gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Indocyanine Green Angiography and Dye-Enhanced Diode Laser Photocoagulation (1992)

(1992). Indocyanine Green Angiography and Dye-Enhanced Diode Laser Photocoagulation. Seminars in Ophthalmology: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 172-176.
Role of polysaccharides in food, digestion, and health (2015)

Polysaccharides derived from plant foods are major components of the human diet, with limited contributions of related components from fungal and algal sources. In particular, starch and other storage carbohydrates are the major sources of energy in all diets, while cell wall polysaccharides are the major components of dietary fiber. We review the role of these components in the human diet, including their structure and distribution, their modification during food processing and effects on functional properties, their behavior in the gastrointestinal tract, and their contribution to healthy diets.
Women and Poverty: (1988)

In the current debate about causes and cures for poverty, much attention is given to women. Women are more likely than men to be poor, and once impoverished, to remain poor for longer periods of time than do men. In addition, a much greater responsibility for raising the next generation of adults belongs to poor women than to poor men. No individual policy response will alleviate poverty among women. Rather, a multi-faceted policy response that recognizes the wide diversity of their situations is necessary. This paper describes the diversity among poor women and suggests a series of appropriate policies.
Improved standardization in the quantitative estimation of soluble immune complexes making use of an international reference preparation. Results of a collaborative multicentre study. (1984)

Heat aggregated immunoglobulin G (A-IgG) of restricted size and complement solubilized tetanus toxoid (Te): human anti-Te immune complexes (IC) were sent as coded test samples to eight laboratories for quantitative assessment by different IC assay techniques including C1q solid and fluid phase binding assays, conglutinin binding assay. Raji cell test and particle counting immunoassay. In addition, samples containing the same material at concentrations communicated to the laboratories for the performance of reference curves were included. The investigators were asked to estimate the quantity of A-IgG or Te:aTe in the coded samples by reference to both their own locally produced standards and to the A-IgG and Te:aTe reference preparations of known concentrations. When calculated on the basis of locally prepared standards the range of concentrations found by the various laboratories and tests was 20-260 micrograms/ml for A-IgG (actual concentration 50 micrograms/ml) and 32-1,420 micrograms/ml for Te:aTe complexes (actual concentration 40 micrograms complexed antibody/ml). When read on the international candidate reference A-IgG preparation these ranges were 28-800 micrograms/ml and 35-800 micrograms/ml, respectively. The highest standardization efficiency was obtained when the Te:aTe reference curve was used for quantitation: the range of results obtained for A-IgG and Te:aTe coded samples being as narrow as 7-40 micrograms/ml and 34-68 micrograms/ml, respectively. Thus, when the content of the coded samples was estimated on the basis of the Te:aTe reference curves established in the laboratories a narrow clustering of the results was seen. It is proposed that the Te:aTe preparation, which has been found stable during storage for 2 years, could serve as a useful international reference preparation in the field of IC determination.
<i>In situ</i> observation of the strain in GaP on Si during cooling step after growth by Raman spectroscopy (1995)

A new Raman measurement system with which it is possible to characterize various properties of semiconductors being grown in an atmosphere of flowing gas at a high temperature was developed. As an example of application of the system, the characterization of gallium phosphide (GaP) grown on a silicon (Si) substrate by chloride vapor phase epitaxy at 700 °C was done. The Raman spectra indicated that almost all the strain in a GaP layer with a thickness of 1 μm on a Si(111) substrate due to the difference of lattice constants is relaxed at the growth temperature while tensile strain due to the difference of thermal expansion coefficients exists at room temperature. The results of Raman spectra measured at every hundred degrees during the cooling process have good agreement with the calculated results based on the bimetal model. This means that thermal stress is stored gradually at the early stage of the cooling process.
Multi-exposure image fusion: A patch-wise approach (2015)

