jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
A Study of the Relationships among Relational Maintenance Strategy Usage, Communicator Style and Romantic Relational Satisfaction

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

This thesis examined student-participants' self-reported use of romantic relational maintenance strategies and their partners' reports of relational satisfaction. Additionally, individuals outside the romantic relationship reported on student-participants' general communicator style. The research proposed that general style reports would be predictive of relational maintenance strategy usage and of romantic partners' relational satisfaction. The study found that general style behaviors may not be indicative of relational maintenance strategy usage or romantic partners' relational satisfaction. Tests of sex differences revealed that females' expression of various relational maintenance strategies and style behaviors are associated with male partners' relational satisfaction; however, no results were obtained indicating specific behaviors expressed by males result in female partners' relational satisfaction.
Variations in pH and Nutrients in Relation to Snohomish River Discharge in Possession Sound

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Nutrients support the lifecycles of marine organisms, making them an important factor in the health of an estuary. To maintain a hospitable environment in an estuary, the pH is required to stay within the range of 7.5-8.5. Certain nutrients have strong correlations to pH, such as silicon, whose production is driven by acidic rainwater. Rainwater is one of the key elements that drives the discharge of the Snohomish River. In this research, nutrient concentrations were gathered at the mouth of the Snohomish River, at the Port of Everett within Possession Sound. These levels were compared to pH and river discharge that were gathered seasonally from 2017-2021. High nutrient levels are expected in spring months when flooding has occurred. The pH is expected to decrease and become more acidic in the fall months while decomposition is occurring at lower depths. This change is predicted to start in the summer and continue due to lack of precipitation and an increase in heat. Certain nutrients are expected to have correlations with pH and therefore could be linked to changes in pH. Nutrients and pH in Possession Sound may also be affected by the highly industrial surrounding areas that can cause contaminations through river run off. From the resulting data it is expected that common trends will immerge of the relationship between pH and nutrient levels. These common trends will likely alter as the amount of river discharge rises and falls over the course of a year. Studies of this type can help to determine how changes in river discharge impact the health of a marine life within an estuary.
[Epidemiological analysis on the rising of brucellosis prevalence in the area already under controlled].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

An epidemiological analysis was made on the outbreak of brucellosis in Sui-de County, Shaanxi Province in 1995-1996. Result showed that it was one of the most serious brucellosis outbreaks since 1986 when national brucellosis under controlled critiria had been met in the province, and the number of cases was continuously spreading and growing. The incidence was up to 84.8 per 10(5) and the prevalence rate reached 17.5 percent. Patients had typical symptoms with bad conditions. Most all the cases were those who had vocations such as shepherds, etc. Patients' antibody titers were very high with the highest one approached 1:25,600. Two strains of B. melitensis, type III were isolated from the blood of patients.
Shoreline extraction from light detection and ranging digital elevation model data and aerial images

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

There is an increased demand for understanding the accurate position of the shorelines. The automatic extraction of shorelines utilizing the digital elevation models (DEMs) obtained from light detection and ranging (LiDAR), aerial images, and multispectral images has become very promising. In this article, we develop two innovative algorithms that can effectively extract shorelines depending on the available data sources. The first is a multistep morphological technique that works on LiDAR DEM with respect to a tidal datum, whereas the second depends on the availability of training data to extract shorelines from LiDAR DEM fused with aerial images. Unlike similar techniques, the morphological approach detects and eliminates the outliers that result from waves, etc., by means of an anomaly test with neighborhood constraints. Additionally, it eliminates docks, bridges, and fishing piers along the extracted shorelines by means of Hough transform. The second approach extracts the shoreline by means of color space conversion of the aerial images and the support vector machines classifier to segment the fused data into water and land. We perform Monte-Carlo simulations to estimate the confidence interval for the error in shoreline position. Compared with other relevant techniques in literature, the proposed methods offer better accuracy in shoreline extraction.
World Health Report 2000: the position of Slovak Republic.

