gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Acute changes in extracellular volume fraction in skeletal muscle monitored by<sup>23</sup>Na NMR spectroscopy (2017)

In this article, we induced acute changes in extracellular volume fraction in skeletal muscle tissue and compared the sensitivity of a standard <sup>1</sup>H T<sub>2</sub> imaging method with different <sup>23</sup>Na-NMR spectroscopy parameters within acquisition times compatible with clinical investigations. First, we analyzed the effect of a short ischemia on the sodium distribution in the skeletal muscle. Then, the lower leg of 21 healthy volunteers was scanned under different vascular filling conditions (vascular draining, filling, and normal condition) expected to modify exclusively the extracellular volume. The first experiment showed no change in the total sodium content during a 15 min ischemia, but the intracellular weighted <sup>23</sup>Na signal slowly decreased. For the second part, significant variations of total sodium content, sodium distribution, and T<sub>1</sub> and T2∗ of <sup>23</sup>Na signal were observed between different vascular filling conditions. The measured sodium distribution correlates significantly with sodium T<sub>1</sub> and with the short and long T2∗ fractions. In contrast, significant changes in the proton T<sub>2</sub>w signal were observed only in three muscles. Altogether, the mean T<sub>2</sub>w signal intensity of all muscles as well as their mean T<sub>2</sub> did not vary significantly with the extracellular volume changes. In conclusion, at the expense of giving up spatial resolution, the proposed <sup>23</sup>Na spectroscopic method proved to be more sensitive than standard <sup>1</sup>H T<sub>2</sub> approach to monitor acute extracellular compartment changes within muscle tissue.
TLR4-mediated inflammatory activation of human coronary artery endothelial cells by LPS (2002)

Taken together, our results indicate that activated HCAEC may act as inflammatory cells and thus directly contribute to the progression of CHF and CAD.
La igualdad de género en las resoluciones jurisdiccionales dentro del sistema electoral en México / Gender Equality in judicial resolutions in the electoral System in Mexico (2014)

El presente ensayo tiene por objeto exponer las principales resoluciones jurisdiccionales electorales del Poder Judicial Federal, en el desarrollo de los derechos politico electorales de las mujeres en materia de igualdad de genero. Para ello se llevo a cabo ademas la revision de los principales antecedentes juridicos que han impulsado la igualdad de genero en Mexico, partiendo de los principales instrumentos internacionales y leyes nacionales que han reconocido la necesaria igualdad de la mujer en la vida politica del pais. Finalmente se pudo constatar, que el porcentaje de mujeres en las camaras locales, no ha superado el 36 por ciento, revelando la necesidad de la reformalos Codigos electorales de las entidades locales. Abstract This paper has as an object to present the main electoral judicial decisions of the Federal Judiciary, in the development of electoral political rights of women in the field of gender equality. Also, it was carried out the revision of the major juridical background that have driven gender equality in Mexico, based on the main international and national laws that have recognized the necessary equality of women in the political life of the country. Finally it was found, that the percentage of women in local chambers, has not exceeded 36 percent, revealing the need to reform the electoral Codes of local entities.
Detection of 2-eicosanol by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in sputa from patients with pulmonary mycobacterial infections (1993)

A total of 96 sputum specimens from patients with suspected or known mycobacterial and nonmycobacterial pulmonary infections were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the presence of 2-eicosanol. This secondary alcohol was detected in all of the 25 sputum specimens culture positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in 7 of the 9 sputum specimens culture positive for M. avium complex, and in all 3 of the studied sputum specimens associated with M. malmoense. The alcohol was not detected in any of the 45 culture-negative sputum specimens or in 14 sputum specimens culture positive for Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The ratio of tuberculostearic acid to 2-eicosanol was much lower in sputum samples culture positive for mycobacteria than in the corresponding in vitro-grown cultures. The present findings indicate that 2-eicosanol may be useful as a chemical marker for rapid diagnosis of pulmonary infections caused by the M. avium complex, M. malmoense, and M. tuberculosis.
ESD Avoiding Circuits for Solving OTP Memory Falsely Programmed Issues (2010)

One-time program (OTP) memories are programmed for memory design without electrostatic discharge (ESD) stresses. However, in reality, ESD events are not selective and thus ESD currents can falsely program OTP memory cells. Many integrated circuit (IC) designers focus only on improving OTP memory control architectures to avoid memory being falsely programmed without mentioning the ESD-introduced memory errors. This article investigates a new ESD architecture and novel ESD avoiding circuits, aiming to solve ESD-introduced memory falsely programmed issues. It should be noted that this article focuses on ESD circuit designs to protect OTP memory instead of OTP control architectures. With such new ESD schemes, our prototype circuits have demonstrated that memory cells can indeed be programmed at IC program mode without ESD stresses.
Binding of arachidonate and oleate to bovine serum albumin. (1994)

