gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence: Reading Carson McCullers' <i>The Member of the Wedding</i> (2011)

This paper takes the grotesque as a model of subjectivity that offers compelling inroads to understanding adolescence. Bakhtin notes that the grotesque ‘seeks to grasp in its imagery the very act of becoming and growth, the eternal, incomplete, unfinished nature of being’. I argue that Carson McCullers' novel, The Member of the Wedding (1946 McCullers, C. 1946/1987. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. [Google Scholar]), is largely about this ‘act of becoming’ in its heightened form, at the time of early adolescence, and I explore the ways in which puberty estranges 12‐year‐old Frankie Adam from her old body and her old self, resulting in encounters with the uncanny.
The 9-Intersection: Formalism and Its Use for Natural-Language Spatial Predicates (94-1) (1994)

This paper is a part of Research Initiative 10, "Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in GIS," of the U.S. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). This report contains two papers, plus supplementary material. The first paper develops and presents the formal mathematical definitions of the 9-intersection; it is under consideration by a journal at the time of this writing. The second paper reports of cognitive testing, based on the mathematical model presented in the first paper. It contains the complete set of stimuli used in Mark and Egenhofer’s experimental work up to January 1994.
Aphid Gel Saliva: Sheath Structure, Protein Composition and Secretory Dependence on Stylet-Tip Milieu (2012)

In order to separate and analyze saliva types secreted during stylet propagation and feeding, aphids were fed on artificial diets. Gel saliva was deposited as chains of droplets onto Parafilm membranes covering the diets into which watery saliva was secreted. Saliva compounds collected from the diet fluid were separated by SDS-PAGE, while non-soluble gel saliva deposits were processed in a novel manner prior to protein separation by SDS-PAGE. Soluble (watery saliva) and non-soluble (gel saliva) protein fractions were significantly different. To test the effect of the stylet milieu on saliva secretion, aphids were fed on various diets. Hardening of gel saliva is strongly oxygen-dependent, probably owing to formation of sulfide bridges by oxidation of sulphydryl groups. Surface texture of gel saliva deposits is less pronounced under low-oxygen conditions and disappears in dithiothreitol containing diet. Using diets mimicking sieve-element sap and cell-wall fluid respectively showed that the soluble protein fraction was almost exclusively secreted in sieve elements while non-soluble fraction was preferentially secreted at cell wall conditions. This indicates that aphids are able to adapt salivary secretion in dependence of the stylet milieu.
A New Construction of Fuzzy Identity Based Signature Scheme (2009)

Sahai and Waters first introduced the concept of Fuzzy Identity Based Encryption (FIBE) to provide an error-tolerance property for Identity Based Encryption (IBE) in 2005. Yang et al. extended this idea and introduced the concept of Fuzzy Identity Based Signature (FIBS) in 2008, and constructed a FIBS scheme based on Sahai and Waters's FIBE scheme. In this paper, we further formalize the notion and security model of FIBS scheme and propose a new construction of FIBS scheme based on bilinear pairing. The proposed FIBS scheme not only provide shorter public parameters, private key and signature, but also have useful structures which result in more efficient key extraction, signing and verification than that of Yang et al.'s FIBS scheme.
Survey of Chemical Compounds Tested In Vitro against Rumen Protozoa for Possible Control of Bloat (1967)

Over 170 chemical agents were screened for antiprotozoal action in bovine ruminal fluid. Compounds were tested at 0.1 and 0.05% concentrations. Tested compounds included inorganic compounds, antibiotics, biocides, neuromuscular agents, arsenicals, plant and animal hormones, antimalarials, surface-active agents, anthelmintics, and many others. The most active compounds were cupric sulfate, nickel sulfate, nitrofurazone, hydrogen peroxide, dodecyl sodium sulfate, pelargonic acid, iodoacetic acid, 1-diethylaminoethylamino-4-methylthiaxanthrone, sodium arsanilate, sodium arsenate, bismuth glycolyl arsanilate, 1-beta-hydroxyethyl-2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole, and p-nitroaniline. Copper ion was not particularly effective against entodinia; nickel ion had no effect on holotrichs. Hydrogen peroxide and iodoacetic acid were effective at a concentration of 0.005%. Anionic surface-active agents were very effective, especially long-chain sulfates and phosphates. These antiprotozoal agents warrant further in vivo studies for possible use in treating or curing bloat in ruminants.
Yield Stress Measurements of Magnetorheological Fluids in Tubes (2000)

