gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Vocational Interests and Performance (2012)

Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on the basis of Holland's (1959, 1997) theoretical predictions, congruence indices, which quantify the degree of similarity or person-environment fit between individuals and their occupations, should be more strongly related to performance than interest scores alone. Using a comprehensive review of the interest literature that spans more than 60 years of research, a meta-analysis was conducted to examine the veracity of these claims. A literature search identified 60 studies and approximately 568 correlations that addressed the relationship between interests and performance. Results showed that interests are indeed related to performance and persistence in work and academic contexts. In addition, the correlations between congruence indices and performance were stronger than for interest scores alone. Thus, consistent with interest theory, the fit between individuals and their environment was more predictive of performance than interest alone.
Sepsis from Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia decreases intestinal proliferation and induces gut epithelial cell cycle arrest* (2003)

Sepsis from P. aeruginosa pneumonia induces a p53-independent decrease in gut epithelial proliferation. Despite an increase in sepsis-induced intestinal apoptosis, there is no compensatory increase in intestinal epithelial proliferation, and there is evidence of a cell cycle block with an accumulation of cells in M-phase. Decreasing gut apoptosis by overexpression of Bcl-2 is associated with a partial reversal of the effect of sepsis on the cell cycle.
Proendocrine genes coordinate the pancreatic islet differentiation program <i>in vitro</i> (2004)

In the developing pancreas, the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein Neurogenin3 (Ngn3) specifies which precursor cells ultimately will become endocrine cells and initiates the islet differentiation program. NeuroD1, a closely related bHLH protein and a downstream target of Ngn3, maintains the differentiation program initiated by Ngn3. We have developed an in vitro model of Ngn3-dependent differentiation by infecting pancreatic duct cell lines with an Ngn3-expressing adenovirus. We found that both Ngn3 and its downstream target NeuroD1 activated the islet differentiation program in these cells by inducing the expression of genes with early roles in the differentiation cascade, as well as genes characteristic of fully differentiated islet cells. Induction of these genes, as exemplified by the insulin1 gene, involved alteration of the local chromatin structure. Interestingly, the subsets of genes activated by Ngn3 and NeuroD1 were not completely overlapping, indicating that these two bHLH proteins serve specific functions in the development of the endocrine pancreas. In addition, microarray gene expression analysis identified a previously uncharacterized group of Ngn3-induced genes with potentially important roles in islet development and function. These studies demonstrate how Ngn3 initiates islet differentiation and provide us with a model for testing methods for producing islet cells for people with diabetes.
CubeCuts: A Novel Cutting Scheme for Packet Classification (2012)

Packet Classification is one of the most important services provided by Internet routers nowadays. Decision-tree based schemes, such as HiCuts and HyperCuts, are the most well-known algorithms. These schemes separate search space into many equal-sized sub-spaces. But both schemes have the same rule replication problem, which might cause large memory overhead. Although another decision-tree based solution, Hyper splits, was proposed to cut space according to end-points for reducing the memory requirement, we still observe that its rule replication problem doesn't be solved well and the memory requirement can still be improved. In this paper, we propose a scheme called Cube Cuts to build a binary decision tree that does not generate any duplicated rule. By using the hybrid scheme that combines the Cube Cuts and constrained HiCuts, we can have a memory-efficient data structure such that the entire rule table of up to10K rules can be fit into the on-chip memory of FPGA device. Our design is very suitable to be implemented with parallelism and pipeline. The experimental results show that the rule replication ratio is very low in all rule tables (ACL, FW, and IPC). The proposed parallel and pipelined architecture based on the hybrid scheme can achieve a throughput of 118 Gbps, which is enough to deal with the Internet traffic that is growing rapidly in recent years.
[Utility of the L-alanine-aminopeptidase test for differentiating the cell wall structure of bacteria]. (1991)

Evaluation of a detection test for L-alanine-aminopeptidase enzyme (Bactident Aminopeptidase) for determining the structure of bacterial cell wall. In a total of 246 clinical isolates of aerobic, microaerophilic and anaerobic bacteria, we detect the presence or absence of L-alanine-aminopeptidase using commercial kits (Bactident Aminopeptidase, Merck Diagnostica). We also identify and further classified the 246 strains. In nearly all gram-negative bacteria L-alanine-aminopeptidase was found, with the exception of Campylobacter spp and gram-negative anaerobic bacilli. All gram-positive and gram-variable bacteria were negative for the L-alanine-aminopeptidase presence. The results suggest a good correlation between the presence or absence of L-alanine-aminopeptidase and Gram stain method.
A Substrate‐Independent Approach for the Surface Immobilization of Oligonucleotides using Aldehyde Functionalized Surfaces (2009)

