gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Tracking vehicles in congested traffic (2002)

For the problem of tracking vehicles on freeways using machine vision, existing systems work well in free-flowing traffic. Traffic engineers, however, are more interested in monitoring freeways when there is congestion, and current systems break down for congested traffic due to the problem of partial occlusion. We are developing a feature-based tracking approach for the task of tracking vehicles under congestion. Instead of tracking entire vehicles, vehicle sub-features are tracked to make the system robust to partial occlusion. In order to group together sub-features that come from the same vehicle, the constraint of common motion is used. In this paper we describe the system and experiments of our tracker/grouper on several minutes of videotape.
D-Glucosamine supplementation extends life span of nematodes and of ageing mice: 10.1038/ncomms4563 (2014)

D-Glucosamine (GlcN) is a freely available and commonly used dietary supplement potentially promoting cartilage health in humans, which also acts as an inhibitor of glycolysis. Here we show that GlcN, independent of the hexosamine pathway, extends Caenorhabditis elegans life span by impairing glucose metabolism that activates AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK/AAK-2) and increases mitochondrial biogenesis. Consistent with the concept of mitohormesis, GlcN promotes increased formation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) culminating in increased expression of the nematodal amino acid-transporter 1 (aat-1) gene. Ameliorating mitochondrial ROS formation or impairment of aat-1-expression abolishes GlcN-mediated life span extension in an NRF2/SKN-1-dependent fashion. Unlike other calorie restriction mimetics, such as 2-deoxyglucose, GlcN extends life span of ageing C57BL/6 mice, which show an induction of mitochondrial biogenesis, lowered blood glucose levels, enhanced expression of several murine amino-acid transporters, as well as increased amino-acid catabolism. Taken together, we provide evidence that GlcN extends life span in evolutionary distinct species by mimicking a low-carbohydrate diet.
[Research of factors for glucose intolerance in mucoviscidosis]. (1992)

Glucose tolerance has been assessed in cystic fibrosis (CF) children using HbA1C and plasma glucose and insulin determinations during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), along with the determination of HLA-DR and islet-cell (ICA) and anti-insulin (IAA) antibodies. Of 49 patients (25 males, 24 females), aged 2 to 21 years (mean = 10.9 years), 29 had normal glucose tolerance (WHO criteria) during OGTT, 14 had impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and 6 had an isolated hyperglycemia at 120 min. Fasting plasma glucose and HbA1C were significantly higher in IGT than in normoglycemic patients. However, these two parameters showed poor individual predictive value of disturbance in glucose tolerance. Of 14 patients with abnormal OGTT, 7 were aged below 10 years, with 2 as young as 5 years; 8 patients were females. HLA antigens characteristic of type I diabetes tended to be found less frequently in CF patients than in the general population: 9% were DR3, 7% were DR4 and none was DR3/DR4. There were no HLA differences according to glucose tolerance. ICA and IAA were respectively detected in only one patient. Stimulated plasma insulin was low but did not correlate with glucose tolerance. In conclusion, impaired glucose tolerance is common in cystic fibrosis and can be found early in life. Although insulin secretion is decreased in this population, it does not seem to be the only factor responsible for impaired glucose intolerance. The absence of the genetical and immunological characteristics of type I diabetes confirms that glucose intolerance in cystic fibrosis is due to other pathogenetic mechanisms.
Proton transfer-controlled anionic polymerization of methyl-substituted ?-lactams with potassiumt-butoxide and subsequent coupling reaction with saccharides (1999)

The potassium t-butoxide-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization of 3,3-dimethyl- and 4,4-dimethyl-2-azetidinone proceeds quantitatively in a mixture of N,N-dimethylacetamide and 5–10 wt % of lithium chloride at 25°C to give the corresponding monodisperse polyamides. The addition of methyl α-D-glucoside into the living polyamide system gives a novel polyamide linked with the glucose moiety at one chain end. A new graft copolymer composed of a water soluble polysaccharide (dextran) backbone and many monodisperse polyamide branches was also prepared by a similar coupling method. The difference in acidity among the lactam monomers, the corresponding polyamides, and the alcohols was essential for the attainment of such a proton transfer-controlled system composed of the living polymerization and the subsequent coupling reaction. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 37: 909–915, 1999
Ultra-small metal particle arrays produced by high resolution electron-beam lithography (1982)

Arrays of silver and gold-palladium particles smaller than 10 nm in diameter and center-to-center spacings as low as 25 nm have been fabricated by electron-beam contamination lithography in a scanning transmission electron microscope and ion milling.
Comparison of Wavefront Reconstructions With Zernike Polynomials and Fourier Transforms (2006)

