril and losartan during ischemia-reperfusion induced myocardial injury in cholesterol-fed and salt-fed rats. Methods: Myocardial infarction was produced by occlusion of left anterior descending coronary artery for 30 min followed by 4 h of reperfusion. Infarct size was delineated using triphenyl tetrazolium chloride stain. Results: Infarct size, expressed as percent left ventricle necrosis (PLVN) was found to be 56.40, 68.75, 62.01 in normal, cholesterol-fed and salt-fed rats respectively. Intravenous treatment with ramipril (3 mg/ kg) and losartan (3 mg/kg) reduced PLVN to 24.22, 45.99, 26.35 and 25.46, 32.65, 30.20 in control, cholesterol-fed and salt-fed rats respectively. Conclusion: Cardioprotective actions of ramipril and losartan are reduced significantly by cholesterol loading but not by salt loading.
Pharmacokinetics of secnidazole in healthy volunteers after single oral dose (2010)

<p>Résumé publié dans : <em>Fundamental &amp; Clinical Pharmacology</em>, avril 2010, 24(Suppl. 1): p. 55-56. doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-8206.2010.00819.x">10.1111/j.1472-8206.2010.00819.x</a></p>
Formation and Dispersion of Stable Lamellar Structure Containing Ceramide (2009)

This study described formation and dispersion of stable lamellar structure containing ceramide. To characterize of the lamellar structure containing ceramide, we used differential scanning calorimetry, x-ray diffraction, and FT-IR spectra, which enabled us to demonstrate that ceramide with appropriate amounts of lipid, oil and surfactant can assemble to form a stable lamellar-phase. These approaches to use ceramide offers useful means to fabricate a variety of biocompatible emulsion and liposome, which enlarge their applicability in the fields of drug delivery, dermatology and cosmetics.
Moisture transport in porous building materials (1995)

The isothermal moisture transport in various porous building materials during absorption and drying was studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). It is shown that the moisture diffusivity can be determined directly from measured transient moisture profiles. NMR appears to be an accurate and reliable method to determine these moisture profiles. For both water absorption and drying it is found that, within the experimental accuracy, a single unambiguous relation exists between the moisture diffusivity and the moisture content, which is dependent on the type of material. Preliminary absorption measurements on brick/mortar samples suggest that the hydraulic contact between mortar and brick may not be perfect.
Zur landeskundlichen Dokumentation der Schweiz (1960)

No abstract available.
Computer vision based personalized clothing assistance system: A proposed model (2016)

With fashion industry included e-commerce (worldwide) is expected to hit the $35 billion mark by 2020. There's a need for applications which help the user in making intelligent decisions on their day to day online purchases. In this paper, our aim is to build a system that would be able to understand fashion and the user to provide personalized clothing recommendations to the user. Our approach includes Caffe, a deep learning framework for computer vision tasks such as Clothing type classification and Clothing attribute classification. Furthermore we use Conditional Random Fields (CRF) to learn the intricacies of fashion. CRFs also learn the correlations between attributes of the user such as ethnicity, body type etc., expert opinion and the type of outfit. We expect the proposed system would be able to provide personalized recommendations.
Point-of-care systems, informatics, and health care delivery. (1996)

Evolving information technology has had profound effects on business operations and the marketplace. The health care services industry, particularly hospitals, clinics, and medical offices, has historically lagged behind other industries in the implementation of comprehensive, integrated, computerized data management tools. Health care reformers are looking to the promises of the information technology "revolution" as a means of improving systemic efficiency and health care quality. This study discusses the impact of informatics, or information technology, on the delivery of health care services. We present the evolution of informatics and the predicted future benefits of integrated computerized patient records and point-of-care systems.
Benzo[<i>b</i>]thiophene. Derivatives. XXVIII. 5‐bromo‐3‐benzo[<i>b</i>]thienylalanine and derivatives (1984)

Abstract A potential inhibitor of gelation of sickle hemoglobin, 5‐bromo‐3‐benzo[ b ]thienylalanine, has been synthesized along with several derivatives. Several hydrolytic pathways from the intermediate ethyl 5‐bromo‐3‐benzo[ b ]thienylformamidomalonate have been examined, and that involving alcoholysis to ethyl N‐formyl‐5‐bromo‐3‐benzo[ b ]thienylalanine shown to be superior.
Development and perceptual assessment of a synthesizer of disordered voices (2012)

