gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Proper Modeling of Diffusion in Fractured Reservoirs (2011)

Abstract Diffusion may play a key role in a number of oil recovery processes such as heavy oil and naturally fractured reservoirs. In fractured media, several laboratory experiments and numerical studies showed that CO2 injection can improve recovery. Molecular diffusion, gravity drainage, and oil swelling are the main contributing mechanisms. Proper modeling of diffusion of hydrocarbon mixtures at the reservoir PVT and geological conditions is not a trivial task. The challenge is in computing the diffusion coefficients for the non-ideal multicomponent mixtures in oil and gas phases, and in physically accurate modeling of the diffusion driving force. One common approach in most simulators is to use the classical Fick's law which simplifies the multicomponent diffusion fluxes by only considering the main-diffusion (diagonal) terms and neglecting the cross-diffusion (off-diagonal) terms. The diffusion fluxes are assumed independent and the diffusion driving force of each component is proportional to the component self concentration gradient. In this work, we demonstrate analytically and numerically that this simplified approach may have a major inconsistency related the flux balance constraint and, in some applications, it may fail to capture the right direction of diffusion as a result of neglecting the dragging effect. We propose an alternative model based on the generalized Fick's law in which diffusion coefficients are calculated as a function of temperature, pressure, and composition. The proposed approach can be seen equivalent to the Maxwell-Stephan model in which the diffusion driving force is the chemical potential instead of the composition gradient. We also tackle anbook problem that may occur in fractured media when fractures get fully saturated with gas in an under-saturated oil surrounding. Intra-phase gas and oil diffusions will not be initiated due to the discontinuity of phases between the fracture and the rock matrix. The proposed approach in the literature that allows for direct gas-to-oil diffusion may not have a sound bases for issues related to the driving force and the estimation of the mass transfer coefficients. We provide a solution for the cross-phase diffusion flux based on the assumption of having chemical equilibrium at the gas-oil contact. Several numerical examples are provided.
Enzymatic synthesis of bicyclic γ-lactams using clavaminic acid synthase (1992)

J. E. Baldwin, R. M. Adlington, J. S. Bryans, M. D. Lloyd, T. J. Sewell, C. J. Schofield, K. H. Baggaley and R. Cassels, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1992, 877 DOI: 10.1039/C39920000877
Variation in Helminthosporium sativum indúcela by a toxic substance produced by Bacillus mesentericus. (1940)

The density distributions and fluctuations in grids of varying size in liquid water at ambient pressure, both above the freezing point and in the supercooled state, are analyzed from the trajectories obtained from large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the occurrence of low- and high-density regions (LDL and HDL) is transient and their respective residence times are dependent on the size of the simulated system. The spatial extent of density-density correlation is found to be within 7 Å or less. The temporal existence of LDL and HDL arises as a result of natural density fluctuations of an equilibrium system. The density of bulk water at ambient conditions is homogenous.
Symbolic computation as a basis for numerical methods (1991)

Symbolic algebra is supplanting its traditional counterpart as the foundation of numerical methods in engineering. It has allowed production of refined techniques, e.g. new finite elements and improved perturbation methods. While it permits direct solution of some new field problems, its main impact is likely to remain in the creation and refinement of numerical tools. After surveying past applications, currently common systems and languages for computer algebra are reviewed briefly.
A Study on the Effect of ROI Masks on Face Recognition System Using Digital Recorder (2006)

In recent years, biometrics authentication has been widely used to realize high security in airports, office buildings and so on. In public area, surveillance cameras, which are combined with a high efficient coding recorder such as MPEG2 or MPEG4 recorder, are set to take face images of pedestrians and car license plates. However, high compression for efficient recording leads to degradation of details in face and characters on car license plates. Consequently, it is important that region of interest (ROI) is detected correctly and recorded with high quality image. Although there are a number of proposals [1, 2 ] concerning the detection of face areas and license plates, the relationship between ROI masks and face recognition rate or character recognition rate is not cleared. In this work, we investigate the recognition rates for face authentication with compressed face images under limited storage size. Several kinds of ROI mask are compared, and face recognition rates with respect to ROIs are shown.
Effect of Anions on the Solubility of Zwitterionic Amino Acids (1999)

