jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Workflow Support for Continuous Data Quality Control in a FilteredPush Network

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

In supporting the Southwest Arthropod Collections Network (SCAN) Thematic Collections Network (TCN), the FilteredPush project has implemented a data quality workflow that can be run using the Akka framework to provide data quality reports back to collections participating in the network. In this workflow, three actors perform data quality checks on, scientific name , georeference , and date collected . Inputs are provided through an actor that loads DarwinCore records in JSON or CSV form, either from the file system, or from a pool of harvested records in MongoDB. Outputs are provided as JSON, written either into a MongoDB collection, or to the file system, with a utility to convert the output to a multi-sheet spreadsheet with data quality annotations. The output includes a quality-controlled copy of the original record, and for each quality control actor, assertions made by that actor concerning the record data and provenance. The actors follow a common pattern of checks on the data: First, checks are performed to determine whether data have the expected format: e.g., for a field expected to contain a date, whether or not a valid date (or a value parsable as a valid date) is present. Second, checks on internal consistency in the fields relevant to the actor are executed. For example, does a georeference assert a coordinate within the country boundary for the given country name? Similarly, a check is made whether a scientific name in a single field is consistent with other fields that hold parts of that name (e.g., the genus name may occur both in the scientific name field and in its own field.) Third, consistency checks can also be performed against remote services to make sure that, e.g., collection dates are plausible in view of biographical information about the collectors. The FilteredPush project originally assessed data quality in FilteredPush networks using Kepler workflows with actors from the Kepler Kuration package. These actors employ a workflow director (COMAD) designed for workflow pipelines over structured data collections. We faced two difficulties in deploying Kepler to support automated quality control of harvested data: first, running Kepler headless, without its graphical user interface, and second, a low rate of throughput. We were able, though with noticeable overhead, to run Kepler headless as a service within a FilteredPush node. We then explored the use of the Akka platform as a low-level, higher-throughput “workflow system”. To this end, we refactored the logic of the data quality control actors into a FilteredPush library, which can be used for both Kepler Kuration and for Akka actors. Initial benchmarking experiments on the Akka workflow suggest a local optimum of about five parallel threads (for each of the actors in the workflow) was the most efficient in our deployment.
Effect of oleo‐disaturated triacylglycerol content on properties of palm mid fraction, sal stearin and borneo tallow blends

Field: Chemical Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Binary blends of palm mid fraction (PMF) with Borneo tallow (IP) and PMF with sal stearin (SLs) showed eutectic behavior. To produce a cocoa butter extender with steep melting profiles and containing not less than 70% solid fat at 20°C, the maximum amount of PMF1 (IV=49.2) and PMF2 (IV=39.8) that could be added to IP in PMF:IP binary systems were about 10% and 33%; whereas the amount of PMF2 that could be added to SLsl (IV=33.4), SLs2 (IV=31.7) and SLs3 (IV=30.3) in PMF2:SLs binary systems were about 7%, 10% and 38%, respectively. Blends of any PMF with an iodine value of 37 or lower with IP could fulfill the above specifications at any blend ratio.
Abstract 12147: Prognostic Impact of Cardiac MRI Derived Left Atrial Volumetric and Functional Parameters in Patients With Advanced Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Left atrial (LA) size has been shown to be predictive of adverse outcomes in patients with various cardiac conditions. However, the significance of left atrial function (LAF) is not clearly defined in patients with advanced ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). We assess the effect of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) based LA ejection fraction (LAEF), LA volume index (LAVi) and total LA strain(Las) on outcomes in patients with ICM. Methods: Patients with ICM, who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) between January 2002 and January 2017, were included in our study. Clinical characteristics and CMR parameters were collected and analyzed. Maximum and minimum left atrial volume (LAV) and LAEF were calculated using the biplane area-length method. Multi-variable Cox proportional hazards models were then built to test whether LAEF, LAs, and LAVi predict all-cause mortality or time to transplant. The proportionality assumption test and supremum test for functional form were used to verify the model. Results: LA functional data on 656 patients were analyzed. Patients were followed for a median of 1900 days (5.2 years). There were 336 deaths and 17 transplants. LAEF and Las were significant predictors of outcome: HR=0.98, 95% CI [0.97, 0.99], p<0.001 , HR=0.94, 95% CI [0.91, 0.96], p<0.001) respectively. LAVi was not an independent predictor of survival after adjusting for the medical risk score (p=0.749). Multivariable Cox proportional analysis and ROC analysis for the prediction of death or transplant of the model within two years is shown in Figure 1. Conclusion: Left atrial function is a more powerful predictor of adverse outcome than left atrial size and ischemic mitral regurgitation. Further studies are needed to assess impact of treatment on LA function.
Mutations in the motor domain modulate myosin activity and myofibril organization

