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EVALUATION METHODS FOR FABRIC “WAVE” PLASTICITY (2012)

Fabric “wave” plasticity is a shaping element of garment, which makes fabric shape into concavo-convex curved shape above the body surface in order to represent clothing style and design ideas. Fabric “wave” plasticity plays a key role in garment silhouette. The purpose of this paper is to research evaluation methods to quantitatively evaluate the fabric “wave” plasticity. A direct evaluation method which was close to the actual use of fabrics was designed. Concavo-convex curved shapes were produced by a self-made shaping model, and “wave” height “H” was used for characterizing the fabric “wave” plasticity. Moreover, for exploring convenient indirect evaluation method of “wave” plasticity, two novel parameters: residual bending curvature and residual shear deformation, were defined. Test results showed that “wave” heights of the fabrics used for different garment silhouettes differ substantially. Multivariate statistical analysis indicated that shear hysteresis of warp at a 0.5° shear angle could be used for evaluating the fabric “wave” plasticity of warp and 45° direction, and “wave” height of weft could be assessed by residual bending curvature of weft. Evaluation methods for fabric “wave” plasticity could help apparel designers to grasp the material properties more exactly and work out the garments with ideal silhouettes.
Pharmacokinetics of inhaled colistin in patients with cystic fibrosis (2006)

The low systemic and high local concentrations of colistin support the use of inhaled colistin in CF patients infected with P. aeruginosa.
“Mutagenesis” by peptide aptamers identifies genetic network members and pathway connections (1999)

We selected peptide aptamers from combinatorial libraries that disrupted cell-cycle arrest caused by mating pheromone in yeast. We used these aptamers as baits in two-hybrid hunts to identify genes involved in cell-cycle arrest. These experiments identified genes known to function in the pathway, as well as a protein kinase, the CBK1 product, whose function was not known. We used a modified two-hybrid system to identify specific interactions disrupted by these aptamers. These experiments demonstrate a means to perform "genetics" on the protein complement of a cell without altering its genetic material. Peptide aptamers can be identified that disrupt a process. These aptamers can then be used as affinity reagents to identify individual proteins and protein interactions needed for the process. Forward genetic analysis with peptide aptamer "mutagens" should be particularly useful in elucidating genetic networks in organisms and processes for which classical genetics is not feasible.
The True Story of Max and Moritz: Ancient and Medieval Texts before W. Busch (1999)

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) was a German cartoonist and poet whose most famous work was an illustrated dogtrot verse about a pair of little hellions called Max and Moritz. Published in German in 1865, it has delighted generations of German children and their parents and was eventually translated into English by editor and litterateur Christopher Morley in 1932. Knowledge of the Max and Moritz saga had come to Americans earlier, however, through the comic strip “The Katzenjammer Kids” (later “The Captain and the Kids”), first drawn by Rudolph Dirks for the New York Journal in 1897 and long continuing in popularity. (I remember a version of the cartoon in the 1930s as my own childhood favorite Sunday reading.) Katzenjammer is German for a ‘hangover headache’ (literally “cat’s clamoring”), which is presumably what the terrible twosome gave all the adults around them. Manfred Gorlach has continued and much expanded the Max and Moritz corpus by orchestrating the “discovery” for an overexpanding number of versions of the poem in many languages. The present volume brings together fragments and complete versions of the poem, which consists of a preface, seven tricks, and a conclusion. The fragments are from Egyptian, Sahidic, Ancient Greek, Umbarian, Latin, Gothic (in both Moeso and Crimean versions), Old High German, Old Saxon, Old West Norse, early Welsh, early Middle English (in Peterborough and Pershore versions), Anglo-Norman, Old Spanish, Medieval Latin, Middle Dutch, and others. The full text appears in Old English, Middle High German, late Middle English (Chaucerian), Middle Scots, and early Modern English, as well as the Busch recension and a contemporary English translation. The burden of this tongue-in-cheek scholarly display of textual analysis, iconographic description, manuscript history, and critical appraisal is that Wilhelm Busch was not, after all, the author of Max und Moritz but only a latter-day transmitter. Manfred Gorlach’s labor of love in creating this elaborately extensive spoof of linguistic analysis and textual criticism should earn him a special Nobel Prize for
Real-time scheduling of deferrable electric loads (2012)

