gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
An overview on quantitative and genomic tools for utilising dominance genetic variation in improving animal production (2007)

In addition to genetic progress made by selection on additive genetic values, short-term gains can be produced by recovering possible inbreeding depression or utilising putative overdominance. These are both caused mainly by dominance genetic variation which can be quantified using mixed model methodology. Inbreeding brings along a requirement for extra parameterisation in expressing and estimating dominance variance. The extra parameters specify how dominance is affecting the mean and (co)variances among inbred animals. The full description for breed crosses contains a very large set of parameters. The benefits from crossbreeding are highest with widely deviating allele frequencies between the breeds. Maximisation of heterosis can be done only on a temporary basis as a continued exploitation leads to stagnation in the overall genetic progress. Therefore efficient methods with immediate returns are needed to find the most promising breeds jointly with the most potential mating pairs. One possibility is the use of genomic tools in assessing populations for crossbreeding and in searching for major genes mediating dominance variation. The analyses are providing markers that can be used in choosing mating pairs that produce desirable dominance deviations in analysed marker brackets. Genome-wide marker sets can be used for discovering genome segments with maximum heterosis effect. The phenotypic records are available for such analyses, soon are also the large marker sets and their genotypes: the analytical tools need developers.;
Predictive Vector Quantization of Images (1985)

The purpose of this paper is to present new image coding schemes based on a predictive vector quantization (PVQ) approach. The predictive part of the encoder is used to partially remove redundancy, and the VQ part further removes the residual redundancy and selects good quantization levels for the global waveform. Two implementations of this coding approach have been devised, namely, sliding block PVQ and block tree PVQ. Simulations on real images show significant improvement over the conventional DPCM and tree codes using these new techniques. The strong robustness property of these coding schemes is also experimentally demonstrated.
Improvements to photometry. Part 1: Better estimation of derivatives in extinction and transformation equations (1988)

Atmospheric extinction in wideband photometry is examined both analytically and through numerical simulations. If the derivatives that appear in the Stromgren-King theory are estimated carefully, it appears that wideband measurements can be transformed to outside the atmosphere with errors no greater than a millimagnitude. A numerical analysis approach is used to estimate derivatives of both the stellar and atmospheric extinction spectra, avoiding previous assumptions that the extinction follows a power law. However, it is essential to satify the requirements of the sampling theorem to keep aliasing errors small. Typically, this means that band separations cannot exceed half of the full width at half-peak response. Further work is needed to examine higher order effects, which may well be significant.
The Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus and Its Glycometabolism Characters (2003)

To develop a rat model of type 2 diabetic mellitus that simulated the common manifestation of the metabolic abnormalities and resembled the natural history of a certain type 2 diabetes in human population, male Sprague-Dawley rats (4 months old) were injected with low-dose (15 mg/kg) STZ after high fat diet (30% of calories as fat) for two months (L-STZ/2HF). The functional and histochemical changes in the pancreatic islets were examined. Insulin-glucose tolerance test, islet immunohistochemistry and other corresponding tests were performed and the data in L-STZ/2HF group were compared with that of other groups, such as the model of type 1 diabetes (given 50 mg/kg STZ) and the model of obesity (high fat diet). The body weight of rats in the group of rats given 15 mg/kg STZ after high fat diet for two months increased significantly more than that of rats in the group of rats given 50 mg/kg STZ (the model of type 1 diabetes) (595 +/- 33 g vs. 352 +/- 32 g, p<0.05). Fast blood glucose levels for L-STZ/2HF group were 16.92 +/- 1.68 mmol/l, versus 5.17 +/- 0.55 mmol/l in normal control and 5.59 +/- 0.61 mmol/l in rats given high fat diet only. Corresponding values for fast serum insulin were 0.66 +/- 0.15 ng/ml, 0.52 +/- 0.13 ng/ml, 0.29 +/- 0.11 ng/ml, respectively. Rats of type 2 diabetes (L-STZ/2HF) had elevated levels of triglyceride (TG, 3.82 +/- 0.88 mmol/l), and cholesterol(Ch, 2.38 +/- 0.55 mmol/l) compared with control (0.95 +/- 0.15 mmol/l and 1.31 +/- 0.3 mmol/l, respectively) (p<0.05). The islet morphology as examined by immunocytochemistry using insulin antibodies in the L-STZ/2HF group was affected and quantitative analysis showed the islet insulin content was higher than that of rats with type 1 diabetes (P<0.05). We concluded that the new rat model of type 2 diabetes established with conjunctive treatment of low dose of STZ and high fat diet was characterized by hyperglycemia and light impaired insulin secretion function accompanied by insulin resistance, which resembles the clinical manifestation of type 2 diabetes. Such a model, easily attainable and inexpensive, would help further elucidation of the underlying mechanisms of diabetes and its complications.
Health in Independent India (1960)

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Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Diabetes: From Evidence to Clinical Reality in Central and Eastern Europe—Recommendations from the International Central-Eastern European Expert Group (2014)

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is universally considered to be an integral part of type 1 diabetes management and crucial for optimizing the safety and efficacy of complex insulin regimens. This extends to type 2 diabetes patients on intensive insulin therapy, and there is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that structured SMBG is beneficial for all type 2 diabetes patients, regardless of therapy. However, access to SMBG can be limited in many countries in Central and Eastern Europe. A consensus group of diabetes experts from 10 countries in this region (with overlapping historical, political, and social environments)--Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine--was formed to discuss the role of SMBG across the spectrum of patients with diabetes. The group considered SMBG to be an essential tool that should be accessible to all patients with diabetes, including those with non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes. The current article summarizes the evidence put forward by the consensus group and provides their recommendations for the appropriate use of SMBG as part of individualized patient management. The ultimate goal of these evidence-based recommendations is to help patients and providers in Central and Eastern Europe to make optimal use of SMBG in order to maximize the efficacy and safety of glucose-lowering therapies, to prevent complications, and to empower the patient to play a more active role in the management of their diabetes.
Clinical Profile and Spectrum of Commotio Cordis (2002)

The expanded spectrum of commotio cordis illustrates the potential dangers implicit in striking the chest, regardless of the intent or force of the blow. These findings also suggest that the safety of young athletes will be enhanced by developing more effective preventive strategies (such as chest wall barriers) to achieve protection from ventricular fibrillation following precordial blows.
Coherence calculations of different seismic attribute traces for fault interpretation (1996)

The existing interpretation software packages provide excellent tools to extract the desired geological information from 2D and 3D seismic data. For structural studies the complex trace analysis (Taney et al., 1979) gives the reflection strength, as one attribute to map along interpreted horizons for highlighting fault cuts. Other possibilities for interpreting faults by horizon attributes are the dip magnitude and dip azimuth determinations. Certain edge detection techniques, such as the residual map (Denham and Nelson, 1986) can also enhance the appearance of fault cuts. The technique developed for imaging discontinuities provides a 3D volume of coherence coefficients (Bahorioh and Farmer, 1995), where faults are easily tracked. This method came over the main disadvantage of the others: picking of horizons in advance i s not necessary. Now the fault plane can be picked directly by automatic methods, if the fault plane is well separated and continuous enough. We investigate different coherency measures on different input traces to determine which combination gives more suitable results for tracking of faults.
Universal and reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (2017)

Aerosolized pathogens are a leading cause of respiratory infection and transmission. Currently used protective measures pose potential risk of primary/secondary infection and transmission. Here, we report the development of a universal, reusable virus deactivation system by functionalization of the main fibrous filtration unit of surgical mask with sodium chloride salt. The salt coating on the fiber surface dissolves upon exposure to virus aerosols and recrystallizes during drying, destroying the pathogens. When tested with tightly sealed sides, salt-coated filters showed remarkably higher filtration efficiency than conventional mask filtration layer, and 100% survival rate was observed in mice infected with virus penetrated through salt-coated filters. Viruses captured on salt-coated filters exhibited rapid infectivity loss compared to gradual decrease on bare filters. Salt-coated filters proved highly effective in deactivating influenza viruses regardless of subtypes and following storage in harsh environmental conditions. Our results can be applied in obtaining a broad-spectrum, airborne pathogen prevention device in preparation for epidemic and pandemic of respiratory diseases.
Automated Coding of Open-ended Surveys: Technical and Ethical Issues (2008)

