gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Adaptive strategies that reduce predation on Caribbean spiny lobster postlarvae during onshore transport (1999)

Like many marine species with meroplanktonic larvae, the Caribbean spiny lobster ( Panulirus argus ) has a postlarval stage that moves from the oceanic plankton to inshore nurseries only under specific environmental conditions (i.e., at night, in the surface water layer, on the flood tide, and during new moon), presumably to avoid predation or to enhance onshore transport. Using field and mesocosm experiments, we compared predation on planktonic postlarvae swimming at night near the surface and bottom over coastal habitats along typical offshore–inshore transport paths and determined whether predation rates differed between lunar periods (new moon vs. full moon) and with prey density (i.e., predator encounter rates). We also measured predation on transparent (newly settled) and pigmented (nearing metamorphosis) postlarvae sheltering in coral reef, seagrass, and macroalgal habitats during the day. We measured predation on postlarvae swimming near the surface and bottom along typical offshore–inshore transport paths (i.e., coral reefs, coastal lagoon, and bay) by tethering postlarvae to floats that drifted on the nightly flood tide during new moon. To test the hypothesis that new‐moon transport of postlarvae may have evolved as a means to avoid higher predation under the bright full moon, we repeated the pelagic tethering experiments at the reef and in the bay during full moon. Mortality was highest over coral reefs regardless of lunar phase, but it was lower nearshore, especially in the bay near the surface and during new moon. Predation on benthic, recently settled transparent postlarvae and pigmented postlarvae (nearing metamorphosis) was also higher when tethered on the reef as opposed to vegetated habitats in the lagoon and bay. In experimental mesocosms, planktivorous fish were equally efficient at consuming postlarvae under new‐ and full‐moon conditions when postlarval density was high, as it is in the constricted water column over the reefs. However, when postlarvae were less dense, mortality was significantly lower during new moon. Collectively, these results indicate that several behavioral traits exhibited by postlarval spiny lobsters, including inshore migration during the darkest lunar phase, use of surface waters, and settlement in vegetated habitats, reduce their risk of predation, particularly in the shallow bay. No single behavioral strategy is universally advantageous across all coastal habitats, but combined, they are an effective means to reduce predation across heterogeneous environments that postlarvae must transit during recruitment.
Rh(I)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Silylation of Divinylsilanes with Dimethylphenylsilane (1996)

Abstract Rh(I)-catalyzed dehydrogenative silylation was selectively carried out by using divinylsilanes and half an equimolar amount of trialkylsilanes under ambient conditions to give 1,2-disilylethene and ethylvinylsilane derivatives in equimolar amounts. The mechanistic aspects for the dehydrogenative silylation were discussed in terms of the consecutive migratory insertions of the alkene moiety into both Rh–Si and Rh–H bonds which are formed by an oxidative addition of the hydrosilane to the Rh(I) catalyst precursor.
Preface to the 1st Edition (2001)

Why write another introductory book on commutative algebra? As there are so many good books already available on the subject, that seems to be a very pertinent question.
Long-term Psychosocial Outcome in Typical Absence Epilepsy (1997)

Young adults with a history of typical absence epilepsy, particularly those without remission of their seizures, often have poor psychosocial outcomes, considerably worse than those with JRA.
Multimodal Similarity-Preserving Hashing (2014)

We introduce an efficient computational framework for hashing data belonging to multiple modalities into a single representation space where they become mutually comparable. The proposed approach is based on a novel coupled siamese neural network architecture and allows unified treatment of intra- and inter-modality similarity learning. Unlike existing cross-modality similarity learning approaches, our hashing functions are not limited to binarized linear projections and can assume arbitrarily complex forms. We show experimentally that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art hashing approaches on multimedia retrieval tasks.
Centralized and decentralized control for demand response (2011)

Demand response has been recognized as an essential element of the smart grid. Frequency response, regulation and contingency reserve functions performed traditionally by generators are now starting to involve demand side resources. Additional benefits from demand response include peak reduction and load shifting, which will defer new infrastructure investment and improve generator operation efficiency. Technical approaches designed to realize these functionalities can be categorized into centralized control and decentralized control, depending on where the response decision is made. This paper discusses these two control philosophies and compares their response performances in terms of delay time and predictability. A distribution system model with detailed household loads and controls is built to demonstrate the characteristics of the two approaches. The conclusion is that the promptness and reliability of decentralized control should be combined with the controllability and predictability of centralized control to achieve the best performance of the smart grid.
A Conceptual Modeling Approach to Business Service Mashup Development (2009)

