jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The SIRM Fuzzy Inference System: A Study of its Suitability

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This work is about how to infer from the given knowledge in the form of various rules. This work studies all the fuzzy inference models that are used widely in almost every application. Moreover, the crux of this work is SIRM inference model. The outline of the work is as follows: \n \n. Firstly, it introduces all the terms which are going to be used throughout this work. The second chapter, 'Preliminaries' consists of de nitions and basic concepts that are required to get a thorough understanding of the work. \n \n. Secondly, it talks about various fuzzy inference methods like Fuzzy Relational Inference (FRIs) : Compositional Rule Inference (CRI) and Bandler-Kohout Subproduct Inference Method (BKS), Single Input Connected Type Fuzzy Inference Method (SIC method) and Takagi-Sugeno Inference Method (TSK). In addition to the fuzzy inference models, the third chapter also explains about the five basic properties, that any FIS is expected to have. \n \n. Thirdly, fourth chapter explains SIRM FIS in detail and also gives the available results about the equivalence between SIRM FIS and other FISs. \n \n.Fourthly, as we have mentioned, that in this work we are going to investigate about whether the desirable five basic properties hold true in case of SIRM, in fifth chapter, two properties, interpolativity and monotonicity have been shown holding true in case of SIRM FIS. \n \n. Lastly, chapter 6 concludes the whole text as in this report.
Postoperative Patient Care

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Recovery staffs are responsible for providing care to the patient as soon as they enter the recovery room and the patient handover has been completed. Patients often have major concerns because of the anaesthesia and surgical procedures. This chapter describes these, including airway problems, postoperative pain, poor mental status because of anaesthetic drugs, and problems with wounds. Once patients are conscious, they may start experiencing pain caused by their surgical procedure. To prevent pain, opioids are usually the first choice, although other drugs can also be given either orally, intramuscularly or intravenously. Patients may also develop other problems because of past history of illness or disease, or because of issues following on from their recovery, including diabetes, retention of urine, deep venous thrombosis (DVT), circulation problems, allergies, and hypothermia or hyperthermia. The chapter then highlights some of the actions needed regarding postoperative patient care.
The Mediating Role of Work Conscience in the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Productivity of the Yazd Education Office employees

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Introduction: Improvement of productivity is one of the most important aims of organizations. Employees and managers play a central role in enhancing the organization's productivity. Therefore, it is important to consider the effective factors on improving it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of work conscience in the relationship between employees' spiritual intelligence and productivity. Method: The research design was cross-sectional and correlational. The participants included 248 employees of the Yazd Education Organization (8 managers, 60 deputies, and 180 employees) selected by proportional stratified sampling method. Data were collected using Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (King, 2008), Work Conscience Questionnaire (Barrick & Mount, 1991), and Productivity Questionnaire (Hersey & Goldsmith, 1983). Data analysis was performed using correlation method based on the structural equation modeling approach using AMOS software version 24. Results: The analysis showed that the model has a suitable fit to data. The direct effect of spiritual intelligence on work conscience (0.58) and the direct effect of work conscience on productivity (0.51) were positive and significant. However, the direct effect of spiritual intelligence on productivity was not significant; so, it was omitted from the model. Moreover, the result of bootstrap test indicated a significant and indirect effect of spiritual intelligence on productivity by mediating the role of work conscience. Conclusion: It can be concluded that managers of organizations can increase their working conscience by enhancing the spiritual intelligence of their employees and achieve more productivity.
SH2099580.08FU

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)

UNITE provides a unified way for delimiting, identifying, communicating, and working with DNA-based Species Hypotheses (SH). All fungal ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are clustered to approximately the species level by applying a set of dynamic distance values (<0.5 - 3.0%). All species hypotheses are given a unique, stable name in the form of a DOI, and their taxonomic and ecological annotations are verified through distributed, web-based third-party annotation efforts. SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification as far as possible (phylum, class, order, etc.) by taking into account identifications for all sequences in the SH. An automatically or manually designated sequence is chosen to represent each such SH. These sequences are released (https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php) for use by the scientific community in, for example, local sequence similarity searches and next-generation sequencing analysis pipelines. The system and the data are updated automatically as the number of public fungal ITS sequences grows.
Study on ruminant tick infestation, phytochemical analysis and in vitro acaricidal effect of <i>Calpurnia aurea</i> and <i>Otostegia integrifolia<i> extracts on <i>Amblyomma variegatum</i>

