gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Influence of Source and Ratio of Xanthophyll Pigments on Broiler Chicken Pigmentation and Performance (2001)

One experiment was conducted using 960 1-d-old, sexed broilers of Ross 308 strain from 1 to 43 d to evaluate if one type of chemically isomerized marigold with 25% of xanthophylls as zeaxanthin (SME-25) could produce pigmentation equivalent to the current addition of conventional marigold with 10% of xanthophylls as zeaxanthin (SME-10) plus canthaxanthin (CTX) in practical broiler diets (maize-wheat-soybean). Birds were allocated in 32 pens, in a randomized complete block design (four blocks x four treatments). The treatments consisted of a nonpigmented control (T1), a combination of 35 ppm of yellow xanthophylls (YX) from SME-10 + 5 ppm of CTX (T2), a combination of 32 ppm of YX from SME-10 + 2 ppm of CTX (T4), and one treatment with 40 ppm of YX from a new SME-25 (T3). There were no significant treatment effects on chicken performance. All color parameters (Minolta coordinates, Roche color fan scores, Rank test) presented significant differences (P < 0.0001) because of dietary pigments on shanks and breast skin. Birds fed the SME-25 diet had less pigmentation than those fed equivalent quantities of a combination of SME-10 + CTX. The Minolta coordinate "b" measured in breast skin was a good indicator of YX content in feed, whereas the "a" coordinate measured on the shank showed a linear relationship with the dietary CTX level (r = 0.61, P < 0.0001). The same visual color classification of chickens was achieved irrespective of the rank test performed (by shank or carcass color). Lutein and zeaxanthin from the SME-25 product had lower deposition rates in skin and fat tissues than those from the SME-10 product. This finding seems to be related to the ratio of zeaxanthin stereoisomer RR (optically active) vs. RS that was found in tissues from the SME-10 product (97.8%:2.2%), whereas with SME-25 this ratio was 16.0:84.0%. These results suggest that inclusion of only the SME-25 product could not replace the current addition of SME-10 and CTX combinations.
Surface‐modified silica nanoparticles for reinforcement of PMMA (2007)

Abstract Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) was introduced onto the surface of silica nanoparticles by particle pretreatment using silane coupling agent (γ‐methacryloxypropyl trimethoxy silane, KH570) followed by solution polymerization. The modified silica nanoparticles were characterized by Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Sedimentation tests and lipophilic degree (LD) measurements were also performed to observe the compatibility between the modified silica nanoparticles and organic solvents. Thereafter, the PMMA slices reinforced by silica‐nanoparticle were prepared by in situ bulk polymerization using modified silica nanoparticles accompanied with an initiator. The resultant polymers were characterized by UV–vis, Sclerometer, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The mechanical properties of the hybrid materials were measured. The results showed that the glass transition temperature, surface hardness, flexural strength as well as impact strength of the silica‐nanoparticle reinforced PMMA slices were improved. Moreover, the tensile properties of PMMA films doped with silica nanoparticles via solution blending were enhanced. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007
Parallel multiple hashing for packet classification (2005)

Packet classification is to classify incoming packets into "class" in the Internet routers in order to provide different services according to classes that packet belongs. Packet classification is one of the most challenging operations since it should be performed in wire-speed referring the thousands of pre-defined multi-field rules. In this paper, we proposed new packet classification architecture. The proposed scheme is based on parallel multiple hashing for source-destination prefix tuples and linked-list search for remaining fields on rules with the same source and destination prefixes. Prefix grouping is also proposed to reduce the number of tuples. Simulation results using real databases show that the proposed scheme requires small number of memory accesses and O(N) memory space for N rule classifier. The proposed scheme also has very good characteristics in rule updating and scalability toward large classifier.
Interrogating the periphery: identity, nationality, family registration and the Ogasawara Islanders (2014)

