gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Local treatment of breast in de novo stage IV breast cancer patients. (2012)

e11526 Background: Stage IV breast cancer is an incurable disease. Systemic therapy is usually the main treatment for these patients. Locoregional therapy, such as surgery or radiotherapy, is controversial. Recent studies suggested locoregional treatments of the primary breast cancer can provide some benefit for these patients. Methods: We conducted a chart review of de novo stage IV breast cancer patients at a cancer center hospital in TAIWAN from 1990 to 2008. A total of 276 patients were reviewed and 268 patients met the inclusion criteria. Tumor characteristics, anti-tumor treatments and survival were analyzed. Results: The median survival of 268 patients was 21.5 months. We divided these patients into two groups. There were 140 patients with less than 21.5 months of survival and 128 patients with more than 21.5 months of survival. In univariate analysis, infiltrating ductal carcinoma (p=0.002), ER-positive (p<0.0001), PR-positive (p<0.0001), and no overexpression of HER2 (p=0.0125) were associated with longer survival. The clinical primary tumor size (p=0.11) and positive axillary lymph node involvement (p=0.61) were not different significantly between two groups. About metastatic site, patients with liver mets (p<0.0001) and lung mets (p=0.025) were associated with shorter survival. Bone mets (p=0.63) was not associated with survival. Patients receiving local treatment of primary tumor, including surgery (p<0.0001) or locoregional radiation (p=0.0034), had longer survival. In multivariate analysis, patients who received surgery of primary breast cancer (HR=0.52, p=0.0006) or received systemic chemotherapy (HR=0.47, p=0.002) had better survival. In subgroup analysis, patients without liver metastasis who received surgery of primary breast cancer had longer overall survival significantly (p<0.0001). In contrast, surgery to the primary breast cancer had no benefit in survival (p=0.91) in patients with liver metastasis. Conclusions: Our institutional experience suggests locoregional treatment for primary breast cancer appear to be beneficial for de novo breast cancer patients, especially those without liver mets.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AgNOR PROTEIN AND DNA VALUES OF SECTIONS AND THOSE OF IMPRINTS IN COLORECTAL TUMORS (1995)

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anal-ysis. The results indicate that the values of imprints are more 
accurate than those of sections and may really reflectthe 
interrelated changes of the AgNOR and DNA content.The cell imprint 
method is simple. It can be used inmeasuring the AgNOR protein and 
DNA values of bioptic and shed cells.
Tensile fracture toughness of ceramic materials: Effects of dynamic loading and elevated temperatures (1990)

Experimental methods are presented for the determination of fracture initiation toughness of ceramics and ceramic composites in pure tension under quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions over a range of temperature spanning 20{degree}C to 1300{degree}C. Circumferentially notched and cyclic fatigue pre-cracked rods of a variety of ceramic materials were subjected to quasi-state tensile fracture (Stress intensity factor loading rate, {dot K}{sub I} {approx} 0.1 MPa{radical}m{center dot}s{sup -1}) in an electro-servohydraulic test machine and to dynamic tensile fracture ({dot K}{sub I} {approx}10{sup 6}MPa{radical}m{center dot}s{sup -1}) using a modified tensile Kolsky (split-Hopkinson) bar. Dynamic finite element analyses of the circumferentially notched cylindrical rod have been conducted to develop the optimum specimen dimensions and tests procedures for ambient and elevated temperature dynamic fracture initiation toughness measurement. Experiments conducted on Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}, Si{sub 3}N{sub 4} and SiC, and an Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}--25 volume% SiC whisker composite at room temperature indicate that the dynamic to quasi-state fracture initiation toughness ratio K{sub Id}/K{sub Ic} is in the range of 1.1--1.4. Scanning electron microscopy observations show that failure above 1100{degree}C usually evolves by the nucleation, growth and coalescence of cavities. The mechanisms of elevated temperature quasi-state and dynamic fracture in polycrystalline Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} are examined and possible causes for the apparently higher dynamic fracture initiation resistance are discussed. The significance and limitations of the proposed experimental techniques are highlighted. 25 refs., 14 figs., 3 tabs.
The Design Space of Implicit Hierarchy Visualization: A Survey (2010)

Apart from explicit node-link representations, implicit visualizations and especially the Treemap as their frontrunner have acquired a solid position among the available techniques to visualize hierarchies. Their advantage is a highly space-efficient graphical representation that does not require explicit drawing of edges. In this paper, we survey the design space for this class of visualization techniques. We establish the design space along the four axes of dimensionality, edge representation, node representation, and layout by examining existing implicit hierarchy visualization techniques. The survey is completed by casting some light into regions of the design space that have not yet been explored. Our design space is not a mere theoretical construct, but a practically usable tool for rapid visualization development. To that end, we discuss a software implementation of the introduced design space.
Weed Control by Herbicide Mixtures of Penoxsulam SC in Transplanted Rice Paddy Fields (2006)

