gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Claims-aware middleware for securing IoT services (2016)

Take a look at the world around us. There has been tremendous change in the way of living. With the world around us getting smart, Internet of Things is gaining ground in our life. Applications like smart home and eHealth are so user friendly that any person with zero programming background is able to use it. But for the developer, due to the ubiquitous nature and distributed architecture of IoT which includes devices, applications and humans, it presents a complex structure. Also, the incorporation of thousands of heterogeneous things with different configurations into a single network creates the risk of threat against security and privacy. These challenges make the significance of a middleware important. Middleware is a software layer that provides the platform for various devices with different protocols to communicate with ease and provides all the functions intended for a particular task. Hosting these tasks as microservices simplifies the job of an application developer. In this thesis work, we introduce a claims-aware middleware to address one of the major challenges in IoT which is security. A proof of concept has been developed by implementing a prototype of our framework. The evaluation results of the prototype show the feasibility and the stability of the security framework.
Report on Gyroscopic Theory to the Aeronautical Committee, 1914. By Sir George Greenhill. Printed by the Stationery Office, and sold by Wyman & Sons, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, E.C. Priceten shillings. (1916)

Report on Gyroscopic Theory to the Aeronautical Committee, 1914. By Sir George Greenhill. Printed by the Stationery Office, and sold by Wyman & Sons, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, E.C. Priceten shillings. - Volume 8 Issue 125
An essential arginine residue for initiation of protein-primed DNA replication. (1990)

A group of proteins that act as primers for initiation of linear DNA replication are called DNA-terminal proteins (terminal proteins). We have found a short stretch of conserved amino acid sequence among the terminal proteins from six different sources. The location of this sequence motif is also similar among the different terminal-proteins. To determine the functional role of this terminal-protein domain in DNA replication, we have studied the bacteriophage PRD1 system. The PRD1 terminal protein and DNA polymerase genes were cloned into expression vectors, and the recombinant plasmids were used for constructing PRD1 terminal protein mutants. Site-directed mutagenesis and functional analysis showed that one of the two arginines (Arg-174) in the conserved sequence is critical for the initiation complex-forming activity of the PRD1 terminal protein. Replacement of Arg-174 by noncharged amino acids resulted in nonfunctional terminal protein. Phenylglyoxal, an alpha-dicarbonyl compound that reacts with the guanidino group of arginine, inhibits initiation complex formation between PRD1 terminal protein and dGMP. On the basis of these results, we propose that Arg-174 represents, at least in part, the binding site for phosphate groups of dGTP.
Principles of effective practice (2010)

The authors draw on their extensive early years expertise to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the key issues in the field of early childhood care and education.In this timely and accessible text, students will find: an overview of the principles of effective practice discussions on equal opportunities and children's rights an examination of how children learn and the learning difficulties they may face investigations into what working with parents really means consideration of the different early years systems in operation summaries of key management issues and useful information on how to address them comparison with European perspectives on early years care and education. The book covers the whole age range from birth to eight years with a special section on the birth to three years age group. Each chapter is fully referenced to enable the reader to follow up on research or new materials. Informative and engaging, the book challenges the reader to think about how underlying theory may be reflected in practice. It will be essential reading for all students of early years care and education, and early years practitioners.
C3ware: A Middleware Supporting Collaborative Services over Cloud Storage (2013)

Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage to support asynchronous resource storing for various platforms such as desktops, smartphones and laptops. Cloud storage, which is generally hosted by third parties, is usually used as back-end storage of applications or private storage for users. Unfortunately, cloud storage only provides virtual spaces and operations for simple data storing but supports neither operations nor access control functionality for group works. In this paper, we present a middleware named C3ware, which supports group works using collaborative services and workspaces over cloud storage. For this, we abstract cloud storage services, and define collaborative services necessary for group works. On the top of the abstract cloud storage services, the middleware creates workspaces to support various types of resource sharing and provides the collaborative services to perform group works on the workspaces.
Enrichment of cancer stem cells by cotton fiber (2016)

In this study, a new, simple method for selecting and expanding CSCs was developed. In the system, PC12 cells were cultured on a supporting material of cotton fibers treated by NH<sub>3</sub> plasma.
Formation of bile acids in man: conversion of cholesterol into 5β-cholestane-3α,7α,12α-triol in liver homogenates* (1968)

