gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Plasma Marinobufagenin-Like and Ouabain-Like Immunoreactivity in Adrenocorticotropin-Treated Rats (1998)

Recently, an endogenous digitalis-like factor (EDLF) was shown to be stimulated in corticotropin (ACTH) hypertension in the rat. We have shown that mammalian plasma contains a vasoconstrictor Na,K-ATPase inhibitor, which cross-reacts with an antibody to amphibian EDLF, marinobufagenin. In the present experiment, the effect of 8 days of intramuscular ACTH treatment (0.5 mg/kg/day) of male Fisher 344 x NB rats on blood pressure, plasma ouabain-like and marinobufagenin-like immunoreactivity, and on the activity of Na,K-ATPase in aortic sarcolemma were studied. The ACTH treatment for 8 days resulted in increased systolic blood pressure (151 +/- 12.4 v 121 +/- 4.0 mm Hg, P < .01), inhibition of Na,K-ATPase in aortic sarcolemma (2.99 +/- 0.35 v 5.43 +/- 0.17 micromol ADP/mg(prot)/h), and increases in plasma concentration of marinobufagenin-like (0.44 +/- 0.06 v 0.21 +/- 0.05 nmol/L), but not ouabain-like (0.09 +/- 0.01 v 0.10 +/- 0.04 nmol/L) immunoreactivity. In dissociation enhanced lanthanide fluoroimmunoassay (DELFIA), serial dilutions of plasma from ACTH-treated rats extracted with 25% and 80% acetonitrile, respectively, demonstrated parallelism to the calibration curves of ouabain and marinobufagenin. These findings suggest that an endogenous bufodienolide Na,K-ATPase inhibitor, rather than an endogenous ouabain-like compound, is increased after 8 days of treatment of rats with ACTH.
Geometric Computing with CGAL and LEDA (2000)

LEDA and CGAL are platforms for combinatorial and geometric computing. We discuss the use of LEDA and CGAL for geometric computing and show that they provide a unique framework for exact efficient and convenient geometric computing.
<title>Polarizing beam splitters constructed of form-birefringent multilayer gratings</title> (1996)

We introduce a novel polarizing beam splitter that uses the anisotropic spectral reflectivity (ASR) characteristics of a high spatial frequency multilayer binary grating. By combining the form birefringence effect of a high spatial frequency grating with the resonant reflectivity of a periodic multilayer structure, the ASR characteristics for the two orthogonal linear polarizations are obtained. Such ASR effects allow us to design an optical element that is transparent for TM polarization but reflective for TE polarization. The properties of the polarizing beam splitter are investigated using rigorous coupled-wave analysis. The design results show that an ASR polarization beam splitter can provide a high polarization extinction ratio for optical waves from a wide range of incident angles and a broad optical spectral bandwidth. Such ASR polarizing beam splitters are uniquely suitable for image processing and optical interconnection applications.
The Primary Structure of Porcine Liver Acylamino Acid-Releasing Enzyme Deduced from cDNA Sequences1 (1989)

Two overlapping cloned cDNAs encoding the entire amino acid sequences of the subunits of acylamino acid-releasing enzyme (AARE) [EC 3.4.19.1] have been isolated from porcine liver cDNA lambda gt10 cDNA libraries and sequenced. Sequence analyses of the cDNA and several Achromobacter protease I-digested peptides of the purified protein revealed that porcine liver AARE consists of four identical subunits, and each comprising a single chain of 732 amino acids with acetylmethionine at the N-terminus.
PRIMARY CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST AND UTERUS (1951)

Dept. of Surgery, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, Houston, Texas, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, John Sealy Hospital, Galveston, Texas
Affine point pattern matching and its application to form registration (2002)

In this paper, a new affine invariant is presented. Using this invariant, we apply a robust algorithm to find the correspondence between two different affine transformed point sets. Application of this method to form registration is presented. Assuming that a blank sample of the form is available, a new algorithm is derived for registering a filled-in form to its blank counterpart for extraction of the filled in data.
Automatic segmentation and recognition of human activities from observation based on semantic reasoning (2014)

