gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Automating the next-hour energy market (1994)

Given that a utility`s next-hour purchases and sales can amount to millions of dollars annually, existing approaches are obviously too slow. They do not make economic sense in the increasingly dog-eat-dog world of competition. Today, the focus is changing both in and outside the industry due to two powerful forces: (1) Heightened competition from the Energy Policy Act of 1992; (2) New and sophisticated information technology that reaches nationwide at a moment`s notice. With these trends in mind, a group of utility managers, dispatch center supervisors, and applications software designers met about 18 months ago to answer a basic question: How could the next-hour bulk-power market become more efficient, more in tune with today`s competitive realities? The idea emerged to form a nationwide power exchange using a single contractual agreement to specify the terms and conditions by which participants would trade electricity. The exchange, which would come to be known as CPEX, would facilitate the buying, selling, and wheeling of next-hour energy. Key attributes of CPEX would include a national interchange agreement and the effective use of computer and telecommunications systems. Operational testing of CPEX begins in November 1994. Commercial operation is expected to begin upon completion of the test.
EFFICACY AND TIMING OF FUNGICIDES, BACTERICIDES, AND BIOLOGICALS for DECIDUOUS TREE FRUIT, NUT, STRAWBERRY, AND VINE CROPS 2010 (updated 5/1/10) (2010)

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Energetics and electronic structure of stacking faults in ZnO (2004)

The energetics and electronic structures of basal-plane stacking faults in wurtzite (WZ) ZnO are studied using first-principles density-functional total energy calculations. All the basal-plane stacking faults are found to have very low formations energies. They also introduce a downward shift at the conduction-band minimum (CBM). However, plane-averaged charge densities of the CBM state reveal that the CBM states are not very localized, indicating that these stacking faults should be electronically inert. The high concentration of these stacking faults can result in embedded zinc-blende (ZB) ZnO surrounded by WZ materials. The WZ/ZB interface exhibits a type-II lineup with $\ensuremath{\Delta}{E}_{V}\ensuremath{\approx}0.037\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$ and $\ensuremath{\Delta}{E}_{C}\ensuremath{\approx}0.147\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$.
On-line and off-line signature verification using relative slope algorithm (2005)

The paper presents a novel relative slope based algorithm for an on-line and off-line signature verification system capable of effectively establishing an individual's identify based solely on their handwriting characteristics. Current technologies in signature verification systems use various algorithms for feature point extraction, regression approach, Markov method, split and merge and genetic algorithms. We propose a slope based model, in which the input signature is divided into many segments using an optimized HMM method; then, the slope of every segment is calculated with respect to its previous segment, obtained after normalization of the signature. This feature of each segment is stored along with the two tier time metric information, which ensures lesser overhead with better performance while processing.
Dynamic viewpoint tethering (2003)

In this study, we focus on investigating users' navigational performance with respect to the display frame of reference. Dynamic viewpoint tethering is proposed as a means to increase user control and reduce the need for mental rotations, thus facilitating the acquisition of configurational knowledge about the virtual space.The concept of dynamic viewpoint tethering is explained and recent research findings are presented. Twelve volunteers participated in an experiment in which they were instructed to control an aircraft-shaped cursor flying through a set of virtual tunnels and to answer questions about the environment. Experimental results showed that neither the loose dynamic tether nor the rigid tether supported the best control performance. Rather, optimal tether configuration lies at the centre of the rigidity continuum. The research results provide useful guidelines for the design of navigational system interfaces.
Hydrotreated Lube Oil Base Stocks (1982)

<div class="htmlview paragraph">Gulf Canada's adaptation of the Gulf HydroTreating Process for the manufacture of lubricating oil base stocks is described. The key process operating parameters are discussed, feed stock properties are shown, and the base stocks produced are discussed. Data is then presented on a fully formulated SF/CC quality passenger car engine oil, including results of a 96 000 km (60,000 miles) taxi-cab field trial.</div>
Uncooled amorphous-silicon technology: high-performance achievement and future trends (2002)