The solubilities of glycine, dl-alanine, dl-valine, and dl-serine in aqueous solutions of NaNO3 and of KNO3 are reported at 298.2 K. No pH adjustment or buffer was used in the measurements. The effect of the anion of the electrolyte on the solubility of the amino acid is observed by comparing these results with values reported in the literature for the effect of NaCl and KCl. For each cation, the solubilities of the amino acids are higher with nitrate anion than with chloride anion. With the exception of dl-alanine, the solubility of the amino acid is larger with potassium as the cation than with sodium, at the same concentration of the nitrate salt. This behavior of dl-alanine in nitrate solutions contrasts with literature results using chloride as anion. In the case of chloride as anion, the solubility of the amino acid is always larger in the presence of potassium than in the presence of sodium.
Effects of<i>Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus</i>on Life History and Host Preference of Its Vector,<i>Neohydatothrips variabilis</i>, and Evaluation of Vector Status of<i>Frankliniella tritici</i>and<i>Frankliniella fusca</i> (2016)

Soybean vein necrosis virus (SVNV) is an emerging Tospovirus that is now considered to be the most widespread soybean virus in the United States. SVNV is transmitted from plant-to-plant by soybean thrips, Neohydatothrips variabilis (Beach). We hypothesized that a positive interaction between the host plant, SVNV, and the vector may have resulted in the widespread distribution of the virus in a short span of time. Our study found that SVNV-infected N. variabilis females produced significantly more offspring compared with non-infected females. No other life-history trait varied between SVNV-infected and non-infected thrips. There was considerable variation in SVNV copy number in infected thrips ranging from 10(2) -10(6) Moreover, there was a significant negative correlation between SVNV copy number and fecundity in infected N. variabilis This suggests that excessive virus accumulation may result in lower viability of N. variabilis In choice tests, SVNV-infected N. variabilis preferred to feed on non-infected leaflets compared with infected leaflets. Vector competence assays indicated that Frankliniella tritici and Frankliniella fusca can transmit SVNV, but at a lower efficiency than N. variabilis Comparison of life history of between the primary and secondary vectors showed that N. variabilis had the highest fecundity, but F. tritici had the shortest development time and greatest larval survival. Taken together, the increased fecundity of SVNV-infected N. variabilis, their apparent preference for non-infected host plants, in conjunction with the ability of secondary vectors to survive and reproduce on soybean may, in part, explain the rapid spread of SVNV in the United States.
Epitaxial and Smooth Films of <i>a</i> -Axis YBa <sub>2</sub> Cu <sub>3</sub> O <sub>7</sub> (1990)

YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7) films have been grown epitaxially on SrTiO(3) (100) and LaAlO(3) (100) substrates with nearly pure a-axis orientation and with transition temperature T(c) (R = 0) of 85 K. A unique feature of these films is their smooth surface. These smooth surfaces enable the growth of short-period superlattices with well-defined modulations. The films are untwinned and the grains grow with their c-axis along one of two perpendicular directions on the substrate ([100] or [010]). The fabrication of sandwich-type Josephson junctions with good characteristics may now be possible because unlike c-axis-oriented films, the superconducting coherence length of these smooth films is appreciably large perpendicular to their surfaces.
Mycobacterial Stationary Phase Induced by Low Oxygen Tension: Cell Wall Thickening and Localization of the 16-Kilodalton α-Crystallin Homolog (1998)