Automatically segmenting and recognizing human activities from observations typically requires a very complex and sophisticated perception algorithm. Such systems would be unlikely implemented on-line into a physical system, such as a robot, due to the pre-processing step(s) that those vision systems usually demand. In this work, we present and demonstrate that with an appropriate semantic representation of the activity, and without such complex perception systems, it is sufficient to infer human activities from videos. First, we will present a method to extract the semantic rules based on three simple hand motions, i.e. move, not move and tool use. Additionally, the information of the object properties either ObjectActedOn or ObjectInHand are used. Such properties encapsulate the information of the current context. The above data is used to train a decision tree to obtain the semantic rules employed by a reasoning engine. This means, we extract lower-level information from videos and we reason about the intended human behaviors (high-level). The advantage of the abstract representation is that it allows to obtain more generic models out of human behaviors, even when the information is obtained from different scenarios. The results show that our system correctly segments and recognizes human behaviors with an accuracy of 85%. Another important aspect of our system is its scalability and adaptability toward new activities, which can be learned on-demand. Our system has been fully implemented on a humanoid robot, the iCub to experimentally validate the performance and the robustness of our system during on-line execution of the robot.
Theoretical Analysis for a New Package Concept: High-Speed Heat Removal for VLSI Using an AlN Heat-Spreading Layer and Microchannel Fin (1991)

We propose a microchannel-fin package concept utilizing an AlN passivation layer as the heat spreader and a microchannel fin as an efficient means of heat removal. AlN film has high thermal conductivity and compatibility with the thermal expansion coefficient of Si. A microchannel fin has 4-fold 100 lines of 50 µm×250 µm channels on a 1 cm 2 chip. The simulation of dynamic thermal analysis for the new package concept showed that the chip temperature was below 47°C at a power density of 1.5 kW·cm -2 when the liquid-cooled microchannel-fin package was used and below 49°C at 30 W·cm -2 when a compressive-air-cooled microchannel-fin package was used.
The Peritoneal Membrane in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (1999)

The surface area of the peritoneal membrane in contact with dialysate is an important determinant of solute transport across the peritoneum. Yet there is no method for its estimation in peritoneal dialysis patients. In this study, stereologic methods were applied to computerized tomography (CT) imaging of the peritoneal membrane to estimate the peritoneal membrane surface area. The method was first validated by implementing stereologic methods on a phantom of known surface area. The phantom was a distorted bottle filled with contrast media. Series of thin helical CT sections were performed, and random sections were obtained after reconstruction. A transparent counting grid was placed over the random sections. The surface area was estimated using 9, 18, and 36 random sections. To calculate the coefficient of variation (CV) of the method, 20 different combinations of 9, 18, and 36 random sections were used. With 36 random sections, the error in estimation of the bottle's surface area was -9.4% to +8.8%. The CV was 5.0%. Decreasing the number of sections used to 18 and 9 yielded a CV of 7.8 and 12.3%, respectively. This method was then applied to the peritoneal membrane, which was visualized by instilling dialysate containing contrast media into the peritoneal cavity of peritoneal dialysis patients. The estimated peritoneal membrane surface area of six patients was 0.55 +/- 0.04 m2. This novel method permits the measurement of the peritoneal membrane surface area with a high degree of accuracy.
On orbit damage assessment for large space structures (1987)

The need for monitoring the dynamic characteristics of large structural systems, for the purpose of assessing the potential degradation of structural properties, has been established. This paper develops a theory for assessing the occurrence, location, and extent of potential damage utilizing on-orbit response measurements. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated using a simple structural system as an example.
Fluoroelastomer Compatibility with Biodiesel Fuels (2007)

<div class="htmlview paragraph">Global acceptance and use of biofuels is growing rapidly in the transportation sector. Diminishing reserves of fossil fuels will continue to drive investment in sustainable biofuels. Market drivers for biofuels include a renewable supply, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and airborne pollutants, and reducing dependence on energy imports. One such fuel is biodiesel, an alternative diesel fuel produced by transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats with alcohol, usually methanol.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">The use of biodiesel fuels is rapidly growing in North America, not only for the environmental and economic reasons mentioned above, but because of its inherent lubricity. EPA emission regulations now require the use of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuels in all highway diesel engines. ULSD has inherently poor lubricity and biodiesel's superior lubricating properties can reduce wear in diesel engines fueled with blends of ULSD, thereby extending engine life and warranty.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">The compatibility of seal and hose materials commonly used in automotive fuel systems using conventional hydrocarbon fuels has long been established. However, there is much less information available on the compatibility of fuel system elastomers with biodiesel fuels.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">In this presentation the compatibility of several fluoroelastomers with biodiesel and biodiesel blend fuels will be reviewed. Conventionally formulated fluoroelastomers that have historically been used for petrodiesel and biodiesel service will be compared to optimized formulations that display improved compatibility with biodiesel fuels. The significance of rubber formulation will be discussed. Accelerated testing will characterize physical properties and property retention in biodiesel through 3024 hours at 125°C. Properties relevant to sealing applications and hose will also be discussed and best in class will be highlighted, so that, in gaining a better understanding of the respective capabilities of high performance fluorohydrocarbon elastomers, the engineer may design more robust sealing systems for biodiesel service.</div>
Synthesis of Tapered CdS Nanobelts and CdSe Nanowires with Good Optical Property by Hydrogen-Assisted Thermal Evaporation (2009)

The tapered CdS nanobelts and CdSe nanowires were prepared by hydrogen-assisted thermal evaporation method. Different supersaturation leads to two different kinds of 1D nanostructures. The PL measurements recorded from the as-prepared tapered CdS nanobelts and CdSe nanowires show only a bandgap emission with relatively narrow full-width half maximum, which means that they possess good optical property. The as-synthesized high-quality tapered CdS nanobelts and CdSe nanowires may be excellent building blocks for photonic devices.
Comparison of Healing of Incised Abscess Wounds with Honey and EUSOL Dressing (2005)

Honey is a superior wound dressing agent to EUSOL. Honey is recommended for the dressing of infected wounds, more so in tropical countries, where it is most readily available.
Reducing Network Power Consumption Using Dynamic Link Metric Method and Power Off Links (2009)

As the high-speed network technologies developing,the traffic in the Internet increase rapidly. The network power consumption has come up to 10% of the worldwide energy consumption. In order to reduce this kind of consumption, we propose a novel method, which dynamically modifies the weights of links and makes traffic gather to certain links and then set some links of which the load no traffic Powe-Off. We also did much work in the network simulations, and the result shows that the method has a good effect in reducing the network power consumption.
Remanent magnetization of the infinite-range Ising spin glass (1986)

The remanent magnetization ${M}_{r}$ and the excess energy \ensuremath{\Delta}E are studied for the Sherrington-Kirpatrick model of spin glasses using Monte Carlo simulations. At zero temperature T the system relaxes to a stationary nonequilibrium state with nonzero ${M}_{r}$ and \ensuremath{\Delta}E; both quantities are self-averaging. For 0${T}_{c}$ the simulations indicate that ${M}_{r}$ and \ensuremath{\Delta}E decay to zero as a power law in time.
Angiographic Features and Clinical Outcomes of Intra-Arterial Nimodipine Injection in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage-Induced Vasospasm (2012)

IA nimodipine injection for SAH-induced vasospasm led to significant vasodilation in angiography and improvement in clinical symptoms without significant complications. Our findings suggest that IA nimodipine injection should be utilized when intractable vasospasm develops despite rigorous conservative management.
Micro-optical elements and optoelectronic devices for optical interconnect applications (2001)

