gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Pragmatism Versus Mysticism: The Divided Self of William James (1991)

The best way to characterize the philosophy of William James is to say that it is basically deeply rooted in the blues. It is the soulful expression of someone who has paid his dues; someone who, like old wagonwheels, has been through it all; and, like good blues, the aim of his philosophy is therapeutic. While its immediate aim is to keep him sane and non-suicidal-to help him make it through the night-its larger one is to help him find his way to physical and spiritual health. In this respect he is very much in the Nietzschean mold, as is Wittgenstein also in my opinion. (The deep difference between James and Dewey is that Dewey couldn't sing the blues if his life depended on it.) James's theme song is Many Selves Blues. Part of the problem is that James is astonishingly complex and multi-faceted. He has a passion to be all things, to feel and understand everything. (Sometimes I think he succeeded!) Within him are all these different selves, each hungering after full actualization, but, having only finite time and resources, some of them must be denied or slighted. This gives rise to the Actualization Blues, since every actualization denies an infinite number of possibilities that could have occurred in its place. (Maybe this was the deep cause of his notorious impatience and restlessness, which might explain his continual, almost obsessional, use of the open doors and lowering of the dam metaphors.) But far more serious is that the competing demands of these different selves are due to a serious rift within the man himself, this inspiring Divided Self Blues. Thanks to Ralph Barton Perry's masterpiece,
Deep Learning Frameworks for Off-Angle Iris Recognition (2018)

Although iris is known as one of the most accurate, distinctive, and reliable biometric identification, the accuracy of iris recognition depends on the image quality and it is negatively affected by several factors such as gaze angle, occlusion, and dilation. Since standoff iris recognition systems are much less constrained than traditional systems, the iris images captured are likely to be non-ideal, off-angle, and dilated. In this paper, we present a deep learning algorithm to improve performance of off-angle iris recognition in traditional and untraditional iris recognition frameworks. As a main contribution, this approach will allow us to study the effect of the gaze angle in ocular/periocular biometrics and fuse the information in different off-angle iris images. Using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we first investigate traditional iris recognition framework with segmentation, normalization, and CNN based encoding and matching. In nontraditional framework, we use the iris images without segmentation and normalization to investigate the effect of periocular regions. We train and test our deep learning based approach with frontal and off-angle iris images in different sizes and types such as original, cropped, segmented, and masked images. Based on results from our real off-angle iris image dataset with 52 subjects, the proposed method improved the recognition performance compared with traditional off-angle iris recognition approaches.
Research roundup: July 2014 (2014)

In this section, a range of brief synopses of recently published articles that may be of interest to health visitors is presented. The aim of this roundup is to provide an overview, rather than a detailed summary, of the research papers selected. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided.
Functional expression of NF1 tumor suppressor protein: association with keratin intermediate filaments during the early development of human epidermis (2002)

These results depict an early fetal period when the NF1 tumor suppressor is abundantly expressed in epidermis and associated with cytokeratin filaments. This period is characterized by the initiation of differentiation of the basal cells, maturation of the basement membrane zone as well as accentuated formation of selected cellular junctions. NF1 tumor suppressor may function in the regulation of epidermal histogenesis via controlling the organization of the keratin cytoskeleton during the assembly of desmosomes and hemidesmosomes.
Preparation and characterizations of poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) based antifouling coating by thermally induced immobilization (2014)

Poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) (PMOXA) has been proved to be a kind of potential antifouling coating material. In this work, a series of comb copolymers, poly[(2-methyl-2-oxazoline)-random-glycidyl methacrylate] (PMOXA-r-GMA), with a variety of compositions were synthesized by free radical polymerization of the oligo(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) methacrylate macromonomer and glycidyl methacrylate, and then characterized and used to coat silicon/glass surfaces. A one-step coating procedure by a simple annealing protocol was used to yield covalent and cross-linked PMOXA-based antifouling coatings. The coatings were rigorously characterized in terms of the surface chemical composition, hydrophilicity, thickness and morphology using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), the water contact angle (WCA) test, ellipsometry and atomic force microscopy. The results demonstrated that the PMOXA-r-GMA brushes could successfully be bonded onto silicon/glass surfaces. Finally, the fouling resistance ability of the modified surface was evaluated by analyzing the adsorption of bovine serum albumin protein, bacterial cell attachment and platelet adhesion, which indicated that the modified silicon/glass surfaces had a superior resistance to protein, bacterial cell and platelet adsorption, and the performance of fouling resistance was enhanced with the content of PMOXA segments in the copolymers.
Azide Reactive Dyes Part II ‐ Transfer‐printing Properties of Sulphonyl‐ and Aryl‐azide Dyes on Nylon 6.6 (1978)