Using the "ghost method" previously applied to study the binding of palmitate to bovine serum albumin (BSA) (Bojesen, I. N., and E. Bojesen. 1992. J. Lipid Res. 33: 1327-1334) we have measured the water-phase concentrations of arachidonate (AR) and oleate (OL) in 165 mM KCl and in 165 mM NaCl, 2 mM phosphate buffer at pH 7.3 in equilibrium with AR and OL bound to BSA (about 30 microM) inside resealed human red cell ghosts at low molar ratio (v). Data were obtained at 0 degree C, 10 degrees C, 23 degrees C, and 38 degrees C for v between 0.012 and 1.5. Regression analyses of the data suggest that BSA has three equivalent binding sites for AR and OL at the four temperatures. The equilibrium dissociation constants (Kd) were the same in potassium and in sodium buffers. They were calculated for AR and OL on basis of three equivalent binding sites per mol BSA. Kd values increase with temperature and the AR values are, on average, approximately 5-fold greater than those of OL within the investigated temperature range. At 23 degrees C, Kd values for three equivalent sites are 15.60 +/- 0.73 nM and 2.89 +/- 0.14 nM corresponding to -44.2 +/- 0.15 kJ/mol and -48.3 +/- 0.1 kJ/mol in free energies of binding AR and OL, respectively. The difference, 4.1 kJ/mol, fits fairly well with the theoretical difference in hydrophobic effects of the two aliphatic chains, 3.7 kJ/mol.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Laser polarized muonic helium (1991)

We have formed polarized muonic $^{3}\mathrm{He}$ by stopping unpolarized negative muons in a gaseous $^{3}\mathrm{He}$ target which was polarized by spin exchange with laser optically pumped Rb vapor. We measured ${\mathit{P}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{\mathit{N}}$, the resulting muon polarization normalized to the nuclear polarization of the $^{3}\mathrm{He}$. In addition to being a property that characterizes the muon cascade in the \ensuremath{\mu}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}}^{3}$He system, ${\mathit{P}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{\mathit{N}}$ is of practical value for future experiments on nuclear muon capture. Our result, ${\mathit{P}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{\mathit{N}}$=0.072\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.008, is a factor of 2 smaller than predicted by simple atomic cascade theory.
Show, Ask, Attend, and Answer: A Strong Baseline For Visual Question Answering (2017)

This paper presents a new baseline for visual question answering task. Given an image and a question in natural language, our model produces accurate answers according to the content of the image. Our model, while being architecturally simple and relatively small in terms of trainable parameters, sets a new state of the art on both unbalanced and balanced VQA benchmark. On VQA 1.0 open ended challenge, our model achieves 64.6% accuracy on the test-standard set without using additional data, an improvement of 0.4% over state of the art, and on newly released VQA 2.0, our model scores 59.7% on validation set outperforming best previously reported results by 0.5%. The results presented in this paper are especially interesting because very similar models have been tried before but significantly lower performance were reported. In light of the new results we hope to see more meaningful research on visual question answering in the future.
Cannabidiol attenuates high glucose-induced endothelial cell inflammatory response and barrier disruption (2007)

A nonpsychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) has been shown to exert potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects and has recently been reported to lower the incidence of diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice and to preserve the blood-retinal barrier in experimental diabetes. In this study we have investigated the effects of CBD on high glucose (HG)-induced, mitochondrial superoxide generation, NF-kappaB activation, nitrotyrosine formation, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression, monocyte-endothelial adhesion, transendothelial migration of monocytes, and disruption of endothelial barrier function in human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs). HG markedly increased mitochondrial superoxide generation (measured by flow cytometry using MitoSOX), NF-kappaB activation, nitrotyrosine formation, upregulation of iNOS and adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and VCAM-1, transendothelial migration of monocytes, and monocyte-endothelial adhesion in HCAECs. HG also decreased endothelial barrier function measured by increased permeability and diminished expression of vascular endothelial cadherin in HCAECs. Remarkably, all the above mentioned effects of HG were attenuated by CBD pretreatment. Since a disruption of the endothelial function and integrity by HG is a crucial early event underlying the development of various diabetic complications, our results suggest that CBD, which has recently been approved for the treatment of inflammation, pain, and spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis in humans, may have significant therapeutic benefits against diabetic complications and atherosclerosis.
Dynamically adjustable and scalable ROI video coding (2010)

