gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Phantoms in the brain: probing the mysteries of the human mind (1999)

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., is internationally renowned not just for his bold insights about the human brain but also for the stunning simplicity of the experiments he devises to solve neurology cases that have baffled his peers (using such tools as Q-Tips, glasses of water, and mirrors). Phantoms in the Brain is a fascinating journey into the deep architecture of the mind. In the bestselling tradition of Oliver Sacks, Dr. Ramachandran and his co-author, noted New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee, introduce us to a range of patients suffering from strange neurological afflictions, explain how Dr. Ramachandran's evaluations reveal what actually occurs in the brain, and explore what these findings reveal about our dreams, laughter, memory, depression, body image, and language -- in short, the very things that make us human. These mesmerizing cases illuminate elusive aspects of the brain: why we think the way we do, how we reason, how we deceive ourselves, and perhaps even why we are so clever at philosophy, music, and art. Some examples: -- A blind woman unerringly reaches out to grasp a pen -- and challenges us to find the true seat of vision. -- A woman who believes that her paralyzed arm is lifting a tray of drinks offers a look at the neurology of delusion -- and a unique opportunity to test Freud's theories of denial. -- A young man who insists that his parents are impostors reveals how the brain weaves meaning from the millions of incidents that compose a life. -- A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters suffers from a disorder that may have spawned James Thurber's famed flights of visual fancy -- and illustrates how in a sense we are all hallucinating, all the time. These are stories of inspired medical detective work that push the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- human mind -- and bring us face-to-face with new and provocative ideas about the big questions of the self.
Chronic allograft nephropathy in the rat is improved by angiotensin II receptor blockade but not by calcium channel antagonism. (1998)

Functional and structural changes of chronic renal allograft failure share similarities with other chronic nephropathies with low nephron number. In models of reduced nephron number, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers prevented proteinuria and retarded renal lesions. This study investigates whether blockade of angiotensin II activity prevented chronic allograft injury in the Fisher 344 --> Lewis rat kidney transplant model, and compares its effect with that of calcium channel blockers, the main antihypertensive agents used in transplant patients to control BP. Transplanted rats received either no treatment (control), the type 1 angiotensin II receptor antagonist losartan, or the calcium channel blocker lacidipine. Rats received cyclosporine for the first 10 d posttransplant to prevent acute rejection. Doses of antihypertensive drugs were adjusted to achieve a comparable level of BP control throughout the study. Awake systolic BP was comparable in animals given losartan or lacidipine during the 6-mo observation period. Daily treatment with losartan but not lacidipine resulted in a significant decrease in the amount of proteinuria, preserved glomerular and tubulointerstitial structure, and improved graft survival compared with corresponding parameters in control untreated rats. GFR, measured as inulin and p-aminohippurate clearances, respectively, in rats surviving the 6-mo follow-up, was numerically but not significantly higher in losartan-treated animals than in all other groups. Thus, at comparable levels of BP control, losartan but not lacidipine effectively protects animals from chronic allograft injury and allows long-term survival.
The newly born foal - everything clear? (1996)

Das Fohien erreicht bei der Geburt mit rd. 10 % des adulten Gewichts enen hohen Refegrad. Einflusse marginaler Energie-, EiweB-und Mengenelernentversorgung der hochtragenden Stute auf Gewicht und Krperzusammensetzung
Bromodecarboxylation of Quinoline Salicylic Acids: Increasing the Diversity of Accessible Substituted Quinolines (2009)

Quinoline salicylic acids underwent bromodecarboxylation at room temperature upon treatment with N-bromosuccinimide. A wide variety of functional groups was tolerated. Several one-pot transformations were also carried out, allowing the preparation of diverse 4-substituted quinolines.
Towards real-time camera egomotion estimation and three-dimensional scene acquisition from monocular image streams (2010)

The three-dimensional reconstruction of rigid scenes from monocular image streams is based on the former calculation of the relative camera pose between at least two successive image frames. This egomotion estimation has not been solved satisfactorily by relying only on corresponding image features, such as points or lines, due to noise, critical motion patterns or special point configurations. This paper describes a framework for incorporating inertial measurements from gyroscopes, accelerometers and magnetometers to achieve an improved performance of the estimation of camera motion and scene structure in terms of accuracy, robustness and computational costs. The framework is designed as a dual-track system containing a visual and a inertial route.
Golay complementary sequences are superior to PN sequences (2003)

