gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Starch Pasting Properties at Various Cooking Conditions Using the Micro Visco‐Amylo‐Graph and the Rapid Visco Analyser (2003)

ABSTRACT Pasting profiles of selected starches were compared by using a Micro Visco‐Amylo‐Graph (MVA) and a Rapid Visco Analyser (RVA). Effects of cooking (heating/cooling) rate and stirring speed on starch pasting properties were examined. The pasting viscosity of a starch suspension (8%, w/w, dsb) was measured at a fast (6°C/min) and slow (1.5°C/min) cooking rate while being stirred at either 75 rpm or 160 rpm. The pasting temperatures (PT) of all starches were higher when measured at the fast cooking rate than those at the slow cooking rate, except for wheat measured by using the RVA. PT was also higher when measured at the slow stirring speed (75 rpm) than at the fast stirring speed (160 rpm) in both RVA and MVA. When stirring speed increased from 75 rpm to 160 rpm, peak viscosity of all starch pastes except potato decreased measured by using the RVA, but increased by using the MVA. In general, amylograms of these starches obtained by using the MVA showed less breakdown, but greater setback viscosity than did that obtained by using the RVA. Differences in starch pasting properties between MVA and RVA, measured at the same cooking and stirring rates, were attributed mainly to the difference in spindle structure.
Dry land in geology (1916)

Research Article| January 01, 1916 Dry land in geology ARTHUR P. COLEMAN ARTHUR P. COLEMAN Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (1916) 27 (1): 175–192. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-27-175 Article history received: 27 Jan 1916 first online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation ARTHUR P. COLEMAN; Dry land in geology. GSA Bulletin 1916;; 27 (1): 175–192. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-27-175 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract IntroductionAfter visits to South Africa, Australia, and India to study dry-land deposits, it has become very evident to the writer that most of the earth is covered with water, and also that a ship is the most tantalizing of all modes of travel for a geologist, since captains have a prejudice against anything of geological interest, such as rocks or reefs or shoals. After 1,200 miles of sheltered voyaging behind the great Australian barrier, one may reach Java without ever seeing a coral reef at close quarters. Except the oozes dredged from the deep sea and the contours of its bottom revealed by soundings, the three-quarters of the globe beneath the ocean have scarcely any message for the geologist. That the waves and the tides do important geological work is true, but to hear the growl of the breakers and to see them pounce on their prey, one must . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.
The description of Serial ATA bus_ Protocol and the design of Serial ATA bus control chip HPT183 (2008)

In a PC system, External storage interface is still a bottleneck in spite of its continuous improving performance, in contrast to the fast development of CPU, memory, graphic chips. The transfer rate in ATA protocol has been improved drastically from the beginning 3.3MB/s to current 133MB/s, but the plate electrode of a parallel interface is inevitably puzzled by clock skew, which limit the increasing of frequency and transfer rate can not be improved. Serial ATA protocol is compatible with Parallel ATA protocol in software layer. Its transfer rate is improved greatly due to serial interface with embedded clock. This paper will discuss the differences between Parallel ATA protocol and serial ATA protocol, and describe the hierarchical classification of serial ATA protocol model. Last a design for HPT183, a parallel/serial ATA bridge connection chip, will be put forward and the test performance index for this chip is also provided.
Incremental speaker adaptation with minimum error discriminative training for speaker identification (2002)

The minimum classification error (MCE) has been shown to be effective in improving the performance of a speaker identification system. However, there are still problems to solve, such as the variability of the voice characteristics of a particular speaker through time. In this paper, we analyze the degradation of a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based text-independent speaker identification system when using test data recorded over six months after the training session, and, in an attempt to avoid this degradation, we study the use of supervised adaptation based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation and MCE. These techniques have been shown to provide good results for speaker adaptation in speech recognition. The major result we have obtained is that, by starting with GMM models trained with only speech from session 1, similar identification results can be obtained for all the other sessions using an incremental adaptation using only 2.5 seconds of speech per speaker and session as data for the MCE training adaptation procedure. We have also found that, in our extreme experimental setup, MAP becomes unhelpful when combined with MCE adaptation.
Activation of stable polymeric esters by using organo‐activated acyl transfer reactions (2014)

