jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Selective laser trabeculoplasty as adjunctive treatment in pseudoexfoliative glaucoma patients

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction/Objective. Pseudoexfoliation syndrome is characterized by abnormal production and accumulation of fibrillar, white-gray, ?dandruff-like? material in almost all ocular structures. The aim of this study was to examine effect of selective laser trabeculoplasty in pseudoexfoliation glaucoma patients. Methods. Thirty-two patients (47 eyes) with medically uncontrolled pseudoexfoliation glaucoma were enrolled. All the patients could not reach target intraocular pressure with maximal tolerated medical therapy before treatment. Selective laser trabeculoplasty was performed with about 100 non-overlapping spots. Intraocular pressure was measured one hour, seven days, four weeks, three, six, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months after the procedure. Results. The mean base intraocular pressure was 23.45 mmHg (SD = 3.07). Statistically significant reduction of mean intraocular pressure was observed at all follow-ups except one hour after treatment. Mean intraocular pressure after 24 months was 18.39 mmHg (SD = 1.82). Success, defined as intraocular pressure reduction from base intraocular pressure by more than 20% after 24 months, was achieved in 27 eyes (57.45%). We did not find any influence of sex and age on selective laser trabeculoplasty effects in pseudoexfoliative glaucoma patients. Baseline intraocular pressure is proved to be a reliable predictor of intraocular pressure-lowering effect, as there was a strong correlation between baseline intraocular pressure and the percentage of reduction of intraocular pressure after 24 months (r = 0.71, p < 0.01). Conclusion. Selective laser trabeculoplasty is a safe and effective method for the reduction of intraocular pressure in pseudoexfoliation glaucoma patients and should be used more often in this challenging form of glaucoma. Baseline intraocular pressure seems to be a reliable predictor of success.
Stratographic measurements in patients after total knee replacement

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis allows to relieve the pain, restore axial relationship in the joint, but reduced muscle strength of the limb delays the recovery of its function. Rehabilitation measures help to improve the knee joint status, which can be controlled using statographic studies. Objective: basing on statographic studies to prove the ef­fectiveness of rehabilitation measures in patients with knee contracture after total knee arthroplasty. Methods: 18 patients with two-side knee osteoarthritis and knee joint contractures after bilateral knee replacement were included in the study. Patients were divided into two groups: 11 patients underwent rehabilitation, 7 patients without rehabilitation. The range of motion in the knee joints was measured; the support ability was evaluated using statography. Results: several types of standing and features of the balance support have been identified. In case of double-standing there are: I type — displacement of the common center of mass (CCM) in the direction of a shortened limb, the CCM projection extended in the sagittal (back and forth) direction; II — the CCM projection has the form of a wide spot with a spread of 20 mm or more. For one-bearing standing there are: I type — the patient is not able to fully support on a limb, so the projections are close to the center gravity, II — during standing body movement in the direction to doubly-standing was detected. Parameters of standing in patients after rehabili­tation were much better than in case of its absence. The symmetry of the load of the feet improved statistically significant (p < 0.05), but the imbalance persisted, as evidenced by the sig­nificant area of the CCM projection. Conclusion: the improving balance and restoration of foot load to almost normal in patients who underwent rehabilitation was confirmed by statography.
Robinson Laboratory

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Robinson Laboratory is located at 2011 Magruder. On September, 1974 the address was changed to 206 West 18th Avenue. The structure was officially named "Robinson Laboratory" by the Board of Trustees on June 12, 1911 after Stillman Williams Robinson. It is also known as the Engineering Building,\nthe Engineering Laboratory, the Mechanical & Electrical Laboratory, the Shop Building, the M E and E E Lab, the Mechanical Engineering Shop, the Robinson Laboratories, the Mec & E E Lab, the Mech & Elec Bldg, and the S.W. Robinson Laboratory.
Increase use of contact lenses for optical correction

