gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Learning to Rearrange Deformable Cables, Fabrics, and Bags with Goal-Conditioned Transporter Networks (2021)

Rearranging and manipulating deformable objects such as cables, fabrics, and bags is a long-standing challenge in robotic manipulation. The complex dynamics and high-dimensional configuration spaces of deformables, compared to rigid objects, make manipulation difficult not only for multi-step planning, but even for goal specification. Goals cannot be as easily specified as rigid object poses, and may involve complex relative spatial relations such as "place the item inside the bag". In this work, we develop a suite of simulated benchmarks with 1D, 2D, and 3D deformable structures, including tasks that involve image-based goal-conditioning and multi-step deformable manipulation. We propose embedding goal-conditioning into Transporter Networks, a recently proposed model architecture for learning robotic manipulation that rearranges deep features to infer displacements that can represent pick and place actions. We demonstrate that goal-conditioned Transporter Networks enable agents to manipulate deformable structures into flexibly specified configurations without test-time visual anchors for target locations. We also significantly extend prior results using Transporter Networks for manipulating deformable objects by testing on tasks with 2D and 3D deformables. Supplementary material is available at https://berkeleyautomation.github.io/bags/.
Niccolo Machiavelli (2014)

As he suggests in a justly famous letter written to a friend in 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469–d. 1527) lived most fully when he communed in thought with the great ancient writers on the greatest deeds of Antiquity—and in succeeding centuries he continued to live on in the thoughts and through the writings of such great thinkers as Spinoza and Tocqueville; Marlowe and Shakespeare, Fichte and Nietzsche, not to mention indirectly in the deeds of Cromwell, Robespierre, Mazzini, and Lenin. Machiavelli comes to us wrapped in this diverse and contested tradition but also and more immediately in the garb of contemporary scholarship, where diversity and contestation abound, as well. One thing all scholarly parties can agree on is that the Florentine was vastly important—be it as a preeminent expression of the cyclonic intellectual activity of a time we now call the Renaissance, as the restorer of classical republican ideals, the founder of the modern world, the apostle of power politics, or the father of modern revolutionary thought. Born at a time of relative stability for Italy due in no small part to the successful machinations of Florence’s Medici rulers, Machiavelli’s young adulthood saw the stability vanish with the invasion of Italy by the French and the expulsion from Florence of the Medici. By 1498 he found himself serving the republican government of Florence that, in 1512, was itself brought down, leading to Machiavelli’s political banishment and to the writing of the works that would cause him to be counted among the greatest figures of the Renaissance and of the intellectual history of the Western world.
Shiga Toxin–ProducingEscherichia coliin Montana: Bacterial Genotypes and Clinical Profiles (2003)

The diseases and virulence genes associated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are characterized incompletely. We analyzed, by polymerase chain reaction, 82 STEC isolates collected prospectively in Montana and profiled associated illnesses by patient chart review. All E. coli O157:H7 contained stx2-group genes, as well as eae, iha, espA, and ehxA; 84% contained stx1. Non-O157:H7 STEC less frequently contained stx1 (P=.046), stx2 (P<.001), iha (P<.001), eae, and espA (P=.039 for both), were isolated less often from patients treated in emergency departments (P=.022), and tended to be associated less frequently with bloody diarrhea (P=.061). There were no significant associations between stx genotype and bloody diarrhea, but isolates containing stx2c or stx(2d-activatable) were recovered more often from patients who underwent diagnostic or therapeutic procedures (P=.033). Non-O157:H7 STEC are more heterogeneous and cause bloody diarrhea less frequently than do E. coli O157:H7. Bloody diarrhea cannot be attributed simply to the stx genotype of the infecting organism.
Non-blocking synchronization and system design (1999)

