gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Failure Prediction in IBM BlueGene/L Event Logs (2007)

Frequent failures are becoming a serious concern to the community of high-end computing, especially when the applications and the underlying systems rapidly grow in size and complexity. In order to develop effective fault-tolerant strategies, there is a critical need to predict failure events. To this end, we have collected detailed event logs from IBM BlueGene/L, which has 128 K processors, and is currently the fastest supercomputer in the world. In this study, we first show how the event records can be converted into a data set that is appropriate for running classification techniques. Then we apply classifiers on the data, including RIPPER (a rule-based classifier), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a traditional Nearest Neighbor method, and a customized Nearest Neighbor method. We show that the customized nearest neighbor approach can outperform RIPPER and SVMs in terms of both coverage and precision. The results suggest that the customized nearest neighbor approach can be used to alleviate the impact of failures.
Root Initiation in Root-pruned Hardwoods (1988)

Abstract Lateral root pruning and rootstock undercutting is practiced in field tree production. The timing, frequency, pruning distance from the trunk, and depth of pruning vary within the industry. Lateral roots formed in response to pruning usually originate close to the cut surface (1, 2, 5). Two recent studies indicated that root pruning field-grown landscape-sized trees increased root density within the root ball (3, 4). This research was conducted to determine the effect of root pruning on the location of regenerated roots and growth of existing unpruned lateral roots.
Exogenous CHO Oxidation with Glucose Plus Fructose Intake during Exercise (2009)

The present study demonstrates that ingesting moderate amounts of glucose plus fructose does not increase exogenous CHO oxidation above that of an isocaloric amount of glucose alone.
蔣宋美齡與五O年代《中華婦女》的婦女論述 (2009)

This dissertation uses the China’s Women magazine of the 50s as the target of research. During the 50s, Chinese government is trying to prepare the country for upcoming war; at that time, this magazine has given itself the mission to regulate the behaviors and implant the ideas of “anti-Communist, resist Russia” for women, through discussions of daily matters. As for female readers, the contents on house chore instructions, or various feminine related subjects were actually quite helpful to women on their daily lives, and to broaden their vision. The discussion structure established by the writers of this comprehensive magazine was in the exact presentation of Soong May-Ling as a new generation China’s woman in the 50s. On one hand, observing the discussions in China’s Women while trying to respond to the expectations of men and country; on the other hand, women in higher level of the society abstracted, transformed part of Soong’s characteristics and projected onto themselves. Thus, daily teachings in the magazine had developed into a new description of education, for new generation Chinese women. Meanwhile, Soong and these elite women are from a rather different social status than that of ordinary women, therefore, when they are trying to pass on their ideas, naturally, the gap creates problems. Despite differences in life experiences allows us to observe that the mixing of eastern and western ideas in this comprehensive magazine came as conflicts to women of the general public, yet words from these elite women gradually slipped away from the framework of Nationalism, becoming the force behind the inspiration of the mobility of women.
Discontinuity meshing for accurate radiosity (1992)

An algorithm for compactly and accurately capturing the illumination of a diffuse polyhedral environment caused by an area light source is presented. The algorithm constructs a discontinuity mesh that explicitly represents discontinuities in the radiance function as boundaries between mesh elements. A piecewise quadratic interpolant is used to approximate the radiance function, preserving the discontinuities associated with the edges in the mesh.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Design and evaluation of an RF front‐end for 9.4 T human MRI (2011)

At the field strength of 9.4 T, the highest field currently available for human MRI, the wavelength of the MR signals is significantly shorter than the size of the examined structures. Even more than at 7 T, constructive and destructive interferences cause strong inhomogeneities of the B1 field produced by a volume coil, causing shading over large parts of the image. Specialized radio frequency hardware and B1 management methods are required to obtain high-quality images that take full advantage of the high field strength. Here, the design and characteristics of a radio frequency front-end especially developed for proton imaging at 9.4 T are presented. In addition to a 16-channel transceiver array coil, capable of volume transmit mode and independent signal reception, it consists of custom built low noise preamplifiers and TR switches. Destructive interference patterns were eliminated, in virtually the entire brain, using a simple in situ radio frequency phase shimming technique. After mapping the B1+ profile of each transmit channel, a numerical algorithm was used to calculate the appropriate transmit phase offsets needed to obtain a homogeneous excitation field over a user defined region. Between two and three phase settings are necessary to obtain homogeneous images over the entire brain.
Prospective randomized study of human chorionic gonadotrophin priming before immature oocyte retrieval from unstimulated women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (2000)