The transfer‐printing properties of dyes containing the sulphonylazide (‐SO 2 N 3 ) and arylazide (ArN 3 ) groups have been examined for nylon 6.6 substrates. After sublimation at 200°C the azide group decomposes rapidly to a nitrene species which reacts with the polymer. Dye fixation occurs by insertion of the nitrene into the carbon‐hydrogen bonds of the polymer, thus forming a nitrogen bridge. A competing reaction involves hydrogen abstraction from the substrate to give an amino derivative of the dye which is not covalently bound to the polymer. Fibre‐grafting occurs to the extent of about 60–75% for both series of dyes. Unlike the sulphonylazides, the arylazide dyes show a pronounced colour change after transfer, as the thermally‐generated amino group is directly conjugated with the dye chromogen.
Integrin-mediated epithelial-T cell interaction enhances nitric oxide production and increased intracellular inhibition of <i>Chlamydia</i> (1996)

Abstract T cell-mediated immunity against Chlamydia in mice is mediated at least in part by T cell-derived interferon-γ (IFN-γ) induction of the nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) system in infected epithelial cells. Although IFN-γ alone could stimulate nitric oxide (NO) production from epithelial cells and inhibit the intracellular growth of Chlamydia, the effectiveness was less than when infected epithelial cells were co-cultured with IFN-γ-producing T cell clones. In co-cultures containing T cells and infected epithelial cells, additional NO produced by activated T cells could augment chlamydial killing; however, T cell-derived NO was insufficient to account for the total NO present in the co-culture and therefore could not explain the dramatic increase in chlamydial inhibition under those conditions. To determine whether direct cell-to-cell interaction involving adhesion molecules was involved in increased NO induction, the ability of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies directed against intercellular adhesion molecule type 1 (ICAM-1) and leukocyte function antigen-1 (LFA-1) to suppress NO production and lower intracellular chlamydial inhibition was investigated. It was found that monoclonal antibodies against ICAM-1/LFA-1 could significantly reduce the capacity of a protective CD4+ type 1 (Th1) clone (clone 2.14-0) to inhibit the intracellular growth of the C. trachomatis agent of mouse pneumonitis (MoPn). The suppression of the anti-chlamydial action of the clone by antibodies correlated with ~50% decrease in NO production. Also, paraformaldehyde-fixed clone 2.14-0 could enhance NO induction and chlamydial inhibition mediated by IFN-γ, and this effect could be reversed by anti-ICAM-1/LFA-1 antibodies. The results indicated that epithelial-T cell interaction via adhesion molecules enhances NO production and increased chlamydial inhibition by IFN-γ-secreting T cells.
A monograph of the genera Chaetomium and Ascotricha (1915)

21, 22, 23) in 1837, 1838 and 1840 came quite a new era
Automatic Efficiency Optimization of an Axial Compressor with Adjustable Inlet Guide Vanes (2012)

转子片的入口攻击角度能相当与入口指南翼(IGV ) 的 stagger 角度的变化被调整；因此每个条件的效率将被影响。目的改进效率， DSP (数字信号处理器) 控制器被设计自动地调整 IGV 的 stagger 角度以便以任何操作条件优化效率。A/D 信号收集包括入口静电干扰压力，插头静电干扰压力，插头总数压力，转子速度和转矩信号，效率能为 IGV 将从承兑交单被发送控制的步进马达在 DSP，和角度信号被计算。试验性的调查与可变入口指南翼在一台三阶段的、低速度的轴的压缩机被执行。设计的 DSP 能很好在网上调整 IGV 的 stagger 角度，这被表明，在不同条件下面的效率能被优化。当它的操作条件被改变时， DSP 联机调整计划的这个机构可以为改进多级式的轴的流动压缩机的性能提供一个实际答案。
Effects of electrode placement on the efficacy of titrated, low-dose ECT (1987)