A synthesizer is based on a nonlinear wave-shaping model of the glottal area, an algebraic model of the glottal aerodynamics as well as concatenated-tube models of the trachea and vocal tract. Voice disorders are simulated by way of models of vocal frequency jitter and tremor, vocal amplitude shimmer and tremor, as well as pulsatile additive noise. Six experiments have been carried out to assess the synthesizer perceptually. Three experiments involve the perceptual categorization of male synthetic and human stimuli and one the auditory discrimination between synthetic and human tokens. A fifth experiment reports the auditory discrimination between synthetic tokens with different levels of additive and modulation noise. A sixth experiment reports the scoring by expert listeners of male synthetic stimuli on equal-appearing interval scales grade-roughness-breathiness (GRB). A first objective is to demonstrate the ability of the synthesizer to simulate vowel sounds that are valid exemplars of speech sounds produced by humans with voice disorders. A second objective is to learn how human expert raters perceptually map vocal frequency, additive and modulation noise as well as vowel categories into scores on GRB scales.
Path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles with terrestrial wireless network tracking (2016)

The UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) market is projected to grow, sustained by the technological progress in different domains related to UAVs and by the emergence of new civilian applications. However, this economical development might be held back due to increased regulation constraints. A major concern of public authorities is to ensure a safe sharing of the airspace, especially over populated areas. To reach this aim, a fundamental mechanism is to provide a permanent tracking of UAVs. In this paper, we investigate the path planning of autonomous UAVs with tracking capabilities provided by terrestrial wireless networks. We formalize this problem as a constrained shortest path problem, where the objective is to minimize the delay for reaching a destination, while ensuring a certain delivery ratio of messages reporting the drone's positions.
The future of health care financing. (2001)

In most sectors of the U.S. economy, consumers control their dollars. What if that were to happen in health care?
The isomerization of carotenes by chromatographic adsorption (1936)

Research Article| September 01 1936 The isomerization of carotenes by chromatographic adsorption: Pseudo-α-carotene Albert Edward Gillam; Albert Edward Gillam 1The Chemistry Department, Victoria University, Manchester Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mohammed Shafik El Ridi Mohammed Shafik El Ridi 1The Chemistry Department, Victoria University, Manchester Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Biochem J (1936) 30 (9): 1735–1742. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0301735 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation Albert Edward Gillam, Mohammed Shafik El Ridi; The isomerization of carotenes by chromatographic adsorption: Pseudo-α-carotene. Biochem J 1 September 1936; 30 (9): 1735–1742. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0301735 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1936 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS1936 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
Deciphering Protein–Protein Interactions. Part II. Computational Methods to Predict Protein and Domain Interaction Partners (2007)

Recent advances in high-throughput experimental methods for the identification of protein interactions have resulted in a large amount of diverse data that are somewhat incomplete and contradictory. As valuable as they are, such experimental approaches studying protein interactomes have certain limitations that can be complemented by the computational methods for predicting protein interactions. In this review we describe different approaches to predict protein interaction partners as well as highlight recent achievements in the prediction of specific domains mediating protein-protein interactions. We discuss the applicability of computational methods to different types of prediction problems and point out limitations common to all of them.
Short-term temporal decomposition and its properties for speech compression (1991)

A technique of temporal speech compression, called temporal decomposition, is considered. A mathematical presentation of temporal decomposition is discussed from the point of view of speech production. Temporal decomposition is studied in terms of an iterative solution and its convergence. For vocoder applications, a practical algorithm, short-term temporal decomposition, is proposed. The statistical performance of this algorithm was tested on a multispeaker database. The efficiencies of vector quantization and vector predictability were comparatively studied on data derived from the algorithm and on data from linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis. The results show that data from the algorithm have more efficient information transmission via vector quantization than data from LPC, and that vector prediction coding is feasible for the data from temporal decomposition.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
The Effects of Cooperative, Competitive and Individualistic Student Interaction Patterns on the Achievement and Attitudes of Students Learning the Golf Skill of Putting (1984)

Abstract There are three types of student-student interaction patterns which can be structured for students learning a physical skill: cooperative, competitive, and individualistic (Deutsch, 1962; Johnson & Johnson, 1975). In this study, one hundred and fifteen university students were randomly assigned to condition, stratifying for physical ability on a pretest. The golf skill of putting was taught to each condition in six periods of 45 min each, with putting ability, altitudes toward the instructor, attitudes toward peers, attitudes toward self and attitudes toward the different interaction patterns being measured. The results indicate that cooperative interaction tends to promote putting skill and more positive attitudes toward the instructor and each other. Students in the cooperative and competitive conditions showed a preference for their own interaction patterns, while all students indicated less positive feelings for the individualistic condition. Key Words: cooperationcompetitionindividualisticstudent interactionpatternsgoal structuresgolf skillsputting
Functional role of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) polysaccharide in steamed pudding (idli). (1989)

