gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Identity Management in IoT Networks Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts (2018)

Internet of Things (IoT) devices proliferation is on the rise, where the number of connected devices has surpassed 7 billion devices in 2017, whereas insights foresee a number of 20-50 billion connections by year 2020. Most of those devices are deployed in heterogeneous and complex networks which imposes many challenges on the devices management functionality. Among those challenges is the identity management which pertains to how devices' identities are authenticated and verified in addition to how devices establish the means for authorizing and controlling access to data and services. Blockchain as a distributed ledger technology positions itself as a suitable candidate to address this challenge. That is mainly attributed to Blockchain's use of cryptographic identifiers, records immutability, and provenance. These features, together, provide a platform to implement the functions of IoT devices identity management that can ensure a global and unique identity for the devices, and also provide the mechanism to maintain it throughout the device life cycle. This paper presents a semi-decentralized Blockchain-based IoT identity management framework that provides features of identity creation and transfer of ownership, along with the capability of identity portability among networks visited by the devices. For validation, we describe a set of smart contracts that provide the functions of the registrar and management contracts.
Smart Link Adaptation and Scheduling for IIoT (2022)

A machine learning enabled link adaption (LA) and scheduling framework is presented for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), leveraging quasi-periodicity of traffic in IIoT. The following steps are introduced: i) a reduced complexity link establishment accounting jointly for beamforming and load management; ii) interference prediction using long short-term memory neural networks; iii) semi-coordinated scheduling based on node grouping for interference avoidance. Through numerical evaluation it is demonstrated that the proposed approach can substantially improve average spectral efficiency by as much as 62% in a realistic IIoT scenario at negligible overhead.
Controlled Text Generation for Data Augmentation in Intelligent Artificial Agents (2019)

Data availability is a bottleneck during early stages of development of new capabilities for intelligent artificial agents. We investigate the use of text generation techniques to augment the training data of a popular commercial artificial agent across categories of functionality, with the goal of faster development of new functionality. We explore a variety of encoderdecoder generative models for synthetic training data generation and propose using conditional variational auto-encoders. Our approach requires only direct optimization, works well with limited data and significantly outperforms the previous controlled text generation techniques. Further, the generated data are used as additional training samples in an extrinsic intent classification task, leading to improved performance by up to 5% absolute f-score in low-resource cases, validating the usefulness of our approach.
Recalcitrant Urinary Frequency and Urgency (2007)

A 36-yr-old woman presents with a 7-yr history of worsening urgency and frequency. She voids 20 times a day and awakens 5 times at night to void. She says that the force of her stream is normal. Her physical exam is normal. Fluid diary reveals an average volume of 60 cc per void. She has failed the standard anticholinergic treatments.
Effect of Support on the Reactive Adsorption of CO from Low CO Concentration Streams on the Surface of Pd Based Catalysts (2021)

The influence of the support type (Al2O3, CeO2, ZrO2) on the reactive adsorption of residual CO (<40 ppm) originating from reformate gas mixtures was investigated over Pd-based catalysts in an attempt to eliminate CO to the desired levels for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells applications. Results showed that the type and physicochemical characteristics of the metal oxide carrier strongly affect the adsorption and desorption characteristics of carbon monoxide, with Pd/ZrO2 catalyst exhibiting optimum performance under both CO/He and CO/CO2/H2/H2O/He flow. Subjection of the catalysts to consecutive cycles of interaction with the reformate mixture and oxidation at 40 °C restricts to some extent the adsorption ability of CO onto the catalyst surface depending on the support type. The results of the present study indicate that both the dispersed metal and the support participate in the proposed process, which can be efficiently applied as a final cleanup step of fuel processors provided that the optimum adsorption conditions and catalyst characteristics are properly selected.
Deploying Legacy Applications on Grids (2005)

