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Hypnosis as a Deterrent to Suicide (1972)

Abstract A method that has been found successful in temporarily deterring suicide attempts is to give the post-hypnotic suggestion that the patient will not be able to carry out an actual suicide attempt until he has discussed it with the psychiatrist, in advance of the attempt, and in the psychiatrist's office, and further, that the patient will agree to enter a trance at any time the psychiatrist insists, even though the patient may not wish to do so. The rationale for this approach is that, (a) A temporary deterrent is often all that is necessary to prevent a given suicide attempt, (b) Hypnosis can have only a temporary deterring effect on suicide, (c) A direct and permanent confrontation that he can never commit suicide would be bound to fail and would not promote therapy of the personality, and (d) It gives the patient an alternative to suicide.
Synthesis and Luminescence of Novel Eu<sup>III</sup> Complexing Agents and Labels with 4‐(Phenylethynyl)pyridine Subunits (1996)

Abstract The synthesis of novel 4‐(phenylethynyl)pyridine subunits containing H 2 O‐soluble complexing agents and their luminescence with Eu III ions are reported. Ligands with high luminescence intensities as well as quantum yields were obtained. Also the prepared labeling reagents as antibody conjugates gave the highest quantum and luminescence yields reported for H 2 O‐soluble Eu III labels.
Human fibroblasts maintain the viability and augment the functional response of human neutrophils in culture. (1990)

When human neutrophils were co-cultured for 72 h with nontransformed human fibroblasts, 69 +/- 3% (n = 13) survived, as compared with survival levels of 2 +/- 1% (n = 15) and 26 +/- 6% (n = 7), respectively, for neutrophils cultured for the same time period in enriched medium alone or supplemented with 10 pM recombinant human granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rh GM-CSF). Conditioned medium from the human fibroblast cultures enhanced neutrophil survival in a dose-dependent fashion to the same level achieved with neutrophil/fibroblast co-cultures, and its soluble viability-sustaining activity was not inhibited by preincubation with neutralizing antiserum against rh GM-CSF. As compared with freshly isolated replicate samples, neutrophils co-cultured with human fibroblasts for 72 h exhibited augmented FMLP-stimulated superoxide production without spontaneous superoxide generation. This striking extension of survival and associated priming for a ligand response by neutrophils co-cultured with human fibroblasts suggests that fibroblasts may contribute to the proinflammatory properties of neutrophils in tissues.
An experimental investigation of hybrid kerosene burner configurations for TPV applications (1995)

A key element in thermophotovoltaic power generation is the development of a compact and efficient configuration for the thermal source and emitter. In the present work, a hybrid configuration was investigated which was composed of a liquid fueled diffusion type burner utilizing the emitting or mantle structure as the combustion chamber. The prototype burner operates on kerosene at fuel flow rates up to 1.0 kg/hr. Fuel is atomized using an 78 kHz ultrasonic nozzle with multifuel capabilities. Combustion is stabilized and heat transfer is enhanced via forced recirculation interior to the mantle structures. These structures range in size from 600 to 1200 cm3 and are porous in nature. This paper presents an introduction to issues specific to the use of small scale liquid fueled burners for TPV applications, and burner performance data for a series of configurations, in terms of combustor surface temperature distribution, maximum mass loading and efficiency.
NAPSAC: High Noise, High Dimensional Robust Estimation - it's in the Bag (2002)

An umber of the most powerful robust estimation algorithms, such as RANSAC, MINPRAN and LMS ,h ave their basis in selecting random minimal sets of data to instantiate hypotheses. However, their performance degrades in higher dimensional spaces due to the exponentially decreasing probability of sampling a set that is composed entirely of inliers. In order to overcome this, rather than picking sets at random, a new strategy is proposed that alters the way samples are taken, under the assumption that inliers will tend to be closer to one another than outliers. Based on this premise, the NAPSAC (N Adjacent Points SAmple Consensus) algorithm is derived and its performance is shown to be superior to RANSAC in both high noise and high dimensional spaces.
PBMC fixation and processing for Chromium single-cell RNA sequencing (2018)

We expect that the methanol-based cell fixation procedure presented here will allow better and more effective batching schemes for a complex single cell experimental design with primary cells or tissues.
Wideband and flat-gain optical amplification from1460 to 1510 nmby serial combination of a thulium-doped fluoride fibre amplifierand fibre Raman amplifier (1999)

A wideband and flat-gain optical amplifier is realised for the wavelength band under the gain band of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers by serially connecting a thulium-doped fluoride fibre amplifier and a fibre Raman amplifier. A high gain of > 25 dB is obtained in the range 1460 – 1510 nm.
Low‐dose basiliximab induction therapy in heart transplantation (2017)

We prospectively studied efficacy and safety outcomes of two 10-mg doses of intravenous basiliximab on day 0 and day 4 for induction therapy in 17 consecutive de novo heart transplant recipients. By the 2-week assessment post-transplant, there were no deaths, graft failures, or acute cellular rejections (ACRs) ISHLT grade ≥ 2R. By the 1-year assessment post-transplant, there were 1 (6%) infectious death, no graft failures, 2 (12%) grade 2R ACRs, 6 (35%) asymptomatic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, and 4 (25%) treated infections. Our study was the first to show that low-dose basiliximab induction in heart transplant resulted in favorable efficacy and safety outcomes. Additionally, calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) initiation in a low-risk population could be safely delayed using the strategy of modified low-dose postoperative basiliximab. This strategy also appears to allow subsequent early corticosteroid wean, although with the concomitant maintenance of higher CNI levels and higher dosing of mycophenolate.
General Introduction (2012)

The first of the following tracts was published in the beginning of the year 1776 and the second in the beginning of last year.
Stunned peri-infarct canine myocardium is characterized by degradation of troponin T, not troponin I (2004)

Our results suggest cTnI degradation is not a universal determinant of post-ischemic myocardial stunning. Moreover, the dissociation between cTnT degradation and wall thickening argue against a direct 'cause-and-effect' relationship between proteolysis of cTnT and acute, post-ischemic contractile dysfunction of stunned peri-infarct myocardium.
Ultra‐low‐power image signal processor for smart camera applications (2015)

Among thriving cyber physical systems, smart camera applications require to run both image sensors and image signal processors (ISPs) to capture images whenever necessary. Owing to the nature of such applications (i.e. constantly capturing images and analysing the images to detect any event of interest), the image sensor and ISP become the two most energy consuming components in smart camera applications. It is started with the intuition that the perceptive quality of images is not strongly correlated with the accuracy of object detection algorithms and a technique that requires only minor modifications to the baseline ISP is proposed but notably reduces the ISP energy consumption in object detection mode for smart camera applications. It is demonstrated that the ISP reduces energy consumption by 33% compared with the baseline ISP energy while degrading face detection accuracy by only 3%.
Active microwave filters with noise performance considerations (1994)

Active microwave filters offer a unique solution for certain filtering problems in modern microwave integrated circuit applications. A number of authors have reported novel active filter topologies in this connection; however, noise considerations for these exotic designs have seldom been addressed, and only Bonetti and Williams (1990, 1992) have provided actual reliable repeatable measured noise data across a band of frequencies. The main objective of this paper is to present a precision computer-oriented technique to accurately predict and quantify the noise performance of various active microwave filter realizations. Experimental examples are presented which validate the computer-oriented simulation methodology. Noise performance results are presented for a representative realization of each class of active microwave filter considered.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
A negotiation protocol for conflict resolution in multi-agent environments (2002)

In multi-agent systems where each agent has a different goal, agents must be able to resolve conflicts arising in the process of achieving their goals, without sufficient knowledge about other agents. A method is presented for conflict resolution in which agents are allowed to have partial knowledge about other agents. A negotiation protocol is proposed for conflict resolution under a set of assumptions that makes the world of agents resemble a real system. The authors' negotiation protocol can be applied to conflicts on both consumable and reusable types of resources. It is shown that agents can cooperate with each other even when information about resources is incomplete. Some results on a negotiation protocol are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Formats for Improving Risk Communication in Medical Tradeoff Decisions (2006)

To make treatment decisions, patients should consider not only a treatment option's potential consequences but also the probability of those consequences. Many laypeople, however, have difficulty using probability information. This Internet-based study (2,601 participants) examined a hypothetical medical tradeoff situation in which a treatment would decrease one risk but increase another. Accuracy was assessed in terms of the ability to determine correctly whether the treatment would increase or decrease the total risk. For these tradeoff problems, accuracy was greater when the following occurred: (1) the amount of cognitive effort required to evaluate the tradeoff was reduced; (2) probability information was presented as a graphical display rather than as text only; and (3) information was presented as percentages rather than as frequencies (n in 100). These findings provide suggestions of ways to present risk probabilities that may help patients understand their treatment options.
Concepts for secondary electron emission from irradiated insulators (2002)

Planar 1-dimensional samples of 2.815 mm thick polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) were irradiated in vacuum by 1 MeV electrons at constant intensity under three conditions of electrode attachment. Electrodes were either painted on the surface or spaced in vacuum 6.3 mm from the surface. Currents to the electrodes were monitored during the irradiation. The radiation dose penetrating the insulator was also monitored. As the radiation proceeded, the insulators became charged and modified the depth of penetration of the 1 MeV electrons. A simulation code predicts the correct electrode currents and penetrating dose rate only if one allows the low energy secondary electron emission to be a strong function of the electric field just inside the insulator PMMA surface. Secondary emission is enhanced more than a factor of ten with the surfaces at 10 kV/cm.
Separation of cyclosporins by high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometric study of cyclosporin metabolites (1998)

A semi-preparative (high-performance liquid chromatography) method for separation of cyclosporin metabolites in a fungal fermentation sample was developed. By using the optimized chromatographic separation, 20 cyclosporin metabolites in a process sample were isolated, and their molecular masses measured by double focusing sector mass spectrometry. The structures of some of the cyclosporin congeners were investigated by tandem sector mass spectrometry using fast atom bombardment ionization. The isobaric cyclosporins D ([Val2] CS) and G ([Nva2] CS) were differentiated by significantly different relative intensities of a fragment ion at m/z 30 [CH4N]+ from a precursor ion at m/z 72 [C4H10N]+. Otherwise the tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) spectra of the fragment ions of the two isomers are very similar. Cyclosporin A and iso-cyclosporin A were also analysed by high energy MS/MS. No significant fragment ions were found to provide distinctions between them. Relatively good overviews of process samples containing very similar structures were achieved by combining LC separation, molecular ion recognition and MS/MS characterization.
How Good is the Crowd at "real" WSD? (2011)

There has been a great deal of excitement recently about using the “wisdom of the crowd” to collect data of all kinds, quickly and cheaply (Howe, 2008; von Ahn and Dabbish, 2008). Snow et al. (Snow et al., 2008) were the first to give a convincing demonstration that at least some kinds of linguistic data can be gathered from workers on the web more cheaply than and as accurately as from local experts, and there has been a steady stream of papers and workshops since then with similar results. e.g. (Callison-Burch and Dredze, 2010). Many of the tasks which have been successfully crowdsourced involve judgments which
Application of Meso Scale Technology for the Measurement of Phosphoproteins in Human Tumor Xenografts (2007)

In this age of molecularly targeted drug discovery, robust techniques are required to measure pharmacodynamic (PD) responses in tumors so that drug exposures can be associated with their effects on molecular biomarkers and efficacy. Our aim was to develop a rapid screen to monitor PD responses within xenografted human tumors as an important step towards a clinically applicable technology. Currently there are various methods available to measure PD end points, including immunohistochemistry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, gene expression profiling, and western blotting. These may require relatively large samples of tumor, surrogate tissue, or peripheral blood lymphocytes with subsequent analyses taking several days. The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) pathway is frequently deregulated in cancer and is also important in diabetes and autoimmune conditions. In this paper, optimization of the Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) (Gaithersburg, MD) platform to quantify changes in phospho-AKT and phospho-glycogen synthase kinase-3beta in response to a PI3-kinase inhibitor, LY294002, is described, initially in vitro and then within xenografted solid tumors. This method is highly practical with high throughput since large number of samples can be run simultaneously in 96-well format. The assays are robust (coefficient of variation for phospho-AKT 13.4%) and offer significant advantages (in terms of speed and quantitation) over western blots. This optimized procedure can be used for both in vitro and in vivo analysis, unlike an established fixed-cell ELISA with a time-resolved fluorescent end point.
ChemInform Abstract: Oxidation of 10‐Methoxy‐9‐anthraldehyde with Various Oxidizing Agents in Protic and Aprotic Media. (1990)

Abstract In order to obtain the desired diazoketone (Ia), the acid (II) is required which may be transformed to (Ia) via the acid (Ib).
Surface Plasmon Resonance Investigation of Silver and Gold Films Coated with Thin Indium Tin Oxide Layers: Influence on Stability and Sensitivity (2008)

The paper reports on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) studies of silver (Ag) and gold (Au) interfaces coated with thin indium tin oxide (ITO) layers. The ITO thin films were deposited using radio frequency sputtering at ambient temperature, resulting in the formation of chemically and optically stable Ag/ITO and Au/ITO interfaces. The advantage of Ag/ITO multilayers over Au and Au/ITO interfaces for SPR refractive index sensing is discussed in terms of sensitivity. Furthermore, the Ag/ITO interface offers the possibility for SPR studies in the presence of absorbing dielectrics, such as polypyrrole thin films.
S-Net: From Answer Extraction to Answer Generation for Machine Reading Comprehension (2017)

In this paper, we present a novel approach to machine reading comprehension for the MS-MARCO dataset. Unlike the SQuAD dataset that aims to answer a question with exact text spans in a passage, the MS-MARCO dataset defines the task as answering a question from multiple passages and the words in the answer are not necessary in the passages. We therefore develop an extraction-then-synthesis framework to synthesize answers from extraction results. Specifically, the answer extraction model is first employed to predict the most important sub-spans from the passage as evidence, and the answer synthesis model takes the evidence as additional features along with the question and passage to further elaborate the final answers. We build the answer extraction model with state-of-the-art neural networks for single passage reading comprehension, and propose an additional task of passage ranking to help answer extraction in multiple passages. The answer synthesis model is based on the sequence-to-sequence neural networks with extracted evidences as features. Experiments show that our extraction-then-synthesis method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Effect of dietary kelp on lipid peroxidation and glutathione peroxidase activity in livers of rats given breast carcinogen DMBA (1991)

In our previous study of female rats, a diet containing 2% of powdered fronds of Laminaria religiosa (kelp) had a remarkable inhibitory effect on mammary tumorigenesis induced by orally given 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA). In this study, the effect of the dietary kelp on lipid peroxidation and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity in the liver was studied in the same experimental system. Two separate short- and long-term experiments were carried out on rats fed a diet with 2% kelp. DMBA (20 mg/kg body wt) was given to each animal 7 days after feeding began in short-term experiment and 27 days later in long-term experiment. Livers of all rats were obtained for quantitative determination and for histopathologic observation. Lipoperoxide in livers of the kelp-fed rats was of normal value, almost the same as that of untreated control rats; however, lipoperoxide in livers of control rats was significantly higher than in the other two groups in both experiments. A marked fatty change in livers of control rats was demonstrated in hepatic cells in peripheral zones of lobules in long-term experiment but not in short-term experiment. In long-term experiment, the amounts of GSH-Px and selenium in livers of kelp-fed rats were slightly less than those in untreated control rats but more than those in control rats. There was a more-intense positive reaction in the hepatic cells in the peripheral zones of the lobules in the kelp-fed and untreated rats and a less-intense positive reaction in control rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Newly characterised ex vivo colospheres as a three-dimensional colon cancer cell model of tumour aggressiveness (2009)

The present colospheres provide an ex vivo three-dimensional model, potentially useful for studying metastatic process.
A neural network approach to predict existing and in-fill oil well performance (2000)

We put forward a neural network approach to predict existing and in-fill oil well performance. Multiple wells history production data were used to train the neural network, and the established neural network can be used to predict future performance of oil wells. No reservoir data is currently involved in the establishment of neural network, therefore it can predict well production performance in absence of reservoir data. Since both the static and dynamic data are used in the training, we combine the spatial and time series prediction together in this approach. Primary production of a 9-well area in North Robertson Unit located in west Texas was tested in this paper. The results demonstrate that our approach is powerful in rapid projection of existing wells future performance, as well as the performance prediction of in-fill drilling wells. By incorporating the appropriate optimization technique, it can be further extended for use in location optimization of in-fill drilling wells.
Deep Scatter Estimation in PET: Fast Scatter Correction Using a Convolutional Neural Network (2018)

Fast and accurate scatter correction is essential for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). However, single scatter simulation usually disregards multiple scattering as well as scatter from outside the field of view and relies on error-prone tail fitting for scatter scaling. The use of Monte-Carlo scatter simulation, a highly accurate alternative, is impeded by long computation times. Deep scatter estimation (DSE) uses convolutional neural networks (CNN) which are trained to reproduce known scatter distributions from known input data, and later applied to unknown input data for fast scatter estimation with similar accuracy. This work investigates DSE for PET imaging. Methods: We collected data from 20 patients and simulated reference scatter distributions for each of 71 bed positions. We implemented a CNN which inputs measured PET emission data as well as attenuation correction factors, and trained the network to reproduce the scatter distributions of 57 (training) bed positions. We then used the model to predict scatter estimates for the 14 remaining (validation) bed positions, and reconstructed PET images using reference and estimated scatter distributions for scatter correction, respectively. Normalized mean absolute errors (NMAEs) were computed for scatter estimates and reconstructed PET images. All computations were run on a workstation with a graphics processing unit. Results: Model training took 32 h for 20 epochs, resulting in DSE durations of 5.3 s per bed position. Scatter NMAEs for 13 of 14 bed positions ranged from 4 to 10 % (mean, 7.1 %), with one outlier (14 %) in a bed position where the filled bladder extended outside the axial FOV. In reconstructed PET images, these NMAEs translated to 1 to 8 % (mean, 3.6 %; outlier: 28 %). Conclusion: Convolutional neural networks have the potential to significantly speed up scatter estimation, opening the door to faster and more accurate scatter correction in clinical PET.
El cuerpo y la memoria como emblemas de participación juvenil (2013)

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar continuidades. Esto significa pensar las permanencias existentes en el proceso de participación que los jóvenes, de distintas épocas, protagonizan. No siempre se realizó de la misma manera, ya que no existe homogeneidad en las "tácticas",en las formas en que los más débiles luchan, o mejor dicho, resisten a las "estrategias" de los más fuertes. La táctica, para M. de Certeau, es el arte del débil, se encuentra determinada por la ausencia de poder, es astuta, obra poco a poco, aprovechando las ocasiones de imponerse imperceptiblemente a su oponente. No pueden generalizarse los resultados ni tampoco sus objetivos, sin embargo, pueden visualizarse ciertas continuidades dentro del movimiento juvenil que permiten visualizarlos como los principales protagonistas de movimientos de reclamo frente a situaciones de injusticia variada. Esto nos permitiría pensar en la prolongación del pasado reciente vivo en el presente vivido