Fourier full reconstruction is faster and more accurate than Zernike reconstruction, makes optimal use of slope information, and better represents ocular aberrations of highly aberrated eyes.
Jump starting 42V powernet vehicles (2003)

The automotive industry today is faced with ever increasing electrical power demands that are stretching the capabilities of present on-board power supplies. The use of electrical and electronic features to enhance customer comfort, convenience and safety, such as electronic automatic climate control, entertainment systems, antilock brakes (ABS) and traction control (TC) systems, contribute to exponential growth in power demand and also to size and complexity of the wiring harnesses as well. The substantial range of options available for dealing with emergency aid in dual voltage vehicles is discussed. These options differ in both cost of implementation and relative freedom from failure modes and hazards. The choice will be complex. The decision on which approach to use will likely vary among auto manufacturers. What is critical is not that all manufacturers have exactly the same implementation, but that there is an agreement on the approaches that are taken, and that those varied approaches are compatible once these systems are in the hand of the public. It will be required that all manufacturers use the same connection for the new 36V batteries.
Profiling users in a 3g network using hourglass co-clustering (2010)

With widespread popularity of smart phones, more and more users are accessing the Internet on the go. Understanding mobile user browsing behavior is of great significance for several reasons. For example, it can help cellular (data) service providers (CSPs) to improve service performance, thus increasing user satisfaction. It can also provide valuable insights about how to enhance mobile user experience by providing dynamic content personalization and recommendation, or location-aware services.
A Computational Model of the Electromagnetic Heating of Biological Tissue with Application to Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy (1983)

To investigate the potentialities of hyperthermia as a cancer therapy, computer simulations have been performed. This simulation consists of two tuccessive steps. First, the heat generated in a distribution of biological tissue when irradiated by a source of electromagnetic radiation is computed. The mathematical tool for determining the disbution of generated heat is the domain-integral-equation technique. This technique enables us to determine in a body with arbitrary distribution of permittivity and conductivity the electromagnetic field due to prescribed sources. The integral equation is solved numerically by an iterative minimization of the integrated square error. From the computed distribution of generated heat, the temperature distribution follows by solving numerically the pertaining heat transfer problem. The relevant differential equation together with initial and boundary conditions is solved numerically using a finite-element technique in space and a finite-difference technique in time. Numerical results pertaining to the temperature distribution in a model of the human pelvis are presented.
Requirements for automatically generating multi-modal interfaces for complex appliances (2003)

Several industrial and academic research groups are working to simplify the control of appliances and services by creating a truly universal remote control. Unlike the preprogrammed remote controls available today, these new controllers download a specification from the appliance or service and use it to automatically generate a remote control interface. This promises to be a useful approach because the specification can be made detailed enough to generate both speech and graphical interfaces. Unfortunately, generating good user interfaces can be difficult. Based on user studies and prototype implementations, this paper presents a set of requirements that we have found are needed for automatic interface generation systems to create high-quality user interfaces.
High-power Nd-doped double-clad fiber amplifier at 1.06 μm (1996)

In this study, we clarify the performance of a Nd-doped fiber amplifier (NDFA) at 1.06 micrometer as a booster amplifier and a preamplifier. As a booster amplifier, we propose a Nd-doped double-clad fiber (DCF) amplifier. The DCF configuration could be the most promising technique for obtaining high output power from the NDFA, because of its potentially low amplifying threshold characteristics in an ideal four-state system, and the easy pump lightwave coupling to a broader first cladding area in the DCF. The proposed DCF is spliced with a normal single mode fiber at one end of the DCF as a signal input port, to avoid multi-mode propagation of the input signal lightwave through the first cladding area. Design parameters, such as the length and Nd concentration of the DCF, will be optimized by further study. The theoretical result predicts a 2-watt signal output power by a 10-watt pump power coupling to the DCF. For comparison, a booster amplifier employing four-LDs pump scheme is also demonstrated. As a preamplifier, we clarify the NDFA's high-sensitivity performance in giga-bit transmission. The NDFA will provide high-power, low-noise, robust, multigigabit optical transmitters and receivers for free-space laser communications systems.
Fusion of WorldView-2 Stereo and Multitemporal TerraSAR-X Images for Building Height Extraction in Urban Areas (2015)