We propose a patch-wise approach for multi-exposure image fusion (MEF). A key step in our approach is to decompose each color image patch into three conceptually independent components: signal strength, signal structure and mean intensity. Upon processing the three components separately based on patch strength and exposedness measures, we uniquely reconstruct a color image patch and place it back into the fused image. Unlike most pixel-wise MEF methods in the literature, the proposed algorithm does not require significant pre/postprocessing steps to improve visual quality or to reduce spatial artifacts. Moreover, the novel patch decomposition allows us to handle RGB color channels jointly and thus produces fused images with more vivid color appearances. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Deep Leaming for Stock Market Prediction Using Technical Indicators and Financial News Articles (2018)

This work uses deep learning models for daily directional movements prediction of a stock price using financial news titles and technical indicators as input. A comparison is made between two different sets of technical indicators, set 1: Stochastic %K, Stochastic %D, Momentum, Rate of change, William's %R, Accumulation/Distribution (A/D) oscillator and Disparity 5; set 2: Exponential Moving Average, Moving Average Convergence-Divergence, Relative Strength Index, On Balance Volume and Bollinger Bands. Deep learning methods can detect and analyze complex patterns and interactions in the data allowing a more precise trading process. Experiments has shown that Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can be better than Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) on catching semantic from texts and RNN is better on catching the context information and modeling complex temporal characteristics for stock market forecasting. So, there are two models compared in this paper: a hybrid model composed by a CNN for the financial news and a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for technical indicators, named as SI-RCNN; and a LSTM network only for technical indicators, named as I-RNN. The output of each model is used as input for a trading agent that buys stocks on the current day and sells the next day when the model predicts that the price is going up, otherwise the agent sells stocks on the current day and buys the next day. The proposed method shows a major role of financial news in stabilizing the results and almost no improvement when comparing different sets of technical indicators.
Research on Wireless Process Data Acquisition Technology Based on Agent in Remote Manufacturing (2009)

Wireless data acquisition has been applied in lots of areas. Foreign scholars and engineers referred and designed many methods of wireless data acquisition system. The independence and singularity of the wireless data acquisition technique conduct that it can't meet the requirements of manufacture system. This paper starts from the introduction of the status of wireless data acquisition system and analysis of requirements for the wireless data acquisition system in the manufacturing process. Through the presentation of data acquisition mode in the manufacture process and the analysis of the regular data acquisition system, an intelligent on shop wireless data acquisition system is developed. It also researches the topological structure mode, function of intelligent unit and the coordination process between the operation mechanisms based on the intelligent unit wireless system and IPC on workshop.
Platinum-Nanoparticle-Modified TiO<sub>2</sub> Nanowires with Enhanced Photocatalytic Property (2010)

Highly crystalline Pt nanoparticles with an average diameter of 5 nm were homogeneously modified on the surfaces of TiO(2) nanowires (Pt-TiO(2) NWs) by a simple hydrothermal and chemical reduction route. Photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) in the presence of Pt-TiO(2) NWs indicates that the photocatalytic activity of TiO(2) NWs can be greatly enhanced by Pt nanoparticle modification. The physical chemistry process and photocatalytic mechanism for Pt-TiO(2) NWs hybrids degrading MB were investigated and analyzed. The Pt attached on TiO(2) nanowires induces formation of a Schottky barrier between TiO(2) and Pt naonoparticles, leading to a fast transport of photogenerated electrons to Pt particles. Furthermore, Pt incoporation on TiO(2) surface can accelerate the transfer of electrons to dissolved oxygen molecules. Besides enhancing the electron-hole separation and charge transfer to dissolved oxygen, Pt may also serve as an effective catalyst in the oxidation of MB. However, a high Pt loading value does not mean a high photocatalytic activity. Higher content loaded Pt nanoparticles can absorb more incident photons which do not contribute to the photocatalytic efficiency. The highest photocatalytic activity for the Pt-TiO(2) nanohybrids on MB can be obtained at 1 at % Pt loading.
Heme oxygenase expression in human placenta and placental bed: reduced expression of placenta endothelial HO‐2 in preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction (2001)