The mechanisms of the conversion of cholesterol into bile acids in man were studied by examining the metabolism of cholesterol-1,2-(3)H, cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha-diol-7beta-(3)H, tritiumlabeled 7alpha-hydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, 7alpha,12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, and cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha,12alpha-triol in fractions of liver homogenates. The 20,000 g supernatant fluid catalyzed the conversion of cholesterol into cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha-diol, 7alpha-hydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, 7alpha-12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, and 5beta-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-triol. In the presence of microsomal fraction fortified with NAD(+), cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha-diol was converted into 7alpha-hydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, and when this fraction was fortified with NADPH small amounts of cholest-5-ene-3beta-7alpha,12alpha-triol were formed. 7alpha-Hydroxycholest-4-en-3-one was metabolized into 7alpha-12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one in the presence of microsomal fraction fortified with NADPH and into 5beta-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha-diol in the presence of 100,000 g supernatant fluid. Cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha,12alpha-triol was converted into 7alpha,12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one in the presence of microsomal fraction fortified with NAD(+). The 100,000 g supernatant fluid catalyzed the conversion of 7alpha,12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one into 5beta-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-triol. The sequence of reactions in the conversion of cholesterol into 5beta-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha-diol and 5beta-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-triol, the subcellular localization of the enzymes, and the cofactor requirements were found to be the same as those described for rat liver.
Recent Advances and Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation (2020)

Recent advances in surgical, immunosuppressive and monitoring protocols have led to the significant improvement of overall one-year kidney allograft outcomes. Nonetheless, there has not been a significant change in long-term kidney allograft outcomes. In fact, chronic and acute antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) and non-immunological complications following kidney transplantation, including multiple incidences of primary kidney disease, as well as complications such as cardiovascular diseases, infections, and malignancy are the major factors that have contributed to the failure of kidney allografts. The use of molecular techniques to enhance histological diagnostics and noninvasive surveillance are what the latest studies in the field of clinical kidney transplant seem to mainly focus upon. Increasingly innovative approaches are being used to discover immunosuppressive methods to overcome critical sensitization, prevent the development of anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies, treat chronic active ABMR, and reduce non-immunological complications following kidney transplantation, such as the recurrence of primary kidney disease and other complications, such as cardiovascular diseases, infections, and malignancy. In the present era of utilizing electronic health records (EHRs), it is strongly believed that big data and artificial intelligence will reshape the research done on kidney transplantation in the near future. In addition, the utilization of telemedicine is increasing, providing benefits such as reaching out to kidney transplant patients in remote areas and helping to make scarce healthcare resources more accessible for kidney transplantation. In this article, we discuss the recent research developments in kidney transplants that may affect long-term allografts, as well as the survival of the patient. The latest developments in living kidney donation are also explored.
Intensive Insulin Therapy in Hospitalized Patients: A Systematic Review (2011)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service.
<title>Single-grid pair Fourier telescope for imaging the sky in hard x-rays and gamma rays</title> (1996)

Fourier telescopes are an effective approach for providing images of hard x-ray and gamma-ray sources found in the sky. Sufficient coverage of the (u,v) plane is a requirement for effective imaging. Unfortunately, this requirement is diametrically opposed to the requirements to minimize instrument weight and cost which translate into minimizing the number of grids. This paper reports on a telescope design incorporating only one real and imaginary set of grid pairs which provides superior imaging performance at a significantly reduced cost.
Genome-Wide Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Map for <i>Candida albicans</i> (2004)

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are essential tools for studying a variety of organismal properties and processes, such as recombination, chromosomal dynamics, and genome rearrangement. This paper describes the development of a genome-wide SNP map for Candida albicans to study mitotic recombination and chromosome loss. C. albicans is a diploid yeast which propagates primarily by clonal mitotic division. It is the leading fungal pathogen that causes infections in humans, ranging from mild superficial lesions in healthy individuals to severe, life-threatening diseases in patients with suppressed immune systems. The SNP map contains 150 marker sequences comprising 561 SNPs and 9 insertions-deletions. Of the 561 SNPs, 437 were transition events while 126 were transversion events, yielding a transition-to-transversion ratio of 3:1, as expected for a neutral accumulation of mutations. The average SNP frequency for our data set was 1 SNP per 83 bp. The map has one marker placed every 111 kb, on average, across the 16-Mb genome. For marker sequences located partially or completely within coding regions, most contained one or more nonsynonymous substitutions. Using the SNP markers, we identified a loss of heterozygosity over large chromosomal fragments in strains of C. albicans that are frequently used for gene manipulation experiments. The SNP map will be useful for understanding the role of heterozygosity and genome rearrangement in the response of C. albicans to host environments.
CONTAMINATION OF PRIMARY CULTURES IN TROPICAL AREAS: THE CASE OF HEVEA BRASILIENSIS (1988)

