gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy (2020)

Giacomo Grasselli, MD; Alberto Zangrillo, MD; Alberto Zanella, MD; Massimo Antonelli, MD; Luca Cabrini, MD; Antonio Castelli, MD; Danilo Cereda, MD; Antonio Coluccello, MD; Giuseppe Foti, MD; Roberto Fumagalli, MD; Giorgio Iotti, MD; Nicola Latronico, MD; Luca Lorini, MD; Stefano Merler, MS; Giuseppe Natalini, MD; Alessandra Piatti, MD; Marco Vito Ranieri, MD; Anna Mara Scandroglio, MD; Enrico Storti, MD; Maurizio Cecconi, MD; Antonio Pesenti, MD; COVID-19 Lombardy ICU Network; Emiliano Agosteo; Valentina Alaimo; Giovanni Albano; Andrea Albertin; Armando Alborghetti; Giorgio Aldegheri; Benvenuto Antonini; Enrico Barbara; Nicolangela Belgiorno; Mirko Belliato; Annalisa Benini; Enrico Beretta; Leonardo Bianciardi; Stefano Bonazzi; Massimo Borelli; Enrico Boselli; Nicola Bronzini; Carlo Capra; Livio Carnevale; Giampaolo Casella; Gianpaolo Castelli; Emanuele Catena; Sergio Cattaneo; Davide Chiumello; Silvia Cirri; Giuseppe Citerio; Sergio Colombo; Davide Coppini; Alberto Corona; Paolo Cortellazzi; Elena Costantini; Remo Daniel Covello; Gianluca De Filippi; Marco Dei Poli; Federica Della Mura; Giulia Evasi; Raquel Fernandez-Olmos; Andrea Forastieri Molinari; Marco Galletti; Giorgio Gallioli; Marco Gemma; Paolo Gnesin; Lorenzo Grazioli; Stefano Greco; Paolo Gritti; Paolo Grosso; Luca Guatteri; Davide Guzzon; Fabiola Harizay; Roberto Keim; Giovanni Landoni; Thomas Langer; Andrea Lombardo; Annalisa Malara; Elena Malpetti; Francesco Marino; Giovanni Marino; Maurizio Giovanni Mazzoni; Guido Merli; Antonio Micucci; Francesco Mojoli; Stefano Muttini; Adriana Nailescu; Mauro Panigada; Paolo Perazzo; Giovanni Battista Perego; Nicola Petrucci; Angelo Pezzi; Alessandro Protti; Danilo Radrizzani; Maurizio Raimondi; Marco Ranucci; Frank Rasulo; Mario Riccio; Roberto Rona; Claudio Roscitano; Patrizia Ruggeri; Antonello Sala; Giuseppe Sala; Luca Salvi; Pietro Sebastiano; Paolo Severgnini; Ilaria Sforzini; Francesco Donato Sigurtà; Matteo Subert; Paola Tagliabue; Carmine Troiano; Roberto Valsecchi; Uberto Viola; Giovanni Vitale; Massimo Zambon; Elena Zoia
Single antenna interference cancellation: iterative semi-blind algorithm and performance bound for joint maximum-likelihood interference cancellation (2005)

In the first part, an iterative receiver for joint channel estimation and cochannel interference cancellation suitable for time-division multiple-access (TDMA) cellular radio systems is proposed. The receiver is based on joint maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (JMLSE). It is blind with respect to the data of the interfering users but training-based with respect to the data of the desired user and is therefore referred to as semiblind. As opposed to concurrent receiver structures where the number of receiving antennas must exceed the number of cochannel interferers, the proposed receiver is suitable for just one receive antenna. No knowledge on the burst structure of the interferer is used. Hence, the proposed receiver is suitable for (but not restricted to) the downlink in asynchronous networks. The proposed receiver is able to operate at a signal/interference ratio of 0 dB in asynchronous GSM/GPRS networks given a single dominating interferer. Furthermore, the results indicate that with proper interference cancellation it is not necessary to synchronize GSM/GPRS networks. In the second part, a lower bound on the bit error probability for joint maximum-likelihood sequence estimation in the presence of cochannel interference (CCI) and intersymbol interference (ISI) is presented. This lower bound is valid for an arbitrary number of interferers.
TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN THE CULTURE OF AGING IN KOREA (1996)

With rapid societal changes and demographic aging in recent Korea, cultural value\n\nsystem related with aging has been changing dramatically. Korea has become youthcentered society and cultural context of family life has been altered. In this paper, the nature of the changes in some of the major themes of the Korean culture is discussed. The various impacts of these changes on the status, role, and life styles of the elderly people in contemporary Korea are also examined. The need to create a positive social attitude toward aging and cultural context friendly to the aged is discussed.
Open Set Domain Adaptation by Backpropagation (2018)

Numerous algorithms have been proposed for transferring knowledge from a label-rich domain (source) to a label-scarce domain (target). Almost all of them are proposed for a closed-set scenario, where the source and the target domain completely share the class of their samples. We call the shared class the \doublequote{known class.} However, in practice, when samples in target domain are not labeled, we cannot know whether the domains share the class. A target domain can contain samples of classes that are not shared by the source domain. We call such classes the \doublequote{unknown class} and algorithms that work well in the open set situation are very practical. However, most existing distribution matching methods for domain adaptation do not work well in this setting because unknown target samples should not be aligned with the source. In this paper, we propose a method for an open set domain adaptation scenario which utilizes adversarial training. A classifier is trained to make a boundary between the source and the target samples whereas a generator is trained to make target samples far from the boundary. Thus, we assign two options to the feature generator: aligning them with source known samples or rejecting them as unknown target samples. This approach allows extracting features that separate unknown target samples from known target samples. Our method was extensively evaluated in domain adaptation setting and outperformed other methods with a large margin in most settings.
Tumor-growth inhibition with bispecific antibody fragments in a syngeneic mouse melanoma model: The role of targeted T-cell co-stimulationvia CD28 (1999)

The ability of bispecific antibodies with anti-tumor x anti-CD3 specificity to mediate the killing of tumor cells by activated T cells has been demonstrated in many in vitro experiments. Moreover, long-term survival of lymphoma-bearing mice has been observed after treatment with such reagents. The therapeutic effect of bispecific antibodies in solid-tumor models has been less impressive, in particular if fragmented antibodies were used to avoid systemic T-cell activation by bispecific constructs binding to Fc-receptor-positive cells. Here we report that bispecific anti-tumor x anti-CD3-fragments markedly inhibit intraperitoneal as well as pulmonary tumor growth in mice inoculated with B16 melanoma cells, resulting in the long-term survival of animals. Therapeutic success critically depends on the number of recruitable effector cells at the site of tumor growth. A second bispecific construct triggering the co-stimulatory CD28-molecule on the T-cell surface increased tumor-cell killing in vitro and in vivo, despite rather low avidity of this reagent to mouse T cells. Finally, long-term-surviving animals showed improved survival after i.v. rechallenge with tumor cells, indicating that bispecific antibodies are capable of inducing long-lasting protective immunity.
Frost Heave Dynamics at a Single Crystal Interface (1995)

We study flow in a surface-melted layer of a single crystal of ice at a plane solid interface. The flow, which is induced by a temperature gradient in the melted layer, causes the ice to grow normal to the interface. The process is the basis for frost heave in frozen soils. Flow is observed in a limited range of temperatures near the melting point, implying that surface melting is absent below this range. The data are analyzed in terms of a model which allows estimates of the fluid layer thickness. The results are not consistent with interfacial melting due to purely van der Waals forces.
A Psychiatric Patients Tracking System (2006)

This paper presents an RFID based psychiatric patient tracking system in a psychiatric patient care center. In this system, RFID field generators and readers are installed in the environment, near the entrance and exit points for tracking the patients. Every patient is required to wear the tag. When a tag receives the call from a field generator, it responds to a reader with the ID of the field generator issuing the calling. Based on the field generator IDs a tag responds, the location of the patient associated with the tag can be approximately estimated. By so doing, not only the patient's moving patterns can be recorded but also the event of the patient leaving the main gate of the care center be detected. Besides the localization issue, in this paper we also employed a graphic coloring approach for solving the interference caused from field generator located one near another. Experimental results show that this algorithm has significantly improved the reliability of the tracking system
A novel CDD-OFDM scheme with pilot-aided channel estimation (2009)

Cyclic delay diversity (CDD) is a low-complexity standard-conformable transmit diversity scheme for coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. However, it makes channel estimation more challenging due to the increased frequency-selectivity of the equivalent single-input single-output channel. In this paper, we propose a novel CDD-OFDM scheme with pilot-aided channel estimation for any number of transmit antennas. By alternating and optimizing the cyclic delay parameter over adjacent OFDM symbols, we design a simple yet efficient channel estimation scheme and illustrate its excellent performance for the DVB-T application.
Bradykinin‐antagonists: Therapeutic perspectives (1989)

Abstract In vitro and in vivo studies of the actions of various antagonists and agonists of bradykinin (BK) B 1 and B 2 receptors have been reviewed and analyzed. It seems apparent that certain B 2 ‐antagonists, such as [Thi 5,8 ,D‐Phe 7 ]‐BK and D‐Arg 0 ‐[Hyp 3 ,Thi 5,8 ,D‐Phe 7 ]‐BK will serve as valuable model substances for developing new anti‐inflammatory/analgesic drugs. Further development of B 1 ‐antagonists, based on modifications of the structure of des‐Arg 9 ,[Leu 8 ]‐BK, or combined B 1 /B 2 ‐antagonists might be useful in controlling disease states involving chronic tissue injury and/or prolonged vasopasm.
The eccentric coronary atherosclerotic plaque: Morphologic observations and clinical relevance (1989)

Five hundred consecutive coronary artery segments histologically narrowed 76 to 95% in cross-sectional area by atherosclerotic plaque were classified into concentric and eccentric luminal types. Of the 500 segments, 365 (73%) were eccentric and 185 (27%) were concentric. Of the eccentric lesions, an arc of disease-free wall accounted for 2.3 to 32% (mean 16.6%) of the circumference of the internal elastic membrane. The average thickness of the coronary artery media was thinner in diseased segments (mean 88.4 micron) compared to disease-free wall segments in the same vessel (mean 202.9 micron). The presence of disease-free wall segments has clinical importance in at least three areas: (1) the accuracy with which angiography reflects the morphologic features of the diseased vessel, (2) coronary artery spasm, and (3) the mechanism of coronary balloon angioplasty and subsequent "restenosis" of previously dilated vessels.
Rapid setting and hardening calcium aluminate cement materials (2005)

The research has been carried out in order to contribute to the knowledge of mechanisms of rapid setting of the calcium aluminate cement (CAC) and the development of rapid setting and hardening cement materials.The influence of the cations and anions of alkali metal salts on rapid setting and hardening of CAC has been studied and a contribution to the explanation of their influences has been given.The strength changes of the materials hydrated at different temperatures have been studied, along with the conversion process of the hydrated calcium aluminate at 60 °C by differential scanning calorimetry.
Optically generated dynamically tunable, low noise millimeter wave signals using microchip solid state lasers (2003)

This paper concerns the optical generation of microwave and millimeter wave signals by heterodyning two or more solid state microchip lasers. The lasers can be temperature and voltage tuned to produce beat frequencies up to 200 GHz with tuning speed of 50GHz/microsec. A novel fiberoptic delay is employed to stabilize the transmitter yielding a measured phase noise of -101 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset.
MEMS based wavelength selective optical switching for integrated photonic circuits (2004)

MEMS-enabled wavelength selective switching by controlling resonance in high-index-contrast optical ring resonators is demonstrated. Fabrication and design considerations for the MEMS switches are explored. Experimental optical switching results are reported.
Pain and disability reported in the year following a distal radius fracture: A cohort study (2003)

This study demonstrated that the normal course of recovery following a distal radius fracture is one where severe symptoms subside within the first two-months and the majority of patients can be expected to have minimal pain and disability by six-months following fracture. This information can be used when planning interventions and assessing whether the progress of a patient is typical of other patients.
Comparison of the synergistic potentiation of etoposide, doxorubicin, and vinblastine cytotoxicity by dipyridamole. (1989)

Dipyridamole (DPM) enhanced sensitivity to etoposide (VP-16), doxorubicin (DOX), and vinblastine (VBL) in a human ovarian carcinoma cell line that was already relatively sensitive to all three agents. This interaction was shown to be truly synergistic by median effect analysis over a 2 log cell kill. The combination index at 50% cell kill (CI50) was used to quantitate the extent of synergy. The CI50s were 0.42, 0.66, and 0.30 for VP-16, DOX, and VBL, respectively. We compared the effect of DPM on the cellular pharmacology of each chemotherapeutic drug. DPM increased the steady state cellular content of VP-16 by a maximum of 3.2-fold, and that of DOX and VBL by 1.7- and 3.7-fold, respectively. There was a good correlation between the CI50 and the DPM-induced increase in cellular drug content (r = 0.94). DPM had no effect on the initial influx VP-16 or DOX but did increase the initial influx of VBL by 3.5-fold. DPM inhibited the initial efflux of all three compounds. However, there was no relation between the extent of efflux inhibition and the magnitude of the DPM-induced increase in cellular drug content, indicating that DPM must have other effects as well. DPM has chemical characteristics similar to other known modulators of VP-16, DOX, and VBL sensitivity. When compared to verapamil, DPM was as efficacious but twice as potent in its synergistic enhancement of VP-16 sensitivity. These results demonstrate that DPM can markedly increase the cytotoxicity of VP-16, DOX, and VBL and suggest possible clinical applications.
Selective incorporation of iododeoxyuridine into DNA of hepatic metastases versus normal human liver (1988)

Fourteen patients received 5-iodo-2(1)-deoxyuridine (IdUrd) before surgery for placement of a hepatic arterial catheter. Biopsy specimens were obtained at the time of surgery and incorporation of IdUrd into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in tumor and normal hepatic tissue was measured by HPLC and used as an index of drug selectivity. Over a 3-day intravenous infusion of IdUrd at 1000 mg/m2/day, substitution for thymidine in tumor DNA averaged 3.1%. Normal hepatic DNA contained less than 1% substitution by IdUrd. Arterial delivery of IdUrd increased levels in DNA, whereas modulation with fluorodeoxyuridine produced mixed results. In six patients, flow cytometric analysis showed that the tumor contained a median of 32% of tumor cells that had incorporated IdUrd in 3 days, corresponding to a potential doubling time of only 10 days. Thymidylate synthetase activity in tumors was 20-fold greater than in normal liver tissue, whereas thymidine kinase activity was twofold greater in tumors. These pharmacologic studies encourage further clinical trials of IdUrd as a cytotoxic agent or radiosensitizer.
GaAs on Ge cell and panel technology for advanced space flight application (1988)

Tandem junction GaAs/Ge solar cells measuring 2-cm*2-cm were fabricated with efficiencies up to 18.2% (AM0, 28 degrees C) using in-house grown material. Previously, an efficiency of 21.7% (AM0, 25 degrees C) was demonstrated. Welded tab pull strengths greater than 3.3 N (340 gms) were achieved with no electrical degradation or mechanical damage for both the front and back contacts. A panel incorporating GaAs/Ge cells was built to demonstrate this assembly technology. Modeling shows that with proper design, the thin dual-junction GaAs/Ge cells can be made with efficiencies of 24% (AM0, 28 degrees C) by improving optical coatings and reducing the effect of interface and back surface recombination.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
The ‘boomer’ sonar source for seismic profiling (1964)

The boomer, an electromagnetically driven sound source for seismic profiling, consists of a triggered capacitor-bank that discharges through a flat coil or coils. Eddy currents are induced in aluminum plates that are held against the coil by heavy springs or rubber bumpers. The plates are violently repelled, and a cavitation volume is produced in the water which acts as a source of low-frequency sound. The boomer has been used as the transmitter of a continuous seismic profiling system at sea. A 1000-joule system has been used in shallow, fresh and salt water. Reflections from sediment layers at least a kilometer below the bottom of the Puerto Rico trench have been recorded by Hersey and his group aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's R.V. Chain with a 13,000-joule (maximum) boomer.
NATS Report: The viability and Safety Benefits of using the Mode-S Barometric Pressure Setting (2010)

This report contains the findings of the NATS' study into the viability and Safety Benefits of using the Mode-S Barometric Pressure Setting
A New Method for Identifying Kinetic Parameters of Industrial Robots (2021)

Identifying the kinetic parameters of an industrial robot is the basis for designing a controller for it. To solve the problems of the poor accuracy and easy premature convergence of common bionic algorithms for identifying the dynamic parameters of such robots, this study proposed simulated annealing with similar exponential changes based on the beetle swarm optimization (SEDSABSO) algorithm. Expressions for the dynamics of the industrial robot were first obtained through the SymPyBotics toolkit in Python, and the required trajectories of excitation were then designed to identify its dynamic parameters. Following this, the search pattern of the global optimal solution for the beetle swarm optimization algorithm was improved in the context of solving for these parameters. The global convergence of the algorithm was improved by improving the iterative form of the number N of skinks in it by considering random perturbations and the simulated annealing algorithm, whereas its accuracy of convergence was improved through the class exponential change model. The improved beetle swarm optimization algorithm was used to identify the kinetic parameters of the Zhichang Kawasaki RS010N industrial robot. The results of experiments showed that the proposed algorithm was fast and highly accurate in identifying the kinetic parameters of the industrial robot.
A saturation-resistant optical scintillometer to measure Cn2† (1978)

This paper describes a new optical technique for measuring the refractive-index structure parameter Cn2. By using relatively large incoherent transmitting and receiving optics, the scintillometer maintains its calibration and path-weighting function throughout the range of observed refractive turbulence values, even to the case of saturated scintillation.
SILENCIAMENTOS ROMPIDOS: AS VOZES DE MULHERES NEGRAS SOBRE O PROCESSO DE TRANSIÇÃO CAPILAR (2018)

Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo compreender o processo de transicao capilar de mulheres negras no municipio de Juara-MT, as causas e os resultados. A pesquisa de campo se deu atraves de entrevista com cinco mulheres negras que passam ou passaram pela transicao capilar, que aceitaram romper o silencio a respeito da estetica capilar. Nesta perspectiva, elas romperam com o silencio, ofereceram resistencia ao sistema de opressao, buscaram se conhecer, aceitaram o seu jeito de ser e, consequentemente, valorizaram o fato de ser negra, o pertencimento racial. Percebemos que estao acontecendo movimentos de mulheres negras, incentivando umas as outras, para que elas sejam aquilo que elas querem ser, sem considerar o padrao de beleza imposto, sem opressao. Destacamos a busca do conhecimento do proprio corpo e do cabelo e a valorizacao de suas caracteristicas raciais como forma de superacao. Palavras-chave: Mulher Negra; Identidade Negra; Valorizacao do Cabelo Afro.
Functionalisation of saturated hydrocarbons. Part 13. Further studies on the Gif oxidation of cholestane derivatives (1989)

The oxidation of cholest-4-en-3-one by the GifIVsystem to give progesterone has been studied over the temperature range –40 to +80 °C. The optimum temperature is ∼+20 °C. Below 0 °C the yield of progesterone diminishes and the formation of a new compound, 25-hydroxycholest-4-en-3-one, is observed. The latter has been synthesised from lithocholic acid.An unexpected major product of the oxidation was A-nor-5β-cholestan-3-one, identified by comparison with an authentic sample.
A VALIDATED UV SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF TRETINOIN AND BENZOYL PEROXIDE IN BULK AND SEMI SOLID DOSAGE FORM (2009)

A simple, sensitive, spectrophotometric method in UV region has been developed for the simultaneous estimation of benzoyl peroxide and tretinoin in bulk and semi solid dosage form (cream). Standard solution of benzoyl peroxide shows maximum absorbance at 234.8 nm and tretinoin shows maximum absorbance at 348.6 nm. Beer’s Lamberts law is obeyed in concentration range 1-9 µg/ml for tretinoin with regression, slope and intercept of 0.991, 0.0918 and 0 respectively while for benzoyl peroxide, Beer’s Lambert law is obeyed in concentration range 0.5-5 µg/ml with regression, slope and intercept having 0.9984, 0.2069 and 0.0253 respectively. Method was validated for linearity, range, accuracy, precision, recovery studies and interference study of mixture. All these parameters showed the adaptability of the method for the quality control analysis of the drug in bulk and in combination formulations.
Robust POD model stabilization for the 3D Boussinesq equations based on Lyapunov theory and extremum seeking (2017)

We present new results on robust model reduction for partial differential equations. Our contribution is threefold: 1.) The stabilization is achieved via closure models for reduced order models (ROMs), where we use Lyapunov robust control theory to design a new stabilizing closure model that is robust with respect to parametric uncertainties; 2.) The free parameters in the proposed ROM stabilization method are auto-tuned using a data-driven multi-parametric extremum seeking (MES) optimization algorithm; and 3.) The challenging 3D Boussinesq equation numerical test-bed is used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.