gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
High NA Nicrostepper Final Optical Design Report (1999)

The development of a new EUV high NA small-field exposure tool has been proposed for obtaining mask defect printability data in a timeframe several years before beta-tools are available. The imaging system for this new Micro-Exposure Tool (MET), would have a numerical aperture (NA) of about 0.3, similar to the NA for a beta-tool, but substantially larger than the 0.10 NA for the Engineering Test Stand (ETS) and 0.088 NA for the existing 10x Microstepper. This memorandum discusses the development and summarizes the performance of the camera for the MET and includes a listing of the design prescription, detailed analysis of the distortion, and analysis demonstrating the capability to resolution 30 nm features under the conditions of partially coherent illumination.
Hydrophobic, Electrostatic, and Dynamic Polymer Forces at Silicone Surfaces Modified with Long-Chain Bolaform Surfactants (2014)

Surfactant self-assembly on surfaces is an effective way to tailor the complex forces at and between hydrophobic-water interfaces. Here, the range of structures and forces that are possible at surfactant-adsorbed hydrophobic surfaces are demonstrated: certain long-chain bolaform surfactants-containing a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mid-block domain and two cationic α, ω-quarternary ammonium end-groups-readily adsorb onto thin PDMS films and form dynamically fluctuating nanostructures. Through measurements with the surface forces apparatus (SFA), it is found that these soft protruding nanostructures display polymer-like exploration behavior at the PDMS surface and give rise to a long-ranged, temperature- and rate-dependent attractive bridging force (not due to viscous forces) on approach to a hydrophilic bare mica surface. Coulombic interactions between the cationic surfactant end-groups and negatively-charged mica result in a rate-dependent polymer bridging force during separation as the hydrophobic surfactant mid-blocks are pulled out from the PDMS interface, yielding strong adhesion energies. Thus, (i) the versatile array of surfactant structures that may form at hydrophobic surfaces is highlighted, (ii) the need to consider the interaction dynamics of such self-assembled polymer layers is emphasized, and (iii) it is shown that long-chain surfactants can promote robust adhesion in aqueous solutions.
Possible Role of Myoglobin in Regulating Calpain-1 Activity in Postmortem Beef Muscle (2019)

ObjectivesPrevious research revealed a relationship between meat color and beef tenderness and indicated that myoglobin can inhibit calpain-1 in solution. The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which myoglobin and beef color are associated with calpain activity and beef tenderness.Materials and MethodsBeef Longissimus dorsi samples from the left side of Holstein beef carcasses (n = 21) were collected immediately post exsanguination on the processing floor for 0 h analyses. Muscle temperature and pH was measured at 0, 24, and 48 h postmortem. After USDA quality and yield grade determination, steaks (n = 6) were removed from the right side of each carcass (n = 21) at 48 h for analyses at 48 and 336 h postmortem. Color (L*, a*, and b* values), surface myoglobin redox forms, metmyoglobin reducing activity (MRA), total myoglobin concentrations, slice shear force (SSF), Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF) were measured. Calpain-1 concentrations and autolysis were determined via Western blot at 0, 48, and 336 h.ResultsDecline in muscle pH was 6.4, 5.8, and 5.6 at 0, 24, and 48 h, respectively. Shear force values at 48 h were 73.19 N for WBSF and 384.21 N for SSF and at 336 h were 48.75 N for WBSF and 260.47 N for SSF. Myoglobin reducing activity at 336 h was positively correlated to WBSF at 48 h and negatively correlated to calpain-1 concentration at 0 h (P &lt; 0.05; Table 9). Color measurements of L* and b* at 48 h were moderately correlated with WBSF at 336 h (P &lt; 0.05; Table 9). The b* measurement at 336 h showed a moderate relationship to calpain-1 concentration at 0 h (P &lt; 0.05; Table 9).ConclusionModerate correlations between color and tenderness measurements taken at 48 h with those taken at 336 h were discovered indicating that myoglobin may impact calpain-1 in vivo.Table 9Correlations (P-values) between selected color and tenderness measurements (n = 21)
Speed Distribution from Normally Distributed Location Measurements (2022)

chapter Share on Speed Distribution from Normally Distributed Location Measurements Author: John Krumm View Profile Authors Info & Claims Spatial Gems, Volume 1August 2022 Pages 61–64https://doi.org/10.1145/3548732.3548740Published:08 August 2022Publication History 0citation1DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads1Last 12 Months1Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
High-Potential C112D/M121X (X = M, E, H, L) Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurins (2008)

Site-directed mutagenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin C112D at the M121 position has afforded a series of proteins with elevated Cu(II/I) reduction potentials relative to the Cu(II) aquo ion. The high potential and low axial hyperfine splitting (Cu(II) electron paramagnetic resonance A( parallel)) of the C112D/M121L protein are remarkably similar to features normally associated with type 1 copper centers.
The Living Sea: Okinawa, 1958 and the postwar media Dispositif (2021)

