gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Recent control technologies for fast and precise servo system of hard disk drives (2000)

Areal density increases are required to satisfy the demand for larger capacity hard disk drives. Furthermore, the increase of the track density is expected to be larger than that of bit density due to several reasons of magnetic recording and data transfer problems. By 2001, it is expected that track pitch will have reduced to 0.4 /spl mu/m. To accomplish this, a head-positioning accuracy of 35-40 nm must be achieved during track-following, which is 8-10% of the track pitch. In the paper, several servo methods including multirate feedforward control methods, and the use of servo systems for dual stage actuators, are reviewed. Then our latest research results on a mode-switching control servo are shown.
Methods of determining the posttransfusion survival of stored red cells (1984)

When red cells are stored in the liquid state, they progressively lose their ability to survive in vivo. After relatively brief periods of storage, the majority of the cells are still capable of normal survival, but a minority M OLLl SON
Highly efficient <i>N</i>‐Heterocyclic carbene–palladium complex‐catalyzed multicomponent carbonylative Suzuki reaction: novel practical synthesis of unsymmetric aryl ketones (2007)

Abstract Highly efficient and chemoselective N ‐heterocyclic carbene palladium complexes‐catalyzed multicomponent carbonyltive Suzuki reaction with sodium tetraphenylborate used as phenylating reagent has been demonstrated in this article. Both electron‐rich and electron‐deficient aryl iodides gave unsymmetric aryl ketones in excellent yields. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Automatic Recording Film Balance System (1959)

An automatic recording film balance system is described. It consists of a film trough and two pendulum type balances with pressure ranges of 0–400 (800) millidynes/cm and 0–40 (80) dynes/cm, respectively. Each balance is connected to a float when in operation (Langmuir type balance) and the sensing element in both cases is a linear variable differential transformer, the iron core of which is connected to the pendulum. The transformer signal after amplification drives the pen motor of a strip chart recorder. Special features like a constant pressure device together with auxiliary instruments such as a second X-Y recorder, an automatic dipping device for film transfer, a volta potential meter and a slit viscosimeter permit the automatic recording of the following functions: (dFdA)T, (dAdT)F, (dFdT)A, (dFdt)T, A, (dAdt)T, F, (AwAs)T, F, (dVdF)T, and (dηdF)T.F=film pressure, A=film area, T=temperature, t=time, Aw/As=deposition ratio, η=film viscosity, and V=volta potential. Test and performance data are presented.
The Influence of Tertiary Butyl Alcohol and Volatile Salts on the Sublimation of Ice from Frozen Sucrose Solutions: Implications for Freeze-Drying (1998)

The purpose of this work was to investigate the phase behavior of tertiary butanol (TBA) and volatile ammonium salts in frozen mixtures with some commonly used excipients and the efficacy of such volatile additives in accelerating the sublimation of ice from frozen solutions. Differential scanning calorimetry was employed to determine first-order phase transformations and glass transition temperatures in binary and ternary mixtures. Ice sublimation rates were studied by conventional freeze-drying and mass loss with time. A eutectic temperature (268 K) was identified for the anhydrous TBA-sucrose system. In frozen ternary water-excipient-TBA systems, the relative amplitudes of the glass and phase transitions, as measured during warming scans, were found to depend critically on the previous cooling rates. Glass transitions of all the freeze-concentrated mixtures used were determined. The sublimation studies indicated an ability of all volatile additives to accelerate ice sublimation from amorphous, freeze-concentrated solutions, but no clear ranking order, applicable to all systems studied, could be established.
Antennas for direct to home reception of DBS television (1990)

Outdoor units were required for domestic DBS TVRO stations. Satellites had been ordered to provide 59 dBW EIRP or more, as had receivers incorporating custom DMAC integrated circuits and eurocypher modules. It was established that an antenna aperture width of about one foot would be required and that the antenna could be either a parabolic dish or a flat plate array. Research confirmed that both flat plate arrays and offset-feed parabolic reflector antennas are acceptable to the market. Two Squarial arrays and two reflectors were made available by approved manufacturers in time for launch of BSB programmes. The antennas are designed to facilitate installation by professionals and by the DIY enthusiast. An installation display facility was incorporated in the receiver to monitor the DMAC bit error rate.
Particle therapy in clinical practice: Is there enough evidence to justify the current surge in interest? (2008)

Enthusiasm for particle therapy has never been as high as it is today throughout the world. There is not only a great interest in the subject but investments are also being made for setting up such facilities in different parts of the world, including in the US and Western Europe; a number of less developed countries are also expressing interest in it. In the US, the interest is largely focussed on proton therapy, whereas centers in Europe and other countries are planning for, and exploring the possibilities of, setting up facilities for both proton
Avaliação do potencial de controle biológico do Metarhizium anisopliae sobre Boophilus microplus em teste de estábulo (2007)

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the capacity of the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae to control Boophilus microplus tick in pen trials. Infested calves were held in individual pen and treated with fungus suspension through aspersion bath. The results were evaluated based on ticks' mortality rate for 28 days after treatment, and on the analysis of biology of tick's samples which were transferred to an incubation chamber. It was reported 33% of mortality during the total period analyzed, and the production of eggs and nutritional rates were decreased only for a short period after treatment.
Proton Resonance Shift of Water in the Gas and Liquid States (1966)

Temperature-dependence measurements have been made on the chemical shift of the proton of a water molecule in the liquid state and in the gas state at varying pressure. The problem of relating these experimental data to the intermolecular forces leading to cohesion and to hydrogen-bond formation between water molecules is considered in detail. It is shown that a consistent treatment of the chemical shift, thermal, and dielectric data for water can be given based on a two-state model involving an equilibrium between a hydrogen-bonded ``icelike'' fraction and a ``monomer'' fraction whose interaction with the lattice arises entirely from London dispersion forces. Using semiempirically derived values of the chemical shift and energy associated with the condensation of water vapor to ``monomer,'' the magnitude of the shift associated with the transformation to ice is calculated. It is then shown that, on the assumption that the hydrogen bond is electrostatic in character, the ``polar'' contribution to this shift can be related through the appropriate shielding equations to the dipole moment of the water molecule in ice. The magnitude of the dipole moment derived from these relationships is found to be in excellent agreement with values derived from dielectric data. The possibility that the shielding changes may in part be due to processes other than the breaking of hydrogen bonds is considered. It is shown that the model leads to the conclusion that the chemical shift in the transformation of ice to water at 0°C could be entirely accounted for either by a stretching of the hydrogen bonds or a small amount of bending of the bonds. It is noted that if some bond breaking does occur, as required by the fact that water is a liquid, then the amount of stretching and/or bending will be limited.
Comparison of pergolide and bromocriptine therapy in parkinsonism (1983)

Twenty-four parkinsonian patients compared pergolide and bromocriptine therapy in a randomized double-blind, two-period crossover study. Both drugs were adjusted to an optimal balance between benefits and side effects. The mean daily dose and dose range for pergolide and bromocriptine were 3.3 mg (0.7 to 7.2) and 42.7 mg (5.8 to 87.5), respectively. Adjunctive medications, which for most patients included levodopa (plus carbidopa), were not altered during the study. A similar spectrum of clinical effects was found with both drugs and with lisuride, which was used to treat 13 of the patients in a previous study. Despite neurochemical differences in the antiparkinsonian ergots, their clinical utility is quite similar. We draw attention to hepatotoxicity and pleural reactions that may occur rarely with these drugs.
Adaptive non-uniform sampling delta modulation for audio/image processing (1996)

Adaptive non-uniform sampling delta modulation (ANS-DM), a modification of the non-uniform sampling delta modulation (NS-DM) technique, is proposed and examined. The proposed technique has been applied to audio and image processing; simulation results have shown that the ANS-DM technique has good improvement over linear delta modulation (LDM), adaptive delta modulation (ADM) and NS-DM on the compression ratio, the SQNR, and the dynamic range.
The ZRTP Protocol - Analysis on the Diffie-Hellman mode (2009)

ZRTP is a key agreement protocol by Philip Zimmermann, Alan Johnston and Jon Callas, which relies on a Di e-Hellman exchange to generate SRTP session parameters, providing con dentiality and protecting against Man-in-the-Middle attacks even without a public key infrastructure or endpoint certi cates. This is an analysis of the protocol performed with ProVerif, which tests security properties of\nZRTP; in order to perform the analysis, the protocol has been modeled in the applied pi -calculus.
Multi-step View Synthesis with Occlusion Handling (2001)

Virtual view synthesis is essential for 3D teleconference systems like VIRTUE, which utilizes the motion parallax cue. In this paper we propose a multi-step view synthesis algorithm to efficiently reconstruct an arbitrary view in real time and utilize all the information we have from stereo cameras. We show that the newly proposed algorithm can be used to reconstruct a high quality view from an arbitrary pose, using occlusion information. Its modular property makes real-time implementation feasible and due to the parallel setup latency can be kept low. 1
High-resolution medical image synthesis using progressively grown generative adversarial networks (2018)

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate realistic high-resolution images using GANs, which has limited their applicability to medical images that contain biomarkers only detectable at native resolution. Progressive growing of GANs is an approach wherein an image generator is trained to initially synthesize low resolution synthetic images (8x8 pixels), which are then fed to a discriminator that distinguishes these synthetic images from real downsampled images. Additional convolutional layers are then iteratively introduced to produce images at twice the previous resolution until the desired resolution is reached. In this work, we demonstrate that this approach can produce realistic medical images in two different domains; fundus photographs exhibiting vascular pathology associated with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and multi-modal magnetic resonance images of glioma. We also show that fine-grained details associated with pathology, such as retinal vessels or tumor heterogeneity, can be preserved and enhanced by including segmentation maps as additional channels. We envisage several applications of the approach, including image augmentation and unsupervised classification of pathology.
Periodicity and atomic ordering in nanosized particles of crystals (2008)

Evidence is presented that nanosized particles of crystals do not necessarily adopt a periodic atomic structure as their bulk counterparts do and/or as predicted by theory. As an example, 1.6-nm Au particles grown inside a dendrimeric host are studied and found to possess a heavily disordered, metallic glass-type structure. The nanoparticle’s structure evolves toward the face-centered-cubic-type lattice of bulk Au only upon removal of solvent. The results show that periodicity, which rules the structure and properties of bulk crystals, is less of
Fault Diagnosis for Rotating Machinery: A Method based on Image Processing (2016)

Rotating machinery is one of the most typical types of mechanical equipment and plays a significant role in industrial applications. Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of rotating machinery has gained wide attention for its significance in preventing catastrophic accident and guaranteeing sufficient maintenance. With the development of science and technology, fault diagnosis methods based on multi-disciplines are becoming the focus in the field of fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. This paper presents a multi-discipline method based on image-processing for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. Different from traditional analysis method in one-dimensional space, this study employs computing method in the field of image processing to realize automatic feature extraction and fault diagnosis in a two-dimensional space. The proposed method mainly includes the following steps. First, the vibration signal is transformed into a bi-spectrum contour map utilizing bi-spectrum technology, which provides a basis for the following image-based feature extraction. Then, an emerging approach in the field of image processing for feature extraction, speeded-up robust features, is employed to automatically exact fault features from the transformed bi-spectrum contour map and finally form a high-dimensional feature vector. To reduce the dimensionality of the feature vector, thus highlighting main fault features and reducing subsequent computing resources, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding is adopt to reduce the dimensionality of the feature vector. At last, probabilistic neural network is introduced for fault identification. Two typical rotating machinery, axial piston hydraulic pump and self-priming centrifugal pumps, are selected to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Results show that the proposed method based on image-processing achieves a high accuracy, thus providing a highly effective means to fault diagnosis for rotating machinery.
Application of network identification by deconvolution method to the thermal analysis of the pump-probe transient thermoreflectance signal (2009)

The paper discusses the possibility to apply network identification by deconvolution (NID) method to the analysis of the thermal transient behavior due to a laser delta pulse excitation in a pump-probe transient thermoreflectance experiment. NID is a method based on linear RC network theory using Fourier's law of heat conduction. This approach allows the extraction of the thermal time constant spectrum of the sample under study after excitation by either a step or pulse function. Furthermore, using some mathematical transformations, the method allows analyzing the detail of the heat flux path through the sample, starting from the excited top free surface, by introducing two characteristic functions: the cumulative structure function and the differential structure function. We start by a review of the theoretical background of the NID method in the case of a step function excitation and then show how this method can be adjusted to be used in the case of a delta pulse function excitation. We show how the NID method can be extended to analyze the thermal transients of many optical experiments in which the excitation function is a laser pulse. The effect of the semi-infinite substrate as well as extraction of the interface and thin film thermal resistances will be discussed.
Generation of Free Radicals from Freshly Fractured Silica Dust: Potential Role in Acute Silica-induced Lung Injury (1988)

Data presented here indicate that freshly fractured silica exhibits surface characteristics and biologic reactivity distinct from aged silica, and on this basis we propose that these surface features may lead to enhanced manifestations of lung injury. Grinding of silica produces approximately 10(18) Si and Si-O (silicon-based) radicals per gram of dust on the particulate surface which are characterized by an electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum centered around g = 2.0015. These silicon-based radicals react with aqueous media to produce OH radicals, which are demonstrable using a DMPO spin trap. The concentration of silicon-based radicals in silica decreases with aging in air and exhibits a half-life of approximately 30 h, whereas its ability to generate OH radicals in aqueous solution decreases with a half-life of approximately 20 h. However, on storage in aqueous media, the concentration of silicon-based radicals and the dust's ability to generate OH radicals decrease significantly within a few minutes. Freshly ground silica is also more biologically reactive than aged silica, because freshly crushed silica activates a greater respiratory burst in alveolar macrophages than aged silica, i.e., storage of ground dust in air decreases silica-induced superoxide anion secretion, hydrogen peroxide release, and NBT reduction by 25%, 68%, and 43%, respectively. Furthermore, compared to aged silica, freshly ground silica exhibits a greater cytotoxic effect on cellular membrane integrity, i.e., a 1.5-fold increase in LDH release from macrophages, a 36-fold increase in hemolytic activity, and a three-fold increase in the ability to induce lipid peroxidation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Microsomal Oxidases. I. The Isolation and Dialkylarylamine Oxygenase Activity of Pork Liver Microsomes<sup>*</sup> (1966)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTMicrosomal Oxidases. I. The Isolation and Dialkylarylamine Oxygenase Activity of Pork Liver Microsomes*D. M. Ziegler and F. H. PettitCite this: Biochemistry 1966, 5, 9, 2932–2938Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1966Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1966https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00873a024RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views108Altmetric-Citations117LEARN 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 InReddit PDF (660 KB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts
Experion MX - Quality Control System Delivers Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (2011)

The key aspects of Honeywell's new paper machine automation Experion MX which provides an integrated user interface for operators to view and control the process is presented. New and enhanced measurements and advanced multivariable controls improve product quality and operational efficiency. The resulting reduction in service and maintenance costs, and unscheduled downtime, along with increased production and less waste provides the lowest total cost of ownership.
SCF, Regulated by HIF-1α, Promotes Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Cell Progression (2015)

Stem cell factor (SCF) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) both have important functions in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). This study aims to analyze the expression and clinicopathological significance of SCF and HIF-1α in PDAC specimens and explore the molecular mechanism at PDAC cells in vitro and in vivo. We showed that the expression of SCF was significantly correlated with HIF-1α expression via Western blot, PCR, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, and luciferase assay analysis. The SCF level was also correlated with lymph node metastasis and the pathological tumor node metastasis (pTNM) stage in PDAC samples. The SCF higher-expression group had significantly lower survival rates than the SCF lower-expression group (p<0.05). Hypoxia up-regulated the expression of SCF through the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α in PDAC cells at the protein and RNA levels. When HIF-1α was knocked down by RNA interference, the SCF level decreased significantly. Additionally, ChIP and luciferase results demonstrated that HIF-1α can directly bind to the hypoxia response element (HRE) region of the SCF promoter and activate the SCF transcription under hypoxia. The results of colony formation, cell scratch, and transwell migration assay showed that SCF promoted the proliferation and invasion of PANC-1 cells under hypoxia. Furthermore, the down-regulated ability of cell proliferation and invasion following HIF-1α knockdown was rescued by adding exogenous SCF under hypoxia in vitro. Finally, when the HIF-1α expression was inhibited by digoxin, the tumor volume and the SCF level decreased, thereby proving the relationship between HIF-1α and SCF in vivo. In conclusion, SCF is an important factor for the growth of PDAC. In our experiments, we proved that SCF, a downstream gene of HIF-1α, can promote the development of PDAC under hypoxia. Thus, SCF might be a potential therapeutic target for PDAC.
Copy number variation in chemokine superfamily: the complex scene of<i>CCL3L</i>–<i>CCL4L</i>genes in health and disease (2010)

Genome copy number changes (copy number variations: CNVs) include inherited, de novo and somatically acquired deviations from a diploid state within a particular chromosomal segment. CNVs are frequent in higher eukaryotes and associated with a substantial portion of inherited and acquired risk for various human diseases. CNVs are distributed widely in the genomes of apparently healthy individuals and thus constitute significant amounts of population-based genomic variation. Human CNV loci are enriched for immune genes and one of the most striking examples of CNV in humans involves a genomic region containing the chemokine genes CCL3L and CCL4L. The CCL3L-CCL4L copy number variable region (CNVR) shows extensive architectural complexity, with smaller CNVs within the larger ones and with interindividual variation in breakpoints. Furthermore, the individual genes embedded in this CNVR account for an additional level of genetic and mRNA complexity: CCL4L1 and CCL4L2 have identical exonic sequences but produce a different pattern of mRNAs. CCL3L2 was considered previously as a CCL3L1 pseudogene, but is actually transcribed. Since 2005, CCL3L-CCL4L CNV has been associated extensively with various human immunodeficiency virus-related outcomes, but some recent studies called these associations into question. This controversy may be due in part to the differences in alternative methods for quantifying gene copy number and differentiating the individual genes. This review summarizes and discusses the current knowledge about CCL3L-CCL4L CNV and points out that elucidating their complete phenotypic impact requires dissecting the combinatorial genomic complexity posed by various proportions of distinct CCL3L and CCL4L genes among individuals.