jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON MONOCYTE FUNCTION, COAGULATION FACTORS, FIBRINOLYSIS AND PLATELETS

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Over a 2 years period, the Norwegian national team of cross country skiers, have been tested after strenous championships as well as before and after regular training. Finishing a 50 km race generated a rise of white cells from 5.4 ± 1.0 to 19.3 ± 3.7 × 109 /I (n=14). The mobilization of new and more sensitive white cells may explain the resultant rise in monocyte response to stimuli in vitro after the race. Thus, monocytes from blood incubated with 2 ng/ml blood, drawn from the athletes just after finishing the 50 km race, possessed 6-7 fold higher specific activity of thromboplastin than monocytes from blood drawn and stimulated in a rest-period. There was a positive correlation between the inverse level of F. VII in plasma of the skiers after the race and the monocyte response to stimuli in vitro as expressed by the level of thromboplastin. Activated monocytes with exposed thromboplastin are probably pulling out F. VII from the circulation just as seen in patients with gram negative septicaemia. A group of long distance runners were also tested after strenous jogging. High monocyte response to stimuli in vitro was associated with extremely active platelets that aggregated spontaneously after drawing the blood into heparin and tested it in a whole blood aggregometer. Those individuals with very active monocytes and platelets had also an extremely activation of their fibrinolytic system as judged by whole blood clot lysis. In contrast, everyone with low cell activation had hardly any change in their fibrinolytic activity after strenous running. The clear trend in this study was that almost everyone of our top athletes had a very depressed blood-cell activation system as compared to non athletes. Low blood cell activation in vivo was also associated with a low induction of the fibrinolytic system.
On the Moral Dimensions of Vulnerability and Exploitation

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

I argue that accounts of exploitation have been too narrowly defined specifically with respect to notions of exploitee vulnerability and exploiter benefit. Contrary to typical accounts that formulate vulnerability in terms of a physical, economic, epistemic, or emotional constraint, I contend that agents may be rendered equally vulnerable merely in virtue of their moral commitments. Furthermore, contrary to accounts that formulate exploiter benefit in terms of a physical good or service extracted from the exploitee, I contend that agents may also be exploited by being made to shoulder additional moral burdens. After outlining these under- acknowledged normative features of exploitation, I then go on to apply them to the two real- world cases of military recruitment and commercial surrogacy.
Through the Eyes of Don D. Jackson M.D.

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

This article discusses the work and influence of Don Jackson. The tenets of Jackson's Interactional Theory and Therapy are outlined and discussed. Two case transcripts, one with a couple and another with a family, are included to illustrate Jackson's therapeutic technique. Particular attention is given to his pervasive influence on current brief and family therapy models and the relevance of his work in the postmodern therapeutic setting.
Cardiac motion analysis using factorization method

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

An image stream can be represented by 2FxP measurement matrix of the image coordinates of P points tracked through F frames. We show that under orthographic projection this matrix is of rank 3. Using this observation, the factorization method uses the singular value decomposition technique to factor the measurement matrix into two matrices which represent object shape and the motion respectively. We have use this method to analyze and quantify the cardiac motion from Cine-MRI sequence both pathologic and health heart.
Study on Seed Germination Characteristics of Leptodermis oblonga Bge.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Taking the new seeds of Leptodernis oblonga Bge.as experiment materials,the relative water content,ground substance,salt stress,pH,which had effect on the seeds were studied.The purpose of the research was to supply theoretical foundation for introduction,domestication and cultivation of Leptodermis oblonga Bge..The results showed that when relative water content was 26.67%,the seed germination rate and germination potential were made up to 30.00% and 20.00%.The seeds had wide adaptability to soil,optimum of sand and vermiculite mixture(1∶1).When the concentration of NaCl was 0.5 mol/L,the germination rate was highest reach to 43.43%.The seed had wide adaptability to solution pH from 3.0 to 11.0.
Byzantine Views of Islam

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This chapter examines the encounter between Byzantium and Islam in the sphere of religion. The first encounter of Islam with Orthodox Christianity took place on the battlefield, in the wars which since the seventh century have opposed the Arabs to the Greek emperors. Byzantine polemical literature has largely determined the official canonical attitude of the Church towards Islam, an attitude which is reflected in the rites of the reception of Moslem converts to Christianity. Islam not only obliged the Christians to live in a tiny enclosed world which concentrated on the liturgical cult, it also made them feel that an existence was a normal one. A large part of Leo's letter is devoted to the problems of cult and worship, in reply to Omar's attack on the Christian doctrine of the sacraments. An apologetical exposition of the Christian faith, concentrated mainly on the doctrine of the Trinity.
An In-Depth Robustness Evaluation of Stereo Algorithms on Long Stereo Sequences

