gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Chemical constraints on the water and total oxygen abundances in the deep atmosphere of Jupiter (1988)

Recent observations of the global H<SUB>2</SUB>O mixing ratio in the Jovian troposphere have been interpreted as indicating a possible global depletion of water and of total oxygen in Jupiter's interior. The authors discuss the resulting implications for the abundances of important nonequilibrium trace gases that are mixed upward from Jupiter's interior. The calculations show that the observations of CO and the upper limit on SiH<SUB>4</SUB> are incompatible with significant global water and total oxygen depletions in Jupiter's interior. Hence the observed low water vapor abundances must result from unexpected local condensation effects in the cloud-forming region rather than from planetary depletions in water and total oxygen.
Noncovalent Immobilization of Enantioselective Catalysts (2008)

The financial support of C.I.C.Y.T. (Project CTQ2005-08016 and Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2006-0003) is greatly acknowledged.
Why Do the Heavy-Atom Analogues of Acetylene E<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> (E = Si−Pb) Exhibit Unusual Structures? (2005)

DFT calculations at BP86/QZ4P have been carried out for different structures of E(2)H(2) (E = C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) with the goal to explain the unusual equilibrium geometries of the heavier group 14 homologues where E = Si-Pb. The global energy minima of the latter molecules have a nonplanar doubly bridged structure A followed by the singly bridged planar form B, the vinylidene-type structure C, and the trans-bent isomer D1. The energetically high-lying trans-bent structure D2 possessing an electron sextet at E and the linear form HEEH, which are not minima on the PES, have also been studied. The unusual structures of E(2)H(2) (E = Si-Pb) are explained with the interactions between the EH moieties in the (X(2)Pi) electronic ground state which differ from C(2)H(2), which is bound through interactions between CH in the a(4)Sigma(-) excited state. Bonding between two (X(2)Pi) fragments of the heavier EH hydrides is favored over the bonding in the a(4)Sigma(-) excited state because the X(2)Pi --> a(4)Sigma(-) excitation energy of EH (E = Si-Pb) is significantly higher than for CH. The doubly bridged structure A of E(2)H(2) has three bonding orbital contributions: one sigma bond and two E-H donor-acceptor bonds. The singly bridged isomer B also has three bonding orbital contributions: one pi bond, one E-H donor-acceptor bond, and one lone-pair donor-acceptor bond. The trans-bent form D1 has one pi bond and two lone-pair donor-acceptor bonds, while D2 has only one sigma bond. The strength of the stabilizing orbital contributions has been estimated with an energy decomposition analysis, which also gives the bonding contributions of the quasi-classical electrostatic interactions.
The Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Oars Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (1981)

This report outlines the development, validity, and reliability of Part A of the OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire. Part A permits assessment of individuals' functioning on each of five dimensions (social, economic, mental health, physical health and self-care capacity), the detailed information in each area being summarized on a 6-point rating scale by a rater. Content and consensual validity were ensured by the manner of construction. Information on criterion validity was obtained for all dimensions except social. The criterion used and their associated Kendall's Tau values were: an objective economic scale (.62); ratings based on personal interviews by geropsychiatrists (.60); physician's associates (.82); and physical therapists (.89). For 11 geographically dispersed raters from research and clinic settings, intraclass correlational coefficients, based on 30 subjects, ranged from .66 on physical health to .87 in self-care capacity; 74% of the ratings were in complete agreement, 24% differed by one point.
Fecal cup for collection of feces in male rats. (1979)

A cup was designed which fits around the tail of male rats. The cup was used to collect feces and made it possible to separate urine and feces completely from each other. The cup was easy to apply, remove, empty and replace, and its use did not cause noticeable stress to the animal.
Key ideas in living processes (1996)

It is very difficult to give a definition of life, other than to say it is to be alive. It is possible to list the characteristic processes (often called living processes) that living organisms carry out, whether they are animals, plants or belong to another kingdom (see p 108).
Learning-based adaptive dispatching method for batch processing machines (2013)

This study aims to solve the scheduling problem of batch processing machines (BPMs) in semiconductor manufacturing by using a learning-based adaptive dispatching method (LBADM). First, an adaptive ant system algorithm (AAS) is proposed to solve the scheduling problem of BPMs according to their characteristics. Then AAS generates a lot of solutions for the jobs with different distribution of arrival time and due date. These solutions are taken as learning samples. Second, we analyze influencing factors by sample learning method from those solutions. With the help of linear regression, the coefficients of influencing factors can be calculated to build a dynamic dispatching rule adaptive to running environments. Finally, simulation results based on a Minifab model show that the proposed method is better than traditional ways (such as FIFO and EDD with maximum batchsize) with lower makespan and weighted tardiness.
Erythrocytic Casein Kinase II Regulates Cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected Red Blood Cells (2009)

Plasmodium falciparum malaria is a major human health scourge and a key cause of mortality. Its pathogenicity partly results from the phenomenon of "cytoadherence" mediated by the PfEMP1 (Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1) family. Extracellular domains of PfEMP1s are variable and bind various host endothelial receptors, whereas their cytoplasmic domains (VARCs) are relatively conserved. VARCs affix PfEMP1s in the human erythrocyte membrane by interacting with host cytoskeleton proteins and exported parasite proteins. Here, we provide in vitro and in vivo evidence for PfEMP1 phosphorylation (on VARC) and propose an important function for this modification. Specific inhibitors and enhancers have been used to identify erythrocytic casein kinase II (CKII) as the enzyme responsible for VARC modification activity. We have also delineated probable CKII target residues on VARC, which mainly reside in an N-terminal acidic cluster. Our data show that VARC phosphorylation alters its binding to parasite encoded knob-associated histidine-rich protein (KAHRP). Finally, we demonstrate reduced cytoadherence of infected RBCs to endothelial receptors like ICAM-1 and CSA (these contribute to cerebral and placental malaria, respectively) in response to their CKII inhibition. Collectively, this study furthers our understanding of VARC function, underscores the importance of erythrocytic CKII in cytoadherence, and suggests a possible new target for anti-cytoadherence molecules.
The application of Ground Penetrating Radar in advanced prediction of tunnel (2011)

Advanced prediction of the geological condition of anterior rock near tunnel's work area in the hydraulic tunnel construction not only to protect the safety for the construction unit, but also can save a lot of manpower, financial and material resources. Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR for short, has been widely used for its easy operation, rapid, non-destructive, veracity, intuition and etc. In this paper, the introduction of basic working principle and the application and skills of GPR in advanced prediction of water delivery tunnel was produced.
A high performance P-channel EPROM cell (1987)

Recent results show higher gate current in P-channel devices than in IV-channel ones under the same bias conditions. By this reason, we produced a P-chiannel EPROM cell, making use of a standard N-channel cell layout. We present a complete electrical charactcrization and point out some advantages which make P-channel EPROM cells very promising, especially for future CMOS applications.
Parallel Tree Traversal for Nearest Neighbor Query on the GPU (2016)

The similarity search problem is found in many application domains including computer graphics, information retrieval, statistics, computational biology, and scientific data processing just to name a few. Recently several studies have been performed to accelerate the k-nearest neighbor (kNN) queries using GPUs, but most of the works develop brute-force exhaustive scanning algorithms leveraging a large number of GPU cores and none of the prior works employ GPUs for an n-ary tree structured index. It is known that multi-dimensional hierarchical indexing trees such as R-trees are inherently not well suited for GPUs because of their irregular tree traversal and memory access patterns. Traversing hierarchical tree structures in an irregular manner makes it difficult to exploit parallelism since GPUs are tailored for deterministic memory accesses. In this work, we develop a data parallel tree traversal algorithm, Parallel Scan and Backtrack (PSB), for kNN query processing on the GPU, this algorithm traverses a multi-dimensional tree structured index while avoiding warp divergence problems. In order to take advantage of accessing contiguous memory blocks, the proposed PSB algorithm performs linear scanning of sibling leaf nodes, which increases the chance to optimize the parallel SIMD algorithm. We evaluate the performance of the PSB algorithm against the classic branch-and-bound kNN query processing algorithm. Our experiments with real datasets show that the PSB algorithm is faster by a large margin than the branch-and-bound algorithm.
Short term hypolipidemic effects of oral lactobacillus sporogenes therapy in patients with primary dyslipidemias. (1991)

Short term hypolipidemic effects of oral Lactobacillus sporogenes (360 million spores/day) were studied in 17 patients (mean age 45.6 years; males 15, females 2) with type II hyperlipidemia in an open label fixed dose trial. Over a period of 3 months, significant reductions were observed in total cholesterol (330 +/- 55 mg% to 226 +/- 46 mg%, p less than 0.001) and LDL-cholesterol (267 +/- 58 mg% to 173 +/- 54 mg%, p less than 0.001). The HDL-cholesterol was marginally increased (43.6 +/- 7 mg% to 46.8 +/- 8.9 mg%, p less than 0.05). There was no change in serum triglyceride concentration. Total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratios were significantly reduced after treatment (p less than 0.001). No adverse effect was noted. While the change in serum lipid levels on treatment was consistent with regard to total and LDL-cholesterol, it was not so in case of serum triglycerides and HDL-cholesterol. Oral Lactobacillus sporogenes therapy may prove to be an important hypolipidemic therapy after confirmation in larger trials.
Review on Smart Traffic Control for Emergency Vehicles (2015)

