LLukas22/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Salt Geology and New Plays in Dee p-Water Gulf of Mexico*

In deep-water Gulf of Mexico, two pre-stack depth migration projects were undertaken recently to better image the deep-water salt and sub-salt geology. The Phase 45 Too (P-45) survey area, stretching from Corpus Christi/Port Isabel in the west to Atwater Valley in the east, comprises approximately 100,000 line kilometers of 2D seismic data. It was pre-stack depth migrated and is currently being used for a deep-water interpretation project integrating approximately 1100 wells, including 300 biostratigrahic wells. In the Mississippi Canyon area, approximately 900 OCS blocks (4.8 km x 4.8 km each) of 3D seismic data were pre-stack depth migrated. More than 80 salt penetration wells were integrated in the Mississippi Canyon salt model interpretation project. The pre-stack depth migrated data identify autochthonous and allochthonous salt and associated archetypes. The autochthonous Jurassic Louann (mother) Salt, Jurassic sediments, and the overlying Cretaceous and Paleogene sequences are well manifested in the data sets. The new Lower Tertiary play is typically characterized by broad rollover structures created by the loading of sediments, deflation and withdrawal of the mother salt, and subsequent collapse of the sediments. The good imaging of the sedimentary section and folded structure below the salt helps delineate the new Lower Tertiary play, which has proven successful in many parts of the P-45 area, and can possibly be tested in Mississippi Canyon. Introduction Salt and sediment interactions play a major role in producing reservoir rocks and traps for hydrocarbon accumulation in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Advanced seismic technology, specifically pre-stack depth migration, and deep-water wells drilled recently have provided better understanding of salt geology and new plays for hydrocarbon accumulations. This deepwater regional study extends from the Corpus Christi/Port Isabel protraction areas in the west, eastward to the Mississippi Canyon protraction area, northward to the shelf/slope break and southward to the US-Mexico border. Data Two seismic pre-stack depth migrated data sets (Figure 1) were used to better understand the deep-water salt and associated geology. Phase 45 Too (P-45), a regional 2D project, integrated approximately 1100 wells, including 300 biostratigraphic wells, in the interpretation of salt and regional geology. Mississippi Canyon, a large 3D project, utilized a significant number of wells to enhance the velocity model for migration. The data sets are described below:
The mediating effects of team and self-efficacy on the relationship between transformational leadership, and job satisfaction and psychological well-being in healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey.

BACKGROUND
The importance of transformational leadership for the health and well-being of staff in the healthcare sector is increasingly acknowledged, however, there is less knowledge about the mechanisms that may explain the links between transformational leaders and employee health and well-being.


OBJECTIVES
To examine two possible psychological mechanisms that link transformational leadership behaviours to employee job satisfaction and well-being.


DESIGN
Cross-sectional study design.


SETTINGS
The study took place in two elderly care centers in large Danish local government. Staff were predominantly healthcare assistants but also nurses and other healthcare-related professions participated in the study.


PARTICIPANTS
274 elderly care employees completed the questionnaire. Surveys were sent to all employees working at the centers. 91% were female, the average age was 45 years.


METHODS
A questionnaire was distributed to all members of staff in the elderly care centers and where employees were asked to rate their line manager's leadership style and were asked to evaluate their own level of self-efficacy as well as the level of efficacy in their team (team efficacy) and their job satisfaction and psychological well-being.


RESULTS
Both team and self-efficacy were found to act as mediators, however, their effects differed. Self-efficacy was found to fully mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and well-being and team efficacy was found to partially mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction and fully mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and well-being.


CONCLUSIONS
Within the pressurised environment faced by employees in the healthcare sector today transformational leaders may help ensure employees' job satisfaction and psychological well-being. They do so through the establishment of a sense of being in control as individuals but also as being part of a competent group.
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF STIR CAST-ALUMINUM NITRIDE REINFORCED ALUMINUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES

Preparation and characterization of aluminum metal matrix composites reinforced with aluminum nitride was carried out. A graphite crucible and a stainless steel permanent mould was used to prepare the samples. An optimum stirring speed was determined for a fixed stirring time before cast in the permanent mould. Morphology of the composite and particle distribution were investigated by optical microscopy. The reinforcing particles were clearly shown present at the edges and around grains of silicon primary, silicon needles and inter-metallic compound of FeMg3Si6Al8. The result of hardness test was 44 Hv for Al-Si matrix and increased to 89 Hv for an Al-Si composite reinforced with 5% wt.% AlN powder. The higher values in hardness indicated that the AlN particles contributed to the increase of hardness of the matrix.
Visual analytics for cyber red teaming

