gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
London salerooms (1975)

London salerooms Get access GRAHAM WELLS GRAHAM WELLS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, Volume 3, Issue 4, October 1975, Pages 368–369, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/3.4.368 Published: 01 October 1975
Timely Public Disclosure of Company Information: A Likely Precondition for OptimalLong-Term Corporate and National Outcomes (2014)

\n\t\t\t\t\tThe article advocates corporate disclosure regulation on fairness, efficiency, governance, and national interest grounds. It suggests that relevant empirical research points to timely disclosure of listed company information as a precondition for attainment of optimal long-term corporate and economic outcomes. While company managers and large institutional investors have strong incentives to exchange information privately, listed company communication models based on favoured institutional relationships or relative levels of power and wealth are unlikely to lead to efficient markets, strong corporate performance, sound governance practices, or sustained economic growth. Market observations and interdisciplinary research consistently link superior corporate and national outcomes to high-quality listed company disclosure, protection of minority shareholder rights, broad investor participation, and public trust in financial markets.\n\t\t\t\t
Epilepsy surgery in the posterior cortex (1991)

Fourteen (74%) of 19 patients obtained a significant reduction in seizures after posterior corticectomy; 6 (32%) were seizure-free over a median follow-up of 3.7 years (range, 1 to 14 years). Surgery included limited resections of the occipital lobe in 16 patients, posterior temporal region in 11, and posterior portion of parietal lobe in 7. Surgical failure related to probable multiple areas of epileptogenesis (4 patients), or limited resections (2 patients) to preserve visual fields (2 patients) and to avoid dyslexia (1 patient). Of 14 patients without a complete hemianopia preoperatively, 6 (43%) developed a new or increased visual field deficit, 2 (14%) of which were hemianopia. Four (36%) of 11 occipital lobe resections resulted in a new or increased visual field deficit: quadrantanopia in 3 and hemianopia in 1. Visual phenomena were the most common initial ictal symptoms, occurring in 13 (68%) of the 19 patients. Twelve patients had complex partial seizures: in 2, always without warning; in 7, always following an aura, usually visual; and in 3 patients, with or without warning. Scalp electroencephalography identified the origin of most recorded seizures in 12 (63%) of the 19 patients. A principal interictal spike focus appeared in 15 patients (79%), and always correlated with the epileptogenic lobe as defined by scalp and/or subdural-recorded seizures (14 patients) or by clinical analysis and computed tomography (1 patient).
A Case Study of Intelligence-Driven Defense (2011)

We can mitigate the threat of mass malware by understanding the techniques, tactics, and procedures unique to this threat. An analysis of empirical attacker data indicates that basic, generic defenses, such as minor reductions of the attack surface and the use of available platform memory protection, are effective against mass malware.
Röntgenographische Untersuchung von Spannungszuständen in Werkstoffen. Teil III. Fortsetzung von Matwiss. und Werkstofftechn. Heft 3/1995, S. 148–160 und Heft 4/1995, S. 199–216 (1996)

Abstract X‐Ray Investigation of Stress States in materials X‐ray stress analyses on crystalline or partially crystalline materials are based on the determination of elastic lattice strains which are converted to stresses by means of theory of elasticity. The development of the sin 2 Ψ‐method of X‐ray stress analysis and of diffractometers substituting film chambers during the 1960s initiated an enormcus progress in X‐ray stress analysis during the following three decades both in respect of the knowledge of the underlying principles and in respect of the practical application This report sketches the historical development of X‐ray stress analyses and describes the actual state of the art of this important tool for materials science and engineering. Besides some important elements of X‐ray physics and theory of elasticity, experimental aspects of practical applications are outlined. Standard measuring procedures and special measuring problems are described and hints for practical solutions are given. In particular, examples of destructive and non‐destructive depth profiling of residual stresses, of residual stress analyses in thin coatings, in multilayer structures of thin coatings and in chemically graded coatings, of residual stress analyses in presence of textures, of residual and loading stress analyses in heterogeneous materials, in coarse grained, and in single crystalline materials are presented. The methods established up to now are explained and possible future developments are pointed out.
Including Parents in the Treatment of Pediatric Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. (2018)

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a clinically diagnosed chronic pain syndrome characterized by severe pain and functional disability following a minor injury. The affected limb often has evidence of changes in sensory, vasomotor, sudomotor/edema, and/or motor/tropic function. The diagnosis of CRPS in the pediatric population is increasingly common, especially among female adolescents. The pain experience of adolescents with CRPS is best understood using the biopsychosocial framework, and the most effective treatment programs target biological, psychological, and social factors. Treatment for CRPS is multidisciplinary and typically includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, and psychology. The parent-child dyad that develops when the child has CRPS is complex and characterized by significant psychological distress, ineffective parenting, and poor coping. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of parents in the treatment of adolescents with CRPS. To promote successful remission from pain and restoration of functional ability, parents should be included in treatment programs. Nurses caring for adolescents with CRPS can assist parents in developing adaptive parenting skills.
Classifying pretended and evoked facial expressions of positive and negative affective states using infrared measurement of skin temperature (2009)

