gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Development of a Portable Microdosimetric Radiation Protection Monitor Covering a Dynamic Range of 120 dB above Noise (1984)

A portable microdosimeter has been designed, covering a dynamic range of 120 dB in a single signal processing channel. A transistor is employed as non-linear element and deviation at low and high energies from a truly logarithmic characteristic is corrected by a microcomputer. A description of the basic design and experimental result are given.
Home Safety at School (1988)

Past multimodal safety skills training had been conducted on a one-to-one adult to child basis, with extensive professional supervision. The present study utilized no trainer preparation beyond a training manual and was directed toward children in a summer school classroom. In the 4-week session, children gained in proficiency in 9 safety modules, including new modules involving pedestrian safety and bicycle safety. This extension of past research suggests increased cost effectiveness. Potential impact on actual program implementation is described.
Effectiveness of alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride in reducing the population of<i>Xanthomonas campestris</i>pv.<i>vesicatoria</i>and<i>Pseudomonas syringae</i>pv.<i>syringae</i>in tomatoes, beans, and peppers (2008)

Abstract Microbial contamination of fruits and vegetables during growth, processing, and post-harvest is a serious problem in agricultural sectors. A study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy of alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (ADBAC) in reducing the population of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria, and Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae on tomatoes, beans, and peppers. Tomatoes, beans, and peppers were inoculated by dipping in bacteria for 15 min then fruits were dried for 2 hour at ambient temperature before they were treated with 0.1, 1, 10, 100, and 1000 ppm of ADBAC. Treatments with 10, 100, and 1000 ppm ADBAC caused an 8-log CFU/ml reduction of X. campestris pv. vesicatoria on surfaces of tomatoes. Treatments with 100 and 1000 ppm ADBAC caused an 8-log CFU/ml reduction of P. syringae pv. syringae and X. campestris pv. vesicatoria on surfaces of tomatoes and peppers, respectively. However, treatment of surfaces of beans with 1000 ppm of ADBAC caused an 8-log CFU/ml reduction of P. syringae pv. syringae. Overall, a 50% reduction on population counts of both pathogens was achieved with 100 and 1000 ppm ADBAC. No X. campestris pv vesicatoria, P. syringae pv. syringae, or other bacteria were detected on the control fruits inoculated with sterile distilled water. This study's findings suggest that ADBAC has good bactericidal and sanitizing activities and could potentially be useful as a new sanitizer for food safety.
Coordinator's Corner (2000)

No AccessPerspectives on Speech Science and Orofacial DisordersCoordinator’s Column1 Oct 2000Coordinator's Corner John E. Riski John E. Riski Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/ssod10.2.1 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In "Coordinator's Corner." Perspectives on Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders, 10(2), pp. 1–2 Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 10Issue 2October 2000Pages: 1-2 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in issue: Oct 1, 2000 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsleader-topicsasha-article-typesasha-sigsCopyright & Permissions© 2000 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF DownloadLoading ...
High-Performance Kernel Machines With Implicit Distributed Optimization and Randomization (2015)

We propose a framework for massive-scale training of kernel-based statistical models, based on combining distributed convex optimization with randomization techniques. Our approach is based on a block-splitting variant of the alternating directions method of multipliers, carefully reconfigured to handle very large random feature matrices under memory constraints, while exploiting hybrid parallelism typically found in modern clusters of multicore machines. Our high-performance implementation supports a variety of statistical learning tasks by enabling several loss functions, regularization schemes, kernels, and layers of randomized approximations for both dense and sparse datasets, in an extensible framework. We evaluate our implementation on large-scale model construction tasks and provide a comparison against existing sequential and parallel libraries. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Speciation of nitrogen‐containing compounds in diesel fuel by comprehensive two‐dimensional gas chromatography (2004)