Regions-of-interest (ROI) coding is a desirable feature in future applications of Scalable Video Coding (SVC), which is the extension of the H.264/AVC standard. For those SVC applications, users at the decoder side usually wish to receive a high-quality decoded video stream, containing the desired ROI, which should be adaptively selected from the pre-encoded scalable bit-stream. In this work, we present a novel improved dynamically adjustable and scalable ROI video coding scheme, enabling to adaptively set desirable ROI location, size, resolution and bit-rate, according to the network bandwidth and predefined settings. This, in turn, will enable providing an effective rate control for multiple ROIs, thereby enabling adaptively selecting the required ROI from multiple ROIs in the scalable bit-stream, and adaptively changing ROI spatial resolution, ROI visual quality or amount of bits allocated for each ROI, according to the bandwidth and user's settings (i.e., according to the user's display resolution, etc.).
Special Edition Using Java 2 Platform with Cdrom (1999)

From the Publisher:
Special Edition Using Java 2 Platform is the complete programmer's tutorial/reference for Java 2 and related technologies. The book contains detailed descriptions of Sun's Java 2 standards, APIs, class libraries, and programming tools. Also includes coverage of Microsoft's Java SDK 2.0, AFC, and RNI products, Activex, CORBA, Java IDL, Joe, JavaBeans, and Enterprise JavaBeans. Over 20,000 lines of documented Java code show programmers the details of building sophisticated Java applications.
Quantum topological data analysis with continuous variables (2019)

I introduce a continuous-variable quantum topological data algorithm. The goal of the quantum algorithm is to calculate the Betti numbers in persistent homology which are the dimensions of the kernel of the combinatorial Laplacian. I accomplish this task with the use of qRAM to create an oracle which organizes sets of data. I then perform a continuous-variable phase estimation on a Dirac operator to get a probability distribution with eigenvalue peaks. The results also leverage an implementation of continuous-variable conditional swap gate.
Finite element modelling of magnetostrictive devices: investigations for the design of the magnetic circuit (1995)

Giant magnetostriction of materials such as Terfenol-D rods has potential applications for electromagnetic devices. However, many magnetic problems have yet to be solved. For instance, Terfenol-D has a low relative permeability of about 4 which is responsible for leakage flux and makes it difficult to correctly route both static and dynamic flux in the rods. Thus, to ensure homogeneous magnetic field along the rod, one has to compensate for the flux leakage at the rod ends. To that purpose an extensive computer modelling effort has been performed, on a basic actuator configuration. The Finite Element Method (FEM) has been used to analyse different magnetic circuit configurations. The leakage flux is quantified by the finite element computations. It leads to low magnetic coupling factor and, as a consequence, to low efficiency. Results for different configurations are compared and lead to an optimized design of the magnetic circuits including magnetostrictive rods.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Experimental Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments: Encapsulation, Growth, and Division (2003)

The clay montmorillonite is known to catalyze the polymerization of RNA from activated ribonucleotides. Here we report that montmorillonite accelerates the spontaneous conversion of fatty acid micelles into vesicles. Clay particles often become encapsulated in these vesicles, thus providing a pathway for the prebiotic encapsulation of catalytically active surfaces within membrane vesicles. In addition, RNA adsorbed to clay can be encapsulated within vesicles. Once formed, such vesicles can grow by incorporating fatty acid supplied as micelles and can divide without dilution of their contents by extrusion through small pores. These processes mediate vesicle replication through cycles of growth and division. The formation, growth, and division of the earliest cells may have occurred in response to similar interactions with mineral particles and inputs of material and energy.
Endocrine and metabolic issues in critical care (1990)

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Director, Critical Care Training Program Department of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas
Geography and State Planning (Summary) (1939)

