gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Journalists Reporting Efforts, Techniques and Trends during War and Crisis Scenarios (2015)

Journalism in theory and reality does not confide to closed spaces in the gamut of Journalistic studies. Instead, it remarkably reflects major themes opened to its surrounding. Journalism dealing with core issues has been witnessing tectonic shifts due to changing times in the fast moving world amidst the evolving modern marvels of science. Journalism involves detailed analysis of inextricable relationships between the causes and effects of human experiences. There is no prescribed protocol or predetermined frame of mind for a comprehensive work of journalism to be established. During Wars and Crisis, it requires courage and complete dedication to be part of it and survive efficiently. Journalists reporting on war and crisis often report from the harshest conditions possible known to mankind and sometimes stay over for years in unknown terrains to collate information and thereby keep the world informed. This paper attempts to trace the impact of Journalism and portray its significance on War and Crisis.
Homology models of the <scp>HIV</scp>‐1 attachment inhibitor <scp>BMS</scp>‐626529 bound to gp120 suggest a unique mechanism of action (2014)

HIV-1 gp120 undergoes multiple conformational changes both before and after binding to the host CD4 receptor. BMS-626529 is an attachment inhibitor (AI) in clinical development (administered as prodrug BMS-663068) that binds to HIV-1 gp120. To investigate the mechanism of action of this new class of antiretroviral compounds, we constructed homology models of unliganded HIV-1 gp120 (UNLIG), a pre-CD4 binding-intermediate conformation (pCD4), a CD4 bound-intermediate conformation (bCD4), and a CD4/co-receptor-bound gp120 (LIG) from a series of partial structures. We also describe a simple pathway illustrating the transition between these four states. Guided by the positions of BMS-626529 resistance substitutions and structure-activity relationship data for the AI series, putative binding sites for BMS-626529 were identified, supported by biochemical and biophysical data. BMS-626529 was docked into the UNLIG model and molecular dynamics simulations were used to demonstrate the thermodynamic stability of the different gp120 UNLIG/BMS-626529 models. We propose that BMS-626529 binds to the UNLIG conformation of gp120 within the structurally conserved outer domain, under the antiparallel β20-β21 sheet, and adjacent to the CD4 binding loop. Through this binding mode, BMS-626529 can inhibit both CD4-induced and CD4-independent formation of the "open state" four-stranded gp120 bridging sheet, and the subsequent formation and exposure of the chemokine co-receptor binding site. This unique mechanism of action prevents the initial interaction of HIV-1 with the host CD4+ T cell, and subsequent HIV-1 binding and entry. Our findings clarify the novel mechanism of BMS-626529, supporting its ongoing clinical development.
Considerations Regarding the Flux Estimation in Induction Generator with Application at the Control of Unconventional Energetic Conversion Systems (2018)

The paper presents issues regarding the flux estimation of induction machines. The electrical machines variables estimation represents a major problem in the actual context of modern control approaches, especially of sensorless control strategies. There are considered several implementations of induction machine flux estimators by using the Matlab-Simulink environment and there are drawn the afferent conclusions.
ChemInform Abstract: A Novel Kind of Antitumor Drugs Using Sulfonamide as Parent Compound. (2002)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Oligonucleotides covalently linked to intercalating agents. Influence of positively charged substituents on binding to complementary sequences. (1985)

A pentamethylene chain was used to covalently link the 3'-phosphate of oligothymidylates to the 9-amino group of an acridine derivative. Positively charged substituents were further attached to the 3'-phosphate group to form 3'-phosphotriesters. These molecules form specific complexes with poly(rA) which involve the formation of a number of A X T base pairs equal to that of thymines in the oligonucleotide. Absorption changes induced in the acridine absorption bands are similar to those expected upon intercalation of the acridine dye between A X T base pairs. The acridine covalently linked to the 3'-phosphate strongly stabilizes the complexes formed with poly(rA) as compared with the corresponding unsubstituted oligodeoxynucleotide. The presence of a positively charged substituent on the 3'-phosphate together with the acridine dye further enhances the interaction. The effect of salt concentration on complex stability depends on the number of negatively charged phosphate groups of the oligodeoxynucleotide and on the nature of the substituents borne by the 3'-phosphate group. When the oligothymidylate is substituted by an acridine dye, the stability of the poly(rA) complexes increases when salt concentration increases. If an additional positively charged substituent is present on the 3'-phosphate group, stability decreases when salt concentration increases for the shortest oligonucleotide (trimer) and increases with longer oligonucleotides. Thermodynamic parameters have been calculated from the concentration dependence of melting temperatures.
Body and carcass composition of Angus and Charolais steers as affected by age and nutrition (1993)