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

Ticks limit the productivity of livestock through decreased production, reproduction, increased mortality, downgrading and rejection of hides and skin. A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of tick infestation in ruminant while experimental study was used to evaluate the in-vitro acaricidal efficacy of methanolic extracts: Calpurnia aurea and Otostegia integrifolia and the phytochemicals present in those extracts at different concentrations (200, 100, 50, 25, 12.5 and 6.25 mg/ml) against Amblyomma variegatum. Adult immersion was used for the in-vitro acaricidal efficacy test and plant extracts were subjected to qualitative phytochemical screening for the presence or absence of secondary metabolites using standard procedures. Out of the 160 goats, 152 sheep and 121 cattle, 23 (14.4%), 44 (28.9%) and 28 (23.1%) were found to be positive for tick infestation, respectively. The incidence of tick infestation was significantly different (p<0.01) among ruminants. Five tick spp. were identified: A. variegatum, A. gemma, R. decoloratus, R. evertsi evertsi and R. pulchellus. Extract of C. aurea and O. integrifolia was found to contain alkaloids, saponins, phlobatannin, steroids, phenolic, flavonoids, glycosides and tannins. However, both plants were found negative for triterpens. Extracts of C. aurea and O. integrifolia at 200 and 100 mg/ml concentrations showed a significantly higher (p<0.05) acaricidal activities compared to other treatments at 24 hrs post exposure. Mortality of ticks was increased with the increased dosage (concentration) and exposure time after treatment. Extracts of C. aurea showed a significantly higher (p<0.05) tick mortality (52%) compared to those of O. integrifolia (27%). This is a promising finding to have alternative means of treatment and to substitute the use of synthetic drugs which have a wide spread drug resistance especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. Key words: Calpurnia aurea; in-vitro test; Otostegia integrifolia; Phytochemical screening; Tick infestation
Reservoir Fault Properties Estimated Using Seismic Shale Gouge Ratio

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

D020 Reservoir Fault Properties Estimated Using Seismic Shale Gouge Ratio A.D. Irving* (Total E&P UK Ltd) P. Breton (Total SA) & S. Guillon (Total SA) SUMMARY Fault properties estimated using lithoseismic Vclay are compared to those derived from a classical geomodelling approach with reservoir NTG. Throw and Shale Gouge Ratio (SGR) calculation at the seismic scale can provide a significant improvement in resolution and accuracy over the geomodelling approach. Fault properties included in numerical reservoir simulations give a qualitative match to observed production and time-lapse seismic effects in an offshore turbidite field. Errors introduced during upscaling of seismic properties into
Food authentication goes green: Determination of the geographical origin of grain maize (Zea mays L.) using direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Time savings, environmental friendliness and cost reduction are important criteria to determine the authenticity of feed and food in routine analysis. One analytical technique that is especially promising in terms of these criteria in metabolomics studies is Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS). In the present study, DART-MS is applied to 200 grain maize samples from seven geographical origins to develop a data processing workflow and an approach for origin analysis of grain maize. For the first time, such a large sample set was investigated using a DART-MS-based non-targeted lipidomics approach. Various open-source programs were used for pre-processing and random forest (RF) combined with repeated cross-validation was used for classification, resulting in an accuracy of 84.4%. Subsequently, the most important markers identified by RF, belonging to the classes of mono-, di- and triacylglycerols, were identified using DART-MS2. The chosen method significantly minimizes the time and solvent consumption compared to classic liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometric (LC-ESI-MS) strategies and thus offers a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative. Furthermore, the results show the high potential for determining the geographical origin of grain maize using DART-MS.
Do Chemical Treatments that Influence Inflorescence Necrosis Severity affect Grape Flower Cluster NH4+?

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A fruit-set disorder of grape, called Inflorescence Necrosis (IN), causes death of flower cluster tissue near bloom. Various chemical treatments have been reported to increase IN severity. Separate studies show that high flower cluster NH 4+ is related to naturally occurring IN. We designed a field trial to determine if treatments thought to influence IN severity also affect flower cluster NH 4+ . One week before first bloom, flower clusters were dipped in solutions of either methionine sulfoximine (MSO, an inhibitor of NH 4+ assimilation), α-keto glutarate, (NH 4 ) 2 HPO 4 , KNO 3 , NAA, GA, or an emulsion solution reported to increase transpiration. Also, ethephon was sprayed on whole vines 1 week before first bloom. Flower clusters were collected 5 days after treatment. MSO increased tissue [NH 4+ ] by almost 2-fold over that of controls. NAA and GA reduced [NH 4+ ] a small amount, possibly due to their slightly higher fresh weights. Other dip treatments did not affect [NH 4+ ]. Despite high [NH 4+ ] in MSO treated clusters, there were no visual differences in IN between treatments. Ethephon increased cluster [NH 4+ ] 20% over that of controls, but caused more severe IN. These data show that flower cluster [NH 4+ ] is not always coupled with IN symptoms.
The Strength of Peripheral Networks: Negotiating Attention and Meaning in Complex Media Ecologies

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Networked content flows that focus or fragment public attention are key communication processes in multimedia ecologies. Understandings of events may differ widely, as networked attention and framing processes move from core participants to more distant spectator publics. In the case of the Occupy Wall Street protests, peripheral social media networks of public figures and media organizations focused public attention on economic inequality. Although inequality was among many issues discussed by the activists, it was far less central to the protest core than problems with banks or democracy. Results showed how public attention to inequality was constructed through pulling and pushing interpretive frames between the core and periphery of dense communication networks. Various indicators of public attention—such as search trends, Wikipedia article edits, and legacy media coverage—all credited the protests with raising public awareness of inequality, even as attention to problems with banks grew at the protest core.
Enhancement of HIV-1 Tat fusion protein transduction efficiency by bog blueberry anthocyanins

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Though protein transduction domains (PTDs) are well known for the delivery of exogenous therapeutic proteins into living cells, the overall low efficiency of transduction is a serious obstacle. We investigated the effect of bog blueberry anthocyanins (BBA) on protein transduction efficiency and found that BBA enhanced the transduction efficiencies of Tat-SOD fusion protein into HeLa cells and mice skin. The enzymatic activities in the cells and skin tissue in the presence of BBA were markedly increased compared to controls. Further, BBA did not demonstrate any cell toxicity at various concentrations. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, we suggest that BBA might alter the conformation of the membrane, which would indicate that BBA can be used as a protein transduction enhancer for the efficient delivery of therapeutic proteins for a variety of disorders.
Multi-Platform Earthquake Analysis of Geotechnical-Structural Systems

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Inelastic dynamic analysis of interacting soil and structure system up to failure poses very considerable challenges to a number of engineering sub-disciplines as well as information technology. Software platforms that offer reliable geotechnical material models do not have suitable structural models and vice versa. Provisions for uncertainty modeling in system characteristics and input motion, to quantify uncertainty in earthquake safety assessment, requires hundreds or even thousands of large, complex and computationally demanding analyses. The lack of a universally-capable framework for geotechnical and structural interacting systems is also a feature of experimental testing. No single laboratory has the range of equipment to test soil and structure and certainly no space to test even a medium length bridge or a medium height building. This paper presents a framework for the computational and hybrid computational-experimental investigation of complex structures, their foundations and underlying soil, when subject to earthquake strong ground motion. Emphasis is placed on the computational structure developed for multi-platform inelastic earthquake analysis of complex multi-physics systems. The framework comprises a central integrator and satellite components. The simplicity and transparency of the approach used lend themselves to fast implementation by research groups, and facilitate adding any number of analytical platforms. Reference application of the approach to seismic assessment of interaction problems is given.
Plasma biomarker dynamics following ramucirumab treatment and survival analysis after ramucirumab treatment failure in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

79 Background: Ramucirumab (RAM) showed significantly improved survivals of gastric cancer in the second line with paclitaxel or single use. It is known that RAM causes pharmacodynamic changes of plasma VEGF-A family levels during treatment. However, its clinical significance is still unclear. The aim of this study is to reveal the changes of plasma biomarker levels until disease progression, and to examine associations between plasma biomarker levels at disease progression and survival after RAM treatment failure. Methods: Plasma samples were collected at three points: base line, day 8, and disease progression. Nine kinds of plasma biomarker related to angiogenesis: VEGF-A, C, D, PlGF, sVEGFR-1, 2, Neuropilin-1 (NRP1), Angiopietin-1, and SDF-1α, were measured by means of ELISA. The dynamics of plasma biomarkers were compared using the ANOVA. Patients were dichotomized by optimal cut-off value in each biomarker. Survival after RAM treatment failure was estimated by Kaplan-Maier methods and compared by log-rank test. Results: Plasma samples were collected from 21 patients. Median age was 67 y.o and female was dominant (57%). Plasma VEGF-A and PlGF levels sharply increased at day 8 and these higher plasma levels were sustained until disease progression: the median VEGF-A and PlGF levels at baseline, day 8, and disease progression were 20.2, 350.2, and 596.7 pg/ml for VEGF-A (p<0.001) and 10.5, 223.4, and 261.1 pg/ml for PlGF (p<0.001), respectively. Conversely, plasma NRP1 levels consistently decreased during treatment course: the median NRP1 levels at baseline, day 8, and disease progression were 444.3, 309.2, and 230.9 mg/ml (p=0.001). The median survival after disease progression was 3.1 months (95%CI 2.5-3.7). Patients with higher VEGF-A and NRP1 levels showed shorter survival with 4.5 vs. 0.9 months (HR 3.15 95%CI 1.6-6.4 p<0.001) for VEGF-A and 8.8 vs. 2.6 months (HR 2.92 95% CI 1.4-6.3 p=0.002) for NRP1. Conclusions: Our data suggest that not only a clue of mechanism of acquired resistance of RAM but necessity of new treatment strategy after RAM treatment failure. Further understanding of molecular correlates and clinical validation are warranted.
Enhancing product sustainability with Life Cycle Assessment and relevant technologies