The properties of individual Golay sequences are considered, and it is shown that they are in many respects equal or superior to pseudonoise (PN) sequences. The following properties of the two sequences are compared: sequence length, number of sequences, autocorrelation properties, spectral properties, and complexity of sequence generators and correlators. The most important advantage of Golay sequences is the existence of the fast Golay correlation algorithm which makes them ideal for applications that require high bit rates and large sequence lengths.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Multi-diode cascade VCSEL with 130% differentialquantum efficiency at CW room temperature operation (2001)

The room temperature, continuous-wave (CW) operation of a fabricated multi-diode cascade vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser at 980 nm wavelength, with a differential quantum efficiency exceeding unity, is demonstrated for the first time. A maximum wallplug efficiency of 16% is obtained at a driving current of three times the threshold.
A polyglycine stretch is necessary for proper targeting of the protein translocation channel precursor to the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts (2003)

Toc75 is a protein translocation channel in the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts and its presence is essential for the biogenesis of the organelles. Toc75 is the only protein identified so far in the outer membrane of chloroplasts or mitochondria that is synthesized as a larger precursor, preToc75, with a bipartite transit peptide. Its N-terminus targets the protein to the stroma and is removed by the stromal processing peptidase, whereas its C-terminus mediates envelope targeting and is removed by a yet unknown peptidase. Several conserved domains have been identified in the C-terminal portion of the preToc75 transit peptide from six plant species. We evaluated their importance in the biogenesis of Toc75 by means of deletion or site-directed mutagenesis, followed by import experiments using isolated chlroplasts. Among the conserved domains, a polyglycine stretch was found to be necessary for envelope targeting. Substitution of this domain with other stretches of a single amino acid such as alanine caused mistargeting of the protein into the stroma, indicating an important role for this domain. Furthermore, a glutamate at +2 and two alanine residues at -3 and -1 to the second cleavage site were found to be important for processing. A potential mechanism for the biogenesis of Toc75 is discussed.
Le piratage de logiciels : du légalisme des producteurs au pragmatisme d'informaticiens (2005)

What is software piracy? What is not? For software producers, as well as for many IS researchers, law dictates in these matters. We have searched the views of computer professionals and found that they tend to disagree with the formers. For our respondents, context matters and pragmatism as well as a clear distinction between the domestic and the private spheres prevail upon economic imperatives and laws.
ChemInform Abstract: Organosilicon Derivatives of Cyclic and High Polymeric Phosphazenes. (1988)

Abstract Cyclic phosphazenes such as (III) with organosilicon side‐chain are investigated.
The genetic basis of cardiac function: dissection by zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) screens (2000)

The vertebrate heart differs from chordate ancestors both structurally and functionally. Genetic units of form, termed 'modules', are identifiable by mutation, both in zebrafish and mouse, and correspond to features recently acquired in evolution, such as the ventricular chamber or endothelial lining of the vessels and heart. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) genetic screens have provided a reasonably inclusive set of such genes. Normal cardiac function may also be disrupted by single-gene mutations in zebrafish. Individual mutations may perturb contractility or rhythm generation. The zebrafish mutations which principally disturb cardiac contractility fall into two broad phenotypic categories, 'dilated' and 'hypertrophic'. Interestingly, these correspond to the two primary types of heart failure in humans. These disorders of early cardiac function provide candidate genes to be examined in complex human heart diseases, including arrhythmias and heart failure.
Some Mono- and Di-alkyl Ethers of Stilboestrol<sup>1</sup> (1942)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSome Mono- and Di-alkyl Ethers of Stilboestrol1E. Emmet Reid and Edith WilsonCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1942, 64, 7, 1625–1626Publication Date (Print):July 1, 1942Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 July 1942https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01259a042https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01259a042research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views29Altmetric-Citations8LEARN 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
Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Natural Gas with Optical Feedback cw-Diode Lasers (2015)

We report on improvements made on our previously introduced technique of cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (CERS) with optical feedback cw-diode lasers in the gas phase, including a new mode-matching procedure which keeps the laser in resonance with the optical cavity without inducing long-term frequency shifts of the laser, and using a new CCD camera with improved noise performance. With 10 mW of 636.2 nm diode laser excitation and 30 s integration time, cavity enhancement achieves noise-equivalent detection limits below 1 mbar at 1 bar total pressure, depending on Raman cross sections. Detection limits can be easily improved using higher power diodes. We further demonstrate a relevant analytical application of CERS, the multicomponent analysis of natural gas samples. Several spectroscopic features have been identified and characterized. CERS with low power diode lasers is suitable for online monitoring of natural gas mixtures with sensitivity and spectroscopic selectivity, including monitoring H2, H2S, N2, CO2, and alkanes.
The status of ISP at the Arvedi Works, Cremona, Italy (1996)

This mini-mill is designed for the production of 500,000 tpy of quality hot strip. The facilities and production process are described. Various steel grades and qualities can be produced in thicknesses down to 1.5 mm. The surface quality of the strip is approaching that of classical strip. An increasing proportion of hot strip is suitable for the transformation into rather demanding qualities of cold rolled strip.
Purification and characterization of an extracellular proteinase from <i>Brevibacterium linens</i> (1990)

The alkaline proteinase of Brevibacterium linens was partially purified through ultrafiltration and chromatography on Sephacryl S-200. The molecular weight of this enzyme was determined by gel electrophoresis in polyacrylamide to be 52 000 – 55 000. The proteinase hydrolyses natural polypeptides such as casein, haemoglobin, bovine serum albumin, and ovalbumin. An apparent K m for casein was determined to be 1.3 mg∙mL −1 . The optimal pH for caseinolytic activity was between 7.0 and 8.5 at the optimal temperature of 45 °C. The isolated enzyme is thermolabile: incubation at 50 °C destroyed proteolytic activity. Substrate proteins have a stabilizing effect. Our inhibition studies revealed that the B. linens proteinase belongs to the serine proteinase class. Key words: Brevibacterium linens, proteinase, purification.
Mining heterogeneous information networks (2012)

Real world physical and abstract data objects are interconnected, forming gigantic, interconnected networks. By structuring these data objects into multiple types, such networks become semi-structured heterogeneous information networks. Most real world applications that handle big data, including interconnected social media and social networks, scientific, engineering, or medical information systems, online e-commerce systems, and most database systems, can be structured into heterogeneous information networks. For example, in a medical care network, objects of multiple types, such as patients, doctors, diseases, medication, and links such as visits, diagnosis, and treatments are intertwined together, providing rich information and forming heterogeneous information networks. Effective analysis of large-scale heterogeneous information networks poses an interesting but critical challenge.
Albumin rather than C-reactive protein may be valuable in predicting and monitoring the severity and course of acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill patients with or at risk for the syndrome after new onset fever (2015)

Overall, albumin may be of greater value than CRP in predicting and monitoring the severity and course of ARDS in critically patients with or at risk for the syndrome after new onset fever. Albumin levels below 20 g/L as well as a decline over a week are associated with ARDS of increasing severity, irrespective of its definition. LDH levels predicted 28-day mortality.
Three-dimensional printing in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology: a single-centre experience (2014)

The fabrication of 3D printing models is feasible for perioperative planning and simulation in a variety of complex cases in paediatric and adult cardiac surgery, as well as in interventional cardiology. Further studies including more patients and providing more data are expected to demonstrate that the use of 3D printing may decrease morbidity and mortality of complex, non-routine procedures in cardiovascular medicine.
Fuzzy service selection in a distributed object-oriented environment (2001)

In network-centered execution environments, client objects can transparently invoke services offered by remote server objects, according to their published interface. The object selection problem requires the evaluation of the fitness of a pool of candidate server objects on the basis of the available information about their functional and nonfunctional features. Network-centered systems usually store such information in a trader agent that can be browsed or queried by client objects. In this paper, a fuzzy data model is proposed as the basis of the design of such a trader system, taking into account synergy between objects' features. Our trader is based on a fuzzy query algebra allowing for deriving operator definitions (therefore, query execution mechanisms) at run time, on the basis of user-selected semantics.
A Metadata-Driven Approach for Testing Self-Organizing Multiagent Systems (2020)

Multiagent Systems (MASs) have multiple different characteristics, such as autonomy, and asynchronous and social features, which make these systems difficult to understand. Thus, there is a lack of procedures guaranteeing that multiagent systems once implemented would behave as desired. Determining the reliability of such systems is further complicated by the fact that current agent-based approaches may also involve non-deterministic characteristics, such as learning, self-adaptation and self-organization (SASO). Nonetheless, there is a gap in the literature regarding the testing of systems with these features. This paper presents an approach based on metadata and the publish-subscribe paradigm to develop test applications that address the process of failure diagnosis in a self-organizing MAS. The novelty of the proposed approach involves its ability to test self-organizing MAS systems in the context of local and global behavior. To illustrate the use of this approach, we developed a self-organizing MAS system based on the Internet of Things (IoT), which simulates a set of smart street lights, and we performed functional ad-hoc tests. The street lights need to interact with each other in order to achieve the global goals of reducing energy consumption and maintaining the maximum value of visual comfort in illuminated areas. To achieve these global behaviors, the street lights develop local behaviors automatically through a self-organizing process based on machine-learning algorithms.
Implementing recoverable requests using queues (1990)