The objectives of this study were to examine the effects of a low vs moderate rate of gain during the growing phase on empty body and carcass composition during finishing of Angus and Charolais steers of two ages. Forty-eight Angus and 48 Charolais steers that were either spring-born (OLDER) or fall-born (YOUNGER) were fed two diets (alfalfa pellets [CON] or cubed grass-alfalfa hay, wheat straw, cottonseed hulls, and soybean meal [RES]) for a growing period followed by a conventional feedlot period. The feedlot period started when the YOUNGER-CON steers weighed the same as the OLDER-RES steers. At that time, an interaction of age x diet occurred in empty body fat content (P < .10), whereas breed and age x diet affected carcass fat content (P < .01). OLDER-CON steers were larger (average 378 kg empty BW) and fatter than the other, smaller groups (average 222 kg). Angus carcasses were fatter than Charolais carcasses (P < .01). At the end of the finishing phase, compensating steers (OLDER-RES) had fatter carcasses than OLDER-CON steers. Empty body fat content was affected by a breed x age x diet interaction (P < .10). Allometric regressions (Y = aXb) of fat on empty BW indicated that empty body fat accretion was greater in Angus than in Charolais and in YOUNGER than in OLDER steers. A breed x age x diet interaction (P < .10) indicated that OLDER-Angus had higher fat accretive rates than YOUNGER-Angus, whereas OLDER-CON-Charolais steers deposited fat more slowly than the remaining groups. These data suggest that steers receiving feedlot diets at light weights, whether young in age or previously restricted, accumulate fat more rapidly than do larger steers. This feeding strategy may be an advantage in late-maturing types, but moderate growth through approximately 75% of slaughter weight is recommended for early-maturing types.
α‐Complemented β‐galactosidase (1999)

Intracistronic complementation of N-terminally truncated beta-galactosidase mutants such as M15 by coexpressed alpha-peptide was originally discovered in Escherichia coli and exploited for plasmid cloning as the well-known blue-white screening method. We show here that alpha-complementation also works in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and that it can be used as a simple nonselective enzymatic marker for a variety of in vivo studies, for example, on the role of molecular chaperones in protein folding and assembly. To be able to induce alpha-complementation post-translationally, we have constructed a hormone-inducible alpha-peptide by fusion of the DNA encoding the alpha-peptide to that of to the hormone binding domain of the estrogen receptor. The accumulation of both subunits, the alpha-peptide and M15, is severely compromised when they are expressed separately, presumably because their hydrophobic surfaces remain exposed. Moreover, alpha-complementation is defective in a strain of S. cerevisiae carrying a point mutant of the molecular chaperone heat-shock protein 90. Heat-shock protein 90, which coprecipitates with M15, might be required in vivo to prevent the degradation of unassembled M15 and to hold it in an interaction-competent conformation.
Efficient Energy Transfer within Self-Assembling Peptide Fibers: A Route to Light-Harvesting Nanomaterials (2009)

Small peptides offer an attractive starting point for the development of self-assembling materials for a variety of purposes, since they are relatively simple to produce and can be tailored to provide an expansive range of chemical functionality. We have employed a short peptide that spontaneously self-assembles into a multimolecular fibrillar architecture to drive the coassembly of two independent luminescent moieties. We use fluorescence spectroscopy to demonstrate that the resulting complex performs a light-harvesting function.
Persistent object synchronization with active relational databases (2003)

One of the most common client/server architectures in enterprise systems today is the combination of object oriented applications with active relational database systems. With this combination, developers have to overcome a difficult problem: the impedance mismatch between object orientation and the relational model. To date, there are several incomplete approaches for describing the integration of static and dynamic object aspects and active relational databases. An important issue missing from these approaches is the state synchronization between server tuples and client cached objects. In a previous paper (A.M. Porto et al., 1998) we proposed a technique for mapping the dynamic behavior of objects into active relational databases, using database triggers and stored procedures. The paper extends our previous one with an architecture based on a replication strategy that maintains server tuples and client cached objects synchronized with respect to state. This architecture automatically updates client cached object versions when their corresponding server database tuples are updated.
Ultrafast dynamics of lattice relaxation of excitons in quasi-one-dimensional halogen-bridged platinum complexes (2002)