The Ogasawara Islands of Japan have been a site of colonisation, militarisation and occupation. The islands were first settled by European and Pacific Islanders from 1830 and then colonised by Japan in 1875. In 1944, at the height of World War II, the islands' inhabitants were forced to evacuate to mainland Japan. The islands were under US Navy occupation from 1945 until 1952 and then US Navy administration from 1952 until their return to Japan in 1968. This paper situates the Ogasawara Islands in their historical context and focuses on the descendants of the original settlers and their unique and unusual position within Japanese history and society. The differences embodied in the descendants coupled with over 20 years under the US Navy have had profound effects that are still present within the community even today. Using ethnographic data, the paper explores the composite ways in which this community has been identified and self-identified. The paper theorises the link between space, place and identification and argues that the effects of social, cultural and political changes to the nation-space of the Ogasawara Islands have led to complex and conflicting forms of identification.小笠原諸島という小さな島々は、これまで居住地、植民地、占領地など極めて特異な特徴をなす場所であった。この島に最初に住みついたのは1830年代の欧米人や太平洋諸島民であった。島は1875年に日本に占領され、当時の居住者は強制的に戸籍に入れられた。1877年から1882年の間に、彼らは外国人から日本人となった。これらの人々の子孫は、辺鄙な島で、西洋人風の風貌や背景にもかかわらず日本人として日本という国民国家の中に暮らしてきた。第二次世界大戦中、小笠原諸島の住民は危険を避けるために本土へ疎開させられた。戦後、1952年まで島は連合軍の占領下にあり、その後、連合軍の海軍が1968年まで統治した。この23年間、島は日本から行政的に分離されたが、いわゆる欧米系の住民だけが帰島を許された。戦時中、戸籍の記録は散逸し、島が連合軍に統治されている間、日本の官僚は島にほとんど注意を払わなかった。このように日本の領土から切り離されたため、島民の地位はあいまいに、かつ不安定になり、記録は不完全となった。1968年に島が日本に「返還」されることになると、島民は日本人として帰島するか、アメリカ合衆国へ移住するかの選択を迫られた。帰島した住民は、日本人として再度、戸籍に入れられた。本論文では、場所と空間とアイデンティフィケションの関係を問いながら、小笠原諸島の社会的、文化的、政治的な変化は欧米系の島民のアイデンティティに複雑または矛盾している影響があったと討論する。尚又、欧米系島民の歴史は日本の単一民族論の脱構築に非常に大切だと強調する。
An Investigation on Chinese English- Learners' Strategies in Making Requests in English and Its pedagogical implications (2002)

Breakdowns are often detected in cross- cultural communication, regardless of thegrammatical level of the L2 learners. Neglecting sociolinguistic rules becomes a barrier for L2 learners to re-alize speech acts properly. This essay show the strategies Chinese English- learners use in making requests inEnglish and discusses its implications
Dielectric measurements as quality criterion for liquid nitrogen (2004)

For the operation of high temperature superconducting (HTS) devices it is necessary to cool the HTS conductor down to the operating temperature of about 77 K. Depending on the application warm or cold dielectric insulation systems are used in electrical power systems and high voltage apparatus. Liquid nitrogen (LN/sub 2/) is an excellent dielectric liquid, but there is less knowledge about the quality criterions and their measuring methods. For the measurement of dielectric parameters (e.g. breakdown voltage, partial discharge, relative permittivity) the classical measuring methods have to be adapted. This paper gives a view to the results of dielectric measuring methods with LN/sub 2/. The measurements were done with different degrees of LN/sub 2/ pureness.
Deformation and Recrystallization Behavior of Ferritic Stainless Steel in High Speed Hot Rolling (1986)

