gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
38th Annual General Meeting (2014)

Chairman's Report.2011 has been an unusual and difficult year by any standards, eerily foretold by the Belfast Annual General meeting that never was.Kenneth James, Curator (Geology) at the Ulster Museum was the local host for an excellent and somewhat controversial seminar entitled "The New Ulster Museum: record visitor figures, awards and vanishing curators".The Ulster Museum had reopened in October 2009, following a three-year closure and a £17.2 m redevelopment.Since then it had attracted 600,000 visitors and won several awards, including the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries.However, the curators had been moved to offices 9 miles from the museum, the collections had been moved to an industrial estate 6 miles from the curators, and the numbers of curators continued to shrink to "endangered species" level, whilst the management positions multiplied.The general belief was that the Museum would never again be able to redevelop its displays in such a way because it had lost the necessary curatorial knowledge of its collections.At the May committee meeting, we agreed to support Earth Science 2K's attempts to raise this as a concern.
Nested Shape Descriptors (2013)

In this paper, we propose a new family of binary local feature descriptors called nested shape descriptors. These descriptors are constructed by pooling oriented gradients over a large geometric structure called the Hawaiian earring, which is constructed with a nested correlation structure that enables a new robust local distance function called the nesting distance. This distance function is unique to the nested descriptor and provides robustness to outliers from order statistics. In this paper, we define the nested shape descriptor family and introduce a specific member called the seed-of-life descriptor. We perform a trade study to determine optimal descriptor parameters for the task of image matching. Finally, we evaluate performance compared to state-of-the-art local feature descriptors on the VGG-Affine image matching benchmark, showing significant performance gains. Our descriptor is the first binary descriptor to outperform SIFT on this benchmark.
The fatty acid composition of a <i>Vibrio alginolyticus</i> associated with the alga <i>Cladophora coelothrix</i>. Identification of the novel 9‐methyl‐10‐hexadecenoic acid (1997)

The fatty acid composition of a new strain of Vibrio alginolyticus, found in the alga Cladophora coelothrix, was studied. Among 38 different fatty acids, a new fatty acid, 9-methyl-10-hexadecenoic acid and the unusual 11-methyl-12-octadecenoic acid, were identified. Linear alkylbenzene fatty acids, such as 10-phenyldecanoic acid, 12-phenyldodecanoic acid and 14-phenyltetradecanoic acid, were also found in V. alginolyticus. The alga contained 43% saturated fatty acids, and 28% C16-C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids of the n-3 and n-6 families.
Nerve Growth Factor Binding Site on TrkA Mapped to a Single 24-Amino Acid Leucine-rich Motif (1995)

The extracellular domains of the TrkA nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor and its homologs harbor a modular mosaic of potential ligand binding motifs, namely two immunoglobulin (Ig)-like modules and an LRM3 cassette consisting of a tandem array of three leucine-rich motifs (LRMs) flanked by cysteine-rich clusters (Schneider, R., and Schweiger, M. (1991) Oncogene 6, 1807-1811). Identification of a structural motif capable of specifically recognizing the various neurotrophins was achieved by assessing their affinities to isolated recombinant modules of TrkA and TrkB. In both receptors the LRM3 cassette alone could mediate the respective neurotrophin selectivities and affinities. Further tracking down of this NGF-binding site in TrkA strikingly revealed that a single LRM of 24 amino acids could bind NGF selectively with nanomolar affinity. Since this is the first example of a single LRM with a highly specific, well defined function, it might serve as a valuable tool to elucidate the general structural requirements of substrate recognition and high affinity binding in the large superfamily of LRM-containing proteins.
Cholinergic control of inflammation (2009)

Cytokine production is necessary to protect against pathogens and promote tissue repair, but excessive cytokine release can lead to systemic inflammation, organ failure and death. Inflammatory responses are finely regulated to effectively guard from noxious stimuli. The central nervous system interacts dynamically with the immune system to modulate inflammation through humoral and neural pathways. The effect of glucocorticoids and other humoral mediators on inflammatory responses has been studied extensively in the past decades. In contrast, neural control of inflammation has only been recently described. We summarize autonomic regulation of local and systemic inflammation through the 'cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway', a mechanism consisting of the vagus nerve and its major neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, a process dependent on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha7 subunit. We recapitulate additional sources of acetylcholine and their contribution to the inflammatory response, as well as acetylcholine regulation by acetylcholinesterase as a means to attenuate inflammation. We discuss potential therapeutic applications to treat diseases characterized by acute or chronic inflammation, including autoimmune diseases, and propose future research directions.
Baled vs. cubed alfalfa hay, for ewes and lambs (1967)

Ewes and lambs fed cubed alfalfa wasted 10.5% less hay and gained 6.4 Ibs more per pair than those fed an equal amount and quality of baled hay, in this 44-day test—resulting in a $3.05-per-ton feed value advantage for the cubes.
Ineffectiveness of Topoisomerase Mutations in Mediating Clinically Significant Fluoroquinolone Resistance in <i>Escherichia coli</i> in the Absence of the AcrAB Efflux Pump (2000)

Fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants, selected from a wild-type Escherichia coli K-12 strain and its Mar mutant by exposure to increasing levels of ofloxacin on solid medium, were analyzed by Northern (RNA) blot analysis, sequencing, and radiolabelled ciprofloxacin accumulation studies. Mutations in the target gene gyrA (DNA gyrase), the regulatory gene marR, and additional, as yet unidentified genes (genes that probably affect efflux mediated by the multidrug efflux pump AcrAB) all contributed to fluoroquinolone resistance. Inactivation of the acrAB locus made all strains, including those with target gene mutations, hypersusceptible to fluoroquinolones and certain other unrelated drugs. These studies indicate that, in the absence of the AcrAB pump, gyrase mutations fail to produce clinically relevant levels of fluoroquinolone resistance.
[Experimental studies of the sterilization of transplantation material with peracetic acid]. (1984)

Experimental investigations for sterilization of prepared transplantation material without aseptic conditions were carried out with peracetic acid of different aqueous and alcoholic dilutions. This chemical germicide is qualified yet for the sterilization of tendinous tissue but not for bone tissue (spongiosa and compact substance). The different cellular structures of the test objects condition this behaviour likely. Peracetic acid is consequently no substitute for beta-propiolactone as germicide in a tissue bank which preserves various tissues (above all also bone) for transplantation.
Large-signal nonlinear analysis of a high-power high-frequency junction transistor (1970)

A relatively complex nonlinear model is derived for large-signal analysis of high-power high-frequency junction transistors. The model, based on a modified Ebers-Moll equivalent circuit, is particularly useful when the transistor operates as a high-speed switch and is generally either ON or OFF, and seldom in between, or ACTIVE. A digital computer program NET-1 is used for transient analysis of the model.
Archipelago - An Open Source FPGA with Toolflow Support (2014)

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are effective in satisfying different computing requirements such as high performance computing, digital signal processing and embedded computing. Academic research efforts cover architecture optimization, design space exploration, circuit level design and new CAD algorithms. However, actual FPGA devices in common use are all commercial. In this work, we designed and implemented an open source FPGA with toolflow support. We named the project Archipelago and designed the architecture with two goals. First, it explores the quality of the physical implementation result that is produced by a standard ASIC design flow in a modern ASIC process. Second, it enables other people to use and extend the project at will. The outcome of this project is a parameterizable and user expandable FPGA with toolflow support. We verified its functionality. The performance of the work is good enough for real world work loads. A 64 Bit counter can run up to 364MHz on average on three different FPGA instances. The result is comparable to a commercial FPGA implemented in a similar process technology.
Reduction of electrooptical response times of a field-effect liquid-crystal device: Application to dynamic-driven real-time matrix display (1975)