We investigated the joint use of the high-resolution WorldView-2 optical satellite images and the multitemporal TerraSAR-X synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images to extract building height information in high-density urban areas. The main idea of the proposed fusion approach is to take full advantage of both data sets in building height retrieval. The proposed approach includes two main stages. First, initial building height estimates are extracted from WorldView-2 stereo images and multitemporal SAR images. These initial results are then combined using a novel object-based fusion approach, in which the heights of points for the same building footprint are retrieved and integrated. Experiments on the Mong Kok area of Hong Kong showed that the proposed approach using both data sets outperforms the use of either stereo images or SAR images alone. According to the results of the proposed approach, the average absolute height retrieval error is 6.53 m, which is much lower than using stereo and SAR images (9.08 and 12.24 m, respectively). The proposed fusion approach is suitable for building height retrieval in urban areas where single satellite data have limitations.
Synthesis of Analogues of Gingerol and Shogaol, the Active Pungent Principles from the Rhizomes of Zingiber officinale and Evaluation of Their Anti-Platelet Aggregation Effects (2014)

The present study was aimed at discovering novel biologically active compounds based on the skeletons of gingerol and shogaol, the pungent principles from the rhizomes of Zingiber officinale. Therefore, eight groups of analogues were synthesized and examined for their inhibitory activities of platelet aggregation induced by arachidonic acid, collagen, platelet activating factor, and thrombin. Among the tested compounds, [6]-paradol (5b) exhibited the most significant anti-platelet aggregation activity. It was the most potent candidate, which could be used in further investigation to explore new drug leads.
Nickel hexacyanoferrate membrane as a coated wire cation-selective electrode (2001)

Nickel hexacyanoferrates containing alkali metal cations as counter ions were used to prepare ion-selective electrodes for potentiometric sensing of intercalated species in the coated wire electrode (CWE) configuration. All the electrodes developed display a quasi-Nernstian response towards potassium ion, whereas the highest sensitivity is generally achieved when Cs+ is the counter cation in the sensing material. The selectivity constants of the electrodes were calculated by the matched potential method considering K+ as the primary ion. The selectivity order is Cs+ > K+ > Na+ > Li+ and reflects the effective dimension of the hydrated cations.
Interferon-γ inhibits HIV-induced invasiveness of monocytes (1995)

HIV-infected monocytes form highly invasive network on basement membrane matrix and secrete high levels of 92-kd metalloproteinase (MMP-9), an enzyme that degrades basement membrane proteins. In the present study, using matrigel as a model basement membrane system, we demonstrate that treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected monocytes with interferon-gamma at 50 U/ml inhibited the ability of infected monocytes to form an invasive network on matrigel and their invasion through the matrigel matrix. These effects were associated with a significant reduction in the levels of MMP-9 produced by HIV-infected monocytes treated with interferon-gamma 1 day prior to infection with HIV as compared with that of untreated HIV-infected monocytes. Monocytes treated with interferon-gamma 1 day after HIV infection showed the presence of integrated HIV sequences; however, the levels of MMP-9 were substantially lower than those produced by monocytes inoculated with live HIV, heat-inactivated HIV, or even the control uninfected monocytes. Exposure of monocytes to heat-inactivated HIV did not result in increased invasiveness or high MMP-9 production, suggesting that regulation of metalloproteinase by monocytes was independent of CD4-gp120 interactions and required active virus infection. Furthermore, addition of interferon-gamma to monocytes on day 10 after infection inhibited MMP-9 production by more than threefold with no significant reduction of virus replication. These results indicate that the mechanism of interferon-gamma-induced down-regulation of MMP-9 levels and reduced monocyte invasiveness may be mediated by a mechanism independent of antiviral activity of IFN-gamma in monocytes. Down-regulation of MMP-9 in HIV-infected monocytes by interferon-gamma may play an important role in the control of HIV pathogenesis.
Tool to recover scalar time-delay systems from experimental time series (1996)

We propose a method that is able to analyze chaotic time series gained from experimental data. The method allows us to identify scalar time-delay systems. If the dynamics of the system under investigation is governed by a scalar time-delay differential equation of the form $\frac{\mathrm{dy}(t)}{\mathrm{dt}}=h(y(t), y(t\ensuremath{-}{\ensuremath{\tau}}_{0}))$, the delay time ${\ensuremath{\tau}}_{0}$ and the function $h$ can be recovered. There are no restrictions to the dimensionality of the chaotic attractor. It turns out that the method is not strongly sensitive to additional noise. We successfully apply the method to various time series taken from a computer experiment and two different electronic oscillators.
Graph-Revised Convolutional Network (2019)

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have received increasing attention in the machine learning community for effectively leveraging both the content features of nodes and the linkage patterns across graphs in various applications. As real-world graphs are often incomplete and noisy, treating them as ground-truth information, which is a common practice in most GCNs, unavoidably leads to sub-optimal solutions. Existing efforts for addressing this problem either involve an over-parameterized model which is difficult to scale, or simply re-weight observed edges without dealing with the missing-edge issue. This paper proposes a novel framework called Graph-Revised Convolutional Network (GRCN), which avoids both extremes. Specifically, a GCN-based graph revision module is introduced for predicting missing edges and revising edge weights w.r.t. downstream tasks via joint optimization. A theoretical analysis reveals the connection between GRCN and previous work on multigraph belief propagation. Experiments on six benchmark datasets show that GRCN consistently outperforms strong baseline methods by a large margin, especially when the original graphs are severely incomplete or the labeled instances for model training are highly sparse.
Review of typical ice hockey injuries. Survey of the North American NHL and Hockey Canada versus European leagues. (1995)