Today’s scenario is people on the earth are rapidly increased and according to that the number of vehicles on the road is also increased. Therefore the problem of traffic management is arises specially for EMERGENCY Vehicles. The idea behind this paper is to implement a system which would easily control the traffic and helps for the emergency vehicles to reach at their destination. This scheme relies completely on automatic intelligent control. Here the goal is to reduce the latency of emergency vehicles with minimum or less disruption to regular traffic flow is possible. However there is still problem for an emergency vehicle to bypass near the traffic junction. The emergency vehicles could not be going as fast as it can. So to overcome that problem we have to find the new methods.
5-Acceptor-substituted 4-amino-2-arylazothiazoles. A unique black monoazo chromophoric system (1998)

Replacement of the chlorine substituent in blue dyes of the 5-acceptor-4-chloro-2-(4-N,N-dialkylaminophenylazo)thiazole type by a tertiary amino group produces a black monoazo chromophoric system with three π → π* bands spanning the whole of the visible spectrum.
Instrumentation in software dynamic translators for self-managed systems (2004)

Self-managed software requires monitoring and code changes to an executing program. One technology that enables such self management is software dynamic translation (SDT), which allows a program's execution to be intercepted and controlled by a separate software layer. SDT has been used to build many useful applications, including software security checkers that check for code vulnerabilities, dynamic code optimizers, and program introspection tools. While these systems use program instrumentation, the instrumentation is usually tailored to a specific application and infrastructure. What is missing is a single scalable and flexible instrumentation framework that can be used in different self-managed SDT infrastructures. In this paper, we describe such a framework, called "FIST," that can be used and targeted by different algorithms and tools to enable instrumentation applications that are portable across SDTs and machine platforms. Our interface supports multiple levels of granularity from source level constructs to the instruction and machine level. We describe and evaluate FIST's capabilities in the Strata system for the SPARC and the Jikes Research Virtual Machine for Java on the Intel x86.
Role of the Serum Response Factor in Regulating Contractile Apparatus Gene Expression and Sarcomeric Integrity in Cardiomyocytes (2005)

The serum response factor (SRF) is a transcriptional regulator required for mesodermal development, including heart formation and function. Previous studies have described the role of SRF in controlling expression of structural genes involved in conferring the myogenic phenotype. Recent studies by us and others have demonstrated embryonic lethal cardiovascular phenotypes in SRF-null animals, but have not directly addressed the mechanistic role of SRF in controlling broad regulatory programs in cardiac cells. In this study, we used a loss-of-function approach to delineate the role of SRF in cardiomyocyte gene expression and function. In SRF-null neonatal cardiomyocytes, we observed severe defects in the contractile apparatus, including Z-disc and stress fiber formation, as well as mislocalization and/or attenuation of sarcomeric proteins. Consistent with this, gene array and reverse transcription-PCR analyses showed down-regulation of genes encoding key cardiac transcriptional regulatory factors and proteins required for the maintenance of sarcomeric structure, function, and regulation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that at least a subset of these proteins are likely regulated directly by SRF. The results presented here indicate that SRF is an essential coordinator of cardiomyocyte function due to its ability to regulate expression of numerous genes (some previously identified and at least 28 targets newly identified in this study) that are involved in multiple and disparate levels of sarcomeric function and assembly.
Implementing Clinical Trials (2005)

This chapter contains sections titled: History and Development of Clinical Trials Clinical Trials As a Step in Pharmacological Experimentation Methodology of Clinical Trials Ethics Limitations of Clinical Trials Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Measurement of Outcome Andanalysis of the Results Duration of Clinical Trials The Matter of Grant Publication of Results From Clinical Trials' Results to Clinical Practice: The off-label Use of Psychoactive Drugs Conclusions References
Estimating the Direct-to-Reverberant Energy Ratio Using a Spherical Harmonics-Based Spatial Correlation Model (2016)

The direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR), which describes the energy ratio between the direct and reverberant component of a soundfield, is an important parameter in many audio applications. In this paper, we present a multichannel algorithm, which utilizes the blind recordings of a spherical microphone array to estimate the DRR of interest. The algorithm is developed based on a spatial correlation model formulated in the spherical harmonics domain. This model expresses the cross correlation matrix of the recorded soundfield coefficients in terms of two spatial correlation matrices, one for direct sound and the other for reverberation. While the direct path arrives from the source, the reverberant path is considered to be a nondiffuse soundfield with varying directional gains. The direct and reverberant sound energies are estimated from the aforementioned spatial correlation model, which then leads to the DRR estimation. The practical feasibility of the proposed algorithm was evaluated using the speech corpus of the acoustic characterization of environments challenge. The experimental results revealed that the proposed method was able to effectively estimate the DRR of a large collection of reverberant speech recordings including various environmental noise types, room types and speakers.
The Pericopidae (moths) of Kartabo, British Guiana, and Caripito, Venezuela (1949)

