gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A C to hardware/software compiler (2002)

Improvements in FPGA technology have resulted in the introduction of reconfigurable computing machines, where the hardware adapts itself to the running application to gain speedup. We present a top-down compilation method, under development, for such systems. We compile a C program into hierarchical VHDL source files, and annotate them with the placement information of the hardware modules to be configured on the FPGA. Static scheduling combined with a fast, two-stage placement core reduces the compilation time of large programs to minutes.
A Compact Onboard Battery Self-Heater for All-Electric Aircraft Applications at Cold Climates (2019)

The concept of all-electric aircraft (AEA) is fascinating due to its zero emissions and lower operation cost. As the primary power source of AEAs, the lithium-ion batteries suffer severe capacity and power degradation at subzero temperatures, leading to serious "range anxiety" in winter. Therefore, the onboard battery preheating equipment is essential for AEAs at cold climates. In this digest, an interleaved resonant onboard battery self-heater is developed for internally preheating the batteries without external power supplies, thereby providing great flexibility for AEAs at different apron areas. By properly adjusting the switching frequency, the self-heater can achieve the zero-current-switching (ZCS) to improve the energy consumption and eliminate the voltage spikes during the turn-off. Meanwhile, a detailed guideline for optimizing the resonant tank parameters is presented so that the efficiency of the self-heater can be further developed by reducing the circulating current. The experimental validation on 18650 cells demonstrates the proposed heater can preheat the battery from -20°C to 0°C within only 3.5 minutes, and only consume 5% of the cell energy.
A Stratigraphic Inverse Simulation Model (1993)

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Performance comparison of Malvern instruments laser diffraction drop size analyzer (1986)

The performance of ten laser diffraction particle sizing instruments (Malvern models 2200 and 2600) has been evaluated using a synthetic particle size reference standard in a round-robin test at nine independent laboratories. A calibration reticle consisting of a two-dimensional array of opaque, circular particle images photoetched in chrome thin film deposited on a glass substrate was used as the reference. Mean diameters (e.g., D32) for the reticle measured by the ten unmodified instruments varied by 27 percent. In contrast, data from six instruments with individually calibrated photodetector correction factors demonstrated much better agreement and were within 2.6 percent of the actual reticle properties.
Suppression of sidelobes in OFDM systems by multiple‐choice sequences (2006)

Abstract In this paper, we consider the problem of out‐of‐band radiation in orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (OFDM) systems caused by high sidelobes of the OFDM transmission signal. Suppression of high sidelobes in OFDM systems enables higher spectral efficiency and/or co‐existence with legacy systems in the case of OFDM spectrum sharing systems. To reduce sidelobes, we propose a method termed multiple‐choice sequences (MCS). It is based on the idea that transforming the original transmit sequence into a set of sequences and choosing that sequence out of the set with the lowest power in the sidelobes allows to reduce the out‐of‐band radiation. We describe the general principle of MCS and out of it we derive and compare several practical MCS algorithms. In addition, we shortly consider the combination of MCS sidelobe suppression method with existing sidelobe suppression methods. Numerical results show that with MCS approach OFDM sidelobes can be reduced significantly while requiring only a small amount of signalling information to be sent from transmitter to receiver. For example, in an OFDM overlay scenario sidelobes power is reduced by around 10 dB with a signalling overhead of only 14%. Copyright © 2006 AEIT.
4-Vinyltricyclo[6,2,1,0]undec-9-ene: a minor adduct from the Diels–Alder reaction of 4-vinylcyclohexene and cyclopentadiene (1972)

The endocyclic double bond of 4-vinylcyclohexene can act as dienophile towards cyclopentadiene at 240°. 4-Vinyltricyclo[6,2,1,0]undec-9-ene (II)(ca. 5%) is formed together with the known 5-cyclohex-3-enyl-bicyclo[2,2,1]hept-2-ene (I).
The severity of experimental arthritis is independent of IL-36 receptor signaling (2013)

The development and severity of experimental arthritis are independent of IL-36R signaling.
BRAIN DOMINANCE AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ADVERTISING MESSAGES (1999)

The study of left brain/right brain effects in the human brain has been the subject of research and discussion for many years. It is generally believed that the right and left hemispheres of the brain perform different functions. The left hemisphere is better at such tasks as reading, speaking, analytical reasoning, and arithmetic. The right hemisphere is better at spatial tasks, recognizing faces, and music. Research on this phenomenon can be of particular value to the advertising industry. A number of studies have examined the impact of an advertising message on left‐ and right‐brain dominant persons. This paper reports the results of a study conducted to investigate the effects of “informational” versus “visual” appeals used in print advertisements on left‐ and right‐brain dominant individuals. The results reveal that the evaluation of the effectiveness of an advertisement is dependent upon both the appeals used and the brain dominance orientation of the respondent.
Los derechos al medio ambiente adecuado y a su protección (1997)