This study was conducted to control troublesome weeds effectively by post-emergence foliar application when efficacy of weed control by soil applied herbicide treatment was not good in rice paddy field. In treatment of penoxsulam 3% SC and tank mixing with propanil 35% EC, triclopyr-TEA 30% SL and bentazon 40% SL at 30 and 45 days after transplanting (DAT), rice growth, plant height and No. of tillers were similar to those of the untreated control plot and these herbicides provided practical control to Echinochloa crus-galli, Monochoria vaginalis, Scirpus juncoides, Lindernia dubia, Ludwigia prostrata, Rotala indica var. uliginosa which were about 10 to 30cm tall at applications times. However, weeds more than 30cm were not controled effectively and resulted in color change of leaf parts contacted with herbicides. So, it is possible to control Echinochloa crus-galli and sulfonylurea-herbicides resistant weeds in treatment of penoxsulam 3% SC and tank mixed herbicides at 30 DAT when the growth of weeds are lower than 30cm. Transient discolored spots/lesions in around ligute and yellowing of rice leaf were appeared at 5 to 20 days after treating with at all herbicides.
Enzyme immunoassay of teichoic acids from Listeria monocytogenes (1985)

Amino groups were introduced into Listeria monocytogenes teichoic acids by reductive amination, and the product was coupled to biotin. Teichoic acids were assayed by their binding to specific antibody adsorbed to a solid phase, followed by detection of the antigen-antibody complex by horseradish peroxidase-avidin. Less than 20 ng of teichoic acid was detectable.
Photoinduced pathways to dissociation and desorption of dioxygen on silver (110) and platinum (111) (1991)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPhotoinduced pathways to dissociation and desorption of dioxygen on silver (110) and platinum (111)S. R. Hatch, X. Y. Zhu, J. M. White, and Alan CampionCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1991, 95, 4, 1759–1768Publication Date (Print):February 1, 1991Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 February 1991https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100157a051https://doi.org/10.1021/j100157a051research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views305Altmetric-Citations66LEARN 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 options Get e-Alerts
Workload Models for Autonomic Database Management Systems (2006)

Autonomic computing is a promising approach to the problem of effectively managing large complex software systems such as database management systems (DBMSs). In order to be self-managing, an autonomic DBMS (ADBMS) must understand key aspects of its workload, including composition, frequency patterns, intensity and resource requirements. It must therefore use and maintain different characterizations, or models, of the workload to support its various kinds of decision-making. Our research into various aspects of ADBMSs has led us to develop a number of different workload models. In this paper, we examine the importance of workload models to ADBMSs. We discuss the types of workload models needed by ADBMSs and describe examples from our research. We then outline the requirements for an infrastructure to develop and maintain the workload models needed by an ADBMS.
User Perception on Mobile Augmented Reality as a marketing tool (2016)

Advancement in mobile information technology and the rapid growth of Internet over the past decade have substantially changed the end-user interacting environment. Therefore, it is appropriate to review the measures of user perception with latest information systems technology, especially in a mobile-based augmented reality environment, that has completely revolutionized the way of accessing and interacting with information thus invoking new experiences for users all around the world. The objective of this research is to investigate the perceived user perception of Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR). The results of this study show a remarkable positive perception of respondents regarding MAR in advertisement and marketing.
Phase I Study of Adozelesin Administered by 24-Hour Continuous Intravenous Infusion (1994)

We recommend that the phase II dose of adozelesin given as a continuous 24-hour intravenous infusion be 100 micrograms/m2, repeated every 6 weeks. Other potentially less myelosuppressive schedules could be pursued.
Effect of Oxygen Segregation at Grain Boundaries on Deformation of B, C‐Doped Silicon Carbides at Elevated Temperatures (2005)

The effect of oxygen segregation at grain boundaries on the deformation of 1 wt% boron (B)‐ and carbon (C)‐doped β‐silicon carbide (B, C‐doped SiC) was investigated by compression testing at 2073 K. We studied the deformation of sinter‐forged B, C‐doped SiC (sinter‐forged SiC), which contained the minimum amount (0.07 wt%) of oxygen as an impurity, and that of hot isostatically pressed B, C‐doped SiC (HIPed SiC), which contained 1 wt% oxygen. Oxygen was detected at grain boundary in HIPed SiC by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy, but it was not detected in sinter‐forged SiC. The strain rate of sinter‐forged SiC was one order of magnitude lower than that of HIPed SiC at the same grain size. The grain growth rate of sinter‐forged SiC was lower than that of HIPed SiC also. These results suggest that the oxygen segregation at grain boundaries, together with boron segregation, promoted the grain‐boundary diffusion in B, C‐doped SiC. But, the oxygen segregation without boron was less effective in promoting deformation than the boron segregation without oxygen.
Web based monitoring and control of WSN using WINGZ (Wireless IP network gateway for Zigbee) (2012)

Recent times ZigBee based wireless sensor networks are gaining popularity in various application domain areas like healthcare, structural health monitoring, home and commercial building automation, industrial automation, transportation, agriculture etc. ZigBee standard provides various domain specific application profiles. The sensors are interfaced to ZigBee communication modules to form a wireless personal area network. In order to control and communicate to these networks from backbone infrastructure networks viz. 2G/3G/4G/Wi-Fi a wireless enabled gateway is essential. The hardware platforms and software framework for such Gateways need to be application domain independent to make the systems generic. The work that has been presented in this paper focuses on hardware system design issues and options, software framework and application case studies. The gateway subsystem has been enabled with sufficient storage for local data buffering. The system consists of three modules namely WINGZ (Wireless IP Network Gateway for Zigbee), Ubimote (Wireless ZigBee mote with generic sensor interface) and Ubi-Sense (Generic Sensor board) for application case study. The Gateway Related hardware and software systems enable anywhere connectivity of networked sensors. The heart of the system is WINGZ which is an android based multi protocol wireless gateway supporting WLAN, HSPA (High Speed Packet Access), ZigBee and Ethernet.
Hierarchical Infinite Divisibility for Multiscale Shrinkage (2014)

A new shrinkage-based construction is developed for a compressible vector <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">${\mmb x}\in\BBR^{n}$</tex></formula> , for cases in which the components of <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">${\mmb x}$</tex></formula> are naturally associated with a tree structure. Important examples are when <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">${\mmb x}$</tex></formula> corresponds to the coefficients of a wavelet or block-DCT representation of data. The method we consider in detail, and for which numerical results are presented, is based on the gamma distribution. The gamma distribution is a heavy-tailed distribution that is infinitely divisible, and these characteristics are leveraged within the model. We further demonstrate that the general framework is appropriate for many other types of infinitely divisible heavy-tailed distributions. Bayesian inference is carried out by approximating the posterior with samples from an MCMC algorithm, as well as by constructing a variational approximation to the posterior. We also consider expectation-maximization (EM) for a MAP (point) solution. State-of-the-art results are manifested for compressive sensing and denoising applications, the latter with spiky (non-Gaussian) noise.
High-Resolution Spherical Quantization of Sinusoidal Parameters (2007)

Sinusoidal coding is an often employed technique in low bit-rate audio coding. Therefore, methods for efficient quantization of sinusoidal parameters are of great importance. In this paper, we use high-resolution assumptions to derive analytical expressions for the optimal entropy-constrained unrestricted spherical quantizers for the amplitude, phase, and frequency parameters of the sinusoidal model. This is done both for the case of a single sinusoid, and for the more practically relevant case of multiple sinusoids distributed across multiple segments. To account for psychoacoustical effects of the auditory system, a perceptual distortion measure is used. The optimal quantizers minimize a high-resolution approximation of the expected perceptual distortion, while the corresponding quantization indices satisfy an entropy constraint. The quantizers turn out to be flexible and of low complexity, in the sense that they can be determined easily for varying bit rate requirements, without any sort of retraining or iterative procedures. In an objective comparison it is shown that for the squared error distortion measure, the rate-distortion performance of the proposed method is very close to that of the theoretically optimal entropy-constrained vector quantization. Furthermore, for the perceptual distortion measure, the proposed scheme is shown to objectively outperform an existing sinusoidal quantization scheme, where frequency quantization is done independently. Finally, a subjective listening test, in which the proposed scheme is compared to an existing state-of-the-art sinusoidal quantization scheme with fixed quantizers for all input signals, indicates that the proposed scheme leads to an average bit rate reduction of 20%, at the same subjective quality level as the existing scheme
Europium activated gadolinium sulfide nanoparticles (2016)

For the first time, the ionoluminescence (IL) properties of Eu<sup>3+</sup>doped Gd<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub>nanoparticles (a potential candidate for MRI contrast agents) are reported.
The <i>Xenopus</i> homolog of <i>Drosophila Suppressor of Hairless</i> mediates Notch signaling during primary neurogenesis (1997)