As Grid Computing technologies mature, computational grids are becoming increasingly common, making a large number of varied computational resources spread around the world potentially available to scientists and engineers. Whereas much effort has been spent on the development of core Grid services, less attention has been paid to how Grids will be used by general applications. Most existing or legacy scientific applications are not designed to support the use of Grid technologies inherently. In this paper, we describe how legacy applications can be deployed on a Grid without making complex changes to the original source code, and provide as a case study a migration scenario for a legacy parallel astrophysics application. This scenario was demonstrated at the SuperComputing 2004 Conference held at Pittsburgh.
Special Treatment and Wound Care of the Driveline Exit Site after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation (2015)

During our observation period, fewer infections were noted with merbromin treatment. A multicenter setting in a larger cohort should be performed to confirm these findings, although a (double-) blinded setting might be difficult to achieve.
Spectral-spatial measurements of fundamental and third-harmonic light of intense 25-fs laser pulses focused in a gas cell (1998)

We present spatially and spectrally resolved measurements of light emerging from the focus of an intense 25-fs laser pulse in gaseous media. The pulses are focused inside a chamber backfilled with either argon or air to nominal vacuum intensities of up to 5×1015 W/cm2, far in excess of that necessary for ionization. We have recorded spectral-spatial maps for various pressures and pulse energies and have compared the results of argon and air. This survey is done in the regime where ∼0.1% of the laser light is converted into the third harmonic, which is of practical importance since it is the largest conversion efficiency measured to date while maintaining such a short pulse duration. These measurements are, to our knowledge, the first of their type and are performed with a laser beam of very high spatial quality. The dynamics of an intense laser focusing into a gas cell is complicated, and these measurements provide a way to compare numerical simulations with an array of experimental information. The experiments also determine the conditions for optimal third-harmonic spatial beam quality in this regime.
Electrostatics in the Stability and Misfolding of the Prion Protein: Salt Bridges, Self-Energy, and Solvation (2010)

Using a recently developed mesoscopic theory of protein dielectrics, we have calculated the salt bridge energies, total residue electrostatic potential energies, and transfer energies into a low dielectric amyloid-like phase for 12 species and mutants of the prion protein. Salt bridges and self energies play key roles in stabilizing secondary and tertiary structural elements of the prion protein. The total electrostatic potential energy of each residue was found to be invariably stabilizing. Residues frequently found to be mutated in familial prion disease were among those with the largest electrostatic energies. The large barrier to charged group desolvation imposes regional constraints on involvement of the prion protein in an amyloid aggregate, resulting in an electrostatic amyloid recruitment profile that favours regions of sequence between alpha helix 1 and beta strand 2, the middles of helices 2 and 3, and the region N-terminal to alpha helix 1. We found that the stabilization due to salt bridges is minimal among the proteins studied for disease-susceptible human mutants of prion protein.
Comparison of Magnetic Bead and Rapid Swab RNA Extraction Methods for Detecting Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in Rabbit Liver Samples (2023)

We compared a bead RNA extraction method with a one-tube method that required only a heat block and ice. RNA was first extracted from liver samples from nine rabbits dying from rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) using magnetic beads, and RT-PCR was used to detect RHDV2 sequence. Following freezing, RNA was extracted a second time using the SwiftX™ Swabs Viral RNA Extraction Reagent. RHDV2 was detected in all nine samples. Cycle threshold values were higher in the RT-PCR following SwiftX extraction (mean: 3.79), indicating that the second extraction method resulted in approximately a 1 log10 reduction in sensitivity. A second freeze–thaw for the samples and less tissue extracted using SwiftX may have contributed additionally to the loss in sensitivity.
A Solanum neorickii introgression population providing a powerful complement to the extensively characterized Solanum pennellii population (2018)

