gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Customer retention in the financial industry: An application of survival analysis (2008)

Recently, in both marketing theory (academia) and practice (industry), the emphasis in relationship marketing has shifted to long term customer relationship management emphasizing customer retention or loyalty. This study has two main purposes: (1) to investigate the impacts of selected firm-customer interaction behavior and demographic characteristics on customer retention behavior in the financial industry, (2) to compare the results of a static method of analysis (logistic regression model) and a dynamic method (Cox’s hazard method) for customer retention. The statistical analyses conducted employing two cohorts showed that the Cox model was stable across cohorts. Using Cox’s hazard method, all of the independent variables were found to be significantly related to customer retention, while some of demographic factors (for example, tenure, marital status and gender, and channel usage) were not found to significantly affect customer retention in the logistic regression. The results show that with the enhancement of interaction between a bank and its customers by increasing customers' service usage, cross-buying, tenure experience, and complicated product usage, customers were more likely to stay longer with the bank. Additionally, age, education, and income were found to be positively related to customer retention, while customers with higher time pressure were less likely to defect. Single females were found to be least likely to attrite, while married customers were most likely to default or switch to an alternative. Single males were more likely to stay than married ones, but more likely to churn than single female customers. Finally, managerial implications were drawn, and limitations and potential for further study were discussed.
SUCCESSFUL FERTILISATION OF HUMAN OOCYTES IN VITRO: CONCENTRATION OF ESTRADIOL-17S, PROGESTERONE AND ANDROSTENEDIONE IN THE ANTRAL FLUID OF DONOR FOLLICLES.1<sup>1</sup> (1982)

Oocytes and matched samples of follicular fluid were obtained from 156 pre-ovulatory follicles in 125 women 26--36 h after either administration of hCG or the onset of an endogenous LR surge. Concentrations of estradiol-17 beta (E2), progesterone (P) and androstenedione (A4) in the fluid of individual donor follicles were measured and related to the success of fertilisation of oocytes in vitro and the incidence of pregnancies after embryo transfer. Oocytes which gave rise to successful pregnancies were obtained from follicles which contained greater concentrations of E2 and a higher ratio of E2:P than did oocytes from which pregnancy did not result. These data provide direct evidence in support of the hypothesis that estrogenic follicles are the sole source of ova which undergo fertilisation and subsequently give rise to pregnancy in women.
Software benchmarking (1995)

In software, "benchmarking" usually compares two companies' practices and results, but, occasionally, it involves sets of companies. For example, there are benchmark comparisons of industry software, such as insurance software, military software, telecommunication software, commercial software, and the like. In other domains, "benchmark" usually means the collection of a substantial body of quantitative data. Benchmark comparisons of various computers, for example, rate their relative performance in at least half a dozen categories. Historically, software benchmarks have been qualitative rather than quantitative. Even the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) is essentially a qualitative benchmark that ranks company performance on a five-point scale that lacks quantification for specific quality and productivity levels.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Combined Use of Angioscopy and Intravascular Ultrasonography for Diagnosis and Evaluation of Surgical Repair of Aortic Disease (2019)

Angioscopy (AS) and intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) enable pathological diagnosis of vascular interior and visualization of vascular wall architecture, respectively, and therefore these techniques in combination may give us much information on vascular disease. But, these techniques in combination have been rarely used for diagnosis and evaluation of surgical repair of large vessels. Systematic review on the combined use of AS and IVUS for vascular disease, except those of the coronary arteries, has rarely been published in the literature, so we have described developmental history of AS, and AS and IVUS images of aortic disease before and after surgical therapy that were obtained mostly in our laboratory. Usually, AS system is composed of a 4.5F fiberscope and 9F balloon guide catheter and IVUS system is composed of a 9F, 12 or 20 MHz, 20 CPS probe. They are introduced into the aorta for diagnosis of aortic aneurysm and evaluation of their surgical repair in patients. Recent important findings are as follows: (1) Entry and re-entry of dissecting aortic aneurysm were easily identified by IVUS and entry was frequently found by AS in yellow plaques. Thrombus formation was found by AS in the aortic arch graft, suggesting the necessity of anticoagulant therapy after repair for prevention of cerebral embolism. (2) Disrupted plaques and thrombi were observed by IVUS in the aneurysm, which were frequently not detectable by computed tomography or aortography, in patients with saccular abdominal aortic aneurysm. Fresh and old thrombus in mixture were frequently observed by AS, suggesting recurrent thrombus formation. Incomplete neo-endothelial coverage of the Y-graft even 6 months after grafting and detached threads at the sutured portion were found by AS but not by IVUS. Pseudoaneurysm at the sutured portion was confirmed by AS and IVUS in combination. AS and IVUS in combination give us much information on structural and pathological changes and evaluation of surgical repair of aortic disease.
New type film-adhesives for microelectronics application (2003)

