gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Small Grain and Grass Weed Response to BAS-514 with Adjuvants (1990)

Experiments were conducted in the greenhouse and the field to determine the influence of various oil adjuvants on small grain and grass weed susceptibility to foliarly applied BAS-514 OO H (BAS-514). Barnyardgrass, green foxtail, and yellow foxtail were more susceptible to BAS-514 at 0.56 kg ai ha -1 applied with than without an oil adjuvant. Shoot fresh weight reductions of barnyardgrass, green foxtail, and yellow foxtail were greater when BAS-514 at 0.56 kg ha -1 was applied with a methylated seed oil than with a petroleum oil adjuvant in the greenhouse. Differences in the effectiveness among oil adjuvants in enhancing BAS-514 phytotoxicity were more evident in greenhouse than in field experiments. Oil adjuvant enhancement of BAS-514 varied with plant species. Oats, hard red spring wheat, and winter wheat tolerated BAS-514 at 1.1 kg ha -1 foliarly applied with or without an oil adjuvant in the greenhouse. BAS-514 at 0.56 kg ha -1 applied with oil adjuvants caused less than 5% injury to wheat in the field.
Risk of Bacterial Meningitis in Children with Cochlear Implants (2003)

Parents and health care providers should ensure that all children who receive cochlear implants are appropriately vaccinated and are then monitored and treated promptly for any bacterial infections after receiving the implant.
Characteristics of Activated Carbons Produced from Herbaceous Biomass Feedstock (2018)

Energy security and environmental protection are at the forefront of research due to the forecasted depletion of fossil fuel reserves and the growing concern of its adverse environmental impacts. The use of renewable sources for energy applications has centered on the use of biomass feedstocks and this include from herbaceous, woody, agricultural waste, forest residues and municipal wastes. The thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis) of these biomass feedstocks has potential to produce liquid fuel, a solid residue (biochar) and non-condensable gas. The biochar is primarily composed of renewable porous carbon and other inorganic compounds. The biochar is used for soil amendment, adsorption applications, electrochemical applications, and as a matrix for catalysts development. This dissertation has documented utilization of herbaceous biomass for biochar and activated carbon production and its use for adsorption applications.
A New Perspective on V3 Phenotype Prediction (2003)

The particular coreceptor used by a strain of HIV-1 to enter a host cell is highly indicative of its pathology. HIV-1 coreceptor usage is primarily determined by the amino add sequences of the V3 loop region of the viral envelope glycoprotein. The canonical approach to sequence-based prediction of coreceptor usage was derived via statistical analysis of a less reliable and significantly smaller data set than is presently available. We aimed to produce a superior phenotypic classifier by applying modern machine learning (ML) techniques to the current database of V3 loop sequences with known phenotype. The trained classifiers along with the sequence data are available for public use at the supplementary website: http://genomiac2.ucsd.edu:8080/wetcat/v3.html and http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka[corrected].
Group Sharing and Random Access in Cryptographic Storage File Systems (1999)

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
OIL COMPOSITION OF<i>MENTHA AQUATICA</i>×<i>M</i>.<i>SPICATA</i>F<sub>1</sub>HYBRIDS IN RELATION TO THE ORIGIN OF<i>X M</i>.<i>PIPERITA</i> (1972)