We present a complementary resource for trait fine-mapping in tomato to those based on the intra-specific cross between cultivated tomato and the wild tomato species Solanum pennellii, which have been extensively used for quantitative genetics in tomato over the last 20 years. The current population of backcross inbred lines (BILs) is composed of 107 lines derived after three backcrosses of progeny of the wild species Solanum neorickii (LA2133) and cultivated tomato (cultivar TA209) and is freely available to the scientific community. These S. neorickii BILs were genotyped using the 10K SolCAP single nucleotide polymorphism chip, and 3111 polymorphic markers were used to map recombination break points relative to the physical map of Solanum lycopersicum. The BILs harbor on average 4.3 introgressions per line, with a mean introgression length of 34.7 Mbp, allowing partitioning of the genome into 340 bins and thereby facilitating rapid trait mapping. We demonstrate the power of using this resource in comparison with archival data from the S. pennellii resources by carrying out metabolic quantitative trait locus analysis following gas chromatography-mass spectrometry on fruits harvested from the S. neorickii BILs. The metabolic candidate genes phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and cystathionine gamma-lyase were then tested and validated in F<sub>2</sub> populations and via agroinfiltration-based overexpression in order to exemplify the fidelity of this method in identifying the genes that drive tomato metabolic phenotypes.
Hard-Disk Recording and Editing of Digital Audio (1990)

Hard-disk recording of digital audio has moved from the domain of university research projects into the mainstream of commercial professional audio. This paper attempts to define a vocabulary for discussing the differences between different approaches to hard-disk recording, and to categorize these approaches. In the process of so doing, a number of related topics will be discussed. These include different techniques for applying amplitude envelopes, various disk scheduling algorithms, an analysis technique for disk scheduling algorithms, RAM buffering techniques and constraints, and the subject of sound file systems as different from computer file systems, the problem of hard-disk load and unload time, the possibility of background processing, optical disks, and others. WHITHER HARD-DISK EDITING? In the days of manual editing, tape-based editing was essentially random-access, since new material could be inserted at any position in the tape. In film and sound-effects editing, this is still the case. The &amp;quot;trim-bin&amp;quot;
Heavy ion ranges in aluminium and silicon (1978)

Abstract The Rutherford backscattering technique with 2 MeV He+ ions has been used to measure the range and range straggling of ions implanted into polycrystalline aluminium and amorphous silicon with energies from 20 keV to 250 keV. In aluminium the following ions were used: Cs+, La+, Pr+, Eu+, Tb+, Dy+, Ho+, Er+, Lu+, Hf+, Pt+, Au+, TI+, Pb+, Bi+. In silicon the ions were Sm+, Eu+, Gd+, Tb+ and Dy+. The data was converted into reduced range, energy and straggling coordinates ρ p∊ and γΔR p/Ř p respectively and graphs plotted against ∊ In the case of silicon the reduced data fell close to common curves approximated by ρ p = 1.46 ∊0.65 and γΔŘ p/Ř p=0.41 for 0.02 < ∊ < 0.24. In the case of aluminium the best fit was approximated by ρ P = 1.95 ∊0.60 and γΔŘ p/Ř p = 0.5 for 0.06 < ∊ < 0.35. The data for Ho+−Al, Au+−Al, Pt+−Si, Au+−Si and Bi+−Si deviated from the common curves over a range of energies. Calculations following the methods of Winterbon using Thomas-Fermi and Lenz-Jensen potentials produced two sets of p p versus ∊ curves between which all the experimental data lay, with the Thomas-Fermi curves forming a lower limit. Range data from other groups has been collected and reviewed. By combining these with our own the best experimental curves were plotted for the interval 0.0007 < ∊ < 10.
ACM DocEng 2008 recap (2009)

Welcome to São Paulo! This year's ACM-sponsored Document Engineering Symposium (DocEng 2008) was the first to be held in South America (and the Southern Hemisphere, come to that). In a year of firsts, this year's DocEng was the first to feature a Best Paper Award that brought a healthy competition amongst 5 deserving candidates during the conference and concluded these three days with an incredible suspense!
Supplementary Table S4 from Radiotherapy Induces Innate Immune Responses in Patients Treated for Prostate Cancers (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Test statistics comparing each post-RT time point to baseline (pre) in the GU cohort.&lt;/p&gt;
Sculpting the plasmonic responses of nanoparticles by directed electron beam irradiation (2021)