Ice hockey is considered to be one of the fastest and roughest of all sports. Prospective injury reports of the North American National Hockey League, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and of several European teams (UdSSR, CSSR, Sweden and Switzerland) are reviewed to evaluate the patterns, anatomic locations, circumstances and sequelae of ice hockey-related injuries. Although different injury reporting systems are used in North America and Europe, knee injuries (sprains of the collateral ligaments) accounted for the majority of games missed (40%), followed by injuries to the shoulder (dislocation, acromio-clavicular joint separation, rotator cuff strain and tears, 20%), the groin (15%), and the back (10%). Mandatory helmets and face masks reduced the number of facial and eye injuries to a quarter from 1972 to 1983. The frequency of only concussion but also cervical spine lesions is increasing. The prevention of head, face, eye and neck injuries should mainly be accomplished by enforcement of current rules (mandatory helmets with face masks) and institution of new rules. Improvement in protective equipment would also have the effect of decreasing the frequency of injuries. Ice hockey is the fastest team sport and involves both finesse and controlled aggression. It is also considered to be one of the roughest of all sports. In recent years, ice hockey has grown tremendously in popularity, not only in the United States and in Canada but also in many European countries [1]. The number of both professional and amateur hockey players has increased with the expanding interest in the sport around the world [1].(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Supramolecular assemblies with DNA* (Special Topic Article) (2005)

Abstract Information storage in chemical and biological systems involves recognition processes occurring at the molecular and macromolecular level. The implementation of a "code" can consist of multiple noncovalent interactions, which include hydrogen bonds, π-stacking, hydrophobic interactions, and appropriate molecular and supramolecular architectures. With the double-helical DNA structure stabilized by Watson-Crick hydrogen bond base-pairing and aryl π-π stacking interactions, nature provides to scientists an example of one of the most sophisticated supramolecular systems. Molecular organization using these types of processes has become a very powerful strategy for the construction of well-defined nanostructures. Self-assemblies using noncovalent interactions have been designed to build fibers, membranes, two-dimensional monolayers, hydro, organo gels, etc. This paper highlights the research presented at the workshop entitled DNA Supramolecular Assemblies, which was held in Avignon, France on 5-6 May 2004. In this article, we first focus on the recent progress achieved in the design of supramolecular self-assemblies that mimic the molecular recognition functionalities found with nucleic acids. Second, we present several synthetic-DNA supramolecular assemblies currently developed to transport nucleic acids into cells. The marriage of supramolecular chemistry with nucleic acids as illustrated through examples in this article will open new avenues for designing artificial molecular devices and expand the current repertoire of supramolecular assemblies available.
Navy Personnel Planning and the Optimal Partition (2005)

One could argue that the Navy's most important resource is its personnel, and as such, workforce planning is a crucial task. We investigate a new model and solution technique that is designed to aid in optimizing the process of assigning sailors to jobs. This procedure attempts to achieve an increased level of sailor satisfaction by providing a list of possible jobs from which a sailor may choose. We show that the optimal partition provided by an interior-point algorithm is particularly useful when designing the job lists. This follows because a strictly complementary solution to the linear programming relaxation observes all possible optimal solutions to the original binary problem. The techniques developed rely on a continuous parametric analysis, and we show that the parameterization provides meaningful information about the structure of the optimal assignments.
Identifying Market Potential: The Application of Brand Development Indexing to Pleasure Travel (1995)

Tourism and travel marketing executives have historically been faced with challenges related to the accurate measurement of market demand and the accurate identification of market potential. Market demand and market potential differ from each other. It is there fore important to understand how they differ with respect to tourism and hospitality services marketing. This study applied brand development indexing (BDI) to tourism. This marketing tool, traditionally used for identifying market potential and resource allocation for goods and products, was found to be very successful in identifying pleasure travel market potential when combined with the proposed opportunity matrix. The study suggests that the utility of brand development indexing for the travel and tourism industry has tremen dous potential for destinations, attractions, and other hospitality services.
GUIs: the next generation (1993)

article Free Access Share on GUIs: the next generation Author: Dave Mandelkern View Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 36Issue 4April 1993 pp 36–39https://doi.org/10.1145/255950.153574Published:01 April 1993Publication History 10citation603DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations10Total Downloads603Last 12 Months22Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF