gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Flexible simulation of a complex semiconductor manufacturing line using a rule-based system (1993)

Rule-based systems have been used to produce fast, flexible simulation models for semiconductor manufacturing lines. This paper describes such a rule-based simulator for a semiconductor manufacturing line, and the language in which it is written. The simulator is written in a rule-based declarative style that uses a single-rule “template” to move thousands of product lots through various process steps; the rule is customized as needed with data for each step, route, lot, tool, manpower skill, etc. Since line or product changes require only reading new data from a database, without reprogramming, this provides a modeling environment that is simple, flexible, and maintainable. The model is implemented in ECLPS (Enhanced Common Lisp Production System), also known as a knowledge-based or expert systems language. It handles very large models (thousands of data elements, or more) well and is very fast. Subsequent changes improved the speed several orders of magnitude over that of an older version of the model, primarily through use of a preprocessor to eliminate duplicate and redundant data, and by enforcing data typing to take advantage of special techniques for very fast processing of extremely large matches (hashed indices). ECLPS also provides a built-in simulated time clock and other constructs to simplify simulation applications. The model runs daily at the IBM semiconductor manufacturing plant in Yasu, Japan, where it has been in use for many years, currently on three different semiconductor manufacturing lines.
<title>Automated critical dimension and registration communication</title> (1992)

Communication and verification of information has historically been an important and significant part of mask order entry. Although SEMI defined and adopted a specification for a mask order entry data base, it has met numerous practical obstacles and has not yet been widely accepted or implemented. Concise and clear communication of information between designer and mask vendor, between departments within the mask vendor's organization and ultimately to the wafer fab continues to be an error-prone, paper-based system. The project undertaken here addresses, through software tools, the specification and communication of "specific points of interest". These points may be, but are not limited to, critical dimension marks, registration marks, specific geometries or areas in question. Data markers may be added into the binary data file at any point in the process from design to mask data preparation to mask manufacturing and inspection to wafer fab. Several marker types are available and may be defined and utilized at the users' discretion. Each marker may have an associated comment and may be instantly called up and displayed graphically. Once these markers are defined and stored they are then communicated through the binary data file or job deck file. A designer may place markers indicating critical dimensions to be measured, along with their intended data and mask dimensions, store them into the design library and communicate them to the mask vendor through that library. The defined markers are passed from design data base into E-beam or optical lithography format as the data is fractured. Markers specifying critical dimensions may be automatically verified by the software or manually by the operator. Similarly, these critical dimension or registration markers may be used to generate run control files for automated CD and/or registration measurement equipment.
Surgical outcome and prognostic factors of frontal lobe epilepsy surgery (2007)

Frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery is the second most common surgery performed to treat pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Yet, little is known about long-term seizure outcome following frontal lobectomy. The aim of this study is to investigate the trends in longitudinal outcome and identify potential prognostic indicators in a cohort of FLE patients investigated using modern diagnostic techniques. We reviewed 70 patients who underwent a frontal lobectomy between 1995 and 2003 (mean follow-up 4.1 +/- 3 years). Data were analysed using survival analysis and multivariate regression with Cox proportional hazard models. A favourable outcome was defined as complete seizure-freedom, allowing for auras and seizures restricted to the first post-operative week. The estimated probability of complete seizure-freedom was 55.7% [95% confidence interval (CI) = 50-62] at 1 post-operative year, 45.1% (95% CI = 39-51) at 3 years, and 30.1% (95% CI = 21-39) at 5 years. Eighty per cent of seizure recurrences occurred within the first 6 post-operative months. Late remissions and relapses occurred, but were rare. After multivariate analysis, the following variables retained their significance as independent predictors of seizure recurrence: MRI-negative malformation of cortical development as disease aetiology [risk ratio (RR) = 2.22, 95% CI = 1.40-3.47], any extrafrontal MRI abnormality (RR = 1.75, 95% CI = 1.12-2.69), generalized/non-localized ictal EEG patterns (RR = 1.83, 95% CI = 1.15-2.87), occurrence of acute post-operative seizures (RR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.50-3.14) and incomplete surgical resection (RR = 2.56, 95% CI = 1.66-4.05) (log likelihood-ratio test P-value < 0.0001). More than half of patients in favourable prognostic categories were seizure-free at 3 years, and up to 40% were seizure-free at 5 years, compared to <15% in those with unfavourable outcome predictors. These data underscore the importance of appropriate selection of potential surgical candidates.
A Promoter in the Coding Region of the Calcium Channel Gene CACNA1C Generates the Transcription Factor CCAT (2013)

The C-terminus of the voltage-gated calcium channel Cav1.2 encodes a transcription factor, the calcium channel associated transcriptional regulator (CCAT), that regulates neurite extension and inhibits Cav1.2 expression. The mechanisms by which CCAT is generated in neurons and myocytes are poorly understood. Here we show that CCAT is produced by activation of a cryptic promoter in exon 46 of CACNA1C, the gene that encodes CaV1.2. Expression of CCAT is independent of Cav1.2 expression in neuroblastoma cells, in mice, and in human neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), providing strong evidence that CCAT is not generated by cleavage of CaV1.2. Analysis of the transcriptional start sites in CACNA1C and immune-blotting for channel proteins indicate that multiple proteins are generated from the 3' end of the CACNA1C gene. This study provides new insights into the regulation of CACNA1C, and provides an example of how exonic promoters contribute to the complexity of mammalian genomes.
Predictive Maintenance Programs (PMP’s) in Small HVAC Applications: Analysis of Available Products and Technology (1994)

This paper offers an overview of predictive maintenance technologies available. With the exception of the considerably more complex and expensive control type systems (e.g. the AKCESS 25 from Danfoss), all of the predictive maintanence systems presented here basically rely on comparative temperature measurements. The list of PMP's presented here is not to be considered exhaustive.
A Novel Receive Algorithm for Clipped OFDM Signals (2003)

A major drawback of the Orthogonal FrequencyDivision Multiplex (OFDM) principle is the high dynamic range of the transmit signal. The transmit Power Amplifier (PA) and other elements in the signal path have to be operated at high Input Power Backoff (IBO), which decreases the efficiency of the PA and leads to higher costs.
Petroleum refinery distillation (1973)

Petroleum refinery distillation , Petroleum refinery distillation , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
Richards' Ultimate Bicycle Book (1992)

With over 700 photographs, this book shows every type of bicycle including the anatomy, the action and the rider of each bike. The book features all the most popular bikes of today, from tandems to mountain bikes, and from professional racers to the more esoteric bikes of the future. Annotated photographs and text reveal the most efficient way of riding each type of bike and explain the function of all the moving parts of a bicycle. Professional tips and step-by-step photographs show how to maintain each bicycle.
Pathology of Spontaneous Colibacillosis in a Broiler Flock (1985)

Forty-eight of 134 chickens collected from a flock on a broiler farm were diagnosed pathologically and microbiologically to have colibacillosis. Both acute septicemia (seven birds, 1 to 36 days old) and subacute serositis (41 birds, 5 to 57 days old) were found. The former consisted of necrosis with fibrinous exudates in the ellipsoids and lymphoid follicles of the spleen, and fibrinous thrombi in sinusoids of the liver with occasional necrosis of hepatic cells. The latter had fibrinopurulent inflammation with granulomatous changes in the serosal tissues--including the epicardium, pericardium, and hepatic peritoneal sac--accompanied by septicemic lesions in the spleen and liver. Respiratory lesions (airsacculitis, pneumonia, and tracheitis) were noted in most chickens affected with acute septicemia and subacute serositis. Degenerative changes also were observed in the bursa of Fabricius.
Job Performance Modeling: A Holistic Theoretical Analysis (2017)

The purpose of this study is to investigate inconsistent findings in extant research on organizational performance prediction. Systematic review is used to (a) evaluate the overall validity of traditional antecedents of organizational performance, (b) examine their underlying casual relationships in determining organizational performance, and (c) investigate the potential existence of mediating and moderating effects of each antecedent. Rather than simply making the customary plea for more elaborate micro theories of behavior or improved research designs, it is contended that greater progress could be made by examining and organizing what is already known about performance and its antecedents. Thus, leveraging on the systematic review analysis, this research develops a holistic theoretical model by blending three job performance antecedents to study their explanatory power and to reveal how these factors may interact with each other. The proposed causal-chain framework may be regarded as representative references for future research in the organizational psychology. Practitioners can also develop a better operational strategies based on the theoretical model.
NEUROLEPTICS INDUCE PENILE ERECTION IN THE RABBIT (1993)

1. Intramuscular (i.m.) administration of the neuroleptics chlorpromazine, haloperidol and spiperone at doses ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 mg/kg in male rabbits induced a dose-dependent penile erection. 2. The i.m. administration of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonists prazosin and bunazosin (0.1-0.4 mg/kg), induced a dose-dependent penile erection. However, that of the peripheral dopamine receptor antagonist domperidone (0.4-4.0 mg/kg) and the dopamine receptor agonist apomorphine (0.1-1.0 mg/kg) did not. Penile erection was not induced by i.m. injection of chlorpromazine in combination with intrapenile administration of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist methoxamine. 3. Penile erection was induced by the administration of chlorpromazine (0.25-1.00 mg/body) into the lateral cerebral ventricle. At a low dose, however, the administration of chlorpromazine into the lateral ventricle induced a less notable penile erection than that induced intramuscularly. 4. Penile erection was induced by i.m. injection of the ganglionic blocker hexamethonium (5-20 mg/kg). When chlorpromazine was given after pretreatment with hexamethonium, penile erection was more notable than that induced by either drug given alone. 5. These results suggest that neuroleptics could act locally in the penile structure to cause penile erection by alpha 1-adrenoceptor-blocking actions.
Optimal Power Control and Load Balancing for Uplink Cell-Free Multi-User Massive MIMO (2018)

In this paper, we consider the problem of power control and load balancing in the uplink of the cell-free (CF) multi-user (MU) massive multiple-input multiple-output system. The power control problem is solved using three different criteria: 1) power minimization; 2) maximize min quality of service (QoS); and 3) maximize sum spectral efficiency (SE) under imperfect channel state information. While power minimization and min-QoS maximization problems can be solved in polynomial time, sum SE maximization is NP-hard. Hence, we apply a successive approach to convert it into a geometric program and achieve near optimum solution. As the number of connections in CF-MU system is large, we minimize the number of base stations (BSs) serving each user while maintaining the optimized power consumption and QoS from the previous stage. We propose an iterative elimination (IE) algorithm to remove ineffective BSs for each user. The system analysis is performed under two common BS receivers: maximum ratio combining and zero forcing. The simulation shows that our method is better than both maximum signal-to-noise ratio association and full-set joint transmission, especially in the high QoS regime. Another notable result is that the selection of the linear receiver becomes more influential than the association method.
Implantation of multiple intracochlear electrodes for rehabilitation of total deafness: Preliminary report (1976)

Many instances of total deafness are due to destruction of the organ of Corti but with partial or complete preservation of the function of the cochlear nerve. In such cases, it is possible to restore some hearing by electrically stimulating the fibers of the cochlear nerve with the help of implanted electrodes. Preoperative testing with electric shocks applied to the round window have aroused sensations of noise in 45 cases of total bilateral deafness with a great variety of etiologies. The only negative results were in two cases of operated acoustic neuromas. Our operation places up to eight intracochlear electrodes, each with a separate fenestration opening into an electrically isolated compartment of the scala tympani. Stimulation of each electrode yields a different sound sensation of a pitch that depends on its location along the cochlea. Electric filters direct different frequency bands to the appropriate electrodes, with the necessary compression of dynamic range. In three experimental cases of unilateral deafness, pitch matches to the normal ear were made. In seven therapeutic operations on adult cases of acquired total bilateral deafness, speech recognition was usually relearned within a month or two. Improvement of voice quality was also dramatic. The intracochlear electrodes have been well tolerated for months, but the method of connection to the external equipment still presents difficulties.
Effects of spin accumulation in magnetic multilayers (2001)

The diffusion equation for the spin accumulation in magnetic multilayers is extended to capture the time-dependent buildup of spin accumulation as well as the influence of an external field and arbitrary magnetization orientations on the spin accumulation. One obtains a consistent formulation for spin accumulation that can explain such important effects as spin injection, spin filtering, and spin transfer on an equal footing. Spin transfer is determined by the amount of spin accumulation at the interfaces whereas spin filtering by the departure from collinear magnetization orientations. The noncollinear magnetization orientations lead to a spatial decay of the spin accumulation in the transverse direction of the multilayer plane. Spin filtering can thus be associated with a new length scale in the transverse direction. Moreover, spin filtering is in correspondence with a biquadratic coupling between layers and changes in the angular dependence of the giant magnetoresistance. What is interesting is that spin filtering is not a prerequisite to spin transfer. Different scenarios for current-induced magnetization reversal are discussed in which, depending largely on the geometry of the magnetic multilayer, either spin injection or spin transfer will be dominant.
Early Diagnosis of Pancoast's Tumor Facilitated by Bone Scanning (1974)

In a patient complaining of back and shoulder pain, there was no definite evidence of a Pancoast tumor by physical examination, roentgenographic procedures, sputum cytology, electromyography, or nerve conduction studies. The early diagnosis of Pancoast's tumor was facilitated by an abnormal bone scan using 99mTc polyphosphate; this procedure led directly to biopsy and diagnosis. Bone scanning is recommended as a useful adjunct in evaluating patients suspected of having Pancoast's tumor.
Powerful relativistic electron beams in a plasma and in a vacuum (theory) (1974)

The possibility of using intense relativistic electron beams (REBs) for heating plasmas in open systems is discussed. Within this context the following three sets of problems are discussed: REB transport in a vacuum with a strong magnetic field; beam equilibrium, stability and critical currents in a vacuum. Beam transport in a plasma; charge and current neutralization of the beam; reverse-current heating of the plasma, and macroscopic REB instabilities in the plasma. The theory of collective relaxation of REBs in a plasma, including quasi-linear and non-linear relaxation models; the role of plasma non-uniformity, and macroscopic effects during REB relaxation.
Experimental quantum teleportation (1998)

Quantum entanglement lies at the heart of new proposals for quantum communication and computation. Here we describe the recent experimental realization of quantum teleportation.
Automated adaptive frequency tracking system for efficient mid-range wireless power transfer via magnetic resonanc coupling (2012)

An automated frequency tracking system for an efficient mid-range wireless power transfer is realized based on an analysis of magnetic resonance wireless power link consisting of high-quality factor transmitting and receiving resonators. The proposed automatic adaptive frequency tracking system is designed to maintain a power transfer efficiency of higher than 70% for any transfer mid-range distance by directly monitoring the link efficiency using wireless communication. The advantage of the proposed system over other frequency tracking schemes is that the efficiencies of the wireless power link and power amplifier can be considered in the frequency tracking algorithm. The proposed system has been successfully demonstrated with an operation of normal digital LED TV.
Mobile blood-glucose monitoring of an integrated health information management system (2012)

Our design utilizes a portable Bluetooth blood glucose measuring device for timed measurements of the blood glucose, a remote site server equipped with appropriate software and an input inquisition device.
Identifying Users behind Shared Accounts in Online Streaming Services (2018)

Online streaming services are prevalent. Major service providers, such as Netflix (for movies) and Spotify (for music), usually have a large customer base. More often than not, users may share an account. This has attracted increasing attention recently, as account sharing not only compromises the service provider's financial interests but also impairs the performance of recommendation systems and consequently the quality of service provided to the users. To address this issue, this paper focuses on the problem of user identification in shared accounts. Our goal is three-fold: (1) Given an account, along with its historical session logs, we identify a set of users who share such account; (2) Given a new session issued by an account, we find the corresponding user among the identified users of such account; (3) We aim to boost the performance of item recommendation by user identification. While the mapping between users and accounts is unknown, we propose an unsupervised learning-based framework, Session-based Heterogeneous graph Embedding for User Identification (SHE-UI), to differentiate and model the preferences of users in an account, and to group sessions by these users. In SHE-UI, a heterogeneous graph is constructed to represent items such as songs and their available metadata such as artists, genres, and albums. An item-based session embedding technique is proposed using a normalized random walk in the heterogeneous graph. Our experiments conducted on two large-scale music streaming datasets, Last.fm and KKBOX, show that SHE-UI not only accurately identifies users, but also significantly improves the performance of item recommendation over the state-of-the-art methods.
Weekly <i>nab</i> -Rapamycin in Patients with Advanced Nonhematologic Malignancies: Final Results of a Phase I Trial (2013)

Abstract Purpose: This dose-finding phase I study investigated the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) and safety of weekly nanoparticle albumin-bound rapamycin (nab-rapamycin) in patients with untreatable advanced nonhematologic malignancies. Experimental Design: nab-Rapamycin was administered weekly for 3 weeks followed by 1 week of rest, with a starting dose of 45 mg/m2. Additional doses were 56.25, 100, 150, and 125 mg/m2. Results: Of 27 enrolled patients, 26 were treated. Two dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) occurred at 150 mg/m2 [grade 3 aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation and grade 4 thrombocytopenia], and two DLTs occurred at 125 mg/m2 (grade 3 suicidal ideation and grade 3 hypophosphatemia). Thus, the MTD was declared at 100 mg/m2. Most treatment-related adverse events (TRAE) were grade 1/2, including thrombocytopenia (58%), hypokalemia (23%), mucositis (38%), fatigue (27%), rash (23%), diarrhea (23%), nausea (19%), anemia (19%), hypophosphatemia (19%), neutropenia (15%), and hypertriglyceridemia (15%). Only one grade 3 nonhematologic TRAE (dyspnea) and one grade 3 hematologic event (anemia) occurred at the MTD. One patient with kidney cancer had a partial response and 2 patients remained on study for 365 days (patient with mesothelioma) and 238 days (patient with neuroendocrine tumor). The peak concentration (Cmax) and area under the concentration–time curve (AUC) of rapamycin increased with dose between 45 and 150 mg/m2, except for a relatively low AUC at 125 mg/m2. nab-Rapamycin significantly inhibited mTOR targets S6K and 4EBP1. Conclusions: The clinical dose of single-agent nab-rapamycin was established at 100 mg/m2 weekly (3 of 4 weeks) given intravenously, which was well tolerated with preliminary evidence of response and stable disease, and produced a fairly dose-proportional pharmacokinetic profile in patients with unresectable advanced nonhematologic malignancies. Clin Cancer Res; 19(19); 5474–84. ©2013 AACR.
Doping Effects on Thermoelectric Properties of the Pseudogap Fe<SUB>2</SUB>VAl System (2002)

We report on the temperature dependence of electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient and Hall coefficient for Fe2(V1−yTiy)Al with y=0−0.25 and Fe2(V1−zMoz)Al with z=0−0.20. While the Heusler-type Fe2VAl (y=z=0) exhibits a semiconductor-like resistivity behavior, a slight substitution of Ti or Mo for V causes a sharp decrease in the low-temperature resistivity and a large enhancement in the Seebeck coefficient S: a sign of S is positive for the Ti substitution but negative for the Mo substitution. Substantial enhancements for the Seebeck coefficient are in reasonable accord with changes in the Hall coefficient and can be explained on the basis of the electronic structure of Fe2VAl, where the Fermi level is expected to shift slightly from the center of the pseudogap upon the substitution of Ti or Mo for V. In particular, the Mo substitution leads to a large power factor of 4×10−3 W/mK2 at room temperature, which is comparable to that of conventional thermoelectric materials.