Spatial confinement of matter in functional nanostructures has propelled these systems to the forefront of nanoscience, both as a playground for exotic physics and quantum phenomena and in multiple applications including plasmonics, optoelectronics, and sensing. In parallel, the emergence of monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) has enabled exploration of local nanoplasmonic functionalities within single nanoparticles and the collective response of nanoparticle assemblies, providing deep insight into the associated mechanisms. However, modern synthesis processes for plasmonic nanostructures are often limited in the types of accessible geometry and materials, and even then, limited to spatial precisions on the order of tens of nm, precluding the direct exploration of critical aspects of the structure-property relationships. Here, we use the atomic-sized probe of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to perform precise sculpting and design of nanoparticle configurations. Furthermore, using low-loss (EELS), we provide dynamic analyses of evolution of the plasmonic response during the sculpting process. We show that within self-assembled systems of nanoparticles, individual nanoparticles can be selectively removed, reshaped, or arbitrarily patterned with nanometer-level resolution, effectively modifying the plasmonic response in both space and energy domains. This process significantly increases the scope for design possibilities and presents opportunities for arbitrary structure development, which are ultimately key for nanophotonic design. Nanosculpting introduces yet another capability to the electron microscope.
A novel approach to fully characterize fiber network morphology of planar fibrous tissues and scaffolds (2010)

Comprendere come la struttura di uno scaffold influenzi la morfologia cellulare e predirne il comportamento meccanico sono divenuti obiettivi fondamentali nello sviluppo dei tessuti ingegnerizzati. In questo studio si presenta un algoritmo innovativo basato su analisi d’immagine. Vengono introdotti descrittori di micro architettura che identificano univocamente la topologia della rete di fibre: orientamento delle fibre, connettività, densità spaziale delle intersezioni e diametro. Le prestazioni dell’algoritmo sono state valutate utilizzando immagini di microscopio a scansione elettronica (SEM) di (1) scaffolds in poliestere uretano-urea prodotti per elettrospinning, (2) gel di collagene seminati con cellule MSC di coniglio, (3) arteria carotidea di ratto decellularizzata. E’ stata effettuata una validazione qualitativa e quantitativa comparando topologie delle reti di fibre identificate manualmente da operatori (n=5) con quelle automaticamente individuate dall’algoritmo
A major IgE epitope-containing grass pollen allergen domain from Phl p 5 folds as a four-helix bundle (2002)

Phl p 5, a 29 kDa major allergen from timothy grass pollen, is one of the most reactive members of group 5 allergens. Its sequence comprises two repeats of a novel alanine-rich motif (AR) whose structure and allergenic response are still mostly unknown. We report here a structural characterization of an immunodominant fragment of Phl p 5, Phl p 5(56-165) which comprises the first AR repeat. Recombinant (r)Phl p 5(56-165) was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified to homogeneity and shown to be sufficient to react with serum IgE from 90% of grass pollen allergic patients. Using NMR spectroscopy, we show conclusively that the fragment forms a compact globular domain which is, however, prone to degradation with time. The rPhl p 5(56-165) fold consists of a four-helix bundle held together by hydrophobic interactions between the aromatic rings and aliphatic side chains. This evidence gives clear indications about the structure of the full-length Phl p 5 and provides a rational basis for finding ways to stabilize the fold and designing therapeutic vaccines against grass pollen allergy.
Improved morphology and bias stress study of a naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide bottom contact field effect transistor (2009)

In this study, bottom contact OFETs with various surface treatments based on 1, 4, 5, 8-naphthalene-teracarboxylic di-imide (NTCDI) derivatives with three different fluorinated N-substituents, systematically investigated with a particular emphasis on the interplay between the morphology of the organic semiconductor films and the electrical device properties. The topography of the NTCDI bottom contact device without any surface treatment was first characterized by AFM.
A monoclonal antibody reacting with the cell envelope of spirochaetes isolated from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis in pigs and humans (1995)