Fertile M. aquatica L. (2n = 96) having the genotype cc AA PP RR ff and 40–80% menthofuran hybridized with fertile M. spicata L. (2n = 48) or M. spicata L. var. crispata Schrader (2n = 48) having the genotype Cc Aa PP rr FF, a strong spearmint odor, and the ketones carvone and dihydrocarvone produced sterile F 1 hybrids (2n = 72) that had a ratio of 1 hybrid having the 2-oxygenated ketones carvone and dihydrocarvone to 1 hybrid having the 3-oxygenated ketones pulegone and menthone. M. aquatica hybrids with an S 1 strain of M. spicata having the genotype CC (AA, Aa, or aa) PP rr FF and carvone are all carvone/carveol/carveyl acetate odored, whereas hybrids with S 1 strains of M. spicata having the genotype cc AA PP rr FF and the ketones pulegone and menthone are all somewhat peppermint odored but highly variable in oil composition. Gas chromatographic analyses of the peppermint-type hybrids having the genotype cc (AA or Aa) PP Rr Ff show that all hybrids have the same 14 major oil constituents as the Mitcham cultivar (source of all U.S. produced peppermint oil) and one non-Mitcham strain of X M. piperita L. but in very different quantitative amounts. Individual hybrids differed greatly in the quantitative amounts of 13 of the 14 oil constituents and organoleptic tests indicate that there are probably equally great differences in the minor oil constituents. The great variability of the F 1 hybrids in morphological appearance is largely due to the heterozygosity of the M. spicata parent, since the self-pollinated progeny of M. aquatica are indistinguishably alike. Certain hybrids resemble the natural strains of X M. piperita, whereas others do not. We were unable to make the 66-chromosomed cytotype, but have studied three secondary cytotypes having 84, 96, and 120 chromosomes.
High‐Temperature Carbon Monoxide Potentiometric Sensor (1993)

A high‐temperature potentiometric sensor was developed by coating a mixture of over one of the platinum electrodes of a cell with a yttria‐stabilized zirconia solid electrolyte. It showed good sensing characteristics over the temperature range of 450–550°C and concentration range of 0–10,000 ppm of in air. In particular, high sensitivity coupled with reasonably fast response and baseline recovery characteristics were observed at 450°C for concentrations below 3,000 ppm. The sensing mechanism and operating system were adequately described by a proposed mathematical model. The model relates the induced cell EMF to the various rate phenomena occurring in the oxide layer such as diffusion, adsorption, and surface catalytic oxidation of the adsorbed carbon monoxide by the gaseous oxygen.
Applications of CCD and switched capacitor filter technology (1979)

Since the earliest developments of charge transfer devices for signal processing functions, there has been a rapid evolution of the technology towards the capability of implementing complex signal processing functions on a single silicon substrate. Recently, switched capacitor filter technology has proven to be a complementary monolithic filter technology which is compatible with CCD's in fabrication. We review the operating principles of both filter technologies and present some recent developments in a number of signal process applications.
Visualization of VirE2 protein translocation by the <i><scp>A</scp>grobacterium</i> type IV secretion system into host cells (2013)

Type IV secretion systems (T4SS) can mediate the translocation of bacterial virulence proteins into host cells. The plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens uses a T4SS to deliver a VirD2-single stranded DNA complex as well as the virulence proteins VirD5, VirE2, VirE3, and VirF into host cells so that these become genetically transformed. Besides plant cells, yeast and fungi can efficiently be transformed by Agrobacterium. Translocation of virulence proteins by the T4SS has so far only been shown indirectly by genetic approaches. Here we report the direct visualization of VirE2 protein translocation by using bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) and Split GFP visualization strategies. To this end, we cocultivated Agrobacterium strains expressing VirE2 tagged with one part of a fluorescent protein with host cells expressing the complementary part, either fused to VirE2 (for BiFC) or not (Split GFP). Fluorescent filaments became visible in recipient cells 20-25 h after the start of the cocultivation indicative of VirE2 protein translocation. Evidence was obtained that filament formation was due to the association of VirE2 with the microtubuli.
A distributed intrusion detect model based on alert data correlation analysis (2010)

Intrusion detects is an important method to ensure the network security and the distributed intrusion detect system can detect the intrusion of the entire network. The association analysis is practical and feasible to improve the detective performance of intrusion detection system. The paper proposes a tree-layer alert data correlation analysis model of distributed intrusion system to reduce the false alerts by analyzing the intensity of the alert data, clear or reduce the repeated alert by clustering the alert data and discover the high-level attack tactics by associating the alert data. The paper provides the algorithm of each module, and the experiment of the high-level event correlation module with the detect attack data Mitnick shows that the association based on the ontology can achieve the detection of the process of the multi-step distributed attack.
Optical recording by a 823‐nm GaAlAs laser, based on stretched‐polymer birefringence relaxation (1986)

Abstract A ∼5‐μm‐thick stretched sheet of a vinyl chloride–vinyldene chloride copolymer containing a suitable polymethine dye providing an optical density of 1–2 at 823 nm has been used to record ∼3μm‐diameter relaxed spots, produced with pulses of 250 μs or longer from a 5‐mW GaAlAs laser operating at 823 nm. The spots have been observed under polarizing microscope. It is proposed that this demonstrates a principle that could be used for recording and retrieval of information by a laser beam, using a stretched polymer as the storage medium.
Method of VoIP traffic identification based on C4.5 decision tree (2012)

This paper proposed a novel method to identify several familiar VoIP traffic based on C4.5 decision tree,which was mainly by select the flow features of classification.It tested the simulated data and the true Internet data.The experimental results show the method achieves high indentification accuracy for the Internet data including many different type of VoIP application,and adapt well for the real Internet data.
New algorithms for the placement and routing of macro cells (2002)

Novel algorithms are described for timing driven placement and routing of rectilinearly shaped macro cells. Algorithms are also presented for the implementation of simulated annealing, based on a theoretically derived statistical annealing schedule. A negative feedback scheme is described that optimizes the relative weighting between the primary objective term and the penalty function terms in the cost function. A placement refinement method has been developed for rectilinear cells which spaces the cells at a density which avoids the need for post-routing compaction. In addition, a detailed routing method has been developed which avoids the classically difficult problem of defining channels for detailed routing. The result for the ami33 benchmark circuit is better than the previously published results.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Ciudad, sociedad civil y comunicaci¾n (1998)

En este texto se hace un recorrido por las conceptualizaciones de ciudad y de sociedad civil para luego proponer tres lugares clave desde donde reflexionar sobre la relacion entre estas dos entidades: el gobierno el individuo y la comunicacion. La finalidad es pensar criticamente la alternativa que algunos autores proponen para enfrentar la problematica de las grandes urbes. la participacion de la sociedad civil y su potenciacion.
Dielectric combline resonators and filters (1998)

The dielectric combline resonator combines the merits of the metallic combline and dielectric loaded resonator. By replacing the inner conductor of the conventional combline resonator by a high E, dielectric rod, higher unloaded Q can be expected. Resonant frequency, unloaded Q, and coupling coefficient of the resonator are obtained by a rigorous mode-matching method. An eight-pole elliptic-function dielectric combline resonator filter was designed and tested. Measured frequency responses verify the theory.
A Sensitive and Rapid Method for Determination of Pyrophosphatase Activity. (1982)

A new, rapid and sensitive method of measuring the rate and amount of PPi hydrolysis is described. The method is based on registration of small pH changes, caused by decrease of hydrogen-ion concentration during the pyrophosphatase reaction. With this detected value of hydrogen-ion concentration change and the buffering capacity of each reaction mixture determined by titration, the rate and amount of PPi hydrolysis can be calculated. The results obtained by pH method are in good agreement with values determined by direct phosphate analysis. The described method can be applied to the continuous determination of pyrophosphatase activity in chromatophores, mitochondria, crude extracts or purified enzymes.
0.5 W efficient broadly tunable continuous-wave Cr2+:ZnSe laser (2000)

We report room-temperature operation of a continuous-wave Cr 2+ :ZnSe laser. Single-pass pumped Cr 2+ :ZnSe generates 520 mW of tunable radiation between 2200 and 2812 nm at 1.5 W of incident power and 63 % slope efficiency, in the multi-pass pump scheme dual Q-switehed operation at 1,75 and 2,5 µ m is observed.
Therapeutic potential of a long acting somatostatin analogue in gastrointestinal diseases. (1989)

