gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Soil Factors Influencing Suspended Sediment Flocculation by Polyacrylamide (2007)

Turbidity in stormwater runoff may be treated with polyacrylamide (PAM) to flocculate suspended sediment, but the relationships between PAM properties and those of the suspended sediment have not been widely studied. Our objective was to determine how soil physical and chemical properties affected flocculation by PAMs with a variety of characteristics. Subsoil materials were collected from 13 active construction sites around North Carolina. These were tested for flocculation using PAMs with charge densities of 0 to 50% and molecular weights of 14 to 28 Mg mol −1 , at concentrations of 0.025 to 10 mg L −1 Soil was added to solutions of single and mixed PAMs with various molecular weights and charge densities and the turbidity was measured 30 s after mixing. Five kaolinitic subsoils had linear responses to PAM regardless of molecular weight or charge density, with an optimal dose of 1 to 2 mg L −1 to obtain >96% reduction in turbidity. Increased turbidity, indicating stabilization, occurred for two additional soils with anionic PAM concentrations >0.5 mg L −1 , but a neutral or a mixed anionic PAM product reduced turbidity at those concentrations. The remaining six suboils had widely differing patterns of response, including little or no turbidity reduction with any single anionic PAM. Increasing smectite and vermiculite content (>20%) in suboils from the Coastal Plain reduced the effectiveness of single, anionic PAMs for flocculation. The mixed anionic PAM, however, reduced turbidity in most subsoils and did not have a stabilization reaction at higher concentrations (1–5 mg L −1 ). Texture, mineralogy, and extractable Fe were highly correlated with reductions in turbidity with PAM, but most of the differences in flocculation occurred in subsoils with 20% or more smectite or vermiculite.
Binaural Signal Processing in Hearing Aids: Technologies and Algorithms (2008)

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Wireless System for Hearing Aids Binaural Classification Systems Binaural Beamformer Blind Source Separation (BSS): An Application for a Binaural Directional Microphone Array in Hearing Aids Conclusions Bibliography
Advances in computer-aided diagnosis for breast cancer (2006)

CAD systems will play an increasingly important role in the clinic as a second reader. Clinical trials have shown that CAD can improve the accuracy of breast-cancer detection. Preclinical studies have demonstrated the potential of CAD to improve the classification of malignant and benign lesions. An increased number of CAD systems are being developed for different breast-imaging modalities.
Silyl modification of biologically active compounds. 12. Silyl group as true incentive to antitumour and antibacterial action of choline and colamine analogues (2006)

Abstract A series of triorganylsilyl(β‐dialkylaminoethoxy)silanes was prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, 1 H, 13 C, 29 Si NMR and mass spectroscopy. Comparative study of 29 Si resonance of newly synthesized compounds showed correlation between its value and substituent nature at the silicon atom, and is shifted upfield for β‐triorganyl( N , N ‐dialkylaminoethoxy)silanes in comparison with corresponding methiodides, revealing weak N … Si interaction for proper silanes. In vitro antitumour and antimicrobial properties were investigated. The biological activity data exhibited a marked enhancement of inhibitory activity on trialkylsilylation against tumour cell lines and all the test bacterial/fungal strains. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DBToaster (2009)

We present DBToaster, a novel query compilation framework for producing high performance compiled query executors that incrementally and continuously answer standing aggregate queries using in-memory views. DBToaster targets applications that require efficient main-memory processing of standing queries ( views ) fed by high-volume data streams, recursively compiling view maintenance (VM) queries into simple C++ functions for evaluating database updates ( deltas ). While today's VM algorithms consider the impact of single deltas on view queries to produce maintenance queries, we recursively consider deltas of maintenance queries and compile to thoroughly transform queries into code. Recursive compilation successively elides certain scans and joins, and eliminates significant query plan interpreter overheads. In this demonstration, we walk through our compilation algorithm, and show the significant performance advantages of our compiled executors over other query processors. We are able to demonstrate 1--3 orders of magnitude improvements in processing times for a financial application and a data warehouse loading application, both implemented across a wide range of database systems, including PostgreSQL, HSQLDB, a commercial DBMS 'A', the Stanford STREAM engine, and a commercial stream processor 'B'.
Heterogeneity of virulence among strains of <i>Bacteroides gingivalis</i> (1989)

The ability of fresh isolates of B. gingivalis to establish abscesses in the mouse model was studied by comparing them with established laboratory strains of B. gingivalis. Eight fresh isolates obtained from plaque associated with periodontal disease and grown under similar conditions as established strains were injected subcutaneously on the back of the mouse. All of these strains produced secondary lesions on the abdomen. Septicemia was associated with seven of the strains. Two commonly used laboratory strains, W50 and W83, also produced secondary lesions and septicemia. Five other laboratory strains produced only localized abscesses. On histologic examination, the strains that produced disseminated disease showed invasion of connective disease by individual bacteria that were not in clumps. The strains that produced localized abscesses were characterized by growing in colonies or clumps in the abscess cavity. Four synthetic enzyme substrates were examined to determine whether the differences between invasive and non-invasive strains were due to differences in proteolytic enzyme production. No differences in enzyme production could be demonstrated with the selected substrates.
Loading a vapor-cell magneto-optic trap using light-induced atom desorption (2001)

Low-intensity white light was used to increase the loading rate of ${}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms into a vapor-cell magneto-optic trap by inducing nonthermal desorption of Rb atoms from the stainless-steel walls of the vapor cell. An increased Rb partial pressure reached a new equilibrium value in fewer than 10 s after switching on the broadband light source. After the source was turned off, the partial pressure returned to its previous value in $1/e$ times as short as 10 s.
Metamaterials Beyond Optics (2013)

The area of metamaterials may expand to find application in mechanics, acoustics, and thermodynamics.
Parametric Wavelength Conversion From Conventional Near-Infrared to Visible Band (2006)

The feasibility of distant wavelength conversion in photonic crystal fiber was explored. The one-pump parametric architecture was used to demonstrate translation from the conventional (1550 nm) to visible (500 nm) band. Experimental results are reported, which demonstrate the conventional-to-visible conversion of single- and multiple-channel signals encoded in the nonreturn-to-zero format
Drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier: why is it difficult? how to measure and improve it? (2006)

The development of drugs that act in the CNS has been significantly impeded by the difficulty of delivering them across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This article aims to provide the reader with a critical overview of important issues in the discovery and development of drugs that need to enter the brain to elicit pharmacological activity, focusing particularly on i) the role of drug transporters in brain permeation and how to manipulate them to enhance drug brain bioavailability; ii) the successful application, limitations and challenges of commonly used in vitro and in vivo methodologies for measuring drug transport across the BBB, and iii) a discussion of recently developed strategies (e.g., modulation of efflux transporters by chemical inhibitors and the employment of delivery vectors taking advantage of native transport systems at the BBB) for facilitating drug penetration into the brain.
Efficacy and safety of Monascus purpureus Went rice in subjects with hyperlipidemia (2005)

Monascus purpureus Went rice significantly reduced LDL-C, total cholesterol, triglycerides and apolipoprotein B levels, and was well tolerated in patients with hyperlipidemia. However, this study only provides data from an 8-week trial and long-term safety and efficacy data are needed.
Deep Patient: An Unsupervised Representation to Predict the Future of Patients from the Electronic Health Records (2016)

Secondary use of electronic health records (EHRs) promises to advance clinical research and better inform clinical decision making. Challenges in summarizing and representing patient data prevent widespread practice of predictive modeling using EHRs. Here we present a novel unsupervised deep feature learning method to derive a general-purpose patient representation from EHR data that facilitates clinical predictive modeling. In particular, a three-layer stack of denoising autoencoders was used to capture hierarchical regularities and dependencies in the aggregated EHRs of about 700,000 patients from the Mount Sinai data warehouse. The result is a representation we name "deep patient". We evaluated this representation as broadly predictive of health states by assessing the probability of patients to develop various diseases. We performed evaluation using 76,214 test patients comprising 78 diseases from diverse clinical domains and temporal windows. Our results significantly outperformed those achieved using representations based on raw EHR data and alternative feature learning strategies. Prediction performance for severe diabetes, schizophrenia, and various cancers were among the top performing. These findings indicate that deep learning applied to EHRs can derive patient representations that offer improved clinical predictions, and could provide a machine learning framework for augmenting clinical decision systems.
Iron Supplementation of Total Parenteral Nutrition: A Prospective Study (1983)

A prospective study to evaluate the iron dosage needed to restore serum iron levels was performed on patients receiving prolonged total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Intravenous iron intakes of 0, 25, 87.5, and 175 mg/wk were sequentially studied. No untoward responses were seen in 42 patients studied for 2758 patient days. When compared to pre‐TPN levels, serum iron levels increased significantly with increasing iron dosage (p < 0.002). In every single patient at the two highest dosage levels, serum iron levels at 3 wk rose from the pre‐TPN level. Hemoglobin, reticulocyte count, transfusion requirement, total iron binding capacity, and red cell indices were not affected by iron dosage. There was no increased incidence of sepsis in patients who received increasing iron dosage. Both the 87.5 and 175 mg/wk iron doses increased serum iron levels from pre‐TPN values, but the highest dose increased serum iron levels above the normal range in 80% of patients after 3 wk of administration allowing us to recommend the 87.5 mg/wk dose. ( Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 7 :457–461, 1983)
Rice omics and biotechnology in China. (2011)