ABSTRACT In this study, we succeeded in the in situ activation of nonactivated ester moieties embedded in polymer structures. Although poly(pentafluorophenyl methacrylate) (PPFPMA) can react with 2‐ethylhexylamine at 50 °C in the presence of proton scavenger such as NEt 3 , such conditions were not suitable for poly(phenyl methacrylate) (PPhMA). Nevertheless, the combination of organo‐activating agents, namely 1,8‐diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec‐7‐ene (DBU) and 1,2,4‐triazole (TZ) led to a facile conversion from ester to amide for PPhMA. The reaction between PPhMA and 2‐ethylhexylamine was conducted at 120 °C in the presence of one equivalent of TZ and three equivalents of DBU and yielded >99% ester conversion to afford corresponding polymethacrylamide derivatives as confirmed by FT‐IR and 1 H NMR measurements. In addition, poly(2,2,2‐trifluoroethyl methacrylate) (PTFEMA) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were also allowed to react with amines in the presence of the organo‐activating agents with dramatically increased conversions (>70%). © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2014 , 52 , 1353–1358
Multifrequency, Multisatellite Vector Phase-Locked Loop for Robust Carrier Tracking (2009)

A new vector phase-locked loop (PLL) for joint tracking of carrier phase from all satellites on multiple frequencies is presented. It increases the robustness to ionospheric scintillations, carrier phase multipath and interference from jammer. The tracking error is split into a position error, a clock offset, ionospheric, and tropospheric errors which are filtered individually. The filter coefficients are optimized with orthogonal projections of the tracking error that eliminate the nuisance parameters. The tracking performance is determined recursively, and a significant reduction of the tracking error is observed during strong ionospheric scintillations with deep amplitude fades.
Adaptive Spectrum Control and Management in Elastic Optical Networks (2013)

Elastic optical networking (EON) has emerged in recent years as a promising solution for implementing flexible bandwidth channels (flexpaths) that efficiently match the allocated bandwidth with the traffic demand using agile granularities of spectrum allocation. However, the additional flexibility in such networks raises challenges in terms of efficient control and management of spectrum resources. Among them, three important issues are (1) mitigation of spectral fragmentation, (2) implementation of impairment awareness and enhancement of robustness against impairments for potentially large-bandwidth flexpaths, and (3) design of an efficient restoration scheme to combat network failures. This paper presents an adaptive spectrum control and management scheme, which includes: dynamic on-demand spectral defragmentation, adaptive combinational quality of transmission (QoT) restoration (ACQR) and supervisory channel-assisted active restoration, to account for the three issues above. We present scalable networking algorithms and experimental demonstrations that address these issues in an EON testbed. Simulation results show that the defragmentation technique is capable of reducing the provisioning blocking probability by half with only one defragmentation module on each link. Then, we also show that the ACQR can efficiently restore many degraded flexpaths on the same impaired link while reducing the restoration blocking probability by a factor of 10 compared with the conventional rerouting method. At last, we show via simulation the advantages of using supervisory channels to determine restoration path quality and selection in EON restorations. This paper also presents experimental demonstrations to corroborate the effectiveness and feasibility of implementing these capabilities in next generation optical networks.
The Chain Magnetic Memory Element (1965)

Nondestructive reading of orthogonal-field memory elements, in particular metallic tape memory cores in which an interrogating current through the tape material is employed, has been described in the literature, <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1,2</sup> and many workers have reported on other orthogonal field memory elements. The experimental element described in this paper differs in geometry from previously proposed orthogonal field memory elements and provides all memory function
ChemInform Abstract: Ge<sub>2</sub>ZrO<sub>6</sub>F<sub>2</sub>× (H<sub>2</sub>DAB)H<sub>2</sub>O: A 4‐Connected Microporous Material with “Bow Tie” Building Units and an Exceptional Proportion of 3‐Rings. (2001)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Effects of phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation for early control of intraocular pressure of primary glaucoma (2011)

Objective To assess and find associated factors for favorable postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) after cataract phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation in patients with primary glaucoma on early stage.Methods Forty-five patients (43 eyes) with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) and 32 patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) were retrospectively selected.All patients had undergone standard 3.2mm limbal incision phacoemulsification,and 2 years of routine follow-up after cataract surgery.Success was defined as an IOP between 6-21mmHg,with fewer antiglaucoma medications needed than those during pre-operation,no obvious progressions of glaucomatous neuropathy and its coincident visual field loss,and no need of additional glaucoma surgery.Results After phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation,there were 28 cases (65.1%) in PACG group and 12 cases (37.5%) in POAG group with well controlled postoperative IOP,and the different of 2-year survival rate was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).There were significant different in the pre-IOP (33.0± 5.3mmHg vs 40.1 ± 3.6mmHg,P ＜0.01),the number ofantiglaucoma medications (2.9± 0.9 vs 4.1± 0.4,P＜0.01) and the extent of peripheral anterior synechiae (PAS) (2.9±0.5 clock hours vs 4.2± 0.8 clock hours,P ＜0.01) between success and failure cases in PACG group.The pre-IOP (25.3±3.4 mmHg vs 35.4±3.6 mmHg,P＜0.01),the number of antiglaucoma medications (1.2± 0.4 vs 2.8± 0.9,P ＜0.01) were significant different between the success and failure cases in POAG group.Cox stepwise regression analysis found that pre-IOP (P ＜0.05,RR=1.17) and the extent of PAS (P ＜0.01,RR=3.971) in PACG group and the pre-IOP (P＜0.01,RR=1.284) in the POAG group was significant associated with the corresponding survival time after cataract surgery.Conclusions Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation may be an alternative procedure for effective IOP control of the patients with primary glaucoma on early stage coexisting with cataract on considering pre-IOP and the extent of PAS in PACG and pre-IOP in POAG.