Non-blocking synchronization (NBS) has significant advantages over blocking synchronization: The same code can ran on uniprocessors, asynchronous handlers, and on shared memory multiprocessors. NBS is deadlock-free, aids fault-tolerance, eliminates interference between synchronization and the scheduler, and can increase total system throughput. 
These advantages are becoming even more important with the increased use of parallelism and multiprocessors, and as the cost of a delay increases relative to processor speed. 
This thesis demonstrates that non-blocking synchronization is practical as the sole co-ordination mechanism in systems by showing that careful design and implementation of operating system software makes implementing efficient non-blocking synchronization far easier, by demonstrating that DCASpDouble-Compare-and-Swapp is the necessary and sufficient primitive for implementing NBS, and by demonstrating that efficient hardware DCAS is practical for RISC processors. 
This thesis presents non-blocking implementations of common data-structures sufficient to implement an operating system kernel. These out-perform all non-blocking implementations of the same data-structures and are comparable to spin-locks under no contention. They exploit properties of well- designed systems and depend on DCAS . 
I present an O(n) non-blocking implementation of CASn with extensions that support multi-objects, a contention-reduction technique based on DCAS that is fault-tolerant and OS-independent yet performs as well as the best previously published techniques, and two implementations of dynamic, software transactional memory (STM) that support multi-object updates, and have O(w) overhead cost (for w writes in an update) in the absence of preemption. 
Finally, I demonstrate that the proposed OS implementation of DCAS is inefficient, and present a design of an efficient, hardware, DCAS implementation that is specific to the R4000 processor; however, the observations that make implementation practical are generally applicable. In short, the incremental costs of adding binary atomic synchronization primitives are very low, given that designers have already implemented unary atomic synchronization primitives.
Frottement lubrifié de la zircone (1987)

Frottement, usure et lubrification des ceramiques et en particulier de la zircone. Role d'un lubrifiant a base ester et a base silicone
The Relationship of Psychiatric Variables in Patients Undergoing Peripheral Nerve Surgery for Migraine Headache (2020)

BACKGROUND: Patients seeking peripheral nerve surgery for their headaches often have debilitating symptoms that can affect both their functional and psychological well-being. Although prior studies have shown strong associations between psychiatric variables and migraine headaches, their associations in patients undergoing peripheral nerve surgery have not been fully elucidated. This study aims to explore the relationship of psychiatric comorbidities in patients undergoing peripheral nerve surgery for their headaches. METHODS: One hundred twenty-nine patients were enrolled prospectively and completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) and Migraine Headache Index (MHI) surveys preoperatively and at 12 months postoperatively. Data on psychiatric comorbidities were collected both via survey and via retrospective chart review. RESULTS: Preoperatively, 38% of patients self-reported a diagnosis of depression, whereas 45% of patients met PHQ2 criteria for likely major depressive disorder (PHQ-2 score of 3 or greater). Twenty-seven percent of patients reported a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder. Patients with depressive symptoms and self-reported anxiety were more likely to report a higher severity of migraine symptoms. At 1-year postoperatively, patients reported a significant decrease in their PHQ-2 score (P = 0.02), with 22% of patients reporting depressive symptoms, as compared to 45% preoperatively. The preoperative presence of anxiety or depression did not affect postoperative outcomes. CONCLUSION: There is a high prevalence of psychiatric ailment in patients undergoing migraine surgery. Comorbid psychiatric conditions do not appear to affect postsurgical outcomes. However, surgery is associated with a significant decrease in depressive symptoms. Prior studies have shown that the surgical treatment of migraine headaches is associated with improved headache symptoms and functionality. This study demonstrates that surgery is also associated with improved psychiatric symptoms.
KLF10 is a modulatory factor of chondrocyte hypertrophy in developing skeleton (2020)

To define the functional role of Krüppel-like factor (KLF) 10 as a modulator of chondrocyte hypertrophy in developing skeleton, the developmental features in the long bone of KLF10 knockout (KO) mice were investigated and the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from KLF10 KO mice were characterized regarding chondrogenesis and osteogenesis. Delayed long bone growth and delayed formation of primary ossification center were observed in an early embryonic stage in KLF10 KO mouse along with very low Indian hedgehog expression in epiphyseal plate. While the chondrogenic potential of mouse MSCs from KLF10 KO mice appeared normal or slight decreased, hypertrophy and osteogenesis were extensively suppressed. These findings suggest that KLF10 is a mediator of chondrocyte hypertrophy in developing skeleton, and that suppression of KLF10 may be employed as a new strategy for preventing hypertrophy in cartilage regeneration using MSCs.
A 17.8 dBm 110&#x2013;130 GHz Power Amplifier and doubler chain in SiGe BiCMOS technology (2015)

