gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Wound Area Assessment using Mobile Application (2015)

This research aims to discover methods for the detection of the area of a wound using mobile devices. These devices have low memory and low processing capacity and they need the use of low complexity operations to identify a wound. The calculation of the wounded area consists of three phases, there are: image acquisition, image processing, surface reconstruction and calculations. This research is related to the use a mobile device to identify wound contours and area in a captured image. This image can be captured with a camera in a smartphone and the wound area is calculated based on the distance of the surface area and the resolution of the image captured. The main study in this research is the image processing in a mobile device, due to the limitations of these devices. However, the application developed during this research was developed for desktop, using the OpenCV library that is compatible with the Android platform and Java desktop technologies. During this research, the developed code written in Java will be easily adapted to the Android platform. The desktop application developed is available in a free repository for testing.
Automatic Data Acquisition on Round Balers (1994)

A round baler was equipped with a PC-based data acquisition system, GPS receiver and different sensors for automatic gathering of machinery parameters, working time and local yields.Algorithms were developed for an automatic analysis of the data acquired.
Codeposition of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Silica with Copper from Acid Copper Sulfate Baths (2000)

The influence of the hydrophobicity of silica particles on the electrodeposition of Cu-SiO2 composite coatings from acid copper sulfate solutions on rotating disk electrodes was studied. Spherical, nearly monodisperse hydrophilic and hydrophobic silica particles were used. The hydrophilic silica particles were prepared by the Stober process. These particles were made hydrophobic by a treatment with oligodimethyl siloxane-alpha,omega-diol. The effect of ceryl trimethyl ammonium hydrogen sulfate (CTAHS) and sodium 1-dodecane sulfonate on the codeposition behavior was investigated. Hydrophilic silica did nor codeposit from surfactant-face nor from surfactant-containing acid copper sulfate solutions, but up to 4 wt % (congruent to 14 vol %) of hydrophobic silica codeposited from solutions containing 15 g/L of silica particles and 10(-4) M CTAHS. The codeposition rate of hydrophobic silica slowly decreased with time. The amount of codeposited particles was highest for a current density of 5 A/dm(2) and a rotation speed of 400 rpm. (C) 2000 The Electrochemical Society. S0013-4651(99)01-044-7. All rights reserved.
The Use of Ultrasonic Methods in the Identification of Honey Types (2010)

The objective of this study was to determine the correlations between the viscosity and temperature of honey and the velocity of ultrasonic wave propagation, and to investigate the use of ultrasonic methods in the identification of different honey types. Within the analyzed temperature range, a significant correlation was found between ultrasound propagation velocity and the viscosity of honey. The results of this experiment suggest that the velocity of ultrasonic wave propagation measured at a temperature of 25C may be a factor discriminating between different types of honey. WYKORZYSTANIE METOD ULTRADŹWIĘKOWYCH DO IDENTYFIKACJI RODZAJU MIODU Arkadiusz Ratajski1, Ireneusz Bialobrzewski1, Fabian Dajnowiec2, Slawomir Bakier 1 Katedra Inzynierii Procesow Rolniczych 2 Katedra Inzynierii i Aparatury Procesowej Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie 3 Zaklad Techniki Rolno-Spozywczej Politechnika Bialostocka S l o w a k l u c z o w e: ultradźwieki, identyfikacja, miod.
BX In Situ Oil Shale Project: design and objectives (1978)