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Promoting sustainable products and resource efficiency have become two major policy objectives in Europe, and resource efficiency has become an important political objective on the agenda of the European Commission. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) acts as an efficient framework to evaluate product environmental performances and improve resource efficiency. \n \nAn integrated approach implemented by three ICT systems are developed to support sustainable production. A sustainable production support toolbox has been developed that contains state-of-art tools regarding LCA software and database tools, environmental management schemes, the EU regulations and directives and stands associated with sustainable production. The applicable requirements, scope and advantages have been examined to develop the tools selection considerations. Compared with the existing toolbox, the distinguished novelty of the developed toolbox is that it can integrate into the product development process, the feasibility and utility of which has been demonstrated by reporting a sustainable flooring product development process. \n \nA framework for converting the existing ecoinvent database into a SQL supported database has also been developed, in order to use the ecoinvent database to serve web applications. The data format (i.e. EcoSpold) of the ecoinvent database is a custom XML format, and Python XML processing library has been applied to employ SAX approach to extract the massive data values and information from the EcoSpold files. The demonstrated framework iii and adopted approaches successfully convert the ecoinvent database into a SQL database management tool. Moreover, a Java GUI application has been developed to invoke the SQL based LCI database and the aggregated LCI datasets from the web-based product environmental assessment system. A web-based product environmental performance assessment system has been developed to achieve powerful, flexible and efficient online LCA calculations, by converting a desktop LCA software and applying a High-Performance Calculation Library. Moreover, a mobile client application has been developed to help consumers to evaluate purchased products sustainability performance and implement sustainable consumption. This developed tool is a novel web system that can perform powerful web and mobile based LCA calculations. The performance of the web system has been examined by applying a LCA on the shampoo product. A dedicated LCA on shampoo product has been conducted by using the SimaPro. The LCI datasets are provided by its manufacturer, a UK based company, and also fulfilled by applying ecoinvent database. This case study presents an in-depth modelling and analysis on shampoo product lifecycle with the aid of real manufacturing data. The analytical results also show that the lifecycle stage of major environmental impacts is in the shampoo utilisation stages.
Chronicle of Nature - Phenology of Amphibia of Sikhote-Alin State Nature Biosphere Reserve Named After K. G. Abramov

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Amphibia Phenology dataset compiled in the context of Chronicle of Nature program in Sikhote-Alin State Nature Biosphere Reserve Named After K. G. Abramov (Russian Federation) consisting of 596 records collected during 57 years between 1946 and 2015.
Total body irradiation, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, and autologous peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation followed by randomization to therapy with interleukin-2 versus observation for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: results of a phase 3 randomized trial by the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG 9438)

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract To determine the effect of posttransplantation immunotherapy with IL-2 on the progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) after autologous stem-cell transplantation (PBSCT), patients with previously treated NHL were treated with cyclophosphamide, etoposide, total body irradiation (TBI), and PBSCT. Twenty-eight to 80 days after PBSCT, patients were randomized to IL-2 versus observation. Three hundred seventy-six eligible patients were registered (with 4-year PFS of 34% and 4-year OS of 52%), and 194 eligible patients were randomized to continuous infusion intravenous IL-2 (9 million units/m2/day for 4 days followed 5 days later by 1.6 million units/m2/day for 10 days) versus observation. In randomized patients, there was no significant difference in PFS (hazard ratio of IL-2 to observation = 0.90; P =.56) or in OS (hazard ratio of IL-2 to observation = 0.88; P =.55). There were no deaths related to IL-2 treatment. Grade 4 IL-2–related toxicities (n = 14) were reversible. These results confirm earlier SWOG findings that cyclophosphamide, etoposide, TBI, and PBSCT can be administered to patients with relapsed/refractory NHL with encouraging PFS and OS. Posttransplantation IL-2 given at this dose and schedule of administration had no significant effect on PFS or OS. This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00002649.
Representations of the Symmetric Group and Nonstandard Quantum Statistics

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

From the Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Joy Zalis Kiefer, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Lindsey Paunovich, Editor; Helen Human, Programs Manager and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences Mentor: Renato Feres