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Introduction: Contact lenses (CL) are considered as a widely accepted modality of refractive correction in the last few decades, though their history is nearly about 100 years old. Millions of people are wearing contact lenses all over the world. Every year the number of CL wearers has increased significantly. No definite statistics are available regarding the number of people wearing contact lenses in Nepal. Contact lenses are not used only for refractive correction but also for therapeutic and cosmetic use.1 Methodology: The main purpose of the study was to find the popularity of contact lenses irrespective to other optical correction. A hospital based retrospective study was conducted evaluating the medical records of 848 CL patients attended in CL clinic at B. P. Koirala Lions Centre for Ophthalmic Studies. Results: In this study, the number of CL wearers was found to increase significantly every year. The number of contact lens wearers in the year 2002-2003 was 158 where as in the later years the number reached up to 326 and 364 respectively. Similarly, the numbers of RGP wearers and bandage CL wearers also increased significantly in comparison to previous years. Almost 90 percent wearers were using soft contact lens. It was found to be more popular among the age group of 21yrs to 30 yrs. The number of female wearers was predominant than the male wearers. The contact lens wear ocular complications were found to be very rare. Conclusion: In Nepal, contact lenses are being considered as suitable alternatives for optical correction due to better cosmesis than the conventional mode of optical correction. Journal of Institute of Medicine Vol.28(1) 2006
Narratives of infants’ encounters with curriculum: Beyond the curriculum of care

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Australia’s National Quality Framework identifies responsibilities for early childhood educators who work with infants to plan for and assess their learning. Educators are urged to be ‘responsive to children’s ideas and play’ and to ‘assess, anticipate and extend children’s learning’. Responsiveness in relation to infants is often couched in terms of emotional support and attention to the attachment relationship, or in detailed guidance about supporting the infant in care routines. Drawing on Levinas’s ideas of ethical encounter to frame a consideration of infants’ learning more broadly, this article suggests the possibility to see beyond traditional perceptions of infants as objects of the attachment relationship, and identifies the potential for infants to be viewed as ‘initiators’ who guide educators’ responses. Working with Levinas’s ideas of absolute responsibility in the face-to-face encounter, the notion of ‘response-ableness’ is used to examine educators’ decisions and actions as they share in learning encounters with infants. Using video footage captured during an infant’s encounter with learning, the decisions of the educator prove influential. Creating a narrative of this experience illuminates the educator’s response-ableness, and shows how an infant’s ideas and investigations might form the basis of the learning encounter. Close examination of educator response-ableness may lead to richer possibilities for infants’ encounters with learning, beyond the curriculum of care.
ANALYSIS OF THE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF INTEGRATED ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN RETAIL CHAINS

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The article analyzes different approaches to comparison of labor productivity in different countries and within Russia among competing retail chains. The eficiency of using the indicator of overall labor eficiency is substantiated. A new modified indicator, a weighted state stafing indicator is proposed. Methods for increasing the level of employee involvement listed. The main differences between positive stress (eustress) and negative (distress) are given. The main ways to increase eustress are named. The basic mistakes in the systems of recruitment, adaptation and training of employees are considered. The reasons for high staff turnover in retail are listed.
Expressions of Cyr61,CTGF,NOV and WISP-1 in renal cell carcinoma

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Objective To evaluate the expressions of the CCN family members(Cyr61,CTGF,NOV and WISP-1) in human renal cell carcinoma(RCC).Methods Expressions of Cyr61,CTGF,NOV and WISP-1 were determined in 31 patients with RCC and in 18 normal kidney tissues by a semi-quantitative western blot method.Results Cyr61,CTGF,NOV and WISP-1 protein were all down-regulated in RCC.NOV or WISP-1 protein level was significantly higher in papillary RCC than that in clear cell RCC.NOV protein level was higher in G1 than G2,3 tumors(P0.01).Conclusions Down-regulation of Cyr61,CTGF,NOV and WISP-1 in RCC suggests that these CCN members might act as tumor suppressors in RCC.
Phylogeny of noctuoidmoths and the utility of combining independent nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Systematic Biology 43