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Glaucoma; Cataract; Phacoemulsification; Intraocular pressure
Development of a Consumer Confidence Index for Pakistan: A Pilot Study on Three Main Urban Cities (2010)

What is meant by consumer sentiments index? What influences these indices? How should confidence indices be developed and how are they to be analyzed. And most importantly, how should an index for Pakistan be developed? These are the questions that have been focused in this study. The purpose of this pioneer study is to develop a reliable consumer confidence index for Pakistan and to plot test it on a small urban sample. The two most quoted indexes to measure consumer confidence in the US are the Michigan Consumer Sentiments Index (ICS) and the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) published by the Conference Board. Based on these surveys, a unified scale was developed and tested for Pakistan. The findings for the survey are that, urban Pakistani citizens have very little confidence in the economy which includes sentiments about their own wellbeing as well as their expectations about the future.
Low-Cost Comb-Electrode Capacitive Sensing Device for Liquid-Level Measurement (2016)

A low-cost capacitive sensing device for liquid-level measurement is presented in this letter. We proposed a novel comb, such as pattern of electrode. An equivalent capacitor can be formed by the electrode and the liquid within the container, and the equivalent capacitance will be proportional to the area of the electrode. Therefore, when the liquid-level position reaches a larger area of the comb electrode, the equivalent capacitance will have significant gradient changes. The measurement results show a variation error of about 6%. The comb-electrode offers simple, effective, and accurate advantages without any additional calibration. This comb-electrode is easily to be applied to a non-intrusive monitoring system which can be found in various places around biomedical applications.
EVALUASI KEBIJAKAN PENGENDALIAN MUTU OBAT DENGAN UJI KETERSEDIAAN HAYATI = EVALUATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY OF COPY DRUG ... (2005)

Background: Quality assurance of copy drug is a part of national drug policy. It aims to protect people from substandard of copy drug quality. Instrument to ensure the copy drug have a good quality is bioequivalence testing. Government regulation on drug registration had been established since 1971 with regular update. Drug and Food agencies had developed the draft of bioequivelence testing on 2002, but this guidelines has not be an implemented yet. Department of Clinical Pharmacology of Gadjah Mada University is one of the independent institution of bioequivalence testing in Indonesia, since 1984.\nObjective: To evaluate the Indonesia draft gudelines of bioequivalence testing compare with the WHO bioequivalence guidelineâs and to evaluate bioequivalence testing that conducted by Department of Clinical Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University. Methods: Descripive analytic method used to compare the draft of Indonesia guidelines with WHO guidelineâs. A case study methods used to evaluate the bioequivalence testing in Department of Clinical Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University. Results: The draft of Indonesia guidelines met with WHO guidelineâs. In the statistical analysis is more detail than WHO guideline. Department of Clinical pharmacology was adhare with WHO regulation on bioequivalence testing. Most of the copy drugs showed bioequivalence with their comparator and showed a good quality. All copy drug that tested in Dept. Clinical Pharmacology is before marketing evaluation.\nConclusion: It is concluded therefore, Goverment has been developed the bioequivalence testing guideline that met with WHO guideline. Bioequivalence testing that is conducted in Department of Clinical Pharmacology met with WHO regulation.\nKeywords: policy evaluation, drug quality, copy/generic drug
FaceShifter: Towards High Fidelity And Occlusion Aware Face Swapping (2019)

In this work, we propose a novel two-stage framework, called FaceShifter, for high fidelity and occlusion aware face swapping. Unlike many existing face swapping works that leverage only limited information from the target image when synthesizing the swapped face, our framework, in its first stage, generates the swapped face in high-fidelity by exploiting and integrating the target attributes thoroughly and adaptively. We propose a novel attributes encoder for extracting multi-level target face attributes, and a new generator with carefully designed Adaptive Attentional Denormalization (AAD) layers to adaptively integrate the identity and the attributes for face synthesis. To address the challenging facial occlusions, we append a second stage consisting of a novel Heuristic Error Acknowledging Refinement Network (HEAR-Net). It is trained to recover anomaly regions in a self-supervised way without any manual annotations. Extensive experiments on wild faces demonstrate that our face swapping results are not only considerably more perceptually appealing, but also better identity preserving in comparison to other state-of-the-art methods.
A conferencing system for real-time, multiparty, multimedia services (1998)