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

The World Health Organization (WHO) published the analysis of the health systems in 191 member states of WHO with important data (mostly for the year 1999) on probability of dying under age 5 years and between ages 15 and 59 years, life expectancy at birth, disability-adjusted life expectancy--DALE which is defined as the expectation of life lived in equivalent full health, responsiveness of health system, fairness of financial contribution and overall health system attainment. The last parameter was based on five weighted components: overall level of population health, health inequalities within the population, level of health system responsiveness, distribution of responsiveness between population and the distribution of health system financial burden within the population. Between 149 countries with more than 1 million inhabitants the rank for Slovakia (30th) is not bad and is close to Croatia and Poland. The estimates of overall health system performance (i.e. how efficiently health systems translate financial expenditure into health) belong to the problematic part of the report:. In this parameter the health system of USA ranks much lower than Turkey or Tunisia and Slovakia ranks lower than Albania. The authors did not take into consideration, that the health of population depends not only on health care and health expenditure but on many other factors, such as life style, nutrition, pollution, etc., which are not influenced by expenditure into health system. (Tab. 2, Fig. 6, Ref. 15.)
Gambaran Pengetahuan terhadap Perawatan Ortodontik Menurut Islam pada Dosen Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Field: Dentistry (Health Sciences)

The aims of orthodontic treatment is to improve the function of mastication, phonetics and aesthetics. Orthodontic treatment in Islam is not permitted if the purpose of treatment is only to improve aesthetics. Islam emphasizes hygiene and health, so orthodontic treatment with the aim of correcting mastication and phonetics accompanied by aesthetics is permissible. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of knowledge on orthodontic treatment in Islam at the lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The method of this study was descriptive observational, with a total sample of 46 lecturers. Sample inclusion criteria are lecturers who actively teach at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, namely all lecturers in the departments of Islamic Education, Islamic Economics, and Islamic Broadcasting Communication. The sample exclusion criteria were the Lecturers of the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta who were continuing their studies abroad or other universities, and lecturers who were not willing to become research respondents. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis which is frequency distribution, so that it would be known that the trend of research results included in the categories of low, medium or high. The results showed that the level of knowledge of orthodontic treatment according to Islam had a good level of knowledge with a percentage of 78.3%. The conclusion of this study is that lecturers are highly knowledgeable about orthodontic treatment according to Islam. The majority of lecturers know that orthodontic treatment in Islam is permissible with health goals, whereas if the goal of treatment is to improve aesthetics and change the form of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala creation it is not permissible.
Physics and Technology for the In-Situ Investigation of Properties of Materials

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

The progress report is broken up into four sections, the first detailing the apparatus constructed, the second, results on CoSi2, and third, very recent results on free standing Aluminium films and wires. In addition, results on Arsenic doped Silicon are proceeding and are described briefly. Samples can be inserted into our Oxford 200 top loading dilution refrigerator cryostat which has been modified to include a 7T magnet mounted on the mixing chamber. We also have a small independently operated solenoid which is used to ramp the magnetic field slowly, and to provide a zero field environment, by nulling out trapped fields in the main solenoid. This apparatus allows us to carry out transport measurements down below 20 mK (5 mK in zero field), provided that the sample holders are properly heat sunk. We have carried out measurements on several samples of Cobalt Silicate (CoSi2). The first was on a 170 Angstrom thick layer where we observed that the material had a resistance ration of approximately 5.5, with a superconducting transition at approximately 1K (mid point 0.75K), (see figure 1a), and a critical field of approximately 100 G. In this sample, we have observed a shallow minimum in resistance at 4.5 K (figure 1b) with a log T low temperature resistance in the normal state.
P677Defective autophagy in vascular smooth muscle cells promotes an unstable atherosclerotic plaque phenotype and increased expression of mitophagy markers in Apo E−/− mice

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are one of the main cellular determinants of arterial wall pathology.In atheroma VSMCs are in first line to support lipid retention and lipid overload via foam cell formation and death.Recent evidence shows that autophagy an evolutionary conserved process that prevents the accumulation of unwanted cytosolic material, could play a key role in atheroma progression.Indeed, we previously demonstrated in vitro that selective autophagy of dysfunctional mitochondria named mitophagy is a safeguard mechanism against apoptosis of primary human VSMCs.Aim: In the present study, we aimed at investigating the consequence of defective autophagy in murine VSMCs on plaque phenotype and mitophagy markers.Methods and results: Mice harboring a VSMC-specific deletion of the essential autophagy gene Atg7 (Atg7F/F Tagln-Cre+) were crossbred with ApoE-/-mice (Atg7-/-, ApoE-/-) and fed a high fat diet for 10 weeks.The aortic sinuses of Atg7-/-, ApoE-/-mice were characterized by an increased staining for lipids using Oil red O, enhanced macrophage and apoptotic cells content as compared to Atg7+/+ Tagln-Cre+, ApoE-/-(Atg7+/+, ApoE-/-) mice; conversely, total collagen amount was not significantly different.Interestingly we measured a higher expression level of the mitophagy markers PINK1 and Parkin in VSMCs from Atg7-/-, ApoE-/-mice suggesting impaired mitophagy.Conclusion: Defective autophagy in VSMCs promotes an unstable atherosclerotic plaque phenotype supporting the hypothesis that autophagy and potentially mitophagy play a major role in vascular disease.
Novel Thermosensitive Polyethers Prepared by Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Glycidyl Ether Derivatives