This double-blind, random-assignment study contrasted the relative efficacy of bilateral and unilateral right ECT with a low-dose titration procedure. In 52 patients with primary major depressive disorder, bilateral ECT was markedly superior in short-term symptom reduction to unilateral right ECT. The two conditions did not differ in the duration of generalized seizures or in the number of treatments administered to achieve clinical response. The findings challenge the claim that the elicitation of generalized seizure is, in and of itself, sufficient for the antidepressant properties of ECT. Rather, a dose in excess of seizure threshold may contribute to the efficacy of ECT, particularly with a unilateral right electrode placement.
Enhanced activity of a hydrothermally synthesized mesoporous MoS2 nanostructure for high performance supercapacitor applications (2014)

In the present work, we have synthesized a mesoporous molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanostructure by a facile hydrothermal route for supercapacitor applications. FE-SEM and TEM images confirmed the mesoporous morphologies of the as-prepared samples. The electrochemical measurements showed that the as-prepared mesoporous MoS2 electrode delivered maximum capacitances of 376 and 403 F g−1 at a scan rate of 1 mV s−1 in 1 M Na2SO4 and KCl electrolyte solutions respectively, which indicated that the mesoporous MoS2 nanostructure was a suitable electrode material for supercapacitor applications.
A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet - sRGB (2005)

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft propose the addition of support for a standard color space, sRGB, within the Microsoft operating systems, HP products, the Internet, and all other interested vendors. The aim of this color space is to complement the current color management strategies by enabling a third method of handling color in the operating systems, device drivers and the Internet that utilizes a simple and robust device independent color definition. This will provide good quality and backward compatibility with minimum transmission and system overhead. Based on a calibrated colorimetric RGB color space well suited to Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors, television, scanners, digital cameras, and printing systems, such a space can be supported with minimum cost to software and hardware vendors. Our intent here is to promote its adoption by showing the benefits of supporting a standard color space, and the suitability of the standard color space, sRGB, we are proposing. We will describe some of the system issues and propose a methodology for to implement support for sRGB and color management on the World Wide Web.
Mechanics of Materials--Solutions Manual (1972)

Tension, compression and shear axially loaded members torsion shear forces and bending moments stresses in beams (basic topics) stresses in beams (advanced topics), analysis of stress and strain applications of plane stress,(pressure vessels, beams and combined loadings) deflection of beams statically indeterminate beams columns review of centroids and moments of inertia.
Researches in terrestrial magnetism and electricity at Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, For the year April 1942 to March 1943 (1943)

During the year ending with March 1943, the normal program of investigations pursued by the Department has been subject to delays and curtailment due to the exigencies arising from the war. The widespread demands for application to the war‐effort of the results of past and present investigations have emphasized the practical value of many aspects of the Department's researches on Earth‐physics. Practically all facilities of personnel, laboratory, shop, and buildings at Washington and at the Observatories were devoted to investigations and solutions of war‐problems. Members of the staff were assigned, upon request, to special duties elsewhere. Thus there has been possible only a limited continuation of the usual program; nevertheless, the work in all the sections has progressed, although on a reduced scale, and a considerable amount of worth‐while research has been accomplished. Many items of scientific value were developed in the investigation of special war‐problems.
Towards Nanostructured ITO-Based Electrochemical Sensors: Fabrication, Characterization and Functionalization (2017)

The need for miniaturized, low-cost and ultrasensitive electrochemical sensors has motivated the search and study of new nanostructured materials. We propose nanostructured indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes as a promising platform due to their good electrical conductivity, transparency to visible wavelengths and high surface-to-volume ratio. The nanostructured electrodes were fabricated by electron beam evaporation, and electrochemical techniques were used to quantify more than a 40% increase in electrochemical surface area compared to thin ITO films. The electrodes were derivatized with organosilanes and coated with a molecule providing redox activity. Indeed, an increase in detectability of more than 400% was observed with respect to thin films, indicating the potential viability of nanostructured ITO-based electrochemical biosensors.
Permanent Deployment of the Solitaire FR™ Device in the Basilar Artery in an Acute Stroke Scenario (2017)

Permanent deployment of the Solitaire device may potentially be a safe and effective means of maintaining vessel patency in an occluded or stenotic basilar artery.
Treatment of hodgkin’s disease with chemotherapy Based-Regimens: Long-term follow-up results with 295 patients (2004)

Hodgkin’s disease (HD) is a chemo and radio -sensitive hematologic malignancy At the present time, improvement of its cure rate, reduction ol its long -term detrimental effects, and maintenance of a good quality of life are the major concerns in the treatment of HD. In this study the results of a long -term follow -up from our cancer center was analyzed retrospectively in terms of efiicacy and collateral side effects. The results were analyzed for 295 patients with histologically-verified HD who were treated from 1970 to 2000, especially 182 patients treated from 1980 to 2000. Multivariant analysis (COX model ) was employed to elucidate the prognostic determinants. The 5, 10 and 20 -year survival for 295 patients with HD were 63.5%. 55.8% and 47.1% respectively with a median survival time of 172 months (28-352 months ). The median follow-up time was 43 months (17-352 months). The 5, 10 and 20 years overall survival and disease -free survival were 79 6%, 74.5%, 66.8% and 74 5%, 69.4%, 69.4% respectively for patients treated by regular chemotherapy and radiotherapy from 1980 to 2000. The incidence of late toxicities was low. An age of ≥45 years, B symptoms and stage III / IV were the main prognostic determinants (P = 0.000.P=0.035 andP=0.047) in this clinical study. Stage I/II and nodular sclerosis were favorable factors in comparison with stages III/IV and other histologic subtypes. A chemotherapy-predominant modality plays an important role in the treatment of HD with promising long -term survival and fewer late toxicities. Further investigation lot this simplified convenient comprehensive therapy is warranted.
Beyond 16S rRNA Community Profiling: Intra-Species Diversity in the Gut Microbiota (2016)

Interactions with microbes affect many aspects of animal biology, including immune system development, nutrition and health. In vertebrates, the gut microbiota is dominated by a small subset of phyla, but the species composition within these phyla is typically not conserved. Moreover, several recent studies have shown that bacterial species in the gut are composed of a multitude of strains, which frequently co-exist in their host, and may be host-specific. However, since the study of intra-species diversity is challenging, particularly in the setting of complex, host-associated microbial communities, our current understanding of the distribution, evolution and functional relevance of intra-species diversity in the gut is scarce. In order to unravel how genomic diversity translates into phenotypic diversity, community analyses going beyond 16S rRNA profiling, in combination with experimental approaches, are needed. Recently, the honeybee has emerged as a promising model for studying gut bacterial communities, particularly in terms of strain-level diversity. Unlike most other invertebrates, the honeybee gut is colonized by a remarkably consistent and specific core microbiota, which is dominated by only eight bacterial species. As for the vertebrate gut microbiota, these species are composed of highly diverse strains suggesting that similar evolutionary forces shape gut community structures in vertebrates and social insects. In this review, we outline current knowledge on the evolution and functional relevance of strain diversity within the gut microbiota, including recent insights gained from mammals and other animals such as the honeybee. We discuss methodological approaches and propose possible future avenues for studying strain diversity in complex bacterial communities.
Mechanisms of Pancreatic Fibrosis (2004)

Pancreatic fibrosis, a characteristic histopathological feature of chronic pancreatitis, is no longer considered an epiphenomenon of chronic injury, but an active process that may be reversible in the early stages. The identification and characterization of pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) in recent years has had a significant impact on research into pancreatic fibrogenesis. Accumulating evidence from both in vivo studies (using human pancreatic sections and experimental models of pancreatic fibrosis) and in vitro studies (using cultured pancreatic stellate cells) indicates a key role for activated PSCs in the fibrotic process. These cells are now known to be activated by ethanol and its metabolites and by several factors that are upregulated during pancreatic injury including growth factors, cytokines and oxidant stress. Based on this knowledge, potential antifibrotic strategies such as antioxidants and cytokine inhibition have been assessed in experimental models. Studies are also underway to characterise the signaling pathways/molecules responsible for mediating PSC activation, in order to identify potential therapeutic targets for the inhibition of PSC activation, thereby preventing or reversing the development of pancreatic fibrosis.
Scaling security in pairing-based protocols. (2005)

In number theoretic cryptography there is always the problem of scaling-up security to a higher level. This usually means increasing the size of the modulus, from, say 1024 bits to 2048 bits. In pairing-based cryptography however another option is available, keeping the modulus constant and increasing instead the embedding degree. This has a big potential advantage in smart-card and embedded applications -- security can be scaled up while continuing to use the same sized calculations. For example a cryptographic co-processor which does 512-bit modular multiplications can be directly re-used in the higher security setting. Here we investigate the scaling-up issue in the context of prime characteristic non-supersingular elliptic curves. We also confirm the observation that at higher levels of security a slightly modified Weil pairing becomes more efficient than the Tate pairing.
Intrusion detection and defense mechanism for packet replication attack over MANET using swarm intelligence (2013)

Due to the nature of a MANET, it is much more vulnerable to attack than a wired network. As a result, an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for MANETs is designed to detect anomalous behavior and misuse. Swarm intelligence is a relatively novel field. These algorithms, like their natural systems of inspiration, show the desirable properties of being adaptive, scalable, and robust. The objective of this project is to detect and perform defense mechanism for packet replication attack. A Packet replication problem reduced by the NS2 simulator for MANET, each data packet is replicated in the IP layer at its source. The number of replication times is determined by the number of route entries for the destination, each data packet is uniquely identified with the tree-id provided by NS2 and the redundant packets are discarded in the IP layer at the receiver. The Performance of the Intrusion Detection system is verified using the parameters like Throughput, Packet-Received, Packet-Delivery Ratio, End-to-End Latency, Bandwidth and Latency.
[The mechanisms of the antiviral action of the bora-adamantane derivative preparation BG-12]. (1994)

The effect of one of the derivatives of boraadamantane, preparation BG-12, on reproduction of influenza type A and B viruses was studied. This preparation was shown to inhibit multiplication of a wide range of influenza type A and B virus strains. It is important that BG-12 inhibits in cell culture the replication of a mutant of fowl plague virus A/FPV/Weibridge resistant to remantadine. BG-12 was found to exert a marked viricidal effect, to inhibit the hemolytic activity of both influenza A and influenza B viruses, but not the neuraminidase activity of these viruses. The synthesis of some virus-specific proteins was found to be disturbed in influenza B/Ann Arbor/86-infected cells in the presence of BG-12. A FPVBAR mutant of influenza A/FPV/Weibridge (H7N7) virus resistant to BG-12 was obtained. All the BG-12-resistant reassortants inherited genes 4 and 7 coding for hemagglutinin (HA) and membrane proteins (M) from FPVBAR mutant, respectively, and the remaining genes from BG-12-sensitive A/Krasnodar/101/59 (H2N2) virus. The sequencing of a region of the M gene encoding for the transmembrane protein M2 revealed the substitution of Ala30-Thre in this protein. Multiple attempts at generating a mutant of influenza type B virus resistant to BG-12 failed.
Guide to protecting the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (2010)

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the nation's measurement and standards infrastructure.ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analysis to advance the development and productive use of information technology.ITL's responsibilities include the development of technical, physical, administrative, and management standards and guidelines for the cost-effective
Cancer Cachexia (1988)

Despite recent advances in the delivery of nutritional support, cachexia continues to contribute to the morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. This impasse has called for a review of the many factors that are believed to be associated with weight loss in the cancer host. This article reviews the topic with a view to past problems and areas for investigation in the future.