We describe a conferencing system designed to provide real-time, multiparty, fully interactive multimedia services in a LAN environment. The requirements of the multimedia conferencing service can be summarized as follows. First, there are a number of participants, and the number of participants varies dynamically for the service duration. So there must be a provision which allows members to join and leave a conference. Second, each multimedia data has its own characteristics, and they have very close relationships to one another. So, the quality of service (QoS) requirements of each media must be satisfied separately, and at the same time their relationship first be maintained at playback time. For example, the audio and video data must be synchronized at playback time. Considering the above requirements, we designed a multiparty, multimedia conferencing system. It is mainly composed of two control entities: the group manager and media manager. A group manager controls and maintains the participants group according to group attributes, and a media manager performs call admission control according to its anticipation of network states at the call request time, and controls the media data sending rate based on the receivers' periodic media reception quality reports. For more efficient control, we take into consideration the group characteristics in the media control algorithm. Feasibility has been confirmed by laboratory trials.
Inelastic sports pricing (2004)

Abstract A recurrent finding in estimates of the gate demand for sports events is pricing in the inelastic portion of demand. With few exceptions, this finding has either been ignored or (rather poorly) explained away. In this paper, the recurrent outcome is detailed and the explanations given by past authors are discussed. Then, profit maximization theory is explored for its inelastic pricing implications. It ends up that the local TV revenue relationships between MLB teams satisfy the situation that theory predicts would generate inelastic gate pricing. This suggests two things. First, inelastic pricing is consistent with profit maximizing team behavior. Second, fuller specification of revenue functions will enhance future work in the area. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Studies on Pectins as Potential Hydrogel Matrices for Controlled-Release Drug Delivery (1999)

Polymeric hydrogels are widely used as controlled-release matrix tablets. In the present study, we investigated high-methoxy pectins for their potential value in controlled-release matrix formulations. The effects of compression force, ratio of drug to pectin, and type of pectin on drug release from matrix tablets were also investigated. The results of the in vitro release studies show that the drug release from compressed matrix tablets prepared from pectin can be modified by changing the amount and the type of pectin in the matrix tablets. However, compression force did not significantly affect the drug release. The mechanisms controlling release rate were discussed with respect to drug diffusion through the polymer matrices, but may be more complex.
Electronic traps in organic transport layers (2004)

The knowledge about properties of electronic traps in organic semiconductors is one of the major keys for the understanding and optimization of charge transport in organic devices. In the present article the density of occupied states of the most prominent pristine small molecule systems and selected polymers are reported determined, by fractional thermally stimulated current and luminescence techniques. In order to distinguish between impurity and structurally based traps, model systems of doped as well as differently deposited layers were studied. In addition, the influence of detected traps on steady state I–V and dynamic time-of-flight characteristics are reported. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Liquiritin, as a Natural Inhibitor of AKR1C1, Could Interfere With the Progesterone Metabolism (2019)

Low progesterone level is always linked with pre-term birth. Therefore, maintaining of progesterone level is vital during pregnancy. Aldo-keto reductase family one member C1 (AKR1C1) catalyzes the reduction of progesterone to its inactive form of 20-alpha-hydroxy-progesterone and thus limits the biological effect of progesterone. In our effort to identify the natural compound that would specifically inhibit AKR1C1, liquiritin was found to be a selective and potent inhibitor of AKR1C1. Kinetic analyses in the S-(+)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthol (s-tetralol) catalyzed by AKR1C1 in the presence of the inhibitors suggest that liquiritin is a competitive inhibitor by targeting the residues Ala-27, Val-29, Ala-25, and Asn-56 of AKR1C1. In HEC-1-B cells, treatment with liquiritin results in 85.00% of reduction in progesterone metabolism, which is mediated by AKR1C1 enzymatic activity. Overall, our study not only identify liquiritin as an inhibitor against AKR1C1, but also reveal that liquiritin may be served as a potential intervention strategy for preventing pre-term birth caused by low progesterone level.
Growing a spoken language interface on Amazon Mechanical Turk (2011)

Typically data collection, transcription, language model generation, and deployment are separate phases of creating a spoken language interface. An unfortunate consequence of this is that the recognizer usually remains a static element of systems often deployed in dynamic environments. By providing an API for human intelligence, Amazon Mechanical Turk changes the way system developers can construct spoken language systems. In this work, we describe an architecture that automates and connects these four phases, effectively allowing the developer to grow a spoken language interface. In particular, we show that a human-in-the-loop programming paradigm, in which workers transcribe utterances behind the scenes, can alleviate the need for expert guidance in language model construction. We demonstrate the utility of these organic language models in a voice-search interface for photographs.