gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
The Distributed Software Concept of Remoted Processes, Their Application and Implementation (1986)

The notion of remoted processes is a software concept for distributed systems, such as AT&T's 5ESS™ switching system. When a process is remoted, some of its programs are placed and run in a processor other than the one that first created it. Remoted processes are supported by a remoting subsystem. It permits the programmer to separate the program space of a remoted process and put parts of it into different processors without affecting the design of that process or of other processes that interface with it. This allows flexible placement of programs for the switch's call-processing features into different control processors. Without causing programming changes, these programs can be shifted to other processors according to expected feature usage and when the real-time and address-space capacity of the processor technology changes in specific generics. This paper describes the implementation of the essential features of the 5ESS switch remoting subsystem, including the techniques used for software auditing and exception handling.
Physical properties of quantum‐confined europium sulfide nanocrystals (2007)

Abstract We report the synthesis and the characterization of quantum‐confined europium sulphide nanocrystals, which possess intriguing size‐dependent optical and magnetic properties. Transmission electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction spectroscopy, and SQUID magnetization measurements provide evidence for the quantum‐confinement effects in this monochalcogenide nanomaterial. Photoluminescence measurements indicate a blue‐shifted spectrum for the nanocrystals compared with bulk europium sulphide. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Compliant plant wearables for localized microclimate and plant growth monitoring (2018)

Abstract The microclimate surrounding a plant has major effect on its health and photosynthesis process, where certain plants struggle in suboptimal environmental conditions and unbalanced levels of humidity and temperature. The ability to remotely track and correlate the effect of local environmental conditions on the healthy growth of plants can have great impact for increasing survival rate of plants and augmenting agriculture output. This necessitates the widespread distribution of lightweight sensory devices on the surface of each plant. Using flexible and biocompatible materials coupled with a smart compact design for a low power and lightweight system, we develop widely deployed, autonomous, and compliant wearables for plants. The demonstrated wearables integrate temperature, humidity and strain sensors, and can be intimately deployed on the soft surface of any plant to remotely and continuously evaluate optimal growth settings. This is enabled through simultaneous detection of environmental conditions while quantitatively tracking the growth rate (viz. elongation). Finally, we establish a nature-inspired origami-assembled 3D-printed “PlantCopter”, used as a launching platform for our plant wearable to enable widespread microclimate monitoring in large fields.
Ultralow temperature kinetics of neutral–neutral reactions. The technique and results for the reactions CN+O2 down to 13 K and CN+NH3 down to 25 K (1994)

An entirely new experimental method is described which enables the rate constants of neutral–neutral gas-phase reactions to be measured at ultralow temperatures. The measurements are made by applying the pulsed laser photolysis (PLP), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique of studying the kinetics of free radical reactions in the ultracold environment provided by the gas flow in a Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme (CRESU) apparatus. The experimental method is described in some detail and its application and limitations are discussed. Results are reported for the reactions of CN radicals with O2 and NH3. For reaction (1) between CN and O2 data are reported for the temperature range T=13–295 K and the rate constants are well-matched by the expression k1(T)=(2.49±0.17)×10−11 (T/298)(−0.63±0.04) cm3 molecule−1 s−1. For reaction (2) between CN and NH3, rate constants in the temperature range T=25–295 K fit the expression k2(T)=(2.77±0.67)×10−11 (T/298)(−1.14±0.15) cm3 molecule−1 s−1. The kinetic data are discussed in terms of the latest quantum chemical and reaction rate theories for these systems.
Nucleotide sequence of the haptoglobin and haptoglobin-related gene pair. The haptoglobin-related gene contains a retrovirus-like element. (1985)

Thirty-three kilobase pairs (kb) of human DNA containing the haptoglobin (Hp) and haptoglobin-related (Hpr) gene pair were cloned, and the nucleotide sequence of 21-kb DNA was determined. The two genes are closely linked, with Hpr being 2.2 kb downstream of Hp. Six hundred nucleotides of DNA occur between the two genes that are not found either 5' to the Hp gene or 3' to the Hpr gene. After the duplication event, the first intron of the Hpr gene acquired a 9-kb insert consisting mainly of a retrovirus-like element with a potential primer-binding site homologous to a mouse isoleucine tRNA. The element forms a repeated family in the human genome that I name RTVL-I (retrovirus-like element-isoleucine). In the coding region of the Hpr gene, there are no frameshift or nonsense mutations and its exon-intron splicing sites, 5' flanking and 3' flanking sequences do not show any obvious defects. There are 28 amino acid differences between the decoded amino acid sequences of the Hpr and Hp genes. Sixteen of these differences occur in the hpr beta chain, and all appear to be located on the surface of the molecule in places not thought to be involved in the hemoglobin binding function of haptoglobin. The structure of the Hpr gene suggests that the gene may be expressed and give rise to a functional product.
Counting of Video Clip Repetitions using a Modified BMH Algorithm: Preliminary Results (2006)