Professional mashups that include complex choreographies, data mediation, and result publishing within Web pages are still affected by implementation and design practices that rely either on very simple models or on low-level scripting and programming skills of developers, thus hampering the use of mashups in business context as rapid solution to immediate problems. Indeed, industrialization of their development is still a hard objective to achieve.We propose a design methodology based on visual models to improve the quality and the productivity of service mashups and presentation of the results, thus increasing their acceptance as professional applications in the business scenario. Existing software engineering methods are combined together in an innovative mix, comprising standard business process modeling languages (namely, BPMN) to describe a high-level view of the mashup orchestration and on WebML (Web Modeling Language) to specify the detailed Web application model, including Web service interactions, hypertext navigation, event management, and rich user interfaces.
A personal touch (2012)

The spread of touch screen based smart phones has been constantly increasing over the last few years. However, there are still many open research questions concerning the basic input properties of these devices. We performed a large scale study to research the users' touch screen behavior on standard UI elements. To do so we programmed and published a quiz game that logs touch data and sends it back for evaluation purposes. Over 14,000 persons have played this game so far and sent back statistical data. We use the collected data to present basic touch properties, such as mean hold time and pressure dynamics, and to show that touch screen based input is individual for each person and that one can identify a specific user in a set of 5 users with a precision of about 80%, based on just a few touch events.
Complexation of Anions Including Nucleotide Anions by Open-Chain Host Compounds with Amide, Urea, and Aryl Functions (2000)

A systematical evaluation of association constants between halide, phosphate, and carboxylate anions with N-methylformamide (1) and the related bidentate receptors 2 – 6 (derived from, e.g., phthalic acid or ethylenediamine) in CDCl3 as solvent yielded increments of complexation free-energy ΔΔG for each single H-bond, which varied like, e.g., 5.1 kJ/mol (for Cl−), 4.0 kJ/mol (for Br−), 4.0 kJ/mol (for I−) (with values taken from Tables 1 and 2), in line with expected H-bond strength. The observed complexation induced NH-NMR shift (CIS) values also showed a regular change, in the case of 1, e.g., from 5.0 to 2.8 to 2.1 ppm (Table 1), with about half of these values with the bidentate ligands (Tables 2 and 3). Tridentate hosts led to a substantial binding increase, if strain-free convergence of all NH donor functions towards the anion was possible. The tris[urea] ligand 10 yielded, even in the polar solvent DMSO, with Cl− a ΔG of −21.5 kJ/mol and with Br− of −10⋅5 kJ/mol, whereas with I−, no association was detectable. The results demonstrated that small, inexpensive, and conformationally mobile host compounds can exhibit high affinities as well as descrimination with anions, as much as more preorganized receptors do which require multistep synthesis. The corresponding adamantyl derivative 13 allowed measurements also in CDCl3, with K=4.3⋅104 M−1 for chloride (Table 7). Complexes with nucleotide anions were again particularly strong with the tridentate urea-based ligands, the latter being optimal ligands for chloride complexation. For the association of 10 with AMP2− and GMP2−in (D6)DMSO, the association constants were 3⋅104 M−1 (Table 8) and almost the same as with Cl−. In the case of the urea derivatives 17, 18, and 21, containing only one phenyl or pyrenyl substituent, however, the ΔG values decreased in the order A>C>T>G (e.g. −13.6, −11.6, −7.6, −10.5 kJ/mol in the case of 17, resp.; Table 8). In H2O, the pyrenyl-substituted urea derivatives allow measurements with fluorescence, and, unexpectedly, show only smaller nucleobase discrimination, with constants around 3⋅103 M−1.
Cost Effectiveness and Incremental Cost Analyses: Alternative to Benefit-Cost Analysis for Environmental Remediation Projects (1998)

An approach is presented for evaluating site-specific or multisite alternative environmental remedies that involve nonmonetary benefits. After discussing problems that currently preclude the use of benefit-cost analysis for such evaluation, the analytical approaches of cost effectiveness and incremental cost analyses are presented, including discussion of data requirements, procedures for application, and guidelines for interpreting results to inform decision making. The analyses and interpretation of their results are illustrated with a hypothetical application, based on data from an actual case study involving the cleanup of contaminated underground storage tanks, using a software program called ECO-EASY.
Efficient gene transfer into zebrafish skeletal muscle by intramuscular injection of plasmid DNA. (1997)

