gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
CyberBand: A "Hands-On" Music Composition Program (1997)

CyberBand provides a novel and powerful approach to composing music with computers. It is based on the concept that many kinds of music can be constructed by assembling, modifying, and transforming musical fragments through direct visual manipulation. We describe our approach to music representation, the user interface, and choice of user metaphors, while emphasizing the elements that enable non musicians to creatively compose music. We outline issues that influence our ongoing work in determining both usability and look and feel. A working prototype of CyberBand will be demonstrated.
Clinical outcomes and radiological instability following decompressive lumbar laminectomy for degenerative spinal stenosis: a comparison of patients undergoing concomitant arthrodesis versus decompression alone (1996)

One hundred twenty-four patients with degenerative lumbar stenosis underwent decompression with fusion (32 patients) and without fusion (92 patients) during a 30-month period between 1986 and 1988. Patient-reported satisfaction at a mean follow-up period of 5.8 years (range 4.6-6.8 years) revealed a 79% good or fair outcome and a 21% poor outcome (26 patients). Seven patients (6%) developed lumbar instability, three patients (2%) developed new stenosis at an adjacent unoperated level, and three patients (2%) developed a new disc herniation between 2 and 5 years after surgery. Progressive postoperative spondylolisthesis occurred in 31% of patients with normal preoperative alignment (mean 7.8 mm, range 2-20 mm) and in 73% of patients with preoperative subluxation (mean 5.1 mm, range 2-13 mm) in whom fusion was not attained. Radiological progression did not correlate well with patient-reported outcome. The major conclusions from this study are the following: 1) the majority of patients respond well to this surgery, but complication (22%) and late deterioration (10%) rates are not insignificant; 2) radiological instability is common after decompression for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis, but this correlates poorly with clinical outcome; 3) there are no definitive clinical or radiological factors that preoperatively predict patients at risk for a poor outcome; 4) post-operative radiological instability is more likely to occur when the following criteria are present: preoperative spondy-degenerated L-4 or a markedly degenerated L-3 disc; and when a radical and extensive decompression greater than one level is planned; and 5) the group at greatest risk for a poor outcome consists of those patients with normal preoperative alignment who do not suffer slippage following surgery.
Supplementary Material 2 from Androgen Glucuronidation: An Unexpected Target for Androgen Deprivation Therapy, with Prognosis and Diagnostic Implications (2023)

&lt;p&gt;PDF file - 10741K, Supplementary material 2: Representative examples of immunoexpression obtained after incubation of prostate tissue microarrays with the anti-UGT2B15, anti-UGT2B17 or anti-vimentin antibodies.&lt;/p&gt;
Thermal distribution in amorphous InSnZnO thin‐film transistor (2013)

Abstract We have investigated thermal distribution of an amorphous InSnZnO thin‐film transistor (TFT) under voltage stress by using thermal imaging system. To clarify an influence of only self‐heating phenomenon on reliability, we have focused on a channel scale dependence of heating. As the result, heating effect were strongly depended on channel scale and showed two types of dependences on channel length and width. When positive bias stress was applied to TFT, severe threshold voltage shift and high heating temperature were observed for wider TFT. Moreover, reliability under voltage stress was seems to be affected by accumulation of heating in wider TFT. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &amp; Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Pore Sealing of Porous Ultralow-k Dielectrics by Self-Assembled Monolayers Combined with Atomic Layer Deposition (2012)

Due to its excellent step coverage characteristics, atomic layer depositions (ALD) deposit their material not only on top of underlying surfaces but also into the pores of porous low-k films. In this study, the film characteristics caused by pre-treatments of the low-k material, followed by deposition of self assembled monolayers (SAMs) from an 11-cyanoundecyltrichlorosilane precursor and finally by an HfO2 Atomic Layer Deposition were determined. By adequate optimization of the surface treatment, the SAM deposition and the ALD it was possible to obtain complete pore sealing after ALD, without penetration of the Hf into de porous low-k film.
The Promise of Softcopy Photogrammetry Revisited (2004)