Polyimidesiloxanes (SIM-X) were prepared and investigated in applications as film adhesive for microelectronics. SIM-X have low T/sub g/, low modulus, and low moisture absorption. A film composed of SIM-X and conductive filler (silver) shows good adhesion. It was found that the evaluated SIM was able to adhere to several adherends at lower temperature and under lower load than the usual condition. Applications to silver-filled film-adhesive for heatsink and die attachment were investigated. In the case of the heatsink, improvements of adhesive strength at high temperature and with PCT treatment were studied. The problems were solved in the following manner: (1) adhesion at higher temperature and (2) modification of the polymer. In the case of die attachment, the die rapidly adhered to leadframe at low temperature. This result indicates that inline attachment will be possible.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
A neutralization-resistant Theiler's virus variant produces an altered disease pattern in the mouse central nervous system (1989)

Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus infection of mice is an animal model for human demyelinating diseases. To further define the role of this virus in the disease process, we selected a virus variant resistant to neutralization by a monoclonal antibody to VP-1. This virus variant was then injected into SJL/J mice. Central nervous system tissue was compared between variant virus- and wild-type virus-infected mice. Within the brain, no large differences were observed between the two groups as to the distribution of inflammatory infiltrates around the injection site and the number of viral antigen-positive cells during the first weeks of the observation period. In contrast, in the spinal cord major differences were found between variant virus- and wild-type virus-infected mice regarding the number of inflammatory lesions, infected cells, and the size of the areas involved with time. By immunohistochemistry, equivalent numbers of infected cells could be found in the spinal cord 1 week postinfection (p.i.): however, after that time, the number of infected cells in the wild-type virus-infected mice continued to increase, whereas the virus-positive cells from the variant virus-infected mice gradually decreased. Thus, the number of viral antigen-containing cells peaked by 1 week p.i. in the variant virus-infected animals. Conversely, the number of infected cells in the spinal cords from mice inoculated with wild-type virus steadily increased until 8 weeks p.i. At this time (8 weeks p.i.), no more variant virus antigen-positive cells could be observed within the spinal cord. Plaque assay of central nervous system tissue confirmed these differences between the two groups observed by immunohistochemistry. No infectious variant virus could be isolated after 2 weeks p.i. from the brain and 4 weeks p.i. from the spinal cord, whereas infectious wild-type virus could be detected up to the end of the observation period (12 weeks p.i.). Virus which was isolated from variant virus-infected mice still retained the neutralization-resistant phenotype. These studies emphasize the important biological in vivo activity of Theiler's virus VP-1 in determining neurovirulence.
Vive la Evolution (2011)

The history of health reform in Australia is a mix of evolution and revolution. The current reform agenda could be a revolutionary one - if politicians and consumers are prepared to risk it.
Evaluation of a bedside blood ketone sensor: the effects of acidosis, hyperglycaemia and acetoacetate on sensor performance (2004)

Acidosis and hyperglycaemia have minimal effects on the sensor performance. However, high concentrations of acetoacetate result in some overestimation of betahydroxybutyrate. This bedside ketone sensor provides useful data over a broad range of conditions likely to be encountered during moderate to severe diabetic ketoacidosis.
IMCS2: Novel Device-to-Architecture Co-Design for Low-Power In-Memory Computing Platform Using Coterminous Spin Switch (2018)

Spin switch (SS) is a promising spintronic device which exhibits compactness, low power, non-volatility, input-output isolation leveraging giant spin Hall effect, spin transfer torque, and dipolar coupling. In this paper, we propose a novel device-to-architecture co-design for an in-memory computing platform using coterminous SS (IMCS2), which could simultaneously work as non-volatile memory and reconfigurable in-memory logic (AND/NAND, OR/NOR, and XOR/XNOR) without add-on logic circuits to memory chip. The computed logic output could be simply read out like a normal magnetic random access memory bit cell using the shared memory peripheral circuits. Such intrinsic in-memory logic could be used to process data within memory to greatly reduce power-hungry and long distance data communication in the conventional von Neumann computing system. The IMCS2-based in-memory bulk bitwise Boolean vector operation shows ~9× energy saving and ~3× speedup compared with that of DRAM-based in-memory computing platform. We further employ in-memory multiplication to evaluate the performance of the proposed in-memory computing platform for vector-vector multiplication with different vector sizes.
PP.42.16 (2015)

Objective: Kinase suppressor of ras 3 (CNKSR3) was a direct mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) target gene that is up-regulated in response to physiological concentrations of aldosterone. Aldosterone is the principal hormonal regulator of sodium homeostasis. Thus, the regulation of CNKSR3 gene is correlated to essential hypertension. The aim of the present study was to assess the association between the human CNKSR3 gene polymorphism and essential hypertension in a Han population of China.Design and method: We use 422 control subjects and 1868 confirmed essential hypertension subjects. All patients and controls were genotyped for the same three single nucleotide polymorphisms SNPs (rs11541340, rs4870285 and rs7757161) of CNKSR3 gene by a real-time PCR instrument. Results: In the Han population, for total, the distribution of rs11541340 and rs7757161 genotypes showed a significant difference between essential hypertension and control subjects (P = 0.044 and p = 0.008). The distribution of rs4870285 genotypes showed no significant difference between essential hypertension and control subjects. The distribution of rs11541340 and rs7757161 recessive model (GT vs GG + TT and CT vs CC + TT, respectively) showed a significant difference between essential hypertension and control participants (P = 0.013 and P = 0.002). The distribution of rs7757161 alleles and dominant model(CC vs CT+TT) showed a significant difference between essential hypertension and control participants (for alleles P = 0.042, P < 0.001). The significant difference of rs11542340 and rs7757161 in recessive model was retained after adjustment for covariates (OR: 2.22, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.157–4.259, P = 0.016; OR: 3.125, 95% CI: 1.590–6.143, P = 0.001, respectively). Conclusions: The GG genotype of rs11541340 in CNKSR3 gene could be a protective genetic marker of essential hypertension and C allele may be a protective genetic marker of essential hypertension of Han population in China. The TT genotype of rs7757161 in CNKSR3 gene could be a protective genetic marker of essential hypertension and C allele may be a risk genetic marker of essential hypertension of Han population in China.
Complete study demonstrating the absence of rhabdovirus in a distinct Sf9 cell line (2017)

A putative novel rhabdovirus (SfRV) was previously identified in a Spodoptera frugiperda cell line (Sf9 cells [ATCC CRL-1711 lot 58078522]) by next generation sequencing and extensive bioinformatic analysis. We performed an extensive analysis of our Sf9 cell bank (ATCC CRL-1711 lot 5814 [Sf9L5814]) to determine whether this virus was already present in cells obtained from ATCC in 1987. Inverse PCR of DNA isolated from Sf9 L5814 cellular DNA revealed integration of SfRV sequences in the cellular genome. RT-PCR of total RNA showed a deletion of 320 nucleotides in the SfRV RNA that includes the transcriptional motifs for genes X and L. Concentrated cell culture supernatant was analyzed by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and revealed a single band at a density of 1.14 g/ml. This fraction was further analysed by electron microscopy and showed amorphous and particulate debris that did not resemble a rhabdovirus in morphology or size. SDS-PAGE analysis confirmed that the protein composition did not contain the typical five rhabdovirus structural proteins and LC-MS/MS analysis revealed primarily of exosomal marker proteins, the SfRV N protein, and truncated forms of SfRV N, P, and G proteins. The SfRV L gene fragment RNA sequence was recovered from the supernatant after ultracentrifugation of the 1.14 g/ml fraction treated with diethyl ether suggesting that the SfRV L gene fragment sequence is not associated with a diethyl ether resistant nucleocapsid. Interestingly, the 1.14 g/ml fraction was able to transfer baculovirus DNA into Sf9L5814 cells, consistent with the presence of functional exosomes. Our results demonstrate the absence of viral particles in ATCC CRL-1711 lot 5814 Sf9 cells in contrast to a previous study that suggested the presence of infectious rhabdoviral particles in Sf9 cells from a different lot. This study highlights how cell lines with different lineages may present different virosomes and therefore no general conclusions can be drawn across Sf9 cells from different laboratories.
Antidepressant Pharmaceuticals in Two U.S. Effluent-Impacted Streams: Occurrence and Fate in Water and Sediment, and Selective Uptake in Fish Neural Tissue (2010)

Antidepressant pharmaceuticals are widely prescribed in the United States; release of municipal wastewater effluent is a primary route introducing them to aquatic environments, where little is known about their distribution and fate. Water, bed sediment, and brain tissue from native white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) were collected upstream and at points progressively downstream from outfalls discharging to two effluent-impacted streams, Boulder Creek (Colorado) and Fourmile Creek (Iowa). A liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method was used to quantify antidepressants, including fluoxetine, norfluoxetine (degradate), sertraline, norsertraline (degradate), paroxetine, citalopram, fluvoxamine, duloxetine, venlafaxine, and bupropion in all three sample matrices. Antidepressants were not present above the limit of quantitation in water samples upstream from the effluent outfalls but were present at points downstream at ng/L concentrations, even at the farthest downstream sampling site 8.4 km downstream from the outfall. The antidepressants with the highest measured concentrations in both streams were venlafaxine, bupropion, and citalopram and typically were observed at concentrations of at least an order of magnitude greater than the more commonly investigated antidepressants fluoxetine and sertraline. Concentrations of antidepressants in bed sediment were measured at ng/g levels; venlafaxine and fluoxetine were the predominant chemicals observed. Fluoxetine, sertraline, and their degradates were the principal antidepressants observed in fish brain tissue, typically at low ng/g concentrations. A qualitatively different antidepressant profile was observed in brain tissue compared to streamwater samples. This study documents that wastewater effluent can be a point source of antidepressants to stream ecosystems and that the qualitative composition of antidepressants in brain tissue from exposed fish differs substantially from the compositions observed in streamwater and sediment, suggesting selective uptake.
Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Burkholderia glumae</i> BGR1 (2009)

Burkholderia glumae is the causative agent of grain and seedling rot in rice and of bacterial wilt in many field crops. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of B. glumae BGR1 isolated from a diseased rice panicle in Korea.
IP address lookup for Internet routers using cache routing table (2010)

So that the routers forward an IP packet with his destination, they are running a forwarding decision on an incoming packet to determine the packet’s next-hop router. This is achieved by looking up the longest matching prefix with a packet destination address in the routing tables. Therefore, one major factor in the overall performance of a router is the speed of the IP address lookup operation due to the increase in routing table size, in this paper, a new IP address lookup algorithm based on cache routing-table is proposed, that contains recently used IP addresses and their forwarding information to speed up the IP address lookups operation in the routers. We evaluated the performance of our proposed algorithm in terms of consultation time for several sets of IP addresses, the results of performance evaluation show that our algorithm is efficient in terms of the lookup speed since search can be immediately finished when the input IP address is found in the cache routing table.
Melt flow of polymer blends (1983)

Abstract The production of polymer blends increases at a rate of about 13 percent/y. Most of the commercial blends are multiphase systems of complex morphology, determined by the thermodynamic properties of the components and the rheology. Since the diffusion rates are relatively low, the blends are seldom at equilibrium. In most cases, the blend products have properties imposed by the morphology, created by a particular combination of the thermal and deformational history. There are three main reasons for studying the melt flow of blends: optimization of the processing conditions, search for the appropriate means to generate the desired morphology, and the interest in the basic study of the rheology of these complex systems. In this paper the results published during the last five years are reviewed. The data for polymer blends are compared with those obtained for simpler model systems: liquid mixtures, emulsions, and polymer blends. From the rheological point of view, the blends are divided into three groups: those where viscosity shows positive deviation from the log‐additivity rule, PDB, those where the opposite effect is observed, NDB, and the remaining mixed‐behavior systems, PNDB. To PDB belong the miscible blends and those with strong inter‐domain interactions. To NDB belong those where the interactions are weak. To PNDB belong the blends in which there is a concentration‐dependent transition of structure. The shear dependent properties of blends are also discussed.
The Significance of Adult Hematuria: 1,000 Hematuria Evaluations Including a Risk-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (1989)

Between March 1976 and June 1985, 1,000 consecutive adults with asymptomatic gross or microscopic hematuria in the absence of proteinuria were evaluated urologically. Lesions that could account for the hematuria were detected in 88.3 per cent of the patients. Life-threatening lesions were diagnosed in 9.1 per cent of the patients, while lesions requiring at least observation were present in 22.8 per cent. The incidence of life-threatening lesions increased with age, with a sharp increase after age 50 years. Life-threatening lesions were more common in men (13.6 per cent) than in women (4.9 per cent). In general, as the degree of hematuria increased so did the yield of life-threatening lesions; however, there was no "safe" lower limit of hematuria. Of the patients with life-threatening lesions 18.6 per cent had at least 1 urinalysis with less than 3 red blood cells per high power field within 6 months of the diagnosis. The direct medical cost of a hematuria evaluation was $777. The difference in direct medical costs to diagnose and treat localized versus metastatic genitourinary cancer was $48,070 in 3 matched pairs of patients. In this study group 77 of 84 patients (92 per cent) diagnosed with genitourinary cancer had localized disease. A hematuria evaluation was cost-effective for all groups studied. A literature-based estimate of the life-threatening risks of diagnostic studies applied to the study data resulted in a 1.1 per cent life-threatening risk per hematuria evaluation. For all categories studied, except for women less than 40 years old with microscopic hematuria, the risk of a hematuria evaluation was less than the incidence of life-threatening lesions discovered as a result of the evaluation. Asymptomatic hematuria, whether gross or microscopic, is a significant finding and warrants evaluation from a risk-benefit and cost-effectiveness standpoint.
WiMax on Rails (2008)

Recent progress in mobile telecommunications technology has allowed railway telecommunications technology as well as railway control systems to go a step forward. While the mobile telecommunications technology evolved from the first generation of analogue mobile communication systems to what is known today as Beyond Third Generation (B3G), the same occurred with the telecommunication systems used in railways