In the central portion of the Piceance Creek Basin of nw. Colorado, there is a section of oil shale bearing rocks in the Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation commonly referred to as the leached zone which contains very large reserves of oil in place as oil shale. This section or leached zone has enough permeability and porosity to permit in situ retorting of the oil shale contained therein without resorting to mining and/or other fracturing techniques to create permeability and porosity prior to retorting. The purpose of the BX In Situ Shale Project is to demonstrate the technical feasibility of using superheated steam at 1000 F and 1500 psig as a heat carrying medium to retort in situ oil shale of the leached zone, and provide a mechanism for the recovery of this oil with a minimum impact on the environment. The BX In Situ Oil Shale Project will be operated for a period of approximately 2 years. During that time some 1 x 10/sup 12/ Btu of heat will be injected into the leached zone as superheated steam. If successful in terms of the project goals of injection, retorting and oil recovery, the way will bemore » open to develop a very significant portion of the oil shale of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin of nw. Colorado which otherwise may not be recoverable.« less
Starch Gel Electrophoresis of Fructose-6-Phosphate Phosphoketolase in the Genus<i>Bifidobacterium</i> (1971)

Three groups of nomenspecies of the genus Bifidobacterium were distinguished by the different mobility of their fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase in starchgel electrophoresis; there is apparently a close relatedness between electrophoretic type of phosphoketolase and habitat.
DFT advances in the Motorola's MPC7400, a PowerPC/sup TM/ G4 microprocessor (2003)

Several advances have been made in the design for testability of the MPC7400, the first fourth generation PowerPC microprocessor. The memory array built-in self-test algorithms now support detecting write-recovery defects and more comprehensive diagnostics. Delay defects can be tested with scan patterns with the phased locked loop providing the at-speed launch-capture events. Several methodology and modeling improvements increased LSSD stuck-at fault test coverage. Design for manufacturability enhancements provide better tracking of initial silicon and fuse-based memory repair capabilities for improved yield and time-to-market.
Prestack partial migration (1980)

Abstract Conventional seismic data processing can be improved by modifying wide-offset data so that dipping events stack coherently. A procedure to achieve this improvement is proposed here, which is basically a 'partial' migration of common offset sections prior to stack. It has an advantage over full migration before stack in that, in the case of the latter, the final product is a migrated section. However, the prestack partial migration provides the interpreter with a high-quality common midpoint (CMP) stacked section which can be subsequently migrated.The theory of prestack partial migration is based on the double square-root equation, which describes seismic imaging with many shots and receivers. The double square-root operator in midpoint-offset space can be separated approximately into two terms, one involving only migration effects and the other involving only moveout correction. This separation provides an analysis of conventional processing. Estimation of errors in the separation yields the equation for prestack partial migration.Extension of the theory for separable approximation to incorporate lateral velocity variation yields a significant term proportional to the product of the first powers of offset, dip, and lateral velocity gradient. This term was used to obtain a rough estimate of lateral velocity variation from a field data set.
Soluble urokinase‐type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) as an independent factor predicting worse prognosis and extra‐bone marrow involvement in multiple myeloma patients (2003)

The urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) system, which consists of a proteinase (uPA), a receptor (uPAR or CD87) and inhibitors, is involved in proteolysis, cell migration, tissue remodelling, angiogenesis and cell adhesion. Recent findings suggest that malignant plasma cells express uPA and uPAR. The expression of these factors could represent a process by which myeloma plasma cells interact with the bone marrow (BM) environment and influence important biological events such as bone matrix degradation, plasma cell invasion and homing and, possibly, clinical evolution. We evaluated uPAR (CD87) and its soluble form (suPAR) in 49 multiple myeloma (MM) patients and correlated their expression and levels with clinico-biological characteristics of the disease. Flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that CD87 was expressed in all MM patients. High CD87 expression was associated with higher intensity of expression of CD56 (P = 0.038), CD38 (P = 0.058) and CD138 (P = 0.054) and CD45bright positivity (P = 0.014). suPAR levels correlated positively with soluble serum CD138 (P = 0.001), creatinine (P = 0.001), beta2-microglobulin (P < 0.001), disease stage (P = 0.017) and extra-BM involvement (P = 0.002). In the 46 evaluable patients, multivariate analysis showed that high levels of suPAR (P = 0.0214) and disease stage (P = 0.0064) were predictive of extra-BM involvement. In multivariate Cox analysis, 13q deletion (P = 0.0278), high soluble serum CD138 (P = 0.0201) and high suPAR (P = 0.0229) were the only parameters that independently affected survival. We conclude that CD87 is expressed on myeloma plasma cells and that suPAR, which predicts extra-BM involvement and poor prognosis, possibly represents a molecule with a relevant role in the biology of MM.
Howard: A Dynamic Excavator for Reverse Engineering Data Structures. (2011)

Even the most advanced reverse engineering techniques and products are weak in recovering data structures in stripped binaries—binaries without symbol tables. Unfortunately, forensics and reverse engineering without data structures is exceedingly hard. We present a new solution, known as Howard, to extract data structures from C binaries without any need for symbol tables. Our results are significantly more accurate than those of previous methods — sufficiently so to allow us to generate our own (partial) symbol tables without access to source code. Thus, debugging such binaries becomes feasible and reverse engineering becomes simpler. Also, we show that we can protect existing binaries from popular memory corruption attacks, without access to source code. Unlike most existing tools, our system uses dynamic analysis (on a QEMU-based emulator) and detects data structures by tracking how a program uses memory.
Stimulation of sensory neuropeptide release by nociceptin/orphanin FQ leads to hyperaemia in acutely inflamed rat knees (2006)

The peripheral effect of the 'opioid-like' peptide nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) on joint blood flow was investigated in acutely inflamed rats. Sensory neuropeptide release from capsaicin-sensitive nerves and the involvement of synovial mast cells and leukocytes on these vasomotor responses were also studied. Blood flow measurements of exposed knee joints were performed in urethane-anaesthetised rats (2 mg kg(-1) intraperitoneal) using laser Doppler perfusion imaging. Topical administration of N/OFQ (10(-13)-10(-8) mol) to acutely inflamed joints caused a dose-dependent increase in synovial perfusion with an ED(50) of 4.0 x 10(-10) mol. This vasodilatatory response was blocked by the selective NOP receptor antagonist [Phe(1)-(CH(2)-NH)-Gly(2)]-Nociceptin(1-13)-NH(2) (10(-9) mol) (P<0.0001).Co-administration of N/OFQ with the neurokinin-1 (NK(1)) receptor antagonist [D-Arg1,D-Phe5,D-Trp7,9,Leu11]-Substance P (10(-12) mol), the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) receptor antagonist VIP(6-28) (10(-9) mol) or the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist CGRP(8-37) (10(-9) mol) all blocked the hyperaemic effect of N/OFQ (P<0.0001). Treatment of acutely inflamed knees with capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-noneamide) to destroy unmyelinated joint afferents also inhibited N/OFQ vasomotor activity. Stabilisation of synovial mast cells with disodium cromoglycate (cromolyn) ameliorated N/OFQ responses, whereas inactivation of circulating leukocytes with the pan-selectin inhibitor fucoidin completely blocked N/OFQ-induced hyperaemia in these joints. These experiments show that in acutely inflamed knee joints, N/OFQ acts on NOP receptors located on synovial mast cells and leukocytes leading to the secondary release of proinflammatory mediators into the joint. These agents subsequently stimulate sensory neuropeptide release from capsaicin-sensitive nerves culminating in vasodilatation and increased articular blood flow.
Emergency management of diabetic ketoacidosis in adults (2003)

The authors propose a regimen for managing diabetic ketoacidosis in adults based on available evidence and their experience in the emergency department.
Measuring the impact of cognates in parallel text alignment (2005)

This paper evaluates the impact of considering cognates for aligning parallel texts using our aligner. By considering that two words may be cognates if their similarity is higher than a certain threshold and if they are automatically selected as aligners, we tested different degrees of cognativeness, by varying threshold values. A new methodology to measure the quality of resulting alignments is presented. Two language pairs are addressed: Portuguese-Spanish, and Portuguese-English
Inhibition of Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide Receptor Signaling in Adipose Tissue Reduces Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in High-Fat Diet–Fed Mice (2017)

Gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) directly induces energy accumulation in adipose tissue in vitro. However, the importance of the direct effect of GIPR signaling on adipose tissue in vivo remains unclear. In the current study, we generated adipose tissue-specific GIPR knockout (GIPR<sup>adipo-/-</sup>) mice and investigated the direct actions of GIP in adipose tissue. Under high-fat diet (HFD)-fed conditions, GIPR<sup>adipo-/-</sup> mice had significantly lower body weight and lean body mass compared with those in floxed GIPR (GIPR<sup>fl/fl</sup>) mice, although the fat volume was not significantly different between the two groups. Interestingly, insulin resistance, liver weight, and hepatic steatosis were reduced in HFD-fed GIPR<sup>adipo-/-</sup> mice. Plasma levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a proinflammatory cytokine that induces insulin resistance, were reduced in HFD-fed GIPR<sup>adipo-/-</sup> mice compared with those in HFD-fed GIPR<sup>fl/fl</sup> mice. Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) signaling is located downstream of the IL-6 receptor and is associated with insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. Expression levels of SOCS3 mRNA were significantly lower in adipose and liver tissues of HFD-fed GIPR<sup>adipo-/-</sup> mice compared with those of HFD-fed GIPR<sup>fl/fl</sup> mice. Thus, GIPR signaling in adipose tissue plays a critical role in HFD-induced insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis in vivo, which may involve IL-6 signaling.
Automated diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma using fundus and OCT images (2012)

We describe a system for the automated diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma using fundus and optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Automatic screening will help the doctors to quickly identify the condition of the patient in a more accurate way. The macular abnormalities caused due to diabetic retinopathy can be detected by applying morphological operations, filters and thresholds on the fundus images of the patient. Early detection of glaucoma is done by estimating the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) thickness from the OCT images of the patient. The RNFL thickness estimation involves the use of active contours based deformable snake algorithm for segmentation of the anterior and posterior boundaries of the retinal nerve fiber layer. The algorithm was tested on a set of 89 fundus images of which 85 were found to have at least mild retinopathy and OCT images of 31 patients out of which 13 were found to be glaucomatous. The accuracy for optical disk detection is found to be 97.75%. The proposed system therefore is accurate, reliable and robust and can be realized.
105Ad7 cancer vaccine stimulates anti-tumour helper and cytotoxic T-cell responses in colorectal cancer patients but repeated immunisations are required to maintain these responses (2000)

105AD7 is a human anti-idiotypic antibody that recognises the binding site of the anti-tumour antibody 791T/36 and can thereby mimic the CD55 antigen. The molecular basis of 105AD7 mimicry has been identified with 3 CDR regions of 105AD7 showing similarity to 3 regions of CD55. These regions have been analysed for potential T-cell epitopes, and sequences that are predicted to bind to HLA/A1, 3,24 and to HLA/DR1,3,7 have been identified within the CDRH3 region of 105AD7. These epitopes should be stimulating CD8 and CD4 responses, respectively. This prediction was tested on 12 colorectal cancer patients receiving 105AD7 therapy. There was good concordance in 10 of 11 patients between accumulation of CD8RO cells or tumour killing and expression of HLA/A1,3,24. The only patient who failed to respond had a non-permissive class II haplotype and failed to show a helper response. Again 10 of 11 patients showing accumulation of CD4RO cells, in vitro blastogenesis responses, enhanced IL-2 or enhanced NK activity expressed one or more of the HLA/DR1,3,7 haplotypes. Although there was a consistent accumulation of CD45RO cells following 14 of 18 immunisations, only one patient showed a sustained memory response. Our results suggest that 105AD7 can stimulate CD4 and CD8 responses in patients with the appropriate haplotype. However, it may be necessary to continue to immunise, since few patients produce a sustained memory response.
Density Functional Theory Calculation of p<i>K</i><sub>a</sub>’s of Thiols in Aqueous Solution Using Explicit Water Molecules and the Polarizable Continuum Model (2016)

The pKa's of substituted thiols are important for understanding their properties and reactivities in applications in chemistry, biochemistry, and material chemistry. For a collection of 175 different density functionals and the SMD implicit solvation model, the average errors in the calculated pKa's of methanethiol and ethanethiol are almost 10 pKa units higher than for imidazole. A test set of 45 substituted thiols with pKa's ranging from 4 to 12 has been used to assess the performance of 8 functionals with 3 different basis sets. As expected, the basis set needs to include polarization functions on the hydrogens and diffuse functions on the heavy atoms. Solvent cavity scaling was ineffective in correcting the errors in the calculated pKa's. Inclusion of an explicit water molecule that is hydrogen bonded with the H of the thiol group (in neutral) or S(-) (in thiolates) lowers error by an average of 3.5 pKa units. With one explicit water and the SMD solvation model, pKa's calculated with the M06-2X, PBEPBE, BP86, and LC-BLYP functionals are found to deviate from the experimental values by about 1.5-2.0 pKa units whereas pKa's with the B3LYP, ωB97XD and PBEVWN5 functionals are still in error by more than 3 pKa units. The inclusion of three explicit water molecules lowers the calculated pKa further by about 4.5 pKa units. With the B3LYP and ωB97XD functionals, the calculated pKa's are within one unit of the experimental values whereas most other functionals used in this study underestimate the pKa's. This study shows that the ωB97XD functional with the 6-31+G(d,p) and 6-311++G(d,p) basis sets, and the SMD solvation model with three explicit water molecules hydrogen bonded to the sulfur produces the best result for the test set (average error -0.11 ± 0.50 and +0.15 ± 0.58, respectively). The B3LYP functional also performs well (average error -1.11 ± 0.82 and -0.78 ± 0.79, respectively).
Role of the liquid phase in gas-liquid-solid chromatography and its influence of column performance. Experimental approach (1973)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRole of the liquid phase in gas-liquid-solid chromatography and its influence of column performance. Experimental approachFabrizio. Bruner, Paolo. Ciccioli, Giancarlo. Crescentini, and Maria T. PistolesiCite this: Anal. Chem. 1973, 45, 11, 1851–1859Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1973Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1973https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac60333a006https://doi.org/10.1021/ac60333a006research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views59Altmetric-Citations63LEARN 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
ZNF445 is a primary regulator of genomic imprinting (2019)

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic process regulated by germline-derived DNA methylation, causing parental origin-specific monoallelic gene expression. Zinc finger protein 57 (ZFP57) is critical for maintenance of this epigenetic memory during post-fertilization reprogramming, yet incomplete penetrance of <i>ZFP57</i> mutations in humans and mice suggests additional effectors. We reveal that ZNF445/ZFP445, which we trace to the origins of imprinting, binds imprinting control regions (ICRs) in mice and humans. In mice, ZFP445 and ZFP57 act together, maintaining all but one ICR in vivo, whereas earlier embryonic expression of ZNF445 and its intolerance to loss-of-function mutations indicate greater importance in the maintenance of human imprints.
Concentration of airborne mite allergens (<i>Der</i> I and <i>Der</i> II) during sleep (1992)

Using a low-noise air sampler and a sensitive radioimmunoassay, we measured the concentration of mite allergens in the air during sleeping with Japanese bedquilts (futon). The airborne allergen levels of Der I (Der p I plus Der f I) and Der II during sleep were 223 and 87.1 pg/m3 of air, respectively. These levels were about 10-fold higher than those during usual domestic life in the living room of the same houses. When the bedquilts were changed to new ones free of mite allergens, the airborne allergen levels of Der I and Der II were decreased to 11.5 and 12.0 pg/m3, respectively. This indicated that the mite airborne allergens during sleep were generated from the used bedding, not from the floor. We believe that exposure to airborne mite allergens during sleep might be an important factor in the development of mite allergies.