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

We have investigated the functional impact on cardiac myofibril organization and myosin motor activity of point mutations associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathies (FHC). Embryonic chicken cardiomyocytes were transfected with vectors encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to a striated muscle myosin heavy chain (GFP-myosin). Within 24 hours of transfection, the GFP-myosin is found co-assembled with the endogenous myosin in striated myofibrils. The wild-type GFP-myosin had no effect on the organization of the contractile cytoskeleton of the cardiomyocytes. However, expression of myosin with the R403Q FHC mutation resulted in a small but significant decrease in myofibril organization, and the R453C and G584R mutations caused a more dramatic increase in myofibril disarray. The embryonic cardiomyocytes beat spontaneously in culture and this was not affected by expression of the wild-type or mutant GFP-myosin. For the biochemical analysis of myosin motor activity, replication defective adenovirus was used to express the wild-type and mutant GFP-myosin in C2C12 myotubes. The R403Q mutation enhanced actin filament velocity but had no effect on the myosin duty ratio. The R453C and G584R mutations impaired actin filament movement and both increased the duty ratio. The effects of these mutations on myosin motor activity correlate with changes in myofibril organization of live cardiomyocytes. Thus, mutations associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathies that alter myosin motor activity can also impair myofibril organization.
Clinical Significance of Marginal Zinc Deficiency as a Predictor of Covert Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Covert hepatic encephalopathy (CHE) can worsen the quality of life and prognosis of patients with cirrhosis. We analyzed the risk factors of CHE and identified patients at high risk for overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE) who would benefit from therapeutic interventions. We included 145 patients without a history of or treatment for overt HE. Patients were divided into the CHE and no-CHE groups (n = 91 and 54, respectively). CHE had a score above the age-based cutoff value of one of the neuropsychological tests, such as the Stroop and number connection tests. CHE prevalence was 62.8% (n = 91). Compared with the no-CHE group, the CHE group had significantly lower serum zinc and albumin levels. Multiple logistic regression analysis identified serum zinc levels at a cutoff value of 74 µg/dL. Subclinical zinc deficiency showed a diagnostic performance of 55.6% sensitivity and 81.5% specificity for CHE. Blood ammonia levels and liver functional reserves were not predictive of CHE. Compared with patients with zinc levels < 74 µg/dL (n = 102), those with ≥74 µg/dL (n = 43) had significantly lower CHE prevalence and better hepatic functional reserve. Subclinical zinc deficiency was associated with CHE occurrence in patients with cirrhosis without a history of or treatment for overt HE. Measurement of zinc levels facilitates early detection of CHE by neuropsychological testing.
The Influence of Post-Training Monitoring and Mentoring on Teachers’ Competencies of Inclusive Education in Elementary School

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The research was motivated by the problems found in post-training.
Teachers rarely applied the knowledge they acquired during the training
due to the unavailability of post-training monitoring. This research aims to
investigate whether the control and mentoring post-training effectively
improve the performance of teachers in implementing inclusive education.
The research method used was a survey method with an ex post facto
design. Samples selected were teachers who participated in the 2016
inclusive education training. Findings showed that; (1) teachers’
competencies of inclusive education have improved after the post-training
(2) training and assistance have a significant influence on enhancing
teachers’ performance in implementing inclusive education in elementary
school
Interoperability of constrained finite state automata

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Finite State Automata have been extended in a number of ways with varied additional constraints with an objective of modeling varied real life problems. The current paper commonly refers to such extensions as constrained automata. It aims at defining a generic mathematical model for the constrained automata targeted towards interoperability and possible integration amongst them. The paper proposes and demonstrates usage of hyper complex symbols that realizes the objective.
Fatalism and the millennium

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Among the major concerns of the Anglo-Saxons, as the surviving Old English prose and poetry attest, were the questions of fate and free will, providence and individual responsibility. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a great deal of scholarly attention was given to a search for a common philosophical background for Germanic literature (distinct from the Latin learned tradition) to complement the readily identifiable shared elements in diction, style and verse form among Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon and Old High German. One school of thought, once espoused widely and not without adherents today, holds that the belief in fate was a key feature of paganism, and that the degree to which humankind is seen to be controlled by fate in Old English literature shows the extent to which the inherent paganism of the text comes through untarnished or unalloyed. When fate is in competition with God, the text has been 'contaminated', usually by a 'pious interpolator', whose 'spurious' additions obscured the underlying Germanic heroic fatalism (never clearly defined or exemplified in any extant text).
A comparative study of education and coronary heart disease risk in Great Britain: findings from three cohorts

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

This thesis investigates the association in Britain between education and coronary heart disease (CHD) in two birth cohort studies and repeated cross-sectional studies from which synthetic cohorts were constructed according to minimum school leaving age in adolescence, with a longitudinal element derived from death registration. The thesis aimed to examine the association between education and the natural history of CHD by assessing various markers of the development of atherosclerosis (i.e., biological risk factors, clinical presentation of myocardial infarction or angina, and death). This work sought to compare a life course model of education and CHD in British adults by periods of birth, which captured the secular changes that have taken place in both education and CHD. Data were drawn from three existing sources to meet these goals: The Health Survey for England (HSE), The MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) and The National Child Development Study (NCDS). The HSE provided cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of education, CHD risk factors, myocardial infarction/angina, CHD mortality and potential mediators. The NSHD and NCDS provided prospective longitudinal measures of education, CHD risk factors, potential mediators and early life factors. The Relative/Slope Indices of Inequality suggested heightening inequalities in CHD mortality, myocardial infarction/angina and adiposity by particular birth periods in Britain, whereas blood pressure inequalities were found to have diminished. Unclear trends were shown for total cholesterol. Pathway models indicated that working life circumstances, family formation and health behavioural mechanisms explained educational inequalities in CHD risk factors in women. Significant pathways for men were shown for health behaviours only. Moreover, social circumstances and health from early life partly accounted for the direct effect of education on CHD risk. The relationship between education and CHD across different generations of British adults proved to be complex, driven by temporal changes in both education and CHD.
Relational Implications of Gay and Lesbian Workplace Romances: Understanding Trust, Deception, and Credibility

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study examines the relational implications of same-sex workplace romances (WRs) and compares results with findings for heterosexual WRs. Working adults (N = 147; M age = 30.87 years old) read a scenario describing a same-sex WR and completed measures of deception, trust, and credibility. Results indicate that employees trust gay and lesbian peers dating superiors less, are more likely to deceive them, and view them as less credible than gay and lesbian peers dating other peers. Employees also perceive gay coworkers as more caring and of higher character than they perceive lesbian coworkers. Comparisons with prior research indicate that peers report less deception with gay and lesbian coworkers and higher perceptions of gay and lesbian coworkers' caring and character compared with heterosexual coworkers. Sex of the peer affected perceptions of gay and lesbian, but not heterosexual peers. There were no differences in the effect sizes for dating a superior versus a peer between gay and lesbian and heterosexual WRs.
Shariah Compliance of Wakalah Concept in Takaful Operation: A Case Study of A Takaful Operation in Malaysia

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Objective – The main objective of this paper is to focus on wakalah model and its impact in takaful operation and to evaluate the compliance of takaful company with shari’ah principles in applying the wakalah concept. Methods – qualitative method which is based on library research. Reference to many books, articles, proceeding papers, handouts, journals, and internet source regarding wakalah by Etiqa Takaful Berhad. Result–The finding of this research shows that the takaful operation in Etiqa Takaful Berhad relies solely on the role of agents to market and promote their products. The agents shall act in accordance with the agreement signed by both parties as to the duties and work to be done by the agent. Binding agreement between the agent and the principal in Etiqa Takaful Berhad is the Family Takaful Agency Agreement and the General Takaful Agency Agreement. Conclusion –It can be concluded that the agency system should be further strengthened as it has important role in takaful business. Indirectly, it can enhance the development of Islamic finance in Malaysia as well as make it known to the society that it is a good system and can completely replace conventional insurance in this industry. Keywords: Wakalah, Agency System, Takaful, Conventional Insurance
Systematic analysis of inelastic alpha scattering off self-conjugate A = 4N nuclei

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

The multipole decomposition analysis (MDA) for the inelastic alpha scattering is very useful to determine the strength distribution, and widely used to study the cluster structures in nuclei. However, the reliability of the MDA was shaken by the puzzle of the missing monopole strength in 12C, where the monopole strength for the Hoyle state determined by the inelastic alpha scattering is much smaller than by the inelastic electron scattering. In the present work, we systematically measured cross sections of the inelastic alpha scattering at Eα=130 and 386 MeV exciting low-lying discrete states in 12C, 16O, 20Ne, 24Mg, 28Si, and 40Ca. In addition, we compared the measured cross sections with the "parameter-free" distorted-wave Born-approximation (DWBA) calculation. All of the adjustable parameters in the DWBA calculation were determined by the electromagnetic transition strengths and the elastic alpha scattering.We found that this puzzle is not specific to the Hoyle state in 12C but universally observed in all of the ΔL = 0 transitions, and the DWBA calculation with the density-independent effective αN interaction at Eα = 386 MeV is better than that with the density-dependent effective αN interaction. The inadequate density dependence in the effective αN interaction causes this puzzle by overestimating the cross sections for the ΔL = 0 transition. However, it is still unsatisfactory to reproduce the experiment. The present data will provide valuable information to develop a new sophisticated interaction which includes the proper density depend.
[Longitudinal study in the elderly in The Netherlands: an inventory focused on policy relevance].

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

With the purpose of gathering policy relevant information on changes in functioning of older persons, in 1989/1990 an inventory was made of longitudinal research in the Netherlands in which data on the older population are collected. The inventory resulted in a list of over thirty studies in a wide range of disciplines. The stage of these studies was updated in mid-1992. In this paper, the studies are categorized according to ten themes relevant to the policy on aging. The themes are based on the Lalonde model of prevention and on the WHO classification of impairments-disabilities-handicaps, which were extended to the full life sphere of older persons. Each study is briefly described. For each theme is indicated what contribution the existing research can make to the policy relevant information sought. It is concluded that thus far no comprehensive, multidisciplinary study was available which can provide integrated information on changes in functioning of older adults.
Fluvio-geomorphic Changes during the Last Glacial Age in the main part of Hokkaidô, Japan

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

Geomorphology of terraces and related features around Sapporo and several other districts in Hokkaido have been compared. The cause of geomorphic change in the last Glacial Age and its relation to climatic change are briefly discussed and reviewed.In that Age nearly same fluvial geomorphic changes occurred in these places. The large accumulation in the valley and piedmont region is found to have occurred once. Alluvial fan and aggradational terrace of the substage were already in dissectional phase at the time some what earlier than 30, 000 14C years B.P. The cause of the accumulation may be of climatic origin, but the correlation between climatic records and geomorphological events in these regions is not clear.
THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT 'BALTIC FRUIT ROOTSTOCK STUDIES'

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In 1998, an International Research Project was started, aimed at investigating the use of apple, pear and plum dwarfing and semi-dwarfing rootstocks in the Baltic States and Byelorussia. Most of the rootstock types tested are already used in Western Europe. However, these are often new for East European countries. The planting material for these trials was grown in a fruit nursery at the Pure Horticultural Research Station. For this purpose, in the spring of 1998 and 1999, 12 apple rootstocks, 7 pear rootstocks, 8 clonal rootstocks and 9 generative rootstocks for plum were planted. The apple rootstocks were budded with two scion cultivars: 'Auksis' and 'Belorusskoye Malinovoye'. For the pear rootstocks, the local cultivar 'Suvenirs' was used. The plum rootstocks were budded with the early ripening cultivar 'Kometa Kubanskaya' (an East Asian type plum) and the late ripening 'Victoria' (domestic plum). The results of budding, the growth of the maiden trees, and the numbers of trees produced were determined in nursery. In spring of 2001, the trees of these cultivar/rootstock combinations were, according to unified methodology, planted for trials in the orchards of the scientific institutions participants in the project.
Image Retrieval using Fractional Coefficients of Orthogonal Wavelet Transformed Images with Seven Image Transforms

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

25%, 12.5%, 6.25%, 3.125%, 1.5625% ,0.7813%, 0.39%, 0.195%, 0.097%, 0.048%, 0.024%, 0.012% and 0.006% of complete transformed image) are considered as feature vectors. Instead of using all coefficients of transformed images as the feature vector for image retrieval, these fourteen reduced coefficients sets are used, resulting into better performance and lower computations. The proposed CBIR techniques are implemented on a database having 1000 images spread across 11 categories. For each proposed CBIR technique 55 queries (randomly selected 5 images per category) are fired on the database and average precision and recall values are plotted to get precision-recall crossover point. The results have shown the performance improvement (higher precision-recall crossover point) with fractional coefficients compared to complete transform of image at reduced computations resulting in faster retrieval. The wavelet transform generated using Kekre transform for 0.048% reduced coefficient set gives the best performance among the proposed CBIR techniques.
Music, Folk and Traditional

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Abstract Generally speaking, folk music comprises traditional, orally transmitted, and regionally and ethnically based genres of mu sic, often performed in small groups with a major everyday emphasis on face-to-face communication and social interaction (see Genre; Interaction, Face-To-Face). Early folklorists understood folk songs to differ both from popular music (tainted by professionalism, the profit motive, and mass media) and from art music (composed and per formed for an urban, educated elite). Folk songs, they thought, could be found only among an agrarian, illiterate peasantry; literacy, urbanization, and modernization were thought to work against folk tradition. This formulation meant that students of folk song were fated to preside over dying artifacts and that the nature and quality of folk song among descendants of settlers in the New World must be derivative and inferior. But as many of those European peasant cultures disappeared during the twentieth century, folklorists observed that folk songs and folk processes were alive and well among European and American working classes and well-knit ethnic groups, whether in rural areas or in cities.