Our team is currently developing an Automated Cyber Red Teaming system that, when given a model-based capture of an organisation's network, uses automated planning techniques to generate and assess multi-stage attacks. Specific to this paper, we discuss our development of the visual analytic component of this system. Through various views that display network attacks paths at different levels of abstraction, our tool aims to enhance cyber situation awareness of human decision makers.
120-GHz-Band Wireless Link Technologies for Outdoor 10-Gbit/s Data Transmission

Our progress in 120-GHz-band wireless link technologies enables us to transmit 10-Gbit/s data transmission over a distance of more than 1 km. The 120-GHz-band wireless link uses high-speed uni-traveling carrier photodiodes (UTC-PD) and InP high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) millimeter-wave (MMW) monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs) for the generation of MMW signals. We investigate the maximum output power of these devices and compare the phase noise of MMW signals generated by UTC-PDs and InP HEMT MMICs. We describe the antennas we used and their operation technologies. Finally, we investigate the dependence of transmission distance on availability using the statistical rain attenuation data. The calculation results show that the 120-GHz-band wireless link can transmit 10-Gbit/s data over a distance of 1 km with availability of 99.999%.
Long-term effectiveness of highly active antiretroviral therapy on the survival of children and adolescents with HIV infection: a 10-year follow-up study.

BACKGROUND
Previous observational studies found highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to be associated with improved survival among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children and adolescents. However, these studies had limited follow-up of HIV-infected children undergoing HAART. Given that HIV infection is chronic and that exposure to HAART is likely to be life-long, there is a need to evaluate the long-term effect of HAART on survival in this population.


METHODS
The study included 1236 children and adolescents who were perinatally infected with HIV, who were on study or enrolled after January 1996 in a United States-based multicenter prospective cohort study (Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 219/219C), and who were not receiving HAART at baseline; subjects were observed for a maximum of 10 years through June 2006. A weighted Cox regression model was used to estimate the effect of HAART on survival, appropriately adjusted for time-varying confounding by severity.


RESULTS
At the end of the 10-year follow-up period (median duration of follow-up, 6.3 years; interquartile range, 4.3-9.8 years), 70% of participants had initiated HAART. Lower CD4 cell percentages, total lymphocyte counts, and albumin levels were associated with an increased probability of initiating HAART. Eighty-five deaths were observed, and the mortality hazard ratio associated with HAART, compared with non-HAART regimens, was 0.24 after adjusting for measured confounding by severity (95% confidence interval, 0.11-0.51).


CONCLUSIONS
The use of HAART was highly effective in reducing mortality during the period 1996-2006 among children and adolescents infected with HIV. With improved long-term survival, continued follow-up is necessary to evaluate the effects of prolonged use of HAART on potential adverse events, immune function, growth, sexual maturation, and quality of life in this population.
The interplay of inflammation and cardiovascular disease in systemic lupus erythematosus

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have up to a 50-fold increased risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Recent advances in the etiology of vascular damage in this disease stress the interplay of lupus-specific inflammatory factors with traditional cardiac risk factors, leading to increased endothelial damage. This review analyzes the putative role that immune dysregulation and lupus-specific factors may play in the pathogenesis of premature vascular damage in this disease. The potential role of various cytokines, in particular type I interferons, in the development of accelerated atherosclerosis is examined. Potential therapeutic targets are discussed.
Automatic Taxonomy Construction for Eye Colors Data without Using Context Information

Taxonomy Learning is one of the challenge subtasks of Ontology Learning. A taxonomy describes hyponymy between concepts, and it plays an important role in information systems and categorization tasks. Works in this field prefer to utilize context of sentences to obtain a precise analysis of the corpus, since context can provide more semantic information for building a precise interpretation of the semantic classes. In this paper, we propose a method, called SenseRefined, for automatic taxonomy construction without using context information. It's a part work of one of our project. The proposed method is specially applied for eye colors data, and all the domain phrases are extracted out before building taxonomy. Word senses are extracted out as a way to provide semantic information, because we find the senses of words are more like the definitions of the concepts, which often contain hypernym concepts in. Experiments were carried out using SenseRefined method and Substring Matching method, where the latter one is baseline. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach.
Preliminary Based Service Evaluation for Elderly People and Healthcare Professionals in Residential Home Care Units

This article reports the first step of a human factor evaluation process based on user needs analysis. Our goal is to design assistive services dedicate to elderly people living along with healthcare professionals in residential home care units in France. After introducing MEDETIC non profit organization and its research in healthcare and wellbeing design services, we will report the qualitative evaluation that we performed to retrieve user needs and organizational attitudes toward ICT expressed by this population. A total of 24 elderly dependent people experiencing several types of limitations (sensory, physical, cognitive or none) and leaving in 3 different residential home care units in France and 13 healthcare professionals (4 managers, 4 nurses and 5 caregivers) were interviewed in order to measure user needs and technology acceptance. Results of this study provide qualitative support to healthcare service definition in community living ambient assisted living domain.
Drivers of improved maize variety adoption in drought prone areas of Malawi