For the first time, 8 patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) participated as full delegates at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA). Patients were invited to provide their perspective for different sessions of the conference program. Before the conference, the patient delegates had a separate meeting to familiarize themselves with the conference program and to gain a better understanding of the vision and objectives of GRAPPA. During the conference, the patient group discussed options for increased involvement in research projects. Herein we summarize the presentations on patient participation in research, the experiences of the patient group, and plans to enhance the patient perspective in psoriasis and PsA research.
Development of an Oxime Bond Containing Daunorubicin-Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-III Conjugate as a Potential Anticancer Drug (2009)

Here, we report on the synthesis and biological properties of a conjugate in which daunorubicin (Dau) as chemotherapeutic agent was attached through an oxime bond to gonadotropin-releasing hormone-III (GnRH-III) as targeting moiety. In vitro toxicity and the cytostatic effect of the conjugate on MCF-7 human breast and C26 murine colon cancer cell lines were determined, and the results were compared with those obtained for the free daunorubicin, as well as with the doxorubicin containing derivative. In vivo antitumor effect of daunorubicin-GnRH-III was studied on Balb/c female mice transplanted with C26 tumor. Our data indicate that the daunorubicin-GnRH-III conjugate had a lower toxic effect than the free daunorubicin and it was essentially nontoxic up to 15 mg (Dau content)/kg body weight. The treatment of the C26 tumor bearing mice with the conjugate led to tumor growth inhibition and longer survival time in comparison with the controls and with the administration of the free drug. When mice were treated twice with the conjugate (on days 4 and 7 after tumor transplantation), 46% tumor growth inhibition was obtained. In this case, the increase of the median survival time was 38% compared to the controls.
A Deep-Learning-Based Vehicle Detection Approach for Insufficient and Nighttime Illumination Conditions (2019)

Most object detection models cannot achieve satisfactory performance under nighttime and other insufficient illumination conditions, which may be due to the collection of data sets and typical labeling conventions. Public data sets collected for object detection are usually photographed with sufficient ambient lighting. However, their labeling conventions typically focus on clear objects and ignore blurry and occluded objects. Consequently, the detection performance levels of traditional vehicle detection techniques are limited in nighttime environments without sufficient illumination. When objects occupy a small number of pixels and the existence of crucial features is infrequent, traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) may suffer from serious information loss due to the fixed number of convolutional operations. This study presents solutions for data collection and the labeling convention of nighttime data to handle various types of situations, including in-vehicle detection. Moreover, the study proposes a specifically optimized system based on the Faster region-based CNN model. The system has a processing speed of 16 frames per second for 500 × 375-pixel images, and it achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.8497 in our validation segment involving urban nighttime and extremely inadequate lighting conditions. The experimental results demonstrated that our proposed methods can achieve high detection performance in various nighttime environments, such as urban nighttime conditions with insufficient illumination, and extremely dark conditions with nearly no lighting. The proposed system outperforms original methods that have an mAP value of approximately 0.2.
Characterization of isoform diversity in smooth muscle myosin heavy chains (1994)

