gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Reconfigurable control in distributed automation systems (2009)

Future manufacturing is envisioned to be highly flexible and adaptable. New technologies for efficient engineering of safe, fault-tolerant and downtimeless systems and their adaptations are preconditions for this vision. Without such solutions, engineering adaptations of Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS) will exceed the costs of engineered systems by far and the reuse of equipment will become inefficient. Especially the reconfiguration of control applications is not sufficiently solved by the State-of-the-Art technology. In this work an approach for a component based development of distributed, down-timeless real-time control and reconfiguration based on the standard IEC 61499 is proposed. This new method significantly increases engineering efficiency, reuse and reconfigurability in component-based IPMCS.
Histone deacetylase inhibitor potentiated the ability of MTOR inhibitor to induce autophagic cell death in Burkitt leukemia/lymphoma (2013)

These findings confirmed the synergistic effect of the HDAC and MTOR inhibitors on Burkitt leukemia/lymphoma, and provided an insight into clinical application of targeting autophagy in treating MYC-associated lymphoid malignancies.
A passive high sensitivity magnetic field sensor based on metallic glass wire (1996)

The responsitivity and sensitivity of fiber interferometric sensors based on magnetostrictive transducers consisting of up to 25 m of annealed metallic glass wire are reported. The frequency and temperature range of these sensors is examined both theoretically and experimentally. The performance of these sensors is acceptable for the transient electromagnetic method of geomagnetic surveying.
Tracking Bedridden Patient Positions Using Micro-Doppler Signatures (2021)

Hospital patients who are bedridden for prolonged periods of time require routine repositioning to aid in the prevention of pressure ulcers. This necessitates repositioning the patient at various laterally inclined angles. Readjustments of a patient's position must be performed over prescribed time intervals. Keeping track of a patient's position history throughout a given day is difficult without supervising the patient. A camera may be used to monitor the patient, but this can be detrimental to his or her privacy. In this letter, we propose applying Doppler radar to monitoring a bedridden patient's movements. This approach enables a patient's repositioning to be monitored at a low cost and with better privacy than monitoring with cameras. Doppler radar was applied to a human subject emulating typical movements that a bedridden patient may exhibit. It was observed that each movement resulted in unique micro-Doppler signatures and tracking a patient's rotation using Doppler radar is feasible.
No Cloning of Orthogonal States in Composite Systems (1998)

The no-cloning principle tells us that nonorthogonal quantum states cannot be cloned, but it does not tell us that orthogonal states can always be cloned. We suggest a situation where the cloning transformations are restricted, leading to a novel type of no-cloning principle. In the case of a composite system made of two subsystems: if the subsystems are only available one after the other then there are various cases when orthogonal states cannot be cloned. Surprising examples are given, which give a radically better insight regarding the basic concepts of quantum cryptography.
Direct health care costs of laryngeal diseases and disorders (2012)

This study establishes the economic impact of the assessment and management of patients with laryngeal disorders and permits cost comparisons with other diseases.
Evaluation of refractive-index and material dispersion in fluoride glasses (1994)

The relationships between the refractive-index and material dispersion of fluoride glasses and their compositions have been studied. A set of parameters was established that can be used to calculate approximately the refractive-index and material dispersion of fluoride glasses. The calculated and measured results agree well.
Perceived Operational Risk Management and Customer Complaints in Malaysian Conventional Banking Industry (2015)

The management of operational risk is not a new practice; it has always been important for banks to try to prevent fraud, and reduce errors in transaction processing in order to preserve the best quality services for their customers, and also to reduce huge losses. Ignoring the errors and operational risk will lead to customer complaints, losing potential and remaining customers and will jeopardize the bank sustainability in the long run. Thus the objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between perceived operational risk management and customer complaints. Resource Base theory is use in examining the relationships between perceived operational risk management and customer complaints. The survey questionnaires were emailed to branch managers and assistant managers of 650 local commercial bank branches across Malaysia and 132 fully completed survey questionnaires were received. Data was analyzed using multiple regressions. The study found that the banks have perceived operational risk management with a mean of 4.56, and can be concluded as very important in bank branches across Malaysia. As for the relationship of perceived operational risk management to customer complaints, it was found that the practice of hazard identification and formulation of implementation of risk control has a significant negative relationship to customer complaints as hypothesized. From the present study, management can formulate policies or strategies that can be used to mitigate risk in the bank and to enhance customer satisfaction in terms of services rendered by the tellers.
High prevalence of methotrexate intolerance in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Development and validation of a methotrexate intolerance severity score (2011)