Most cases of tuberculosis are due to reactivation of endogenous infection which may have lain quiescent or dormant for decades. How Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives for this length of time is unknown, but it is hypothesized that reduced oxygen tension may trigger the tubercle bacillus to enter a state of dormancy. Mycobacterium bovis BCG and M. tuberculosis H37Rv were cultured under aerobic, microaerobic, and anaerobic conditions. Their ultrastructural morphology was analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and protein expression profiles were compared by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). TEM revealed that the microaerobically and anaerobically cultured bacilli but not the aerobically cultured bacilli developed a strikingly thickened cell wall outer layer. The thickening was not observed in aerobically cultured stationary-phase bacilli or in anaerobically cultured Mycobacterium smegmatis. A highly expressed protein was detected by SDS-PAGE in microaerobic and anaerobic cultures and was identified as the 16-kDa small heat shock protein or alpha-crystallin homolog. Immunolocalization by colloidal gold immunoelectron microscopy identified three patterns of protein distribution in M. bovis BCG cultured under low oxygen tension. The 16-kDa protein was strongly associated with the cell envelope, fibrous peptidoglycan-like structures, and intracellular and peripheral clusters. These results suggest that tubercle bacilli may adapt to low-oxygen conditions by developing a thickened cell wall and that the 16-kDa protein may play a role in stabilizing cell structures during long-term survival, thus helping the bacilli survive the low oxygen tension in granulomas. As such, the cell wall thickening and the 16-kDa protein may be markers for the dormant state of M. tuberculosis.
Regulation of Abscisic Acid Signaling by the Ethylene Response Pathway in Arabidopsis (2000)

Although abscisic acid (ABA) is involved in a variety of plant growth and developmental processes, few genes that actually regulate the transduction of the ABA signal into a cellular response have been identified. In an attempt to determine negative regulators of ABA signaling, we identified mutants, designated enhanced response to ABA3 (era3), that increased the sensitivity of the seed to ABA. Biochemical and molecular analyses demonstrated that era3 mutants overaccumulate ABA, suggesting that era3 is a negative regulator of ABA synthesis. Subsequent genetic analysis of era3 alleles, however, showed that these are new alleles at the ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2 locus. Other mutants defective in their response to ethylene also showed altered ABA sensitivity; from these results, we conclude that ethylene appears to be a negative regulator of ABA action during germination. In contrast, the ethylene response pathway positively regulates some aspects of ABA action that involve root growth in the absence of ethylene. We discuss the response of plants to ethylene and ABA in the context of how these two hormones could influence the same growth responses.
CO<sub>2</sub> Sequestration Potential of Steel Slags at Ambient Pressure and Temperature (2008)

A study of carbon dioxide sequestration has been performed in aqueous electric arc furnace (EAF) and ladle furnace (LF) slag suspensions, in leached hydrated-matrixes, and in leachates to estimate their intrinsic sequestration potential at ambient conditions (temperature of 20 ± 1 °C and atmospheric pressure). The CO2 sequestration was tested in aqueous suspensions of steel slags at a liquid-to-solid ratio of 10 kg/kg as well as in leached hydrated-matrixes and leachates isolated from these fresh slag suspensions after three consecutive leachings. The sequestration assays were performed at 20 °C with a flow rate of 5 mL/min of a CO2 concentration of 15.00 vol %. The results have revealed that the CO2 sequestration capacity of the LF slag suspension (24.7 g of CO2/100 g of slag) is 14 times superior to that of the EAF slag suspension. This greater CO2 sequestration capacity of the LF slag suspension may be associated in large part to its higher content of portlandite, which reacts with CO2 relative to the EAF slag suspension. Moreover, the separation of hydrated-matrixes and leachates significantly enhanced the CO2 sequestration capacity of EAF slag while a slight decrease was observed for the LF slags. This may be due to an obstruction of the CO2 binding sites of LF slag hydrated-matrixes following the accumulation of calcium carbonate. Taken together, these results suggest that EAF and LF slags could be used for the CO2 sequestration and given a good yield as well in aqueous suspension as in separated matrixes and leachates.
Cardiovascular and Coronary Physiology of Acute Isovolemic Hemodilution (1994)