Digital large format aerial cameras can produce as many images as a user pleases, and yet the costs of the imagery do not increase, in fact they decrease. This is a vast difference from traditional film-based photogrammetry where minimizing the number of film images was a basic tenet of the discipline, since a project’s costs were directly proportional to the number of images needed to complete it. Minimizing costs no longer is defined by minimizing the number of images, but by minimizing the use of human labor hours. The entire economy of aerial imaging is changing with the transition to digital cameras and the full digital workflow. This will change the market’s behavior, both on the side of the end-users of photogrammetrically collected data as well as on the side of photogrammetric organizations. More images will be created per project, mapping repeat cycles will shorten, costs per project will decrease, new data products will emerge and the competitive cost structure in photogrammetric organizations will come under intense pressure. 1.
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (2004)

Journal Article
System Calibration for FastSPECT III: An Ultra-High Resolution CCD-Based Pinhole SPECT System (2017)

FastSPECT III is a recently developed ultra-high-resolution small-animal SPECT imaging system. With 20 CCDbased intensified quantum-imaging cameras (iQID) and 250micron diameter platinum pinhole apertures, this stationary SPECT system offers ~350 microns isotropic linear resolution. This paper presents a novel system calibration method for FastSPECT III and other high-resolution stationary pinholeSPECT systems. The performance of the new system calibration method was evaluated using multi-bed-position MLEM reconstruction and helically-scanned objects. Originally designed for high-resolution rodent brain imaging to study neurological pathologies, FastSPECT III now offers whole-body mouse imaging capabilities with ultra-high spatial resolution.
Load-pull assisted cad design of inverted Doherty Amplifier without quarter-wave transformer (2012)

This paper presents novel design and architecture for inverted Doherty Amplifier. The key point is the removal of the 50 Ω quarter-wave transformer from peaking path used for impedance inversion in a load modulation circuit of a typical inverted Doherty Amplifier. A coupled line is used as all-pass section providing the desired phase offset to achieve high efficiency performance at back-off. This coupled line thus designed as an all-pass filter section with shaped phase characteristic and a 50 Ω image impedance that can be used directly to optimize the inverted Doherty performance. A prototype has been designed to operate at 2350 MHz for Long term evolution (LTE) application. An improvement of more than 25% in the drain efficiency as compared to the Class-B balanced amplifier at approximately 6-dB back-off is reported with this design.
Frame-level AnyBoost for LVCSR with the MMI Criterion (2011)

This paper propose a variant of AnyBoost for a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) task. AnyBoost is an efficient algorithm to train an ensemble of weak learners by gradient descent for an objective function.We present a novel training procedure that trains acoustic models via the MMI criterion using data that is weighted proportional to the summation of the posterior functions of previous round of weak learners. Optimized for system combination by n-best ROVER at runtime, data weights for a new weak learner are computed as a weighted summation of posteriors of previous weak learners. We compare a frame-based version and a sentence-based version of our proposed algorithm with a frame-based AdaBoost algorithm. We will present results on a voice search task trained with different amounts of data with gains of 5.1% to 7.5% relative in WER can be obtained by three rounds of boosting.
Tunnel Magnetoresistance Enhancement for Pt-Added Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (2002)

We study tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effects in (CoFe)100-x–Ptx/Al–O/(CoFe)100-x–Ptx (x=0, 7, 21, 32) magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) as a function of Pt content. Enhancement of TMR is observed for Pt-added MTJs (x=7, 21) at 5 K and for Pt-added MTJs (x=7) at 300 K in comparison to the reference MTJs (x=0). Very large TMRs of 81% at 5 K and 58% at 300 K are obtained in Pt-added MTJs. Effective barrier height, derived from current-voltage curves fitted to Simmons' model, increases with the Pt content, which can in turn contribute to the increase of TMR values in Pt-added MTJs. Moreover, decay of TMR at elevated annealing temperatures up to 370°C is suppressed by increasing Pt content in magnetic electrodes.
Effects of Bioconjugation on the Structures and Electronic Spectra of CdSe: Density Functional Theory Study of CdSe−Adenine Complexes (2009)