Our findings indicate that the MISS questionnaire is a highly sensitive and specific tool for the diagnosis of MTX intolerance, and that there is a high prevalence of MTX intolerance among JIA patients. The prevalence of intolerance in patients receiving parenteral MTX exceeds that in patients receiving oral MTX. The frequent occurrence of anticipatory and associative symptoms suggests that classic conditioning plays an important role in MTX intolerance.
Influence of Culture Conditions on Expression of the 40-Kilodalton Porin Protein of <i>Vibrio anguillarum</i> Serotype O2 (1998)

Vibrio anguillarum serotype O2 strains express a 40-kDa outer membrane porin protein. Immunoblot analysis revealed that antigenic determinants of the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin were conserved within bacterial species of the genus Vibrio. The relative amounts of the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin were enhanced by growth of V. anguillarum O2 in CM9 medium containing 5 to 10% sucrose or 0.1 to 0.5 M NaCl. In contrast, the levels of the porin were significantly reduced when cells were grown at 37 degrees C, and a novel 60-kDa protein was also observed. However, the osmolarity or ionic concentration of the growth medium did not influence expression of the 60-kDa protein. Growth in medium containing greater than 0.6 mM EDTA reduced production of the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin and enhanced levels of a novel 19-kDa protein. Thus, expression of the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin was osmoregulated and possibly coregulated by temperature. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa protein and the effect of environmental factors on the cellular levels of the porin suggested that the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin was functionally similar to the OmpC porin of Escherichia coli. However, pore conductance assays revealed that the V. anguillarum O2 40-kDa porin was a general diffusion porin with a pore size in the range of that of the OmpF porin of E. coli.
Capacity analysis for a hybrid indoor mobile communication system using cellular and ad-hoc modes (2002)

The authors have proposed a dual mode system for indoor mobile communication. Mobile terminals (MTs) in this system communicate with each other directly or via BSs. The former mode is regarded as ad-hoc mode and the latter, as cellular mode. The decision which mode to use is given at an MT comparing the received power level from its partner and a base station (BS). The sharing approaches of wireless resources, frequency and time, considered in the cellular structure having two tiers can be applied to this dual mode indoor system with substituting the concepts of communication modes for cellular tiers. Then the capacity can be derived. In this paper, the capacity tradeoffs between the cellular mode and the ad-hoc mode for orthogonal sharing and spread-spectrum (SS) sharing are presented.
CADICS-cyclic analog-to-digital converter synthesis (2002)

CADICS is a technology-independent synthesis tool for generating complete netlists and layouts for CMOS cyclic analog-to-digital converters from a set of specifications. The program is capable of synthesizing A/D converters which have a broad range of sampling rate, resolution (up to 12 bits plus sign bit), and silicon area, and performance comparable to a manual approach without using any standard cell libraries. At higher resolutions provisions for internal self-calibration or capacitor trim array are included automatically.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Transformation toughening in phosphocarbide-strengthened austenitic steels (1988)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1988.
<i>N</i>‐acetylgalactosaminyl GD1a is a target molecule for serum antibody in Guillain‐Barré syndrome (1994)

Serum antibodies against such major glycolipids as GM1, GD1b, and LM1 have been reported in patients in the acute phase of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Because minor unidentified glycolipids also may be targets of antibodies in GBS sera, we assayed serum antibody against a crude ganglioside fraction using thin-layer chromatogram immunostaining. Antibody activity was detected against a band that migrated just below GD1a in 6 of the 50 patients with GBS tested. Antibody titer, as determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, decreased during the course of the disease. All 6 patients had suffered gastrointestinal infection before the neurological onset of GBS and showed low amplitudes for the compound muscle action potentials and normal or only slightly decreased nerve conduction velocities. Thin-layer chromatogram immunostaining did not show this antibody activity in any of the 16 normal and 119 disease controls. The unidentified glycolipid was isolated by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 column chromatography, sialidase treatment, and Iatrobeads column chromatography. Fast atom bombardment-mass spectra showed it to be N-acetyl-galactosaminyl GD1a.
Posterior Cortical Atrophy (1988)

• Five patients had progressive dementia heralded by disorders of higher visual function. All eventually developed alexia, agraphia, visual agnosia, and components of Balint's, Gerstmann's, and transcortical sensory aphasia syndromes. Memory, insight, and judgment were relatively preserved until late in the course. Predominant parieto-occipital atrophy was demonstrated on both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in two of the patients; posterior circulation was normal by angiography in the three studied. To date, no pathologic specimen is available for study; speculations on the underlying pathologic condition include an atypical clinical variant of Alzheimer's disease, a lobar atrophy analogous to Pick's disease, or some previously unrecognized entity.
[Surgical treatment of acute, complete acromioclavicular joint dislocation. Indications, technique and results]. (1996)