La preocupación por el medio ambiente es relativamente reciente, apenas 25 años, y su proceso para ser reconocido como derecho humano todavía no ha concluido. La doctrina especializada más relevante hace ya algún tiempo que viene señalando que es un derecho humano y propone su reconocimiento formal o positivización tanto en el ámbito internacional como en el nacional. Ello no obstante, entre los juristas no parece mayoritaria la opinión de que nos hallamos ante un verdadero derecho humano. Incluso dentro de los que defendemos esta naturaleza las diferencias en la diferenciación del concepto son importantes, lo que hace presumir que el camino de reflexión teórica, así como el del reconocimiento formal en Convenios Internacionales y en los ordenamiento internos tiene un largo camino pendiente por recorrer.
The derivation of vector potential from tables for scalar potential (1952)

IN ELECTROMAGNETIC theory two quantities, scalar potential V and vector potential A, are commonly used and from them the electric and magnetic fields can be derived. The author recently published tables of Green's Functions1 for the solution of partial differential equations in rectangular co-ordinates. The Green's Functions as given in those tables only include scalar potentials. However, in dealing with problems involving fields due to currents or permanent magnets vector potentials are used. These also can be derived from the tables of Green's Functions when required. Since this was not included in the tables on account of their length, it will be covered here.
Advances in EGFR-directed therapy in head and neck cancer (2010)

Initial research showed that EGFR targeting through known single agents, both monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule tyrosine-kinase inhibitors, applied to patients with refractory head and neck cancer, resulted in low response rates and short median survival times. However, the combination of Cetuximab with radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced disease and with a combination of platinum and fluorouracil in the setting of relapsed and/or metastatic disease resulted in a sharp improvement compared to standard therapy. Cetuximab entered clinical practice in both indications. Other anti-EGFR drugs, although showing activity, have not demonstrated an improvement of the results of standard therapy. Unfortunately, no molecular parameter emerged as a useful tool in predicting activity, thus impairing clinical applications. Only skin rash was repeatedly shown to be related with drug activity. Although generally well tolerated, class and drug specific toxicities can be troublesome and require knowledge and expertise for an optimal management. Further research is needed in order to find the best ways of integrating the anti-EGFR strategy with current standards of care.
N-methylglucamine antimonate (Sb<sup>v+</sup>): intralesional canine tegumentary leishmaniasis therapy (1998)

Twenty five adult dogs of three municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that had been naturally infected by L. (V) braziliensis were treated with N-methylglucamine antimonate (Glucantime). Nine of the animals (36.0%) presented ulcerated skin lesions, twelve (48.0%) had mucosal lesions and four (16.0%) had multiple lesions. In some cases the mucosal lesions were associated to skin lesions. A dose of 85 mg SbV+ or 1 ml of the drug was intralesionally administered to the dogs. The animals were divided into three groups according to the amount of necessary doses (between one and three) for the complete healing of the lesions. The dogs were observed for six months after the third group received the last dose. Within this period two animals perished. Serial antibody evaluation through IFAT has shown that in 14 samples (63.3%) the titers have remained unaltered, in four of them (16%) there has been a decrease in two titers and in five of them (21%) serology was negative. Nineteen of the dogs (86.6%) had their lesions completely healed. The authors suggest intralesional therapy be the first choice of treatment of canine tegumentary leishmaniasis due to its effectiveness.
The catalysis of CO2 electroreduction and related processes (2013)