The advances in the design and fabrication of microlaser arrays, photodetectors and free­-space optical interconnection elements have driven the creation of ever more "real world" demonstrator systems. In this paper we review the progress made to date on two separate demonstrator projects which have been assembled at Heriot-Watt University. We shall describe some of the enabling technologies used in the creation of these systems and outline the potential for scaling the architectures described up to sizes where the computational advantages of the optics-in-computing paradigm become highly attractive.
Active self-calibration of hand cameras and hand-eye relationships with motion planning (2002)

In this paper we propose a method for self-calibration of robotic hand cameras by means of active motion of the robot. Through tracking a set of world points of unknown coordinates, the internal parameters of the cameras (including lens distortions), the mounting parameters as well as the coordinates of the world points are estimated. The approach is fully autonomous, in that no initial guesses of the unknown parameters are to be provided from the outside by humans for the solution of a set of nonlinear equations. Sufficient conditions for a unique solution are derived in terms of controlled motion sequences. To improve robustness of the calibration, we propose to identify the best lens-distortion model by using F-test. Furthermore, a method is proposed to minimize the effect of robot motion uncertainties by motion planning. Experimental results in both a simulated and a real environments are reported.
Markov-Decision-Process-Assisted Consumer Scheduling in a Networked Smart Grid (2016)

Many recently built residential houses and factories are equipped with facilities for converting energy from green sources, such as solar energy, into electricity. Electricity consumers may input the extra electricity that they do not consume into the smart grid for sale, which is allowed by law in countries such as Japan. To reduce peak-time electricity usage, time-varying pricing schemes are usually adopted in smart grids, for both the electricity sold to consumers and the electricity purchased from consumers. Thanks to the development of cyber-physical systems and advanced technologies for communication and computation, current smart grids are typically networked, and it is possible to integrate information such as weather forecasts into such a networked smart grid. Thus, we can predict future levels of electricity generation (e.g., the energy from solar and wind sources, whose generation is predominantly affected by the weather) with high accuracy using this information and historical data. The key problem for consumers then becomes how to schedule their purchases from and sales to the networked smart grid to maximize their benefits by jointly considering the current storage status, time-varying pricing, and future electricity consumption and generation. This problem is non-trivial and is vitally important for improving smart grid utilization and attracting consumer investment in new energy generation systems, among other purposes. In this paper, we target such a networked smart grid system, in which future electricity generation is predicted with reasonable accuracy based on weather forecasts. We schedule consumers' behaviors using a Markov decision process model to optimize the consumers' net benefits. The results of extensive simulations show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the baseline competing scheme.
Energy optimization techniques in cluster interconnects (2003)

Designing energy-efficient clusters has recently become an important concern to make these systems economically attractive for many applications. Since the links and switch buffers consume the major portion of the power budget of the cluster, the focus of this paper is to optimize the energy consumption in these two components. To minimize power in the links, we propose a novel dynamic link shutdown (DLS) technique. The DLS technique makes use of an appropriate adaptive routing algorithm to shutdown the links intelligently. We also present an optimized buffer design for reducing leakage energy. Our analysis on different networks using a complete system simulator reveals that the proposed DLS technique can provide optimized performance-energy behavior (up to 40% energy savings with less than 5% performance degradation in the best case) for the cluster interconnects.
A registration based approach for 4D cardiac micro‐CT using combined prospective and retrospective gating (2008)

Recent advances in murine cardiac studies with three-dimensional cone beam micro-computed tomography (CT) have used either prospective or retrospective gating technique. While prospective gating ensures the best image quality and the highest resolution, it involves longer sampling times and higher radiation dose. Sampling is faster and the radiation dose can be reduced with retrospective gating but the image quality is affected by the limited number of projections with an irregular angular distribution which complicate the reconstruction process, causing significant streaking artifacts. This work involves both prospective and retrospective gating in sampling. Deformable registration is used between a high quality image set acquired with prospective gating with the multiple data sets during the cardiac cycle obtained using retrospective gating. Tests were conducted on a four-dimensional (4D) cardiac mouse phantom and after optimization, the method was applied to in vivo cardiac micro-CT data. Results indicate that, by using our method, the sampling time can be reduced by a factor of 2.5 and the radiation dose can be reduced 35% compared to the prospective sampling while the image quality can be maintained. In conclusion, we proposed a novel solution to 4D cine cardiac micro-CT based on a combined prospective with retrospective gating in sampling and deformable registration post reconstruction that mixed the advantages of both strategies.
Human trabecular meshwork cells secrete neurotrophins and express neurotrophin receptors (Trk). (2000)

