gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Using argumentation to control lexical choice: a functional unification implementation (1993)

This thesis investigates the impact of the pragmatic situation on surface generation. It presents new surface generation techniques that improve on both aspects of surface generation: (1) lexical choice, which consists of choosing words and their associated syntactic structures and (2) syntactic realization, which consists of combining these partial structures into grammatical sentences. Because surface generation depends directly on aspects of the pragmatic situation, these new techniques allow a purely conceptual input to be expressed by a greater variety of linguistic forms and with more sensitivity to pragmatic factors than was previously possible. Specifically, this research focuses on the impact on lexical choice of one part of the pragmatic situation: the speaker’s argumentative intent, i.e., the goal of the speaker to convince the hearer of a certain conclusion. The argumentative intent can be realized by a variety of evaluative expressions appearing at various ranks in the syntactic structure. This thesis describes the selection of four classes of evaluative expressions: judgment
Effects of tetrahydroberberine on ischemic and reperfused myocardium in rats. (1993)

The effects of tetrahydroberberine (THB) on ischemic and reperfused myocardium were studied in comparison with verapamil (Ver). In anesthetized rats, THB and its analogues, l-THP and l-SPD, reduced the infarct size after 4 h of left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) ligation. In Langendorff hearts, in common with Ver, THB 1 and 10 mumol.L-1 markedly decreased the incidences of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) in the reperfusion period. The malondialdehyde content and xanthine oxidase activity were also decreased in global ischemic-reperfused hearts pretreated with THB (P < 0.01, or P < 0.05). It suggested that THB could protect the myocardium from ischemic and reperfusion injury.
A probabilistic sensor for the perception of activities (2002)

This paper presents a new technique for the perception of activities using a statistical description of spatio-temporal properties. With this approach, the probability of an activity in a spatio-temporal image sequence is computed by applying a Bayes rule to the joint statistics of the responses of motion energy receptive fields. A set of motion energy receptive fields is designed in order to sample the power spectrum of a moving texture. Their structure relates to the spatio-temporal energy models of Adelson and Bergen where measures of local visual motion information are extracted comparing the outputs of triad of Gabor energy filters. Then the probability density function required for the Bayes rule is estimated for each class of activity by computing multi-dimensional histograms from the outputs from the set of receptive fields. The perception of activities is achieved according to the Bayes rule. The result at a given time is the map of the conditional probabilities that each pixel belongs to an activity of the training set. The approach is validated with experiments in the perception of activities of walking persons in a visual surveillance scenario. Results are robust to changes in illumination conditions, to occlusions and to changes in texture.
Effect of annealing on the structural and magnetic properties of sol-gel synthesized Co doped ZnO (2015)

Nanocrystalline powders of undoped ZnO and Co (5wt%) doped ZnO are synthesized successfully by employing soft chemical route. The structural, vibrational and magnetic properties as a function of calcination temperatures (400-1100 °C) are studied by using various characterization techniques. The X-ray diffraction study has clearly revealed the evolution of the major wurtzite phase (ZnO) in addition to the secondary nanocrystalline cubic spinel phase of Co <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> is observed at 800 °C which grows upto 1100 °C. FTIR study supports the existence of the metal cation-oxygen bonding due to secondary cubic spinel Co <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> phase. At lower calcination temperature (800 °C), predominant paramagnetic behavior is demonstrated, though secondary cubic spinel phase of Zn <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> Co <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3-x</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> is present. With the increase in calcination temperature (1100 °), an enhanced paramagnetic behavior is observed as paramagnetic bulk cubic spinel Zn <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1-x</sub> Co <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3-x</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> phase effectively increases the effective magnetic moment. The occurrence of paramagnetic behavior with the increase in annealing temperature is understood on the basis of inverted cubic spinel, exchange interactions and occupancy of cobalt ions in both tetrahedral and octahedral sites. With the presence of the non-magnetic secondary nanocrystalline and bulk Zn <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> Co <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3-x</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> spinel phase, Co (5wt%) doped ZnO cannot be used as diluted magnetic semiconductor based spintronics devices.
Detection-assisted interference parameter estimation and interference cancellation for LTE-Advanced system (2016)