In this paper we review some of our recent work on the structural and biochemical characterization of isoforms of the heavy chain of vertebrate smooth muscle myosin II. There exist both amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal alternatively spliced isoforms of the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC). mRNA splicing at the 3′ end generates two MHCs, which differ in length and amino acid sequence in the carboxyl terminus. We will refer to the longer, 204-kDa isoform as MHC 204 and the shorter, 200-kDa isoform as MHC 200 . We found that MHC 204 , but not MHC 200 , can be phosphorylated by casein kinase II on a serine near the carboxyl terminus, suggesting that these isoforms may be differentially regulated. The physiological significance of this phosphorylation is not known. However, as demonstrated in this paper, phosphorylation does not appear to affect filament formation, velocity of movement of actin filaments by myosin in an in vitro motility assay, actin-activated Mg 2+ ATPase activity, or myosin conformation. Our results also show that MHC 204 and MHC 200 form homodimers, but not heterodimers. Purified MHC 204 and MHC 200 homodimers are not enzymatically different, at least as measured using an in vitro motility assay. The amino-terminal spliced MHC 204 and MHC 200 isoforms are the result of the specific insertion or deletion of seven amino acids near the ATP-binding region in the myosin head. We refer to these isoforms as inserted (MHC 204 -I; MHC 200 -I) or noninserted (MHC 204 ; MHC 200 ), respectively. In contrast to the carboxyl-terminal spliced isoforms, the amino-terminal spliced inserted and noninserted myosin heavy chain isoforms are enzymatically different. The inserted isoform, which is expressed in intestinal, phasic-type smooth muscle, has a higher actin-activated Mg ATPase activity and moves actin filaments at a greater velocity in an in vitro motility assay than the noninserted MHC isoform, which is expressed in tonic-type vascular smooth muscle. The results presented in this review suggest that the alternative splicing of smooth muscle mRNA results in at least four different isoforms of the myosin heavy chain molecule. The potential relevance of these molecular isoforms to smooth muscle function is discussed.Key words: myosin, heavy chain isoforms.
Analysis of the Cargo Service Dynamics in East Asian Airports (2012)

This paper examines the effects of primary production and key economic factors on air cargo traffic between 1999 and 2005 in the East Asian airport industry through econometric and clustering analyses. This paper’s findings show that while the relative importance of physical capital to human capital has dramatically risen, adequate provisions and utilizations of physical facilities for landside operations appear to be a more significant driving force for an airport’s cargo traffic performances compared to those of airside operations. Even though cost savings are found to have regained their importance in the recent years, the degree of scale economies has fallen so sharply that airports can no longer rely on size for competitive edge. Nevertheless, there is still a close positive relationship between a nation’s economic development and the volume of cargo traffic at its airport.
Laser tomography for simultaneous concentration and temperature measurement in reacting flows (1983)

Laser tomography, a new optical diagnostic technique based upon multiangular absorption spectroscopy has been developed. This technique allows the rapid measurement of both species concentration and temperature throughout a twoor three-dimensional nonuniform flowfield. Laser tomography involves making absorption measurements along M parallel rays at Nequally spaced angles. These Mx Nmeasurements are used to reconstruct the spatially resolved two-dimensional property field. Experimental results using two optical geometries are reported for measurements of sodium concentration in a seeded premixed flat flame. Computer simulations of a complete tomography system are presented, including the effects of noise based upon the experimental measurements. Results indicate that within the flame zone both the concentration of absorbing species and temperature can be recovered to within +31 without noise filtering and to !1.7% with filtering. -
Glycine site associated with the NMDA receptor modulates long‐term potentiation (1990)

Recent work has shown that kynurenic acid and several quinoxaline derivatives act as non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonists by binding to the glycine site associated with this receptor. In this study, we have tested the effect of the most potent and selective of these compounds, 7-chlorokynurenic acid (Cl-Kyn), on the induction of long-term potentiation, an event known to involve activation of NMDA receptors. It was found that 30 microM Cl-Kyn reversibly abolished the development of both short-term and long-term potentiation in the CA1 region of hippocampal slices. The effectiveness of Cl-Kyn matched its ability to inhibit 3H-glycine binding and the association of 3H-TCP with the NMDA receptor in binding experiments (Ki 0.7-1 microM). Weak interactions of Cl-Kyn with AMPA receptor sites were observed and may account for a partial, reversible reduction in the epsp. However, blockade of long-term potentiation by Cl-Kyn was completely reversed by simultaneous application of the glycine site agonist D-serine and thus must be attributed to its interaction with the glycine site. These results indicate that the glycine site coupled to the NMDA receptor potently modulates channel function during physiological events related to synaptic activation.