The present study examined whether the rates of oocyte maturation, fertilization and development, as well as pregnancy rate could be improved by human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) priming 36 h before immature oocyte retrieval in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Immature oocyte retrieval was performed on day 10-14 of the cycles and patients were randomly allocated either to be primed with 10 000 IU of HCG before the retrieval, or not primed. Immature oocytes were cultured for 24-48 h in TC-199 medium with 20% (v/v) inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) supplemented with 75 mIU/ml follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was performed in all mature oocytes and the resulting embryos were transferred on day 2 or 3 after ICSI. A total of 17 patients underwent 24 completed treatment cycles. Thirteen cycles were primed with HCG and 11 other cycles were not primed. The mean number of oocytes retrieved was comparable in the two groups (7.8 +/- 3.9 versus 7.4 +/- 5.2). The percentage of oocytes achieving maturation at 48 h was significantly higher (P < 0.05) in the HCG-primed group (84.3%, 86/102) than in the non-HCG-primed group (69.1%, 56/81). Oocyte maturation was hastened in the HCG-primed group. Following 24 h of culture, 78.2 +/- 7.1% of oocytes were matured in the HCG-primed group compared with 4.9 +/- 2.5% of oocytes in the non-HCG-primed group (P < 0.001). There were no significant differences in the rates of oocyte fertilization and cleavage in these two groups. There were five clinical pregnancies (38.5%) in the HCG-primed group, and three pregnancies (27.3%) in the non-HCG-primed group.
Sally Gross, Suddenly (2000)

ing her words as she moves, repeats her text in pieces, her movements picked up loosely by other dancers. When she leaves, women try on text, each one in turn speaking all or part of it while leading others in an improvised nearunison combination, ending in a spoken command (quarter, half) that directs others to turn in space and designates next speaker. Some get more than one turn; sometimes a dancer throws herself into role with vigor, other times a dancer is more tentative, especially speaking. Again, dancers are at once themselves and echos of Gross, like children trying on adult roles. All while, Een and Geissinger's song repeats a phrase that I don't quite understand but is resonant either way: side of you or the sight of you. As music becomes more upbeat and folky, its Italian lyrics (recalling both opening music and Gross's other secret texts) beyond me, dancers' actions become livelier; breaking into a run, women disappear behind upstage left screen and only Di Mare returns. Gross walks in from other side and they meet downstage left. These two have danced together many times, and this duet stands almost apart from rest of piece. Gross and Di Mare move in utter comfort with each other, their pleasure in slow maneuvering or quirky partnering palpable. (Some of choreography accommodated Gross's broken right arm, which was completely healed by time of performance.) Now in silence, they look at each other, mirror and echo, manipulate and respond-nothing for too long, nothing rushed. Gross rests her strong hands on Di Mare's shoulders, Di Mare supports Gross in a slow fall, they sink as a unit to floor and then Gross slides off stage and Di Mare rejoins her
Rounding up active cis-elements in the triple C corral: Combining conservation, cleavage and conformation capture for the analysis of regulatory gene domains (2004)

Identification and functional analysis of potential cis-regulatory elements is a laborious process that often depends on removing putative elements from their natural context to study their activity. While such methods provide valuable information about the isolated element, they disregard the potential role of an element's interaction(s) with other regulatory sequences and the three-dimensional structure of an active gene locus. Here, two novel methods are discussed--chromosome conformation capture (3C) and RNA-TRAP--that can be used to detect interactions between distal regulatory sites and which thus indicate the chromosomal conformation that is adopted by a gene locus in various states of transcriptional activity. Combined with comparative genomics and traditional DNase I hypersensitive site mapping, these methods form a powerful approach for the study of the mechanisms of long-range transcriptional regulation.
Application of RUNX3 gene promoter methylation in the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (2011)

The purpose of this study was to detect the methylation of the RUNX3 gene promoter in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue and to explore the association of this methylation with clinical features of NSCLC. In 58 samples of NSCLC tissue and normal adjacent tissue, methylation of the RUNX3 gene promoter was measured by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction. Correlation with clinicopathological characteristics was assessed. The results demonstrated that RUNX3 gene promoter methylation was present in 26/58 (44.8%) of NSCLC tissue samples and 10/58 (17.2%) of normal tissue samples, and that the difference was statistically significant between the two groups (χ(2)=10.311, p=0.001). Significantly, methylation of the RUNX3 gene promoter correlated with clinical stage, lymph node metastasis and the degree of differentiation (p<0.05) but not with age, gender, smoking history and pathological type (p>0.05). In conclusion, methylation of the RUNX3 gene promoter had a high relevance ratio in NSCLC tissue and correlated with clinical stage, lymph node metastasis and degree of differentiation; thus, this association may have clinical significance in NSCLC.
Dynamically forced cantilever system: A piezo-polymer characterization tool with possible application for micromechanical HF resonator devices (2005)