This study identifies the determinants of adoption and adoption-intensity of improved maize varieties in Malawi. We estimated a double hurdle model based on household-level survey data collected in the districts of Balaka and Mangochi in 2008 and found that labour endowment, access to rural credit, livestock wealth, access to agricultural extension, farm size and access to off-farm employment all significantly increase the likelihood of adoption. Households where the head had membership of a social group were also found to be less likely to have adopted. The intensity of adoption was found to be negatively related to livestock wealth and fertilizer use. Conversely, the age of the household head, the labour endowment of the household and the proportion of household members engaged in off-farm activities were factors that were found to be positively related to intensity of adoption. The study suggests the need to enhance adoption and intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties in Malawi among other things improving access to rural finance through credit and improving access to agricultural extension. Agricultural extension enhances provision of timely and quality agricultural information which is vital to smallholder farmers’ production and marketing decisions and hence, key to decisions to adopt new and improved technologies such as improved maize varieties.
When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse

In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a sentence (semantics), and the contributions made by wider context (pragmatics). In psycholinguistics, this distinction has led to the view that listeners initially compute a local, context-independent meaning of a phrase or sentence before relating it to the wider context. An important aspect of such a two-step perspective on interpretation is that local semantics cannot initially be overruled by global contextual factors. In two spoken-language event-related potential experiments, we tested the viability of this claim by examining whether discourse context can overrule the impact of the core lexical-semantic feature animacy, considered to be an innate organizing principle of cognition. Two-step models of interpretation predict that verb-object animacy violations, as in The girl comforted the clock, will always perturb the unfolding interpretation process, regardless of wider context. When presented in isolation, such anomalies indeed elicit a clear N400 effect, a sign of interpretive problems. However, when the anomalies were embedded in a supportive context (e.g., a girl talking to a clock about his depression), this N400 effect disappeared completely. Moreover, given a suitable discourse context (e.g., a story about an amorous peanut), animacy-violating predicates (the peanut was in love) were actually processed more easily than canonical predicates (the peanut was salted). Our findings reveal that discourse context can immediately overrule local lexical-semantic violations, and therefore suggest that language comprehension does not involve an initially context-free semantic analysis.
Ten Principles of Complexity & Enabling Infrastructures Professor

If organisations are seen as complex evolving systems, co-evolving within a social ‘ecosystem’, then our thinking about strategy and management changes. With the changed perspective comes a different way of acting and relating which could lead to a different way of working. In turn, the new types of relationship and approaches to work could well provide the conditions for the emergence of new organisational forms.
Ceftaroline in the treatment of concomitant methicillin-resistant and daptomycin-non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis and osteomyelitis: case report.

Sir, A middle-aged male presented to the emergency department with fever and 1 week of sharp right hip pain worsening over the past 2 days. His past medical history included uncontrolled diabetes and chronic active hepatitis C. The patient also had a history of multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, including bacteraemia 1 month prior, for which he was treated with vancomycin (MIC ≤0.5–1 mg/L). Three sets of blood cultures were collected before the patient received a single dose of vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam. The blood Gram stain showed Gram-positive cocci. The infectious diseases team was consulted, and given recent vancomycin treatment and recurrent bacteraemia, we recommended high-dose daptomycin (8 mg/kg intravenously every 24 h). Dual therapy with rifampicin was considered, but due to limited in vivo data as well as concomitant hepatic dysfunction, we decided against it. Initial blood cultures grew MRSA (3/3 bottles) on hospital day 3, with susceptibility tests showing a daptomycin MIC of 0.38 mg/L (Etest; AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden) and a vancomycin MIC of 1 mg/L by broth microdilution. Repeat blood cultures on day 4 (2/2 bottles) showed no growth. On hospital day 2, a transoesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) demonstrated no evidence of vegetations. On day 3, a contrast CT of the hip showed bone and retroperitoneal abscesses along with evidence highly suggestive of osteomyelitis. An MRI was less conclusive about the presence of early osteomyelitis. The surgical team was consulted and recommended that the patient to undergo CT-guided drainage of the retroperitoneal abscess as opposed to any surgical treatment, citing difficult surgical access, a high-risk patient with comorbidities and likelihood of the abnormal synovium in radiographic studies being reactive synovitis as opposed to osteomyelitis and septic arthritis. Drainage proceeded on day 7, though there was continued debate about the diagnosis and need for surgical intervention. Research letters
Magnetic Field Produced by a Parallelepipedic Magnet of Various and Uniform Polarization

This paper deals with the modeling of parallelepipedic magnets of various polarization directions. For this purpose, we use the coulombian model of a magnet for calculating the magnetic potential in all points in space. Then, we determine the three components of the magnetic field created by a parallepiped magnet of various polarization direction. These three components and the scalar magnetic potential are also expressed in terms of fully analytical terms. It is to be noted that the formulas determined in this paper are more general that the ones established in the literature and can be used for optimization purposes. Moreover, our study is carried out without using any simplifying assumptions. Consequently, these expressions are accurate whatever the magnet dimensions. This analytical formulation is suitable for the design of unconventional magnetic couplings, electric machines and wigglers.
Weight change in people with type 2 diabetes: secular trends and the impact of alternative antihyperglycaemic drugs.