In this work, we cope with the problem of identifying the number of repetitions of a specific video clip in a target video clip. Generally, the methods that deal with this problem can be subdivided into methods that use: (i) video signatures afterward the step of temporal video segmentation; and (ii) string matching algorithms afterward transformation of the video frame content into a feature values. Here, we propose a modification of the fastest exact string matching algorithm, the Boyer-Moore-Horspool, to count video clip repetitions. We also present some experiments to validate our approach, mainly if we are interested in found identical video clips according to spatial and temporal features
Determination of New Anticancer Drug, Paclitaxel, in Biological Fluids by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (1994)

A simple and reproducible high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method using an internal standard (I.S.) was developed for the determination of an anticancer drug, paclitaxel, in biological fluids. The sample preparation involves a solid-phase extraction step. HPLC was performed on an ODS column using acetonitrile-2 mM phosphoric acid (45:55) as a mobile phase with detection at 227 nm. A linear relationship was obtained in the range of 0.02-2.0 micrograms/ml in the rat plasma and urine. Since the recovery of the drug was as high as that of I.S. (> 96%), a standard curve generated from the solution of the drug with I.S. in the mobile phase could be used for determination. The method could be applicable for human and dog plasma as well as rat plasma, and the intra- and interday coefficients of variation at 0.05, 2.0 and 10.0 micrograms/ml were less than 7%. This method is useful for pharmacokinetic studies of paclitaxel.
Carbonate and Magnesium Interactive Effect on Calcium Phosphate Precipitation (2007)

Precipitation of Ca phosphates, an important process in controlling P stability and activity in P-fertilized soils and P-rich wastewater, is often affected by other components. The purpose of this study was to document interactive effects of CO3(2-) and Mg2+ on Ca phosphate precipitation under conditions simulating (i) dairy manure-amended soil leachate (system I; pH 7.1) and (ii) P recovery from flushed dairy manure wastewater (system II; pH 9.2). Hydroxyapatite (HAP) and more soluble amorphous Ca phosphate (ACP) were formed in the control solutions of system I and system II, respectively. Carbonate only slightly affected the crystallinity of the precipitate, but significantly reduced the precipitation rate via CO3(2-) competition for PO4(3-) (system I) or preemptive CaCO3 precipitation (system II). Magnesium severely inhibited both precipitate crystallinity and precipitation rate, allowing formation of ACP in both systems, presumably due to Mg2+ incorporation into the Ca phosphate structure to form Mg2+ -substituted structure that crystallized to whitlockite upon heating. Coexistence of CO32- and Mg2+ in system I showed a synergistic inhibitory effect, compared to their individual presence, probably because both CO3(2-) and Mg2+ were incorporated into the precipitate. However, in system II, the individual inhibitory effect of CO3(2-) or Mg2+ was eliminated when both were present. The likely mechanism involves formation of aqueous MgCO3 (aq) which reduces free CO3(2-) and Mg2+ activities, resulting in less preemptive CaCO3 formation and enhanced Ca phosphate precipitation.
A novel small-subunit ribosomal protein of yeast mitochondria that interacts functionally with an mRNA-specific translational activator. (1990)

Mitochondrial translation of the mRNA encoding cytochrome c oxidase subunit III (coxIII) specifically requires the action of three position activator proteins encoded in the nucleus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Some mutations affecting one of these activators, PET122, can be suppressed by mutations in an unlinked nuclear gene termed PET123. PET123 function was previously demonstrated to be required for translation of all mitochondrial gene products. We have now generated an antibody against the PET123 protein and have used it to demonstrate that PET123 is a mitochondrial ribosomal protein of the small subunit. PET123 appears to be present at levels comparable to those of other mitochondrial ribosomal proteins, and its accumulation is dependent on the presence of the 15S rRNA gene in mitochondria. Taken together with the previous genetic data, these results strongly support a model in which the mRNA-specific translational activator PET122 works by directly interacting with the small ribosomal subunit to promote translation initiation on the coxIII mRNA.
Application of Different Fluid Injection Methods to Reduce Breakdown Pressure (2020)