We consider a collection of distributed energy resources [DERs] such as electric vehicles and thermostatically controlled loads. These resources are flexible: they require delivery of a certain total energy over a specified service interval. This flexibility can facilitate the integration of renewable generation by absorbing variability, and reducing the reserve capacity and reserve energy requirements. We first model the energy needs of these resources as tasks, parameterized by arrival time, departure time, energy requirement, and maximum allowable servicing power. We consider the problem of servicing these resources by allocating available power using real-time scheduling policies. The available generation consists of a mix of renewable energy [from utility-scale wind-farms or distributed rooftop photovoltaics], and load-following reserves. Reserve capacity is purchased in advance, but reserve energy use must be scheduled in real-time to meet the energy requirements of the resources. We show that there does not exist a causal optimal scheduling policy that respects servicing power constraints. We then present three heuristic causal scheduling policies: Earliest Deadline First [EDF], Least Laxity First [LLF], and Receding Horizon Control [RHC]. We show that EDF is optimal in the absence of power constraints. We explore, via simulation studies, the performance of these three scheduling policies in the metrics of required reserve energy and reserve capacity.
High Yield Phase Transfer N-alkylation of Some Benzodiazepines by Esters of ω-Halo Acids (1998)

Abstract Different i, 4-benzodiazepinyl acetic and propionic acids were prepared by hydrogenolysis of benzyl or hydrolysis of the corresponding ethyl esters which were obtained by phase transfer alkylation of respective amides with benzyl bromoacetate and benzyl or ethyl 2-bromopropionate.
Comparison of Internally Cooled Wet Electrode and Hepatic Vascular Inflow Occlusion Method for Hepatic Radiofrequency Ablation (2012)

Both the usage of an ICW electrode and hepatic vascular occlusion effectively expanded the ablation zone. The use of an ICW electrode induced a larger ablation zone with easy handling compared with using hepatic vascular occlusion, although this difference was not statistically significant.
Co-culture for embryo development: is it really necessary? (1992)

Journal Article Co-culture for embryo development: is it really necessary? Get access Barry D. Bavister Barry D. Bavister Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, and Regional Primate Research Center, University of WisconsinMadison, WI 53706, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Human Reproduction, Volume 7, Issue 10, 1 November 1992, Pages 1339–1341, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137569 Published: 01 November 1992 Article history Received: 30 July 1992 Accepted: 04 September 1992 Published: 01 November 1992
评费正清的《中国之行:五十年的回顾》 (1982)

从四十年代晚期到七十年代末这三十多年中,费正清一直是美国开展中国研究影响最大的唯一力量。现在虽已退休,离开了哈佛大学教授席位,他的影响依然非常重大。人们可以满怀信心地断言:他所编、写或与人合著的有关中国外交、风俗、宗教、军事、共产党组织等方面的历史以及美国外交政策的无数专著,直到二十一世纪也仍将被人传诵,受到尊重。在大多数人看来费正清的现有成就已经够大了,而他却特地把这些成就写成了一部个人的回忆录。这是具有光荣传统的、值得重视的一种体裁,但是这种形式往往成为一种模棱两可
HIV and hepatitis B virus: options for managing coinfection. (2003)

At the International AIDS Society-USA course in New York in October 2002, Douglas T. Dieterich, MD, presented the case history of a patient coinfected with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection in patients with HIV is associated with worse prognosis for HBV disease than in patients without HIV and complicates management of both diseases. However, newer treatment options for chronic HBV infection increase the potential for successful management.
DC and AC Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes−Polyepoxy Composites (2003)