We present density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) study of the structures and electronic spectra of small CdSe nanocluster-adenine complexes Cd(n)Se(n)-adenine (n = 3, 6, 10, 13). We examine the changes in the geometries and excitation spectra of the nanoclusters induced by DNA base-binding. By comparing the results calculated for the bare (Cd(n)Se(n)), hydrogen-passivated (Cd(n)Se(n)H(2n)), as well as the corresponding adenine (Ade)-bound clusters (Cd(n)Se(n)-Ade, Cd(n)Se(n)H(2n)-Ade, Cd(n)Se(n)H(2n-2)-Ade), we find that binding with Ade slightly blue-shifts (up to 0.18 eV) the electronic excitations of bare nanoclusters but strongly red-shifts (<1.2 eV) those of hydrogen-passivated nanoclusters. Natural bond orbital analysis shows that the LUMO of Cd(n)Se(n)H(2n)-Ade is a pi* orbital located on the purine ring.
Numerical investigation of a self-induced transparency soliton in a nonlinear photonic bandgap structure doped uniformly with two-level atoms (2003)

We numerically study the characteristics of a nonlinear pulse that propagates through a one-dimensional photonic bandgap (PBG) structure uniformly doped with two-level atoms. The numerical model adopted is the coupled system of nonlinear coupled-mode equations and atomic Bloch equations. The simulation results show that a self-induced transparency (SIT) soliton and a gap soliton can coexist in a nonlinear PBG structure uniformly doped with resonant atoms. Although this mixed state, known as a SIT-gap soliton, near the PBG edge has been theoretically predicted, we numerically show that such a solitary wave still exists even if its central frequency is located deep inside the PBG. The propagating characteristics of the SIT-gap soliton are also discussed.
3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications (2012)

We present a method for automatically creating compact and accurate 3D city models needed for enhanced Augmented Reality applications. The input data are panorama images and LIDAR scans collected at street level and positioned using an IMU and a GPS. Our method corrects for the GPS error and the IMU drift to produce a globally consistent and well registered dataset for the whole city. We use structure from motion and skyline detection to complement the limited range of LIDAR data. Additionally, we propose a novel reconstruction technique that exploits architectural properties of urban environments to create an accurate 3D city model from incomplete data. Our method is able to process an entire city, or several terabytes of data, in a matter of days. We show that our reconstruction achieves higher accuracy than a commercial solution.
Polyhedral Visual Hulls for Real-Time Rendering (2001)

We present new algorithms for creating and rendering visual hulls in real-time. Unlike voxel or sampled approaches, we compute an exact polyhedral representation for the visual hull directly from the silhouettes. This representation has a number of advantages: 1) it is a view-independent representation, 2) it is well-suited to rendering with graphics hardware, and 3) it can be computed very quickly. We render these visual hulls with a view-dependent texturing strategy, which takes into account visibility information that is computed during the creation of the visual hull. We demonstrate these algorithms in a system that asynchronously renders dynamically created visual hulls in real-time. Our system outperforms similar systems of comparable computational power.
Substratification of patients with newly diagnosed standard‐risk multiple myeloma (2019)

Despite the absence of high-risk cytogenetics and lower International Staging System (ISS) stages, a subset of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) experience poor overall survival (OS). We studied 1461 patients with newly diagnosed MM to identify patient and disease characteristics that predict a high-risk phenotype among standard-risk patients. Fifty-six percent of all patients presented with standard-risk disease. Among them, advanced age, extremes of body mass index, non-hyperdiploid karyotype and abnormal lymphocyte counts were associated with worse OS. Standard-risk patients with 0-1 of these adverse factors (hazard ratio [HR] 0·32, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0·24-0·43, P < 0·001) and 2 adverse factors (HR 0·54, 95% CI 0·41-0·72, P < 0·001) experienced better OS than high-risk patients. Two or more adverse factors were present in 17% of standard-risk patients and were associated with OS comparable to high-risk patients (HR 0·91, 95% CI 0·67-1·24, P = 0·548). Predictive power among standard-risk patients was improved using score groups compared to ISS stages. Patients with standard-risk MM are a heterogeneous group with one in six patients experiencing OS comparable to high-risk disease. Patients at risk can be identified using readily available patient and disease characteristics. These findings emphasize the importance of accurate risk stratification and help explain part of the heterogeneity observed in clinical practice.
Non-Contact Monitoring of Temporal Volume Changes of a Hematoma in the Head by a Single Inductive Coil: A Numerical Study (2019)