Using hydraulic fracturing laboratory experiments, we previously showed that different fluid injection methods for pressurizing a borehole lead to significant variations in specimen breakdown pressure. In this paper, we present a numerical analysis of these experiments to investigate the mechanism behind such variations. A multiphase, poro-elastic numerical simulator is developed and utilized in this work. The equations for multiphase, multi-component fluid flow in a deforming porous medium are described and the solution algorithm used in the numerical simulator is explained. The simulator is verified against a Buckley-Leverett solution for multiphase flow and against Mandel's compaction problem for poro-elasticity. We constructed a two-dimensional (2D) numerical model with the same dimensions and properties of the laboratory specimen. The specimen is a square sheet with a circular borehole in the middle, and anisotropic far-field stresses are applied to the specimen. A total of five fluid injection cases were simulated. In the first four cases, glycerin was injected into initially dry specimens (air-saturated at atmospheric pressure) using a) fast injection rate, b) slow injection rate, c) cyclic pressure ramp, and d) constant pressure injection. Glycerin was injected in the fifth case into an initially glycerin-saturated specimen using the same fast injection rate in the first case. As the fluid is injected into the specimen, we demonstrate the advancement of fluid saturation front and the development of pore pressure and effective hoop stress around the borehole for the five fluid injection cases. At the end of injection, it is clearly shown that the extent of glycerin infiltration or leakoff into the specimen is smallest for the fast injection, and becomes respectively larger for the slow injection, cyclic pressure ramp, and constant pressure injection. The higher fluid leakoff among the different cases also corresponds to higher pore pressure distributions and induced tensile stresses around the borehole that reduce the required breakdown pressure. The induced hoop stresses are most tensile for the constant pressure injection and least tensile for the fast fluid injection. We show that the least tensile stress using the fast fluid injection becomes the most tensile among all five cases when the specimen is fully saturated with glycerin initially. This study draws a novel linkage between four different topics that are investigated separately in the literature: 1) the effect of fluid injection rate on breakdown pressure, 2) the effect of cyclic borehole pressurization on breakdown pressure, 3) the effect of constant pressure injection on breakdown pressure (static fatigue behavior), and 4) the effect of rock saturation on breakdown pressure. In terms of field applications, the fundamental findings from this study are utilized to develop new methods for pre-frac injection tests to reduce breakdown pressure in highly-stressed formations.
Polyarylate gas separation membranes (1997)

Abstract The molecular design of polymers for membrane separation of gases is illustrated for the oxygen/nitrogen pair by a series of polyarylates. The use of tetrabromo ring substitutions combined with a fluorene connector group on the bisphenol with or without a t‐butyl group on the isophthalic acid monomer leads to state‐of‐the‐art productivity‐selectivity combinations.
Anisotropic 2D Materials for Tunable Hyperbolic Plasmonics (2016)

Motivated by the recent emergence of a new class of anisotropic 2D materials, we examine their electromagnetic modes and demonstrate that a broad class of the materials can host highly directional hyperbolic plasmons. Their propagation direction can be manipulated on the spot by gate doping, enabling hyperbolic beam reflection, refraction, and bending. The realization of these natural 2D hyperbolic media opens up a new avenue in dynamic control of hyperbolic plasmons not possible in the 3D version.
Size-based scheduling to improve web performance (2003)

Is it possible to reduce the expected response time of every request at a web server, simply by changing the order in which we schedule the requests? That is the question we ask in this paper.This paper proposes a method for improving the performance of web servers servicing static HTTP requests. The idea is to give preference to requests for small files or requests with short remaining file size, in accordance with the SRPT (Shortest Remaining Processing Time) scheduling policy.The implementation is at the kernel level and involves controlling the order in which socket buffers are drained into the network. Experiments are executed both in a LAN and a WAN environment. We use the Linux operating system and the Apache and Flash web servers.Results indicate that SRPT-based scheduling of connections yields significant reductions in delay at the web server. These result in a substantial reduction in mean response time and mean slowdown for both the LAN and WAN environments. Significantly, and counter to intuition, the requests for large files are only negligibly penalized or not at all penalized as a result of SRPT-based scheduling.
Adaptation to reflex effects of prolonged lung inflation (1985)

Adaptation to the reflex effects of sustained changes in lung volume on inspiratory duration (TI), expiratory duration (TE), and the phrenic neurogram was examined. Test inflations in gallamine-paralyzed dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium were made during a 6-min trial while the animal was not ventilated: 2 min at functional residual capacity (FRC), 2 min at elevated airway pressure, and 2 min back at FRC. The dogs were hyperoxygenated and arterial PCO2 was kept constant by an infusion of tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane. The maintained inflations produced minimal changes in TI. On return to FRC, TI was prolonged in proportion to the magnitude of the prior inflation. In contrast, inflation produced marked prolongation of TE, which then adapted back toward preinflation values. On return to FRC, TE shortened initially to values below control. This shortening increased with greater prior lung inflations. The times to reestablish steady-state values upon return to FRC differed for TI (14.8 +/- 4.6 s) and TE (33.8 +/- 12.7 s). The magnitude of the phrenic neurogram at a fixed time from onset of inspiration and its slope were unchanged with inflation. These results indicate that respiratory phase durations are influenced not only by pulmonary afferent input within each respiratory cycle but also by prior vagal afferent activity that engages central processes with long, although different, time constants. Afferent input to the slow central process controlling TI is not gated to only one phase of the respiratory cycle.
Dynamic bandwidth allocation in a network (1988)