Transactions have been rigorously defined and extensively studied in the database and transaction processing literature, but little has been said about the handling of the requests for transaction execution in commercial TP systems, especially distributed ones, managing the flow of requests is often as important as executing the transactions themselves. This paper studies fault-tolerant protocols for managing the flow of transaction requests between clients that issue requests and servers that process them. We discuss how to implement these protocols using transactions and recoverable queuing systems . Queuing systems are used to move requests reliably between clients and servers. The protocols use queuing systems to ensure that the server processes each request exactly once and that a client processes each reply at least once. We treat request-reply protocols for single-transaction requests, for multi-transaction requests, and for requests that require interaction with the display after the request is submitted.
Biomechanical interaction between cap thickness, lipid core composition and blood pressure in vulnerable coronary plaque: impact on stability or instability (2004)

The present study shows why, in clinical practice, mere morphological detection by imaging techniques of thin-cap fibro-atheroma is not in itself enough for the prediction of future rupture.
A New Approach for Most Realistic Wellpath Computation (2000)

Abstract The trajectory of a wellpath is a tortuous space curve with permanent changes in directions and curvatures. A usage of steerable directional drilling tools in nowadays drilling practices even more forces the bit apart from its natural tendencies of running a smooth course - enforcing a highly curved shape of the well. Although this is well known all to the author's knowledge existing wellpath computation methods are based on piecewise approximating the wellpath with constant curvature linear, circular and helical curves and arcs. A new proposed trajectory computation method gives up these old paradigms and introduces a new approach to accurately calculate the spatial course of a wellpath while maintaining its realistic shape from standard wellbore survey measured depth, inclination and azimuth data. In detail the discussed algorithm is founded on fundamental differential geometry practices in synergy with piecewise spline-curve approximation techniques. This limits the common problems of spline-curve approximations. The result is a highly accurate wellpath description with proven curvature continuity in any position along its course. The proposed new method is a further step in more accurate wellbore trajectory and dogleg severity computation- especially for complex shaped and extended reach wells. The proposed model's accuracy and reliability is proven and verified with a complex shaped, 11.3 km synthetic wellbore example (with known results) followed by extended-reach and complex shaped field case studies.
A 200-V SOI p-Channel LDMOS with thick gate oxide layer (2016)

A 200-V SOI p-channel pLDMOS with thick gate oxide layer is presented in this paper. The thick gate oxide layer is formed by field oxide process to endure the high voltage between the source and gate electrodes. The field implant (FI) technology is adopted to eliminate channel discontinuity at the bird's beak region. The influences of key parameters on on-state breakdown voltage (BV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sub> ) and off-state breakdown voltage (BV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">off</sub> ) of the SOI pLDMOS are discussed. The SOI pLDMOS with BVoff of -240 V is experimentally realized, and is successfully applied to HV driving IC.
Continuous Veno-Venous Haemodiafiltration in Sodium Valproate Overdose Complicated by Cerebral Oedema: A Case Report (2002)

A case of severe sodium valproate overdose is presented in which continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration was used. However, following the commencement of dialysis and a fall in the serum valproate levels, the patient developed cerebral oedema. This case demonstrated a poor correlation between serum valproate and its toxic effects and the lack of benefit of continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration in the management of sodium valproate overdose.
Detection and Extraction of Videos using Decision Trees (2011)

This paper addresses a new multimedia data mining framework for the extraction of events in videos by using decision tree logic. The aim of our DEVDT (Detection and Extraction of Videos using Decision Trees) system is for improving the indexing and retrieval of multimedia information. The extracted events can be used to index the videos. In this system we have considered C4.5 Decision tree algorithm [3] which is used for managing both continuous and discrete attributes. In this process, firstly we have adopted an advanced video event detection method to produce event boundaries and some important visual features. This rich multi-modal feature set is filtered by a pre-processing step to clean the noise as well as to reduce the irrelevant data. This will improve the performance of both Precision and Recall. After producing the cleaned data, it will be mined and classified by using a decision tree model. The learning and classification steps of this Decision tree are simple and fast. The Decision Tree has good accuracy. Subsequently, by using our system we will reach maximum Precision and Recall i.e. we will extract pure video events effectively and proficiently.