This study provides a new, low-cost alternative to the conventional medical imaging for monitoring the hematoma increase.
Engineering butanol‐tolerance in escherichia coli with artificial transcription factor libraries (2010)

Escherichia coli has been explored as a host for butanol production because of its many advantages such as a fast growth and easy genetic manipulation. Butanol toxicity, however, is a major concern in the biobutanol production with E. coli. In particular, E. coli growth is severely inhibited by butanol, being almost completely stopped by 1% (vol/vol) butanol. Here we developed a new method to increase the butanol-tolerance of E. coli with artificial transcription factor (ATF) libraries which consist of zinc finger (ZF) DNA-binding proteins and an E. coli cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP). Using these ATFs, we selected a butanol-tolerant E. coli which can tolerate up to 1.5% (vol/vol) butanol, with a concomitant increase in heat resistance. We also identified genes of E. coli that are associated with the butanol-tolerance. These results show that E. coli can be engineered as a promising host for high-yield butanol production.
Supplementary Information from Interplay Between V-ATPase G1 and Small EV-miRNAs Modulates ERK1/2 Activation in GBM Stem Cells and Nonneoplastic Milieu (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Figure S1. Selection of optimal sEV concentration and Concanamycin A dose. Figure S2. Small EVs characterization. Figure S3. Functional effects of NS-derived small EVs. Figure S4. Bafilomycin A1 treatment in NS does not interfere with their ability to secrete small EVs. Figure S5. sEV-mediated modulation of cancer pathway in recipient cells. Figure S6. miRNA content in NS small EV.&lt;/p&gt;
Message Passing Stein Variational Gradient Descent (2017)

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a recently proposed particle-based Bayesian inference method, which has attracted a lot of interest due to its remarkable approximation ability and particle efficiency compared to traditional variational inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. However, we observed that particles of SVGD tend to collapse to modes of the target distribution, and this particle degeneracy phenomenon becomes more severe with higher dimensions. Our theoretical analysis finds out that there exists a negative correlation between the dimensionality and the repulsive force of SVGD which should be blamed for this phenomenon. We propose Message Passing SVGD (MP-SVGD) to solve this problem. By leveraging the conditional independence structure of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs), MP-SVGD converts the original high-dimensional global inference problem into a set of local ones over the Markov blanket with lower dimensions. Experimental results show its advantages of preventing vanishing repulsive force in high-dimensional space over SVGD, and its particle efficiency and approximation flexibility over other inference methods on graphical models.
Physical aging and the creep behavior of acrylic bone cements (2009)

The creep deformation of two acrylic bone cements, Palacos R+G and SmartSet GHV, was investigated for different physical aging times ranging from 45 min to 2 (1/2) years. The experiments were carried out in a three-point-bending set-up in 37 degrees C Ringer's solution applying 10 MPa or 25 MPa creep loads. Both bone cements exhibit a significant decrease of their creep compliance with increasing physical aging time. The experimental data were analyzed with a creep law discussed in the context of physical aging by Struik, and a modified Burgers' model which can be used to separate the strain response of the bone cements into an elastic, a visco-elastic and a creep component. The creep behavior of the bone cements could be described essentially with only one parameter of Struik's creep law. The analysis with the modified Burgers' model showed that physical aging influences all model parameters which are directly related to the mobility of the polymer chains. The effect of physical aging should be taken into account particularly if the mechanical performance of bone cements shortly after curing is investigated.
Role of non-linear data processing on speech recognition task in the framework of reservoir computing (2020)