The X-Notch-1 receptor, and its putative ligand, X-Delta-1, are thought to mediate an inhibitory cell-cell interaction, called lateral inhibition, that limits the number of primary neurons that form in Xenopus embryos. The expression of Xenopus ESR-1, a gene related to Drosophila Enhancer of split, appears to be induced by Notch signaling during this process. To determine how the activation of X-Notch-1 induces ESR-1 expression and regulates primary neurogenesis, we isolated the Xenopus homolog of Suppressor of Hairless (X-Su(H)), a component of the Notch signaling pathway in Drosophila. Using animal cap assays, we show that X-Su(H) induces ESR-1 expression, perhaps directly, when modified by the addition of ankyrin repeats. Using a DNA binding mutant of X-Su(H), we show that X-Su(H) activity is required for induction of ESR-1. Finally, expression of the DNA binding mutant in embryos leads to a neurogenic phenotype as well as increased expression of both X-Delta-1 and XNGNR1, a proneural gene expressed during primary neurogenesis. These results suggest that activation of X-Su(H) is a key step in the Notch signaling pathway during primary neurogenesis in Xenopus embryos.
Flexible manufacturing cells and systems (1991)

Part 1 Evolution of manufacturing systems: FMS - definition and description general FMS considerations manufacturing cells. Part 2 Systems planning: physical planning human resources quality manufacturing's driving force just-in-time manufacturing group technology. Part 3 Processing and quality assurance equipment: turning centres machining centres cleaning and debugging stations co-ordinate measuring machines automated material movement and storage systems cutting tools and tool management workholding considerations. Part 4 FMS computer hardware software and communication networks: system hardware and general functionality FMS software structure, functions and description. Part 5 FMS installation and implementation.
Four families of flat-field three-mirror anastigmatic telescopes with only one mirror aspherized (2002)

In a recent paper the author described a method of acquiring the complete solution set of three-mirror anastigmatic telescopes with concave primary mirrors in which only one mirror is allowed to depart from being strictly spherical. There the solution sets were defined over a plane in constructional parameter space and four loci of points were identified representing solutions in which the Petzval curvature for the system was also zero. In the work presented below curves are fitted to these points. These curves represent the full range of possible flat-field three-mirror anastigmats with two spherical mirrors. Examples are given from each of the four families and algorithms are given in spreadsheet format which, for each of the four curves, will deliver a complete set of constructional parameters for a flat-field three-mirror anastigmat with two spherical mirrors for a given single input parameter.
Double-antibody solid-phase enzyme immunoassay for the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (1977)

A simple double-antibody enzyme immunoassay that uses a microtechnique was developed for detecting staphylococcal enterotoxin A in food products. Sample preparation can be completed in less than 15 min. Assay sensitivity ranges from 0.4 ng (20-h test time) to 3.2 ng (1- to 3-h test time) of toxin per ml of prepared sample. Separation and detection of enterotoxin from spiked food products ranged between 72 and 98% of the amount added.
On Performance Evaluation of Driver Hand Detection Algorithms: Challenges, Dataset, and Metrics (2015)

Hands are used by drivers to perform primary and secondary tasks in the car. Hence, the study of driver hands has several potential applications, from studying driver behavior and alertness analysis to infotainment and human-machine interaction features. The problem is also relevant to other domains of robotics and engineering which involve cooperation with humans. In order to study this challenging computer vision and machine learning task, our paper introduces an extensive, public, naturalistic videobased hand detection dataset in the automotive environment. The dataset highlights the challenges that may be observed in naturalistic driving settings, from different background complexities, illumination settings, users, and viewpoints. In each frame, hand bounding boxes are provided, as well as left/right, driver/passenger, and number of hands on the wheel annotations. Comparison with an existing hand detection datasets highlights the novel characteristics of the proposed dataset.
Regioselective derivatization of cellulose - routes of synthesis, effects on properties and areas of application (1996)

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An experiment in authorship attribution (2002)

This paper reports an experiment in authorship attribution that reveals considerable authorial structure in texts written by authors with very similar background and training, with genre and topic being strictly controlled for. We interpret our results as supporting the hypothesis that authors have ’ textual fingerprints’, at least for texts produced by authors who are not consciously changing their style of writing across texts. What this study has also taught us is that discriminant analysis is a more appropriate technique to use than principal components analysis when predicting the authorship of an unknown (held-out) text on the basis of known (training) texts of which the authorial provenance is available. Finally, standard discriminant analysis can be enhanced considerably by using an entropy-based weighting scheme of the kind used in latent semantic analysis (Landauer et al., 1998).