In this study we tested the hypothesis that expression of heme oxygenases HO-1 and HO-2, which are responsible for the production of carbon monoxide, are reduced in the placenta and placental bed of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia (PE) and fetal growth restriction (FGR) compared with control third-trimester pregnancies. Placental protein expression was determined by Western blotting (n=10 in each group) and immunohistochemistry (controls n=18, PE n=19, FGR n=10). Extravillous trophoblast expression was determined by immunohistochemistry of placental bed biopsy samples (controls n=17, PE n=19, FGR n=10). Western blot analysis of placental homogenates showed no overall differences in HO-2 among groups. However, immunohistochemical analysis showed a reduction in HO-2 expression in endothelial cells in both abnormal groups (PE P<0.01; FGR P<0.0005 vs. control group) but no differences in villous trophoblast staining. HO-1 was undetectable by Western blotting in control and abnormal pregnancies and immunoreactivity was very low, suggesting that there is little HO-1 in the placenta. Within the placental bed, HO-2 but not HO-1 was detected on all populations of extravillous trophoblast, but expression of HO-2 or HO-1 did not change in PE or FGR. The reduced expression of HO-2 on endothelial cells in PE and FGR may be responsible for reduced placental blood flow in these conditions. The data do not show changes in HO in the placental bed in PE or FGR.
γδ T cell activation or anergy during infections: the role of nonpeptidic TCR ligands and HLA class I molecules (1997)

Vgamma9Vdelta2-encoded T cell receptors (TCR) expressed by most human peripheral blood gammadelta T cells mediate the recognition of nonpeptidic phosphoantigens from various pathogens without any known requirement for HLA molecules. Functionally mature Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells display a potent natural killer (NK)-like cytotoxic activity, share with NK cells the expression of inhibitory receptors for HLA class I molecules, and release a plethora of cytokines, most notably interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha. Hence, through local activation, the early recruitment and stimulation of Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells may promote efficient anti-infectious immunity. However, a chronic overactivation of this T cell subset may result in immunopathology. The meeting held in St. Vincent, Val d'Aosta, Italy (symposium on gammadelta T cells in natural immunity to infections: a rationale for vaccine development organized by the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, the UNESCO, and the Italian National Research Council, December 2-4, 1996) focused on the importance of gammadelta T cell activation and anergy for the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV infections.
Consumption of water containing over 3.5 mg of dissolved hydrogen could improve vascular endothelial function (2014)

H2 may protect the vasculature from shear stress-derived detrimental ROS, such as the hydroxyl radical, by maintaining the nitric oxide-mediated vasomotor response.
¿Es sostenible el sistema de Seguridad Social en España? Situación actual y perspectivas (1999)

espanolEn este trabajo se analiza la sostenibilidad del sistema de la Seguridad Social en Espana. Para ello se examinan los principales componentes de los ingresos y gastos del sistema que han caracterizado su evolucion en los ultimos anos, asi como aquellos factores que mas han contribuido a la actual configuracion de la estructura de la poblacion de Espana, como son la evolucion de la esperanza de vida y de la tasa de la natalidad. La evidencia que ofrecen los datos, unida a los resultados de los trabajos disponibles sobre el tema, llevan a poner en cuestion la viabilidad futura del sistema si se mantienen las circustancias actuales. EnglishWe analyse in this paper the sustainability of the Social Security system in Spain. To this end, we examine the main components of the system's revenues and expenditures characterizing its evolution in last years, as well as those factors more heavily influencing the current configuration of the population structure in Spain, such as the evolution of life expectancy and birth rates. The evidence from the data, together with the results from the available studies on the subject, lead us to question the future viability of the system if current circumstances persist.
Dynamic Fuzzy Machine Learning (2017)

Machine learning is widely used for data analysis. Dynamic fuzzy data are one of the most difficult types of data to analyse in the field of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and quantum information. At present, the processing of this kind of data is not very mature. The authors carried out more than 20 years of research, and show in this book their most important results. The seven chapters of the book are devoted to key topics such as dynamic fuzzy machine learning models, dynamic fuzzy self-learning subspace algorithms, fuzzy decision tree learning, dynamic concepts based on dynamic fuzzy sets, semi-supervised multi-task learning based on dynamic fuzzy data, dynamic fuzzy hierarchy learning, examination of multi-agent learning model based on dynamic fuzzy logic. This book can be used as a reference book for senior college students and graduate students as well as college teachers and scientific and technical personnel involved in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, data analysis, mathematics, management, cognitive science, and finance. It can be also used as the basis for teaching the principles of dynamic fuzzy learning.
Approaches to digital image registration and recognition (1984)