The ability of zebrafish skeletal muscles to internalize and express plasmid DNA was demonstrated using pCMVCAT1, a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) construct driven by the human cytomegalovirus immediate early (CMV-IE) promoter. We found that CAT activity was correlated to the amount of plasmid DNA injected, with maximal expression at 5 micrograms of pCMVCAT1. CAT activity was also shown to increase steadily over the first seven days after injection, with high levels of CAT expression persisting up to one year. Intramuscular injection of CAT constructs driven by other viral promoters also resulted in high levels of CAT activity. Histochemical localization using a CMV beta-galactosidase construct confirmed that only myofibers at the site of injection expressed beta-galactosidase enzyme. The persistence and strong expression of injected plasmid constructs suggest that zebrafish may be a simple and readily accessible system for direct muscle injection studies.
Multiphase LC oscillators (2006)

This paper proposes an extensive analysis of multiphase LC oscillators. N oscillators coupled in a ring topology can generate multiphase outputs. For their nature, these oscillators operate off-resonance and consequently their phase noise worsens at increasing coupling strength. Since the coupling transistors raise the total power consumption, the noise-power product degrades even more with respect to a stand-alone oscillator. On the other hand, at high coupling factors, component mismatches affect less the phase accuracy. Closed-form expressions for phase noise and phase accuracy are derived which are verified against circuit simulations.
Physiological Aspects of Male Libido Enhanced by Standardized <i>Trigonella foenum‐graecum</i> Extract and Mineral Formulation (2011)

The aim of the clinical study was to evaluate the effect of Testofen, a standardized Trigonella foenum-graecum (Fenugreek) extract and mineral formulation, on male libido (sexual drive, urge or desire) in a double blind randomized placebo controlled study. The study recruited 60 healthy males aged between 25 and 52, without erectile dysfunction and randomized to an oral dose (two tablets per day) of the active treatment (600 mg Testofen per day) or placebo for 6 weeks. The primary outcome measure was the DISF-SR (male) self-administered QOL total score and the four domain scores. The secondary outcome was specific quality of life parameters. Testofen had an overall positive effect on physiological aspects of libido. In particular, there was a significant increase in the subdomains of sexual arousal and orgasm. Testofen had a positive effect on QOL in self-reported satisfaction with muscle strength, energy and well-being but did not have an effect on mood or sleep. Serum prolactin and testosterone levels remained within the reference range. It was concluded that Testofen demonstrated a significant positive effect on physiological aspects of libido and may assist to maintain normal healthy testosterone levels.
Enhancement of Secretion and Extracellular Stability of Staphylokinase in <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> by <i>wprA</i> Gene Disruption (2000)

Staphylokinase (SAK), a polypeptide secreted by Staphylococcus aureus, is a plasminogen activator with a therapeutic potential in thrombosis diseases. A Bacillus subtilis strain which is multiply deficient in exoproteases was transformed by an expression plasmid carrying a promoter and a signal sequence of subtilisin fused in frame with the sak open reading frame. However, the amount of SAK secretion was marginal (45 mg/liter). In contrast, disruption of the wprA gene, which encodes a subtilisin-type protease, strongly promoted the production of SAK in the stationary phase (181 mg/liter). In addition, the extracellular stability of mature SAK was dramatically enhanced. These data indicate a significant role of the wprA gene product in degrading foreign proteins, both during secretion and in the extracellular milieu.
Solid-phase translation and RNA–protein fusion: a novel approach for folding quality control and direct immobilization of proteins using anchored mRNA (2006)

A novel cell-free translation system is described in which template-mRNA molecules were captured onto solid surfaces to simultaneously synthesize and immobilize proteins in a more native-state form. This technology comprises a novel solid-phase approach to cell-free translation and RNA-protein fusion techniques. A newly constructed biotinylated linker-DNA which enables puromycin-assisted RNA-protein fusion is ligated to the 3' ends of the mRNA molecules to attach the mRNA-template on a streptavidin-coated surface and further to enable the subsequent reactions of translation and RNA-protein fusion on surface. The protein products are therefore directly immobilized onto solid surfaces and furthermore were discovered to adopt a more native state with proper protein folding and superior biological activity compared with conventional liquid-phase approaches. We further validate this approach via the production of immobilized green fluorescent protein (GFP) on microbeads and by the production and assay of aldehyde reductase (ALR) enzyme with 4-fold or more activity. The approach developed in this study may enable to embrace the concept of the transformation of 'RNA chip-to-protein chip' using a solid-phase cell-free translation system and thus to the development of high-throughput microarray platform in the field of functional genomics and in vitro evolution.
Surface modification of plasma-pretreated poly(tetrafluoroethylene) films by graft copolymerization (1993)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSurface modification of plasma-pretreated poly(tetrafluoroethylene) films by graft copolymerizationK. L. Tan, L. L. Woon, H. K. Wong, E. T. Kang, and K. G. NeohCite this: Macromolecules 1993, 26, 11, 2832–2836Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1993Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1993https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma00063a030https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00063a030research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views1178Altmetric-Citations261LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
HOME RANGE AND ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF BLACK-TAILED JACKRABBITS (1990)