The dc and ac conductivities of carbon nanotubes−polyepoxy composites have been investigated from 20 to 110 °C in the frequency range 10-2−106 Hz as a function of the conductive weight fraction p ranging from 0.04 to 2.5 wt %. The frequency dependence of the measured conductivity obeys the universal dynamic response (UDR): a dc plateau followed, above a critical frequency ωc, by the ωs power law with exponent s ∼ 0.6−1. The dc conductivity follows a percolation scaling law: σdc ∝ (p − pc)t with pc = 0.3 wt % and t = 1.4−1.8, according to the temperature. σdc reached 10-4 S/cm for 2.5 wt % CNTs content and increases with increasing temperature. Considering a biased random walk in three dimensions approach, we may explain the scaling law of ωc with p and its proportionality to σdc. The universality of ac conduction in carbon nanotubes−polymer composites is examined by the construction of master curves.
Chloroform poisoning – An unusual presentation a case report (2005)

A 27 years old male patient, a painter by profession was admitted in ICU with history of ingestion of industrial chloroform. He was brought in an unconscious state. This case is unusual in its presentation since patient had consumed more than the fatal dose with no dysrhythmia in his entire stay, instead he presented with severe acute hepatic failure and renal failure. His stay in ICU was 14 days where he was managed successfully.
Load balancing for multi-projector rendering systems (1999)

Multi-projector systems are increasingly being used to provide large-scale and high-resolution displays for next-generation interactive 3D graphics applications, including large-scale data visualization, immersive virtual environments, and collaborative design. These systems must include a very high-performance and scalable 3D rendering subsystem in order to generate high-resolution images at real-time frame rates. This paper describes a sort-first parallel rendering system for a scalable display wall system built with a network of PCs, graphics accelerators, and portable projectors. The main challenge is to develop scalable algorithms to partition and assign rendering tasks effectively under the performance and functionality constraints of system area networks, PCs, and commodity 3-D graphics accelerators. We have developed three coarse-grained partitioning algorithms, incorporated them into a working prototype system, and run initial experiments aimed at evaluating algorithmic trade-offs and performance bottlenecks in such a system. Results of our experiments indicate that the coarse-grained characteristics of the sort-first architecture are well suited for constructing a parallel rendering system running on a PC cluster.
The Argot of the Three-Shell Game (1947)

THERE ARE two distinct phases of argot indigenous to American circuses. The one, used by performers and employees, is really a sort of occupational jargon and has been frequently sampled by students of language. The other, comprising elements of several obscure criminal argots, is almost exclusively the property of the circus-grifters who keep themselves aloof from the other personnel, share their take with the management, and constitute a small, closely-knit social unit within most circuses. These men are specialists in many rackets, each of which has some individual argot of its own. Formerly, these grifters were standard equipment with all road shows; today some of the more progressive circuses have dispensed with the grift as being poor business policy. This study gives a sampling of the technical' argot of the three-shell man, which in turn is only a minor aspect of the large body of the argot of the circus-grifter now under observation by the writer. Everyone has seen the simple-looking little shell-game played at fairs, on circus lots, or on the backstretch at a big racetrack. In recent years, some magicians have studied it as a basis for parlor entertainment. It looks harmless enough-and usually is, except in the hands of specialized grifters, where it can take as much as several thousand dollars a day from a gullible public. It has in it many of the elements of the deadly big-con, and, so far as the psychological factors are concerned, is the great-grand-daddy of modern big-time confidence games. This relationship is borne out by the fact that a whole generation of first-rate big-con men, some of them unsurpassed, got their start on the circus grift and particularly on the three-shell game. Historically this game is very old. We got it from England, where it appears in the i8th century as thimble-rig, played with three thimbles weighted in the top with solder. Some old-timers in this country still refer to three-shell operators as thimble-riggers. However, it was in the United States, during the late g1th and early 2oth centuries that the game was fully developed as an adjunct to the very lucrative circus grift. Recently it
COVID-19 stokes inflammasomes (2020)