The automatic registration and recognition of objects in infrared and television imagery is considered. The task of locating a given smaller within a larger is known as image registration. Two new methods of accomplishing multiple registration which are computationally more efficient than the most commonly used template matching techniques (correlation and sequential similarity detection algorithm) are described. A detailed comparison of these methods based on the registration accuracy, number of arithmetic operations for software implementation and the complexity of hardware for real-time implementation is presented.
Next, the problem of recognizing an object located in a complex background is considered. Various segmentation techniques are studied for their effectiveness in segmenting the object from the background. A modified version of a relaxation scheme which retains the shape of the segmented object more accurately and is more efficient in segmenting objects which are closer to another object or a non-contrasting background is developed. The performance of this relaxation scheme is compared with that of a commonly used relaxation scheme.
Interaction of Rhizosphere Bacteria, Fertilizer, and Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi with Sea Oats (1990)

Plants must be established quickly on replenished beaches in order to stabilize the sand and begin the dune-building process. The objective of this research was to determine whether inoculation of sea oats (Uniola paniculata L.) with bacteria (indigenous rhizosphere bacteria and N(2) fixers) alone or in combination with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi would enhance plant growth in beach sand. At two fertilizer-N levels, Klebsiella pneumoniae and two Azospirillum spp. did not provide the plants with fixed atmospheric N; however, K. pneumoniae increased root and shoot growth. When a sparingly soluble P source (CaHPO(4)) was added to two sands, K. pneumoniae increased plant growth in sand with a high P content. The phosphorus content of shoots was not affected by bacterial inoculation, indicating that a mechanism other than bacterially enhanced P availability to plants was responsible for the growth increases. When sea oats were inoculated with either K. pneumoniae or Acaligenes denitrificans and a mixed Glomus inoculum, there was no consistent evidence of a synergistic effect on plant growth. Nonetheless, bacterial inoculation increased root colonization by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi when the fungal inoculum consisted of colonized roots but had no effect on colonization when the inoculum consisted of spores alone. K. pneumoniae was found to increase spore germination and hyphal growth of Glomus deserticola compared with the control. The use of bacterial inoculants to enhance establishment of pioneer dune plants warrants further study.
Inhibition of Endotoxin-Mediated Activation of Endothelial Cells by a Perfluorocardon Emulsion (1993)

Endothelial cell (EC) activation plays a key role in the inflammatory response by promoting the margination of leukocytes in inflamed loci. Augmented leukocyte margination to activated EC is mediated by the increased display of leukocyte adhesion molecules on EC surface membranes. The biocompatibility of synthetic oxygen-transport fluids is intimately linked to EC function, since one of the first tissues encountered by such fluids is the vascular endothelium. We investigated the effect of one such agent, a phospholipid-based perfluorocarbon emulsion containing 90% w/v perfluorooctyl bromide (perflubron, PFOB) on EC activation. Human umbilical vein EC (HUVEC) were activated by 5 U/ml interleukin-1 (IL-1), 20 U/ml tumor necrosis factor (TNF), or 50 ng/ml E coli endotoxin (LPS) in the presence or absence of up to 20%, w/v perflubron. HUVEC activation was monitored by the extent of up-regulation of expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM) and endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule-1 (ELAM). Exposure of HUVEC to perflubron did not alter the up-regulation of ICAM or ELAM in response to IL-1 or TNF (n = 20). However, at 10% perflubron ICAM up-regulation in response to LPS was inhibited by 95 ± 6% (n = 9, p <.05). ELAM expression was similarly affected. The concentration of perflubron required to diminish LPS-induced up-regulation by 50% was 6.0 ± 0.6% (n = 3). The inhibitory effect of 10% perflubron was overcome by > 1 ug/ml LPS (n = 3) and the inhibitory effect was attenuated by adding perflubron to the cultures after LPS. In agreement with the above, additional experiments showed that incubation of LPS with perflubron prevented LPS-induced stimulation of TNF synthesis by a murine macrophage (RAW) cell line (n = 3). We conclude: 1) perflubron neither activates HUVEC nor interferes with HUVEC activation by IL-1 or TNF, 2) perflubron prevented HUVEC activation by LPS in a dose and time-dependent manner, 3) perflubron prevented LPS-induced activation of more than one cell line. Taken together, the data suggest that perflubron may bind and sequester limited concentrations of LPS. Whether this property of perflubron also occurs upon in vivo infusion and whether it might be clinically useful in preventing some of the adverse effects of endotoxemia are unknown.
Potentiation by <scp>DL</scp>‐<i>α</i>‐aminopimelate of the inhibitory action of a novel mGluR agonist (L‐F<sub>2</sub>CCG‐I) on monosynaptic excitation in the rat spinal cord (1998)

1. Neuropharmacological actions of all the possible stereoisomers of 3',3'-difluoro-2-(carboxycyclopropyl)glycine (3',3'-difluoro-CCG) were compared with those of the corresponding 2-(carboxycyclopropyl)glycine (CCG) isomers in the isolated spinal cord of newborn rats. (2S,1'S,2'S)- and (2S,1'R,2'S)-2-(2-carboxy-3,3-difluorocyclopropyl)glycine (L-F2CCG-I and L-F2CCG-IV) were the most potent in causing depolarization, their threshold concentrations being approximately 1 microM. 2. The depolarization evoked by L-F2CCG-I (30 microM) was depressed by (+)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG, 1 mM (n=4)) to 17+/-3% of the control: this depolarizing action was not decreased by 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX, 100 microM), and only slightly decreased by high concentrations of D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (D-AP5, 100 microM), suggesting that L-F2CCG-I activates mainly metabotropic glutamate receptors. 3. L-F2CCG-I preferentially depressed the monosynaptic component of the spinal reflex approximately 3 times more effectively than (2S,1'S,2'S)-2-(carboxycyclopropyl)glycine (L-CCG-I). The depressant action of L-F2CCG-I (0.2 microM-0.7 microM) on monosynaptic excitation was antagonized by (2S,1'S,2'S)-2-methyl-2-(carboxycyclopropyl)glycine (MCCG, 0.3 mM-1 mM) and (S)-2-amino-2-methyl-4-phosphonobutanoic acid (MAP4, 0.3 mM). 4. DL-alpha-aminopimelate (10 and 100 microM) selectively potentiated the depression of monosynaptic excitation caused by L-CCG-I (0.2 microM) and L-F2CCG-I (0.1 microM). The actions of (2S,1'R,2'R,3'R)-2-(2,3-dicarboxycyclopropyl)glycine (DCG-IV) (50 nM-0.2 microM), L-2-amino-4-phosphonobutanoic acid (L-AP4) (0.3-1 microM), (1S,3R)-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid ((1S,3R)-ACPD) (1-7 microM) and baclofen (0.1-0.7 microM) were unaffected by DL-alpha-aminopimelate. The threshold concentration for the potentiating actions of DL-alpha-aminopimelate was 3 microM. 5. The depolarization induced by quisqualate (3 microM, 10 s application) was increased to 115+/-2% and 137+/-5% of the control values during combined application of quisqualate with either 30 microM or 100 microM DL-alpha-aminopimelate, respectively. 6. Following the application and subsequent washout of L-F2CCG-I, DL-alpha-aminopimelate (3-100 microM) decreased the amplitude of the monosynaptic component of spinal reflexes in a concentration-dependent manner, indicating a 'priming' effect of L-F2CCG-I.
Controlling physics in realistic character animation (2000)

article Free Access Share on Controlling physics in realistic character animation Author: Zoran Popović Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in SeattleView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 43Issue 7July 2000pp 50–58https://doi.org/10.1145/341852.341863Published:01 July 2000Publication History 12citation1,333DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations12Total Downloads1,333Last 12 Months55Last 6 weeks3 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF