gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
An Approach to Topological Pin Assignment (1984)

One of the methods of increasing routability of an integrated circuit or printed circuit board, is to improve the assignment of connection nets to component (gate, chip, etc.) pins. The quality of a pin assignment is judged based on factors such as predicted wire length, wiring crossovers, and wiring congestion. This paper describes topological heuristic algorithms for pin assignment. Two stages, initial pin assignment and assignment improvement, are described in detail. For all cases, example diagrams are provided. The heuristic approaches demonstrated are highly tunable to specific routers.
Sequence Alignment and Database Searching (1998)

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Evolutionary Basis of Sequence Alignment The Modular Nature of Proteins Optimal Alignment Methods Substitution Scores and Gap Penalties Statistical Significance of Alignments Database Similarity Searching FASTA BLAST Low-Complexity Regions Repetitive Elements Conclusions
Diffusion Coefficients of the Systems CO2–CO2 and CO2–N2O (1952)

The radioactive tracer, C14O2, has been used to measure diffusion coefficients for the systems CO2–CO2 and CO2–N2O in the temperature range −78° to 90°C. The apparatus, which is the Loschmidt type, uses saturation ionization currents as a measure of the extent of diffusion. The characteristics of this type of apparatus have been analyzed in detail to obtain working equations which permit use of experimental measurements at both small and large values of the time. The present results, whose accuracy is estimated at 1.5 percent, agree with those obtained by other investigators using different experimental methods. Although the difference is small, 2.6±0.3 percent, the diffusion coefficient for the system CO2–N2O is consistently larger than that for CO2–CO2 over the entire temperature range.
Dutch hypernym detection : does decompounding help? (2016)

This research presents experiments carried out to improve the precision and recall of Dutch hypernym detection. To do so, we applied a data-driven semantic relation finder that starts from a list of automatically extracted domain-specific terms from technical corpora, and generates a list of hypernym relations between these terms. As Dutch technical terms often consist of compounds written in one orthographic unit, we investigated the impact of a decompounding module on the performance of the hypernym detection system.
In addition, we also improved the precision of the system by designing filters taking into account statistical and linguistic information.
The experimental results show that both the precision and recall of the hypernym detection system improved, and that the decompounding module is especially effective for hypernym detection in Dutch.
Predictors and outcomes of networking intensity among unemployed job seekers. (2000)

This study examined predictors and outcomes of networking intensity (i.e., individual actions directed toward contacting friends, acquaintances, and referrals to get information, leads, or advice on getting a job) during the job searches of a sample of unemployed individuals. The study used a Big Five framework, in which extraversion and conscientiousness were associated with both higher levels of networking intensity and higher use of other traditional job-search methods. Networking comfort (a procedure-specific constellation of evaluative beliefs depicting attitudes toward using networking as a job-search method) was positively related to networking intensity above and beyond the effects of personality. Networking intensity did not provide incremental prediction of unemployment insurance exhaustion, reemployment or reemployment speed, or job satisfaction when intensity of use of other job-search methods was considered.
Dynamic changes in cardiac vagal tone as measured by time-series analysis (1990)

A time-series analysis of heart rate variability was evaluated as a marker of cardiac vagal tone using well-characterized autonomic interventions. Heart period (R-R interval) was recorded in 14 mongrel dogs from which the amplitude of the respiratory sinus arrhythmia (0.24-1.04 Hz) was determined. Exercise elicited significant (P less than 0.01) reductions in the index of vagal tone (control 6.3 +/- 0.3 ln ms2 vs. exercise 2.4 +/- 0.4 ln ms2) that were accompanied by significant (P less than 0.01) increases in heart rate (control 123.1 +/- 5 vs. exercise 201.0 +/- 7.7 beats/min). The vagal tone index remained greater than 0 throughout exercise. After propranolol HCl pretreatment, the vagal tone index rapidly decreased toward zero (control 6.2 +/- 0.5; exercise 0.7 +/- 0.3 ln ms2), despite significantly lower increases in heart rate (control 109.3 +/- 4.2; exercise 178.0 +/- 7.6 beats/min). Atropine given during exercise evoked significantly greater increases in heart rate in the control (+48.7 +/- 7.9 beats/min) vs. propranolol (+14.2 +/- 6.7 beats/min) conditions. These data suggest that 1) high levels of cardiac vagal tone remain during exercise; 2) vagal withdrawal is largely responsible for the heart rate increase after beta-adrenergic receptor blockade; and 3) time-series analysis of the R-R interval can provide a dynamic and noninvasive index of cardiac vagal tone.
Design and Implementation of Ground Plane Detection using Predefined Datasets and Space Geometric Analysis (2018)