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

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Properties of strained (In, Ga, Al)As lasers with laterally modulated active region

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

Transmission electron microscopy studies of low indium composition InxGa1−xAs insertions (x&lt;0.4) in a GaAs matrix deposited by molecular beam epitaxy or by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition reveal nanoscale quasiperiodic compositional and morphological modulations. The luminescence peak wavelength is found to be a strong function of deposition parameters and can be tuned from 1.1 to 1.3 μm for the same x and average thickness of the deposit. Strained (In, Ga, Al)As lasers with such a laterally modulated InxGa1−xAs active region demonstrate significant depolarization of the electroluminescence. For short cavity length, lasing occurs at energies corresponding to transitions between InxGa1−xAs conduction band and light holelike valence band states. Devices lase at low threshold current densities and demonstrate continuous wave operation up to 3 W at room temperature.
Multivariate statistical analysis of tendencies of the economic development and population's life level

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

The description of the objectivity of the approaches which are the most often used for comparative estimation of the economical development and the living standards of the population of the countries of the world is suggested. The reasonability of usage for such estimation the methods of multidimensional statistical analysis is grounded. In particular, using the cluster analysis the comparison of social-economic development of the countries of Europe and the optimization of the set of indexes necessary for this are carried out.
Regional integration and the development of tax systems in the European Union

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Within the past 10 to 15 years, the conditions for the funding of public sectors have changed worldwide through the increasing integration of capital markets. Within the European Union (EU), this development has been reinforced by the abolition of remaining capital controls as part of the internal market programme. At the same time, the completion of the internal market encompassed the abolition of border controls between EU member states, resulting in increased trans-border mobility of consumers. These simultaneous changes in factor and commodity markets pose a number of challenges for tax policy in the European Union, which are of relevance for other integrating regions.
Assessment of GFP Expression and Viability Using the Tali Image-Based Cytometer

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

Single-cell and population information are commonly obtained either by flow cytometry or fluorescence microscopy. However, these two methods provide different information. Flow cytometry gives quantitative multi-parametric information about physical characteristics and staining or expression, but doesn't allow for visualization. Stand-alone fluorescence microscopy provides visual data, but doesn't allow for straightforward quantitative measurements1. Image-based cytometry bridges the gap between these two methods, enabling the quick visualization and simultaneous quantitative analysis of thousands of cells in heterogeneous populations2. Here, we present a method for performing cell viability and green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression assays using the Tali Image-Based Cytometer3. The Tali instrument is a 3-channel (bright field, green fluorescence, red fluorescence) benchtop assay platform that offers several advantages over flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. The Tali cytometer is less expensive, takes up less bench space, requires less maintenance, and the work flow has been simplified so that the operation and analysis is much simpler and quicker. The Tali cytometer is capable of performing a range of suspension cell-based assays, including GFP and red fluorescent protein (RFP) expression, apoptosis4-6 and cell viability analysis with propidium iodide (PI)7-11. Here, we demonstrate the use of the Tali instrument in performing a cell viability assay in cells expressing GFP. GFP-transduced cells are stained using the Tali Viability Kit - Dead Cell Red. The cells are then pipetted into a Tali Cellular Analysis Slide and loaded into the cytometer. Bright field, red fluorescence and green fluorescence images are captured and analyzed using assay specific algorithms. Histograms are then generated to display cell size, PI fluorescence intensity, and GFP fluorescence intensity. These parameters can then be thresholded to home in on a specific cell population. A side-by side comparison of the Tali Image-Based Cytometer and traditional flow cytometry demonstrates that the two methods provide comparable data regarding cell viability and protein expression. However, the Tali instrument provides additional visual information about the cell population that cannot be obtained using a flow cytometer.
Navigating complex agricultural challenges: harnessing microbial solutions for sustainable growth and resilience

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

This study explores the potential of Cell-Free Supernatants (CFSs) derived from beneficial bacteria as a sustainable solution to enhance crop resilience in the face of environmental stress. In the context of climate change and soil salinity, CFSs emerge as a promising tool to mitigate crop losses and safeguard food security. By employing bioactive compounds extracted from microbial cultures, CFSs offer a reliable approach to support plant growth and fight abiotic stressors. The research emphasizes the effectiveness of CFSs in promoting seed germination and improving overall plant health, particularly under salinity stress. Additionally, it highlights the role of CFSs in enhancing nutrient absorption and improving plant defense mechanisms, contributing to agricultural sustainability. Despite technical limitations associated with microbial formulations, CFSs provide an alternative to conventional methods, presenting scalable and eco-friendly solutions. Among various production methods of the CFS, centrifugation only and centrifugation plus 0.22 µm filtration stand out due to their simplicity, and efficiency. However, the absence of field-level studies reveals a critical research gap, necessitating further evaluation of CFS performance under real agricultural conditions. Through collaborative research works and innovative application methods, CFSs hold the potential to transform modern agriculture, ensuring resilient crop production systems and global food security for generations to come.
Persistency of the Functional Capacity of Breed-heterologous Turkey Semen

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

WHEN a sire substitution is made in a chicken single-mated pen, it is a common practice to let 10 to 14 days elapse following the shift, before resuming the collection of hatching eggs from the pen in question. This period allows the spermatozoa of the new male to take over completely the fertilization of all the eggs laid in the pen. Crew (1926) and Warren and Kilpatrick (1929) showed that in the fowl, in such cases, the fertilizing power of the original sire’s spermatozoa is relatively quickly blanketed out by the “fresher” semen from the second male. This observation has had an obvious practical application in chickens, in that it made possible sire substitutions during one season’s breeding operations with a minimum of lost breeding time. With the growing interest in turkey breeding in this country, it seemed desirable to obtain information on the corresponding point in turkeys. Accordingly, two . . .
Running without IL-6

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

Interleukin (IL)-6 is viewed as an exercise factor, since it is released quantitatively from contracting muscle and has been shown to regulate lipid and glucose metabolism. PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to assess running performance and the metabolic effects of chronic voluntary running on C57BL6/J mice lacking IL-6 fed with standard chow or an energy-rich diet. METHODS: Singly-housed mice were provided with running wheels at 10 weeks of age and running distance and time were monitored. Animals were fed with either standard chow (10.77% calories from fat, 7.57% from sucrose) or an energy-rich diet (19.53% calories from fat, 11.47% from sucrose) resembling a western-style cafeteria diet. To assess running performance, mice fed chow were placed on an electric treadmill and ran till exhaustion at 18 m/min, 20° inclination. RESULTS: During the first ten weeks, IL-6 knockout (ko) mice fed a high energy diet ran significantly more than their wildtype (wt) counterparts (13.3 ± 2.5vs. 8.7 ± 1.8 km/day, p<0.05). A similar tendency was observed for animals on standard chow. The difference between wt and ko mice fed high energy diet was even more pronounced during the following ten weeks, although exercise performance was reduced in both groups, possibly due to weight gain (9.9 ± 0.7 vs. 4.5 ± 1.6; p<0.01). Regardless of the diet, wt animals gained more weight during 20 weeks of voluntary running than ko mice (high energy: ko 9.8 g, wt 14.9 g; chow: ko 4.1 g, wt 5.9 g). Sedentary controls gained more weight than their running counterparts, but again, no trend for IL-6- deficient mice to develop obesity could be seen. In contrast to voluntary running, the endurance capacity of ko mice was highly impaired (ko 57 min, wt 112 min). An altered lipid metabolism in these mice is indicated by higher plasma levels of free fatty acids compared to their sedentary counterparts (949 vs. 772 mg/dl), while in wt animals voluntary exercise led to the expected decrease in circulating levels (654 vs. 967 mg/dl). CONCLUSION: Albeit necessary for normal endurance capacity, IL-6 deficiency in mice promotes voluntary running. Our finding that voluntary exercise reduces weight gain in mice lacking IL-6 indicates that the current view of IL-6 as an exercise factor with weight-lowering potential needs further investigation.
BN SO28 - Dual Mesh Technique in Revisional Complex Laparoscopic Repair of Recurrent Paraesophageal Hernia (PEH)

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Background Mesh Augmentation in laparoscopic repair of complex PEH has been an ongoing debate with regards to its risk profile and success rate in reducing hernia recurrence.1 There have been concerns regarding the deployment of non-absorbable mesh around the hiatus resulting in erosion and stricture, which may lead to oesophagectomy or gastrectomy.2 Absorbable mesh has been introduced with appealing advantages of lower mesh-related morbidities, however its high cost and unclear long-term durability remains questionable for its role as an ideal mesh.2 Method This is the case of a 65-year-old patient with chronic reflux symptoms undergoing revisional complex laparoscopic repair of recurrent type 4 PEH. The focus of this video is using a dual mesh technique involving fixation of a non-absorbable synthetic mesh at least 15mm from the oesophageal wall, reinforced with placement of an absorbable biosynthetic mesh which is in contact with the hiatus boundary. Results With regards to position of the permanent synthetic mesh, direct contact with the oesophagogastric wall should be avoided due to complications secondary to erosions and strictures. The deployment of a second mesh of absorbable material is preferred in this patient for hiatal reinforcement to reduce risk of recurrence due to friability of adjacent tissues. Conclusion The dual mesh technique aims to overcome the limitations of both types of mesh materials while preserving their individual benefits, expectantly reducing recurrence.
The Contribution of Cationic Derivatives of Phospholipids and Cholesterol to the Bioadhesiveness of Liposomes and Their Transfection Performance