Abstract. This paper presents some technical and ethical issues arising from the use of automated methods to solve a typical social science problem: the coding of surveys including answers to open-ended questions. Coding an open-ended survey, which may include thousands of interviews, means to assign symbolic predefined labels to its answers according to their meaning. The increasing amount of information available from surveys carried out also on the Web, makes it viable the use of (semi)automated systems both to reduce time and human resources cost to analyze and manage it, and to produce results independent from coders ’ subjective impressions, but on the other hand poses both technical and ethical challenges to be carefully evaluated before being adopted. 1
Socialization of inpatriate managers in global organizations: A social learning perspective (2008)

As culture and a global organizational environment are becoming significant management issues in the globalization of business, the creation and development of socialization processes is vital for continuous learning and adjustment of inpatriate managers. This paper examines a positive relationship between two distinct socialization processes, institutional and individualized socialization tactics, and socio-cultural and psychological adjustment, respectively. This relationship is suggested to be moderated by cultural distance. Bandura’s (1977) social-learning theory is utilized to explain the change in behavior of the inpatriate’s internal and external environment to form a new set of behaviors while adjusting to a new organizational culture.
Chemical Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Poison in Clams (1958)

Journal Article Chemical Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Poison in Clams Get access E F McFarren, E F McFarren Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar E J Schantz, E J Schantz Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J E Campbell, J E Campbell Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K H Lewis K H Lewis Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, Volume 41, Issue 1, 1 February 1958, Pages 168–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/41.1.168 Published: 07 February 2020
Vibration modes of AT-cut convex quartz resonators (1974)

The thickness shear mode forms and frequency spectrum of AT-cut plano-convex and biconvex quartz crystal resonators are obtained by an approximate analytic method. The results show good agreement with the mode forms observed by x-ray topography and the measured frequencies.
Symmetric Reverse-Coupling Waveguide Orthomode Transducer for the 3-mm Band (2008)

We describe the design, construction, and performance of a waveguide orthomode transducer (OMT) for the 3-mm band (84-116 GHz). The OMT is based on a symmetric backward coupling structure and has a square waveguide input port (2.54 mm times 2.54 mm) and two single-mode waveguide outputs: a standard WR10 rectangular waveguide (2.54 mm times 1.27 mm), and an oval waveguide with full-radius corners. The reverse coupling structure is located in the common square waveguide arm and splits one polarization signal in two opposite rectangular waveguide sidearms using broadband -3-dB .E-plane branch-line hybrid couplers. The device was optimized using a commercial 3-D electromagnetic simulator. The OMT consists of two mechanical blocks fabricated in split- block configuration using conventional CNC milling machine. From 84 to 116 GHz, the measured input reflection coefficient was less than -17 dB, the cross polarization was less than -30 dB, the isolation between the outputs was greater than 50 dB, and the insertion loss was less than 0.35 dB at room temperature for both polarization channels. The device is suitable for scaling to higher frequency.
Effect of Oxygen Plasma on Low Dielectric Constant HSQ (Hydrogensilsesquioxane) Films (2013)

The commercially available hydrogensilsesquioxane (HSQ) offers a low dielectric constant. In this paper, the impact of oxygen plasma treatment has been investigated on the low-k HSQ films. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to identify the network structure and cage structure of Si-O-Si bonds and other possible bonds after treatments. C-V and I-V measurements were used to determine the dielectric constant, the electronic resistivity and the breakdown electric field, respectively. The result indicates that oxygen plasma treatment will damage the HSQ films by removing the hydrogen content. Both dielectric constant and leakage current density increase significantly after oxygen plasma exposure. The dielectric constant and leakage current density can both be decreased by annealing at 350°C for 1.5 h in nitrogen ambient. The reason is that the open porous of the external films can be modified and density of thin film be increased. The rough surface can be smoothed.
A Survey on Computer Vision for Assistive Medical Diagnosis From Faces (2017)