Earlier researchers were able to extract the transient facial thermal features from thermal infrared images (TIRIs) to make binary distinctions between the expressions of affective states. However, effective human-computer interaction would require machines to distinguish between the subtle facial expressions of affective states. This work, for the first time, attempts to use the transient facial thermal features for recognizing a much wider range of facial expressions. A database of 324 time-sequential, visible-spectrum, and thermal facial images was developed representing different facial expressions from 23 participants in different situations. A novel facial thermal feature extraction, selection, and classification approach was developed and invoked on various Gaussian mixture models constructed using: neutral and pretended happy and sad faces, faces with multiple positive and negative facial expressions, faces with neutral and six (pretended) basic facial expressions, and faces with evoked happiness, sadness, disgust, and anger. This work demonstrates that (1) infrared imaging can be used to observe the affective-state-specific facial thermal variations, (2) pixel-grey level analysis of TIRIs can help localise significant facial thermal feature points along the major facial muscles, and (3) cluster-analytic classification of transient thermal features can help distinguish between the facial expressions of affective states in an optimized eigenspace of input thermal feature vectors. The observed classification results exhibited influence of a Gaussian mixture model's structure on classifier-performance. The work also unveiled some pertinent aspects of future research on the use of facial thermal features in automated facial expression classification and affect recognition.
Performance of two oak species and three planting stocks on lands damaged by hurricane Katrina (2015)

Hurricane Katrina had a devastating impact on bottomland hardwood forests in 2005. Artificial regeneration was considered the most appropriate method for reforesting these areas, but few studies have evaluated methods for artificially regenerating oaks on clear cut sites in the southern United States. First-year survival and growth of two oak species, live oak (Quercus virginiana Mill.) and Nuttall oak (Quercus texana Buckl.), and three planting stocks [1-0 bareroot, conventional containerized, and Root Production Method (RPM)™ seedlings] were compared. Seedlings were established using recommended methods for each respective planting stock. Conventional containerized live oak and bareroot Nuttall oak seedlings exhibited the greatest survival. RPM™ seedlings exhibited the lowest survival in both species. Conventional containerized seedlings exhibited greater groundline-diameter (GLD) growth and twice as much height growth as bareroot seedlings, regardless of species. RPM™ seedlings exhibited similar GLD growth compared to bareroot seedlings but the least height growth of all planting stocks, regardless of species.
Lomustine (chloroethylnitrosourea [CCNU]), ifosfamide, bleomycin, vincristine, and cisplatin (CIBO‐P) is an effective regimen for patients with poor prognostic refractory or multiple disease recurrent aggressive non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (2005)

In the current study, CIBO-P was a novel, highly active, and safe combination therapy for patients with refractory disease with a poor prognosis or for patients with multiply recurrent aggressive NHL.
Preparation and evaluation of ethylcellulose microcapsules with bacampicillin (1991)

Ethylcelluloses of different types were used to microencapsulate bacampicillin. Polymer deposition from cyclohexane was performed by temperature change. As coacervation - inducing agent different polyisobutylenes (Oppanol B - 200, B - 100, B - 50, B -3) were used. Fine products with slower drug release were obtained. Average diameters of prepared microcapsules were determined with sieve analysis and it was shown that the particle size of the microcapsules follows log - normal distribution. Scanning electron microscopy was used to examine the shape and the surface characteristics of the microcapsules. HPLC method was developed for testing drug content and its dissolution. Drug content in the microcapsules was in all cases over 80% regarding the amount added. Dissolution of bacampicillin from microcapsules was retarded comparing to the dissolution of bacampicillin itself. The experimental values of dissolution were fitted with different model kinetics. To describe the dissolution profiles we suggested the combined zero and first order kinetics. The bitter taste was quite satisfactory disguised in all prepared microcapsules.
Exploiting repeated patterns for efficient compression of massive models (2009)