A pressure-driven apparatus was used to measure the yield stress of magnetorheological (MR) fluids as a function of the applied magnetic field, the carbonyl iron particle content, and the amount of surfactant used to stabilize the MR fluid. The yield stress was measured from the pressure difference necessary to initiate flow of a MR fluid in a straight tube present in a magnetic field. Yield stress measurements were made on MR fluids that contained up to 30 vol % carbonyl iron particles, up to 14 vol % surfactant oleic acid, and the remainder 100 cS silicone oil. In the absence of an applied magnetic field, the MR fluids did not have a yield stress and behaved as Newtonian fluids. In the presence of magnetic fields up to 2.2 kG, the MR fluids had yield stresses up to 1.9 kPa. An effect of the tube size on the yield stress was observed for MR fluids above 15 vol % carbonyl iron and magnetic fields above 1.0 kG.
Rotavirus serotypes 6 and 10 predominate in cattle (1990)

Calf fecal rotavirus strains were serotyped in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, using monoclonal antibodies to the VP7s of serotypes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 and to the VP4 of B223 (designated serotype 10). Sixty-six percent of 162 samples were typed as serotype 6, and 7% were serotyped as serotype 10. Most of the untyped strains did not react with a monoclonal antibody directed to a common VP7 epitope, indicating insufficient virus present in the samples. However, seven untyped samples that did react with this antibody were adapted to culture and typed, and six of these also proved to belong to serotype 6 or 10. Two of these viruses belonged to a monotype within serotype 6 that did not react with the serotype 6 monoclonal antibody. The seventh isolate reacted in cross-neutralization tests with serotype 8 viruses. Bovine rotaviruses from the United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan that had been shown previously to be distinct from serotype 6 were compared in neutralization tests with B223 from the United States. These viruses proved to be a closely reacting group distinct from all other rotavirus serotypes, justifying the establishment of serotype 10 as the second major type of bovine rotavirus.
Overweight status and intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes are associated with children's metabolic health (2011)

Intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes was associated with greater central adiposity and insulin secretion, and lower HDL-C, irrespective of current weight status. Future research should examine respective contributions of the intrauterine environment and of underlying genotype on children's metabolic health.
Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Impregnated Electrodes (2013)

Metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) containing porous 430L support, YSZ electrolyte and porous YSZ layers are fabricated by tape casting and co-firing. Nano Ni-Ce 0.8 Sm 0.2 O 2- δ (SDC) and La 0.6 Sr 0.4 Fe 0.9 Sc 0.1 O 3- δ (LSFSc) coatings, which act as anode and cathode catalysts, individually, are impregnated onto the internal surfaces of porous 430L and YSZ, respectively. Promising cathode polarization resistances ranging from 0.024 Ωcm 2 at 800ºC to 0.155 Ωcm 2 at 650ºC are obtained. The maximum power densities of the single cell are 0.68, 0.92, 1.09 and 1.23 Wcm −2 at 650, 700, 750 and 800ºC, respectively.
Role of oxygen in the production of human decompression sickness (1987)

In the calculation of decompression schedules, it is commonly assumed that only the inert gas needs to be considered; all inspired O2 is ignored. Animal experiments have shown that high O2 can increase risk of serious decompression sickness (DCS). A trial was performed to assess the relative risks of O2 and N2 in human no-decompression dives. Controlled dives (477) of 30- to 240-min duration were performed with subjects breathing mixtures with low (0.21-0.38 ATA) or high (1.0-1.5 ATA) Po2. Depths were chosen by a sequential dose-response format. Only 11 cases of DCS and 18 cases of marginal symptoms were recorded despite exceeding the presently accepted no-decompression limits by greater than 20%. Analysis by maximum likelihood showed a shallow dose-response curve for increasing depth. O2 was estimated to have zero influence on DCS risk, although data variability still allows a slight chance that O2 could be 40% as effective as N2 in producing a risk of DCS. Consideration of only inert gases is thus justified in calculating human decompression tables.
Assessment of the Radiation Attenuation Properties of Several Lead Free Composites by Monte Carlo Simulation. (2015)

Lead free shields are completely effective for protection against X-ray energies in the range of 60 to 120 kVp.
Distinct pharmacological properties of excitatory amino acid receptors in the rat striatum: study by Na+ efflux assay. (1981)

Specific 22Na+ efflux rates from preloaded rat striatal slices are increased in a dose-dependent manner by L-glutamate and other excitatory amino acids displaying the following order of efficiency: N-methyl-D-aspartate greater than DL-homocysteate greater than quisqualate greater than kainate greater than D-glutamate greater than L-glutamate greater than L-aspartate. Amino acid antagonists such as 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate, gamma-D-glutamylglycine, DL-aminosuberate, DL-aminoadipate, and diethyl glutamate but not nonexcitatory amino acids such as gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibit the amino acid-induced increase in specific 22Na+ efflux rate. Increased K+ concentrations, in the presence of 2 mM Ca2+, increase the specific 22Na+ efflux. The latter and the response to N-methyl-D-aspartate, but not the responses to L-glutamate, L-aspartate, quisqualate, and kainate, are inhibited to similar extents by the same antagonists. These results suggest the release from striatal nerve terminals of a putative neurotransmitter with pharmacological properties different from those of L-glutamate or L-aspartate but similar to those of N-methyl-D-aspartate. The results of this study show that the stimulation of the 22Na+ efflux in brain slices by neuroactive amino acids and K+ ions is a valid and powerful tool for pharmacological investigations of excitatory amino acid receptors and their putative ligands.
Failure to Preserve β-Cell Function With Mycophenolate Mofetil and Daclizumab Combined Therapy in Patients With New- Onset Type 1 Diabetes (2010)

Neither MMF alone nor MMF in combination with DZB had an effect on the loss of C-peptide in subjects with new-onset type 1 diabetes. Higher doses or more targeted immunotherapies may be needed to affect the autoimmune process.
Prediction of significant prostate cancer diagnosed 20 to 30 years later with a single measure of prostate‐specific antigen at or before age 50 (2010)

A single PSA at or before age 50 predicts advanced prostate cancer diagnosed up to 30 years later. Use of early PSA to stratify risk would allow a large group of low-risk men to be screened less often but increase frequency of testing on a more limited number of high-risk men. This is likely to improve the ratio of benefit to harm for screening.
Reviews Of Anti‐infective Agents: Anidulafungin: A Novel Echinocandin (2006)

Until recently, the treatment available for serious fungal infections was composed of amphotericin B and azoles, and each class demonstrated significant limitations. Echinocandins are a new class of drugs that have shown promising results in treating a variety of fungal infections. Of these, anidulafungin is a novel echinocandin that appears to have several advantages over existing antifungals. It is unique because it slowly degrades in humans, undergoing a process of biotransformation rather than being metabolized. It has potent in vitro activity against Aspergillus and Candida species, including those resistant to fluconazole or amphotericin B. Results of several clinical trials indicate that anidulafungin is effective in treating esophageal candidiasis, including azole-refractory disease. The results of a recent study comparing fluconazole versus anidulafungin demonstrated the superiority of anidulafungin in the treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis (IC). Studies evaluating the concomitant use of anidulafungin and either amphotericin B, voriconazole, or cyclosporine did not demonstrate significant drug-drug interactions or adverse events. To date, anidulafungin appears to have an excellent safety profile. On the basis of early clinical experience, it appears that anidulafungin will be a valuable asset in the management of serious and difficult-to-treat fungal infections.
PROGNOS: Predictive situational awareness with probabilistic ontologies (2010)