A D-Band ×2 frequency multiplier-amplifier chain implemented in a f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">T</sub> /f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">MAX</sub> = 250/330 GHz 0.12 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology is presented. The chain achieves a peak output power of 17.8 dBm at 115 GHz and consists of input balun and push-push frequency doubler which drives a balanced three stages Power Amplifier (PA). It operates from 110 GHz to 130 GHz (3 dB power bandwidth) with -2 dBm input power at V-Band and consumes a total DC power of 600 mW. The PA achieves output 1 dB compression point and saturated power of 13.5 and 17.6 dBm, respectively, at 120 GHz and peak small signal gain of 32 dB.
Effect of Carbide Precipitation on Mechanical Properties of Si-added Middle Carbon Martensitic Steels (2019)

Mechanical properties of Si-added middle carbon martensitic steels are strongly affected by the tempering temperature and carbides precipitation. In this work, relationships between Si contents, mechanical properties and carbides precipitation are investigated using Fe-0.55C-(0.3-2.0)Si-0.7Mn-0.7Cr steels. Carbides precipitates and microstructures are evaluated by Differential Scanning Carolimetry and Scanning Electron Microscope observation, respectively. As a result, every steel with various Si content showed temper brittleness, and temperatures of embrittlement are increased with Si content increment. DSC data indicated that condition of carbides precipitate changed at the temperature of embrittlement and the temperature of recovery from embrittlement. It is observed that carbides precipitate and grow with the shape of platelet inside the martensite blocks at the temperature of embrittlement. And it is also observed that granular carbides precipitate at the grain boundaries of the martensite blocks at the temperature of recovery from embrittlement. Based on these results, the mechanism of temper brittleness is estimated as follows; platelet carbide precipitated inside martensite blocks interacts with dislocation movement and inhibits plastic deformation, so that steel easily fractures from grain boundaries and indicates low charpy impact value.
Very Low Bit Error Rate in Flash Memory using Tunnel Dielectrics formed by Kr/O2/NO Plasma Oxynitridation (2006)

The gate leakage current which influences the charge hold time of flash memories is characterized as very localized in tunnel oxide area. And the leakage current value is relatively low as the quantity of the current. In conventional test-element-group (TEG) for evaluation of this leakage current, the gate leakage current is measured in relatively large area capacitors or transistors, as a result, the localized and low gate leakage current cannot be measured. In this paper, we propose the new concept TEG in which the localized gate leakage current corresponding to the bit error in the flash memory can be measured in short time. We statistically evaluated the stress induced leakage current (SILC) of all cells in very low gate leakage current region (about 10-16 A) in the very short time (a few seconds) and easily confirmed and categorized the localized cells with the large SILC after the stress. In addition, we show that plasma oxynitridation using Kr/O2/NO gases is effective in suppressing the anomalous SILC and carrier traps by statistically evaluation of 60,000 cells in proposed array TEG.
ChemInform Abstract: Modular Peptide‐Based Phosphine Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis: Efficient and Enantioselective Cu‐Catalyzed Conjugate Additions to Five‐, Six‐, and Seven‐Membered Cyclic Enones. (2001)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
First‐Principles Calculations and Optical Absorption Spectrum of a Light‐Colored Aluminum‐Substituted ε‐Iron Oxide Magnet (2017)

Abstract Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Shin‐ichi Ohkoshi at The University of Tokyo, Japan. The cover image shows the crystal structure, density of states, UV/Vis spectrum, and a picture of Al‐substituted ε‐iron oxide.
Nonlinear Identification of a Minimal Neuromuscular Blockade Model in Anesthesia (2011)