Abstract A highly efficient approach for the covalent immobilization of single‐strand DNA onto solid surfaces and their subsequent hybridization to complementary strands is described. This entails pulsed plasma deposition of poly(3‐vinylbenzaldehyde) followed by the Schiff‐base reaction. A range of substrates, including glass slides, silicon wafers, polystyrene microspheres, and single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), are functionalized employing this methodology.
Intraspecies Variation in the Emergence of Hyperinfectious Bacterial Strains in Nature (2012)

Salmonella is a principal health concern because of its endemic prevalence in food and water supplies, the rise in incidence of multi-drug resistant strains, and the emergence of new strains associated with increased disease severity. Insights into pathogen emergence have come from animal-passage studies wherein virulence is often increased during infection. However, these studies did not address the prospect that a select subset of strains undergo a pronounced increase in virulence during the infective process-a prospect that has significant implications for human and animal health. Our findings indicate that the capacity to become hypervirulent (100-fold decreased LD 50 ) was much more evident in certain S. enterica strains than others. Hyperinfectious salmonellae were among the most virulent of this species; restricted to certain serotypes; and more capable of killing vaccinated animals. Such strains exhibited rapid (and rapidly reversible) switching to a less-virulent state accompanied by more competitive growth ex vivo that may contribute to maintenance in nature. The hypervirulent phenotype was associated with increased microbial pathogenicity (colonization; cytotoxin production; cytocidal activity), coupled with an altered innate immune cytokine response within infected cells (IFN-b; IL-1b; IL-6; IL-10). Gene expression analysis revealed that hyperinfectious strains display altered transcription of genes within the PhoP/PhoQ, PhoR/PhoB and ArgR regulons, conferring changes in the expression of classical virulence functions (e.g., SPI-1; SPI-2 effectors) and those involved in cellular physiology/metabolism (nutrient/acid stress). As hyperinfectious strains pose a potential risk to human and animal health, efforts toward mitigation of these potential food-borne contaminants may avert negative public health impacts and industry-associated losses.
An Air Induction System for a Four-Cylinder Engine: Design, Noise Control and Engine Efficiency (1993)

<div class="htmlview paragraph">A new design of an air induction system for a Four-cylinder automobile engine is described. The principle function of the system is the reduction of air induction noise. The potential and theory for improved engine performance is discussed. The system incorporates multiple side branch resonators tuned to the frequency of the fundamental air induction tone over the critical operating range of the engine, typically 2000 to 5000 rpm.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">The resonators are packaged in unique ways permitting a variety of configurations which can conform to available “low priority” space under the hood. The flexibility of this system allows it to be integrated into the hood or secondary dash, for example.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">Rules governing design are given. Packaging concepts are offered. Manufacturing and assembly considerations are discussed.</div>
The Fluostick, a real hand-held system for near-infrared fluorescence image-guided surgery (2014)

Near-infrared fluorescence image-guided surgery, FIGS, has lately shown a huge potential in oncologic and lymphatic related surgeries. In some indications such as liver or heart surgery, fluorescence-reachable anatomic structures are limited by the access to the surgical field. Nevertheless, most of the systems available on the market are too large to image the sides of cavities. Small devices are clearly required to improve workability of fluorescence imaging systems. The current work describes the development of an instrument and the results of its evaluation. In order to image narrow area, we developed a small size device consisting of an optical head connected to a control box. The whole system, optical head, control box and software, receives a CE mark for clinical procedures. Building on existing technologies, we simplified the fluorescence imaging system. It consists of a custom charged-coupled device camera, a high color rendering index visible LED illumination and a Class1 Laser fluorophore excitation. With a curved shape of 25x35x150mm, the optical head was designed as a true hand-held probe. The field of view varies from 5x3.75cm to 2x1.5cm. The device is able to collect and display the signal of 5pmol of IndoCyanine Green (ICG) with a spatial resolution down to 70μm at 25 frames per second. The system has been evaluated in pre-clinical and clinical procedures. The preclinical studies confirmed the ability of the system to visualize tumors in mice models. Clinical evaluations includes lymphedema investigations and surgical resections of tumors in colorectal cancer.
Musical instrument identification: A pattern-recognition approach (1998)

A statistical pattern-recognition technique was applied to the classification of musical instrument tones within a taxonomic hierarchy. Perceptually salient acoustic features—related to the physical properties of source excitation and resonance structure—were measured from the output of an auditory model (the log-lag correlogram) for 1023 isolated tones over the full pitch ranges of 15 orchestral instruments. The data set included examples from the string (bowed and plucked), woodwind (single, double, and air reed), and brass families. Using 70%/30% splits between training and test data, maximum a posteriori classifiers were constructed based on Gaussian models arrived at through Fisher multiple-discriminant analysis. The classifiers distinguished transient from continuant tones with approximately 99% correct performance. Instrument families were identified with approximately 90% performance, and individual instruments were identified with an overall success rate of approximately 70%. These preliminary analyses compare favorably with human performance on the same task and demonstrate the utility of the hierarchical approach to classification.
Automatic Segmentation, Classification and Clustering of Broadcast News Audio (1997)

Automatic recognition of broadcast feeds from radio and television sources has been gaining importance recently, especially with the success of systems such as the CMU Informedia system [1]. In this work we describe the problems faced in adapting a system built to recognize one utterance at a time to a task that requires recognition of an entire half hour show. We break the problem into three components: segmentation, classification, and clustering. We show that a priori knowledge of acoustic conditions and speakers in the broadcast data is not required for segmentation. The system is able to detect changes in acoustics, recognize previously observed conditions, and use this to pool adaptation data. We also describe a novel application of the Symmetric Kullback-Leibler distance metric that is used as a single solution to both the segmentation and clustering problems. The three components are evaluated through comparisons between the Partitioned and Unpartitioned components of the 1996 ARPA Hub 4 evaluation test set. 1.
APPROACH TO AN URBAN STUDY IN A LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY: SOME ASPECTS OF THE SUVA TRANSPORTATION STUDY, FIJI (1975)

This presentation of some aspects of the Fiji transport study is intended to illustrate the need to design study methodology to relate to the context of the area concerned; the need to consider the widest political and economic implications in formulating proposals in less developed countries which are not generally found in developed country practice. The area for study was selected in order to contain fully the parts of the Suva region affected by expansion of the urban areas. The study aimed to enable improvements to be made to different elements of the transport system, including the road network itself, parking facilities, and public transport. Efforts were directed at the determination of complementary but separate proposals each wholly within the area of responsibility of a single agency. The study avoided sophisticated techniques and relied on basic methods which would yield results comprehensible by local agency staff. The details are outlined of surveys and data collection, car ownerhsip projections, the development of road proposals, and of economic evaluation procedures (based on conventional techniques which simply considered resource cost savings).
Time series analysis for psychological research: examining and forecasting change (2015)

Psychological research has increasingly recognized the importance of integrating temporal dynamics into its theories, and innovations in longitudinal designs and analyses have allowed such theories to be formalized and tested. However, psychological researchers may be relatively unequipped to analyze such data, given its many characteristics and the general complexities involved in longitudinal modeling. The current paper introduces time series analysis to psychological research, an analytic domain that has been essential for understanding and predicting the behavior of variables across many diverse fields. First, the characteristics of time series data are discussed. Second, different time series modeling techniques are surveyed that can address various topics of interest to psychological researchers, including describing the pattern of change in a variable, modeling seasonal effects, assessing the immediate and long-term impact of a salient event, and forecasting future values. To illustrate these methods, an illustrative example based on online job search behavior is used throughout the paper, and a software tutorial in R for these analyses is provided in the Supplementary Materials.
Shallow and deep levels in <i>n</i>-type 4H-SiC (1996)

The nitrogen levels in 4H-SiC have been determined using thermal admittance spectroscopy. The values of Ec−0.053 eV for nitrogen at the hexagonal site and Ec−0.10 eV for nitrogen at the quasicubic site agree with those reported using other techniques. The deep levels in 4H-SiC were studied using optical admittance spectroscopy. The optical admittance spectrum showed, besides the conductance peak corresponding to band to band transitions, four other conductance peaks. These peaks correspond to photoexcitation of carriers from the defect levels to the conduction band. It is inferred from a comparison with 6H-SiC that the conductance peak b4 is due to excitation of electrons from the vanadium donor at Ec−1.73 eV. The photoconductance build up transients of the Ec−1.73 eV level are described fully by one exponential term. This suggests that only one center contributed to the observed conductance. The decay kinetics of persistent photoconductance due to the Ec−1.73 eV level follow the stretched exponential form. The potential barrier against recapture of photoexcited carriers was determined to be 18 meV for the vanadium donor level in 4H-SiC.
Highly efficient head‐only magnetic field insert gradient coil for achieving simultaneous high gradient amplitude and slew rate at 3.0T (MAGNUS) for brain microstructure imaging (2019)

Ultra-high gradient coil performance was achieved for head imaging without substantial increases in gradient driver power in a whole-body 3.0T magnet after removing the standard gradient coil. As such, any clinical whole-body 3.0T MR system could be upgraded with 3-4× improvement in gradient performance for brain imaging.
Spam Mail Filtering Technique using Different Decision Tree Classifiers through Data Mining Approach - A Comparative Performance Analysis (2012)

In recent years the highestdegree of communication happens through e-mails which are often affected by passive or active attacks. Effective spam filtering measures are the timely requirement to handle such attacks. Many efficient spam filters are available now-a-days with different degrees of performance and usually the accuracy level varies between 60-80% on an average. But most of the filtering techniques are unable to handle frequent changing scenario of spam mails adopted by the spammers over the time. Therefore improved spam control algorithms or enhancing the efficiency of various existing data mining algorithms to its fullest extent are the utmost requirement.In this paper three types of decision tree classifying techniques which are basically data mining classifiers namely Nave Bayes Tree classifier (NBT), C 4.5 (or J48) decision tree classifier and Logistic Model Tree classifier (LMT) are studied and analyzed for spam mail filtration. The test results depict that LMT is giving the most efficient result in terms of performance with almost 90% accuracy level to detect spam mails and non-spam (HAM) mails.
New actinoporins from sea anemone Heteractis crispa: Cloning and functional expression (2011)

A new actinoporin Hct-S4 (molecular mass 19,414 ± 10 Da) belonging to the sphingomyelin-inhibited α-pore forming toxin (α-PFT) family was isolated from the tropical sea anemone Heteractis crispa (also called Radianthus macrodactylus) and purified by methods of protein chemistry. The N-terminal nucleotide sequence (encoding 20 amino acid residues) of actinoporin Hct-S4 was determined. Genes encoding 18 new isoforms of H. crispa actinoporins were cloned and sequenced. These genes form a multigene Hct-S family characterized by presence of N-terminal serine in the mature proteins. Highly conserved residues comprising the aromatic phosphorylcholine-binding site and significant structure-function changes in the N-terminal segment (10-27 amino acid residues) of actinoporins were established. Two expressed recombinant actinoporins (rHct-S5 and rHct-S6) were one order less hemolytically active than native actinoporins.
Direct Posterior Reduction and Fixation for the Treatment of Basilar Invagination With Atlantoaxial Dislocation (2010)

The direct posterior distraction technique between occiput and C2 pedicle screws is an effective, simple, fast, and safe method for the treatment of BI with AAD. Transoral odontoidectomy and cervical traction for the treatment of BI with AAD should be reconsidered.
Fabrication and characterization of singlemode channel waveguides and modulators in KTiOPO 4 for the short visible wavelength region (1994)

Singlemode strip waveguides at the wavelengths (lambda) equals0.514 micrometers and (lambda) equals0.488 micrometers have been fabricated in potassium titanyl phosphate (KTiOPO<SUB>4</SUB> or KTP) by rubidium- potassium ion exchange in molten mixtures of RbNO<SUB>3</SUB>/KNO<SUB>3</SUB>/Ba(NO<SUB>3</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>. The technological parameters had been chosen by means of theoretical calculations concerning the singlemode region of the effective strip waveguide index N<SUB>00</SUB> at the given wavelength. Measured near field distributions and insertion losses of the strip waveguides led to a typical attenuation of about 2 dB/cm for TM polarization at (lambda) equals0.514 micrometers . The light-induced refractive index changes (photorefractive effect) have been measured as a function of time, wavelength, and optical mode intensity. Electro-optic phase modulators have been successfully investigated concerning dynamic V<SUB>pi</SUB> measurements, the electric-optical field overlap and dc-drift phenomena by using a special interferometric setup based on a two-beam interference of two neighboring strip waveguides.
Additive manufacturing frontier: 3D printing electronics (2018)

3D printing is disrupting the design and manufacture of electronic products. 3D printing electronics offers great potential to build complex object with multiple functionalities. Particularly, it has shown the unique ability to make embedded electronics, 3D structural electronics, conformal electronics, stretchable electronics, etc. 3D printing electronics has been considered as the next frontier in additive manufacturing and printed electronics. Over the past five years, a large number of studies and efforts regarding 3D printing electronics have been carried out by both academia and industries. In this paper, a comprehensive review of recent advances and significant achievements in 3D printing electronics is provided. Furthermore, the prospects, challenges and trends of 3D printing electronics are discussed. Finally, some promising solutions for producing electronics with 3D printing are presented.
Investigation of the effect of heat leak in loop heat pipes with flat evaporator (2009)

Loop heat pipes (LHPs) have a great potential for applications of electronic cooling due to the advantages of high transfer capacity, low thermal resistance and long transport distances.