Satterlee, and by invaluable assistance from the Standard Oil Companies of New
媒體再現鄉村性──以《台客練習曲》為例 (2012)

This research focuses on the media rurality in Taiwan by exploring how rural is presented in the television program “the Taiker Etude”. Reporting new rural visions has been active in Taiwan’s mass media contexts for the past decade. This research contributes to this phenomenon by providing an empirical review of Taiwanese media discourses of new rural life. This research includes three topics: exploring meanings of media rural idyll, analyzing media contents of new rural lifestyle, and examining media rurality and class. Social semiotics and discourse analysis, supplemented by corpus linguistics are methodology adopted in achieving these research goals. The result of this research will contribute the discussion of media rurality for the Rural Studies and the Media Studies in Taiwan significantly.
<title>Application of active structural health monitoring technique to aircraft fuselage structures</title> (1996)

Damage identification of complex structures can be performed using an Active Structural Health Monitoring System (ASHMS) utilizing an array of piezoceramic (PZT) sensor- actuators and an electromechanical impedance analyzer. Based on the theory of electromechanical impedance for surface-bonded collocated sensor-actuators, the system provides the means of implementing effective Non-Destructive-Evaluation health monitoring to a structure at any point in its life cycle. When integrated into a structure, the ASHMS can identify the location and extent of damage through a statistical analysis algorithm which compares the electromechanical admittance of the structure's current condition with the structure's `baseline' condition over a defined frequency range. This paper presents a model independent method of structure damage identification based on statistical analysis of the changes in the electromechanical impedance of the structural response. Using a small section of an airplane fuselage with free-free boundary conditions as the test structure, a prototype system has been successfully developed which automatically measures and collects the electromechanical admittance data from an array of transducers. The measurement system developed can apply large voltages to the PZT transducers, while accurately determining the spectral and harmonic information of the frequency range of interest resulting in an increase in the measurement sensitivity and the area monitored by a single transducer. The system can accurately measure and collect large amounts of structural information with a limited number of transducers in a very short period of time. The post-analysis of the measured structural variation can be performed with the advanced signal processing algorithm presented herein within seconds of data collection. The results show a remarkable accuracy of damage location identification for a complex structure. The basic research conducted so far indicates that the ASHMS and associated processing techniques have a promising potential for health monitoring of real complex structures.
A new low-profile wide-scan phased array for UWB applications (2007)

The possibility of achieving new advantageous solutions of high-performance UWB wide-scan arrays is investigated here for typical C-X band applications. Original compact, low-profile configurations of phased arrays, based on the class of the aperture-coupled stacked patches, have been analysed, designed, and tested. The relevant results show very interesting features as concerns band and scanning features. (5 pages)
Oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cells derived from adult rat spinal cord: In vitro characteristics and response to PDGF, bFGF and NT-3 (1996)

We have analysed in detail the properties of oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cells derived from the spinal cords of adult rats to gain further insights into the mechanisms that control the generation of oligodendrocytes in the healthy and demyelinated adult central nervous systems (CNS). When O-2A progenitor cells from adult spinal cord are exposed in vitro to the AA homodimeric form of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-AA), they express a unipolar morphology, an O4-positive, vimentin-negative antigenic phenotype, divide at slow rates, and appear to generate oligodendrocytes by asymmetric division and differentiation. Furthermore, exposure of these cells to PDGF-AA is sufficient to stimulate their proliferation at clonal density. When adult spinal cord O-2A progenitor cells are exposed simultaneously to PDGF-AA and basic fibroblast growth factor (PDGF/bFGF), they are almost completely inhibited from differentiating into oligodendrocytes, divide more rapidly than cells treated with PDGF-AA, and express a bipolar morphology and an O4-negative, vimentin-positive antigenic phenotype. These findings indicate that adult spinal cord O-2A progenitor cells resemble in many aspects their well-characterised adult optic nerve counterparts. In addition, evidence is presented to indicate that neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) is not mitogenic for adult spinal cord O-2A progenitor cells and that it does not enhance their proliferative response to PDGF-AA or PDGF/bFGF. Since relatively large numbers of O-2A progenitor cells can be obtained from adult spinal cord, it should facilitate the further characterisation of these cells.
Uncovering text mining: A survey of current work on web-based epidemic intelligence (2012)

Real world pandemics such as SARS 2002 as well as popular fiction like the movie Contagion graphically depict the health threat of a global pandemic and the key role of epidemic intelligence (EI). While EI relies heavily on established indicator sources a new class of methods based on event alerting from unstructured digital Internet media is rapidly becoming acknowledged within the public health community. At the heart of automated information gathering systems is a technology called text mining. My contribution here is to provide an overview of the role that text mining technology plays in detecting epidemics and to synthesise my existing research on the BioCaster project.
On a large Varanus species from the Island of Komodo (1912)

(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.