La contamination des cultures in vitro est beaucoup plus elevee en climat tropical qu'en zone temperee. Pour la micropropagation, l'emploi d'antibiotiques dans le milieu de culture n'est pas suffisant. Il faut prelever l'explant dans la partie extreme de la tige puis appliquer plusieurs desinfectants comme le Desogerme, l'alcool ou l'eau de javel
Effects of polymer matrix and salt concentration on the ionic conductivity of plasticized polymer electrolytes (1995)

Abstract Two polar polymers with different dielectric constants, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), were each blended with a chlorine‐terminated poly(ethylene ether) (PEC) and one of the two salts, LiBF 4 and LiCF 3 CO 2 , to form PEC plasticized polymer electrolytes. The room‐temperature ionic conductivity of the PEC plasticized polymer electrolytes reached a value as high as 10 −4 S/cm. The room‐temperature ionic conductivity of the PVDF‐based polymer electrolytes displayed a stronger dependence on the PEC content than did the PEO‐based polymer electrolytes. In PVDF/PEC/LiBF 4 polymer electrolytes, the dynamic ionic conductivity was less dependent on temperature and more dependent on the PEC content than it was in PEO/PEC/LiBF 4 polymer electrolytes. The highly plasticized PVDF‐based polymer electrolyte film with a PEC content greater than CF4 (CF4 defined as the molar ratio of the repeat units of PEC to those of PVDF equal to 4) was self‐supported and nonsticky, while the corresponding PEO‐based polymer electrolyte film was sticky. In these highly plasticized PVDF‐based polymer electrolytes, the curves of the room‐temperature ionic conductivity vs. the salt concentration were convex because the number of carrier ions and the chain rigidity both increased with increase of the salt content. The maximum ionic conductivity at 30°C was independent of the PEC content, but it depended on the anion species of the lithium salts in these highly plasticized polymer electrolytes. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Antioxidant activity of phenolic compounds (1993)

This review deals with the oxidation processes induced by light and atmospheric oxygen, as well as the protective action on antioxidant compounds. The available data on the synthetic antioxidants and the problems associated to their use, together with the presence of natural phenolic antioxidants in plants, have been revised. These phenolic antioxidants have been classified in families: phenolic alcohols and acids, cinnamic acids, coumarins, favonoids (flavones and isoflavones, flavonols, flavanones) and other phenolic compounds.
Atomic layer deposition of lithium phosphates as solid-state electrolytes for all-solid-state microbatteries (2014)

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been shown as a powerful technique to build three-dimensional (3D) all-solid-state microbattery, because of its unique advantages in fabricating uniform and pinhole-free thin films in 3D structures. The development of solid-state electrolyte by ALD is a crucial step to achieve the fabrication of 3D all-solid-state microbattery by ALD. In this work, lithium phosphate solid-state electrolytes were grown by ALD at four different temperatures (250, 275, 300, and 325 °C) using two precursors (lithium tert-butoxide and trimethylphosphate). A linear dependence of film thickness on ALD cycle number was observed and uniform growth was achieved at all four temperatures. The growth rate was 0.57, 0.66, 0.69, and 0.72 Å/cycle at deposition temperatures of 250, 275, 300, and 325 °C, respectively. Furthermore, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirmed the compositions and chemical structures of lithium phosphates deposited by ALD. Moreover, the lithium phosphate thin films deposited at 300 °C presented the highest ionic conductivity of 1.73 × 10(-8) S cm(-1) at 323 K with ~ 0.51 eV activation energy based on the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The ionic conductivity was calculated to be 3.3 × 10(-8) S cm(-1) at 26 °C (299 K).
Perfectionnements aux amplificateurs de puissance à klystron (1963)

L’emploi de la modulation d’amplitude dans les systèmes de transmission fonctionnant en ultra-haute-fréquence se heurte souvent à des difficultés dues à l’introduction des distorsions non-linéaires par l’étage de puissance de l’emetteur. C’est le cas, par exemple si l’on veut transmettre en bande latérale unique, ou en bande latérale double avec onde porteuse supprimée, un signal multiplex à répartition de fréquence. Certains procédés de linéarisation de la caractéristique du gain des amplificateurs de puissance à klystron ont été étudié à cet effet. Ils sont basés sur l’utilisation de dispositifs a contre-reaction d’enveloppe de types particuliers.
Multi-class Generative Adversarial Networks with the L2 Loss Function. (2016)

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved huge success in
unsupervised learning. Most of GANs treat the discriminator as a classifier
with the binary sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we find that the
sigmoid cross entropy loss function will sometimes lead to the saturation
problem in GANs learning. In this work, we propose to adopt the L2 loss
function for the discriminator. The properties of the L2 loss function can
improve the stabilization of GANs learning. With the usage of the L2 loss
function, we propose the multi-class generative adversarial networks for the
purpose of image generation with multiple classes. We evaluate the multi-class
GANs on a handwritten Chinese characters dataset with 3740 classes. The
experiments demonstrate that the multi-class GANs can generate elegant images
on datasets with a large number of classes. Comparison experiments between the
L2 loss function and the sigmoid cross entropy loss function are also conducted
and the results demonstrate the stabilization of the L2 loss function.
A 10-ps resolution, process-insensitive timing generator IC (1989)