Rice is the major source of food for over half of the world's population. As a model cereal crop, the complete genome sequence of rice has become fundamental for analyzing gene functions and relating them to practical applications in plants. At present, rice researchers devote much effort to generating mutants and tagged lines, or utilizing elite germplasms to clone important genes and identify their functions. Such processes combine different -omic technologies including genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. In the past decade, Chinese scientists have made great contributions toward integrated analyses of rice omics and biotechnological applications, particularly whole genome shotgun sequencing of Indica rice 9311, and sequencing of chromosome 4 of japonica rice Nipponbare, cloning and identifying 220 functional genes, and using certain identified genes to improve rice agronomic traits through molecular breeding approaches. This review presents a summary of the advances made in rice omics and biotechnology in China, as well as future prospects.
Effect of Lyophilization on Determinations of Lipoprotein(a) in Serum (1992)

We studied the effect of lyophilization of serum on the determination of serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], using two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) and one immunoturbidimetric assay (ITA). After adjusting for the effect of dilution due to the reconstitution of lyophilized serum, Lp(a) values obtained for lyophilized sera were consistently lower than the original values for the corresponding fresh samples, the difference ranging from 17% to 83% for the monoclonal-polyclonal antibody-based ELISAs and from 12% to 49% for the exclusively polyclonal ITA. Statistical analysis showed that differences between either ELISA and the ITA were significant but not the differences between the ELISAs. Moreover, the effect was not qualitatively or quantitatively uniform, which suggested that the effect was serum-source dependent. Addition of sucrose (600 mmol/L) to sera before lyophilization decreased but did not eliminate the effect. Apparently, serum pools in lyophilized form are not a suitable reference material for Lp(a) determination. Because different methods produce different results for Lp(a) in the same common reference material intended for standardization of Lp(a) methodology, any Lp(a) method should be tested for the effect of lyophilization if lyophilized samples are to be analyzed.
WHAT'S NEW FOR AIR FREIGHT SHIPPERS?. (1994)

8 ASUBTITLE: LATEST SERVICE OFFERINGS EMPHASIZE TIMELY DELIVERY, INTERNATIONAL OPTIONS, AND NEW TECHNOLOGY.
Very high frequency double-ended tuning fork nano-mechanical Fin-FET resonator (2011)

We present the very high frequency (VHF) operation of a nano-mechanical double-ended tuning fork resonator (DETF), in which two fin field effect transistors (FinFET) are co-integrated. We benefit from the excellent mixing properties of the FinFET to characterize accurately its fundamental resonance (f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> =113 MHz) and quality factor (Q=1300) and compare these results with clamped-clamped (cc-) beam FinFET resonators of similar dimensions. We find the tuning fork design to be superior in terms of Q-factors, transconductance and available on-current.
A Resource Management Framework for Reflective Multimedia Middleware (2001)

Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:DXN065391 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre
Continuous-wave oscillation of MQW DFB laser with air/semiconductor gratings embedded by mass-transport-assisted wafer fusion technique (1998)

Summary form only given. Wafer fusion technique has been drawing much attention, since it can be applied to the integration of different materials and can offer new types of integrated devices. Recently, we have demonstrated a low threshold-current-density operation of MQW DFB laser with air/semiconductor gratings embedded by wafer fusion technique, where the additional phenomenon of mass-transport has been found to occur and improve the electrical characteristics at the fused interface. The fabrication of such air/semiconductor structures with submicron order inside the device without any crystal growth process is very useful to increase device designability. Moreover, the air/semiconductor gratings have potentially larger coupling coefficient, since the difference of refractive index between air and semiconductor is very large. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time the continuous-wave oscillation of the MQW DFB laser with the fused air/semiconductor gratings.
Transformation of an Uncertain Video Search Pipeline to a Sketch-Based Visual Analytics Loop (2013)

Traditional sketch-based image or video search systems rely on machine learning concepts as their core technology. However, in many applications, machine learning alone is impractical since videos may not be semantically annotated sufficiently, there may be a lack of suitable training data, and the search requirements of the user may frequently change for different tasks. In this work, we develop a visual analytics systems that overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional approach. We make use of a sketch-based interface to enable users to specify search requirement in a flexible manner without depending on semantic annotation. We employ active machine learning to train different analytical models for different types of search requirements. We use visualization to facilitate knowledge discovery at the different stages of visual analytics. This includes visualizing the parameter space of the trained model, visualizing the search space to support interactive browsing, visualizing candidature search results to support rapid interaction for active learning while minimizing watching videos, and visualizing aggregated information of the search results. We demonstrate the system for searching spatiotemporal attributes from sports video to identify key instances of the team and player performance.
Telecomunicaciones: oportunidades y desafíos (1995)

In patients who underwent LT for LC, postoperative QTc prolongation on ECG, rather than preoperative, is associated with mortality. Larger clinical trials are needed to support this finding.
Telomere length, telomerase activity and telomerase RNA expression in human esophageal cancer cells: correlation with cell proliferation, differentiation and chemosensitivity to anticancer drugs. (1998)

The telomere and the enzyme telomerase in esophageal cancer have been poorly investigated. We present here aspects of the telomere and telomerase in esophageal cancer in relation to cell proliferation, differentiation and chemosensitivity to anticancer drugs. The telomere length (mean length of telomere restriction fragments; TRF), telomerase activity (TA), and human telomerase RNA (hTR) expression in a panel of 13 human esophageal cancer cell lines, squamous in origin, was examined by Southern blotting, the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP), and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), respectively. Cell proliferation expressed by the doubling time, cell differentiation determined by the keratin 13 and/or 14 expression, and chemosensitivity to cisplatin (CDDP) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) were compared with telomere-related factors. TRF shortening, the up-regulation of TA, and hTR expression was seen in all 13 cell lines. The TA correlated positively with the telomere length and negatively with the hTR expression. The doubling times of the cell lines and the telomere-related factors did not show any significant relation. The TA in the keratin 13/14-negative cell lines was significantly higher than that of the keratin 13-positive cell lines. The cells with short telomere tended to be resistant to CDDP whereas the cells with higher TA tended to be more sensitive to CDDP; 5-FU showed no relation to any telomere-related factors. Therefore, the activation of TA in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is regulated by cell differentiation but not by cell proliferation, cells with high TA are more sensitive to CDDP, and cells with short telomere require a CDDP dose escalation.
The phytotoxin coronatine is a multifunctional component of the virulence armament of Pseudomonas syringae (2014)

Plant pathogens deploy an array of virulence factors to suppress host defense and promote pathogenicity. Numerous strains of Pseudomonas syringae produce the phytotoxin coronatine (COR). A major aspect of COR function is its ability to mimic a bioactive jasmonic acid (JA) conjugate and thus target the JA-receptor COR-insensitive 1 (COI1). Biological activities of COR include stimulation of JA-signaling and consequent suppression of SA-dependent defense through antagonistic crosstalk, antagonism of stomatal closure to allow bacterial entry into the interior of plant leaves, contribution to chlorotic symptoms in infected plants, and suppression of plant cell wall defense through perturbation of secondary metabolism. Here, we review the virulence function of COR, including updates on these established activities as well as more recent findings revealing COI1-independent activity of COR and shedding light on cooperative or redundant defense suppression between COR and type III effector proteins.
Beyond the Wall (2015)

The continuous growth of main memory size allows modern data systems to process entire large scale datasets in memory. The increase in memory capacity, however, is not matched by proportional decrease in memory latency, causing a mismatch for in-memory processing. As a result, data movement through the memory hierarchy is now one of the main performance bottlenecks for main memory data systems. Database systems researchers have proposed several innovative solutions to minimize data movement and to make data access patterns hardware-aware. Nevertheless, all relevant rows and columns for a given query have to be moved through the memory hierarchy; hence, movement of large data sets is on the critical path.
Blood Donors and the Withdrawal of Blood (2005)

This chapter contains sections titled: Blood donation Donation of whole blood
Auxiliary variables for extending symbolic traversal techniques to data paths (1994)

Article Free Access Share on Auxiliary variables for extending symbolic traversal techniques to data paths Authors: Gianpiero Cabodi Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, ItalyView Profile , Paolo Camurati Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, ItalyView Profile , Stefano Quer Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, ItalyView Profile Authors Info & Claims DAC '94: Proceedings of the 31st annual Design Automation ConferenceJune 1994 Pages 289–293https://doi.org/10.1145/196244.196380Published:06 June 1994Publication History 5citation122DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations5Total Downloads122Last 12 Months4Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF
Chomsky (Noam). — Structures syntaxiques, trad. de l'américain (1970)

Ters François. Chomsky (Noam). — Structures syntaxiques, trad. de l'américain. In: Revue française de pédagogie, volume 12, 1970. pp. 38-40.
Activin A induces cell proliferation of fibroblast‐like synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis (2003)

These results suggest that activin A acts as a growth factor of FLS in RA.