gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of bacteriological transport systems. (1975)

Seven commercially manufactured bacteriological transport systems, including Culturette, Trans-Cul (with Stuart and Amies), Handiswab, Securline (with Amies and Amies without charcoal) and Culture Caddy, were evaluated to determine whether these systems were capable of maintaining the viability and constant numbers of mixtures of hardy, fastidious and anaerobic organisms over 72 hours at 25C and 4C. The results of the study indicated that if specimens are maintained in transport systems at 25C they should be cultured at four hours to minimize loss of viability and to assure accurate quantitation. No one transport system excelled over the other for maintenance of cultures at room temperature. Most organisms survived well in all of the transport systems for 72 hours when refrigerated.
Results of the First Annual Human-Agent League of the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (2018)

We present the results of the first annual Human-Agent League of ANAC. By introducing a new human-agent negotiating platform to the research community at large, we facilitated new advancements in human-aware agents. This has succeeded in pushing the envelope in agent design, and creating a corpus of useful human-agent interaction data. Our results indicate a variety of agents were submitted, and that their varying strategies had distinct outcomes on many measures of the negotiation. These agents approach the problems endemic to human negotiation, including user modeling, bidding strategy, rapport techniques, and strategic bargaining. Some agents employed advanced tactics in information gathering or emotional displays and gained more points than their opponents, while others were considered more "likeable" by their partners.
Interaction of Aminoglycosidic Antibiotics with Mixed Monolayers and Liposomes of Anionic and Neutral Phospholipids. (1983)

The interactions of aminoglycosidic antibiotics with mixtures of various anionic and neutral phospholipids were investigated in monolayers and liposomes. Upon neomycin challenge (10('-8) to 10('-4) M), only the phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate-containing monomolecular film yielded a significant expansion. Furthermore, this mixed lipid film {phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate-phosphatidylcholine(1:1)} was also sensitive as an in vitro screening tool for differentiating non-ototoxic, mildly ototoxic, and highly ototoxic aminoglycosides since the degree of film expansion correlated with the loss of cochlear microphonics induced by the antibiotics in animals. The influence of neomycin on the thermotropic phase transitions of mixed liposomes containing anionic and neutral phospholipids in various combinations were examined with differential scanning calorimetry. Both Ca('2+) and neomycin had no influence on liposomes containing DSPC only. Addition of Ca('2+), neomycin or both to liposomes containing distearoylphosphatidylcholine(DSPC) and an anionic lipid (phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, or phosphatidylinositol phosphate) induced an upward shift of the phase transition temperature. However, a unique interaction was observed between neomycin and the mixed liposomes containing phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate. In these liposomes, neomycin induced a downward shift of the phase transition temperature. This fluidizing effect may have important implications for the in vivo action of aminoglycosides since a fluidizing effect implies changes in permeability of the membrane.
Detection of Laser Radar Target Based on Wavelet Decomposition (2006)

A novel approach for detecting laser radar target based on wavelet decomposition has been proposed. Usually, wavelet analysis has been used to de-noise a digital signal corrupted by noise. In our approach, we applied the wavelet decomposition in a multi-resolution sense to only get the approximation of a signal and detect the target. Without reconstruction, it is easy to realize on real time. Experiments show that our approach leads to an effective method to detect the laser target in a clutter background
Studies on the synthesis, stability and conformation of 2-sulfonyl-oxetane fragments (2015)

2-(Arylsulfonyl)oxetanes have been prepared as new structural motifs of interest for medicinal chemistry. These are designed to fit within fragment space and be suitable for screening in fragment based drug discovery, as well as being suitable for further elaboration or incorporation into drug-like compounds. The oxetane ring is constructed through an efficient C-C bond forming cyclisation which allows the incorporation of a wide range of aryl-sulfonyl groups. Furthermore, biaryl-containing compounds can be accessed through Suzuki-Miyaura coupling from halogenated derivatives. With a number of oxetane containing fragment compounds available, their pH stability was assessed, indicating good half-life values for mono-substituted aryl sulfonyl oxetanes across the pH range (1 to 10). Solubility and metabolic stability data is also reported. Finally, the conformation of the fragments is assessed computationally, providing an indication of possible binding orientations.
Effects of Referral Bonus Characteristics, Risk in Referring, and Commitment on Referring Behavior (2017)

Research has provided strong evidence that employee job referrals result in positive organizational and job seeker outcomes. Yet research has been limited on how organizations can actually increase the likelihood of obtaining such referrals. Using the theoretical lens of expectancy and prospect theory, we start by testing the common assumption of most employers: that a referral bonus motivates employees to refer and that higher bonus amounts incite greater likelihood of referring. Additionally, we explore the effect of a payout contingency, or a delay in payment, in relation to referring likelihood. Our study also theoretically develops and quantitatively investigates the effect of risk in referring, or the generalized threat individuals have to their organizational reputation and well-being if the referral falters. Finally, we investigate affective commitment’s impact on referring likelihood and its interaction with the referral bonus. Results largely supported our predictions regarding bonus presence, bonus size, risk in referring, and the role of affective commitment. We contribute to the literature by developing theory, expanding the scope of current referral literature, and offering a quantitative examination of previously theorized variables in the referring process. We conclude by offering suggestions to practicing managers on how to best benefit from their referral program.
Orthogonal pulse compression code design for waveform iversity in multistatic radar systems (2008)

This paper deals with an orthogonal pulse compression code set design problem in multistatic radar systems. Multistatic radar systems can improve radar performance by using a set of orthogonal waveforms with the same operating frequency. We provide the signal model for multistatic radar system using a set of orthogonal pulse compression codes. Moreover, a novel algorithm is proposed to obtain the set of orthogonal pulse compression codes. This algorithm minimizes the sidelobe peak of sum of autocorrelation and crosscorrelation function while maintaining the orthogonality of each code. Some of the designed results are presented by evaluating the characteristics of autocorrelation and crosscorrelation functions. In addition, the waveform diversity system and non-waveform diversity system are compared in terms of the probability of detection performance.
Synthese von 2‐ und 3‐(1,2,3,6‐Tetrahydropyridyl)‐indolen (1968)

Abstract The synthesis of a series of 2‐ and 3‐(1,2,3,6‐tetrahydro‐4‐pyridyl)‐indoles by reduction of the corresponding pyridinium compounds with sodium borohydride is described. A substantially improved mode of preparation for 3‐(4‐pyridyl)‐indole is given.
Antagonism of acetylcholine action in guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle and epithelium by pirenzepine, 4-DAMP and atropine. (1990)

Acetylcholine-induced guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle contraction and epithelium-derived relaxant factor release were evaluated using guinea-pig open tracheal rings and rat anococcygeus muscle bioassay to get insight into the participation of muscarinic receptor subtypes in these responses. There was a significant difference between the two pA2 values obtained in contraction and relaxation experiments for pirenzepine, but no difference was found either for atropine or for 4-DAMP. This difference seems to be due to the participation of M1-receptors in smooth muscle contraction.
Enhanced production of exopolysaccharide matrix and biofilm by a menadione-auxotrophic Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variant (2010)

The role of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants (SCVs) in the pathogenesis of biofilm-associated infections remains unclear. This study investigated the mechanism behind increased biofilm-forming potential of a menadione-auxotrophic Staphylococcus aureus SCV compared with the wild-type parental strain, as recently reported by our laboratory. SCVs displayed an autoaggregative phenotype, with a greater amount of polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), significantly reduced tricarboxylic acid cycle activity and a decreased susceptibility to aminoglycosides and cell-wall inhibitors compared with wild-type. The biofilms formed by the SCV were highly structured, consisting of large microcolonies separated by channels, and contained more biomass as well as significantly more PIA than wild-type biofilms. The surface hydrophobicity of the two phenotypes was similar. Thus, the autoaggregation and increased biofilm-forming capacity of menadione-auxotrophic Staphylococcus aureus SCVs in this study was related to the enhanced production of PIA in these variants.
Automated vehicle's behavior decision making using deep reinforcement learning and high-fidelity simulation environment (2018)

Automated vehicles are deemed to be the key element for the intelligent transportation system in the future. Many studies have been made to improve the Automated vehicles' ability of environment recognition and vehicle control, while the attention paid to decision making is not enough though the decision algorithms so far are very preliminary. Therefore, a framework of the decision-making training and learning is put forward in this paper. It consists of two parts: the deep reinforcement learning training program and the high-fidelity virtual simulation environment. Then the basic microscopic behavior, car-following, is trained within this framework. In addition, theoretical analysis and experiments were conducted on setting reward function for accelerating training using deep reinforcement learning. The results show that on the premise of driving comfort, the efficiency of the trained Automated vehicle increases 7.9% compared to the classical traffic model, intelligent driver model. Later on, on a more complex three-lane section, we trained the integrated model combines both car-following and lane-changing behavior, the average speed further grows 2.4%. It indicates that our framework is effective for Automated vehicle's decision-making learning.
THE SOCIAL WEB (2010)