Acute isovolemic hemodilution is used increasingly to avoid the potentially serious side effects of homologous blood transfusions. Cardiovascular physiology during hemodilution is characterized by a marked increase in cardiac output and organ blood flow to compensate for the decrease in arterial oxygen-carrying capacity. During advanced hemodilution an increased oxygen extraction is also observed, such that oxygen consumption generally is maintained even during advanced hemodilution. The increase in cardiac output is related mainly to a decrease in blood viscosity and an enhanced sympathetic tone resulting in stimulation of the heart. The magnitude and the mechanisms involved in the increase depend upon species, state of awareness (awake versus anesthetized), type of anesthesia, type of exchange solution, and condition of the heart prior to hemodilution. Recent laboratory findings, as well as clinical practice in cardiac surgery, suggest that moderate hemodilution to hematocrit values of approximately 25% is well tolerated in single vessel coronary artery disease which should thus not be regarded as an absolute contraindication for moderate hemodilution. An integral concept to minimize homologous blood transfusions consists of preoperative autologous blood donation, preoperative isovolemic hemodilution, meticulous (asanguineous) surgical technique, and acceptance of minimum hemoglobin levels during the entire hospitalization. The incidence of homologous blood transfusions will be reduced using acute isovolemic hemodilution. This incidence will be further reduced once hemoglobin solutions become clinically available for specific indications. At present, research activities are concentrated on defining the critical level of hemodilution in various pathologic conditions and to investigate pharmacology and physiology of the new hemoglobin solutions. Finally, several chemically modified hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying solutions devoid of renal toxicity will be available in the future. The cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology of these hemoglobin solutions have been studied. Cardiac output is generally constant and oxygen extraction is increased to maintain oxygen consumption during hemodilution with hemoglobin solutions. In most studies, some vasoconstriction was observed also, which might result from interaction of the hemoglobin molecule with the EDRF/NO system. However, with enhanced purification, chemical modification or microencapsulation of the hemoglobin molecule, vasoconstriction can be limited.
Interference Mitigation via Interference-Aware Successive Decoding (2012)

In modern wireless networks, interference is no longer negligible since each cell becomes smaller to support high throughput. The reduced size of each cell forces to install many cells, and consequently causes to increase inter-cell interference at many cell edge areas. This paper considers a practical way of mitigating interference at the receiver equipped with multiple antennas in interference channels. Recently, it is shown that the capacity region of interference channels over point-to-point codes could be established with a combination of two schemes: treating interference as noise and jointly decoding both desired and interference signals. In practice, the first scheme is straightforwardly implementable, but the second scheme needs impractically huge computational burden at the receiver. Within a practical range of complexity, this paper proposes the interference-aware successive decoding (IASD) algorithm which successively decodes desired and interference signals while updating a priori information of both signals. When multiple decoders are allowed to be used, the proposed IASD can be extended to interference-aware parallel decoding (IAPD). The proposed algorithm is analyzed with extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart so as to show that the interference decoding is advantageous to improve the performance. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms interference non-decoding algorithms.
Design of Multilayer Filters by Considering Two Effective Interfaces (1958)

Any nonabsorbing multilayer system may be completely described by two effective interfaces. An analysis based on this representation is applied to deduce the properties of systems consisting of one or two half-wave layers surrounded by reflecting stacks. The salient features of the transmission characteristics are easily obtained. The conditions to be fulfilled in the design of band-pass filters of various band widths and of low-(frequency) pass filters are deduced. It is shown that double half-wave systems have theoretical advantages in band shape and peak transmission over single half-wave systems. This is confirmed experimentally.
NEURONAL DEGENERATION IN LOCUS CERULEUS AND CORTICAL CORRELATES OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE (1987)

Relationships were examined between neuronal degeneration in the nucleus locus ceruleus (nLC), a parameter of central noradrenergic impairment, and neocortical markers of Alzheimer disease (AD). The loss of nLC neurons was found to correlate significantly with norepinephrine concentration, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity, and numbers of plaques and tangles on Brodmann area 24 (cingulate); ChAT and plaque counts in area 21 (temporal); and with ChAT activity in area 10 (frontal). In addition, nLC neuronal counts were correlated significantly with the severity and estimated duration of dementia. The number of neurofibrillary tangles in nLC, which did not correlate significantly with neocortical markers of AD, correlated with the estimated duration and severity of dementia. These data suggest that changes in central noradrenergic pathways are related to the pathophysiology of AD.
Buying with Exact Confidence (1992)

We derive some results which may be helpful to buyers of software testing for faults, or to buyers of large lots screening for defectives. Suppose that a fixed but unknown number $n$ of faults or defectives remain before testing. In the testing phase they are observed at random times, $X_1, X_2, \cdots, X_n$, which are order statistics corresponding to $n$ i.i.d. random variables. Since testing is usually an ongoing activity, this distribution is typically known. Under this assumption we derive a stopping criterion that guarantees, for any specified level $\alpha$ and integer $m$, that for all $n > m$, with probability exactly $1 - \alpha$, when stopping occurs, the software has no more than $m$ faults remaining. We study various properties of this stopping rule, both finite and asymptotic, and show that it is optimal in a certain sense. We modify a conservative stopping rule proposed by Marcus and Blumenthal to make it exact, and we give some numerical comparisons.
Efficient multi-attribute pattern matching using the extended Aho-Corasick method (2002)

The paper describes an efficient multi attribute pattern matching machine using the extended Aho-Corasick method (A.V. Aho and M.J. Corasick, 1975) to locate all occurrences of any of a finite number of the sequence of rule structures (called matching rules) in a sequence of input structures. The proposed algorithm enables us to match set representations containing multiple attributes. Therefore, in the proposed algorithm, confirming transition is decided by the relationship, whether the input structure includes the rule structure or not. It consists of constructing a finite state pattern matching machine from matching rules and then using the pattern matching machine to process the sequence of input structures in a single pass. Finally, the pattern matching algorithm is evaluated by theoretical evaluations and the experimental evaluations that are supported by the simulation results with rules for the extraction of keywords.
Pulse transit time-derived respiratory parameters and their variability across sleep stages (2005)

We considered the capability of pulse transit time (PTT) to provide respiratory information in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients. PTT-derived respiratory frequency was quite well correlated with that derived from inductance plethysmography, with amplitude slightly less so. The PTT-derived respiratory estimates were also used to distinguish sleep stage. In some subjects, statistically significant differences in respiratory parameters were observed between Wake, REM, and Stage 2 sleep, but this effect was highly subject dependent.
Accelerated video streaming for gaming architecture (2010)

Computer game processing requirements for the CPU and graphics performance are growing all the time higher. At the same time many low cost and modest performance CE devices are gaining popularity. People are already used to mobile life style inside home and on the go and they want to enjoy entertainment everywhere. This paper describes an accelerated video streaming method used in a gaming system, called Games@Large, which enables heavy PC game playing on low cost CE devices without the need of game software modification. The key innovations of the Games@Large system are game execution distribution, game streaming, including graphics/video and audio streaming and game control decentralization as well as network quality of service management. This paper concentrates on the advanced video streaming techniques used in Games@Large.
An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem (2010)

We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet and Martin in their seminal paper in FOCS 1983. This problem has applications to query optimization, Internet routing, network topology, and data mining. For a stream of indices in {1,...,n}, our algorithm computes a (1 ± ε)-approximation using an optimal O(1/ε-2 + log(n)) bits of space with 2/3 success probability, where 0<ε<1 is given. This probability can be amplified by independent repetition. Furthermore, our algorithm processes each stream update in O(1) worst-case time, and can report an estimate at any point midstream in O(1) worst-case time, thus settling both the space and time complexities simultaneously.