The emergence of uncooled infrared detectors has opened new opportunities for IR imaging both for military and civil applications. Infrared imaging sensors that operate without cryogenic cooling have the potential to provide the military or civilian users with infrared vision capabilities packaged in a camera of extremely small size, weight and power. Uncooled infrared sensor technology has advanced rapidly in the past few years. Higher performance sensors, electronics integration at the sensor, and new concepts for signal processing are generating advanced infrared focal plane arrays. This would significantly reduce the cost and accelerate the implementation of sensors for applications such as surveillance or predictive maintenance. We present the uncooled infrared detector operation principle and the development at CEA/LETI from the 256 x 64 with a pitch of 50 micrometers to the 320 x 240 with a pitch of 35 micrometers . LETI has been involved in Amorphous Silicon uncooled microbolometer development since 1992. This silicon IR detection is now well mastered and matured so that industrial transfer of LETI technology was performed in 2000 towards Sofradir. Industrial production of 320 x 240 microbolometer array with 45micrometers pitch is then started., we present the readout circuit architectures designs and its evolution from the 256 x 64 array to the different version of 320 x 240 arrays. Electro-optical results obtained from these IRCMOS are presented. NEDT close to 30 mK is now obtained with our standard microbolometer amorphous silicon technology.
Metric Learning to Rank (2010)

We study metric learning as a problem of information retrieval. We present a general metric learning algorithm, based on the structural SVM framework, to learn a metric such that rankings of data induced by distance from a query can be optimized against various ranking measures, such as AUC, Precision-at-k, MRR, MAP or NDCG. We demonstrate experimental results on standard classification data sets, and a large-scale online dating recommendation problem. 1.
Fabricate High performance RF-MEMS inductor with a smart nano magnetic granular film according to function purpose (2013)

Design and fabrication of RF (Radio Frequency)-MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) planar inductors with a smart material, Permalloy-SiO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> (PS) nano magnetic granular medium, in accordance with the function purpose of the device is presented. The nano magnetic material aspects determining the contributions and impacts to the device operating at ultra-high frequencies are analyzed via physical model. Properties of the smart PS granular film can be designed and controlled by varied microstructure determined by using varied preparation approaches. Therefore, the performance of several types devices with varied PS granular film holds a promise for fabrication of magnetic planar inductors according to function purpose in Giga-Hertz (GHz) applications.
Dynamic turning control of a quadruped robot using nonlinear oscillators (2005)

The authors have proposed a dynamic turning control system of a quadruped robot by using nonlinear oscillators. It is composed of a spontaneous locomotion controller and voluntary motion controller. In this article, capability of dynamic turning motion of the proposed control system is verified through numerical simulations and hardware experiments: Various turning speed and orientation make the motion of the robot asymmetry in terms of duty ratio, stride and center of pressure. The proposed controller actively and adaptively controls redundant DOF to cancel the dynamic asymmetry and established stable turning motion at various locomotion speed and turning orientation.
Traffic-aware virtual machine placement in geographically distributed Clouds (2014)

In this work, we focus on the problem of virtual machines (VMs) placement in geographically distributed data centers, where tenants may require a set of networking VMs. The aim of the present work is to plan and optimize the placement of tenant's VMs in a distributed Cloud environment while considering location and system performance constraints. Thus, we propose ILP formulations which have as objective the minimization of traffic generated by networking VMs and circulating on the backbone network. The different experiments conducted on the proposed formulations show the effectiveness of our model for large-scale Cloud systems in terms of running time and computational resources.
Successful treatment of chronic skin diseases with clobetasol propionate and a hydrocolloid occlusive dressing. (1992)

The lesions of 141 patients with chronic skin diseases unresponsive to therapy were treated once a week with clobetasol propionate lotion left under the completely occlusive patch Duoderm. In 131 patients the lesions resolved completely, while partial remission was observed in the remaining 10. The mean interval to complete remission was: for chronic plaque psoriasis, 12 days; psoriasis on palms and soles, 2.5 weeks; palmoplantar pustulosis, 2.2 weeks; skin lesions of Reiter's syndrome, 3 weeks; chronic lichenified eczema, 2.0 weeks; neurodermatitis, 3.1 weeks; breast eczema, 9 days; discoid lupus erythematosus, 3.7 weeks; lichen planus, 2.8 weeks; sarcoidosis, 4 weeks; and lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, 2 weeks. Other conditions benefitting from the treatment were pompholyx, necrobiosis lipoidica, granuloma annulare and pretibial myxedema. The amount of topical corticosteroids needed was reduced to at most 1/20 and to as little as 1/100, compared with common topical steroid preparations.
On handling QoS traffic in wireless sensor networks (2004)