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually 'work'. Money Makes Us Relatives asks why Turkish society devalues women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labor for the world market. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using fascinating case studies throughout, Jenny B. White shows how women's paid work is viewed in terms of kinship relations of reciprocity and obligation - an extension of domestic work for the family, which is culturally valued but poorly compensated. Whilst offering the benefits of social identity and long-term security, women's work also reflects global capitalism's ability to capture local cultural norms, and to use these to lower production costs and create exploitative conditions. This fully revised second edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated references, comparative material on women's labor elsewhere in the world, and brand new material on Islam, globalization, gender and Turkish family life. It is an important contribution to debates about women's participation in late global capitalism.
Blow-up estimates of positive solutions of a reaction-diffusion system (2003)

This paper is concerned with positive solutions of the reaction-diffusion system
 
$u_t - \Delta u = u^(m_1)v^(n_1)$ , 
$v_t - \Delta v = u^(m_2)v^(n_2)$ ,
 
which blow up at $t = T$. We obtain the following estimates on the blow-up rates:
 
$c(T - t)^(-(n_1-n_2+1)/\gamma) 
$c(T - t)^(-(m_2-m_1+1)/\gamma) <= max_(x\in\Omega) v(x, t) <= C(T - t)^(-(m_2-m_1+1)/\gamma)$,
 
for some positive constants $c,C$ and $\gamma = m_2n_1 - (1 - m_1)(1 - n_2)$.
Silicon wafer bonding via designed monolayers** (1995)

Silicon wafer bonding is a technology which allows two silicon wafers to stick together without any glue (e.g. see Fig.). The technique is used in the areas of microelectronics, micromechanics, and power electronics. Hydrolyzed tetramethoxysilane is used in he new bonding process presented here, providing a low‐temperature method of wafer bonding compatible with the presence of microelectronics aluminum metallization magnified image .
Comparative multi‐scale hierarchical structure of the tail, plantaris, and Achilles tendons in the rat (2018)

Rodent tendons are widely used to study human pathologies such as tendinopathy and repair, and to address fundamental physiological questions about development, growth, and remodeling. However, how the gross morphology and multi-scale hierarchical structure of rat tendons, such as the tail, plantaris, and Achilles tendons, compare with that of human tendons are unknown. In addition, there remains disagreement about terminology and definitions. Specifically, the definitions of fascicle and fiber are often dependent on diameter sizes, not their characteristic features, and these definitions impair the ability to compare hierarchical structure across species, where the sizes of the fiber and fascicle may change with animal size and tendon function. Thus, the objective of the study was to select a single species that is commonly used for tendon research (rat) and tendons with varying mechanical functions (tail, plantaris, Achilles) to evaluate the hierarchical structure at multiple length scales using histology, SEM, and confocal imaging. With the exception of the specialized rat tail tendon, we confirmed that in rat tendons there are no fascicles and the fiber is the largest subunit. In addition, we provided a structurally based definition of a fiber as a bundle of collagen fibrils that is surrounded by elongated cells, and this definition was supported by both histologically processed and unprocessed samples. In all rat tendons studied, the fiber diameters were consistently between 10 and 50 μm, and this diameter range appears to be conserved across larger species. Specific recommendations were made highlighting the strengths and limitations of each rat tendon as a research model. Understanding the hierarchical structure of tendon can advance the design and interpretation of experiments and development of tissue-engineered constructs.
COMPLEXIDADE LOGÍSTICA NAS OPERAÇÕES DE MANUTENÇÃO DE PAZ: UM DESAFIO (2017)

The increase in the number and in the complexity of the UN Peacekeeping missions led to challenges in logistics implementation and operationalization. This study aims to understand and investigate the complexity of the logistical support in UN Peacekeeping operations missions and its implications and consequences.
Ribavirin for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: systematic review and meta-analysis (2010)

No clear message of benefit is available from the current data on ribavirin as observational data are heavily confounded, and the one trial carried out has limited power. However, ribavirin could potentially have benefits in this condition and these results clearly indicate a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial in the context of good quality supportive care, is urgently needed and ethically justified.
Quantitative PCR Method for Diagnosis of Citrus Bacterial Canker (2001)

For diagnosis of citrus bacterial canker by PCR, an internal standard is employed to ensure the quality of the DNA extraction and that proper requisites exist for the amplification reaction. The ratio of PCR products from the internal standard and bacterial target is used to estimate the initial bacterial concentration in citrus tissues with lesions.
Network Virtualization with Cloud Virtual Switch (2011)

Recently, Cloud Computing is getting considerable attentions not only as the technology trend but also the new business model. Virtualization plays an extremely important role in Cloud Computing. Server virtualization has been achieved using virtualization hypervisor software such as VMware, Xen, and KVM,etc. Virtual Machines (VMs) created by hypervisors share the same physical environment with each other. Network virtualization is made by virtually connecting each virtual machine to a port on the virtual switch, which can be implemented by software or hardware. In this paper, we review both software and hardware network virtualization techniques and present the integration of open-source hypervisor with software virtual switch, which provides cloud users a more elastic and secure network environment.
Predicting high-risk prognosis from diagnostic histories of adult disease patients via deep recurrent neural networks (2017)

It is a critical issue to predict the prognosis of adult disease patients due to the possibility of spreading to high-risk symptoms in medical fields. Most studies for predicting prognosis have used complex data from patients such as biomedical images, biomarkers, and pathological measurements. We demonstrate a language model-like method for predicting high-risk prognosis from diagnosis histories of patients using deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs), i.e., prognosis prediction using RNN (PP-RNN). The proposed PP-RNN uses multiple RNNs for learning from diagnosis code sequences of patients in order to predict occurrences of high-risk diseases. The use of RNNs allows the model to learn the status changes of patients considering time, thus enhancing prediction accuracy. We evaluate our method on real-world diagnosis data of over 67,000 adult disease patients recorded for 14 years. Experimental results show the proposed PP-RNN outperforms other standard classification models. In particular, our method provides competitive performance with respect to recall and F1-score on high-risk diseases compared to other models. Furthermore, we investigate the effects of the parameters on the performances.
Cell Block Preparation from Cytology Specimen with Predominance of Individually Scattered Cells. (2009)

This video demonstrates Shidham's method for preparation of cell blocks from liquid based cervicovaginal cytology specimens containing individually scattered cells and small cell groups. This technique uses HistoGel (Thermo Scientific) with conventional laboratory equipment. The use of cell block sections is a valuable ancillary tool for evaluation of non-gynecologic cytology. They enable the cytopathologist to study additional morphologic specimen detail including the architecture of the lesion. Most importantly, they allow for the evaluation of ancillary studies such as immunocytochemistry, in-situ hybridization tests (FISH/CISH) and in-situ polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Traditional cell block preparation techniques have mostly been applied to non-gynecologic cytology specimens, typically for body fluid effusions and fine needle aspiration biopsies. Liquid based cervicovaginal specimens are relatively less cellular than their non-gynecologic counterparts with many individual scattered cells. Because of this, adequate cellularity within the cell block sections is difficult to achieve. In addition, the histotechnologist sectioning the block cannot visualize the level at which the cells are at the highest concentration. Therefore, it is difficult to monitor the appropriate level at which sections can be selected to be transferred to the glass slides for testing. As a result, the area of the cell block with the cells of interest may be missed, either by cutting past or not cutting deep enough. Current protocol for Shidham's method addresses these issues. Although this protocol is standardized and reported for gynecologic liquid based cytology specimens, it can also be applied to non-gynecologic specimens such as effusion fluids, FNA, brushings, cyst contents etc for improved quality of diagnostic material in cell block sections.
Merging and Evolution: Improving Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Applications (2018)

Compact neural networks are inclined to exploit "sparsely-connected" convolutions such as depthwise convolution and group convolution for employment in mobile applications. Compared with standard "fully-connected" convolutions, these convolutions are more computationally economical. However, "sparsely-connected" convolutions block the inter-group information exchange, which induces severe performance degradation. To address this issue, we present two novel operations named merging and evolution to leverage the inter-group information. Our key idea is encoding the inter-group information with a narrow feature map, then combining the generated features with the original network for better representation. Taking advantage of the proposed operations, we then introduce the Merging-and-Evolution (ME) module, an architectural unit specifically designed for compact networks. Finally, we propose a family of compact neural networks called MENet based on ME modules. Extensive experiments on ILSVRC 2012 dataset and PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset demonstrate that MENet consistently outperforms other state-of-the-art compact networks under different computational budgets. For instance, under the computational budget of 140 MFLOPs, MENet surpasses ShuffleNet by 1% and MobileNet by 1.95% on ILSVRC 2012 top-1 accuracy, while by 2.3% and 4.1% on PASCAL VOC 2007 mAP, respectively.