From June 1983 to May 1990, 51 patients were operated on for acute, complete acromioclavicular dislocation (Tossy III). The operative technique includes suturing of the coracoclavicular and acromioclavicular ligaments and stabilization of the clavicle with resorbable, 10-mm coracoclavicular PDS banding. Six patients received primary resection of the lateral end of the clavicle due to significant injury of the AC joint cartilage. Forty-two patients with an average follow-up of 6.1 years were evaluated clinically using the UCLA and Constant-Murley Score, as well as subjective grading. Additional radiological assessment was performed in 36 cases. Excellent or good clinical results were obtained in 97.6%, with 85.7% being free of pain. All patients with primary resection of the lateral end of the clavicle had no pain. The incidence of postoperative complications was low (one deep wound infection with removal of the PDS band, three secondary dislocations). Post-traumatic arthritis developed in 14.7% of the patients. In those cases of acute grade III AC joint dislocations where operative treatment is indicated, this technique provides excellent results with a low complication rate.
Error analysis of CCD-based point source centroid computation under the background light (2009)

The CCD-based point source centroid computation (PSCC) error under the background light is analyzed integrally in theory, numerical simulation and experiment. Furthermore, a comprehensive formula of the PSCC error caused by the diversified error sources is put forward. The optimum threshold to reduce the effects of all the error sources to a minimum is selected. The best threshold level is N(B) +3sigma(B), where N(B) is the average value of the error sources and sigma(B) is the mean-square value of the fluctuation of the error sources. The simulation and experiment results are in great accordance with the theoretical analysis.
Inhibition of HIV and virus replication by polysulphated polyxylan (1988)

Xylanpoly-(hydrogen sulphate) disodium salt with a molecular weight of about 6000 daltons (HOE/BAY 946) completely inhibited syncytium formation induced by the infection of T lymphocytes with HIV as well as viral replication at concentrations above 25 micrograms/ml. This dose was found to be inhibitory for several strains of HIV-1 and HIV-2. Low molecular weight fractions of the compound were less active against HIV, and high molecular derivatives were as active as HOE/BAY 946. A direct influence of the drug on the infectivity of the virus could not be demonstrated. The drug inhibited the reverse transcriptase of HIV. Treatment of permanently HIV-infected U937 cells resulted in a drastic reduction of virus particles released into the supernatant and points to an additional mode of action. A therapeutic effect of HOE/BAY 946 against retroviruses in vivo could be demonstrated in Friend leukaemia virus-infected mice. A clinical pilot study with the compound was started recently in Germany with AIDS patients who did not tolerate or refused to take zidovudine and with asymptomatic virus carriers.
The New<i>Clostridium difficile</i>— What Does It Mean? (2005)

Recent experience with influenza, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (also known as SARS), avian influenza, and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has demonstrated how old pathogens can emerge with increased virulence and challenge scientists to explain their rebirth, clinicians to care for patients, and infection-control personnel to prevent their spread. Clostridium difficile appears to illustrate these challenges. It already has some distinctive features: it causes disease almost exclusively in the presence of exposure to antibiotics, it is the only anaerobe that poses a nosocomial risk, and it produces toxin in vivo only in the colon.About 3 percent of healthy adults . . .
SELSYN-C: a self-synchronizing parallel programming language (2003)

The authors report their design and implementation of a new self-scheduling parallel programming language, SELSYN-C. Their approach to the challenge of parallel programming language design and implementation is two-fold: (1) the design of simple extensions to C that are both easy to use, and useful for effective compilation, and (2) the design of efficient and effective scheduling strategies that can be automatically supported by a compiler and associated run-time environment.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Integrated laser beam hardening in turning machines for process chain reduction (2008)

Laser beam hardening has been established during the last years as a complementary technology for local heat treatment tasks at tool manufacturing and automotive industry. Especially new high power diode lasers and a lot of process supporting systems, what have been developed in recent years, are responsible for the increase of industrial laser hardening applications. On the other hand heat treatment usually is a separate process in machine parts manufacturing so far. It is done in separate shops in-house or externally. A lot of logistics, quality checking and administrative work are necessary. Having this process in the same machine where the part is turned from a rod, and making the finishing hard turning process in that very same machine is an old dream but is materialized now and runs in mass production. The presentation gives an overview of principal technical solutions and presents an example where one laser feeds three different machines via dynamic beam sharing.
Cyclooctadepsipeptides – An Anthelmintically Active Class of Compounds Exhibiting a Novel Mode of Action (2009)