Information in the battlefield comes from reports from diverse sources, in distinct syntax, and with different meanings. There are many kinds of uncertainty involved in this process, e.g., noise in sensors, incorrect, incomplete, or deceptive human intelligence, and others, which makes it essential to have a coherent, consistent, and principled means to represent such phenomena among the systems performing Predictive Situation Awareness (PSAW). PROGNOS is a PSAW system being developed to work within the operational context such as U.S. Navy's FORCENet. It employs probabilistic ontologies in a distributed system architecture as a means to provide semantic interoperability within an intrinsically complex and uncertain environment. This paper explores our current status in developing the system while addressing the major research challenges for making an effective PSAW system to support maritime operations.
Chicken eggshell as suitable calcium source at home (2013)

A single eggshell contains 2.07 ± 0.18 g of Ca; therefore half an eggshell could provide the amount of Ca needed by adult human beings per day. The best way to use chicken eggshell as Ca dietary supplement is powdered to add to bread, pizza or spaghetti as there were small changes in texture and no changes in flavor.
Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extruders (2007)

No AccessCo-Rotating Twin-Screw ExtruderNov 2007Co-Rotating Twin-Screw ExtrudersKlemens KohlgrüberKlemens Kohlgrüberhttps://doi.org/10.3139/9783446433410.fmSectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to FavoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsCopy LTI LinkPDF key 'share (en)' returned an object instead of string.FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedIn next chapter FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2007Pages: I-XIIIPrint ISBN: 978-3-446-41372-6eISBN: 978-3-446-43341-0 Copyright & Permissions© 2008 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KGPDF downloadLoading ...
Utilizing Online Water Detection to Automate Production Management (2008)

Abstract In today's competitive energy market there is a tremendous emphasis on cost saving and productivity at all levels of the industry. Online water detection provides vital real-time information regarding water concentrations in hydrocarbons with numerous beneficial applications. Specifically, with the high volume of produced water in today's wells, utilizing oil water detectors or OWD's to automate production management creates efficiencies in terms of time, cost and vital man hours, and OWD's incorporating microwave technology demonstrate extreme accuracy even at the highest water concentrations. Currently, production is manually managed by the rotation of "producing" and "shut-in" wells. This system creates a great deal of waste and cost both in terms of produced water and energy utilized. The installation of OWD's on each well creates a continuous flow of data specific to each well that can be combined with separation and flow data, then sent to a remote dashboard for monitoring. Utilizing such a system gives the production operations team the real-time, site-specific data required to automate and maximize efficiencies throughout the production process. In particular, it provides the knowledge required to shut-in wells with high water production levels and concentrate production on those wells currently producing higher concentrations/volumes of oil and to do so on an as-needed basis. What's more, this process can be informed and enhanced by a wide variety of criteria specific to your needs such as oil-water separation capacity, water-disposal capacity, flow rates, etc. The efficiencies created in production management are particularly vital in today's production climate where current levels of demand increase the pressure and importance of every producing well. At the same time, these wells are producing record amounts of water. Higher produced water concentrations combined with increased demand create an imperative for maximizing both the efficiency and automation of production.
Compressed Sensing: From Research to Clinical Practice With Deep Neural Networks: Shortening Scan Times for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2020)

Compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction methods leverage sparse structure in underlying signals to recover high-resolution images from highly undersampled measurements. When applied to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), CS has the potential to dramatically shorten MRI scan times, increase diagnostic value, and improve overall patient experience. However, CS has several shortcomings which limit its clinical translation such as: 1) artifacts arising from inaccurate sparse modelling assumptions, 2) extensive parameter tuning required for each clinical application, and 3) clinically infeasible reconstruction times. Recently, CS has been extended to incorporate deep neural networks as a way of learning complex image priors from historical exam data. Commonly referred to as unrolled neural networks, these techniques have proven to be a compelling and practical approach to address the challenges of sparse CS. In this tutorial, we will review the classical compressed sensing formulation and outline steps needed to transform this formulation into a deep learning-based reconstruction framework. Supplementary open source code in Python will be used to demonstrate this approach with open databases. Further, we will discuss considerations in applying unrolled neural networks in the clinical setting.
A Novel Form of Human Mendelian Hypertension Featuring Nonglucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism (2008)