The recrystallization behavior of ferritic stainless steel in high speed hot rolling has been investigated in relation to the strain distribution through the thickness of the rolled strip. The strip of which the size was 2×20×430 mm was rolled at the temperatures from 900°C to 1050°C and at the rolling speed of 20 m/s with or without lubrication. The rolled specimen was quenched in water at the interval of 25 ms after rolling. The redundant shear strain caused by friction forms severely sheared region beneath the surface with the thickness of about 100μm. The maximum equivalent strain εmax in severely sheared region reaches about 4 times of compressive strain and εmax in rolling without lubrication, is always larger than that in lubricated rolling.Extremely fine recrystallized grains are formed in severely sheared region when εmax exceed a critical value, which is dependent on ZENER-HOLLOMON parameter Zmax in severely sheared region and independent of lubrication condition. The size of the recrystallized grain is also strongly dependent on Zmax.From these results and optical micrographs, it is concluded that the recrystallized grains observed in this study are statically recrystallized ones.
A secure and distributed control network for the communications in smart grid (2011)

The security of the control network has become a major concern since the wide deployment of smart grid systems. The functions of Intelligent Energy Management (IEM) highly depend on the communication techniques. The IEM is the service agent of smart grid communication network in a limited management zone for distributed and autonomous power system control and operations. In such a smart grid, the power flows are unpredictable. Therefore, the management nodes, i.e., IEM agents, form a communication network that has no fixed infrastructure. For this reason, the IEM network can be considered as an ad-hoc network. In this paper, the newly proposed TQOS (Trustworthiness-based Quality of Service) routing protocol is adopted to ensure that every power system communication session can be established through a secure route [1]. We calculate the performance cost of using certain encryption algorithm for building a secure route. By using Opnet simulator, we find the overall smart grid communication performance under different network conditions, by changing the network scales, packet generation size and rate, and the node processing capability. Our simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed secure and distributed network architecture can be applied to smart grid communications in practice.
Long-Distance Charge Transport in DNA:  The Hopping Mechanism (2000)

Long-distance charge transport from a guanine radical cation (G(+*)) to a G-rich sequence is of biological importance. This reaction was studied by selective charge injection into a G, monitoring the charge transport to a GGG sequence by competing H(2)O-trapping. The efficiency of the charge transport diminished dramatically with increasing number of A:T base pairs between G(+*) and GGG. But in DNA strands where G's are located between the G(+*) and GGG sequence, long-distance charge transport occurred by a multistep hopping mechanism.
Vertical-Slit Field-Effect Transistor (VeSFET) - design space exploration and DC model (2011)

This paper presents an in-depth discussion of the Vertical-Slit Field-Effect Transistor's (VeSFET's) operation. The junction-less twin gate VeSFET is the basic component of a new 3D VeSTIC technology proposed by Maly [1]. Our numerical TCAD simulations confirm the attractive properties of VeSFETs, such as high I on to I off ratio, low leakage currents, and effective current control by independently biased symmetric gates. These simulations serve as a backbone for an analytical approximation of the VeSFET characteristics, and the first, rudimentary compact DC model for circuit simulation has been developed.
Techniques for Root Cause Analysis (2001)

The simplest way to perform a root cause analysis is to ask why 5 times. In the case above, the answers might read as follows:
The effect of steric changes on the isoselectivity of dinuclear indium catalysts for lactide polymerization (2015)

A series of (±)- and (R,R)-tridentate diamino, ortho/para disubstituted phenolate proligands H(NNO(R)) with various phenolate substituents was synthesized and used to prepare indium dichloride complexes (NNO(R))InCl2via salt metathesis of the deprotonated ligands with indium trichloride. These complexes are dinuclear in the solid state, in contrast to previously reported complexes with t-butyl or methyl phenolate substituents. Solution state (1)H and PGSE NMR spectroscopy suggests that a fast exchange between the monomeric and dimeric forms of these complexes may exist in solution and is likely influenced by the chirality of the complexes undergoing aggregation. The indium dichloride complexes were utilized to synthesize dinuclear indium ethoxide complexes via salt metathesis with sodium ethoxide. These complexes were active for the polymerization of lactide. In situ and bulk polymerization data confirmed differences in the activity and selectivity of these systems based on the phenolate substituents as well as the ligand chirality.
A Metal Coordination Polymer with Hexagonal Diamondoid (or Lonsdaleite) Network Topology (2003)

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The debate on automated essay grading (2000)