The temporal evolution of the photoexcited state in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) halogen-bridged platinum complexes $[\mathrm{Pt}(\mathrm{en}{)}_{2}][\mathrm{Pt}(\mathrm{en}{)}_{2}{X}_{2}]({\mathrm{ClO}}_{4}{)}_{4}$ (abbreviated as $\mathrm{Pt}\ensuremath{-}X,$ $X=\mathrm{C}\mathrm{l},$ Br or I), has been comprehensively studied by femtosecond time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy. In Pt-Cl, new short-lived hot luminescence is found in the low-energy side of a self-trapped exciton (STE) luminescence band. The overall behavior of the STE luminescence band within 2 ps is well explained by the vibrational relaxation of the STE. The behavior is reproduced by a model calculation based on wave packet propagation on an interaction mode composed of frequency-dispersed bulk phonons. This model is also applied to the previous results in Pt-Br. For both Pt-Cl and Pt-Br, the frequency spectra of phonons which compose the interaction mode have been estimated. In Pt-I, the STE luminescence decays much faster than those in Pt-Cl and Pt-Br, showing existence of more effective nonradiative decay channel.
A deformable-model approach to semi-automatic segmentation of CT images demonstrated by application to the spinal canal (2004)

Because of the importance of accurately defining the target in radiation treatment planning, we have developed a deformable-template algorithm for the semi-automatic delineation of normal tissue structures on computed tomography (CT) images. We illustrate the method by applying it to the spinal canal. Segmentation is performed in three steps: (a) partial delineation of the anatomic structure is obtained by wavelet-based edge detection; (b) a deformable-model template is fitted to the edge set by chamfer matching; and (c) the template is relaxed away from its original shape into its final position. Appropriately chosen ranges for the model parameters limit the deformations of the template, accounting for interpatient variability. Our approach differs from those used in other deformable models in that it does not inherently require the modeling of forces. Instead, the spinal canal was modeled using Fourier descriptors derived from four sets of manually drawn contours. Segmentation was carried out, without manual intervention, on five CT data sets and the algorithm's performance was judged subjectively by two radiation oncologists. Two assessments were considered: in the first, segmentation on a random selection of 100 axial CT images was compared with the corresponding contours drawn manually by one of six dosimetrists, also chosen randomly; in the second assessment, the segmentation of each image in the five evaluable CT sets (a total of 557 axial images) was rated as either successful, unsuccessful, or requiring further editing. Contours generated by the algorithm were more likely than manually drawn contours to be considered acceptable by the oncologists. The mean proportions of acceptable contours were 93% (automatic) and 69% (manual). Automatic delineation of the spinal canal was deemed to be successful on 91% of the images, unsuccessful on 2% of the images, and requiring further editing on 7% of the images. Our deformable template algorithm thus gives a robust segmentation of the spinal canal on CT images. The method can be extended to other structures, although it remains to be shown that chamfer matching is sufficiently robust for the delineation of soft-tissue structures surrounded by soft tissue.
Making Sense of Electronic Communication in an Organizational Context (2003)

Implementation of new computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems in organizations is a complex socio-technical endeavour, involving the mutual adaptation of technology and organization over time. Drawing on the analytic concept of sensemaking, this paper provides a theoretical per- spective that deepens our understanding of how organizations appropriate new electronic communication media. The paper analyzes how a group of mediators in a large, multinational company adapted a new web-based CMC technology (a virtual workspace) to the local organizational context (and vice versa) by modifying features of the technology, providing ongoing support for users, and promoting appropriate conventions of use. We found that these mediators exerted considerable influence on how the technology was estab- lished and used in the organization. The mediators were not neutral facilita- tors of a well-defined technology that presented itself to them as given and fixed. On the contrary, the new technology was from the onset highly equivo- cal and open-ended, and the mediators were actively involved in creating the technology-in-practice—by making sense of it, defining it, and regulating its use. Implications for further research and for practice are considered.
Truncated product method for combining<i>P</i>‐values (2002)

We present a new procedure for combining P-values from a set of L hypothesis tests. Our procedure is to take the product of only those P-values less than some specified cut-off value and to evaluate the probability of such a product, or a smaller value, under the overall hypothesis that all L hypotheses are true. We give an explicit formulation for this P-value, and find by simulation that it can provide high power for detecting departures from the overall hypothesis. We extend the procedure to situations when tests are not independent. We present both real and simulated examples where the method is especially useful. These include exploratory analyses when L is large, such as genome-wide scans for marker-trait associations and meta-analytic applications that combine information from published studies, with potential for dealing with the "publication bias" phenomenon. Once the overall hypothesis is rejected, an adjustment procedure with strong family-wise error protection is available for smaller subsets of hypotheses, down to the individual tests.
Study on Modified Y Zeolites and Their Behaviors in Selective Adsorptive Desulfurization of FCC Gasoline （II） (2009)

NaY zeolite was modified through dealumination with oxalic acid,and the HY zeolite was obtained by calcination of the modified NaY zeolite.The zeolite molding process was carried out at ambient temperature(25℃),and the influence of solid/fuel mass ratio and adsorptive desulfurization time on the HY zeolite were investigated through tests on static selective adsorptive desulfurization of FCC gasoline containing organic sulfur compounds(with a S content=135 ppm).The sulfur content and sulphide types in the FCC gasoline were analyzed by a GC 2010 sulfur analyzer and a GC-SCD chromatograph.The test results showed that the molded HY zeolite was better than the unmolded HY zeolite.At a static adsorptive desulfurization time on the molded HY zeolite equating to 6 hours,a solid/fuel mass ratio of 1:3,the sulfur content of FCC gasoline was decreased to 30 ppm,and the desulfurization rate was equal to 78%.When the breakthrough point of the molded HY was equal to 50 ppm,the molded HY zeolite was capable of adsorbing 4.86 mg of sulfur per gram of adsorbent.And the regeneration rate of molded HY zeolite was equal to 98%.
Low temperature front surface passivation of interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction solar cell (2009)

The interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction (IBC-SHJ) solar cell requires a low temperature front surface passivation/anti-reflection structure. Conventional silicon surface passivation using SiO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> or a-SiN <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> is performed at temperature higher than 400°C, which is not suitable for the IBC-SHJ cell. In this paper, we propose a PECVD a-Si:H/a-SiN <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> :H/a-SiC:H stack structure to passivate the front surface of crystalline silicon at low temperature. The optical properties and passivation quality of this structure are characterized and solar cells using this structure are fabricated. With 2 nm a-Si:H layer, the stack structure exhibits stable passivation with effective minority carrier lifetime higher than 2 ms, and compatible with IBC-SHJ solar cell processing. A critical advantage of this structure is that the a-SiC:H allows it to be HF resistant, thus it can be deposited as the first step in the process. This protects the a-Si:H/c-Si interface and maintains a low surface recombination velocity.
Analysis of tumor-infiltrating gamma delta T cells in rectal cancer (2016)

A percentage imbalance in Vδ1 and Vδ2 T cells in rectal cancer patients may contribute to the development of rectal cancer.
The Use of Animal Models in Fusionless Scoliosis Investigations (2005)

Fusionless scoliosis surgery offers theoretical advantages over brace treatment and surgery. Like bracing, fusionless treatments preserve growth, motion, and function of the spine. Like surgery, these treatments offer substantial correction of deformity. However, minimally invasive fusionless scoliosis surgery is less extensive than fusion surgery and may avoid adjacent segment degeneration and other complications related to fusion. Additional investigations are required to identify optimal implant strategies, to evaluate the effects of these implants of the spine and surrounding structures, and to define the appropriate patient population for these interventions.
When in Doubt, Reach Out (2015)

Social support is critical to personal and relational well-being. Yet, receiving support appears to be contingent upon adequately conveying need to a receptive partner who both understands and is willing to provide said support. Or is it? We provide the first evidence of a covert haptic support system between adult intimates, showing that literally reaching out to a loved one can result in feeling supported even when the receiver of haptic support requests does not perceive them as bids for comfort. We tested this by unobtrusively observing support interactions between dating partners. As expected, those experiencing distress were more likely to seek touch from their partners, which elicited responsive touch—even though receivers failed to discern need from support-seekers’ touch. Importantly, those who received responsive touch from their romantic partners felt more supported. Because touch begets touch, clear communication between intimates is not always necessary for successful support interactions.
Effects of Castration and Exogenous Testosterone Supplementation in an Animal Model of Penile Erection (1994)

The dependence of erectile behavior on androgen functioning is well established. Castration produces loss of both libido and potency in man and animals. The present study, using an animal model for potency, demonstrates the dependence of centrally induced erectile behavior on an intact androgen milieu. Castrated rats failed to produce an erection in response to apomorphine, an agent shown to produce erection in nearly all normal rats. Administration of exogenous testosterone propionate in dosages exceeding 60 micrograms./kg. produced a significant increase in erectile behavior. Yawning, an essentially parallel phenomenon to the stimulation of the erectile response, was also decreased following castration and responded similarly to increasing amounts of exogenous testosterone, demonstrating the influence of androgen functioning on the central nervous system. It was concluded that testosterone is a necessary prerequisite for the maintenance of a centrally induced erectile and yawning response. In an animal model of penile erection, testosterone increases the number of erections in a dose-dependent manner in castrated rats. The dependence of the erectile response on testosterone is, at least in part, centrally mediated.