Automatic medical diagnosis is an emerging center of interest in computer vision as it provides unobtrusive objective information on a patient's condition. The face, as a mirror of health status, can reveal symptomatic indications of specific diseases. Thus, the detection of facial abnormalities or atypical features is at upmost importance when it comes to medical diagnostics. This survey aims to give an overview of the recent developments in medical diagnostics from facial images based on computer vision methods. Various approaches have been considered to assess facial symptoms and to eventually provide further help to the practitioners. However, the developed tools are still seldom used in clinical practice, since their reliability is still a concern due to the lack of clinical validation of the methodologies and their inadequate applicability. Nonetheless, efforts are being made to provide robust solutions suitable for healthcare environments, by dealing with practical issues such as real-time assessment or patients positioning. This survey provides an updated collection of the most relevant and innovative solutions in facial images analysis. The findings show that with the help of computer vision methods, over 30 medical conditions can be preliminarily diagnosed from the automatic detection of some of their symptoms. Furthermore, future perspectives, such as the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and collecting publicly available databases, are highlighted.
FT-IR Spectroscopy Study of the Ester Crosslinking Mechanism of Cotton Cellulose (1991)

Polycarboxylic acids are being developed as new nonformaldehyde crosslinking agents for cotton fabrics to replace the traditional N-methylol reagents. In this research, the mechanism of esterification between polycarboxylic acids and cotton cellulose was elucidated using FT-IR spectroscopy. All the infrared spectroscopic data support the hypothesis that cyclic anhydrides are formed as intermediates, which in turn esterify with cotton cellulose. The infrared spectroscopic data also demonstrate that cyclic anhydrides are very reactive and are able to esterify with cotton cellulose without a catalyst present and at a temperature much lower than the curing temperatures used for polycarboxylic acids. Therefore, the chief role of catalysts such as sodium hypo phosphite is that they accelerate the formation of a cyclic anhydride from a polycar boxylic acid.
How Protective Is Protective Clothing? (1986)

A standard method to evaluate the permeation resistance of protective clothing has been developed. This method has generated numerous data on the resistance of various clothing materials to specific chemicals. Three chemicals for which little data were available are formaldehyde, chlorine, and hydrogen cyanide. Experience with the method in evaluating materials for their resistance to these chemicals is presented as well as a review of current methods for determining protective clothing performance. Results from the tests show that nitrile-butadiene, neoprene, and butyl rubber offer the best resistance to formaldehyde, chlorine, and hydrogen cyanide, respectively, and that both breakthrough time and permeation rate data are needed to determine performance.
Distributed resolution of network congestion and potential deadlock using reservation-based scheduling (2005)

Efficient and reliable communication is essential for achieving high performance in a networked computing environment. Finite network resources bring about unavoidable competition among in-flight network packets, resulting in network congestion and, possibly, deadlock. Many techniques have been proposed to improve network performance by efficiently handling network congestion and potential deadlock. However, none of them provide an efficient way of accelerating the movement of network packets in congestion toward their destinations. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism for detecting and resolving network congestion and potential deadlocks. The proposed mechanism is based on efficiently tracking paths of congestion and increasing the scheduling priority of packets along those paths. This acts to throttle other packets trying to enter those congested regions - in effect, locking out packets from congested regions until congestion has had the opportunity to disperse. Simulation results show that the proposed technique effectively disperses network congestion and is also applicable in helping to resolve potential deadlock.
Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (2013)

Reductions in all-cause mortality, major vascular events and revascularisations were found with no excess of adverse events among people without evidence of CVD treated with statins.
Stimulation of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation in culture by growth factors in human and ruminant mammary secretions (1987)

Samples of human and ruminant mammary secretions stimulated the proliferation of rat intestinal epithelial (RIE-1) cells in culture. The stimulation was dose-dependent, and samples taken prepartum had greater potency than those taken after parturition. When various hormones and growth factors known to be present in milk were tested, only epidermal growth factor (EGF), insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) stimulated the proliferation of RIE-1 cells. IGF-I was effective at lower concentrations than insulin, and the maximal stimulation induced by each of these two polypeptides was greater than that induced by EGF. The maximal stimulation induced by samples of mammary secretions was similar to that induced by insulin or IGF-I.
Development of a learning content management system (2008)

Change appears to be the only constant in the field of ICT and what was treated as advanced feature few years ago is today old-fashioned. If dealing with such rapid change in the field is increasingly difficult and complex, it is even more complicated when one tries to simplify the concepts and processes and define the learning system's model and the features that would contribute to a more effective teaching and learning. As part of the research project team, which aims to develop software for Learning Content Management System at SEE University, we primarily had to select the features that would cover our needs and also comply with the actual trends in this area of software development, and then design and develop the system. In this paper we present the in house development of an LCMS for South East European University, its architecture, conception and strengths.