1940 MEETING A. P. C. G. The 1940 meeting of the A. P. C. G. will be held during the week of June 17-23 at Seattle under the auspices of the Department of Geography of the University of Washington. Howard H. Martin and Frances Earle will be in general charge of arrangements . All members should plan to attend and make the 1940 meeting of the A. P. C. G. the largest yet held. Geography and State Planning (Summary) By WILLIS H. MILLER Chief Manning Technician, California State PIannins Board The existence and nature oí any direct relationship between geography and state planning are matters of considerable importance to workers in both fields. There are almost as many kinds of geography as there are geographers. Only sound research in local economic geography, however, can be of any real interest to planners. Most geographers can not qualify in this particular , and many of those who might qualify do not make an effort to develop contacts outside the academic circle. Planning is quite as heterogeneous in its composition and emphasis as geography. The chief levels of planning in the United States are city, county, state and national. State planning , because it deals with areas large enough to contain all or major parts of geographic regions, offers the best opportunity for geographers to make a contribution. At present more than 40 state planning boards are functioning . The California State Planning Board during the last two years has investigated and reported on a number of problems having conspicuous geographic quality. Tax delinquent land is a good example. The State of California is nominal owner of some 3,000,000 acres of rural land and 300,000 lots and blocks in subdivisions owners for nonpayment of taxes. This land constitutes an invisible empire characterized by private failure, public liability, and legal mystery. None of it has made any contribution to the cost of government for from five to over sixty years. If the original owner's right of redemption were terminated and title quieted in the name of the State, this land would offer an unparalleled opportunity for scientific land planning. The Board, after an exhaustive investigation of the whole complex problem, recommended (1) a means for establishing· the State's title, (2) a system for investigating and classifying the land, and (3) a procedure for its use or disposal . This plan was incorporated into a bill which has. been unanimously passed by the Legislature. If it becomes law, the State, the counties, the cities and the taxpayers all should benefit. Between state planning and economic geographers interested in local research there is a close relationship which should be developed into a cordial and mutually beneficial association . The 'geographers have ideas about regional development, and the state planners have a channel tlirough which these ideas can be brought to the attention of responsible government officials. (2) ...
Practical server privacy with secure coprocessors (2001)

What does it take to implement a server that provides access to records in a large database, in a way that ensures that this access is completely private—even to the operator of this server? In this paper, we examine the question: Using current commercially available technology, is it practical to build such a server, for real databases of realistic size, that offers reasonable performance—scaling well, parallelizing well, working with the current client infrastructure, and enabling server operators of otherwise unknown credibility to prove their service has these privacy properties? We consider this problem in the light of commercially available secure coprocessors—whose internal memory is still much, much smaller than the typical database size—and construct an algorithm that both provides asymptotically optimal performance and also promises reasonable performance in real implementations. Preliminary prototypes support this analysis, but leave many areas for further work.
Single-Shot Freestyle Dance Reenactment (2021)

The task of motion transfer between a source dancer and a target person is a special case of the pose transfer problem, in which the target person changes their pose in accordance with the motions of the dancer. In this work, we propose a novel method that can reanimate a single image by arbitrary video sequences, unseen during training. The method combines three networks: (i) a segmentation-mapping network, (ii) a realistic frame-rendering network, and (iii) a face refinement network. By separating this task into three stages, we are able to attain a novel sequence of realistic frames, capturing natural motion and appearance. Our method obtains significantly better visual quality than previous methods and is able to animate diverse body types and appearances, which are captured in challenging poses.
Processes for making animal feed and protein isolates from jojoba meal (1991)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTProcesses for making animal feed and protein isolates from jojoba mealThomas P. Abbott, Lawrence K. Nakamura, Gabrielle Buchholz, Walter J. Wolf, Doris M. Palmer, Helen J. Gasdorf, Terry C. Nelsen, and Robert KleimanCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 1991, 39, 8, 1488–1493Publication Date (Print):August 1, 1991Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 August 1991https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf00008a024https://doi.org/10.1021/jf00008a024research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views115Altmetric-Citations27LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Cascode amplifiers with low-gain variability using body-biasing temperature and supply compensation (2013)

This paper presents a simple circuit technique to reduce gain variability with temperature in cascode amplifiers using a body-biasing scheme, and at the same time, enhance the overall gain of the amplifier. Simulation results of a standard telescopic-cascode amplifier, in two different nanoscale CMOS technologies (130 nm and 65 nm) show that it is possible to obtain supply-and-temperature-compensation. The simulated DC gain has low variability (below ± 0.5 dB) while it is enhanced by 3 dB. The required auxiliary biasing circuit dissipates less than 5% of the main amplifier circuit.
Rank and file [Web site design] (1998)

Search basics for the designer of personal or corporate Web sites, including tips on maintaining visibility for your site. The author discusses the most commonly used criteria for ranking search results. The best advice is still to find a search site you like, for whatever reason, and stick with it, at least for awhile. Then once you start to get a feel for how results are returned and ranked, adjust your search techniques to get better results. If you're designing your own pages or a whole site, there is clearly some fine utility in understanding the art of ranking.
Is the Evolutionary Species Fiction?--A Consideration of Classes, Individuals and Historical Entities (1980)

Journal Article Is the Evolutionary Species Fiction?—A Consideration of Classes, Individuals and Historical Entities Get access E. O. Wiley E. O. Wiley Museum of Natural History and Department of Systematics and Ecology, The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas 66045 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Systematic Biology, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 1980, Pages 76–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/29.1.76 Published: 01 March 1980