This chapter contains sections titled: Chemotherapeutic Interventions Towards Nematode Infections Discovery and Synthesis of PF1022A Anthelmintic Activity of PF1022A Anthelmintic Activity of Emodepside Mechanisms of Action of Cyclooctadepsipeptides Emodepside Action on Pharyngeal Pumping in Caenorhabditis elegans Emodepside Acts in Caenorhabditis elegans by Activation of α Latrophilin Receptor Effects of the Novel Anthelmintic Emodepside on the Locomotion, Egg-Laying Behavior, and Development of C. elegans Action of Emodepside via SLO-1 Channels in Caenorhabditis elegans Conclusion References
Adaptive random sampling for load change detection (2002)

Timely detection of changes in traffic load is critical for initiating appropriate traffic engineering mechanisms. Accurate measurement of traffic is essential since the efficacy of change detection depends on the accuracy of traffic estimation. However, precise traffic measurement involves inspecting every packet traversing a link, resulting in significant overhead, particularly on high speed links. Sampling techniques for traffic load estimation are proposed as a way to limit the measurement overhead. In this paper, we address the problem of bounding sampling error within a pre-specified tolerance level and propose an adaptive random sampling technique that determines the minimum sampling probability adaptively according to traffic dynamics. Using real network traffic traces, we show that the proposed adaptive random sampling technique indeed produces the desired accuracy, while also yielding significant reduction in the amount of traffic samples. We also investigate the impact of sampling errors on the performance of load change detection.
Overestimation Error and Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescriptions for Acute Cystitis in Adult Women (2010)

Physician overestimation of the likelihood of a positive urine culture in women with symptoms of acute cystitis was associated with unnecessary antibiotic prescribing. Antibiotic overuse may be reduced by developing treatment strategies that deemphasize nonspecific clinical findings that contribute to physician overestimation error.
3D shape measurement of macroscopic objects in digital off-axis holography using structured illumination (2010)

We propose what we believe to be a novel approach to measure the 3D shape of arbitrary diffuse-reflecting macroscopic objects in holographic setups. Using a standard holographic setup, a second CCD and a liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulator to modulate the object wave, the method yields a dense 3D point cloud of an object or a scene. The calibration process is presented, and first quantitative results of a shape measurement are shown and discussed. Furthermore, a shape measurement of a complex object is displayed to demonstrate its universal use.
An exact zero-skew clock routing algorithm (1993)

An exact zero-skew clock routing algorithm using the Elmore delay model is presented. The results have been verified with accurate waveform simulation. The authors first review a linear time delay computation method. A recursive bottom-up algorithm is then proposed for interconnecting two zero-skewed subtrees to a new tree with zero skew. The algorithm can be applied to single-staged clock trees, multistaged clock trees, and multi-chip system clock trees. The approach is ideal for hierarchical methods of constructing large systems. All subsystems can be constructed in parallel and independently, then interconnected with exact zero skew. Extensions to the routing of optimum nonzero-skew clock trees (for cycle stealing) and multiphased clock trees are also discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
HIV protease inhibitors influence the prevalence of oral candidosis in HIV‐infected patients: a 2‐year study (1998)

The introduction of HIV protease inhibitors was accompanied by reduction in HIV-associated opportunistic infections. Therefore, we performed a retrospective study of HIV-infected patients to evaluate the effects of therapy with an HIV protease inhibitor (PI) on oral candidosis. This was of special interest, because an important virulence factor of Candida albicans is the secreted aspartic protease (SAP), which is assigned to the same class of aspartic proteases as HIV protease. Sixty-two patients were examined five times over a period of 2 years. There was a hint at a difference in the frequencies of C. albicans carrier state and manifest oral candidosis in favour of treatment with a PI. In addition, loss of Candida colonization and manifest oral candidosis was observed only in patients with elevation of CD4 cells upon PI. This might explain the effect, which also might go back to a direct inhibition of yeast SAP.
Accuracy of patient encounter and billing information in ambulatory care. (1991)

Ambulatory care data from computerized billing files may not be sufficiently accurate for proper reimbursement of physician services or for use in research.
Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Fluorination of Acyclic Allylic Halides (2011)

This report describes the Pd(0)-catalyzed fluorination of linear allylic chlorides and bromides, yielding branched allylic fluorides in high selectivity. Many of the significant synthetic limitations previously associated with the preparation of these products are overcome by this catalytic method. We also demonstrate that a chiral bisphosphine-ligated palladium catalyst enables highly enantioselective access to a class of branched allylic fluorides that can be readily diversified to valuable fluorinated products.