We look at a controversy: the use of computers for automated and semiautomated grading of exams. K. Kukich, the director of the Natural Language Processing group at Educational Testing Service, provides an insider's view of the history of the field of automated essay grading and describes how ETS is currently using computer programs to supplement human judges in the grading process. T. Landauer, D. Laham, and P. Foltz describe the use of latent semantic analysis in a commercial essay-scoring system called IEA. They also address important ethical questions. L. Hirschman, E. Breck, J. Burger, and L. Ferro report on MITRE's current efforts towards automated grading of short-answer questions and discuss the ramifications for the design of general question answering systems. Finally R. Calfee places these developments in the framework of current educational theory and practice.
CARMAweb: comprehensive R- and bioconductor-based web service for microarray data analysis (2006)

CARMAweb (Comprehensive R-based Microarray Analysis web service) is a web application designed for the analysis of microarray data. CARMAweb performs data preprocessing (background correction, quality control and normalization), detection of differentially expressed genes, cluster analysis, dimension reduction and visualization, classification, and Gene Ontology-term analysis. This web application accepts raw data from a variety of imaging software tools for the most widely used microarray platforms: Affymetrix GeneChips, spotted two-color microarrays and Applied Biosystems (ABI) microarrays. R and packages from the Bioconductor project are used as an analytical engine in combination with the R function Sweave, which allows automatic generation of analysis reports. These report files contain all R commands used to perform the analysis and guarantee therefore a maximum transparency and reproducibility for each analysis. The web application is implemented in Java based on the latest J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) software technology. CARMAweb is freely available at https://carmaweb.genome.tugraz.at.
Online recording of ethane traces in human breath via infrared laser spectroscopy (2003)

A method is described for rapidly measuring the ethane concentration in exhaled human breath. Ethane is considered a volatile marker for lipid peroxidation. The breath samples are analyzed in real time during single exhalations by means of infrared cavity leak-out spectroscopy. This is an ultrasensitive laser-based method for the analysis of trace gases on the sub-parts per billion level. We demonstrate that this technique is capable of online quantifying of ethane traces in exhaled human breath down to 500 parts per trillion with a time resolution of better than 800 ms. This study includes what we believe to be the first measured expirograms for trace fractions of ethane. The expirograms were recorded after a controlled inhalation exposure to 1 part per million of ethane. The normalized slope of the alveolar plateau was determined, which shows a linear increase over the first breathing cycles and ends in a mean value between 0.21 and 0.39 liter-1. The washout process was observed for a time period of 30 min and was modelled by a threefold exponential decay function, with decay times ranging from 12 to 24, 341 to 481, and 370 to 1770 s. Our analyzer provides a promising noninvasive tool for online monitoring of the oxidative stress status.
Multimedia Services in Cloud-Based Vehicular Networks (2015)

Research into the requirements for mobile services has seen a growing interest in the fields of cloud technology and vehicular applications. Integrating cloud computing and storage with vehicles is a way to increase accessibility to multimedia services, and inspire myriad potential applications and research topics. This paper presents an overview of the characteristics of cloud computing, and introduces the basic concepts of vehicular networks. An architecture for multimedia cloud computing is proposed to suit subscription service mechanisms. The tendency to equip vehicles with advanced and embedded devices such as diverse sensors increases the capabilities of vehicles to provide computation and collection of multimedia content in the form of the vehicular network. Then, the taxonomy of cloud-based vehicular networks is addressed from the standpoint of the service relationship between the cloud computing and vehicular networks. In this paper, we identify the main considerations and challenges for cloud based vehicular networks regarding multimedia services, and propose potential research directions to make multimedia services achievable. More specifically, we quantitatively evaluate the performance metrics of these researches. For example, in the proposed broadcast storm mitigation scheme for vehicular networks, the packet delivery ratio and the normalized throughput can both achieve about 90%, making the proposed scheme a useful candidate for multimedia data exchange. Moreover, in the video uplinking scenarios, the proposed scheme is favorably compared with two well-known schedulers, M-LWDF and EXP, with the performance much closer to the optimum.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with an over-the-wire system. (1985)