The present PhD research is focused on the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons. This process, coupled to renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, is an attractive alternative for the production of synthetic carbon neutral fuels and fine chemicals. Although many metals have been studied as catalysts for CO2 electro-reduction, copper is the only one at which hydrocarbons are produced in considerable amounts. Hydrocarbon formation, however, requires a high overpotential (~1 V), which implies big energy loses. Furthermore, the selectivity of copper towards a particular product is low and a mixture of products is obtained. In order to improve the catalytic process, a better understanding of the factors affecting both the selectivity and the energy efficiency of this reaction is needed. First of all, this work aimed at studying different polycrystalline copper surfaces as catalysts for the CO2 electrochemical reduction. This allowed us to explore the effect of the surface morphology on the catalytic activity of copper. Our results suggest that the presence of steps and kinks on rough copper surface favors the CO2 electrochemical reduction over the hydrogen evolution reaction. Furthermore, on rough surfaces the formation of ethylene is enhanced over methane production. The next step has been studying the electrochemical reduction of CO2 onto Cu overlayers on Pt single crystals. The purpose this work was to study the effect of having a strained Cu surface on the efficiency and selectivity of the reaction. Furthermore, by studding different crystal facets we can obtain information about the role of steps. Interestingly, the selectivity towards hydrocarbons on the copper overlayers is much lower than the obtained on polycrystalline copper. These results are consistent with a linear combination of Pt and Cu rather than an expanded copper surface. Furthermore, electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (EC-STM) studies indicate that in the presence of CO the Cu overlayer changes from a nearly flat to a granular structure exposing part of the Pt surface. These results illustrate the importance of in situ measurements in order to gain an insight into the catalyst surface structure under reaction conditions. This knowledge can be crucial for the understanding of the catalyst reactivity. Finally, this Thesis is focused on the formation of a Cu/Pt (111) overlayer, as well as near surface and surface alloys. These studies show that the reactivity of the Pt(111) depends on the location of the copper atoms. The presence of copper both on the first layer and in the surface alloy strengthens the interaction between Pt and its adsorbates. In contrast, Cu atoms located in the second layer or in the near surface alloy lead to the opposite effect. These results are very useful for the rational design of catalysts for a variety of processes, as has been demonstrated in this work for the CO electrochemical oxidation.
Learning to Prune Deep Neural Networks via Layer-wise Optimal Brain\n Surgeon (2017)

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for\nreal- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems.\nThough previous work along this research line has shown some promising results,\nmost existing methods either fail to significantly compress a well-trained deep\nnetwork or require a heavy retraining process for the pruned deep network to\nre-boost its prediction performance. In this paper, we propose a new layer-wise\npruning method for deep neural networks. In our proposed method, parameters of\neach individual layer are pruned independently based on second order\nderivatives of a layer-wise error function with respect to the corresponding\nparameters. We prove that the final prediction performance drop after pruning\nis bounded by a linear combination of the reconstructed errors caused at each\nlayer. Therefore, there is a guarantee that one only needs to perform a light\nretraining process on the pruned network to resume its original prediction\nperformance. We conduct extensive experiments on benchmark datasets to\ndemonstrate the effectiveness of our pruning method compared with several\nstate-of-the-art baseline methods.\n
Technologies for Clinical Diagnosis Using Expired Human Breath Analysis (2015)

This review elucidates the technologies in the field of exhaled breath analysis. Exhaled breath gas analysis offers an inexpensive, noninvasive and rapid method for detecting a large number of compounds under various conditions for health and disease states. There are various techniques to analyze some exhaled breath gases, including spectrometry, gas chromatography and spectroscopy. This review places emphasis on some of the critical biomarkers present in exhaled human breath, and its related effects. Additionally, various medical monitoring techniques used for breath analysis have been discussed. It also includes the current scenario of breath analysis with nanotechnology-oriented techniques.
Monte Carlo tolerance analysis of a passively aligned silicon waferboard package (2002)

Clearly, the most daunting challenge facing developers of passively aligned optical packages is that of meeting the manufacturing tolerances necessary to achieve adequate coupling between a laser source and an outgoing optical fiber. As these tolerances continue to press the limits of available manufacturing technology, the need for optimized designs becomes obvious. Unfortunately, the arrival at an optimized design is complicated by the often complex interaction of many variables ranging from component process variability, to device placement on assembly to optical fiber core concentricity and fiber diameter. In response to this, the current work describes a simplified approach towards optimizing the design of a silicon waferboard optical subassembly by ways of Monte Carlo analysis. Issues ranging from the impact of silicon process variables to device placement to fiber geometric variability are combined to predict anticipated assembly yields. Key control variables are identified enabling the arrival at optimized designs in a reasonably straightforward manner.
Design and Implementation of WeChat Mini Program for University Dormitory Based on SOA (2018)

According to the actual demand of management on university dormitory, a WeChat mini program for university dormitory based on SOA which makes teachers and students manage dormitory conveniently and efficiently is proposed. The Web-Service is adopted to encapsulate back-end functions into a series of services for front-end calls. The WeChat mini program is used as a front-end development carrier to realize the management functions of university dormitory. Experiments show that the proposed system is stable and the working efficiency is greatly increased. The results show that the application system can capture the requirements of student dormitory management, with good scalability.
Functional expression of the rat liver canalicular isoform of the multidrug resistance‐associated protein (1997)