The reservoir computing neural network architecture is widely used to test hardware systems for neuromorphic computing. One of the preferred tasks for bench-marking such devices is automatic speech recognition. This task requires acoustic transformations from sound waveforms with varying amplitudes to frequency domain maps that can be seen as feature extraction techniques. Depending on the conversion method, these transformations sometimes obscure the contribution of the neuromorphic hardware to the overall speech recognition performance. Here, we quantify and separate the contributions of the acoustic transformations and the neuromorphic hardware to the speech recognition success rate. We show that the non-linearity in the acoustic transformation plays a critical role in feature extraction. We compute the gain in word success rate provided by a reservoir computing device compared to the acoustic transformation only, and show that it is an appropriate bench-mark for comparing different hardware. Finally, we experimentally and numerically quantify the impact of the different acoustic transformations for neuromorphic hardware based on magnetic nano-oscillators.
Downlink Transmission of Broadband OFCDM Systems—Part II: Effect of Doppler Shift (2006)

The orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing (OFCDM) system with 2-D spreading (time- and frequency-domain spreading) is becoming a promising candidate for future broadband wireless communication systems. OFCDM is more attractive than orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) both by introducing frequency-domain spreading for frequency diversity provision and time-domain spreading for flexible data rate provision. To provide high-speed mobile services, multicode transmission is employed in conjunction with OFCDM. In a Gaussian or flat-fading channel, multicode channels are orthogonal. However, in a realistic wireless channel, the orthogonality no longer maintains. Thus, multicode interference (MCI) is caused. This paper focuses on the investigation of the effect of Doppler shift on the downlink transmission of high-speed mobile OFCDM systems. A practical channel estimation algorithm based on a code-multiplexed pilot channel is employed to track the variations of fading channels. Hybrid MCI cancellation and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) detection proposed by the authors is employed as an efficient way to eliminate the MCI in the frequency domain. The system performance is analytically studied with imperfect channel estimation to show how it is affected by parameters such as the window size in the channel estimation, Doppler shift, the number of stages of the hybrid detection, the power ratio of pilot to data channels, spreading factor, and so on
51‐2: High Efficiency and Long Lifetime InP‐based Red Quantum Dot Light‐Emitting Diodes (2020)

We report high efficiency and long lifetime indium phosphide‐based inverted red quantum dot light‐emitting diode (QLED). Our optimized QLED with sol‐gel processed electron transport layer (ZnMgO) and new organic hole transport layers with deep HOMO and high mobility exhibited a maximum external quantum efficiency of ~18% and operational lifetime (T 50 ) of 650 hours at the initial brightness of 1000 cd/m 2 .
T Cell Antigen Discovery using Signaling and Antigen-presenting Bifunctional Receptors (SABRs) (2018)

Abstract Checkpoint inhibitors, cancer vaccines, and adoptive cell therapy exploit T cell mediated immune responses to cancers. Discovering the exact antigens targeted by T cell responses is important for their efficacy. Antigen discovery for ‘orphan’ T cells or TCRs has been a challenging prospect due to high number of possible pMHC specificities. Several current approaches to decipher antigen specificities require prior knowledge of antigen sequences, are unable to scale up, or require production of soluble TCRs. To overcome these drawbacks, we have developed chimeric receptors called Signaling and Antigen-presenting Bifunctional Receptors (SABRs) that allow identification of antigen-presenting cells. SABRs present display pMHC on their extracellular domain, which is recognized by an orphan TCR. Upon recognition, SABRs initiate signaling in the presenting cell using a CD3zeta signaling domain. We transduced reporter cells with SABRs presenting HLA-A2-restricted epitopes from MelanA and NY-ESO-1, and co-incubated them with target cells expressing their cognate TCRs, which resulted in signal transduction only upon correct pMHC-TCR pairing, allowing the presenting cells to express GFP. Second, we showed that SABRs displaying independently expressed peptide and MHC could function similarly. These receptors could present pulsed peptides or endogenously expressed proteins, allowing the uncoupling of peptide and MHC, while retaining their signaling capability. We are currently testing the use of SABR-based antigen libraries to identify novel antigenic specificities targeted by T cells in cancers, infectious diseases, and autoimmune diseases.