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Abstract.—Phylogenies based on single genes can be discordant with organismal phylogenies. One solution to this problem is to sequence independent genes and combine the data in phy-logeny estimates. The mitochondrial gene ND1 was sequenced for representative noctuoid moths to complement a nuclear ribosomal RNA (rRNA) data set. Before combining the two data sets, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data were analyzed under different assumptions of character treatment (unweighted sites, transversion parsimony, third codon site omitted). Although the-oretical justifications exist for differentially weighting transversions and codon sites, these ap-proaches did not improve our phylogeny estimates of noctuoid relationships based on only the mtDNA sequences. However, the contribution of the relatively small (25 % of total data) but independent nuclear rRNA data set had a substantial impact on our analysis. The trees produced from the combined data do not support the monophyly of the largest family, the cutworms (Noctuidae). We suggest that cutworms are a grade rather than a clade in the superfamily. We mapped the replacement pathways of the ND1 amino acids using transformation series analysis and the most robust noctuoid tree. The resulting cladogram characters show that different amino acid replacement pathways exist for the same set of amino acid residues at different positions
Evolutionary dynamics of extremal optimization

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Dynamic features of the recently introduced extremal optimization heuristic are analyzed.Numerical studies of this evolutionary search heuristic show that it performs optimally at a transition between a jammed and an diffusive state.Using a simple, annealed model, some of the key features of extremal optimization are explained.In particular, it is verified that the dynamics of local search possesses a generic critical point under the variation of its sole parameter, separating phases of too greedy (non-ergodic, jammed) and too random (ergodic, diffusive) exploration.Analytic comparison with other local search methods, such as a Metropolis algorithm, within this model suggests that the existence of the critical point is the essential distinction leading to the optimal performance of the extremal optimization heuristic.
Coastal Countryside Innovation Dynamics in North-Western Russia

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Abstract Coastal regions are generally conceived as highly advanced in terms of socioeconomic and innovative development. Acting as international contact zones, coastal agglomerations are described as gateways for absorbing new knowledge, technologies, business cultures, etc. Yet, this perception is based on studies of large coastal cities and agglomerations. In our study, we focus on coastalization effects manifested in rural settlements and evaluate the innovation capability of the economies of coastal rural areas. The research scope covers 13 municipalities of the Leningrad region, including 134 rural settlements. The research methodology is structured into three main blocks: the evaluation of the human capital, assessment of the favorability of the entrepreneurial environment, and analysis of susceptibility of local economies to innovations. The list of analyzed innovation dynamics parameters includes the geospatial data for the distribution of population, companies and individual entrepreneurs, localization of specialized support and innovation infrastructure, sectoral analysis of the economic structure, digitalization aspects, et cetera. The data coverage period is 2010–2019 with variations depending on the availability of individual indicators. The research findings reveal particular features of the countryside as compared to urban settlements. Strong asymmetries are observed between the development of rural settlements cross-influenced by coastalization, near-metropolitan location, and national border proximity.
Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Student Performance on Exams in a Dynamics Course?

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Abstract During the COVID19 pandemic many faculty switched to a completely online mode of teaching and assessment for the 2020-2021 academic year. To prepare for this new mode of assessment, old exams from previous years of teaching became a collection from which to pull problems to create the online exams for the new COVID19 academic year. In this analysis we compare the results of the online exams (administered during the COVID19 academic year) with the same problems collected from pre-COVID exams. The online Dynamics exams: • Covered three to four topics per exam (Same as previous semesters) • Each topic had an option of 2-3 different problems that were randomly assigned to each student • Each problem had randomized numbers for certain variables within the problem This made every exam unique from one-another either in terms of problem and or numbers, while covering all the same topics. This is the beginning of a more detailed comparison of student performance on pre-COVID and during-COVID exam problems. Our prediction is that students will perform worse in the online exams when compared to those same sets of problems that have been worked out on previous exams due to the extra stresses associated with pandemic issues and online courses. Contrary to our expectations, students showed a marginal improvement in exam performance during the COVID19 pandemic when compared to exam problem performance from pre-COVID exam problems. However, it may be difficult to identify single variables that could have affected performance of students taking exams during the COVID-19 pandemic versus those before the 2020-2021 academic year.
Informational Lock-In and Relationship Financing ¤

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

We analyze an entrepreneur's choice between a multi-period …nancing arrangement (relation- ship or staged …nancing) and up-front …nancing. Relationship …nancing is desirable because it allows the …nancier to acquire information and deny further …nancing depending on the interim progress of the venture. However, relationship …nancing completely shuts othe entrepreneur's access to the competitive capital market. Since she is informationally captured by the initial …nancier, she ends up sharing part of the continuation surplus. We show that the initial …- nancier's ability to extract rents due to her superior information is essential for the viability of relationship …nancing. In equilibrium, despite the loss of future rents, the entrepreneur strictly prefers relationship …nancing and locks herself in to the …nancier. Moreover, in anticipation of loss of future rents, she raises and invests too much before information revelation.
MODELLING THE INACTIVATION BY PEF OF LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM IN AN ORANGE JUICE-MILK BEVERAGE

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

ISHS III International Symposium on Applications of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Agri-Food Chain; MODEL-IT MODELLING THE INACTIVATION BY PEF OF LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM IN AN ORANGE JUICE-MILK BEVERAGE
A Caribbean in the South Atlantic: first records of Hentzia antillana Bryant 1940, with notes on other previously reported jumping spider species (Araneae: Salticidae), from Ascension Island

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Sherwood, Danniella, Sharp, Adam (2023): A Caribbean in the South Atlantic: first records of Hentzia antillana Bryant 1940, with notes on other previously reported jumping spider species (Araneae: Salticidae), from Ascension Island. Peckhamia 310 (1): 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10943084
Vapor Pressures and Thermophysical Properties of Dimethoxymethane, 1,2-Dimethoxyethane, 2-Methoxyethanol, and 2-Ethoxyethanol: Data Reconciliation and Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory Modeling

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

As a continuation of our effort to establish reliable thermodynamic data for important industrial solvents, dimethoxymethane (CAS RN: 109-87-5), 1,2-dimethoxyethane (CAS RN: 110-71-4), 2-methoxyethanol (CAS RN: 109-86-4), and 2-ethoxyethanol (CAS RN: 110-80-5) were studied. Vapor pressure was measured by ebulliometry for dimethoxymethane and by static method for 1,2-dimethoxyethane, 2-methoxyethanol, and 2-ethoxyethanol. Heat capacities in the liquid phase of all four compounds were measured by Tian–Calvet calorimetry in the temperature interval (262–358) K. In the case of dimethoxymethane and 1,2-dimethoxyethane, this interval was shortened because of their volatility. The thermodynamic properties in the ideal gaseous state were calculated using the methods of statistical thermodynamics based on calculated fundamental vibrational frequencies and molecular structure data. Calculated ideal-gas heat capacities and experimental data on vapor pressures, liquid phase heat capacities, and vaporization enthalpies were treated simultaneously to obtain a consistent thermodynamic description. Comparisons with literature values are shown for all measured and derived properties. Furthermore, the developed recommended data were used to identify new molecular parameters for the studied solvents within the PC-SAFT (perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory) equation of state and to compare their performance with those published in earlier papers; improved performance of the new parameters was achieved.
Extraction of sigma-Term from Scattering and Annihilation Channels Data

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

The "dispersion relation on hyperbolas" method by R.Koch, developed for extraction of the chiral symmetry violating sigma_{N pi}term from the experimental data on pionnucleon scattering is applied to estimate sigma_{{\\bar p} p}. Two corrections: one arising from nonphysical region of annihilation channel and other continuation to the ChengDashen point are taken into account resulting in {sigma_{{\\bar p} p}(0)} = 78 MeV.
Emerging Trends and Challenges of Cyber Security in Fintech

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The Fintech-driven digital financial ecosystem has a tremendous impact on India's economic growth and development. All industries and business sectors are facing challenges as a result of digital transformation. Fintech employs technology to improve and automate financial services, whereas cybersecurity ensures the security of these services and data. This study explores the crucial role that cybersecurity plays in safeguarding sensitive information, critical infrastructure, and technological ecosystems from a multitude of threats in financial technology. It deliberates numerous cyber threats, ranging from phishing attacks to sophisticated malware, and highlights the importance of proactive measures such as encryption, access controls, and intrusion detection systems. This study reveals that Fintech innovations have a significant impact on the economy and society by providing access to the digital economy while cybersecurity is crucial in leveraging the benefits of Fintech.
The Effect of Shakuyakukanzoto for Renal Colic

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

尿管結石の疝痛発作に対して芍薬甘草湯を投与し，その臨床的有用性を非ステロイド性消炎鎮痛剤（NSAIDs）と比較検討した。対象は尿管結石患者25名で，11名に対し芍薬甘草湯5.0gを内服させ，コントロール群として，14名にNSAIDsを内服させた。内服時，内服後15分，30分，60分にNRS（numerical rating scale）を用いて比較検討した。NRSは0点を全く痛みなし，10点を最も強い痛みとした。結果は芍薬甘草湯内服群では内服時NRSは6.7 ± 2.3点で，内服後15分で3.4 ± 3.5点と有意に軽減した。NSAIDs内服群では内服時8.3 ± 1.8点で，内服後15分では7.0 ± 1.9点と有意な鎮痛効果は認めたが，鎮痛効果は芍薬甘草湯の方が有意に優れていた。その他の時点においても同様の結果で，芍薬甘草湯は尿管結石の疝痛発作に対して即効性があり，NSAIDsよりも有意に鎮痛効果を認めた。
Research on the Response Mechanism of Coal Rock Mass under Stress and Pressure

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

In this paper, the strength and deformation failure characteristics of bearing coal rock mass are related to the confining pressure, and the SAS-2000 experimental system is used to carry out uniaxial and 3, 6, and 9 MPa triaxial tests on coal rock to assess the strength and deformation failure characteristics of coal rock under different confining pressure conditions. The results show that the stress–strain curve of coal rock undergoes four evolutionary stages after fracture: compaction, elasticity, plasticity, and rupture. With confining pressure, the peak strength of coal rock increases, and the elastic modulus increases nonlinearly. The coal sample changes more with confining pressure, and the elastic modulus is generally smaller than that of fine sandstone. The stage of evolution under confining pressure constitutes the failure process of coal rock, with the stress of different evolution stages causing various degrees of damage to coal rock. In the initial compaction stage, the unique pore structure of the coal sample makes the confining pressure effect more apparent; the confining pressure makes the bearing capacity of the coal rock plastic stage stronger, the residual strength of the coal sample has a linear relationship with the confining pressure, and the residual strength of the fine sandstone has a nonlinear relationship with the confining pressure. Changing the confining pressure state will cause the two kinds of coal rock samples to change from brittle failure to plastic failure. Different coal rocks under uniaxial compression experience more brittle failure, and the overall degree of crushing is higher. The coal sample in the triaxial state experiences predominantly ductile fracture. The whole is relatively complete after failure as a shear failure occurs. The fine sandstone specimen experiences brittle failure. The degree of failure is low, and the confining pressure’s effect on the coal sample is obvious.
Polymer Optical Fiber Compound Parabolic Concentrator fiber tip based glucose sensor: in-Vitro Testing

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

We present in vitro sensing of glucose using a newly developed efficient optical fiber glucose sensor based on a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC)-tipped polymer optical fiber (POF). A batch of nine CPC-tipped POF sensors with a 35-mm fiber length is shown to have an enhanced fluorescence pickup efficiency with an average increment factor of 1.7 as compared with standard POF sensors with a plane cut fiber tip. in vitro measurements for two glucose concentrations (40 and 400 mg/dL) confirm that the CPC-tipped sensors can efficiently detect both glucose concentrations.