RANSAC is an iterative method to estimate the parameters of a mathematical model from original data. This method requires multiple iterations to estimate good parameters, and the obstacles around the desired model can cause accuracy problems when applied to real-time operating systems. This study proposes a method to find the optimal ground plane using predefined datasets and the observed objects’ space geometry. The CPU time requirements of the proposed method are compared with those of the compared methods to verify the complexity of the proposed method. The proposed method is implemented in hardware on a field programmable gate array using Verilog for realtime system applications. The performance of the proposed method is verified by conducting various performance experiments.
Real-time Machine Listening and Segmental Re-synthesis for Networked Music Performance (2014)

The general scope of this work is to investigate potential benefits of Networked Music Performance (NMP) systems by employing techniques commonly found in Machine Musicianship. Machine Musicianship is a research area aiming at developing software systems exhibiting some musical skill such as listening, composing or performing music. A distinct track of this research line, mostly relevant to this work, is computer accompaniment systems. Such systems are expected to accompany human musicians by causally analysing the music being performed and timely responding by synthesizing an accompaniment, or the part of one or more of the remaining members of a performance ensemble. The objective of the present work is to investigate the possibility of representing each performer of a dispersed NMP ensemble, by a local computer-based musician, which constantly listens to the local performance, receives network notifications from remote locations and re-synthesizes the performance of remote peers. Whenever a new musical construct is recognized at the location of each performer, a code representing that construct is communicated to all of the remaining musicians, as low-bandwidth information. Upon reception, the remote audio signal is re-synthesized by splicing pre-recorded audio segments corresponding to the musical construct identified by the received code. Computer accompaniment systems may use any conventional audio synthesis technique to generate the accompaniment. In this work, investigations focus on concatenative music synthesis, in an attempt to preserve all expressive nuances introduced by the interpretation of individual performers. Hence, the research carried out and presented in this dissertation lies on the intersection of three domains, which are NMP, Machine Musicianship and Concatenative Music Synthesis. 
The dissertation initially presents an analysis of the current trends in all three research domains, and then elaborates on the methodology that was followed to realize the intended scenario. Research efforts have led to the development of BoogieNet, a preliminary software prototype implementing the proposed communication scheme for networked musical interactions. Real-time music analysis is achieved by means of audio-to-score alignment techniques and re-synthesis at the receiving end takes place by concatenating pre-recorded and automatically segmented audio units, generated by means of onset detection algorithms. The methodology of the entire process is presented and contrasted with competing analysis/synthesis techniques. Finally, the dissertation presents important implementation details and an experimental evaluation to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.
The keys to business success: To help make the most of your business, Sport Health brings you the following business insights (2012)

Did you know millions of people connect with their customers through Facebook everyday? Facebook has over 845 million active users per month; it is the most visited website on the internet. It's easy, free and if used the right way is a great tool to interact with your target market.
Utilizing Smartphone Resources with Homesite Insurance (2013)

The process of providing real estate information about a property, a central component of purchasing homeowner’s insurance, is a lengthy, complicated procedure that has a large capacity for error on the part of the customer providing the information. Because of advances in information technology, including the storage, processing, and presentation of information of all kinds, this process can be handled in ways that are faster, less prone to error, and easier to use in the absence of specialist knowledge. The goal of this project was to explore these technological advances in order to identify strategies that could be used to achieve the aforementioned improvements in such a way that a casual user of the app could handle the process with little difficulty and with reliable results.
Photo‐Curable Polymer Blend Dielectrics for Advancing Organic Field‐Effect Transistor Applications (2010)

A solution method of photo-curable and -patternable polymer gate dielectrics was introduced by using blend solutions of poly(4-dimethylsilyl styrene) (PDMSS) and poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde) acrylate (PMFA). The fabrication was optimized to produce a smooth hydrophobic gate dielectric with good insulating and solvent-resistant properties. On the optimized PDMSS/PMFA blend gate dielectric, pentacene could grow into highly ordered structure, showing high electric performances for the resulting OFETs, as well as PTCDI-C13 and TES-ADT.
Improvements in the Application of Firefly Luciferase Assays (2003)

The firefly luciferase-based assay differs from most familiar enzyme-based determinations. Most enzyme assays are based either on the production of a product or the disappearance of a substrate. Usually the compound measured is stable so that its concentration can be determined after a specific time. At low adenosine 5′triphosphate (ATP) concentrations, firefly luciferase is a stoichiometric reactant rather than a catalyst. In the case of the firefly luciferase reaction, AMP, PPi, CO2, and oxyluciferin are typical products that accumulate, but the product that is most often and most easily determined is light. The photons of light are not accumulated in the measuring technique unless film or some electronic summation procedure is used in photon counting.
Avanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) propagation campaign in North America (1998)