A monoclonal antibody (mAb) designed BJL/AC1 was prepared against the cell envelope of an intestinal spirochaete (strain 3295) that was isolated from a pig with intestinal spirochaetosis. The mAb reacted with a band of approximately 29 kDa in cell envelope preparations from 13 porcine and 11 human spirochaetes isolated from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis, but did not react with preparations made from a range of other intestinal spirochaetes. Immunogold labelling demonstrated that the reactive epitope was located on the cell envelope of the strains causing intestinal spirochaetosis. The mAb was used in an indirect immunofluorescence test to detect spirochaetes in the faeces of pigs with experimentally induced intestinal spirochaetosis. The mAb should prove to be a useful reagent for detection and identification of spirochaetes that are specifically associated with intestinal spirochaetosis.
Theoretical and experimental analysis of the fabrication tolerance on deeply etched silicon/air Bragg micromirrors (2017)

Modelling and analysis of the technological tolerance and artifacts of deeply-etched Bragg micromirrors and their impact on the performance is presented. Si/Air Bragg micromirrors with 150 μm etching depth and Si/Air layer thickness of about 3.8 μm / 3.6 μm are fabricated on Si wafer using the Deep Reactive Ion Etching technology (DRIE); designed to operate at a central wavelength of 1600 nm. For such high aspect ratio DRIE, the side-effects of the technology such as over-etching and surface roughness can be significant. Optical measurements for the multi-band spectral response are used to characterize the performance of the fabricated micromirrors and estimate the technological parameters. It was found that the central wavelength shifts monotonically with the over-etching at a rate of 0.45 nm / nm. The dependence of the 3-dB bandwidth and mirror reflectivity is non-monotonic with the over-etching. The surface roughness leads to shift in the central wavelength in addition to degradation in the bandwidth and mirror reflectivity. The presented results are important to understand the technological impact on optical filters and sensors based on the Bragg micromirrors.
Acene Ring Size Optimization in Fused Lactam Polymers Enabling High n-Type Organic Thermoelectric Performance (2020)

Three n-type fused lactam semiconducting polymers were synthesized for thermoelectric and transistor applications via a cheap, highly atom-efficient, and nontoxic transition-metal free aldol polycondensation. Energy level analysis of the three polymers demonstrated that reducing the central acene core size from two anthracenes (<b>A-A</b>), to mixed naphthalene-anthracene (<b>A-N</b>), and two naphthalene cores (<b>N-N</b>) resulted in progressively larger electron affinities, thereby suggesting an increasingly more favorable and efficient solution doping process when employing 4-(2,3-dihydro-1,3-dimethyl-1<i>H</i>-benzimidazol-2-yl)-<i>N</i>,<i>N</i>-dimethylbenzenamine (N-DMBI) as the dopant. Meanwhile, organic field effect transistor (OFET) mobility data showed the <b>N-N</b> and <b>A-N</b> polymers to feature the highest charge carrier mobilities, further highlighting the benefits of aryl core contraction to the electronic performance of the materials. Ultimately, the combination of these two factors resulted in <b>N-N</b>, <b>A-N</b>, and <b>A-A</b> to display power factors (PFs) of 3.2 μW m<sup>-1</sup> K<sup>-2</sup>, 1.6 μW m<sup>-1</sup> K<sup>-2</sup>, and 0.3 μW m<sup>-1</sup> K<sup>-2</sup>, respectively, when doped with N-DMBI, whereby the PFs recorded for <b>N-N</b> and <b>A-N</b> are among the highest reported in the literature for n-type polymers. Importantly, the results reported in this study highlight that modulating the size of the central acene ring is a highly effective molecular design strategy to optimize the thermoelectric performance of conjugated polymers, thus also providing new insights into the molecular design guidelines for the next generation of high-performance n-type materials for thermoelectric applications.
Engineered phosphorus dendrimers as powerful non-viral nanoplatforms for gene delivery: a great hope for the future of cancer therapeutics (2022)

During the past two decades, tremendous progress has been made in the dendrimer-based delivery of therapeutic molecules including, for instance, small molecules, macromolecules, and genes. This review deals with recent successes in the development of promising biocompatible phosphorus dendrimers, a specific type of dendrimer, to deliver genes to treat cancers.