Nitrogen-containing compounds in diesel fuel have been speciated by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with nitrogen chemiluminescence detector (GC x GC-NCD). The speciation of nitrogen-containing compounds in diesel is difficult because of low concentration and complexity. The advantages of GC x GC are improved resolution and enhanced sensitivity. GC x GC-NCD can achieve the type and class separation of nitrogen-containing compounds with an appropriate separation column combination. Diesel contains both neutral (indoles and carbazoles) and basic (pyridines and quinolines) nitrogen-containing compounds. Relative concentrations of each class as well as each carbon number family can be quantified by integrating their peak volumes. This study demonstrates the capability of GC x GC-NCD for speciation of nitrogen-containing compound classes.
Molecular methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain typing: a users guide (2003)

There are now a wide range of techniques available to type Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the problem is to choose the correct technique. For large scale epidemiological studies the portability and standardization of IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) means that this remains the gold standard technique. In the next few years the internationally standard mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) may come to challenge this primacy. Low copy number stains remain a problem and these can be typed by either polymorphic Guanine cytosine-rich repetitive sequence (PGRS) or MIRU-variable numbers of tandem repeat (VNTR). To confirm whether strains are part of a true cluster PGRS remains the method of choice. For local outbreaks and investigations of laboratory cross contamination where speed is of greatest importance suspect strains should be initially investigated using a PCR-based method. The superior reproducibility and discrimination of MIRU-VNTR means that these methods should be favoured. If matches are found, then further confirmation of identity can be achieved using IS6110 RFLP or PGRS if the strains prove to have a low IS6110 copy number.
Comparison of Open and Arthroscopically Assisted Rotator Cuff Repairs (1995)

Open rotator cuff repair has shown reliable results in terms of pain relief and improved shoulder function. Recently, however, arthroscopically assisted rotator cuff repair has shown promising preliminary results. We compared the results of these two procedures with regard to pain, function, range of motion, strength, patient satisfaction, and return to previous activity. Thirty-seven rotator cuff repairs were evaluated in 36 patients with a minimum followup of 2 years. The open repair group comprised 20 shoulders with an average followup of 3.3 years; the arthroscopically assisted repair group comprised 17 shoulders with an average followup of 3.2 years. Overall, the open repair group had 80% good-to-excellent results and 88% patient satisfaction, and the arthroscopically assisted repair group had 85% good-to-excellent results and 92% patient satisfaction. Shoulder flexion and abduction strength, the size of the tear repaired, and the functional outcome did not differ significantly between the two groups. In general, however, small and moderate-sized tears (< 3 cm) had better functional outcome with arthroscopically assisted repair. The arthroscopically assisted repair group was hospitalized 1.2 days less and returned to previous activity an average of 1 month earlier. In the surgical treatment of symptomatic complete rotator cuff tears, arthroscopically assisted rotator cuff repair is as effective as open repair.
A Deep-Learning-Based Fashion Attributes Detection Model (2018)

Analyzing fashion attributes is essential in the fashion design process. Current fashion forecasting firms, such as WGSN utilizes information from all around the world (from fashion shows, visual merchandising, blogs, etc). They gather information by experience, by observation, by media scan, by interviews, and by exposed to new things. Such information analyzing process is called abstracting, which recognize similarities or differences across all the garments and collections. In fact, such abstraction ability is useful in many fashion careers with different purposes. Fashion forecasters abstract across design collections and across time to identify fashion change and directions; designers, product developers and buyers abstract across a group of garments and collections to develop a cohesive and visually appeal lines; sales and marketing executives abstract across product line each season to recognize selling points; fashion journalist and bloggers abstract across runway photos to recognize symbolic core concepts that can be translated into editorial features. Fashion attributes analysis for such fashion insiders requires much detailed and in-depth attributes annotation than that for consumers, and requires inference on multiple domains. In this project, we propose a data-driven approach for recognizing fashion attributes. Specifically, a modified version of Faster R-CNN model is trained on images from a large-scale localization dataset with 594 fine-grained attributes under different scenarios, for example in online stores and street snapshots. This model will then be used to detect garment items and classify clothing attributes for runway photos and fashion illustrations.
One ‘World-System’ or ‘Organised Anarchy’: The Crises of Desynchronisation (1983)

Having discussed the major characteristics of Electoral, Production, Credit and Food Production Processes as they interact with one another at local, national and supra-national levels, it remains for me to clarify several major aspects of what I call the desynchronisation of Processes. I have criticised existing monocausal explanations of crises in capitalist societies, the simplification of social reality in 'world-system' and 'world capitalist mode of production' analyses, and of course, the whole tradition of artificially separating 'the State', 'Civil Society' and 'the Economy'. It is now necessary to explain why the theory of crises arising from the desynchronisation of Processes is more comprehensive than earlier theories. It could be argued that orthodox Marxist analyses of crises emerging from the 'laws of motion' of capitalism have a clear structural hierarchy of causation which the theory of desynchronisation of Processes lacks. Certainly it is true that my analysis of Processes lacks a clear economic 'base' which the orthodox Marxian notion of the 'laws of motion' of capitalism claims to provide. But if we recognise the contradictory roles of state institutions in the reproduction and negation of exchange-value relations, then we cannot retain intact Marx's theory of crises in volumes 2 and 3 of Capital. If, as I believe, there is no separate realm of 'the Economy' apart from 'the State', then the hierarchical structure of crises causation must be drastically reworked within the context of local, national and supra-national interactions.
Application-Specific Network-on-Chip synthesis with topology-aware floorplanning (2012)

Application-Specific Network-on-Chip (ASNoC) architecture is more promising than regular network-on-Chip(NoC) for some particular applications. In ASNoC Design, one of the key challenges is to generate the most suitable and power efficient NoC topology. In previous works, the placement of the cores and network components, and the path allocation are explored separately. However, the path allocation strongly depends on the placement of cores and network components. In this paper, we integrate these steps together through the floorplanning with the cluster reconstruction and path allocation (FCRPA). Several SoC benchmarks have been tested and the results showed improvements over the latest works.
PADRAM: Parametric Design and Rapid Meshing System for Complex Turbomachinery Configurations (2012)

This paper reports the progress made in a parametric design and rapid meshing system (PADRAM) developed under two recent UK national sponsored research programs. PADRAM is designed to parametrically change the blade geometry and rapidly generate body-conformal high-quality viscous meshes. This allows speeding up the CFD loop by making the meshing process fully automatic on the basis of pre-designed templates. The geometry parameterisation is done within the mesh generator, making its integration within the optimisation loop straightforward. The paper presents examples that demonstrate how incorporating real geometry features into PADRAM is fundamental to achieve numerical models closer to reality. This is key factor in trusting the CFD solution and making use of it to further improve current designs. It also shows that feature-based structured mesh is good for cases that need to be repeatable across sites and teams, where consistency of the mesh is crucial and quick answers required to cope with tight project deadlines. The incorporation of additional complex geometrical features limits the applicability of the template structured approach and can be sometimes at the expense of mesh quality. In this regard, novel unstructured meshing technologies have been developed and implemented into PADRAM in order to deal with non standard and complex configurations. Two of these methods are presented in this paper (i.e., Zipper Layer and Delaunay Cavity). The paper shows how these can be used to paste together various multi-block structured meshes, hence providing the most suitable meshing topology to be used for each component separately. This makes the PADRAM code a unique meshing tool, able to combine the advantages of the template-topology approach to the flexibility of fully unstructured meshes. A number of supportive examples is reported in the paper.
Changing Behavior of Private Banks and Corporations and Monetary Policy in Japan (1995)

This chapter analyzes the impact of banking and corporate behaviour with special focus on the so-called asset bubble period of 1987–90 when banks extended huge speculative loans to real estate and non-bank financial institutions, subsequently resulting in default losses. Monetary policy at the time focused more on exchange rates than money supply since prices were stable.
Evaluation of the antimuscarinic activity of atropine, terfenadine and mequitazine in healthy volunteers. (1988)