Inter-cell interference is the main obstacle for increasing the network capacity of Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system. Interference Cancellation (IC) is a promising way to improve spectral efficiency. 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) raises a new research project - Network-Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS) in LTE Rel-12. Advanced receivers used in NAICS include maximum likelihood (ML) receiver and symbol-level IC (SLIC) receiver. Those receivers need some interference parameters, such as rank indicator (RI), precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and modulation level (MOD). This paper presents a new IC receiver based on detection. We get the clean interfering signal assisted by detection and use it in SLIC. The clean interfering signal makes the estimation of interfering transmitted signal more accurate. So interference cancellation would be more significant. We also improve the method of interference parameter estimation that avoids estimating power boosting and precoding matrix simultaneously. The simulation results show that the performance of proposed SLIC is better than traditional SLIC and close to ML.
Long memory in surface air temperature: detection, modeling, and application to weather derivative valuation (2002)

Three multidecadal daily time series of mid-latitude near-surface air temperature are analysed. Long-range dependence can be detected in all 3 time series with 95% statistical significance. It is shown that fractionally integrated time-series models can accurately and parsimoniously reproduce the autocovariance structure of the observed data. The concept of weather derivatives is introduced and problems surrounding their pricing are discussed. It is shown that the fractionally integrated time-series models provide much more accurate pricing as compared with traditional autoregressive models employing a similar number of parameters. Finally, it is suggested that a simple explanation for the presence of long memory in the time series may be given in terms of aggregation of several short-memory processes.
Effects of repeated handling on the cortisol responses of young lambs castrated and tailed surgically (1991)

Changes in the plasma concentrations of cortisol were recorded in 5-6 weeks-old lambs during the first 480 minutes after surgical castration and tailing in order to define the full post-treatment cortisol response and to determine whether or not the handling associated with repeated blood sampling delayed the return of cortisol concentrations to pretreatment values. Four groups of six or seven lambs were studied: One group was bled regularly throughout the 480 minutes of the study, and in the other three post-treatment blood sampling began at 90, 240 or 480 minutes. Plasma cortisol concentrations increased after treatment and returned to or approached pretreatment values by 480 minutes. No significant differences in mean cortisol concentrations were observed between the groups at any stage. It is concluded that the acute distress response of these lambs to surgical castration and tailing lasted about 8 hours and that repeated handling for blood sampling did not contribute significantly to this distress.
History-driven build failure fixing: how far are we? (2019)

Build systems are essential for modern software development and maintenance since they are widely used to transform source code artifacts into executable software. Previous work shows that build systems break frequently during software evolution. Therefore, automated build-fixing techniques are in huge demand. In this paper we target a mainstream build system, Gradle, which has become the most widely used build system for Java projects in the open-source community (e.g., GitHub). HireBuild, state-of-the-art build-fixing tool for Gradle, has been recently proposed to fix Gradle build failures via mining the history of prior fixes. Although HireBuild has been shown to be effective for fixing real-world Gradle build failures, it was evaluated on only a limited set of build failures, and largely depends on the quality/availability of historical fix information. To investigate the efficacy and limitations of the history-driven build fix, we first construct a new and large build failure dataset from Top-1000 GitHub projects. Then, we evaluate HireBuild on the extended dataset both quantitatively and qualitatively. Inspired by the findings of the study, we propose a simplistic new technique that generates potential patches via searching from the present project under test and external resources rather than the historical fix information. According to our experimental results, the simplistic approach based on present information successfully fixes 2X more reproducible build failures than the state-of-art HireBuild based on historical fix information. Furthermore, our results also reveal various findings/guidelines for future advanced build failure fixing.
Raman study of aqueous monoborate-polyol complexes. Equilibriums in the monoborate-1,2-ethanediol system (1972)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRaman study of aqueous monoborate-polyol complexes. Equilibriums in the monoborate-1,2-ethanediol systemRichard P. OertelCite this: Inorg. Chem. 1972, 11, 3, 544–549Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1972Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1972https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ic50109a024https://doi.org/10.1021/ic50109a024research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views254Altmetric-Citations20LEARN 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
Regression of human breast carcinoma tumors in immunodeficient mice treated with 9-nitrocamptothecin: differential response of nontumorigenic and tumorigenic human breast cells in vitro. (1993)

We have shown recently that the plant alkaloid camptothecin and its derivatives inhibited growth of human carcinoma and melanoma cells in vitro and induced regression of advanced human malignant melanoma tumors growing in immunodeficient (nude) mice. Here, we have extended these studies to show that the camptothecin derivative 9-nitro-20(S)- camptothecin (9NC) induces complete regression of advanced breast carcinoma tumors growing in nude mice. We also report that 9NC inhibits growth of nontumorigenic and tumorigenic breast cells in vitro. However, flow cytometry studies show that 9NC elicits differential effects on the cell cycle of nontumorigenic and tumorigenic cells. In general, 9NC-treated nontumorigenic cells accumulate slowly at the G2 phase of the cell cycle with no cell death. In contrast, 9NC-treated tumorigenic cells transverse rapidly from G1 to S phase followed by cell death. Removal of 9NC from the cell cultures resulted in most nontumorigenic cells dividing, whereas tumorigenic cells continued to die after removal of 9NC. Taken together, the findings indicate a different response of nontumorigenic and tumorigenic breast cells to 9NC.
Dual Acquisition Magic‐Angle Spinning Solid‐State NMR‐Spectroscopy: Simultaneous Acquisition of Multidimensional Spectra of Biomacromolecules (2012)

Fast data collection: a general method for dual data acquisition of multidimensional magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR experiments is presented. The method uses a simultaneous Hartmann-Hahn cross-polarization from (1)H to (13)C and (15)N nuclei and exploits the long-living (15)N polarization for parallel acquisition of two multidimensional experiments.
Conjugate gradient acceleration of maximum-likelihoodimagerestoration (1995)

A maximum-likelihood iterative deconvolution algorithm is accelerated using a conjugate gradient technique with a minimum mean square error criterion. Significant acceleration over previous techniques is achieved with little additional computation. Restorations with and without noise are presented which indicate the number of iterations required reduces from O(N) to O(√N).
Perceptual Evaluation of Headphone Compensation in Binaural Synthesis Based on Non-Individual Recordings (2012)

The headphone transfer function (HpTF) is a major source of spectral coloration observable in binaural synthesis. Filters for frequency response compensation can be derived from measured HpTFs. Therefore, we developed a method for measuring HpTFs reliably at the blocked ear canal. Subsequently, we compared non-individual dynamic binaural simulations based on recordings from a head and torso simulator (HATS) directly to reality, assessing the effect of non-individual, generic, and individual headphone compensation in listening tests. Additionally, we tested improvements of the regularization scheme of an LMS inversion algorithm, the effect of minimum phase inverse filters, and the reproduction of low frequencies by a subwoofer. Results suggest that while using non-individual binaural recordings the HpTF of the individual used for the recordings – typically a HATS – should be used for headphone compensation.
Protein Translocation into Mitochondria (2001)

The biogenesis of mitochondria requires the translocation of most mitochondrial proteins across two biological membranes. Mitochondrial preproteins are synthesized in the cytosol carrying targeting information, that is recognized by specific receptor proteins. The precursor polypeptides are transported across both mitochondrial membranes via three large integral membrane protein complexes forming specialized preprotein translocases. A soluble protein complex in the matrix provides the ATP-dependent translocation force, responsible for the movement and unfolding of the bulk polypeptide chain. After the removal of the targeting sequence, imported proteins fold into their native conformation with the help of chaperone proteins in the mitochondrial matrix.
265. Enhanced Plasmid-Mediated Dystrophin Expression in the mdx Mouse Model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by a PhiC31 Integrase Plasmid System (2005)

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by lack of dystrophin expression in skeletal muscles and is characterized by progressive degeneration of muscle fibers. To be effective, gene therapy approaches to DMD need to target a large number of fibers in the muscle, and the distribution of dystrophin through the fiber length needs to be sufficient to prevent fiber degeneration. Plasmid-based gene therapies have been shown to be a valid approach to the treatment of a variety of disorders including DMD. Concerns, however, have been raised about the ability of extrachromosomal vectors to sustain gene expression for prolonged periods of time at levels that are therapeutic.
Overwrite Characteristics in Phase Change Optical Disk (1989)

We studied overwrite characteristics in low and high erase power condition for (Sb 2 Te 3 –GeTe–Sb) phase change optical disk. The main results obtained so far are summarized as follows. (1) In phase change media, the residual signals don't make the phase jitter worse. This reason is that the erased area is always formed around the written mark by write power. We called this phenomenon the Self Sharpening Effect (SSE). SSE is one of the unique characteristics of the phase change media. (2) The (Sb 2 Te 3 –GeTe–Sb) phase change optical disk has wide erase power range that gives enough wide margin for the exchangeability.
A 3 ppm 1.5 × 0.8 mm 2 1.0 µA 32.768 kHz MEMS-Based Oscillator (2014)

This paper describes the first 32 kHz low-power MEMS-based oscillator in production. The primary goal is to provide a small form-factor oscillator (1.5 × 0.8 mm 2 ) for use as a crystal replacement in space-constrained mobile devices. The oscillator generates an output frequency of 32.768 kHz and its binary divisors down to 1 Hz. The frequency stability over the industrial temperature range (-40 °C to 85 °C) is ±100 ppm as an oscillator (XO) or ±3 ppm with optional calibration as a temperature compensated oscillator (TCXO). Supply currents are 0.9 μA for the XO and 1.0 μA for the TCXO at supply voltages from 1.4 V to 4.5 V. The MEMS resonator is a capacitively-transduced tuning fork at 524 kHz. The circuitry is fabricated in 180 nm CMOS and includes low power sustaining circuit, fractional-N PLL, temperature sensor, digital control, and low swing driver.
Determination of Trace Anions in Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide by Direct Injection Ion Chromatography with Conductivity Detection after Pt-Catalyzed On-Line Decomposition (1999)

A method has been developed for the determination of trace anion impurities in concentrated hydrogen peroxide. The method involves on-line decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, ion chromatographic separation and subsequent suppressed-type conductivity detection. H 2O2 is decomposed in Pt-catalyst filled Gore-Tex membrane tubing and the resulting aqueous solution containing analytes is introduced to the injection valve of an ion chromatograph for periodic determinations. The oxygen gas evolving within the membrane tubing escapes freely through the membrane wall causing no problem in ion chromatographic analysis. Decomposition efficiency is above 99.99% at a flow rate of 0.4mL/min for a 30% hydrogen peroxide concentration. Analytes are quantitatively retained. The analysis results for several brands of commercial hydrogen peroxides are reported.
AM-PAC “6-Clicks” Functional Assessment Scores Predict Acute Care Hospital Discharge Destination (2014)

This study provides evidence of the accuracy of "6-Clicks" scores for predicting destination after discharge from an acute care hospital.
Pathogen Entrapment by Transglutaminase—A Conserved Early Innate Immune Mechanism (2010)

Clotting systems are required in almost all animals to prevent loss of body fluids after injury. Here, we show that despite the risks associated with its systemic activation, clotting is a hitherto little appreciated branch of the immune system. We compared clotting of human blood and insect hemolymph to study the best-conserved component of clotting systems, namely the Drosophila enzyme transglutaminase and its vertebrate homologue Factor XIIIa. Using labelled artificial substrates we observe that transglutaminase activity from both Drosophila hemolymph and human blood accumulates on microbial surfaces, leading to their sequestration into the clot. Using both a human and a natural insect pathogen we provide functional proof for an immune function for transglutaminase (TG). Drosophila larvae with reduced TG levels show increased mortality after septic injury. The same larvae are also more susceptible to a natural infection involving entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria while neither phagocytosis, phenoloxidase or-as previously shown-the Toll or imd pathway contribute to immunity. These results firmly establish the hemolymph/blood clot as an important effector of early innate immunity, which helps to prevent septic infections. These findings will help to guide further strategies to reduce the damaging effects of clotting and enhance its beneficial contribution to immune reactions.
Knowing the user's every move (2006)

In this paper, we investigate how detailed tracking of user interaction can be monitored using standard web technologies. Our motivation is to enable implicit interaction and to ease usability evaluation of web applications outside the lab. To obtain meaningful statements on how users interact with a web application, the collected information needs to be more detailed and fine-grained than that provided by classical log files. We focus on tasks such as classifying the user with regard to computer usage proficiency or making a detailed assessment of how long it took users to fill in fields of a form. Additionally, it is important in the context of our work that usage tracking should not alter the user's experience and that it should work with existing server and browser setups. We present an implementation for detailed tracking of user actions on web pages. An HTTP proxy modifies HTML pages by adding JavaScript code before delivering them to the client. This JavaScript tracking code collects data about mouse movements, keyboard input and more. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach in a case study.
The origin and role of structural inhomogeneities and impurities in material recycling of plastics (1998)

Abstract Characteristics of aged polymers intended for material recycling are emphasized. Specific material properties of aged recyclates, containing new functional groups formed during processing and first‐life application (structural polymer inhomogeneities) and metallic compounds, pigments or compounds generated from additives (non‐polymeric impurities), are considered from the point of view of their influence on the aging resistance in the second‐life applications. Chemical transformations of the polymer matrix together with consumption of stabilizers deteriorate material properties of collected waste plastics in reprocessing and subsequent outdoor applications.