We propose an efficient compression algorithm for massive models, which consist of a large number of small to medium sized connected components. It is based on efficiently exploiting repetitive patterns in the input model. Compared with [Shikhare et al. 2001], the state-of-the-art work for utilizing repetitive patterns for compressing massive models, our new algorithm is more efficient on detecting repeated components and compressing transformations, so that it achieves a considerably higher compression ratio. By recognizing instances repeating in various scalings, which is missed in [Shikhare et al. 2001], we can reduce 40% of the repetitive patterns on average. By aligning components based on their quadric error metrics, we overcome the limitation of [Shikhare et al. 2001] that may regard two components as instances of the same pattern when they have same vertex position but different connectivity. For transformations of all instances, we give an efficient compression scheme, which can save 40% storage on average in comparison with gzip, the popular compression software used in [Shikhare et al. 2001]. By experiments, our new algorithm can achieve compression ratio at about 4% of the raw data, and gain around 40% over [Shikhare et al. 2001] on average.
Interconnecting high-speed LANs and backbones (1993)

Transparent source routing, an algorithm that exploits the best features of the transparent spanning tree and source routing algorithms for medium-access-control (MAC) bridges used in local area network (LAN) interconnections, is presented. The scheme uses optimal routes, is transparent to end stations, and reduces bridge processing overheads. Aspects of the existing transparent spanning tree and source routing algorithms are described. A comparison of the new scheme with the two existing schemes is presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
WOKV: A write-optimized key-value store (2018)

In big data era, LevelDB is widely deployed in enterprise server for massive storage. However, with the growing size of stored data, LevelDB will inevidablely frequently call the background compaction thread to compact data between level, resulting in write amplifications and therefore degrading performance. In this paper, we propose WOKV, a Write-Optimized Key-Value store, to mitigate the LevelDB compact write amplification and improve system performance. WOKV adopts a Least-Rewrite Compaction Strategy to mitigate the write amplification induced by compaction operations, and uses Multi-Thread and Multi-Buffer to improve system performance. Evaluation results show that WOKV outperforms LevelDB significantly.
Monoethanolamine Adsorption on TiO<sub>2</sub>(110): Bonding, Structure, and Implications for Use as a Model Solid-Supported CO<sub>2</sub> Capture Material (2013)

We have studied the adsorption of monoethanolamine (MEA, HO(CH2)2NH2), a well-known CO2 capture molecule, on the rutile TiO2(110) surface using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy measurements indicate that MEA adsorbs with the oxygen atom of the hydroxyl group and the nitrogen atom of the amine group bonded to adjacent 5-fold coordinated Ti-sites (Ti(5f)) in the Ti-troughs, leading to a saturation coverage of 0.5 ML at room temperature. Density functional theory calculations confirm that this adsorption configuration is the most stable one with an adsorption energy of 2.33 eV per MEA molecule. The bonding of MEA to TiO2(110) is dominated by local donor–acceptor bonds between the oxygen and nitrogen atoms of the MEA molecule and surface Ti(5f) sites. Hydrogen bonds between adjacent MEA molecules stabilize the adsorption structure at saturation coverage. The implications of this bonding configuration for the use of MEA/TiO2(110) as a model CO2 capture material will be discussed.
Automatic Method for Building Indoor Boundary Models from Dense Point Clouds Collected by Laser Scanners (2012)

In this paper we present a method that automatically yields Boundary Representation Models (B-rep) for indoors after processing dense point clouds collected by laser scanners from key locations through an existing facility. Our objective is particularly focused on providing single models which contain the shape, location and relationship of primitive structural elements of inhabited scenarios such as walls, ceilings and floors. We propose a discretization of the space in order to accurately segment the 3D data and generate complete B-rep models of indoors in which faces, edges and vertices are coherently connected. The approach has been tested in real scenarios with data coming from laser scanners yielding promising results. We have deeply evaluated the results by analyzing how reliably these elements can be detected and how accurately they are modeled.
Role of Melatonin in Timekeeping of Birds (2006)

The pineal is a component of the avian timekeeping system. The best known output of the pineal gland is melatonin, a lipophilic molecule, whose presence appears to have been evolutionarily conserved. Two major physiological roles are assigned to melatonin. One role is its involvement in daily and seasonal timekeeping. The other is its involvement in the time measurement. Birds use daily rhythm of melatonin secretion to decode the time-of-day as well as the time-of-year information. Besides these two roles, the other physiological roles that melatonin performs include immune function, free radical scavenging, etc. Interestingly, in birds the pineal (melatonin) directly regulates several circadian behaviours, but not the circadian rhythm mediated photoperiodic inductions; melatonin acts only as an endocrine modulator of the latter. In the present article the avian timekeeping system is very briefly described, and then the role of melatonin (and the pineal gland) in daily and seasonal timekeeping of birds is discussed.
C18 Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic determination of invert sugar, sucrose, and raffinose (1981)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTC18 Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic determination of invert sugar, sucrose, and raffinoseGerardo. PallaCite this: Anal. Chem. 1981, 53, 12, 1966–1967Publication Date (Print):October 1, 1981Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 October 1981https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac00235a065https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00235a065research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views330Altmetric-Citations11LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Modeling Wax Disappearance Temperature Using Advanced Intelligent Frameworks (2019)