The poor success rate of treating patients with aggressive sepsis in SARS-CoV-2 infections has highlighted again the challenges of managing systemic inflammatory conditions. In this issue of JEM, Rodrigues et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201707) discuss the role of inflammasome activation in COVID-19 disease severity, opening new possibilities for therapeutic management of sepsis syndromes.
Application of Automated Machine Learning for Multi-Variate Prediction of Well Production (2019)

Abstract Performance evaluations of oil and gas assets are crucial for continuously improving operational efficiency in the mainstream petroleum industry. The success of such evaluations is largely driven by the analysis of the data accumulated during the asset's operational cycle. Usually, the amount of data stored in the databases dramatically exceeds the ability to approach the analysis with traditional spreadsheet-based tools or linear modeling. In this study we use data mining with multivariate predictive analytics and monetize on the value of data by transforming the inferred information into knowledge and further into rigorous business decisions. With the expansion of the Digital Oil Field and transformation into the 4th Industrial Revolution, the oil and gas industry is acquiring tremendous amounts of data that come from disparate sources in a variety of origins, time scales, structures and quality. The underlying variable root-cause relationships are highly non-linear and non-intuitive, and simplistic linear regression methods are suboptimal. We approach the challenge by developing a data-driven workflow that integrates components of artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition to enhance quantitative understanding of complex data. The sanitized aggregated data set combines 470 horizontal wells, covering 15 numerical (e.g., stimulation interval length, production rates) and categorical (e.g., target zone, proppant type) predictors and the total produced BOE, as the response variable. The objective is to predict an optimal set of variables that maximize the production. We utilize an integrated analytics platform that enables a variety of sophisticated statistical operations on large-scale data: a) comprehensive data QA/QC for outliers, consistency and missing entries; b) Exploratory Data Analysis and visualization; c) feature selection, screening and ranking; d) building and training of multiple machine learning (ML) models for multi-variate regression (e.g. generalized linear model, deep learning, decision tree, random forest and gradient boosted machine); and e) response optimization of an identified "best-performing" ML model for highest prediction accuracy. Our study introduces the initiative to establish concepts best practices for predictive and prescriptive analytics in domains of reservoir simulation, description and asset management. Given the unique volume and information richness of operational data, acquired over decades of production history, the anticipated applications of predictive analytics could expand to drilling optimization, smart data aggregation, well stimulation and equipment maintenance.
Analyzing protection quality of security-enhanced operating systems (2009)

Recently, several Mandatory Access Control protection systems, e.g., SELinux and AppArmor, have been proposed to enhance the security of operating systems. We propose an approach to analyze and compare the quality of protection of these protection systems. We introduce the notion of vulnerability surfaces under attack scenarios as the measurement of protection quality, and implement a tool for computing the vulnerability surfaces. We use our tool to analyze and compare SELinux and AppArmor in several Linux distributions.
A Unified Framework for Tracking through Occlusions and across Sensor Gaps (2005)

A common difficulty encountered in tracking applications is how to track an object that becomes totally occluded, possibly for a significant period of time. Another problem is how to associate objects, or tracklets, across non-overlapping cameras, or between observations of a moving sensor that switches fields of regard. A third problem is how to update appearance models for tracked objects over time. As opposed to using a comprehensive multi-object tracker that must simultaneously deal with these tracking challenges, we present a novel, modular framework that handles each of these problems in a unified manner by the initialization, tracking, and linking of high-confidence tracklets. In this track/suspend/match paradigm, we first analyze the scene to identify areas where tracked objects are likely to become occluded. Tracking is then suspended on occluded objects and re-initiated when they emerge from behind the occlusion. We then associate, or match, suspended tracklets with the new tracklets using full kinematic models for object motion and Gibbsian distributions for object appearance in order to complete the track through the occlusion. Sensor gaps are handled in a similar manner, where tracking is suspended when the sensor looks away and then re-initiated when the sensor returns. Changes in object appearance and orientation during tracking are also seamlessly handled in this framework. Tracklets with low lock scores are terminated. Tracking then resumes on untracked movers with corresponding updated appearance models. These new tracklets are then linked back to the terminated ones as appropriate. Fully automatic tracking results from a moving sensor are presented.
Privacy Control in Smart Phones Using Semantically Rich Reasoning and Context Modeling (2012)

We present our ongoing work on user data and contextual privacy preservation in mobile devices through semantic reasoning. Recent advances in context modeling, tracking and collaborative localization have led to the emergence of a new class of smart phone applications that can access and share embedded sensor data. Unfortunately, this also means significant amount of user context information is now accessible to applications and potentially others, creating serious privacy and security concerns. Mobile OS frameworks like Android lack mechanisms for dynamic privacy control. We show how data flow among applications can be successfully filtered at a much more granular level using semantic web driven technologies that model device location, surroundings, application roles as well as context-dependent information sharing policies.
A Monoclonal Antibody to the α Subunit of G <sub>k</sub> Blocks Muscarinic Activation of Atrial K <sup>+</sup> Channels (1988)

The activated heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding (G) protein Gk, at subpicomolar concentrations, mimics muscarinic stimulation of a specific atrial potassium current. Reconstitution studies have implicated the alpha and beta gamma subunits as mediators, but subunit coupling by the endogenous G protein has not been analyzed. To study this process, a monoclonal antibody (4A) that binds to alpha k but not to beta gamma was applied to the solution bathing an inside-out patch of atrial membrane; the antibody blocked carbachol-activated currents irreversibly. The state of the endogenous Gk determined its susceptibility to block by the antibody. When agonist was absent or when activation by muscarinic stimulation was interrupted by withdrawal of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) in the presence or absence of guanosine diphosphate (GDP), the effects of the antibody did not persist. Thus, monoclonal antibody 4A blocked muscarinic activation of potassium channels by binding to the activated G protein in its holomeric form or by binding to the dissociated alpha subunit.
Design of a Self-Checking Microprogram Control (1973)

In designing a self-checking processor, it is essential to recognize the types of failures that are most probable. Matching the checking techniques with the type of faults that are expected to occur should yield the best result with the least amount of hardware. The microprogram control will consist of integrated circuits: large-scale integration (LSI) for the memory and small-scale integration (SSI) for the associated control logic. Because of the density of chips on a plug-in package and the physical proximity of the devices on an integrated circuit, multiple faults within a single circuit are highly probable. The types of faults within a circuit have been analyzed and found to be of the type which would tend to affect the bits in a unidirectional manner. Also the failed bits would probably be adjacent rather than randomly dispersed throughout-the microprogram store word.
First Order Noise Shaping Local-Oscillator Based Time-to-Digital Converter (2010)

This paper presents a First Order Noise Shaping Local-Oscillator Based Time-to-Digital Converter (LO TDC). The architecture and governing equations of the LO TDC are described. In order to show the effect of noise shaping on the resolution of the TDC, the system “LO TDC plus moving average filter” is introduced. An equation to predict the resolution of the system “LO TDC plus filter” is given. Then, the Matlab model of the system “LO TDC plus filter” is illustrated briefly, and some example of simulated input-output characteristics are shown. Afterwards, the implementation of the LO TDC on an FPGA is described. A comparison between the predicted, simulated and measured values of the resolution of the system “LO TDC plus filter” is reported. Finally, we show spectra of the output signals of the LO TDC from experiments and simulations.
Macromol. Chem. Phys. 5/2012 (2012)

Front Cover: The background picture of this cover is taken at the West Lake, the landmark of Hangzhou, China. Willow trees are most popular around the lake. Leaves and twigs resemble to the cyclic pendants and polymeric backbone reported in this paper. Further details can be found in the article by Z. Hu, Y.-P. Xu, D. Wu, B. Li, Y.-C. Huang, J.-X. Jiang, G.-Q. Lai,* and T.-Y. Luh* on page 566.
Preparation of high-quality graphene using triggered microwave reduction under an air atmosphere (2018)

High-quality intrinsic graphene can be prepared by a simple triggered microwave reduction method under air conditions, which provides a simple and low-cost route for large-scale production of high-quality graphene.