gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Single-Mode Emission From Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Low-Index Defects (2007)

Mode confinement to low-index "defect" regions of a two-dimensional square photonic lattice has been studied as a means to realize single-spatial-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). A selective etching process with two-step metal-organic chemical vapor deposition is used to fabricate the low-index defect VCSELs. A device with a 9-mum-wide aperture demonstrates 2.9-mW continuous-wave (CW) output power. The near diffraction-limited single-lobe far-field and high-resolution spectral analyses confirm single fundamental defect mode emission. Comparison studies between pulsed and CW operation indicate that thermal effects have a significant impact on the modal performance of the devices. Single-mode emission with more than 8 mW of peak pulsed power has been observed with short pulsewidth operation (0.1 mus, 2%). Improvements in thermal management are required to achieve higher CW single-mode emission in these devices
Cost-Utility Analysis of a Cardiac Telerehabilitation Program: The Teledialog Project (2015)

Even though the rehabilitation activities increased, the program does not appear to be cost-effective. The intervention itself was not costly (less than €500), and increasing the number of patients may show reduced costs of the devices and make the CTR more cost-effective. Telerehabilitation can increase participation, but the intervention, in its current form, does not appear to be cost-effective.
Systematics of Baccharis (Compositae-Astereae) in Bolivia, including an overview of the genus (2006)

Baccharis (Compositae-Astereae) includes herbaceous perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees. It occurs throughout the warmer regions of North America and in Central America, in the West Indies, and in So
A yeast artificial chromosome telomere clone spanning a possible location of the Huntington disease gene. (1990)

The Huntington disease (HD) gene has been mapped to the most distal subband of chromosome 4p. Analysis of recombination events has not provided an unequivocal location of the HD gene, but it indicates a position very close to the telomere as one possibility. We have constructed a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) vector (containing a rare-cutter polylinker) for the cloning of mammalian telomeres, used it to prepare a BssHII-telomere library with DNA from an individual homozygous for HD, and have identified a 115-kb clone containing the telomere of 4p. One probable recombinant would confine the telomeric candidate location for the gene to the region covered by the YAC, which makes it possible that the clone described here contains the HD locus in its mutant form.
Efficient Preparation of Derivatives of Resibufogenin using Microbial Catalytic Technique (2006)

Microbial catalysis is a useful biotechnology in studies on natural products, by which a diversity of novel or active compounds can be obtained. Structural modifications of resibufogenin (1) by hydroxylases, isomerase and glucosyltransferase in Mucor subtilissimus AS 3.2454 were investigated. Eleven products were obtained, and, on the basis of their spectral data, their structures were identified as 12β-hydroxyresibufogenin (2), 11β-hydroxyresibufogenin (3), 16α-hydroxyresibufogenin (4), 12β-hydroxy-3-epi-resibufogenin (5), 12α-hydroxyresibufogenin (6), 1β,11β-dihydroxyresibufogenin (7), 12β,16α-dihydroxyresibufogenin (8), 12α,16α-dihydroxyresibufogenin (9), 7α-hydroxyresibufogenin (10), 1β,12β-dihydroxyresibufogenin (11) and resibufogenin 12-O-β-D-glucoside (12), respectively, of which 3, 5, 7, 11 and 12 are new compounds. This microbial catalytic process was efficient for the production of derivatives of resibufogenin giving 11 products and an overall yield of 93.60 %.
Faculty Opinions recommendation of MicroRNAs in plants. (2002)

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an extensive class of ~22-nucleotide noncoding RNAs thought to regulate gene expression in metazoans. We find that miRNAs are also present in plants, indicating that this class of noncoding RNA arose early in eukaryotic evolution. In this paper 16 Arabidopsis miRNAs are described, many of which have differential expression patterns in development. Eight are absolutely conserved in the rice genome. The plant miRNA loci potentially encode stem-loop precursors similar to those processed by Dicer (a ribonuclease III) in animals. Mutation of an Arabidopsis Dicer homolog, CARPEL FACTORY, prevents the accumulation of miRNAs, showing that similar mechanisms direct miRNA processing in plants and animals. The previously described roles of CARPEL FACTORY in the development of Arabidopsis embryos, leaves, and floral meristems suggest that the miRNAs could play regulatory roles in the development of plants as well as animals. PMID: 12101121
Ultrasensitive and Fast Diagnostics of Viable Listeria Cells by CBD Magnetic Separation Combined with A511::luxAB Detection (2018)

The genus <i>Listeria</i> includes foodborne pathogens that cause life-threatening infections in those at risk, and sensitive and specific methods for detection of these bacteria are needed. Based on their unrivaled host specificity and ability to discriminate viable cells, bacteriophages represent an ideal toolbox for the development of such methods. Here, the authors describe an ultrasensitive diagnostic protocol for <i>Listeria</i> by combining two phage-based strategies: (1) specific capture and concentration of target cells by magnetic separation, harnessing cell wall-binding domains from <i>Listeria</i> phage endolysins (CBD-MS); and (2) highly sensitive detection using an adaptation of the A511::<i>luxAB</i> bioluminescent reporter phage assay in a microwell plate format. The combined assay enabled direct detection of approximately 100 bacteria per ml of pure culture with genus-level specificity in less than 6 h. For contaminated foods, the procedure included a 16 h selective enrichment step, followed by CBD-MS separation and A511::<i>luxAB</i> detection. It was able to consistently detect extremely low numbers (0.1 to 1.0 cfu/g) of viable <i>Listeria</i> cells, in a total assay time of less than 22 h. These results demonstrate the superiority of this phage-based assay to standard culture-based diagnostic protocols for the detection of viable bacteria, with respect to both sensitivity and speed.
Evaluation of Value-at-Risk Models Using Historical Data (1997)

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0015-198X eISSN: 1938-3312 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015198X.2021.1965861 Abstract Assets whose carry is trending up, namely, assets with high carry momentum, tend to have higher returns than those with low carry momentum. Using data from different asset classes, we show that portfolios with high-carry-momentum assets delivered higher returns than portfolios with low-carry-momentum assets. The return differentials cannot be explained by exposure to traditional market risks or by such seemingly related factors as time-series momentum and carry. The results can be motivated by a model in which investors’ demand for an asset depends on the market’s view on the expected returns. An increase in carry raises investors’ belief in the attractiveness of an asset, leading to the possibility for higher demand in the market and in turn to the potential for higher prices and positive returns.
IRIM at TRECVID 2011: Semantic indexing and instance search (2015)

The IRIM group is a consortium of French teams work-ing on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. This paper describes its participation to the TRECVID 2012 se-mantic indexing and instance search tasks. For the semantic indexing task, our approach uses a six-stages processing pipelines for computing scores for the likeli-
Evaluation of the Immunogenicity and Vaccine Potential of Recombinant Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein 8 (2012)

The C-terminal 19-kDa domain of merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1₁₉) is the target of protective antibodies but alone is poorly immunogenic. Previously, using the Plasmodium yoelii murine model, we fused P. yoelii MSP1₁₉ (PyMSP1₁₉) with full-length P. yoelii merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP8). Upon immunization, the MSP8-restricted T cell response provided help for the production of high and sustained levels of protective PyMSP1₁₉- and PyMSP8-specific antibodies. Here, we assessed the vaccine potential of MSP8 of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Distinct from PyMSP8, P. falciparum MSP8 (PfMSP8) contains an N-terminal asparagine and aspartic acid (Asn/Asp)-rich domain whose function is unknown. Comparative analysis of recombinant full-length PfMSP8 and a truncated version devoid of the Asn/Asp-rich domain, PfMSP8(ΔAsn/Asp), showed that both proteins were immunogenic for T cells and B cells. All T cell epitopes utilized mapped within rPfMSP8(ΔAsn/Asp). The dominant B cell epitopes were conformational and common to both rPfMSP8 and rPfMSP8(ΔAsn/Asp). Analysis of native PfMSP8 expression revealed that PfMSP8 is present intracellularly in late schizonts and merozoites. Following invasion, PfMSP8 is found distributed on the surface of ring- and trophozoite-stage parasites. Consistent with a low and/or transient expression of PfMSP8 on the surface of merozoites, PfMSP8-specific rabbit IgG did not inhibit the in vitro growth of P. falciparum blood-stage parasites. These studies suggest that the further development of PfMSP8 as a malaria vaccine component should focus on the use of PfMSP8(ΔAsn/Asp) and its conserved, immunogenic T cell epitopes as a fusion partner for protective domains of poor immunogens, including PfMSP1₁₉.
Sardine Disease: Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (2004)

In 2001, a potentially lethal pathogen was identified in sardines landed in Southern California. The pathogen was found to be a rhabdovirus with similarities to the rabies virus. The virus attacks the lining of a fishâs blood vessels causing hemorrhaging. Fish with these symptoms have what is known as viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a disease that has caused mass fish kills in the wild and at farms. Although California sardines were infected with the VHS virus, none of the fish sampled showed symptoms of disease.
Gaussian Message Passing for Overloaded Massive MIMO-NOMA (2018)

This paper considers a low-complexity Gaussian Message Passing (GMP) scheme for a coded massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (massive MIMO-NOMA), in which a base station with $N_s$ antennas serves $N_u$ sources simultaneously in the same frequency. Both $N_u$ and $N_s$ are large numbers, and we consider the overloaded cases with $N_u>N_s$. The GMP for MIMO-NOMA is a message passing algorithm operating on a fully-connected loopy factor graph, which is well understood to fail to converge due to the correlation problem. In this paper, we utilize the large-scale property of the system to simplify the convergence analysis of the GMP under the overloaded condition. First, we prove that the \emph{variances} of the GMP definitely converge to the mean square error (MSE) of Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE) multi-user detection. Secondly, the \emph{means} of the traditional GMP will fail to converge when $ N_u/N_s< (\sqrt{2}-1)^{-2}\approx5.83$. Therefore, we propose and derive a new convergent GMP called scale-and-add GMP (SA-GMP), which always converges to the LMMSE multi-user detection performance for any $N_u/N_s>1$, and show that it has a faster convergence speed than the traditional GMP with the same complexity. Finally, numerical results are provided to verify the validity and accuracy of the theoretical results presented.
Effects of Nanoscale Confinement and Pressure on the Dynamics of pODMA-<i>b</i>-p<i>t</i>BA-<i>b</i>-pODMA Triblock Copolymers (2010)

The effect of nanoscale confinement on the dynamics of a series of poly(n-octadecyl methacrylate)-b-poly(tert-butyl acrylate)-b-poly(n-octadecyl methacrylate) (pODMA-b-ptBA-b-pODMA) triblock copolymers, synthesized through atom transfer radical polymerization, has been investigated with dielectric spectroscopy as a function of temperature and pressure. The main effects of confinement were found in the triblocks with the more antisymmetric compositions when the radius of gyration of the confined block was comparable to the cylinder radius. It was found that the dynamics of the amorphous block accelerate upon confinement. Furthermore, confinement of the crystallizable block within cylindrical nanodomains results in the depression of the crystallization temperature.
Extended staging results from the detection of isolated tumor cells in the liver of colorectal cancer patients. (2001)

Liver metastasis, as well as local recurrence, are delineating factors of postoperative survival in patients suffering from colorectal cancer. We set up a PCR-RFLP assay to detect K-ras mutated cells in liver tissue as an indicator of possible isolated tumor cells (ITC) or micro-metastasis at the time of surgery. Sixty-four patients with K-ras codons 12 or 13 mutated colorectal cancer were clinically diagnosed for liver metastasis, as well as by PCR-RFLP assay of DNA from liver biopsies. Macro-metastasis was observed in the liver of 7 patients (11%), with no additional evidence of ITC. Likewise, in the liver of 14 patients (22%) only ITC, but no macro-metastasis was detected. In another 7 patients (11%) there was both, ITC and macro-metastasis. No macro-metastasis or ITC were found in 36 patients (56%). Thus, the PCR-RFLP assay added 14 cases (22%) with potential liver-metastasis to the 14 cases (22%) detected by clinical diagnostic means. T and N status were related to the refined detection and extended classification of liver involvement. We conclude that clinical and PCR-RFLP methods supplement each other and can increase the detection of cases with liver involvement, if applied together.
<title>High-speed digital video imaging system to record cardiac action potentials</title> (2001)