Recently protocols have been introduced which enable us to integrate periodic traffic (voice or video) and aperiodic traffic (data) and to extend the size of local area networks without any loss in speed and capacity. One of these, the DRAMA protocol, is based on broadband technology and allows for dynamic allocation of bandwidth to clusters of nodes in the total network. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to allocate bandwidth in a fair manner, where we have defined fair to mean that every node in the network, regardless of its location, should have the same expected access delay to the net. We show by means of simulation that the algorithm is stable and within a few percentage points of the optimal solution. Stability is measured in terms of the time it takes the system to return to near optimal distribution of the bandwidth after strong disturbances. The algorithm is shown to handle total reallocation of the resources within O(100ms).
Synthesis and characterization of the new two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet double perovskite BaLaCuSbO<sub>6</sub> (2015)

The BaLaCuSbO(6) double perovskite has been successfully synthesized by solid state reaction under an air atmosphere. Its structure was refined using powder neutron diffraction in the monoclinic space group I2/m with a 4% antisite disorder on the B cations. Magnetic measurements give signs of 2D-antiferromagnetic behaviour with TN around 64 K. The Jahn-Teller distortion produced by Cu(2+) ions favours a crystallographic tetragonal distortion and consequently the in-plane super-superexchange antiferromagnetic interactions, J(90°), are favoured over the in-plane J(180°) antiferromagnetic exchange interactions. Both, J and J' magnetic interactions have been evaluated according to a Heisenberg antiferromagnetic rectangular model using an approximation to Curie's law in powers of J/T, being |J| around 10 times stronger than |J'|.
Uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock results in a hypercoagulable state modulated by initial fluid resuscitation regimens (2013)

Withholding fluid resulted in the least significant change in PT, fibrinogen, and maximum amplitude and in the lowest posttreatment blood loss. Resuscitation with different initial fluid resuscitation strategies did not result in increased proinflammatory mediators compared with animals that did not receive fluid.
Flow birefringence of concentrated polymer solutions in two‐dimensional flows (1981)

Abstract The results of flow birefringence measurements are reported for polymer solutions of moderate concentration subjected to a wide range of two‐dimensional flows. These flows were generated in a four‐roll mill which enables one to systematically vary the ratio of the vorticity to the rate of strain in the flow while holding the velocity gradient constant. It is shown that steady‐state birefringence data collected over a wide range of flow types can be correlated against the eigenvalue of the velocity gradient tensor, in agreement with criterion for strong and weak flows from model calculations. Transient birefringence measurements in which purely extensional flows were started from rest are also reported. It was observed that the birefringence went through a pronounced overshoot in time for two different polymer/solvent systems. Flow induced increases in the solution turbidity were also observed and the increased turbidity remained constant over a period of many hours after extensional flows were arrested. The birefringence, on the other hand, decayed to zero almost immediately after the flows were stopped. These changes in the turbidity suggest that crystallization of the polymer was occurring. The qualitative results of experiments are compared to recent network model calculations using the theory of Yamamoto for concentrated polymer systems. It is found that this model can predict qualitatively many of the experimental observations if the function describing the breakage of polymer chain entanglements is allowed to depend on the conformation of the polymer segments bridging the entanglements. In particular, this dependency of the entanglement breakage on the conformation of the network segments leads to a predicted overshoot of birefringence when purely extensional flows are started from rest. It is also demonstrated through this model that birefringence data taken over a wide range of flow types can be used to estimate the degree to which the network deforms affinely with the flow field.
Data remodulation on downstream OFSK signal for upstream transmission in WDM passive optical network (2003)

Employment of optical frequency shift keying (OFSK) as the downstream modulation format in a WDM passive optical network is proposed. The upstream OOK transmitter at the ONU can be realised by remodulating the constant-intensity downstream OFSK signal power with the upstream data. Transmission and remodulation of 2.5 Gbit/s downstream and upstream signals were successfully demonstrated.
Modification of bitter taste in children (2003)

The palatability of oral medications, many of which are quite bitter, plays an important role in achieving compliance in pediatric patients. We tested the hypothesis that the addition of a sodium salt to some, but not all, bitter tasting liquids enhances acceptance and reduces the perceived bitterness in 7- to 10-year-old children and their mothers. For both children and adults, sodium gluconate significantly suppressed the perceived bitterness and enhanced the acceptance of urea and caffeine whereas the reverse was true for another bitter stimulus, Tetralone. Because children preferred salted solutions more than did adults, these data suggest that the use of sodium salts may be an especially effective strategy for reducing the bitterness of some medicines and facilitating compliance among pediatric populations. However, based on sodium's differential ability to inhibit bitterness, as has been shown here with children and adults, clearly each drug of interest must be evaluated separately.