The deposition of wax is one of the most potential problems that disturbs the flow assurance during production processes of hydrocarbon fluids. In this study, wax disappearance temperature (WDT) that is recognized as a vital parameter in such circumstances is modeled using advanced machine learning techniques, namely, radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) coupled with genetic algorithm (GA) and artificial bee colony (ABC). Besides, an accurate and user-friendly correlation was established by implementing the group method of data handling. Results revealed the high reliability of the proposed hybrid models and the established correlation. Moreover, RBFNN coupled with ABC (RBFNN-ABC) was found to be the best paradigm with an overall average absolute relative error value of 0.5402% and a total coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9706. Furthermore, the performance comparison showed that RBFNN-ABC and the established explicit correlation outperform the prior intelligent and thermodynamic models. Finally, by performing the outlier detection, the quality of the utilized database was assessed, the applicability realm of the best model was delineated, and only one point was found as doubtful.
Modified Ant Colony Clustering Method in Long-term Electrocardiogram Processing (2007)

The paper presents an application of a clustering technique inspired by ant colony metaheuristics. The paper addresses the problem of long-term (Holter) electrocardiogram data processing. Long-term recording produces a huge amount of biomedical data, which must be preprocessed prior to its presentation to the specialist. The paper also discusses relevant aspects improving the robustness, stability and convergence criteria of the method. The method is compared with well known clustering techniques (both classical and nature-inspired), first testing on the known dataset and finally applying them to the real ECG data records from the MIT-BIH database and outperforms the standard methods. Electrocardiogram data clustering can effectively reduce the amount of data presented to the cardiologist: cardiac arrhythmia and significant morphology changes in the ECG can be visually emphasized in a reasonable time. The final evaluation of the ECG recording must still be made by an expert.
Mr. Day goes to Ottawa (2000)

Can Stockwell Day win the next federal election? And if he does, what impact will he have on health care?

Surprise at Day‚s runaway victory in the race to head the Canadian Alliance quickly gave way to speculation about his impact on federal politics. His youthful looks and penchant for flexing
Inhibition of promotion and persistent nodule growth by S-adenosyl-L-methionine in rat liver carcinogenesis: role of remodeling and apoptosis. (1989)

The resistant hepatocyte model (initiation/selection) and the triphasic model (initiation/selection followed by phenobarbital, for a maximum of 16 weeks) were compared for their ability to generate enzyme-altered foci (EAF) and nodules in the liver of Wistar rats initiated by diethylnitrosamine. The effects of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) on the development of preneoplastic tissue was tested in these experimental models. In the absence of phenobarbital (PB), EAF and early nodules (EN) went through a phase of rapid growth, between 4 and 9 weeks after initiation, to a phase in which progressive decrease in number and size occurred. By the 26th week only a few remodeling EAF and nodules were found. In PB-treated rats a rapid increase in the percentage of liver occupied by EAF and EN, up to the 9th week after initiation, was followed by a period of slow growth (from the 9th to the 20th week) and then, after PB withdrawal (20th week), by a drop in the number and size of EAF and EN. However, at the 26th week actively growing nodules with a low tendency to spontaneous remodeling (persistent nodules) developed. EAF and EN showed a high DNA synthesis 5 weeks after initiation. Thereafter, progressive decline in DNA synthesis, coupled with remodeling and decrease in number of biochemical markers, was seen both in the absence and, even though to a lesser extent, in the presence of PB, indicating that preneoplastic lesions became increasingly insensitive to PB. Relatively few apoptotic bodies could be observed in EAF and EN during PB treatment. After PB withdrawal, decrease in growth potential was coupled with increase in apoptotic bodies. In contrast, in persistent nodules relatively high apoptosis occurred which partially counterbalanced high DNA synthesis. Administration of SAM for a maximum of 16 weeks, starting at the 4th week after initiation, caused a great decrease in number and size of EAF and EN, associated with inhibition of DNA synthesis, high cell death by apoptosis, high remodeling, and loss of biochemical markers, in preneoplastic lesions of both PB-treated and untreated rats. A 1-8-week SAM treatment, started after the development of persistent nodules, caused a great regression of nodular lesions, coupled with a sharp fall in DNA synthesis and increase in apoptosis. It is suggested that inhibition by SAM of the development of preneoplastic tissue is linked to a shift of the equilibrium between cell production and cell death in favor of cell death.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)