This essay focuses on Hani Susumu's The Living Sea (1958), a short film that depicts the story of a group of Okinawan boys who win a study trip to Tokyo as a prize. While the educational short is charged with an expansionist perspective that supposedly reinforces a hegemonic mainland imaginary of post-occupation Japan, the film rather points toward the heterogeneous topography of Okinawa and the process of its mediation. The essay examines The Living Sea from the perspectives of a genealogy of the so-called audio-visual education movement in Japan, the film's techno-infrastructural intersections with an emerging colour broadcasting system, and the development of postwar aquariums. This study also draws upon Hani's deep involvement with the so-called ‘montage debate’ in the late 1950s in an attempt to highlight the importance of film form and its political implications, in particular a set of distinctive representational syntaxes and shot compositions. The purpose of this essay is less about exploring problematic representations of Okinawa per se but rather about identifying the shifting positions of Okinawa and the geopolitical functioning of power by analysing the way in which cinema serves as a historically-marked media environment for the viewer's socio-technical life.
The Democratic State and the Economy as a Whole (2020)

In Part I, we argued that prevailing theories of political and economic liberalism are mutually supportive, but their policy recommendations are based on two fundamental errors: A false conception of the autonomous individual, and a false conception of the market economy. It has become clear that the liberal worldview does not allow for the necessary role of the state in ensuring the proper functioning of the overall economy in the interest of the common good…
End-to-End QA on COVID-19: Domain Adaptation with Synthetic Training (2020)

End-to-end question answering (QA) requires both information retrieval (IR) over a large document collection and machine reading comprehension (MRC) on the retrieved passages. Recent work has successfully trained neural IR systems using only supervised question answering (QA) examples from open-domain datasets. However, despite impressive performance on Wikipedia, neural IR lags behind traditional term matching approaches such as BM25 in more specific and specialized target domains such as COVID-19. Furthermore, given little or no labeled data, effective adaptation of QA systems can also be challenging in such target domains. In this work, we explore the application of synthetically generated QA examples to improve performance on closed-domain retrieval and MRC. We combine our neural IR and MRC systems and show significant improvements in end-to-end QA on the CORD-19 collection over a state-of-the-art open-domain QA baseline.
Rituximab, ofatumumab and other monoclonal anti-CD20 antibodies for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (2012)

This meta-analysis showed that patients receiving chemotherapy plus rituximab benefit in terms of OS as well as PFS compared to those with chemotherapy alone. Therefore, it supports the recommendation of rituximab in combination with FluC as an option for the first-line treatment as well as for the people with relapsed or refractory CLL. The available evidence regarding the other assessed comparisons was not sufficient to deduct final conclusions.
Coexisting lattice structures in a Langmuir-Blodgett film identified by atomic force microscopy (1993)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTCoexisting lattice structures in a Langmuir-Blodgett film identified by atomic force microscopyD. K. Schwartz, R. Viswanathan, and J. A. N. ZasadzinskiCite this: Langmuir 1993, 9, 5, 1384–1391Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1993Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1993https://doi.org/10.1021/la00029a036RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views87Altmetric-Citations32LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (6 MB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts
NONSPECIFIC CELLULAR AND HUMORAL DEFENCE MECHANISMS IN PIKEPERCH (SANDER LUCIOPERCA) GROWN IN AN INTENSIVE SYSTEM OF CULTURE (2003)

Monitoring the condition of fish and protecting them from diseases are two of the most important aspects of prevention in intensive fish culture. Nonspecific cellular and humoral defense mechanisms were studied for the first time in pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) grown in an intensive system of culture using two sizes of fish weighing approximately 50 g and 500 g. The respiratory burst activity and potential killing activity of blood phagocytes and pronephric macrophages were measured in each group. The proliferative response of lymphocytes stimulated by mitogen ConA and LPS was also examined in the two groups of fish. The lysozyme and ceruloplasmine activities in the plasma and the total protein with Ig levels in the serum were also determined. These results will be used in controlling the influence of diets and xenobiotics on nonspecific cellular and humoral defense mechanisms and for infectious disease prevention in pikeperch raised in different systems of culture.
Therapeutic Effects of Probiotics in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis (2006)

Recent studies have suggested that oral bacteriotherapy with probiotics might be useful for preventing and managing childhood atopic dermatitis (AD). The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral treatment with probiotics for adolescent and adult AD patients as well as for childhood AD patients. Sixty-four patients with mild to moderate AD were recruited for treatment with a mixture of four probiotic strains (Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus casei, and Bifidobacterium lactis) twice daily for 8 weeks. The degree of pruritus was determined by a 10-point visual analog scale every other week, and the patients' global assessments of their clinical responses (i.e., better, unchanged, or worse) was done at the end of intervention. The clinical severity of the eczema was evaluated by eczema area and severity index (EASI) score every other week. As laboratory markers, total immunoglobulin E (IgE), eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in the serum, and cytokine production [interieukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-10 (IL-10), and interferon-y (IFN-y)] by the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were measured at the beginning and at the end of intervention. Of the 64 enrolled AD patients, only 50 patients finally completed the 8-week study. After 8-week treatment with probiotics, the EASI score was significantly improved (p 1,000 ku/l) or for the patients with moderate disease severity. There was no significant difference in the therapeutic effects between the childhood AD and adolescent and adult AD patients. There were no significant changes of cytokines, as well as the total IgE and ECP levels, in the patients' serum. Treatment with the mixture of four probiotic strains was generally well tolerated. Our results suggest that the treatment with the mixture of four probiotic strains is beneficial for the management of the adolescent and adult AD patients, as well as for the childhood AD patients.
Four-Element Pseudodynamic Hybrid Simulation of a Steel Frame with Cast Steel Yielding Connectors under Earthquake Excitations (2021)

Cast steel energy dissipative components are increasingly being incorporated in structural systems in recent years. Cast steel yielding connectors (YC) demonstrate a stable symmetric hysteretic response with increased postyield stiffness at large deformations due to second-order geometric effects. In the present study, the seismic performance of a four-story steel structure equipped with cast steel YCs is investigated through pseudodynamic hybrid simulations using the University of Toronto 10-Element Hybrid Simulation Platform (UT10), where the structure is subjected to three maximum considered event (MCE)-level earthquakes. Four YCs in the seismic force–resisting system are represented physically, whereas the rest of the structure is modeled numerically. These experiments are performed as part of an initiative to produce a database of high-fidelity system-level benchmark test results and to critically study and improve existing numerical models, their calibration, and the loading protocols used in their calibrations. The experimental results can be used to study these aspects in the numerical models for YCs or systems with similar hysteretic characteristics. The hybrid simulations are followed by cyclic tests on two of the YCs to evaluate the remaining low-cycle fatigue life of the YCs and to provide information on the cumulative plastic ductility capacity of YCs.
Respiratory Self-navigated Postcontrast Whole-Heart Coronary MR Angiography: Initial Experience in Patients (2013)

The self-navigated coronary MR angiography sequence shows promise for coronary imaging. However, technical improvements are needed to improve image quality, especially in the more distal coronary segments.
Routine full blood counts as indicators of acute viral infections. (1987)

Over a period of three weeks about 9000 full blood counts were analysed on the Technicon H6000 automated haematology machine. From these, 62 patients were identified who had abnormally high numbers of large unstained white cells; these patients were followed up for evidence of viral infection. Seventeen were either lost to follow up or in chronic renal failure; of the remaining 45 patients, 40 had viral infections, 26 of which were due to Epstein-Barr virus. In the presence of a raised number of large unstained white cells, an IgM test for Epstein-Barr virus is recommended, followed by routine serology when necessary.
Recombinant Spider Silk and Collagen-Based Nerve Guidance Conduits Support Neuronal Cell Differentiation and Functionality in Vitro (2019)

Biomaterial scaffolds are under investigation as therapeutic tools to bridge nerve endings following traumatic peripheral nerve injury. The goal is to develop biocompatible nerve guidance conduits (NGCs) with internal guiding structures that promote longitudinally oriented cell migration and regeneration. In the present study, a nonwoven mesh (NWM) made of a recombinant spider silk protein was processed into a tubular structure, ensuring structural integrity of enclosed microfluidics-produced collagen fibers for cell and neurite guidance. The differentiated type of the neuroblastoma X glioma hybrid cell line NG108-15 was used as a model for studying neuronal differentiation on the individual components and on the complete NGC. Differentiated NG108-15 cells grown on recombinant spider silk NWM and collagen fibers formed neuronal networks and synapses. Additionally, whole-cell patch clamp recordings confirmed that all components supported the differentiation of NG108-15 cells into functional neurons. Our NGC demonstrated that tubes made of recombinant spider silk NWM filled with microfluidics-produced collagen fibers are well suited for peripheral nerve repair.
NeMa (2013)