These findings define a new inherited form of aldosteronism and suggest that identification of the underlying defect will provide insight into normal mechanisms regulating adrenal steroid biosynthesis.
Autoantibodies to heparin from patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome inhibit formation of antithrombin III-thrombin complexes [see comments] (1994)

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is characteristically associated with thrombosis. Heparan sulfate (HS) is a physiologic endothelial cell surface modulator of normal anticoagulation, containing a specific oligosaccharide sequence that binds antithrombin III with high affinity and also is present in heparin, a related glycosaminoglycan. We hypothesized that a subset of antiphospholipid antibodies with high affinity for heparan sulfate/heparin epitopes may inhibit the function of HS, promoting a procoagulant state. Purified IgG from all seven patients with APS studied were reactive with heparin by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, whereas none of five controls had antiheparin reactivity. IgG antiheparin antibodies were purified from two APS patients by affinity chromatography on heparin-Sepharose. Specificity studies showed that low-affinity electrostatic interactions clearly did not account for the observed reactivity with heparin, and that APS IgG antiheparin antibodies were specifically reactive with a disaccharide present in the heparin pentasaccharide that binds antithrombin III. Furthermore, APS IgG antiheparin antibodies inhibited heparin-accelerated formation of antithrombin III-thrombin complexes. We conclude that antiheparan sulfate/heparin antibodies may be a cause of autoimmune vascular thrombosis in the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.
<i>Granulicatella adiacens</i> Bacteremia in an Elderly Trauma Patient (2011)

Granulicatella adiacens may be a more important pathogen than thus far recognized because of a lack of adequate diagnostic resources. Standards for sensitivity testing are needed urgently.
<i>SMARCB1/INI1</i> Tumor Suppressor Gene Is Frequently Inactivated in Epithelioid Sarcomas (2005)

Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare soft tissue neoplasm of uncertain lineage that usually arises in the distal extremities of adults, presents a high rate of recurrences and metastases and frequently poses diagnostic dilemmas. The recently reported large-cell "proximal-type" variant is characterized by increased aggressiveness, deep location, preferential occurrence in proximal/axial regions of older patients, and rhabdoid features. Previous cytogenetic studies indicated that the most frequent alterations associated with this tumor entity affect chromosome 22. In this study, combined spectral karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and array-based comparative genomic hybridization analyses of two proximal-type cases harboring a rearrangement involving 10q26 and 22q11 revealed that the 22q11 breakpoints were located in a 150-kb region containing the SMARCB1/INI1 gene, and that homozygous deletion of the gene was present in the tumor tissue. The SMARCB1/INI1 gene encodes for an invariant subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex and has been previously reported to act as a tumor suppressor gene frequently inactivated in infantile malignant rhabdoid tumors. We analyzed SMARCB1/INI1 gene status in nine additional epithelioid sarcoma cases (four proximal types and five conventional types) and altogether we identified deletions of SMARCB1/INI1 gene in 5 of 11 cases, all proximal types. We confirmed and further extended the number of cases with SMARCB1/INI1 inactivation to 6 of 11 cases, by real-time quantitative PCR analysis of mRNA expression and by SMARCB1/INI1 immunohistochemistry. Overall, these results point to SMARCB1/INI1 gene involvement in the genesis and/or progression of epithelioid sarcomas. Analysis of larger series of epithelioid sarcomas will be necessary to highlight putative clinically relevant features related to SMARCB1/INI1 inactivation.
Error correction application of CRC in the RFID system (2011)

The application of CRC in the radio frequency identification protocol ISO15693 is analyzed. Based on CRC, the multiple bits error correction function is realized in the decode process of Manchester Code. The error correction principle and realization technique are described in detail. The selection of decision threshold and error correction bits is analyzed. The simulation and application results prove the validity of the multiple bits error correction algorithm.