Describes a novel circuit configuration and design technique for a high-speed timing generator IC with a 10-ps delay-time resolution. This circuit is composed of multistage delay units in matrix form. In each unit, delay time is finely controlled by loading transistor junction capacitance on an LCML inverter gate and is roughly done by the serial stage numbers of the gate. A dedicated delay-unit IC has been built by an Si bipolar process called SST-1A. The circuit demonstrates a high delay-time resolution of 10 ps at a clock rate of up to 1 GHz. Furthermore, an innovative process-insensitive design technique based on a polynomial formulation for the delay time is proposed. This will be effective in realizing a long delay circuit with high delay resolution.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Arthritis and hepatitis. (1998)

Arthritis has a fascinating relationship with hepatitis of diverse origins. Either condition can predominate and the correct diagnosis may be elusive, especially in the early stages. Humoral autoimmune mechanisms appear to serve as a bridge connecting the two target organs, whether the syndromes are caused by viral infections or unspecified etiologies. Maintaining a keen awareness of and being able to recognize the clinical arthritis-hepatitis syndromes are critical, enabling the physician to establish accurate diagnoses, to prescribe the correct therapies, and to predict outcomes.
A Deep Sequential Model for Discourse Parsing on Multi-Party Dialogues (2019)

Discourse structures are beneficial for various NLP tasks such as dialogue understanding, question answering, sentiment analysis, and so on. This paper presents a deep sequential model for parsing discourse dependency structures of multi-party dialogues. The proposed model aims to construct a discourse dependency tree by predicting dependency relations and constructing the discourse structure jointly and alternately. It makes a sequential scan of the Elementary DiscourseUnits(EDUs)1 in a dialogue. For each EDU, the model decides to which previous EDU the current one should link and what the corresponding relation type is. The predicted link and relation type are then used to build the discourse structure incrementally with a structured encoder. During link prediction and relation classification, the model utilizes not only local information that represents the concerned EDUs, but also global information that encodes the EDU sequence and the discourse structure that is already built at the current step. Experiments show that the proposed model outperforms all the state-of-the-art baselines.
Visualization and Transport of Positron Emission from Proton Activation in vivo (1978)

Heavy charged particle beams can be widely used for cancer therapy if control in heterogeneous tissue is proved practical. A beam of protons at 200 million electron volts has been visualized in plastic and in a living animal by using an on-line positron camera. The fraction of the activity retained in the radiation site was found to be at least 70 percent of that produced in a dead animal. The sensitivity of the technique was established for a typical geometry.
Resort condominium reservation system (1984)

The purpose of this project was to 1) determine the Specifications and Requirements for a Reservation System for a Resort Condominium property, 2) to use these Specifications and Requirements to develop the Design for the software system, and 3) to use this Design to Implement the Software System.The method ology used in the Requirements and Specification stage was the Data Flow technique.This is represented with Data Flow Diagrams, Process Descriptions, and Data-Dictionary.The Design stage utilized structure charts and module descriptions to complete the design.The implemented system was developed on a microcomputer using a data base management system,.The entire process was done on the microcomputer with assistance of only the tools currently available on this type of machine.The major portion of the effort that was spent on the project fell in the first two phases.The Requirements and Specifications, in particular, took a substantial amount of time primarily due to the necessity of user involvement.This effort, in the early parts of the project, dramatically reduced the time necessary to implement the system.The coding into the Data Base Management System (DBMS), dBASE III, was easily completed in a short time with rela tively few difficulties.
Ergonomic Hazards in the Workplace (1994)

1. Ergonomic hazards impact employers and workers and their families. Poor workplace design, awkward body mechanics or postures, repetitive movements, and other ergonomic hazards induce or contribute to a staggering number of cumulative trauma disorders. 2. Cumulative trauma disorders (CTD) affect hands, wrists, elbows, arms, shoulders, the lower back, and the cervical spine area. Structures involved include tendons, muscles, bones, nerves, and blood vessels. One can plan strategies for abatement by learning to recognize the hazards that contribute to CTD. 3. OSHA has published the Ergonomic Program Management Guidelines. OSHA has also given Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for an Ergonomic Standard that will affect all industries. 4. A company wide ergonomic assessment should be developed, followed by a well written ergonomic plan. Ergonomic abatement will decrease the costs associated with CTD and ultimately impact the corporate "bottom line."