This brief presents new modeling and identification strategies to address many difficulties in the identification of anesthesia dynamics. The most commonly used models for the effect of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia comprise a high number (greater than eight) of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters. The main issue concerning the neuromuscular blockade system identification is that, in the clinical practice, the input signals (drug dose profiles to be administered to the patients) vary too little to provide a sufficient excitation of the system. The limited amount of measurement data also indicates a need for new identification strategies. A new single-input single-output Wiener model with two parameters is hence proposed to model the effect of atracurium. An extended Kalman filter approach is used to perform the online identification of the system parameters. This approach outperforms many conventional identification strategies, and shows good results regarding parameter identification and measured signal tracking, when evaluated on a large patient database. The new method proved to be adequate for the description of the system, even with the poor input signal excitation and the few measured data samples present in this application. It turns out that the method is of general validity for the identification of drug dynamics in the human body.
Interleukin-18 treatment options for inflammatory diseases (2005)

Several autoimmune diseases are believed to be mediated, in part, by interleukin (IL)-18. Many are those with associated elevated interferon-gamma levels, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, macrophage activation syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, as well as graft-versus-host disease. Clinical and animal studies also support the concept that IL-18 is a key player in atherosclerosis, acute renal ischemia and hepatitis. IL-18 is a member of the IL-1 family; IL-1beta and IL-18 are closely related, and both require the intracellular cysteine protease caspase-1 for biologic activity. The IL-18 binding protein, a naturally occurring, specific inhibitor of IL-18, neutralizes IL-18 activities and is likely to be safe in patients. Other options for reducing IL-18 activities are inhibitors of capsase-1, human monoclonal antibodies to IL-18, soluble IL-18 receptors and anti-IL-18 receptor monoclonal antibodies.
Detection of BCR-ABL kinase mutations in CD34+ cells from chronic myelogenous leukemia patients in complete cytogenetic remission on imatinib mesylate treatment (2004)

The BCR-ABL kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate induces complete cytogenetic response (CCR) in a high proportion of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients. However, patients in CCR usually demonstrate evidence of residual BCR-ABL-positive progenitors. The mechanisms underlying persistence of small numbers of malignant progenitors in imatinib-sensitive patients are unclear. BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations affecting drug binding can lead to secondary resistance to imatinib. We show here that kinase mutations could be detected in CD34+ cells isolated from CML patients in CCR on imatinib. Most mutations seen have not been reported in previous clinical studies. Interestingly, several of the involved amino acid positions have been implicated in an in vitro mutagenesis screen. These BCR-ABL mutations were associated with varying levels of imatinib resistance. Two of 5 patients in whom mutations were detected on initial evaluation have relapsed. In addition, 4 patients in whom mutations were not initially detected, but with rising BCR-ABL mRNA levels on quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) analysis, had mutations detected on follow-up evaluation. We conclude that BCR-ABL kinase mutations can be detected in CD34+ cells from CML patients in CCR on imatinib, may contribute to persistence of small populations of malignant progenitors, and could be a potential source of relapse.
Treatment of Food Industry Foods and Wastes by Membrane Filtration (2010)

Membrane separation processes are based on the ability of semipermeable membranes of the appropriate physical and chemical nature to discriminate between molecules primarily on the basis of size and to a certain extent, on shape and chemical composition. A membrane’s role is to act as a selective barrier, enriching certain components in a feed-stream, and depleting the others. One of the chief attractions of membrane technology is the low energy requirement compared to other food processing technologies. Since membrane processes are nonthermal and do not involve a change of phases, they are energy-efficient and do not change the nature of the foods during their process operation. This chapter presents the membrane process theory and case histories of various production applications in the food industry. Operational problems and recommended engineering solutions for membrane process optimization are presented and discussed.
Sphincter urinaire électronique dynamique (2007)

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xNi–yCu–ZrO2 catalysts for the hydrogenation of levulinic acid to gamma valorlactone (2018)