The possibility of substituting blackgram polysaccharide with polysaccharide preparations from raw and roasted linseeds (Linum usitatissimum) in the preparation of idli-type steamed puddings was studied. [Idli is a popular Indian breakfast food made by steaming blackgram flour and rice semolina after autofermentation of the batter.] The seed coat of linseed contains a mucilaginous polysaccharide which renders an aqueous suspension of the seeds highly viscous. Roasting the seeds before extraction of the polysaccharide or heat treatment after isolation reduces the viscosity by 50-60% in aqueous dispersions. Polysaccharides from raw or roasted linseeds were added to rice semolina plus either 20% sesame flour or 25% groundnut flour for idli-type preparations. The porous texture of the pudding was stabilized satisfactorily by the linseed polysaccharides, which were a satisfactory replacement for blackgram polysaccharide. A larger quantity of polysaccharide from roasted seeds was required to stabilize the porous texture. Increasing the concn. above optimum levels in the idli mix resulted in puddings with increased bulk density.
Conditions required for induction of interferon by rotaviruses and for their sensitivity to its action (1982)

Our investigations of interferon induction by rotaviruses showed that only when cells were pretreated with interferon, i.e., primed, could infectious rotaviruses induce significant quantities of interferon. As little as 0.5 U of interferon provided sufficient priming for this induction. UV-irradiated rotaviruses induced significant levels of interferon, and priming only marginally enhanced the yields. Neither heat-inactivated virus nor serum-neutralized virus was able to induce interferon, even when cells were primed. When cells were treated with purified virus double-stranded RNA in the presence of DEAE-dextran to facilitate uptake, interferon was induced, although priming did not enhance yields. These results strongly implicate the viral double-stranded RNA as the effector for interferon induction. The insensitivity of rotaviruses to interferon in vitro was also studied. Results suggested that this lack of sensitivity was not due to any inherent resistance of the virus to the antiviral proteins, but rather to lack of activation of cellular enzymes exhibiting antiviral activity.
A Logística como Instrumento de Desenvolvimento dos Vales da Uva Goethe (2014)

O presente estudo apresenta como objetivo avaliar as estruturas da logistica de distribuicao das vinicolas instaladas na regiao de Indicacao Geografica dos Vales da Uva Goethe. A regiao de Indicacao de Procedencia Vales da Uva Goethe compreende 8 municipios situados na regiao sul do estado de Santa Catarina, sao 6 vinicolas, 4 produtores de vinho artesanal e 3 produtores de uva que organizados em associacao, PROGOETHE, buscam na Indicacao de Procedencia o reconhecimento de um produto tipico, com identidade original (PROGOETHE, 2014).
Development and applications in yeast cell surface display system (2007)

The system of yeast cell surface display appears uniquely predominance among various display systems so far developed,because of its suitable expression in the functional proteins of different sizes and with post-translational modification.The system was successfully used to display proteins and peptides,such as enzymes,hexa-His,antigens and antibodies.The fundamental theory and applications of yeast surface display system were also introduced in this paper.
Face tracking and pose estimation with automatic three-dimensional model construction (2009)

A method for robustly tracking and estimating the face pose of a person using stereo vision is presented. The method is invariant to identity and does not require previous training. A face model is automatically initialised and constructed online: a fixed point distribution is superposed over the face when it is frontal to the cameras, and several appropriate points close to those locations are chosen for tracking. Using the stereo correspondence of the cameras, the three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of these points are extracted, and the 3D model is created. The 2D projections of the model points are tracked separately on the left and right images using SMAT. RANSAC and POSIT are used for 3D pose estimation. Head rotations up to ±45° are correctly estimated. The approach runs in real time. The purpose of this method is to serve as the basis of a driver monitoring system, and has been tested on sequences recorded in a moving car.
Scaling laws in magneto-optical traps (1997)

We report measurements done to characterize magneto-optical traps for cesium and rubidium alkali atoms. The results are compared to look for a general behavior of these traps operating in the multiple-scattering regime.