Ka-band propagation measurements with the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) are entering their fifth year of data collection. Beacon-signal levels and radiometric sky noise are being measured at 20.2 and 27.5 GHz, with supporting meteorological information, at seven experiment sites in the US and Canada, using ACTS propagation terminals (PSTs) supplied by NASA. Uniform system-calibration, data-collection and data-processing procedures and software, prescribed and developed by the NASA Propagation Experimenters (NAPEX) Group, promote commonality of the data sets and permit comparison among results from the various sites. Goals of the program are to develop basic Ka-band propagation knowledge, and to supply information needed to improve propagation-prediction models and to develop impairment-mitigation techniques. The APT sites were selected to sample a variety of North American climate regions and their associated propagation features. Statistical results from the propagation measurements are presented and compared to the predictions of new and existing prediction models. Other aspects of the measurements, including unusually strong antenna-wetting effects observed with the APTs, plus analyses related to impairment dynamics, rain-rate modeling, and clear-air effects, are discussed.
A Fast Total Variation Minimization Method for Image Restoration (2008)

In this paper, we study a fast total variation minimization method for image restoration. In the proposed method, we use the modified total variation minimization scheme to denoise the deblurred image. An alternating minimization algorithm is employed to solve the proposed total variation minimization problem. Our experimental results show that the quality of restored images by the proposed method is competitive with those restored by the existing total variation restoration methods. We show the convergence of the alternating minimization algorithm and demonstrate that the algorithm is very efficient.
Metabolic Methanol: Molecular Pathways and Physiological Roles (2015)

Methanol has been historically considered an exogenous product that leads only to pathological changes in the human body when consumed. However, in normal, healthy individuals, methanol and its short-lived oxidized product, formaldehyde, are naturally occurring compounds whose functions and origins have received limited attention. There are several sources of human physiological methanol. Fruits, vegetables, and alcoholic beverages are likely the main sources of exogenous methanol in the healthy human body. Metabolic methanol may occur as a result of fermentation by gut bacteria and metabolic processes involving S-adenosyl methionine. Regardless of its source, low levels of methanol in the body are maintained by physiological and metabolic clearance mechanisms. Although human blood contains small amounts of methanol and formaldehyde, the content of these molecules increases sharply after receiving even methanol-free ethanol, indicating an endogenous source of the metabolic methanol present at low levels in the blood regulated by a cluster of genes. Recent studies of the pathogenesis of neurological disorders indicate metabolic formaldehyde as a putative causative agent. The detection of increased formaldehyde content in the blood of both neurological patients and the elderly indicates the important role of genetic and biochemical mechanisms of maintaining low levels of methanol and formaldehyde.
Controllable Synthesis of Band-Gap-Tunable and Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys (2014)

The electronic and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials are directly governed by their energy gap; thus, the band gap engineering has become an important topic recently. Theoretical and some experimental results have indicated that these monolayer TMD alloys exhibit direct-gap properties and remain stable at room temperature, making them attractive for optoelectronic applications. Here we systematically compared the two approaches of forming MoS2xSe2(1-x) monolayer alloys: selenization of MoS2 and sulfurization of MoSe2. The optical energy gap of as-grown CVD MoS2 can be continuously modulated from 1.86 eV (667 nm) to 1.57 eV (790 nm) controllable by the reaction temperature. Spectroscopic and microscopic evidences show that the Mo-S bonds can be replaced by the Mo-Se bonds in a random and homogeneous manner. By contrast, the replacement of Mo-Se by Mo-S does not randomly occur in the MoSe2 lattice, where the reaction preferentially occurs along the crystalline orientation of MoSe2 and thus the MoSe2/MoS2 biphases are easily observed in the alloys, which makes the optical band gap of these alloys distinctly different. Therefore, the selenization of metal disulfide is preferred and the proposed synthetic strategy opens up a simple route to control the atomic structure as well as optical properties of monolayer TMD alloys.
T and Tn Pancarcinoma Markers: Autoantigenic Adhesion Molecules in Pathogenesis, Prebiopsy Carcinoma-Detection, and Long-Term Breast Carcinoma Immunotherapy (1995)

Physical and chemical nature of the T and Tn pancarcinoma [CA] glycopeptide epitopes [EPs], which are immediate precursors of the blood group MN EPs, and their role in CA pathogenesis and in clinical disease are discussed. T/Tn are immuno-occluded in non-CA diseased and in healthy tissues. Well-differentiated CAs usually express a higher proportion of T than Tn EPs, while Tn predominates in poorly differentiated primary CAs. Measurement of density of T and Tn EP expression on primary breast CA permits disease prognostication. CA-T and -Tn are cell adhesion molecules involved not only in invasion but also in metastasis. Immunological methods readily detect in vivo autoimmune responses to CA-T and -Tn EPs in about 90% of all CA patients from incipience and throughout. Everyone has preexisting anti-T and anti-Tn antibodies [Abs] induced by the intestinal flora. T/anti-T immunoassays are highly efficient in detection of incipient and clinically overt CAs and, importantly, predicted CA in 77% of the patients, months to many years before their biopsy/X-ray turned positive; there were no false immune predictions of CA. Since 1974, we use human O MN red cell-derived T/Tn glycoprotein vaccine plus adjuvants successfully in safe, specific, effective, long-term, active immunotherapy against recurrence of advanced breast CA pTNM Stages IV, III, and II.
New estimates of down syndrome risks at chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, and livebirth in women of advanced maternal age from a uniquely defined population (1995)

Abstract Current measures of livebirth prevalence of Down syndrome are derived from data obtained up to 20 years ago, before the introduction of the prenatal diagnostic tests amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS). For women aged 36–52 years, but who were not tested prenatally, we proposed to make a direct estimate of current livebirth prevalence of Down syndrome. We could also determine prevalence at the time of CVS and amniocentesis in women of the same age undergoing prenatal testing. Differences in these prevalences allow an estimation of the relative loss of Down syndrome during pregnancy. In Victoria, Australia, we identified 3041 women having CVS, 7504 having amniocentesis, and 13 139 having no test. Smoothed regression estimates of age‐specific livebirth prevalence were found to be higher than in the early studies. The estimate of spontaneous loss was 17 per cent between the time of CVS and amniocentesis, and 18 per cent after the time of amniocentesis. The latter figure is lower than previous estimates and may be explained by a greater likelihood of a Down syndrome fetus surviving to be liveborn, given the modern approach to early obstetric intervention. These current risk estimates of livebirth may be useful updates for genetic counselling, but perhaps more importantly, may be used as precise maternal age‐related risk figures, necessary in the design and implementation of prenatal screening programmes for Down syndrome.
Showing the destination of hypertext links: a new approach for Guide (1992)

All hypertext systems have a kind of button which can be selected interactively by the user to obtain further information. This paper is concerned with how to show the user the further information when the button is selected. We comment how several hypertext systems show this information, describe in detail how the Guide system currently does it and propose two alternative new approaches.
Third order aberration theory of double Wien filters (2004)

The second and the third order aberration theory for a double Wien filter have been analytically developed. A new second order aberration-free condition is found at the image plane of the second filter. This condition is met when b2=−1/4, e2=−1/2, and b3−e3=−1/8, where b2=B2R/B1, e2=E2R/E1, b3=B3R2/B1, and e3=E3R2/E1. Here, R is the cyclotron radius and E1, B1, E2, B2, E3, and B3 are the dipole, quadrupole, and hexapole components of electric and magnetic fields, respectively. This condition is different from the second order aberration-free condition for a single Wien filter, which is satisfied when b2=−3/4, e2=−1, and b3−e3=−3/8. The geometrical second order aberration-free condition has also been found, and requires that e3−b3=(m−1)/8, e2=−m/4, and b2=(1−m)/4. This last set is sufficient to satisfy the above two sets of conditions as well. Residual third order aberrations are calculated for various m. The third order aberrations at the second focus are very small when the new aberration-free condition is fulfilled.
An architecture for the design of TMN applications (2002)

An architecture for the production of applications for the TMN (telecommunications management network) is described. The concept of model based management, described in the RACE Project-ADVANCE, suggests that a network should be managed by manipulating a model of that network. This concept is developed through a number of stages, resulting in an architecture for TMN applications. The application architecture is described in terms of information models. It is shown how this application architecture is mapped on to the concepts described in CCITT TMN M.3010 (draft recommendation) and the human machine interface (HMI) reference model described in CCITT Z.352 (draft recommendation). The advantages of the architecture in terms of TMN evolution and the opportunities for interoperability between management systems are shown.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Radiation Effects in Charge Coupled Devices (1975)

Charge coupled devices (CCD s) exhibit a number of advantages (low cost, low power, high bit density) in their several applications (serial memories, imagers, digital filters); however, fairly elementary theoretical considerations indicate that they will be very vulnerable to permanent radiation damage, by both neutrons and ionizing radiation, and to transient upset by pulsed ionizing radiation. Although studies of permanent ionizing-radiation damage in CCD's have been reported, little information has been published concerning their overall nuclear radiation vulnerability. This paper presents a fairly comprehensive experimental study of radiation effects in a 256-cell surface-channel, CCD shift- register. A limited amount of similar work is also presented for a 128-cell surface-channel device and a 130 cell peristaltic CCD shift register. The radiation effects phenomena discussed herein, include transient-ionizing- radiation responses, permanent ionizing- radiation damage to transfer efficiency, charge-carrying capacity and input transfer gate bias, and neutron damage to storage time--determined from dark current and charge-up time measurements. (auth)