The original Gruentzig coaxial catheter system for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) utilized a blunt, closed-end, inner balloon catheter with a short guide wire attached to its tip. Options for safely crossing severe stenoses with this large, nonmaneuverable catheter were limited. More recently, over-the-wire systems have been developed in which the lesion initially is crossed with a small-caliber floppy or steerable guide wire, then by the balloon catheter advanced over the wire. Technical success was achieved in 78 of our first 100 PTCAs with this system. Significant cardiac complications occurred in ten patients, seven of whom required emergency coronary bypass surgery. A recently published survey of all PTCA techniques reported a technical success rate of 62%. Our higher success rate may be attributed to certain advantages of the over-the-wire system, which are discussed in detail. A learning curve is associated with this procedure: our success rate was 65% in the first 20 cases but 81% thereafter. These results can be considered typical of those expected at hospitals now beginning PTCA programs with advanced over-the-wire technology.
Synthesis and properties of poly(silylenevinylene(bi)phenylenevinylene)s by hydrosilylation polymerization (1999)

Poly(silylenevinylene(bi)phenylenevinylene)s were synthesized by chloroplatinic acid-catalyzed hydrosilylation polymerization between α,ω-diethynylarenes and methylphenylsilane or diphenylsilane. The polymer structure was dependent on the substituent size of silane reagent. Poly(silylenevinylenephenylenevinylene)s showed fluorescence emission in the blue region. Optical and thermal properties of the polymers were extensively investigated. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 37: 2933–2940, 1999
Detuned loading in coupled cavity semiconductor lasers—effect on quantum noise and dynamics (1984)

We derive the modulation and noise properties of a semiconductor laser consisting of an active cavity loaded by a passive cavity. The results indicate that under certain conditions the direct modulation bandwidth can be doubled with simultaneous phase noise reduction as compared to a conventional laser.
Multisensor airborne imagery collection and processing onboard small unmanned systems (2010)

FEATHAR (Fusion, Exploitation, Algorithms, and Targeting for High-Altitude Reconnaissance) is an ONR funded effort to develop and test new tactical sensor systems specifically designed for small manned and unmanned platforms (payload weight < 50 lbs). This program is being directed and executed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in conjunction with the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). FEATHAR has developed and integrated EyePod, a combined long-wave infrared (LWIR) and visible to near infrared (VNIR) optical survey & inspection system, with NuSAR, a combined dual band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. These sensors are being tested in conjunction with other ground and airborne sensor systems to demonstrate intelligent real-time cross-sensor cueing and in-air data fusion. Results from test flights of the EyePod and NuSAR sensors will be presented.
Mechanistic investigations of redox polymer-coated electrodes using probe-beam deflection and cyclic voltammetry (1991)

Optical probe-beam deflection signals, together with cyclic voltammograms, have been used to analyse the electron-transfer process at electrodes coated with [Ru(bpy)2ClPVP]Cl, polyaniline and poly(1-hydroxyphenazine). With this technique it is possible to determine if anions or cations are used as the charge-compensating ions in the electron-transfer process. The electron transfer at [Ru(bpy)2ClPVP]Cl was shown to be accompanied by a simple counter-ion diffusion process. The known electron-transfer mechanism of polyaniline was confirmed and a plausible mechanism for the electron transfer of poly(l-hydroxyphenazine) has been proposed. The additional information (direction of concentration gradients) obtained by a simple probe-beam deflection experiment is extremely useful in the analysis of reaction mechanisms at redox polymer-coated electrodes.
Chromatographic evaluation of porous carbon-clad zirconia microparticles (1995)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTChromatographic evaluation of porous carbon-clad zirconia microparticlesThomas P. Weber, Paul T. Jackson, and Peter W. CarrCite this: Anal. Chem. 1995, 67, 17, 3042–3050Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1995Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1995https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac00113a045https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00113a045research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views251Altmetric-Citations60LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts