gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Erratum to: Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and jets in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV (2015)

We update the parameters of the fitted functions for lepton and jet selection efficiencies presented in section 9 of the original paper. Due to an editorial error, these numbers were wrongly inserted. The corresponding figures, figures 10 and 11 of the original paper, showing the fitted functions, are unchanged. Parameter Electrons Muons 0.597 0.001 0.617 0.001 10 0.133 0.002 0.291 0.002 (GeV) 37.75 0.30 29.95 0.38 Table 1. The parameters of the fit performed in figure 11 of the original paper for electron and muon selection efficiencies. This table replaces table 13 of the original paper.
Coordinated Multicast Trees (CMT) for Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) (2016)

TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) facilitates loop-
free connectivity to non-TRILL networks via a choice of an Appointed
Forwarder for a set of VLANs. Appointed Forwarders provide VLAN-based
load sharing with an active-standby model. High-performance
applications require an active-active load-sharing model. The active-
active load-sharing model can be accomplished by representing any
given non-TRILL network with a single virtual RBridge (also referred
to as a virtual Routing Bridge or virtual TRILL switch). Virtual
representation of the non-TRILL network with a single RBridge poses
serious challenges in multi-destination RPF (Reverse Path Forwarding)
check calculations. This document specifies required enhancements to
build Coordinated Multicast Trees (CMT) within the TRILL campus to
solve related RPF issues. CMT, which only requires a software upgrade,
provides flexibility to RBridges in selecting a desired path of
association to a given TRILL multi-destination distribution tree. This
document updates RFC 6325.
Prostate Cancer Epidemiology (2014)

The epidemiology of prostate cancer is reviewed and the trends in incidence and mortality are examined. The marked increase in incidence due to more prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is noted as is the decline in overall mortality. The difficulty in interpreting these figures from historical data is emphasized. Factors such as ethnicity, family history, and aging are highlighted, and the lifestyle choices which may put men at risk are dissected. Finally the natural history of the disease is examined with reference to work on “watchful waiting.”
Loganin Inhibits Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammation and Oxidative Response through the Activation of the Nrf2/HO-1 Signaling Pathway in RAW264.7 Macrophages (2021)

Inflammation caused by the excessive secretion of inflammatory mediators in abnormally activated macrophages promotes many diseases along with oxidative stress. Loganin, a major iridoid glycoside isolated from Cornus officinalis, has recently been reported to exhibit anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, whereas the underlying mechanism has not yet been fully clarified. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of loganin on inflammation and oxidative stress in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages. Our results indicated that loganin treatment markedly attenuated the LPS-mediated phagocytic activity and release of nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E<sub>2</sub>, which was associated with decreased the expression of inducible NO synthase and cyclooxygenase-2. In addition, loganin suppressed the expression and their extracellular secretion of LPS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-1β. Furthermore, loganin abolished reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, and promoted the activation of nuclear factor-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in LPS-stimulated macrophages. However, zinc protoporphyrin, a selective HO-1 inhibitor, reversed the loganin-mediated suppression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in LPS-treated macrophages. In conclusion, our findings suggest that the upregulation of the Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway is concerned at least in the protective effect of loganin against LPS-mediated inflammatory and oxidative stress, and that loganin can be a potential functional agent to prevent inflammatory and oxidative damage.
MmWave Codebook Selection in Rapidly-Varying Channels via Multinomial Thompson Sampling (2021)

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, using directional beams, is a key enabler for high-throughput mobile ad hoc networks. These directional beams are organized into multiple codebooks according to beam resolution, with each codebook consisting of a set of equal-width beams that cover the whole angular space. The code-book with narrow beams delivers high throughput, at the expense of scanning time. Therefore overall throughput maximization is achieved by selecting a mmWave codebook that balances between beamwidth (beamforming gain) and beam alignment overhead. Further, these codebooks have some potential natural structures such as the non-decreasing instantaneous rate or the unimodal throughput as one traverses from the codebook with wide beams to the one with narrow beams. We study the codebook selection problem through a multi-armed bandit (MAB) formulation in mmWave networks with rapidly-varying channels. We develop multiple novel Thompson Sampling-based algorithms for our setting given different codebook structures with theoretical guarantees on regret. We further collect real-world (60 GHz) measurements with 12-antenna phased arrays, and show the performance benefits of our approaches in an IEEE 802.11ad/ay emulation setting.
Decompounding query keywords from compounding languages (2008)

Splitting compound words has proved to be useful in areas such as Machine Translation, Speech Recognition or Information Retrieval (IR). Furthermore, real-time IR systems (such as search engines) need to cope with noisy data, as user queries are sometimes written quickly and submitted without review. In this paper we apply a state-of-the-art procedure for German decompounding to other compounding languages, and we show that it is possible to have a single decompounding model that is applicable across languages.
Experimental investigation of the brittle to ductile transition in fracture of single crystal silicon (1999)

Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1999.
Paper Transport in Duplex Color Radiation Fusing, Continuous and Flash (2003)

We had reported earlier (NIP 18) the use of high intensity continuous radiation and pulsed radiation for color independent radiant fusing. We had found that there is a potential if special developed sharp melting dry ink is used.At duplex fusing of sheet substrates with electrophotographic engines of duplex loop type the paper passes twice the fusing station with the risk of reheating the first image above softening point. We have analyzed different methods of paper feeding in the fusing area: With radiant fusing the heating time is relatively long with the risk of backside damage. Thus a non-contact paper feeding in the heating zone followed by a non contact paper feeding in the following cooling zone is required.At flash fusing the energy is incorporated into the surface for short time intervals only and backside problems are not expected. To prove this we evaluated the time dependant backside temperature of the substrate after flash fusing with a fast pyrometer. We could prove that backside image artifacts of toner back side layers in full color printing start well above the flash energy density necessary for fusing. Thus conventional contact paper transport means like Kapton&#xAE; belts are sufficient for duplex color flash fusing of sheet materials.
Analog Compressed Sensing for Sparse Frequency Shift Keying Modulation Schemes (2022)

There is a growing interest in signaling schemes that operate in the wideband regime due to the crowded frequency spectrum. However, a downside of the wideband regime is that obtaining channel state information is costly, and the capacity of previously used modulation schemes such as code division multiple access and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing begins to diverge from the capacity bound without channel state information. Impulsive frequency shift keying and wideband time frequency coding have been shown to perform well in the wideband regime without channel state information, thus avoiding the costs and challenges associated with obtaining channel state information. However, the maximum likelihood receiver is a bank of frequency-selective filters, which is very costly to implement due to the large number of filters. In this work, we aim to simplify the receiver by using an analog compressed sensing receiver with chipping sequences as correlating signals to detect the sparse signals. Our results show that using a compressed sensing receiver allows for the simplification of the analog receiver with the trade off of a slight degradation in recovery performance. For a fixed frequency separation, symbol time, and peak SNR, the performance loss remains the same for a fixed ratio of number of correlating signals to the number of frequencies.
Amphetamine-induced behavioral phenotype in a hypoxanthine^guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient mouse model of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. (1991)

In humans, congenital deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) results in a disorder known as the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Patients with this disorder exhibit a prominent neurobehavioral phenotype that results in part from dysfunction of catecholaminergic systems in the striatum. HPRT-deficient mice produced as animal models for this syndrome curiously exhibit no spontaneous neurobehavioral abnormalities. However, the present study demonstrates that HPRT-deficient mice are more sensitive than their HPRT-normal littermates to the ability of amphetamine to stimulate locomotor or stereotypic behaviors. This behavioral supersensitivity to amphetamine indicates the existence of an underlying subclinical abnormality of catecholaminergic systems in the brains of HPRT-deficient mice, analogous to findings in human Lesch-Nyhan patients.
Chitosan Nanolayered Cisplatin-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Anticancer Efficacy in Cervical Cancer (2016)

In this study, cisplatin (CDDP)-loaded chitosan-coated solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) was successfully formulated to treat HeLa cervical carcinoma. The formulation nanoparticles were nanosized and exhibited a controlled release of drug in physiological conditions. The blank nanoparticles exhibited an excellent biocompatibility profile indicating its suitability for cancer targeting. The incorporation of CDDP in SLN remarkably increased the cancer cell death as evident from the MTT assay. Importantly, CDDP-loaded chitosan-coated SLN (CChSLN) significantly (P < 0.05) decreased the viability of cancer cells even at low concentration. The higher cytotoxicity potential of CChSLN was attributed to the higher cellular uptake as well as the sustained drug release manner in comparison with CSLN. Consistent with the cytotoxicity assay, CChSLN showed the lowest IC<sub>50</sub> value of 0.6125 μg/ml while CSLN presented 1.156 μg/ml. CChSLN showed a significantly higher apoptosis in cancer cells compared to that of CSLN and CDDP, which is attributed to the better internalization of nanocarriers and controlled release of anticancer drugs in the intracellular environment. Our findings suggest that this new formulation could be a promising alternative for the treatment of cervical cancers. These findings are encouraging us to continue our research, with a more extended investigation of cellular response in real time and in animal models.
Coexistence of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein and amyloid protein in cerebral vessel walls. (1990)

Polyclonal antibodies to synthetic peptides homologous to amino acid residues 45-62, 597-624, and 676-695 of the predicted sequence of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein (APP) were used to investigate the site of origin of APP, and the relationship between APP and amyloid protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, Dutch type (HCHWA-D). Cortical sections as well as homogenates of isolated leptomeningeal and cortical microvessels from three patients with AD, two patients with HCHWA-D, and two nondemented controls were probed. In vessel extracts of both groups of patients and the controls, APP was detected as a set of proteins with electrophoretic mobility of 105 to 135 kilodaltons. In cortical sections of all subjects, APP immunoreactivity was found in leptomeningeal and cortical vessel walls. In patients with AD and HCHWA-D, APP and amyloid fibrils coexisted in the same vessels. Moreover, APP immunoreactivity was found in association with 50% of senile plaques in AD brains, but was not evidenced in parenchymal amyloid deposits in patients with HCHWA-D. These data suggest that the vascular system is a source of APP and that the processing of APP into insoluble fibrils in AD and HCHWA-D may take place in situ.
The calculation of the transient near and far field of a baffled piston using low sampling frequencies (1997)

A method is presented to calculate the near- and far-field transient radiation of acoustical transducers using low sampling frequencies. The method is based on the classical impulse response approach and on the fact that in practical use the spectrum of the excitation function of a transducer is band limited. This makes it possible to use a smoothed version of the impulse response function. A simple expression to calculate this smoothed function, for a rectangular or circular transducer, is derived. The proposed solution allows accurate computation of pressure fields and backscatter signals, while avoiding high sampling frequencies in the far field of the transducers. Several examples illustrate the accuracy of this new solution and its use for spectral analysis of simulated reflected signals.
Thienyl-substituted methanofullerene derivatives for organic photovoltaic cells (2009)

A series of thienyl-substituted methanofullerenes as electron acceptors for bulk-heterojuction solar cells with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) were synthesized and characterized with respect to electrochemical and photophysical properties. The first one-electron reduction potentials of the higher adducts are shifted toward more negative values by ∼100 mV as compared to the monoadduct. As a result, the solar cells composed of the bisadduct (2) and trisadduct exhibit a larger open-circuit voltage (Voc) than the solar cell composed of P3HT and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), as they have higher LUMO energy levels. Photophysical studies on spin-coated films by femtosecond laser flash photolysis indicate that ultrafast electron transfer from the P3HT donor polymer to all of the fullerene derivatives occurs to form the bound radical pair (BRP) state. No decay of the BRP state of P3HT:thienyl-substituted monoadduct (1) films was observed in the time range of 3 ns. The AFM investigation on P3HT:1 and P3HT:higher adduct films after thermal annealing showed fine donor and acceptor domains and larger domains, respectively. The bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells based on P3HT:1 exhibited a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.97%, which is comparable with that of the P3HT:PCBM cell. The P3HT:2 based cell showed a PCE value of 1.72% with a higher open-circuit voltage of 0.72 V.
Naval Research Laboratory scintillation playback system for bench top lasercomm testing (2010)

The Naval Research Laboratory has developed a system to optically "playback" recorded atmospheric scintillation data files. Scintillation data files typically consist of voltage versus time data taken during various outdoor field tests. Optical playback of these files involves modulating laser light in an optical fiber such that the output mimics the fluctuations observed in the outdoor field tests. This capability allows greatly simplified testing of lasercomm hardware and software in a laboratory environment without the need for more expensive and complicated outdoor field tests. This system also enables repetitive testing with the same fluctuations which is extremely useful for optimization of lasercomm system performance.
In Vivo and Ex Vivo Gene Transfer in Thymocytes and Thymocyte Precursors (2009)

The thymus provides a specialized environment allowing the differentiation of T lymphocytes from bone marrow-derived progenitor cells. We and others have demonstrated that gene transfer into distinct thymocyte populations can be obtained, both in vivo and ex vivo, using lentiviral vectors. Here, we describe techniques for intrathymic lentiviral transduction in mice, using a surgical approach wherein the thoracic cavity is exposed as well as a significantly less invasive strategy wherein virions are directly injected through the skin. Moreover, thymocyte differentiation from murine and human progenitors is now feasible in vitro, under conditions wherein the Notch and IL-7 signaling pathways are activated. We describe methods allowing transduction of murine and human progenitors and their subsequent differentiation into more mature thymocytes. Conditions for lentiviral gene transfer into more differentiated human thymocyte subsets are also presented. Optimization of technologies for HIV-based gene transfer into murine and human thymocyte progenitors will advance strategies aimed at modulating T-cell differentiation and function in-vivo; approaches potentially targeting patients with genetic and acquired immunodeficiencies as well as immune-sensitive tumors. Furthermore, this technology will foster the progression of basic research aimed at elucidating molecular aspects of T-cell differentiation in mice and humans.
Gas Release Characteristics of Various Species in Pyrolysis of Wood and Grass Biomass (2009)

This paper presents a new method for predicting the gas release characteristics of various species in pyrolysis of wood and grass biomass. The pyrolysis experiment of various biomass samples were carried out, and the gas release process in pyrolysis was measured. Large amount of CO2 and CO were released at first. CH4 was subsequently released. Additional CO was released at more than 700°C in the pyrolysis of lignin and lignin-rich biomass. Finally, H2 release was increased. This gas release Characteristics indicate that the pyrolysis mechanism of biomass was almost same with that of coal. Based on these experimental results, biomass-CPD model was modified to divide the reactions of intact bridge, side chain and aromatic cluster for predicting the gas release process of various species. In the first reaction, H2O, CO and CO2 were released from intact bridge and side chain. Next reaction was the release of CH4 from intact bridge and side chain. Further CO release from intact bridge and side chain occurred at high temperature only in lignin pyrolysis. Finally, H2 was released from intact bridge, side chain and aromatic cluster. Kinetic parameters of those reactions were determined from values of the conventional pyrolysis model both of coal and biomass. Consequently, the gas release process of various species was well predicted by using above mentioned new biomass-CPD model.
Ergonomic Concepts for Vibration Dampening Terminals (2004)

&lt;div class="htmlview paragraph"&gt;A common concern in automotive manufacturing is the ability to manually install components with lower insertion loads to reduce ergonomic issues. Automatic and manual shift systems use isolated rod ends that are installed manually by snapping onto a pin. The requirement loads to fully install these rod ends are constantly being reduced by the automakers. The problem is rod ends also have to meet a minimum load requirement for extraction from the pin. Typical rod end designs use a plastic outer housing with an inner core of softer material, such as polyurethane, to isolate for vibrations. While attempting to design the isolator to meet lower insertion loads the isolators often will not meet the required minimum load for extraction. One unique solution is to utilize other components, if available, to help in reaching the required insertion and extraction loads by designing special interfaces with multiple parts.&lt;/div&gt;
Combined Agroforestry and Rainwater Harvesting to Reduce Soil Degradation in M editerranean Zones (2021)

The complementary use of agroforestry and water harvesting practices is a possible strategy to counter the soil degradation processes occurring in Mediterranean regions. Studies show that implementation of sustainable land management technologies worldwide has the potential to increase crop yields by 30–170%, soil organic carbon sequestration by up to 3% and water use efficiency by up to 100%. In particular, it is claimed that agroforestry and rainwater harvesting technologies, among others, can prevent a worsening in current conditions in the Mediterranean regions. This chapter presents case studies performed in two areas within the Mediterranean climate and Mediterranean biome identified in Chile: the Metropolitan Region, where a long-term field study was carried out in a dryland near to Santiago city between 1996 and 2008; and the Coquimbo Region, at the northern limit of Mediterranean central Chile, where an experimental site was recently established.
Protective Effects of Lactococci Strains Delivering Either IL-10 Protein or cDNA in a TNBS-induced Chronic Colitis Model (2014)

Background: Oral treatment with Lactococcus lactis strains secreting the anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-10 has previously shown success as a therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Goals: Our aim was to compare the protective effects of IL-10, delivered by recombinant lactoccoci using 2 novel expression systems, in a murine colitis model mimicking the relapsing nature of IBD. The first system is based on a Stress-Inducible Controlled Expression system for the production and delivery of heterologous proteins at mucosal surfaces and the second allows the delivery to the host cells of an il-10 cDNA cassette, harbored in a eukaryotic DNA expression vector (pValac). Study: Colitis was induced in female BALB/c mice by intrarectal injection of 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid (TNBS). Mice that recovered received one of the bacteria treatments or saline solution orally during 14 days. Colitis was reactivated 25 days after the first TNBS injection with a second TNBS challenge. Three days after colitis reactivation, cytokine profiles and inflammation in colon samples were evaluated. Results: Animals (N=9) receiving L. lactis strains secreting IL-10 using Stress-Inducible Controlled Expression system or delivering pValac:il-10 plasmid showed lower weight loss (P<0.005), lower damage scores (P<0.005), and immune activation in their large intestines compared with inflamed nontreated mice. Conclusions: Our results confirm the protective effect of IL-10 delivered either as a protein or as a cDNA in a colitis model mimicking the relapsing nature of IBD and provides a step further in the “proof-of-concept” of genetically engineered bacteria as a valid system to deliver therapeutic molecules at mucosal level.