gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Noise-resilient distributed compressed video sensing using side-information-based belief propagation (2012)

With the booming of energy-limited video devices ranging from visual sensors to camera cell phones, distributed compressed video sensing (DCVS) has developed as one of the efficient solutions that guarantee low complexity video encoding as well as acceptable recovery quality. In this paper, a noise-resilient DCVS scheme is proposed using side-information-based belief propagation (SI-BP). The video frames are encoded independently to a small number of measurements and recovered jointly based on the distributed video coding structure. The major contribution is the joint recovery algorithm SI-BP where the side information from the recovered frames is fully exploited to improve the original CSBP algorithm in both initialization and stopping criteria. As the estimated probability distribution of the DCT coefficients is introduced in the soft decision SI-BP iterations, our scheme is noise-resilient especially with low SNR. This advantage is verified by the simulation results on several video sequences.
Short-Term High-Volume Hemofiltration in Sepsis: Perhaps the Right Way Is to Start With... (2002)

General Intensive Care Unit, Saint-Pierre Hospital, Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium; Pediatric Critical Care Unit, Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TX
Amélioration de la sensibilité des magnétomètres à résonance paramagnétique (1972)

L'utilisation de la résonance paramagnétique offre de nombreux avantages pour la réalisation d'un magnétomètre. Mais celui-ci ne sera utilisable en pratique qu'à la condition de présenter une sensibilité suffisante. Une précédente réalisation menait en effet à la sensibilité assez modeste de 10 gammas. Nous avons procédé à une étude théorique qui nous a permis d'optimiser les paramètres. Nous avons ensuite réalisé un appareil dans lequel la détection de la résonance s'effectue à l'aide de bobines de Bloch. La sensibilité obtenue est de 350 milligammas.
Cross-Resistance of a Johnsongrass (<i>Sorghum halepense</i>) Biotype to Aryloxyphenoxypropionate and Cyclohexanedione Herbicides (2006)

Dose-response experiments were conducted in a greenhouse on a biotype of johnsongrass from Washington County, Mississippi, to determine the level of resistance to the aryloxyphenoxypropionate (AOPP) herbicide fluazifop-P-butyl and the cyclohexanedione (CHD) herbicides clethodim and sethoxydim. Both seedling and rhizomatous plants were evaluated. Resistant/susceptible (R/S) ratios were calculated based on GR 50 values (the rate required to reduce shoot dry biomass, expressed as a percent of the control, 50%). The GR 50 values for the resistant and susceptible seedling plants were 110 and 10 g ai/ha for clethodim, 193 and 34 g ai/ha for fluazifop-P-butyl, and 265 and 48 g ai/ha for sethoxydim, resulting in R/S ratios of 11.0, 5.7, and 5.5, respectively. The GR 50 values for the resistant and susceptible rhizomatous plants were 609 and 39 g/ha for clethodim, 657 and 29 g/ha for fluazifop-P-butyl, and 668 and 30 g/ha for sethoxydim, resulting in R/S ratios of 15.6, 22.7, and 22.3, respectively.
Improvements to random forest methodology (2013)

Random forest (RF) is a widely used machine learning method that shows competitive prediction performance in various fields, including biological science, finance, chemical engineering, agroscience, medical analysis, etc. In this dissertation, we study some characteristics and modifications of RFs in order to improve its prediction performance. In CHAPTER 1, we review the mechanics of classification and regression trees (CARTs), bootstrap aggregation (bagging) and RFs. The properties of RFs are discussed, along with several variations of this method. In CHAPTER 2, we describe a counter-intuitive discovery using RFs: the out-of-sample prediction errors can be reduced by augmenting the regressor with a new scientifically meaningless predictor variable independent of all variables in the dataset. We explain this phenomenon using a simulated example and discuss the importance of this result in interpreting predictor variable importance in RFs. RF predictions can be biased. In CHAPTER 3, we apply an iterative debiasing approach based on bagging to RFs and test this bias correction method with real datasets. The debiasing approach can significantly improve RF predictions. The number of debiasing iterations can be tuned using cross-validation. Standard RF methodology generates a common RF from a given training sample, regardless of test cases. In CHAPTER 4, we propose a new way to grow a RF specifically predicting a particular test case, namely, Case-Specific Random Forests (CSRF). We also suggest Case-Specific Variable Importance (CSVI), a new definition of predictor variable importance in terms of the prediction performance on a particular test case. Prediction error estimation is generally useful in evaluation of a prediction rule. All present methods deal with estimating prediction errors averaging over the distribution of a test set. In CHAPTER 5, we propose a method to estimate expected prediction loss on a specific regressor point using RF methodology.
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings (2016)

A deep residual network, built by stacking a sequence of residual blocks, is easy to train, because identity mappings skip residual branches and thus improve information flow. To further reduce the training difficulty, we present a simple network architecture, deep merge-and-run neural networks. The novelty lies in a modularized building block, merge-and-run block, which assembles residual branches in parallel through a merge-and-run mapping: Average the inputs of these residual branches (Merge), and add the average to the output of each residual branch as the input of the subsequent residual branch (Run), respectively. We show that the merge-and-run mapping is a linear idempotent function in which the transformation matrix is idempotent, and thus improves information flow, making training easy. In comparison to residual networks, our networks enjoy compelling advantages: they contain much shorter paths, and the width, i.e., the number of channels, is increased. We evaluate the performance on the standard recognition tasks. Our approach demonstrates consistent improvements over ResNets with the comparable setup, and achieves competitive results (e.g., $3.57\%$ testing error on CIFAR-$10$, $19.00\%$ on CIFAR-$100$, $1.51\%$ on SVHN).
Absorption of Sulphur Dioxide with Sodium Hydroxide Solution in Packed Columns (1998)

The absorption of sulphur dioxide from effluent gases by using aqueous sodium hydroxide solution as a solvent has become established practice in industry where a high degree of purity of the effluent gases must be ensured in a reliable manner. Although it has long been known that it is basically possible to clean effluent gases containing sulphur dioxide effectively by using sodium hydroxide solution, there are only few publications to date which discuss the reaction-kinetic processes in the wash solution.
Retinoic acid expression associates with enhanced IL-22 production by γδ T cells and innate lymphoid cells and attenuation of intestinal inflammation (2013)

Retinoic acid (RA), a vitamin A metabolite, modulates mucosal T helper cell responses. Here we examined the role of RA in regulating IL-22 production by γδ T cells and innate lymphoid cells in intestinal inflammation. RA significantly enhanced IL-22 production by γδ T cells stimulated in vitro with IL-1β or IL-18 and IL-23. In vivo RA attenuated colon inflammation induced by dextran sodium sulfate treatment or Citrobacter rodentium infection. This was associated with a significant increase in IL-22 secretion by γδ T cells and innate lymphoid cells. In addition, RA treatment enhanced production of the IL-22-responsive antimicrobial peptides Reg3β and Reg3γ in the colon. The attenuating effects of RA on colitis were reversed by treatment with an anti-IL-22 neutralizing antibody, demonstrating that RA mediates protection by enhancing IL-22 production. To define the molecular events involved, we used chromatin immunoprecipitation assays and found that RA promoted binding of RA receptor to the IL-22 promoter in γδ T cells. Our findings provide novel insights into the molecular events controlling IL-22 transcription and suggest that one key outcome of RA signaling may be to shape early intestinal immune responses by promoting IL-22 synthesis by γδ T cells and innate lymphoid cells.
Developmentally Regulated Activation of a SINE B2 Repeat as a Domain Boundary in Organogenesis (2007)

The temporal and spatial regulation of gene expression in mammalian development is linked to the establishment of functional chromatin domains. Here, we report that tissue-specific transcription of a retrotransposon repeat in the murine growth hormone locus is required for gene activation. This repeat serves as a boundary to block the influence of repressive chromatin modifications. The repeat element is able to generate short, overlapping Pol II-and Pol III-driven transcripts, both of which are necessary and sufficient to enable a restructuring of the regulated locus into nuclear compartments. These data suggest that transcription of interspersed repetitive sequences may represent a developmental strategy for the establishment of functionally distinct domains within the mammalian genome to control gene activation.
Ins & outs of carbonation of concrete (2014)

Introduction: why is carbonation important? Corrosion = the rusting of the reinforcement Corrosion Initiation = the breaking of the passivation (either by a drop in pH or due the presence of chlorides)
VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration (1998)

This document describes the registration of the MIME sub-type multipart/voice-message for use with the Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM). A full description of usage can be found in the VPIM v2 specification [VPIM2]. This document revises an earlier sub-type registration in RFC 1911 [VPIM1].
Study of Annealed Aquivion® Ionomers with the INCA Method † (2019)

We investigated the possibility to increase the working temperature and endurance of proton exchange membranes for fuel cells and water electrolyzers by thermal annealing of short side chain perfluorosulfonic acid (SSC-PFSA) Aquivion<sup>®</sup> membranes. The Ionomer n<sub>c</sub> Analysis (INCA method), based on n<sub>c</sub>/T plots where n<sub>c</sub> is a counter elastic force index, was applied to SSC-PFSA in order to evaluate ionomer thermo-mechanical properties and to probe the increase of crystallinity during the annealing procedure. The enhanced thermal and mechanical stability of extruded Aquivion<sup>®</sup> 870 (equivalent weight, EW = 870 g·mol<sup>-1</sup>) was related to an increase of long-range order. Complementary differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) measurements confirmed the increase of polymer stiffness by the annealing treatment with an enhancement of the storage modulus over the whole range of temperature. The main thermomechanical relaxation temperature is also enhanced. DSC measurements showed slight base line changes after annealing, attributable to the glass transition and melting of a small amount of crystalline phase. The difference between the glass transition and melting temperatures derived from INCA plots and the ionic-cluster transition temperature derived from DMA measurements is consistent with the different experimental conditions, especially the dry atmosphere in DMA. Finally, the annealing procedure was also successfully applied for the first time to an un-crystallized cast membrane (EW = 830 g·mol<sup>-1</sup>) resulting in a remarkable mechanical and thermal stabilization.
Pharmacokinetics, penetration into cerebrospinal fluid, and hematologic effects after multiple oral administrations of pyrimethamine to horses. (1992)

Pharmacokinetics, CSF penetration, and hematologic effects of oral administration of pyrimethamine were studied after multiple dosing. Pyrimethamine (1 mg/kg of body weight) was administered orally once a day for 10 days to 5 adult horses, and blood samples were collected frequently after the first, fifth, and tenth doses. The CSF samples were obtained by cisternal puncture 4 to 6 hours after administration of the first, third, seventh, and tenth doses. Pyrimethamine concentration in plasma and CSF was quantified by gas chromatography, and plasma concentration-time data were analyzed, using a pharmacokinetic computer program. Repeated daily dosing resulted in accumulation of pyrimethamine in plasma, with steady state being achieved within 5 days, when the mean peak plasma concentration was more than twice that measured after the first dose. Pyrimethamine concentration in CSF was 25 to 50% of corresponding plasma concentration and did not appear to accumulate with successive administration of doses. Blood samples collected during and after the dosing regimen were submitted for hematologic analysis; neutrophil numbers decreased slightly, but remained within normal range for adult horses.
Weighted striping in multimedia servers (1997)

To cope with the increasing demand of customers, more magnetic disks may need to be added to a multimedia server to support a higher number of concurrent accesses. Due to the rapid improvement in the performance of magnetic disks, the newly added disks usually have higher sustained I/O bandwidth and bigger storage capacity. The traditional uniform striping in an environment with heterogeneous disks in the same striping group cannot fully utilize the I/O bandwidth and storage capacity of the newly added, higher performance disks. In this paper, we propose weighted striping techniques to fully utilize the I/O bandwidth and storage capacity of higher performance disks in a multimedia server. Our results show that weighted striping techniques greatly improve the performance of multimedia servers.
Strategic Alliances and Sustainable Coffee Production: The Shaded System of Baturite, State of Ceara, Brazil (2003)

The study aims to assess the entry of coffee producers into the specialty coffee segment that is differentiated by social and environmental attributes. It shows the experience of shaded coffee growers participating in the Projeto Café Ecológico, placed in the Baturité Mountains Environmental Protection Area, an Atlantic Forest region in Ceará State, Brazil. Emphasis is placed on horizontal and vertical strategic alliances among actors involved in the production, processing and distribution of ecological coffee. It highlights the articulation between government and NGOs, under both contractual and institutional approaches.
FlySPEX: a flexible multi-angle spectropolarimetric sensing system (2016)

Accurate multi-angle spectropolarimetry permits the detailed and unambiguous characterization of a wide range of objects. Science cases and commercial applications include atmospheric aerosol studies, biomedical sensing, and food quality control. We introduce the FlySPEX spectropolarimetric fiber-head that constitutes the essential building block of a novel multi-angle sensing system. A combination of miniaturized standard polarization optics inside every fiber-head encodes the full linear polarization information as a spectral modulation of the light that enters two regular optical fibers. By orienting many FlySPEX fiber-heads in any desired set of directions, a fiber bundle contains the complete instantaneous information on polarization as a function of wavelength and as a function of the set of viewing directions. This information is to be recorded by one or several multi-fiber spectrometers. Not only is this system flexible in the amount of viewing directions and their configuration, it also permits multiplexing different wavelength ranges and spectral resolutions by implementing different spectrometers. We present the design and prototyping for a FlySPEX fiber-head that is optimized for both polarimetric accuracy and commercial series production. We integrate the polarimetric calibration of each FlySPEX fiber-head in the manufacturing process.
Regulation of SC1/DM‐GRASP during the migration of motor neurons in the chick embryo brain stem (1994)

The hindbrain of the chick embryo contains three classes of motor neurons: somatic, visceral, and branchial motor. During development, somata of neurons in the last two classes undergo a laterally directed migration within the neuroepithelium; somata translocate towards the nerve exit points, through which motor axons are beginning to extend into the periphery. All classes of motor neuron are immunopositive for the SC1/DM-GRASP cell surface glycoprotein. We have examined the relationship between patterns of motor neuron migration, axon outgrowth, and expression of the SC1/DM-GRASP mRNA and protein, using anterograde or retrograde axonal tracing, immunohistochemistry, and in situ hybridization. We find that as motor neurons migrate laterally, SC1/DM-GRASP is down-regulated, both on neuronal somata and axonal surfaces. Within individual motor nuclei, these lateral, more mature neurons are found to possess longer axons than the young, medial cells of the population. Labelling of sensory or motor axons growing into the second branchial arch also shows that motor axons reach the muscle plate first, and that SC1/DM-GRASP is expressed on the muscle at the time growth cones arrive.
STEROIDS. CXVII.<sup>1</sup> 6α-FLUORO-16α-HYDROXY CORTICAL HORMONES (1959)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSTEROIDS. CXVII.1 6α-FLUORO-16α-HYDROXY CORTICAL HORMONESJ. S. Mills, A. Bowers, C. Casas Campillo, Carl Djerassi, and H. J. RingoldCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1959, 81, 5, 1264–1265Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1959Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1959https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01514a072https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01514a072research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views79Altmetric-Citations18LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Myelin galactolipids: Mediators of axon-glial interactions? (2000)

The precise alignment of myelin segments along the length of the axon is essential for the saltatory propagation of an electrical impulse. Furthermore, node of Ranvier formation and function are dependent on the proper interactions between myelinating glial cells and the axon. Nevertheless, the molecules that regulate the placement and association of myelinating cells with axons remain largely unidentified. Recently, however, the analysis of mutant mice incapable of synthesizing the galactolipids of myelin has revealed defects in these processes. The galactolipid-deficient mice display alterations in the spacing of internodal segments along the axon: large unmyelinated gaps are common and overlapping myelin segments are observed. Moreover, the normal tight association between the lateral loops of the myelinating cell and the axonal membrane at the paranode region is also disrupted in these animals. Strikingly, there is a complete absence of transverse bands at the axon-glial junction, with the lateral loops frequently turning away from the axon. These data indicate that the galactolipids play an essential role in axon-glial interactions and node of Ranvier formation.
Prediction with Expert Advice (2006)

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61.2: <i>Invited Paper</i> : High Performance Organic‐Inorganic Hybrid Plastic Substrate for Flexible Display and Electronics (2010)

Abstract An inorganic dominated silica/polyimide (PI) hybrid film has been successfully developed for the fabrication of flexible AM‐OLED. The inorganic‐organic hybrid film was achieved in roll type with a variety of attractive properties such as low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE, 33 ppm/°C), high transmittance (within the wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm), excellent flexibility and high Yang's modulus.
Epidemiology and Clinical Aspects on Hepatitis C (2002)

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million persons worldwide, and 2 million persons in Japan. HCV is a major cause of chronic liver diseases, especially hepatocarcinogenesis, and the number of patients with HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing worldwide as well as in Japan. Most patients with acute hepatitis C develop chronic hepatitis. Spontaneous disappearance of HCV in patients with type C chronic liver disease is uncommon, and it tends to progress to further advanced and more severe liver disease, ultimately to HCC over a period of 30 years in most cases. Chronic liver disease due to HCV infection is commonly associated with extrahepatic manifestation, for example cryoglobulinemia. Antiviral treatment for HCV infection with interferon alone during 24 weeks was associated with a low rate (less than 10%) of sustained virologic response (SVR), especially in patients infected with HCV genotype 1b and high HCV RNA concentration. However, combination therapy of interferon and ribavirin raises the SVR rate. More recently, pegylated interferon used for treatment of chronic hepatitis C resulted in a high SVR rate. These modalities of antiviral treatment will reduce HCC occurrence. So far, there is no HCV vaccine in spite of many efforts.
Pharmacology of aripiprazole, a novel antipsychotic: dopamine D2 receptor partial agonist (2004)

Kikuchi, Tetsuroa; Arlene, Starkb; Yocca, Frankb; Tadori, Yoshihiroa; Hirose, Tsuyoshia; McQuade, Robertb Author Information
Periodic slow-wave low-loss structures for monolithic GaAs microwave integrated circuits (1979)

Slow-wave structures on GaAs semi-insulating substrate, obtained by periodically loading a coplanar line with high-Q overlap capacitors, are described. They operate up to X-band, reducing significantly the signal phase velocity by a factor nearly independent of the frequency. Owing to their low transmission losses, they are particularly suitable for monolithic GaAs f.e.t. circuits.
A Case of Crohn's Disease with Increased CD8 T-Cell Activation and Remission during Therapy with Intravenous Immunoglobulins (1998)

This case shows that selected cases of CD may be associated with abnormal functions and that such patients may benefit from IVIG treatment.