A cantilever system, driven to a dynamically forced oscillation by a small piezoelectric specimen is presented as a simple and accurate tool to determine the converse dynamic piezocoefficient up to several kHz. The piezoelectric sample is mounted on top of a reflective cantilever where it is free to oscillate without any mechanical constraint. A Nomarsky-interferometer detects the induced cantilever displacement. The presented technique is especially suited for a precise characterization of small and soft piezoelectric polymer-samples with rough surfaces. The capability of the dynamically forced cantilever principle is demonstrated with a LiNbO3 crystal and with a porous ferroelectretic polypropylene foam. Results from measurements between 400 Hz and 5 kHz were found to be in excellent agreement with published values. Additionally, the dynamically forced cantilever principle may possibly improve the sensitivity of some micromechanical cantilever-sensors and it could also be interesting for the design of enhanced micromechanical high frequency mixer filters. Some ideas about are briefly presented.
Technologies for Beneficial Microorganisms Inocula Used as Biofertilizers (2012)

The increasing need for environmentaly friendly agricultural practices is driving the use of fertilizers based on beneficial microorganisms. The latter belong to a wide array of genera, classes, and phyla, ranging from bacteria to yeasts and fungi, which can support plant nutrition with different mechanisms. Moreover, studies on the interactions between plant, soil, and the different microorganisms are shedding light on their interrelationships thus providing new possible ways to exploit them for agricultural purposes. However, even though the inoculation of plants with these microorganisms is a well-known practice, the formulation of inocula with a reliable and consistent effect under field conditions is still a bottleneck for their wider use. The choice of the technology for inocula production and of the carrier for the formulation is key to their successful application. This paper focuses on how inoculation issues can be approached to improve the performance of beneficial microorganisms used as a tool for enhancing plant growth and yield.
Escape analysis for Java <sup>TM</sup> (2003)

Escape analysis is a static analysis that determines whether the lifetime of data may exceed its static scope.This paper first presents the design and correctness proof of an escape analysis for Java TM . This analysis is interprocedural, context sensitive, and as flow-sensitive as the static single assignment form. So, assignments to object fields are analyzed in a flow-insensitive manner. Since Java is an imperative language, the effect of assignments must be precisely determined. This goal is achieved thanks to our technique using two interdependent analyses, one forward, one backward. We introduce a new method to prove the correctness of this analysis, using aliases as an intermediate step. We use integers to represent the escaping parts of values, which leads to a fast and precise analysis.Our implementation [Blanchet 1999], which applies to the whole Java language, is then presented. Escape analysis is applied to stack allocation and synchronization elimination. In our benchmarks, we stack allocate 13% to 95% of data, eliminate more than 20% of synchronizations on most programs (94% and 99% on two examples) and get up to 43% runtime decrease (21% on average). Our detailed experimental study on large programs shows that the improvement comes more from the decrease of the garbage collection and allocation times than from improvements on data locality, contrary to what happened for ML. This comes from the difference in the garbage collectors.
High incidence of serum monoclonal Igs detected by a sensitive immunoblotting technique in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (1994)

In a prospective study in 65 untreated patients with early-stage B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), serum monoclonal Igs (moIg) were evidenced in 80% of cases by a sensitive immunoblotting procedure. These low-abundance moIg were generally undetectable by immunoelectrophoresis and individual sera often contained several of them. Their kappa/lambda ratio was close to 1 instead of 2.8 for the lymphocyte surface Igs. A monoclonal IgM of the same light-chain type as the lymphocyte surface IgM was found in 26 sera only. The distribution of the heavy-chain classes and subclasses and light-chain types of the serum moIg was similar to those observed in aging (with a higher incidence and no correlation with age in B-CLL) and conditions with defective T-cell functions. Using a specific filter affinity-transfer assay, rheumatoid factors were detected in 58.5% of sera. However, homogeneous anti-IgG antibodies corresponding to a monoclonal IgM of the same light-chain type as the surface IgM were found in 10 patients only. These data suggest that the majority of discrete serum moIg in B-CLL are not secretion products of the leukemic clones and likely result from the immunodeficiency state inherent in the disease.
Sol–Gel-Derived NiO/NiAl<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> Oxygen Carriers for Chemical-Looping Combustion by Coal Char (2008)

Chemical-looping combustion (CLC) is a very promising technology to combine the energy-utilization situation in China and CO2 zero-emission in situ allowing for CO2 sequestration by efficient and energy-saving ways and without nitrogen oxide (NOx) formation. Having an oxygen carrier with sufficient reactivities in reduction and oxidation and enough recyclability and strength for long-term operation is one of the key issues of the CLC process. This paper focuses on the investigation of Ni-based oxygen carriers for CLC by coal char. First, Al(OC3H7)3 and Ni(NO3)2 are selected as the main raw materials to prepare sol–gel-derived NiO/NiAl2O4 oxygen carriers. The oxygen carrier with a mass content of 60% NiO, a sintering temperature of 1300 °C, and a sintering time of 6 h performs comparatively well. Second, the reduction reaction of the NiO/NiAl2O4 oxygen carriers with char and the circular reduction/oxidation reactions of the NiO/NiAl2O4 oxygen carriers with char/air or hydrogen/air are carried out in a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) instrument to investigate the reactivities and chemical life of the prepared NiO/NiAl2O4 oxygen carriers. The experimental results show that (a) when the TGA temperature is higher than 850 °C, NiO/NiAl2O4 starts to react with coal char rapidly, which indicates that CLC of coal char using NiO/NiAl2O4 as oxygen carriers is a feasible technology of energy utilization in principle; (b) NiO/NiAl2O4, which maintains its activity over single-cycle reduction/oxidation reactions with char/air or multiple-cycle reduction/oxidation reactions with hydrogen/air, exhibits extremely good recyclablity; (c) the porous beehive structure of the NiO/NiAl2O4 particle is maintained, and the sintering behavior between different particles is not observed during cyclic studies. Those experimental results prove the sol–gel-derived oxygen carrier NiO/NiAl2O4 is capable of being used in chemical-looping combustion fueled by coal char or H2.
Storing power for critical loads (1993)

The operation of systems for superconducting magnetic-energy storage (SMES) is explained. The original goal was systems storing thousands of megawatts of back-up electricity for several hours at a time, to help utilities meet peak power demands. The first commercially available unit rapidly stores and delivers much less electricity over much briefer periods-megawatts for seconds only. It excels in its handling of power glitches, an increasingly expensive problem in industrial applications of digital control equipment, and for other electronic equipment. The advantages of SMES for these applications are examined, and some field test results are discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Steps towards an Autonomous Field Scout and Sampling System (2015)

<abstract> <b>Abstract.</b> We have developed the framework for creating an autonomous field scout (AFS) consisting of a ground vehcle for collecting physical samples and an aerial system working that collects images of plants during the growqing season. Images will be processed to creat 3-D structure of plants and then examined over time to look for trends that may indicate early onset plant stress. The ground system (red rover) will then navigate to those locations identified through aerial imaging and experts analysis and collects leaf and/or soil samples as needed. The rover will return to base and the leaf samples examined by an expert and or sent for laboratory analysis to confirm specific pathogens or soil nutrient deficiencies. Ealry detercvtion and more accurate scouting information is a major goal of the system. In the first year of development, we have identified the components and begun assembly of the rover and testing of the robotic arm for leaf and soil sampling. Data will be collected using a tractor, GNSS and a UAS this year until the red rover is ready for operation in year 2. The system will be developed in the ROS, which has integrated OpenCV and Point Cloud Library, for navigation and control.
The role of conserved surface hydrophobic residues in the carbapenemase activity of the class D β-lactamases (2017)

Carbapenem-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamases (CHDLs) produce resistance to the last-resort carbapenem antibiotics and render these drugs ineffective for the treatment of life-threatening infections. Here, it is shown that among the clinically important CHDLs, OXA-143 produces the highest levels of resistance to carbapenems and has the highest catalytic efficiency against these substrates. Structural data demonstrate that acylated carbapenems entirely fill the active site of CHDLs, leaving no space for water molecules, including the deacylating water. Since the entrance to the active site is obstructed by the acylated antibiotic, the deacylating water molecule must take a different route for entry. It is shown that in OXA-143 the movement of a conserved hydrophobic valine residue on the surface opens a channel to the active site of the enzyme, which would not only allow the exchange of water molecules between the active site and the milieu, but would also create extra space for a water molecule to position itself in the vicinity of the scissile bond of the acyl-enzyme intermediate to perform deacylation. Structural analysis of the OXA-23 carbapenemase shows that in this enzyme movement of the conserved leucine residue, juxtaposed to the valine on the molecular surface, creates a similar channel to the active site. These data strongly suggest that all CHDLs may employ a mechanism whereupon the movement of highly conserved valine or leucine residues would allow a water molecule to access the active site to promote deacylation. It is further demonstrated that the 6α-hydroxyethyl group of the bound carbapenem plays an important role in the stabilization of this channel. The recognition of a universal deacylation mechanism for CHDLs suggests a direction for the future development of inhibitors and novel antibiotics for these enzymes of utmost clinical importance.