It is increasingly common to find real-life data represented as networks of labeled, heterogeneous entities. To query these networks, one often needs to identify the matches of a given query graph in a (typically large) network modeled as a target graph. Due to noise and the lack of fixed schema in the target graph, the query graph can substantially differ from its matches in the target graph in both structure and node labels, thus bringing challenges to the graph querying tasks. In this paper, we propose NeMa (Network Match), a neighborhood-based subgraph matching technique for querying real-life networks. (1) To measure the quality of the match, we propose a novel subgraph matching cost metric that aggregates the costs of matching individual nodes, and unifies both structure and node label similarities. (2) Based on the metric, we formulate the minimum cost subgraph matching problem. Given a query graph and a target graph, the problem is to identify the (top- k ) matches of the query graph with minimum costs in the target graph. We show that the problem is NP-hard, and also hard to approximate. (3) We propose a heuristic algorithm for solving the problem based on an inference model. In addition, we propose optimization techniques to improve the efficiency of our method. (4) We empirically verify that NeMa is both effective and efficient compared to the keyword search and various state-of-the-art graph querying techniques.
Search for weakly decaying $b$-flavored pentaquarks (2018)

Investigations of the existence of pentaquark states containing a single b (anti)quark decaying weakly into four specific final states J/ψK+π-p, J/ψK-π-p, J/ψK-π+p, and J/ψφ(1020)p are reported. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1 in 7 and 8 TeV pp collisions acquired with the LHCb detector. Signals are not observed and upper limits are set on the product of the production cross section times branching fraction with respect to that of the Λb0.
Single Scattering Albedo Monitor for Airborne Particulates (2015)

ABSTRACTWe describe a robust, compact, field deployable instrument (the CAPS PM<sub>ssa</sub>) that simultaneously measures airborne particle light extinction and scattering coefficients and thus the single scattering albedo (SSA) on the same sample volume. With an appropriate change in mirrors and light source, measurements have been made at wavelengths ranging from 450 to 780 nm. The extinction measurement is based on cavity attenuated phase shift (CAPS) techniques as employed in the CAPS PM<sub>ex</sub> particle extinction monitor; scattering is measured using a integrating nephelometry by incorporating a Lambertian integrating sphere within the sample cell. The scattering measurement is calibrated using the extinction measurement. Measurements using ammonium sulfate particles of various sizes indicate that the response of the scattering channel with respect to measured extinction is linear to within 1% up to 1000 Mm<sup>−1</sup> and can be extended further (4000 Mm<sup>−1</sup>) with additional corrections. The precision in both measurement channels is less than 1 Mm<sup>−1</sup> (1s, 1σ). The truncation effect in the scattering channel, caused by light lost at extreme forward/backward scattering angles, was measured as a function of particle size using monodisperse polystyrene latex particles (n=1.59). The results were successfully fit using a simple geometric model allowing for reasonable extrapolation to a given wavelength, particle index of refraction and particle size distribution, assuming spherical particles. For sub-micron sized particles, the truncation corrections are comparable to those reported for commercial nephelometers. Measurements of the optical properties of ambient aerosol indicate that the values of the SSA of these particles measured with this instrument (0.91±0.03) using scattering and extinction agreed within experimental uncertainty with those determined using extinction measured by this instrument and absorption measured using a Multi-Angle Absorption Spectrometer (0.89±0.03) where the uncertainties are derived from best estimates of the accuracy of the two approaches.
Link anthropization and presence of pollutants on a territory: example of the ponds of the Plateau de Saclay (2019)

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Do Small Code Changes Merge Faster? A Multi-Language Empirical Investigation (2022)

Code velocity, or the speed with which code changes are integrated into a production environment, plays a crucial role in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Many studies report factors influencing code velocity. However, solutions to increase code velocity are unclear. Meanwhile, the industry continues to issue guidelines on "ideal" code change size, believing it increases code velocity despite lacking evidence validating the practice. Surprisingly, this fundamental question has not been studied to date. This study investigates the practicality of improving code velocity by optimizing pull request size and composition (ratio of insertions, deletions, and modifications). We start with a hypothesis that a moderate correlation exists between pull request size and time-to-merge. We selected 100 most popular, actively developed projects from 10 programming languages on GitHub. We analyzed our dataset of 845,316 pull requests by size, composition, and context to explore its relationship to time-to-merge - a proxy to measure code velocity. Our study shows that pull request size and composition do not relate to time-to-merge. Regardless of the contextual factors that can influence pull request size or composition (e.g., programming language), the observation holds. Pull request data from two other platforms: Gerrit and Phabricator (401,790 code reviews) confirms the lack of relationship. This negative result as in "... eliminate useless hypotheses ..." challenges a widespread belief by showing that small code changes do not merge faster to increase code velocity.
Wavelength optimization in femtosecond laser corneal surgery: experimental results (2009)

Femtosecond laser surgery in the volume of corneal tissue is difficult in the case of oedematous or pathological corneas: in those corneas, the propagation of the laser beam is perturbed by the optical scattering. This phenomenon can be greatly reduced by using a better suited laser wavelength. A series of <i>ex vivo</i> surgical experiments has been conducted at wavelengths around 1600 nm. The results have been compared to experiments performed at 800 nm and 1000 nm. We have compared penetration depth and incision quality as a function of wavelength and energy.