We have investigated xNi–yCu–ZrO2 catalysts for the selective synthesis of γ-valerolactone from levulinic acid (LA). A series of xNi–yCu–ZrO2 catalysts with a consistent metal loading of 50% but varying Ni and Cu composition were prepared by an oxalate gel precipitation method and tested for LA hydrogenation. Ni-rich catalysts showed higher catalytic activity compared with Cu-rich formulations with a 45Ni–5Cu–ZrO2 composition yielding 76% γ-valerolactone after a reaction time of 30 min at 200 °C. Characterisation of the materials by XRD, surface area measurements and TPR allow us to attribute the differences in performance seen for different compositions to particle size and nanoparticle dispersion effects. DFT calculations also showed that a shift of d-band centre to higher energies with the mole fraction of Ni in Cu–Ni alloys would be expected to lead to improved hydrogen dissociation in Ni-rich catalysts and so aid hydrogenation activity.
Twenty-four week decline in forced vital capacity predicts mortality at week 52 in the INPULSIS® trials (2016)

<b>Background:</b> In a pooled analysis of data from the Phase III INPULSIS<sup>®</sup> trials, a significantly lower proportion of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treated with nintedanib vs placebo (PBO) had disease progression defined as absolute decline in FVC of ≥5% or ≥10% predicted at week 52. <b>Aim:</b> To explore the impact of change in FVC over 24 weeks on subsequent FVC decline and mortality. <b>Methods:</b><i>Post-hoc</i> descriptive analysis of proportions of patients with absolute FVC declines of &lt;5%, ≥5%,or ≥10% predicted from baseline to week 24 and changes in FVC % predicted and mortality between weeks 24 and 52 in these groups conducted using pooled data from both INPULSIS<sup>®</sup> trials. <b>Results:</b> 1061 patients (nintedanib 638, PBO 423) were included. FVC decline of ≥5% or ≥10% predicted from baseline to week 24 did not predict FVC decline of ≥5% or ≥10% predicted, respectively, from week 24 to 52. The proportion of patients who died between weeks 24 and 52 increased with increasing FVC decline from baseline to week 24. Among patients with FVC declines of ≥5% or ≥10% predicted from baseline to week 24, more patients treated with nintedanib vs PBO had no further decline or an increase in FVC between weeks 24 and 52. <b>Conclusion:</b> FVC declines of ≥5% or ≥10% predicted in the first 24 weeks of the INPULSIS<sup>®</sup> trials did not predict FVC decline but were associated with higher mortality in the following 24 weeks.
Flexible pH sensors based on polysilicon thin film transistors and ZnO nanowalls (2014)

A fully flexible pH sensor using nanoporous ZnO on extended gate thin film transistor (EGTFT) fabricated on polymeric substrate is demonstrated. The sensor adopts the Low Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon (LTPS) TFT technology for the active device, since it allows excellent electrical characteristics and good stability and opens the way towards the possibility of exploiting CMOS architectures in the future. The nanoporous ZnO sensitive film, consisting of very thin (20 nm) crystalline ZnO walls with a large surface-to-volume ratio, was chemically deposited at 90 °C, allowing simple process integration with conventional TFT micro-fabrication processes compatible with wide range of polymeric substrates. The pH sensor showed a near-ideal Nernstian response (∼59 mV/pH), indicating an ideality factor α ∼ 1 according to the conventional site binding model. The present results can pave the way to advanced flexible sensing systems, where sensors and local signal conditioning circuits will be integrated on the same flexible substrate.
Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Longitudinal Analysis of the German Hodgkin Study Group (2020)

Our results show a high and persistent amount of different HRQoL deficits in survivors of HL that are largely independent of the applied chemotherapies. Our analysis underscores the high, unmet medical need of these rather young survivors of HL regarding the psychosocial adverse effects of the cancer experience.
Dendrimers at Work (2006)

Highly branched dendrimer molecules are being used increasingly for such biomedical applications as molecular imaging and drug delivery.