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Cationic liposomes are efficient vehicles for association with negatively charged cell surfaces for transfection. In order to develop biocompatible cationic lipids for bioadhesion and cellular trasfection studies, we have synthesized a series of cationic molecules based on phospholipids and cholesterol as lipid backbones and amino acid moieties to provide charged amino groups. Liposomes composed of the compounds where the positively charged amino groups would be expected to orient closely to the bilayer interface should have very few or no bioadhesive properties. The cationic phospholipid or cholesterol derivatives at 10 to 40 mol% were routinely used in the liposome preparations. In order to ensure that discrete liposomal structures can be formed with the above cationic lipids, attempts were made to prepare small unilamellar liposomes containing phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), lysinyl PE, or lysinyl lysinyl PE. Liposomes prepared from series of cationic lipids in admixture with neutral lipids were shown to bind to mucosal tissues strongly, presumably via electrostatic interactions.
Jonathan Edwards and a reformational view of the purpose of education

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

The contemporary quest for spirituality (or spiritual ‘connection’) in formal education can be linked to the question what education is for. The present article is concerned with contributing to a reformational approach to the question of the purpose of education, with specific reference to spirituality. From a reformational perspective, spirituality should be understood within the framework of the relation between God and his creation. In this article I turn to the thought of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), a philosopher-theologian who was convinced that the world exists to communicate the glory of God. This conception of the relation between God and creation gave rise to three recurrent themes in Edwards’ philosophy which, I will argue, may be conducive to a reformational understanding of the purpose of education. These themes may provide us with ways of conceptualising various types of spiritual ‘connection’ in school education. The three philosophical themes are: knowledge as the true perception of relations; human beings as creation’s consciousness; and sound morality as arising from true perception. Provided that certain weak points (from a reformational philosophical point of view) are adjusted, these themes can be fruitfully applied to the question of the purpose of education.
A CASE OF GIANT ESOPHAGEAL LEIOMYOMA DEVELOPED INTO THE THORACOABDOMINAL SPACE

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

A case of giant esophageal leiomyoma with 15cm in long diameter developed into the thracoabdominal space is reported with some considerations of the literature. A 34-year-old male with epigastralgia had been pointed out a protrusion in the lower esophagus 11 years before. Upper gastrointestinal series revealed a stenosis from the intrathoracic middle esophagus to cardial lesion. Endoscopic examination revealed a submucosal tumor in the esophagocardiac lesion. CT and MRI showed a giant submucosal tumor circumfused the esophageal lumen and developed into the thoraco-abdominal space. Lower esophagectomy and upper gastrectomy reconstructed with jejunal transfer were performed under the left anterolateral thoracotomy and laparotomy. The resected tumor was 15×10.5×10cm in size, and benign leimyoma histopathologically. Postoperative course was uneventful. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the 25th postoperative day.
Mathematical model of server requests intensity description

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The paper is devoted to the mathematical model development of non-stationary flow of requests from clients to the database in order to modulate the quality of service. The mathematical model of the queries number fluctuations to the database has the form of a regression equation and allows more accurate modeling of the connections pool size in the servlet. Connection pool is a pattern that helps to reduce responding time for queries to databases. To another hand the extra used memory wasting server resources. The task of calculating the optimal connection pool size could be solved by verity of mathematical apparatuses that demand information about intensity of stationary incoming queries flow. It is known, that real incoming queries flow is non-stationary. In the paper was suggested mathematical model of flow intensity fluctuations with daily and hourly harmonic vibrations. Statistics analyses of model adequacy was made, homogeneity of variances is checked, the significance of the coefficients of the regression equation was estimated. The obtained mathematical model describes fluctuations in the intensity of clients' requests to the servlet during the week. The mathematical model can be used to predict the load on the server or to build a simulation model of the query service system. The adequacy of the model is checked, the homogeneity of variances is checked, the significance of the coefficients of the regression equation is estimated, the adequacy of the regression equation is checked, the analysis of the autocorrelation of the residues is carried out. The results obtained in the article give further development for modeling process technologies in the field of information systems and can be used to calculate the load on the server with a non-stationary flow of requests from clients to the database.