1 The anticholinergic effects of atropine and two antihistamines (terfenadine and mequitazine) were investigated vs placebo in a double-blind study. 2 Salivary secretion, basal pupil diameter, pilocarpine (0.25%) induced miosis and heart rate were determined in eight healthy volunteers, seven male and one female, aged between 23 and 35 years. Each volunteer received all four separate courses of treatment: i.e. terfenadine 60 mg or mequitazine 5 mg twice daily for 3 days, and one single dose on the day of the trial; for the placebo or atropine courses they received the placebo twice daily during 3 days and, on the morning of test day, either the placebo again or atropine 1 mg. Pupillary diameter was measured under standardized conditions using a pupil gauge (Smith and Nephew Pharmaceuticals Ltd). 3 Atropine significantly reduced salivary output (-2.25 +/- 0.36 ml from control values of 4.17 +/- 0.42 ml, P less than 0.001) and heart rate (-9.7 +/- 3.7 beats min-1 from 77.5 +/- 2.7, P less than 0.05). These maximal effects were observed 3 h after atropine dosing for salivary secretion and 1 h for heart rate. Atropine did not affect basal pupil diameter or pilocarpine-induced miosis. 4 Mequitazine and terfenadine did not affect salivary flow, heart rate or pilocarpine-induced miosis. 5 Terfenadine and mequitazine had no anticholinergic effect in these tests involving a limited number of subjects.
Primary Study of Attenuated Live Hepatitis A Vaccine (H2 Strain) in Humans (1989)

Strain H2, an attenuated live hepatitis A virus (HAV), was derived from the fecal specimen of a patient with hepatitis A in Hangzhou, China. After isolation and passage in a culture of newborn monkey kidney cells, adaptation to grow in human lung diploid cells (KMB17), and serial passage at a low temperature (32 degrees C) in KMB17 cells, this strain became the master seed virus for H2-strain vaccine. Twelve human volunteers received the experimental vaccine subcutaneously and were closely observed for 20 w. None of the subjects developed any local or systemic reactions, and there were no elevations of serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, type 5 isoenzyme of lactate dehydrogenase, or isocitrate dehydrogenase. Seroconversion occurred in all subjects at a mean time of 3 w after inoculation. ELISA competitive test for titer of antibody to HAV showed values ranging from 1:2 to 1:8 with a geometric mean titer of 1:3.48 at 20 w after inoculation. No marked decrease in titer of HAV antibody was found in the subjects tested at 1 y. These antibodies were proved to be neutralizing antibodies.
Scalability and Its Application to Multicube (1989)

In parallel processing, scalability is an important issue for both applications and systems, with scaling arguments being presented for most large-scale multiprocessors. Even with such widespread interest, the notion of what constitutes a scalable multiprocessor ambiguous.\n\tIn this paper we first present a realistic, quantitative definition of scalability based on a multiprocessor?s ability to execute a problem in roughly constant time, given that the number of processors scale in proportion to the complexity of the problem. We then use the definition to demonstrate that the Multicube architecture is scalable by showing that (1) sufficient bus bandwidth is provided to support scalable applications, and 2) broadcast invalidations and non-uniform memory accesses are handled efficiently. We discuss, for example, how the propagation of broadcast invalidations may be limited by the use of special pruning caches, and how Multicube?s cache coherency hardware and synchronization primitives can be used to limit the degradation from non-uniform memory access patterns.
Toxicity of a GM3 cancer vaccine inMacaca fascicularis monkey: a 12-month study (2002)