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Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation (2012)

Predicting query performance , that is, the effectiveness of a search performed in response to a query, is a highly important and challenging problem. We present a novel approach to this task that is based on measuring the standard deviation of retrieval scores in the result list of the documents most highly ranked. We argue that for retrieval methods that are based on document-query surface-level similarities, the standard deviation can serve as a surrogate for estimating the presumed amount of query drift in the result list, that is, the presence (and dominance) of aspects or topics not related to the query in documents in the list. Empirical evaluation demonstrates the prediction effectiveness of our approach for several retrieval models. Specifically, the prediction quality often transcends that of current state-of-the-art prediction methods.
Effects of chemotherapeutic agents on hemopoietic stromal tissue: I. Effects of cyclophosphamide and bleomycin on hemopoiesis in subcutaneous femur implants. (1984)

To evaluate the effect of bleomycin and cyclophosphamide on the hemopoietic support capacity of marrow tissue, femurs were excised from mice at various times after treatment with one of these agents and implanted subcutaneously for up to 12 weeks. The cellularity, histologic appearance, hemopoietic progenitor cell contents, reticuloendothelial cell function (99mTc-sulfur colloid incorporation) and colony-stimulating activity (CSA) production of these femurs were evaluated. The results suggest that cyclophosphamide does suppress the capacity of implanted femurs to support normal hemopoietic precursor cell population for up to 13 weeks after cessation of treatment; bleomycin has no such adverse effects. The defect produced by cyclophosphamide is not mirrored in the histologic appearance of the subcutaneously regenerating femurs. Neither 99mTc-sulfur colloid incorporation nor CSA production of femurs was suppressed by drug treatment.
A Review on Data mining from Past to the Future (2011)

Data and Information or Knowledge has a significant role on human activities. Data mining is the knowledge discovery process by analyzing the large volumes of data from various perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. Due to the importance of extracting knowledge/information from the large data repositories, data mining has become an essential component in various fields of human life. Advancements in Statistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Computation capabilities have evolved the present day's data mining applications and these applications have enriched the various fields of human life including business, education, medical, scientific etc. Hence, this paper discusses the various improvements in the field of data mining from past to the present and explores the future trends.
Natural and recombinant <i>Escherichia coli-derived</i> interferon-gamma differ in their reactivity with monoclonal antibody. (1984)

Monoclonal antibody GIF-1 was found to neutralize human natural immune interferon (IFN-gamma), but not Escherichia coli-derived recombinant IFN-gamma. In addition, GIF-1 antibody failed to immunoprecipitate 125I-labeled recombinant IFN-gamma, whereas it precipitated natural IFN-gamma in a concentration-dependent manner. The lack of recognition of recombinant IFN-gamma by antibody GIF-1 may not be due to the absence of the oligosaccharide moiety in the molecules of recombinant IFN-gamma alone, because removal of carbohydrate from natural IFN-gamma by treatment with a mixture of glycosidases did not alter the selective binding of antibody, i.e., deglycosylated and untreated natural IFN-gamma were equally neutralized and immunoprecipitated by GIF-1 antibody. In addition, a minor monomeric component of natural IFN-gamma with the m.w. of 15,500, which apparently lacks carbohydrate, was also recognized by antibody GIF-1. These results suggest that the discriminative recognition of natural and recombinant IFN-gamma by monoclonal antibody GIF-1 may be due to a conformational difference at or near the active regions of natural and recombinant human IFN-gamma molecules.
Synthetic Routes to Quinoline Derivatives:  Novel Syntheses of 3-Butyryl-8-methoxy-4-[(2-methylphenyl)amino]quinoline and 3-Butyryl-8-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-4-[(2-methylphenyl)amino]quinoline (1997)

The 3,4,8-trisubstituted quinoline derivatives 2-butyryl-8-methoxy-4-[(2-methylphenyl)amino]quinoline and 3-butyryl-8-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-4-[(2-methylphenyl)amino]quinoline were prepared using five novel synthetic strategies, each involving a different disconnection as a basis for the key step. One such strategy led to the development of highly efficient processes for the large-scale preparations of both compounds and featured a facile cyclisation of an [(arylamino)methylene]malonate and an unusual Reformatsky reaction of a quinoline-3-carboxylate with tert-butyl 2-bromobutyrate in the presence of zinc.