gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Gesture-based interaction for a magic crystal ball (2007)

Crystal balls are generally considered as media to perform divination or fortune-telling. These imaginations are mainly from some fantasy films and fiction, in which an augur can see into the past, the present, or the future through a crystal ball. With the distinct impressions, crystal ball has revealed itself as a perfect interface for the users to access and to manipulate visual media in an intuitive, imaginative and playful manner. We developed an interactive visual display system named Magic Crystal Ball (MaC Ball). MaC Ball is a spherical display system, which allows the users to see a virtual object/scene appearing inside a transparent sphere, and to manipulate the displayed content with barehanded interactions. Interacting with MaC Ball makes the users feeling acting with magic power. With MaC Ball, user can manipulate the display with touch and hover interactions. For instance, the user waves hands above the ball, causing clouds blowing from bottom of the ball, or slides fingers on the ball to rotate the displayed object. In addition, the user can press single finger to select an object or to issue a button. MaC Ball takes advantages on the impressions of crystal balls, allowing the users acting with visual media following their imaginations. For applications, MaC Ball has high potential to be used for advertising and demonstration in museums, product launches, and other venues.
Capsular Polysaccharide Masks Clumping Factor A–Mediated Adherence of<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>to Fibrinogen and Platelets (2007)

CP expression inhibits S. aureus ClfA-mediated binding to fibrinogen and platelets, and a full-length repeat region cannot overcome this inhibition. These findings have important implications for vaccine development, given that CP may mask surface adhesins.
Notochordal Cells in the Adult Intervertebral Disc: New Perspective on an Old Question (2011)

The intervertebral disc is a tissue positioned between each of the vertebrae that accommodates applied biomechanical forces to the spine. The central compartment of the disc contains the nucleus pulposus (NP) which is enclosed by the annulus fibrosus and the endplate cartilage.The NP is derived from the notochord, a rod-like structure of mesodermal origin. Development of the notochord is tightly regulated by interactive transcription factors and target genes. Since a number of these molecules are unique they have be used for cell lineage and fate mapping studies of tissues of the intervertebral disc. These studies have shown that in a number of species including human, NP tissue retains notochordal cells throughout life. In the adult NP, there are present both large and small notochordal cells, as well as a progenitor cell population which can differentiate along the mesengenic pathway. Since tissue renewal in the intervertebral disc is dependent on the ability of these cells to commit to the NP lineage and undergo terminal differentiation, studies have been performed to assess which signaling pathways may regulate these activities. The notch signaling pathway is active in the intervertebral disc and is responsive to hypoxia, probably through HIF-1a. From a disease viewpoint, it is hypothesized that an oxemic shift, possibly mediated by alterations in the vascular supply to the tissues of the disc would be expected to lead to a failure in notochordal progenitor cell activation and a decrease in the number of differentiated cells. In turn, this would lead to decrements in function and enhancement of the effect of agents that are known to promote disc degeneration.
Clinical value of neurofilament and phospho-tau/tau ratio in the frontotemporal dementia spectrum (2018)

This study provides Class III evidence that for patients with cognitive issues, CSF NfL and p/t-tau levels discriminate between those with and without FTD spectrum disorders.
Synthesis and Characterization of Coal Liquefaction Catalysts in Inverse Micelles (1994)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSynthesis and Characterization of Coal Liquefaction Catalysts in Inverse MicellesAnthony Martino, Jess P. Wilcoxon, and Jeffrey S. KawolaCite this: Energy Fuels 1994, 8, 6, 1289–1295Publication Date (Print):November 1, 1994Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 November 1994https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ef00048a017https://doi.org/10.1021/ef00048a017research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views197Altmetric-Citations26LEARN 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
Aluminosilicate sorbents for control of alkali vapors during coal combustion and gasification (1988)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAluminosilicate sorbents for control of alkali vapors during coal combustion and gasificationW. A. Punjak and F. ShadmanCite this: Energy Fuels 1988, 2, 5, 702–708Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1988Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1988https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ef00011a017https://doi.org/10.1021/ef00011a017research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views485Altmetric-Citations89LEARN 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
Introdução da sacarose no plano alimentar de portadores de diabetes mellitus tipo 1: sua influência no controle glicêmico (2005)

The consumption of foods with sucrose, using the technique of carbohydrate counting, did not affect the metabolic control of adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
Mounting of crystals for macromolecular crystallography in a free-standing thin film (1990)

A method for mounting single crystals in macromolecular crystallographic studies is described in which the crystal is suspended in a thin film. The film is formed from a mixture of the crystallization buffer and a hydrophilic viscous material, confined within a thin-wire loop by surface tension. Compared with conventional crystal mounting methods, this method greatly simplifies and speeds the mounting procedure, is well suited to shock freezing and to optical monitoring of the crystals, deforms fragile crystals less and gives a lower and more uniform background in the X-ray diffraction patterns.
Dynamic Depth Correction To Reduce Depth Uncertainty and Improve MWD/LWD Log Quality (2008)

Summary Accuracy of measurement while drilling/logging while drilling (MWD/LWD) depth measurements can be improved by considering the dynamic variation in drillstring length caused by pipe loading under changing drilling conditions. This paper details a new method that uses surface torque, hookload, and temperature measurements to determine force distribution in a drillstring and to compute apparent drillstring length. When available, torque, weight on bit (WOB), and temperature measured downhole are used to increase accuracy and robustness of the method. Although logging depth is referred to as a measurement, in reality only the drilling block position is measured. Depth is inferred from it using drillstring length. In recent publications, physical phenomena affecting this were analyzed and quantified. Elastic pipe stretch and thermal expansion were found to be most significant. Techniques to compensate for these effects on the basis of empirical formulae have been proposed (Brooks et al. 2005), but they provide an averaged correction that has insufficient accuracy for many drilling and formation evaluation applications. This paper presents experiments covering various wellbore profiles, temperature profiles, and drilling modes, which show that the depth fluctuation may be as much as 2.7 m with a 7,000–m long drillstring even when only the current rig operation mode changes. Among other factors considered in the paper, apparent depth fluctuation is the most significant contributor to commonly observed MWD/LWD log discrepancies when bed boundaries or other features are not logged at the same depth with each sensor. These errors lead to inaccurate petrophysical calculations, distortion of borehole images, and lost time caused by depth matching. Case studies illustrate the positive effect of dynamic depth correction on formation evaluation log quality. The accuracy of a depth measurement is normally estimated in terms of its bias and uncertainty. A significant portion of the depth bias is caused by elastic stretch and thermal expension (for example in a 7,000-m long vertical drillstring they can be 9 and 6 m, respectively). The proposed method removes this bias and allows improved depth uncertainty. Measured depth uncertainty (1cr) in the Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Surveying Accuracy (ISCWSA) MWD model caused by drill string stretch is 2.2×10−7 m−1, multiplied by measured depth (MD) and by true vertical depth (TVD). Uncertainty in measured depth cannot be completely eliminated even by applying corresponding corrections because of the modeling and input data inaccuracies. Nevertherless, it is estimated that the proposed method significantly reduces this uncertainty (e.g., 50% and more, depending on the wellbore, available data, etc.). Improved depth accuracy, in turn, reduces the uncertainty in computation of reservoir characterization parameters, such as net-to-gross and structural dip, especially when data from multiple wells are evaluated together.
Effects of morphological analysis in translation between German and English (2008)

We describe the LIU systems for German-English and English-German translation submitted to the Shared Task of the Third Workshop of Statistical Machine Translation. The main features of the systems, as compared with the baseline, is the use of morphological pre- and post-processing, and a sequence model for German using morphologically rich parts-of-speech. It is shown that these additions lead to improved translations.
Medical Management of Lower Extremity Manifestations of Peripheral Artery Disease (2015)

Lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects eight million people in the United States and over 200 million men and women worldwide. Furthermore, recent evidence from the Global Disease Burden suggests that the prevalence of PAD increased worldwide by 20% between 2000 and 2010. Patients with PAD are at increased risk for cardiovascular events, functional impairment, and mobility loss. With advancements in medical science and improved treatments for cardiovascular disease, rates of cardiovascular events have declined in the United States and in other high socioeconomic countries. Consequently, people are living longer with chronic debilitating diseases, such as PAD. Optimal medical management of patients with PAD is essential to help these patients survive longer with optimal quality of life and without disability. This review covers medical therapies to improve lower extremity functioning in people with PAD, additional medications to improve walking performance in PAD, and both walking and nonwalking exercise interventions for lower extremity PAD, Tables outline outcome measures typically used to assess improvement in response to medical therapies for PAD; FDA-approved medications and medications that may be beneficial but are not FDA-approved for intermittent claudication symptoms; exercise therapies that benefit patients with PAD; and additional considerations regarding exercise therapy in PAD. Graphs showcase ramipril versus placebo and changes in walking time according to home-based versus supervised walking exercise. This review contains 2 figures, 5 tables, and 68 references.
Augmenting Reality: A new paradigm for interacting with computers (1996)

A revolution in computer interface design is changing the way we think about computers. Rather than typing on a keyboard and watching a television monitor, Augmented Reality lets people use familiar, everyday objects in ordinary ways. The difference is that these objects also provide a link into a computer network. Doctors can examine patients while viewing superimposed medical images; children can program their own LEGO constructions; and construction engineers can use ordinary paper engineering drawings to make live video connections to colleagues far away. Rather than immersing people in an artifically-created virtual world, the goal is to augment everyday objects in the physical world by enhancing them with a wealth of digital information and communication capabilities.
Suboptimal and Anytime Heuristic Search on Multi-Core Machines (2009)

In order to scale with modern processors, planning algorithms must become multi-threaded. In this paper, we present parallel shared-memory algorithms for two problems that underlie many planning systems: suboptimal and anytime heuristic search. We extend a recently-proposed approach for parallel optimal search to the suboptimal case, providing two new pruning rules for bounded suboptimal search. We also show how this new approach can be used for parallel anytime search. Using temporal logic, we prove the correctness of our framework, and in an empirical comparison on STRIPS planning, grid pathfinding, and sliding tile puzzle problems using an 8-core machine, we show that it yields faster search performance than previous proposals.
Networked Humanoid Animation Driven by Human Voice Using Extensible 3D (X3D), H-Anim and Java Speech Open Standards (2002)

Speech-recognition technology is beginning to be used in automobiles, telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), medical records, e-commerce, text dictation and editing. Speech recognition can also be integrated into Virtual Environments (VEs) to create responsive virtual entities, Like the mouse, keyboard, and the trackball, Speech-recognition technology can enhance the control of a computer and improve communication. Dramatically expanding interest in the Internet and VEs has been gated by limited interactivity with human-avatar models. As more users begin interacting with avatars in VEs, designers are prompted to create more realistic, humanlike avatars. This quest for realism needs to go beyond visual aspects to include speech-recognition technology, which can greatly augment the realism of these avatars. This thesis presents design and development of a Voice User Interface (VUI), which maps to a set of behavioral motions for humanoid avatars using Extensible 3D (X3D) graphics, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) Standard and Java Speech API. The VUI includes a suitable speech- recognition component for application-command vocabularies. This thesis also demonstrates interchangeability of both avatars and animation behaviors, and creates networked humanoid animation driven by a human voice.
Preparation and Characterization of Inclusion Complexes of Polyisobutylene with Cyclodextrins (1996)

β-Cyclodextrin (β-CD) and γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) formed inclusion complexes with polyisobutylene (PIB) of various molecular weights to give stoichiometric compounds in crystalline states. α-Cyclodextrin (α-CD) did not form complexes with PIB of any molecular weight. The yields of the complexes with β-CD decreased with an increase in the molecular weight of PIB. In contrast, the yields of the complexes with γ-CD increased with an increase in the molecular weight and the complexes were obtained almost quantitatively with PIB of molecular weight 1350. The chain-length selectivity is reversed between β-CD and γ-CD. The inclusion complexes were isolated and found to be 3:1 (monomer unit:CD). The complexes were characterized by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, 13C CP/MAS NMR, 13C PST/MAS NMR spectra, and X-ray (powder), thermal, and elemental analyses. The structures of the complexes are discussed.
Monolithic Complementary Inverters Based on Organic Single Crystals (2010)

A novel monolithic complementary inverter is fabricated on a single platform of an organic semiconductor crystal only by patterning low- and high-work-function metals to inject electrons and holes separately. With the benefit of using high-performance organic single-crystal transistors, the inverter indeed shows excellent performances with very low power consumption, high output gain, large noise margin, and small hysteresis. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
Time Series Prediction using LS-SVMs (2008)

Abstract. This paper describes the use of LS-SVMs as an estima-tion technique in the context of the time series prediction competition of ESTSP 2008 (Finland). Given three different time series, a model is estimated for each series, and subsequent simulations of several points af-ter the last available sample are produced. For the first series, a NARX model is formulated after a careful selection of the relevant lags of inputs and outputs. The second and third series show cyclical or seasonal pat-terns. Series 2 is modelled by adding deterministic “calendar ” variables into the nonlinear regression. Series 3 is first cleaned from the seasonal patterns, and a NAR model is estimated using LS-SVM on the deseason-alized series. In all cases, hyperparameters selection and input selection are made on a cross-validation basis. 1
Trust and Technology Repair Infrastructures in the Remote Rural Philippines (2019)

This paper analyzes the processes and challenges of technology repair in remote, low-income areas far from standard ICT repair infrastructure. Our sites of study are the fishing and farming villages of Dibut, Diotorin, and Dikapinisan in Aurora Province, Philippines, located in coastal coves against a mountain range. Residents are geographically isolated from urban areas, with the nearest peri-urban center of Baler a boat trip of several hours away, infeasible in some sea conditions. Unlike prior work in more connected rural areas, there are no local repair shops and device repair is uncommon, despite frequent breakage due to harsh conditions for electronics. The scarcity of local electronics repair limits technology access and leads to accumulation of e-waste. While prior work demonstrates that local electronics repair capability does arise in many rural areas around the world, we must also acknowledge that the successful emergence of this infrastructure depends on the intersection of many structural conditions and cannot be taken for granted. We present the material hardships of achieving local repair in terms of seams between heterogeneous urban and rural infrastructures, which illustrate the cove communities' marginality with respect to many forms of public infrastructure. However, intermittent and informal repair infrastructures based on trust relationships emerge to patch these seams in remote settings. We show how trust affects the way people dynamically construct repair infrastructure and why, based on their remoteness and the resulting value propositions of repair. Networks of trust between repairers, their clients, suppliers, fellow repairers, and certifying or training institutions crucially facilitate the movement of resources and expertise across the Philippines, but also reinforce the marginality of residents and repairers in the coves. Despite these structural challenges, local people are able to maintain a robust ecosystem for rural electrical line repair, from which we generalize the model of training grounds as a strategy for sustaining local communities of repair experts.
The NCI In Vitro Anticancer Drug Discovery Screen (1997)

Since 1955, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) has provided screening support to cancer researchers worldwide. Until 1985, the NCI screening program and the selection of compounds for further preclinical and clinical development under NCI auspices had relied predominantly on the in vivo L1210 and P388 murine leukemias and certain other transplantable tumor models (1). From 1975–1985, the in vivo P388 mouse leukemia model was used almost exclusively as the initial or primary screen. With few exceptions, agents that showed minimal or no activity in the P388 system were not selected by the NCI for further evaluation in other tumor models or alternative screens. Most of the available clinical anticancer agents are active in the P388 system; however, most were discovered prior to 1975 or by observations initially in test systems other than the NCI-operated P388 primary screen.
Some recent advances in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis. (1950)

In over 400 treatments with procaine intravenously, moderate to good improvement was noted in about 60 per cent of patients with osteoarthritis and radiculitis. Definite improvement after a single treatment was noted occasionally, but more often relief was not obtained until six to eight treatments had been given. Symptoms due to osteoarthritic changes in peripheral joints did not respond as well as did those due to spinal arthritis. Curare relieves some of the pain of arthritis due to muscle spasm, but does not bring improvement in motion of the small joints, such as those of the fingers. Preliminary experience with a new synthetic drug, 3-ortho-toloxy-1, 2-propanediol (Tolserol(R)), which produces muscular relaxation differing from that induced by curare, suggests further clinical trial.Intra-articular acidification by injection relieved pain in about 50 per cent of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.