A new digital video imaging system was developed and its performance was evaluated to analyze the spiral wave dynamics during polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (PVT) with high spatio-temporal resolution (1 ms, 0.1 mm). The epicardial surface of isolated rabbit heart stained with di- 4-ANEPPS was illuminated by 72 high-power bluish-green light emitting diodes (BGLED: (lambda) <SUB>0</SUB> 500 nm, 10mw). The emitted fluorescence image (256x256 pixels) passing through a long-pass filter ((lambda) c 660nm) was monitored by a high-speed digital video camera recorder (FASTCAM-Ultima- UV3, Photron) at 1125 fps. The data stored in DRAM were processed by PC for background subtraction. 2D images of excitation wave and single-pixel action potentials at target sites during PVT induced by DC shocks (S2: 10 ms, 20 V) were displayed for 4.5 s. The wave form quality is high enough to observe phase 0 upstroke and to identify repolarization timing. Membrane potentials at the center of spiral were characterized by double-peak or oscillatory depolarization. Singular points during PVT were obtained from isophase mapping. Our new digital video-BGLED system has an advantage over previous ones for more accurate and longer time action potential analysis during spiral wave reentry.
A 68% P.A.E. power pHEMT for K-band satellite communication system (2003)

A 68% power-added efficiency power pseudomorphic HEMT (pHEMT) has been developed. Based on an optimized device structure and tuned to the maximum efficiency condition, we achieved this efficiency with 225 mW output power at 18 GHz. Using this power pHEMT technology, we have also developed a K-band 2-stage MMIC amplifier with 45% power-added efficiency, 450 mW output power and 18 dB gain. These are the highest efficiency figures reported for K-band applications.
OS10-10 Numerical Evaluation of Fluid Mixing in Boiling Water Reactor using Advanced Interface-Tracking Method (2007)

Thermal-hydraulic design of the current BWR is performed by correlations with empirical results of actual-size tests. Then, when the reactor of new design is developed, an actual size test is required to confirm or modify the correlations. Development of a method that enables the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear rectors without these actual size tests is desired, because these tests take a long time and entail great cost. For this reason we developed an advanced thermal-hydraulic design method for BWRs using innovative two-phase flow simulation technology. In this study, detailed two-phase flow simulation code using advanced interface tracking method: TPFIT is developed. In this paper, the TPFIT code was applied to simulation of two-phase flow in modeled 2 subchannels of BWRs rod bundle, and the existing two-phase flow correlation for fluid mixing is evaluated using detailed numerical simulation data.
Non-electrophilic behaviour of alkyl-substituted metaphosphates in the gas phase: formation of alkenes by an unusual 1,2-methyl shift induced by hydrogen abstraction–a methyl analogue of the neophyl ester rearrangement (1989)

Pyrolytic expulsion of ethylene from 2-neopentoxy-1,3,2-dioxaphospholane in the gas phase yields a virtually quantitative mixture of 2-methylbut-1-ene and its more stable isomer, 2-methylbut-2-ene in the ratio 2 : 1; this can be rationalised, using deuterium-labelling studies, as being formed from a thermally generated metaphosphate by a cyclic, concerted elimination reaction involving, as the key step, an unusual 1,2-methyl shift induced by competing α- and γ-hydrogen abstraction reactions with loss of metaphosphoric acid.
FRAMESHIFT SUPPRESSION IN AMINOACYL-tRNA LIMITED CELLS (1986)

Under certain conditions aminoacyl-tRNA limitation can phenotypically suppress frameshift alleles. The observed suppression is due to an increase in abnormal translocation of ribosomes translating codons that have a short supply of aminoacyl-tRNA. The rIIB frameshift alleles of bacteriophage T4 are used here to pinpoint the sites of ribosome frameshifting caused by these hypothetical decoding errors. The data indicate that not all hungry codons are associated with abnormal translocation, only a relatively small subset. Analysis of the hungry codons which are associated with ribosome frameshifting points to the existence of severe context effects determining the shiftiness of these codons.
My brother's hat mourns his death (2013)

My brother died a year ago, and in that year people have asked me, here and there, always tenderly, always with real interest, which is a sweet gift, what do you miss most about him?
Automatic Keyphrase Extraction: A Survey of the State of the Art (2014)

While automatic keyphrase extraction has been examined extensively, state-of-theart performance on this task is still much lower than that on many core natural language processing tasks. We present a survey of the state of the art in automatic keyphrase extraction, examining the major sources of errors made by existing systems and discussing the challenges ahead.
Early detection and screening for ovarian cancer: does physician specialty matter? (2002)

Specialty was more predictive of knowledge, approach to evaluation, and counseling than gender or experience.
Handbook of Cardiovascular Clinical Trials (1996)

Myocardial Infarction Trials. Beta-Blocker After Myocardial Infarction Trials. Congestive Heart Failure Trials. Atrial Fibrillation Trials. Antiarrhythmic Trials. Revascularization Vs Medical Therapy Trials. Angioplasty Vs CABG Trials. New Technology Vs Angioplasty Trials. Antithrombotic Trials. Calcium Channel Blocker Trials. Prevention/Lipid Lowering Trials. Unstable Angina Trials
Multimodal End-to-End Autonomous Driving (2020)

A crucial component of an autonomous vehicle (AV) is the artificial intelligence (AI) is able to drive towards a desired destination. Today, there are different paradigms addressing the development of AI drivers. On the one hand, we find modular pipelines, which divide the driving task into sub-tasks such as perception and maneuver planning and control. On the other hand, we find end-to-end driving approaches that try to learn a direct mapping from input raw sensor data to vehicle control signals. The later are relatively less studied, but are gaining popularity since they are less demanding in terms of sensor data annotation. This paper focuses on end-to-end autonomous driving. So far, most proposals relying on this paradigm assume RGB images as input sensor data. However, AVs will not be equipped only with cameras, but also with active sensors providing accurate depth information ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g.</i> , LiDARs). Accordingly, this paper analyses whether combining RGB and depth modalities, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">i.e.</i> using RGBD data, produces better end-to-end AI drivers than relying on a single modality. We consider multimodality based on early, mid and late fusion schemes, both in multisensory and single-sensor (monocular depth estimation) settings. Using the CARLA simulator and conditional imitation learning (CIL), we show how, indeed, early fusion multimodality outperforms single-modality.
Comment on: Point charge moving uniformly in a linear weakly biisotropic medium (1998)

Recently, Hillion [1] derived the electromagnetic fields radiated by a point charge moving with a uniform velocity in a linear, homogeneous, weakly biisotropic medium. The reader is alerted to the following deficiencies in that work: • Hillion’s requirement of weak biisotropy is unnecessary in view of the general analysis already available on radiation from uniformly moving charged particles in biisotropic materials [2] and reciprocal biisotropic materials [3]–[5]. These earlier analyses [2]–[5] were conducted in the frequency domain. Their results can be easily translated to the time domain using straightforward and well-known integral transform techniques, because the space occupied by the homogeneous material is unbounded. Of course, the physical response properties must be appropriately specified. • The time-domain analysis of ref. 1 cannot apply to physical materials. This is because a physical material cannot display the purely instantaneous response properties delineated by (1) of ref. 1. Instead, a physical material must display a delayed response owing to causality at the microscopic level [6, 7], which is responsible for dispersion (in the frequency domain). Furthermore, isotropic chirality in physical materials is known to be strongly frequency-dependent [8]–[10]. Indeed, a glance at ref. 11 readily confirms the very strong dependence of the reciprocal part of biisotropy, i.e., chirality, of real materials on frequency, which well-known fact [12] is totally incompatible with (1) of ref. 1. Thus, dispersion cannot be ignored in a reciprocal biisotropic material. • Nonreciprocal biisotropic materials do not exist in nature, as Hillion has acknowledged elsewhere [13]. As of now, no artificial nonreciprocal biisotropic materials exist either [14]. Two separate mathematical proofs negate the recognizable existence of nonreciprocal biisotropic materials [15, 16]; see also ref. 17. Hillion may wish to elaborate on the foregoing issues.