GM3 is a ganglioside that has been biochemically identified as dominating the cell surface of several human tumours, but is also found on human normal cells at much lower density. Since GM3 is widely distributed in essentially all types of animal cells, there is a conflict with the concepts of tumour-associated antigen, immunogen, and toxicity. We have designed a GM3-based cancer vaccine for the treatment of human breast and melanoma tumours. Prior to the Phase I clinical trial, we carried out a 12-month dose repeated toxicity study in five male Macaca fascicularis monkeys. Four male monkeys were treated with placebo in a similar way. During the study, no differences were observed between control and treated monkeys related to daily clinical observations (other than local damage) including rectal temperature, blood pressure, respiratory and cardiac rates, weight gain, biochemical and hematological parameters (with the exception of transitory pathological changes), and anti-DNA and anti-nuclear antibodies, although treated monkeys consistently developed both IgM- and IgG-specific anti-GM3 antibodies. Sixty per cent of treated monkeys developed moderate local reactions at the injection site, which disappeared without sequels. We concluded that this GM3 cancer vaccine overcame in monkeys the natural tolerance to GM3 ganglioside evidenced by a strong immune response, while the local reactions elicited-were transitory without apparent important systemic toxicity effects.
Brief Report: Anti–RNPC‐3 Antibodies As a Marker of Cancer‐Associated Scleroderma (2017)

Anti-RNPC-3 autoantibodies, similar to anti-RNAP III autoantibodies, are associated with an increased risk of cancer at the onset of scleroderma. These data suggest the possibility of cancer-induced autoimmunity in this subset of patients with scleroderma.
Analysis of cladded uniaxial single-crystal fibers (1991)

A complete analysis for a uniaxial core–uniaxial cladding step-index fiber is presented. Numerical results of a few lowest-order modes are presented for weakly guiding LiNbO3 single-crystal cladded fibers. We find that the fundamental mode in a uniaxial fiber is not linearly polarized but has significant orthogonal components, even though the fiber is under weak guidance and has no modal birefringence because the wave propagation direction is the crystalline Z axis. We conclude that large anisotropy can cause the relatively large minor field in a uniaxial fiber, but modal birefringence is not necessarily involved. The electrical lines of the fundamental mode for a uniaxial fiber are also considerably different from those of an isotropic one, but eigenvalues and fractions of power in the core are similar.
Observation of carrier concentration saturation effect in <i>n</i>-type Al<i>x</i>Ga1−<i>x</i>As (1995)

In a series of Al0.3Ga0.7As epitaxial layers with Si doping concentrations varied from 1×1017 to 1.5×1018 cm−3, carrier concentration saturation effect was observed by Hall measurements. When Si doping concentration was increased, the carrier concentration tended to saturate. This is due to the negative U property of the donor DX center. The Fermi energy tends to be pinned at the free energy level of the DX center. This carrier concentration saturation effect should not be limit to only n-AlxGa1−xAs semiconductors. It is a general effect in n-type compound semiconductors when donor impurities induce negative U DX levels, and will have a great influence in designing optoelectronic and fast speed microelectronic devices.
Symphony: A Java-Based Composition and Manipulation Framework for Distributed Legacy Resources (1999)

Symphony is an open and extensible Java-based framework for composition and manipulation of distributed legacy resources. Symphony allows users to compose visually a collection of programs and data by specifying dataflow relationships among them and provides a client/server framework for transparently executing the composed application. Additionally, the framework is web-aware and helps integrate web-based resources with legacy resources. Symphony uses Sun Microsystems ’ JavaBeans component architecture for providing components that represent legacy resources. These components can be customized and composed in any standard JavaBeans builder tool. Executable components communicate with a server, implemented using Java Remote Method Invocation mechanism, for executing remote legacy applications. Symphony enables extensibility by providing abstract components which can be extended by implementing simple interfaces. Beans implemented from the abstract beans can act as data producers, consumers or filters. 1
Effects of Oat ??-Glucan on Innate Immunity and Infection after Exercise Stress (2004)

These data suggest that daily ingestion of ObetaG may offset the increased risk of URTI associated with exercise stress, which may be mediated, at least in part, by an increase in macrophage antiviral resistance.
Effect of physical therapy on breast cancer related lymphedema: protocol for a multicenter, randomized, single-blind, equivalence trial (2014)

ClinicalTrials.gov: Identifier NCT02015897.