AIM
This study aimed to describe the pattern of weight change in people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) over time and when using alternative treatment regimens.


METHODS
Data were from routine clinical practice in the UK. The weight trend was determined for each year from 1995 to 2010 for both prevalent and incident cases. Baseline weight was compared to absolute (mean Δ) and relative weights (% Δ) at 6, 12 and 24 months.


RESULTS
Mean, standardized weight in prevalent cases increased from 83.4 to 92.1 kg for males and from 73.5 to 79.9 kg for females between 1995 and 2010 (p < 0.0001). For incident cases, the respective figures were 86.7 to 93.6 kg for males and 76.0 to 80.7 kg for females (p < 0.001). Between baseline and 6, 12 and 24 months, there were significant changes in weight for the majority of the treatment regimens selected for analysis. The largest weight increase at 12 months was for the patients who were prescribed a combination therapy with insulin and a thiazolidinedione, with a median increase of 4.1 kg (95% CI -0.60 to 8.0, p < 0.001). The largest weight decrease at 12 months was for the patients who were prescribed a combination therapy of metformin and exenatide, with a median decrease of -7.0 kg (95% CI -12.0 to -2.0, p < 0.001).


CONCLUSIONS
There was a continual increase in body weight in people with T2DM over time, and considerable differences in the impact on weight using alternative treatment regimens. At the same time, glycaemic control remained relatively unchanged.
The efficacy of pre-warming on reducing intraprocedural hypothermia in endovascular coiling of cerebral aneurysms

BACKGROUND
The anesthetic management of patients undergoing endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms in the interventional neuroradiology suite can be challenged by hypothermia because of low ambient temperature for operating and maintaining its equipments. We evaluated the efficacy of skin surface warming prior to induction of anesthesia to prevent the decrease in core temperature and reduce the incidence of hypothermia.


METHODS
Seventy-two patients were randomized to pre-warmed and control group. The patients in pre-warmed group were warmed 30 minutes before induction with a forced-air warming blanket set at 38°C. Pre-induction tympanic temperature (Tpre) was measured using an infrared tympanic thermometer and core temperature was measured at the esophagus immediately after intubation (T0) and recorded at 20 minutes intervals (T20, T40, T60, T80, T100, and T120). The number of patients who became hypothermic at each time was recorded.


RESULTS
Tpre in the control and pre-warmed group were 36.4 ± 0.4°C and 36.6 ± 0.3°C, whereas T0 were 36.5 ± 0.4°C and 36.6 ± 0.2°C. Core temperatures in the pre-warmed group were significantly higher than the control group at T20, T40, T60, T80, T100, and T120 (P < 0.001). Compared to T0, core temperatures at each time were significantly lower in both two groups (P = 0.007 at T20 in pre-warmed group, P < 0.001 at the other times in both groups). The incidence of hypothermia was significantly lower in the pre-warmed group than the control group from T20 to T120 (P = 0.002 at T20, P < 0.001 at the other times).


CONCLUSION
Pre-warming for 30 minutes at 38°C did not modify the trends of the temperature decrease seen in the INR suite. It just slightly elevated the beginning post intubation base temperature. The rate of decrease was similar from T20 to T120. However, pre-warming considerably reduced the risk of intraprocedural hypothermia.


TRIAL REGISTRATION
Clinical Research Information Service (CRiS) Identifier: KCT0001320. Registered December 19th, 2014.
Overview of Automotive Sensors

An up-to-date review paper on automotive sensors is presented. Attention is focused on sensors used in production automotive systems. The primary sensor technologies in use today are reviewed and are classified according to their three major areas ofautomotive systems application–powertrain, chassis, and body. This subject is extensive. As described in this paper, for use in automotive systems, there are six types of rotational motion sensors, four types of pressure sensors, five types of position sensors, and three types of temperature sensors. Additionally, two types of mass air flow sensors, five types of exhaust gas oxygen sensors, one type of engine knock sensor, four types of linear acceleration sensors, four types of angular-rate sensors, four types of occupant comfort/convenience sensors, two types of near-distance obstacle detection sensors, four types of far-distance obstacle detection sensors, and and ten types of emerging, state-of the-art, sensors technologies are identified.