Many new routing and MAC layer protocols have been proposed for wireless sensor networks tackling the issues raised by the resource constrained unattended sensor nodes in large-scale deployments. The majority of these protocols considered energy efficiency as the main objective and assumed data traffic with unconstrained delivery requirements. However, the growing interest in applications that demand certain end-to-end performance guarantees and the introduction of imaging and video sensors have posed additional challenges. Transmission of data in such cases requires both energy and QoS aware network management in order to ensure efficient usage of the sensor resources and effective access to the gathered measurements. In this paper, we highlight the architectural and operational challenges of handling of QoS traffic in sensor networks. We report on progress make to-date and outline open research problems.
Who's Watching out for the Children - Making Child Custody Determinable by Binding Arbitration - Dick v. Dick (1996)

"Many is the custody case which almost seems to outlive the parents .... To remedy this problem, many members of the legal profession advocate greater utilization of arbitration to include determination of child custody.' As state courts struggle to incorporate and interpret the Uniform Arbitration Act ("UAA") into child custody case law, the Dick case stands as the latest decision demonstrating the advantages and pitfalls of using binding arbitration to resolve custody disputes.
Emerging Flt3 kinase inhibitors in the treatment of leukaemia (2006)

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is characterised by the infiltration of the bone marrow with highly proliferative leukaemic cells that stop to differentiate at different stages of myeloid development and carry survival advantages. Conventionally, AML is treated with aggressive cytotoxic therapy, in eligible patients followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. However, despite this aggressive treatment, many patients relapse and eventually die from the disease. Activating mutations in the coding sequence of the receptor tyrosine kinase Flt3 are found in leukaemic blasts from approximately 30% of AML patients. The mutations have been described to severely alter the signalling properties of this receptor and to have transforming activity in cell-line models and in primary mouse bone marrow. The prognosis of patients harbouring the most common Flt3 mutations tends to be worse than that of comparable patients without the mutations. Thus, Flt3 seems a promising target for therapeutic intervention. Several small molecules that inhibit Flt3 kinase activity are being evaluated for the treatment of AML in clinical trials. This review article discusses the signal transduction and biological function of Flt3 and its mutations in normal and malignant haematopoiesis and recent progress in drug development aiming at the inhibition of Flt3 kinases.
Wireless sensor network for power consumption reduction in information and communication systems (2009)

This paper presents prototypes of wireless sensor nodes and network system for monitoring the power consumption of information and communication devices. Nowadays, carbon dioxide (CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> ) emission in the information and communication technology (ICT) field is increasing enormously due to the high electric power consumption in ICT devices, e.g., in Internet data centers (IDC) as well as offices and homes. In order to reduce CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> emission from the ICT devices, it is very important to introduce energy management systems taking the advantages of wireless sensor network technology. In this study, we have developed the prototypes of a wireless current clamp probe integrated with a thermometer and a network system that enables simultaneous monitoring of 50 power lines. Using the sensor nodes and system, power consumption monitoring of several typical ICT appliances in home has been successfully demonstrated.
Self-adjoint factorizations of differential operators (1951)

of even order n = 2r. p,(x) e Cnand po(x) >0 in some closed finite interval [a, b]. Then there exists a subinterval of [a, b] in which L has a factorization L = f(x)PlP2... Pr where each PO, is of the second order and formally self-adjoint. The theorem follows by complete induction after the proofs of Lemmas 1 and 2 below. We use the following notation: If M is a linear differential operator, then its formal or Lagrange adjoint will be denoted by M+. LEMMA 1. Let
Sennosides and Human Colonic Motility (1988)

The effects of stimulant laxatives on colonic motility in man still remain controversial. Stimulation of peristalsis or a decrease of intraluminal pressure has been described manometrically after intraluminal administration of laxatives including senna. In contrast to manometry, electromyographic methods using an endoluminal probe enable continuous colonic motor recordings over a long colonic segment for at least 24 h, and consequently studies following the course of laxative effects after oral administration, the classical therapeutic route, are possible. Preliminary results using sennosides obtained with few subjects provide evidence for an increase in propulsive activity expressed as an increased number of migrating long-spike bursts in the left and sigmoid human colon. This motor colonic pattern seems to be a common feature in nonspecific or induced diarrhoea.
DPS: A DSM-based Parameter Server for Machine Learning (2017)