The rat hepatocanalicular isoform (called mrp2) of the human multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP) has been cloned and transiently expressed in COS-7 cells and in Xenopus laevis oocytes. In both systems mrp2 expression induced a markedly increased efflux of intracellularly formed [14C]2,4-dinitrophenyl-S-glutathione. Injection of mrp2 cRNA into oocytes also stimulated efflux of [3H(N)]leukotriene C4. Furthermore, mrp2 mRNA was markedly decreased in the liver of the transport mutant TR rat, which has a congenital defect in the biliary excretion of glutathione-S conjugates and of other divalent organic anions. The study provides a direct demonstration of mrp2-mediated transport function and supports the concept that mrp2 represents the canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter (cMOAT) of mammalian liver.
Model-free HVAC control using occupant feedback (2013)

Optimal control of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is an important step towards reducing the carbon footprint of buildings and requires balancing energy reductions and occupant comfort. Conventional thermostats for temperature set points provide a centralised single point of user input, often leading to significant thermal discomfort for occupants. We propose to instead include users in the HVAC control loop through distributed smart-phone based votes about their thermal comfort for aggregated control of HVAC. Unlike existing approaches that require in-situ sensors or build complex comfort models of individual users, we propose a model- and sensor-free HVAC control algorithm that uses simple user input (hot/cold) and adapts to changing office occupancy or ambient temperature in real time. We develop an iterative data fusion algorithm that finds optimal temperature in offices with multiple users and propose techniques that can aggressively save energy by drifting indoor temperatures towards the outdoor temperature. Our evaluation is based on empirical data collected in 12 offices over a 3-week period and shows that adaptive HVAC control can save up to 60% of energy at a relatively small increase of 0.3°C in average occupant discomfort.
Otoconin-90, the mammalian otoconial matrix protein, contains two domains of homology to secretory phospholipase A <sub>2</sub> (1998)

The ability to sense orientation relative to gravity requires dense particles, called otoconia, which are localized in the vestibular macular organs. In mammals, otoconia are composed of proteins (otoconins) and calcium carbonate crystals in a calcite lattice. Little is known about the mechanisms that regulate otoconial biosynthesis. To begin to elucidate these mechanisms, we have partially sequenced and cloned the major protein component of murine otoconia, otoconin-90 (OC90). The amino acid sequence identified an orphan chimeric human cDNA. Because of its similarity to secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2), this gene was referred to as PLA2-like (PLA2L) and enabled the identification of human Oc90. Partial murine cDNA and genomic clones were isolated and shown to be specifically expressed in the developing mouse otocyst. The mature mouse OC90 is composed of 453 residues and contains two domains homologous to sPLA2. The cloning of Oc90 will allow an examination of the role of this protein in otoconial biosynthesis and in diseases that affect the vestibular system.
Optical microangiography provides depth-resolved images of directional ocular blood perfusion in posterior eye segment (2010)

In this paper, we demonstrate that the optical microangiography (OAMG) is capable of depth-resolved imaging of directional blood perfusion within both retinal and choroid in the posterior segment of human eye. The study uses an OMAG system operating at 840 nm with an imaging speed at 27,000 A-scans per second. Sequentially registered multiple OMAG projection maps of small areas ( approximately 1 mm x 1 mm) are combined to provide directional blood flow images for a larger field of view. It takes approximately 3.7 sec to image a small area (1 x 1 mm(2)), and approximately 2.5 min for a larger field (3 x 3 mm(2)). Finally, we show superior performance of OMAG in providing functional images of capillary level microcirculation at different depths of retina and choroid that correlate well with the standard retinal pathology.
A coupled-cavity TWT operating in the inverted slot mode (1981)

A coupled-cavity TWT has been designed to operate in the inverted slot mode (ISM), as a lower-cost alternative to a standard coupled-cavity tube. An ISM circuit is less expensive to fabricate; it needs no lossy resonators for oscillation suppression due to vanishing interaction impedance at the upper cutoff frequency. The cavity size is also significantly smaller. This permits forming the cylindrical cavity wall by the magnetic ferrule hole in a PPM focused device. The cavity partition walls (webs) can then be made of copper to enhance the thermal capability of the circuit. A PPM focused ISM tube demonstrated 20 kW of peak power over the band 5.25-5.75 GHz. Its RF performance was generally comparable to that of a standard coupled-cavity design. For equivalent gain the ISM circuit needs to be longer (by 30-35 percent), but it would generally weigh less and have higher average power capability.
Structured programming in assembly language (1976)

Structured design and programming techniques can be extended from high-level languages to assembly language. Over the past three years at Brown University, beginning assembly language programmers have been successfully taught these techniques using clearly defined standards. These standards and the solutions to several of the typical problems that arise in structured assembly language programming are discussed in this paper.