The purpose of this study was to compare the mRNA expression of neurotrophins (NTs) and NT receptors (Trk) in cultured human trabecular meshwork (HTM) cells and ex vivo HTM tissues, to immunolocalize both NT and Trk receptors in cultured HTM cells, and to demonstrate secretion of NTs by HTM cells.Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to detect the expression of NT and Trk receptor mRNAs in early-passaged, cultured HTM cells from donors of several ages. RT-PCR was used on ex vivo HTM tissues from donors to compare and contrast mRNA expression with cell culture results. In addition, immunohistochemistry was used to localize the translated NT and low- (p75) and high- (Trk) affinity NT receptor proteins within cultured HTM cells and trabecular meshwork tissues. Last, enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) was used to demonstrate secretion of NTs by HTM cells.Amplification products of the expected size for NTs were detected in both cultured HTM cells and ex vivo HTM tissues. Specifically identified were amplification products for the following NTs: NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4. Amplification products for the full-length Trk A and Trk C high-affinity receptor were observed, as well as truncated isoforms for Trk B and Trk C. No amplification products were produced for the full-length Trk B receptor nor for the low-affinity p75 receptor. Immunohistochemistry indicated that proteins for the various NTs and full-length and truncated Trk receptors were translated by cultured HTM cells and tissues. Immunoassays (ELISA) detected BDNF, NT-4, NGF, and NT-3 in the culture media from HTM cells.The results demonstrate, for the first time, mRNA expression for NT and Trk receptors by both cultured HTM cells and ex vivo HTM tissues. NTs were immunolocalized in HTM tissues and cultured HTM cells are capable of secreting NTs. Specific NTs acting through high-affinity Trk receptors within the HTM may be involved in maintaining the normal function of this complex tissue.
Studies in Meat Tenderness. 7. Changes in the Fine Structure of Meat During Aging (1969)

SUMMARY— During the aging of fiber pieces prepared from bovine sternomandibularis muscles, a loss of adhesion occurs between adjacent myofibrils. This is evidenced by increased readiness of fiber pieces to distintegrate into individual myofibrils during a period of standard disruption. Alterations also appear within the myofibrils themselves in the regions of the Z lines, sometimes leading to the apparent dissolution of this structure. Ethylenediamine tetraacetate present in the suspensions during storage not only prevents these changes, but also preserves the refractory character of the fiber pieces. Meat aging is considered therefore to be due to disruption and possible dissolution of Z‐line material, leading to a weakening of inter‐myofibrillar linkages probably located at the junctions of adjacent Z lines, and to loss of tensile strength of the myofibrils themselves.
Jump scan: a DFT technique for low power testing (2005)

This paper presents a Jump scan technique (or J-scan) for low power testing. The J-scan shifts two bits of scan data per clock cycle so the scan clock frequency is halved without increasing the test time. The experimental data show that the proposed technique effectively reduces the test power by two thirds compared with the traditional MUX scan. The presented technique requires very few changes in the existing MUX-scan design for testability methodology and needs no extra computation. The penalties are area overhead and speed degradation.
A model for system identification of degrading structures (1986)

Abstract This paper presents a physically motivated model for the gross dynamic behaviour of degrading hysteretic structures subjected to damaging earthquake motions. The model is intended to provide a vehicle for gaining insight into the nature of the non‐linear response of such structures and to be used in system identification studies. A concept is presented for identifying the model parameters based on examination of the gross restoring force characteristic of a real structure. The model is applied to data from two damaged structures: the Bank of California building in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and the Imperial County Services building in the 1979 Imperial County earthquake.