To solve the problem of efficient storing and updating of model parameters in the learning process, the parameter server is concerned as a high-throughput distributed machine learning (ML) architecture with the emergence of big models with billions of parameters. Current parameter servers, such as the Parameter Server and the Petuum, do not address data management and lack high-level data abstraction. Moreover, they have no task scheduling and do not fully utilize the computing resource as well as possibly lead to load imbalance. Their programming interface is too complicated and they do not support data flow operations (e.g. map/reduce) which are very useful for data preprocessing. These drawbacks limit the performance and ease of use of such parameter servers.In this paper, we proposed DPS, a parameter server based on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) for machine learning. DPS provides flexible consistency models, high-level data abstraction and management that support data flow operations, lightweight task scheduling system and user-friendly programming interface to solve the problems of existing systems mentioned above. The experimental results show that DPS can reduce networking time by about 50%, and achieve up to 1.9x performance compared to Petuum while the algorithms implemented on DPS use less code than those implemented on Petuum. In this paper, we proposed DPS, a parameter server based on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) for machine learning. DPS provides flexible consistency models, high-level data abstraction and management that support data flow operations, lightweight task scheduling system and user-friendly programming interface to solve the problems of existing systems mentioned above. The experimental results show that DPS can reduce networking time by about 50%, and achieve up to 1.9x performance compared to Petuum while the algorithms implemented on DPS use less code than those implemented on Petuum.
Can Non-Linear Readout Nodes Enhance the Performance of Reservoir-Based Speech Recognizers? (2011)

It has been shown for some time that a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) can perform an accurate acoustic-phonetic decoding of a continuous speech stream. However, the error back-propagation through time (EBPTT) training of such a network is often critical (bad local optimum) and very time consuming. These problems hamper the deployment of sufficiently large networks that would be able to outperform state-of-the-art Hidden Markov Models. To overcome this drawback of RNNs, we recently proposed to employ a large pool of recurrently connected non-linear nodes (a so-called reservoir) with fixed weights, and to map the reservoir outputs to meaningful phonemic classes by means of a layer of linear output nodes (called the readout nodes) whose weights form the solution of a set of linear equations. In this paper, we collect experimental evidence that the performance of a reservoir-based system can be enhanced by working with non-linear readout nodes. Although this calls for an iterative training, it boils down to a non-linear regression which seems to be less critical and time consuming than EBPTT.
Natural killer T cells as targets for immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases (2004)

CD1d-restricted natural killer T (NKT) cells are innate lymphocytes that play a regulatory role during an immune response. The identification of alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer), a marine sponge-derived glycosphingolipid, as a potent stimulator of NKT cells led many laboratories to investigate the effects of NKT cell activation on the regulation of immune responses. These studies revealed that alpha-GalCer induces rapid and robust cytokine production by NKT cells, secondary activation of a variety of innate and adaptive immune cells, and modulation of Th cell responses. Further, alpha-GalCer influences disease progression in a variety of experimental models of autoimmunity and inflammation in mice, including models for type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory bowel disease, and atherosclerosis. While these studies have raised significant enthusiasm for manipulation of NKT cells as a means of preventing autoimmunity in the clinical setting, there are significant concerns regarding the safety of repeated alpha-GalCer injections in human subjects.
Cytologic detection of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and precursor lesions using balloon and sponge samplers in asymptomatic adults in Linxian, China (1997)

In this study, the balloon sampler was more sensitive than the sponge sampler for detecting esophageal squamous disease, but both techniques were less than optimal. Improved samplers and/or cytologic criteria should increase the sensitivities observed in this baseline study.
Computations of fully nonlinear three-dimensional wave–wave and wave–body interactions. Part 1. Dynamics of steep three-dimensional waves (2001)

We develop an efficient high-order boundary-element method with the mixed-Eulerian–Lagrangian approach for the simulation of fully nonlinear three-dimensional wave–wave and wave–body interactions. For illustration, we apply this method to the study of two three-dimensional steep wave problems. (The application to wave–body interactions is addressed in an accompanying paper: Liu, Xue & Yue 2001.) In the first problem, we investigate the dynamics of three-dimensional overturning breaking waves. We obtain detailed kinematics and full quantification of three-dimensional effects upon wave plunging. Systematic simulations show that, compared to two-dimensional waves, three-dimensional waves generally break at higher surface elevations and greater maximum longitudinal accelerations, but with smaller tip velocities and less arched front faces. For the second problem, we study the generation mechanism of steep crescent waves. We show that the development of such waves is a result of three-dimensional (class II) Stokes wave instability. Starting with two-dimensional Stokes waves with small three-dimensional perturbations, we obtain direct simulations of the evolution of both L 2 and L 3 crescent waves. Our results compare quantitatively well with experimental measurements for all the distinct features and geometric properties of such waves.