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract A new series of thermo-sensitive polyethers were prepared by anionic ring-opening polymerization of glycidyl ether derivatives: glycidyl methyl ether, ethyl glycidyl ether, and ethoxyethyl glycidyl ether. The prepared polymers have controllable molecular weight with narrow molecular weight distributions. These polymers exhibit a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in water. The LCST is altered from 14.6 to 57.7 °C by decreasing the hydrophobicity of the side-chain units.
Pricing formulas, model error and hedging derivative portfolios

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

We propose a method for extending a given asset pricing formula to account for two additional sources of risk: the risk associated with future changes in market--calibrated parameters and the remaining risk associated with idiosyncratic variations in the individual assets described by the formula. The paper makes simple and natural assumptions for how these risks behave. These extra risks should always be included when using the formula as a basis for portfolio management. We investigate an idealized typical portfolio problem, and argue that a rational and workable trading strategy can be based on minimizing the quadratic risk over the time intervals between trades. The example of the variance gamma pricing formula for equity derivatives is explored, and the method is seen to yield tractable decision strategies in this case.
Variety Identification of Tomato by Electrophoregram of Seed Protein and Comparison of Digitally Processed SEM Images of Stomata

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In agriculture and horticulture, the genetic purity of cultivars is critical to farmers, plant breeders, and seed producers as well as regulatory agencies. Cultivar identification by seed protein polymorphism and computer analysis of images of plant characters is an alternative method for cultivar identification. Comparison of the efficiency and precision of identification of varieties of tomato by gel electrophoresis of seed protein and digital processing of scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of stomata were made. The sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) technique for seed protein profile was useful in distinguishing tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) varieties. Digital processing of SEM images of stomata created four clusters depending on the percentage circularity, or how well the image fits a circle, of the stomata. Both methods could identify varieties with high contrast in stomatal characters and protein banding pattern, although digital processing of SEM images of stomata was less precise in distinguishing varieties with less contrast. Protein markers and digital processing of important plant morphological images may be utilized to distinguish varieties of tomato.
Using Partial Automorphisms to Design Process Ontologies

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Process ontologies play key roles in semantic integration and decision support systems for applications in manufacturing, enterprise modeling and e- commerce. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the design and verification of domain-specific process ontologies that are extensions of generic process ontologies. This allows us to evaluate the correctness of process ontologies with respect to the class of intended models for their respective domains. Our approach is based on the correspondence between the effects of activities in the process ontology and the partial automorphisms of models of the underlying domain ontology. We then investigate in detail the process ontology for the domain of chains (sets of disjoint linear orderings) using this methodology.
Research Progress in the Influencing Factors of Agrobacterium-mediated Genetic Transformation of Plants

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The key to establish an agrobacterium-mediated high efficient genetic transformation system is to optimize the factors of transforming T-DNA into plant,including the factors of explant,strains,infection,co-culture conditions and so on.This paper stated the role factors in agrobacterium-mediated plant genetic transformation in details,in order to provide theoretical basis for the practical operation.
[Study on transmission characteristics and genetic variation of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia based on whole genome sequencing].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Objective: To analyze the short-term hospital-based transmission characteristics and gene variation of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) by genome-wide technique to provide evidence for transmission control. Methods: The experimental strain was derived from all the CRKP isolated in Affiliated Hospital of North China University of Science and Technology from October 2022 to December 2023. Strain identification and drug susceptibility were tested with VITEK 2-Compact automatic bacterial identification drug susceptibility analyzer or disk method, and the results were interpreted through whole genome sequencing. The ST type, carbapenem resistance gene, virulence factor, and O serotype of the collected strains were analyzed. Results: Among the 115 strains of CRKP, 94 strains were isolated from the intensive care unit (ICU), accounting for 81.7%, and 21 strains were isolated from the non-intensive care unit (NICU), accounting for 18.3%. The 115 strains of CRKP can be divided into 11 ST types, of which ST11 type was the most (54.8%, 63/115), followed by ST15 type (22.6%, 26/115) and ST5492 type (15.7%, 18/115). Type ST5492 was a new clonal group in the region. The 115 strains of CRKP could be divided into 7 O serotypes, most of which were O2a type(32.2%,37/115), followed by O5 type(30.4%,35/115) and O1 type(27.8%,32/115). The resistance genes of carbapenem antibiotics showed that there were 107 strains carrying the blaKPC-2 gene, one strain with the blaNDM-1 gene, and one strain with both the blaKPC-2 and blaNDM-13 genes. Virulence genes were detected in 55 CRKP strains (47.8%, 55/115), among which six strains detected peg-344, iucA, iroB, rmpA, and rmpA2 virulence genes (5.2%, 6/115). Four virulence genes (peg-344, iucA, rmpA, and rmpA2) were detected in 34 strains (29.6%, 34/115). Three virulence genes (iucA, iroB and rmpA) were detected in two strains (1.7%, 2/115). Three virulence genes (peg-344, iucA and rmpA) were detected in one strain (0.8%, 1/115). IucA and rmpA virulence genes were detected in 12 strains (10.4%, 12/115). KPC-2_ST11_O2a, KPC-2_ST15_O1 and KPC-2_ST5492_O5 were dominant clones, and their distribution was mainly in the intensive care unit. The whole genome sequence analysis showed that there were three dominant clones, among which ST11 clones were subdivided into three dominant O serotypes, all of which were mainly in the intensive care unit. Conclusion: The popular strain in the hospital of CRKP is a KPC-2_ST11 clone group carrying iucA, rmpA/rmpA2, with cross-department transmission and mutation. ST5492 is a newly-launched clone type. The intensive care unit of hvKP carrying five virulence genes, including peg-344, should be alert to the epidemic risk of CR-hvKP outbreak.
Prevalence of negative sliding sign representing pouch of Douglas obliteration during pelvic transvaginal ultrasound for any indication

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

ABSTRACT Objectives Pouch of Douglas (POD) obliteration can be predicted with a high degree of certainty and reproducibility using the dynamic transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) sliding‐sign technique. So far, studies on POD obliteration prediction have focused on tertiary‐care populations with high prevalence of endometriosis; however, POD obliteration may exist in individuals with asymptomatic endometriosis or other conditions. Our primary aim was to determine the prevalence of a negative sliding sign, representing POD obliteration, in a cohort of patients undergoing TVS for any gynecological indication. Methods This was a prospective observational study of consecutive women with an indication for gynecological TVS, conducted at a high‐volume ultrasound practice between July and August 2018. Clinical and surgical history, indication for TVS and TVS findings were documented. The prevalence of TVS‐confirmed POD obliteration, determined by interpretation of the sliding sign, was calculated for the entire cohort and for the subgroups of women with and without risk factors for endometriosis. High risk for endometriosis was defined as having (1) a TVS referral for endometriosis‐like pelvic pain or endometriosis specifically and/or (2) clinical symptoms or signs suggestive of endometriosis. Low risk was defined as the absence of these characteristics. Results During the study period, 1043 consecutive women underwent TVS. After excluding those who underwent transabdominal ultrasound, had a history of hysterectomy or with missing data, 909 women were analyzed. The prevalence of a negative sliding sign in the entire cohort was 47/909 (5.2%). A negative sliding sign was observed in 22/639 (3.4%) women with a low risk for endometriosis and 25/243 (10.3%) of those with a high risk for endometriosis (difference in proportions, 6.9% (95% CI 2.8–10.9%); P < 0.001). Conclusions We have demonstrated an overall prevalence of a negative sliding sign, suggesting POD obliteration, of 5.2% (or 1/20) in women seeking TVS for a gynecological indication. The prevalence of negative sliding sign in low‐risk women is not negligible (3.4% or 1/29 women). These women are most likely to have asymptomatic endometriosis or another important etiology of POD obliteration. The prevalence of a negative sliding sign is approximately three‐times higher in women with signs and/or symptoms of endometriosis (10.3% vs 3.4%). Copyright © 2020 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
TOWARDS A B-LYMPHOID MODEL OF E2A-PBX1-MEDIATED LEUKEMOGENESIS: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEMATOPOIETIC CELL OF ORIGIN ON THE TRANSFORMATION PROPERTIES OF A LEUKEMOGENIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR

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

Thesis (Ph.D, Pathology & Molecular Medicine) -- Queen's University, 2013-09-03 00:09:29.299
Toward Efficient Simultaneous Detection and Segmentation

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

To solve the low-speed problem of two-stage based framework for object detection and instance segmentation, we creatively introduce the large separated convolution to the typical two-stage method. In our method, the two-branches separated large kernel convolution operation is applied before the ROI pooling layer, which is able to reduce the complexity of the follow-up process to a great extent and make the ROI pooling much more efficient. Furthermore, the subnet of region-based convolution network is carefully simplified and designed for obtaining better performances. Extensive evaluation experiments on Microsoft COCO datasets show that our method provides ∽2x speedup compared with the original Mask R-CNN method and results in a comparable detection and segmentation performances.