A shortening of the response time of a field-effect device in which liquid Crystals with a positive dielectric anisotropy were used and operated in the tunable birefringence mode has been achieved. This technique has been applied to a 40 × 40 matrix display operated in a 3:1 selection scheme; a real time display with buildup and decay lags of 5 and 20 ms, respectively, and with contrast ratios of 5:1-30:1 has been realized.
Microseismic Monitoring of the Valhall Reservoir (1999)

Microseismic monitoring is an emerging technology within the hydrocarbon industry which is being driven by operator requirements for real-time information on hydraulic and geomechanical processes taking place within the reservoir in the interwell region.
The <i>mec-8</i> gene of <i>C. elegans</i> encodes a protein with two RNA recognition motifs and regulates alternative splicing of <i>unc-52</i> transcripts (1996)

Mutations in the mec-8 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans were previously shown to affect the functions of body wall muscle and mechanosensory and chemosensory neurons. Mutations in mec-8 also strongly enhance the mutant phenotype of specific mutations in unc-52, a gene that encodes, via alternative splicing of pre-mRNA, a set of basement membrane proteins, homologs of perlecan, that are important for body wall muscle assembly and attachment to basement membrane, hypodermis and cuticle. We have cloned mec-8 and found that it encodes a protein with two RNA recognition motifs, characteristic of RNA binding proteins. We have used reverse transcription-PCR and RNase protection experiments to show that mec-8 regulates the accumulation of a specific subset of alternatively spliced unc-52 transcripts. We have also shown with antibodies to UNC-52 that mec-8 affects the abundance of a subset of UNC-52 isoforms. We propose that mec-8 encodes a trans-acting factor that regulates the alternative splicing of the pre-mRNA of unc-52 and one or more additional genes that affect mechanosensory and chemosensory neuron function.
Homozygous deletions of the multiple tumor suppressor gene 1 in the progression of human astrocytomas. (1995)

The multiple tumor suppressor gene 1 (MTS1) located on chromosome 9p has recently been implicated as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in many different tumor types. Cytogenetic analysis and deletion mapping studies have revealed that deletion of chromosome 9p occurs in a significant number of primary human astrocytomas. Using multiplex PCR with primers for exon 2 of MTS1 and for D9S196 from chromosome 9q, we have analyzed 78 primary astrocytic tumors for the deletion of MTS1. After controlling for the contamination of tumor samples with normal cells, homozygous loss of MTS1 was found in 13 of 25 anaplastic astrocytomas (WHO grade III) and in 27 of 46 cases of glioblastomas (WHO grade IV) but in none of seven astrocytomas (WHO grade II). These data suggest that MTS1 is an important tumor suppressor gene in the malignant progression of astrocytomas.
Iatrogenic Ocular Silver Nitrate Burn (1985)

Two cases of silver nitrate burn occurred after treatment of superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis with a solid silver nitrate applicator. After medical treatment and several months of observation, visual acuity eventually returned to acceptable levels with minimal corneal scarring. These cases emphasize the fact that silver nitrate should be used very cautiously around the eye and only in a fresh 0.5-1% solution. The use of solid silver nitrate should be prohibited around the eye.
Improved methodology for photocyclization reactions (1991)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTImproved methodology for photocyclization reactionsLongbin Liu, Bingwei Yang, Thomas J. Katz, and Michael K. PoindexterCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1991, 56, 12, 3769–3775Publication Date (Print):June 1, 1991Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 June 1991https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo00012a005https://doi.org/10.1021/jo00012a005research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views3882Altmetric-Citations305LEARN 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-AlertscloseSupporting Info (1)»Supporting Information Supporting Information Get e-Alerts
Increased Diameters of the Internal Cerebral Veins and the Basal Veins of Rosenthal Are Associated with White Matter Hyperintensity Volume (2019)

Our results suggest that the caliber of the internal cerebral veins and of the basal veins of Rosenthal relates to regional white matter disease.
A Roadside ITS Data Bus Prototype for Intelligent Highways (2008)

Intelligent transport systems (ITSs) usually include three principal elements: vehicle, driver, and road (or, more generally, the environment). The use of ITS data bus (IDB) has been proposed to build sharable standard interfaces for in-vehicle information systems. Despite broadband communication technologies, such as dedicated short-range communication (DSRC), which have been developed to provide high-quality roadside-vehicle communication services for intelligent highways, the existing IDB model has not paid enough attention to the demands of information exchanges between the roadside and onboard units. In this paper, a new model of the roadside IDB (RIDB) is proposed to improve the existing IDB architecture. The physical layer, data-link layer, and application layer of the new model are also discussed. A prototype system of the RIDB, which is based on the wireless 802.11b protocol, has been developed in a test site. The experimental results demonstrated that the RIDB is feasible to provide high-quality roadside-vehicle and roadside-roadside communication services. Other potential applications of the IDB, such as probe cars and intersection collision prevention, are also discussed. The RIDB proposed in this paper is potentially useful for the construction of an intelligent transport infrastructure.
Efficient subdivision of finite-element datasets into consistent tetrahedra (1997)

The paper discusses the problem of subdividing unstructured mesh topologies containing hexahedra, prisms, pyramids and tetrahedra into a consistent set of only tetrahedra, while preserving the overall mesh topology. Efficient algorithms for volume rendering, iso-contouring and particle advection exist for mesh topologies comprised solely of tetrahedra. General finite-element simulations however, consist mainly of hexahedra, and possibly prisms, pyramids and tetrahedra. Arbitrary subdivision of these mesh topologies into tetrahedra can lead to discontinuous behaviour across element faces. This will show up as visible artifacts in the iso-contouring and volume rendering algorithms, and lead to impossible face adjacency graphs for many algorithms. The authors present various properties of tetrahedral subdivisions, and an algorithm SOP determining a consistent subdivision containing a minimal set of tetrahedra.
Effects of individualized memory aids on the conversation of persons with severe dementia: A pilot study (2001)

Bourgeois has shown that use of simple memory aids enhances the quality of conversation of persons with moderate Alzheimer-type dementia. We replicated Bourgeois' intervention with five people with severe dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination scores 0-4) and diagnoses of Alzheimer-type or vascular dementia, and evaluated the impact of the aids on the proportion of time participants spent on topic in conversation with carers. For three participants, use of the memory aid did not increase the proportion of time-spent on-topic. The remaining two participants, however, spent approximately twice as much time on-topic when using the aid as when conversing without it. Our results extend Bourgeois' work by showing that memory aids are helpful to some people with severe dementia.
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction phenotypes and treatment (2017)

Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) remains a major hurdle limiting long-term survival post lung transplantation. Given the clinical heterogeneity of CLAD, recently two phenotypes of CLAD have been defined [bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) vs. restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS) or restrictive CLAD (rCLAD)]. BOS is characterized by an obstructive pulmonary function, air trapping on CT and obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) on histopathology, while RAS/rCLAD patients show a restrictive pulmonary function, persistent pleuro-parenchymal infiltrates on CT and pleuroparenchymal fibro-elastosis on biopsies. Importantly, the patients with RAS/rCLAD have a severely limited survival post diagnosis of 6-18 months compared to 3-5 years after BOS diagnosis. In this review, we will review historical evidence for this heterogeneity and we will highlight the clinical, radiological, histopathological characteristics of both phenotypes, as well as their risk factors. Treatment of CLAD remains troublesome, nevertheless, we will give an overview of different treatment strategies that have been tried with some success. Adequate phenotyping remains difficult but is clearly needed for both clinical and scientific purposes.
Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection (2004)

Although many defense mechanisms against buffer overflow attacks have been proposed, buffer overflow vulnerability in software is still one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities exploited. This paper proposes a micro-architecture based defense mechanism against buffer overflow attacks. As buffer overflow attack leads to a compromised return address, our approach is to provide a software transparent micro-architectural support for return address integrity checking. By keeping an uncompromised copy of the return address separate from the activation record in run-time stack, the return address compromised by a buffer overflow attack can be detected at run time. Since extra copies of return addresses are already found in the return address stack (RAS) for return address prediction in most high-performance microprocessors, this paper considers augmenting the RAS in speculative superscalar processors for return address integrity checking. The new mechanism provides 100% accurate return address prediction as well as integrity checking for return addresses. Hence, it enhances system performance in addition to preventing a buffer overflow attack.
Advances in Modeling of Giant Reservoirs (2012)

Abstract In order to create an efficient system for modeling giant reservoir models, there is a whole range of technical challenges which have to be addressed. In this paper we concentrate on the topic of parallel scalability of complex computing systems like multi-CPU clusters and workstations with GPU processing cards. For multi-CPU distributed memory computing systems, it is shown that about 10 times improvement in parallel performance can be achieved if a new so called "hybrid" approach is used. In this "hybrid" approach, the usual MPI synchronization between the cluster nodes is being interleaved with a shared memory system thread based synchronization at the node level. It is demonstrated, that for some "black oil" models of real oil and gas fields, the parallel acceleration factor can exceed 1300 times for 4096 CPU cores. Even for the extreme example of a giant full field model containing over 14,000 production and injection wells, it is shown that a parallel acceleration of over 350 times can be achieved. For CPU-GPU, and CPU-CPU based systems, we compare the parallel performance of simple iterative and realistic pre-conditioner based algorithms typically used in oil and gas simulations. Hardware systems equipped with AMD FirePro, nVidia TESLA and 16-core dual Intel Xeon E2580 systems are compared in this study.
Distributions of 3D DCT coefficients for video (2009)

The three-dimensional discrete cosine transform (3D DCT) has been proposed as an alternative to motion-compensated transform coding for video content. However, so far no definitive study has been done on the distribution of 3D DCT coefficients of video sequences. This study performs two goodness-of-fit tests, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test and the x <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> -test, to determine the distribution that best fits the 3D DCT coefficients of the luminance components of video sequences with low motion or structured motion. The results indicate that the DC coefficient can be well approximated by a Gaussian distribution and a majority of the high-energy AC coefficients can be approximated by a Gamma distribution. Knowledge of the coefficient distributions can be used to design quantizers optimized for 3D DCT coefficients and hence achieve better coding efficiency.
A LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL WITH FUZZY FUNCTIONS (1982)

通常の回帰モデルでは、現実のデータとモデルによる推定値との差は観測誤差とみなしている。これに対してファジィ回帰モデルでは、回帰モデルからのデータのずれは観測誤差とみなすのでなくて、本来的にもっているシステム構造のあいまいさであると仮定している。システム自体にあいまいさが存在していると考え、ファジィ関数によってシステムをモデル化している。ここで、ファジィ関数とは関数のパラメータがファジィ集合として与えられた関数である。すなわち、パラメータのあいまいさがファジィ集合として表現されている。人問の評価が影響するシステムにおいては、システム自体のあいまいさを考慮する必要がある。このような状況において、入出力関係のデータをファジィ線形関数によってモデル化するファジィ線形回帰モデルを定式化している。このファジィ線形回帰モデルによって、プレハブ住宅の価格を分析した。得られたファジィ線形モデルから、データとして用いた入出力関係のあいまいさの程度を示すことができる。また、ファジィ・モデルによる推定値はファジィ集合として得られるので、推定値の可能性がファジィ集合として得られたと考えられる。このように、与えられたデータの入出力関係のあいまいさを反映してファジィ線形モデルが得られる。このようなファジィ・モデルは人間が関与する評価システムの構造を求めるような問題に対して有効であろう。