jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Analýza marketingové komunikace značky Staropramen a určení jejího archtypu

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The aim of this thesis is to identify the key characters used in a marketing campaign of Staropramen and based on their impact on the selected members of target group of the company to determine what archetype this campaign use. Analyzed campaign is communication of the company implemented in 2014 to celebrate the 145th anniversary of the brewery in Smíchov. I analyze this campaign using qualitative marketing research, focus group method, based on associations. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of the archetype role as a powerful tool companies can use for brand building. Conclusion of this thesis is to determine the archetype that in this communication Staropramen uses. The archetype is representative of the group Nobody is lonely island called Everyman. This thesis is part of a complex semiotic research of Staropramen brand and its communication.
An Independent Risk Factor for Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: Urinary Incontinence

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction: Urinary incontinence impacts the lives of older individuals and it is considered one of the most important and recurrent geriatric syndromes. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of urinary incontinence in cancer patients and to evaluate its association with age and quality of life. Method: One hundred and thirty three patients with cancer were assessed at hematology/oncology outpatient clinic. The validated form of the Turkish version of the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Short Form was used to evaluate urinary incontinence and quality of life (QOL). Descriptive statistics were used. The association between urinary incontinence and age, gender, cancer type and quality of life were evaluated with chi square. Results: A total of 133 patients including 84 male and 49 female were evaluated. The mean age of patients was 62.5±12.3. While 45.9% of patients are older than 65, 54.1% of them are less than 64. The rate of urinary incontinence was found 40.6% (n=54). The association between urinary incontinence and age, quality of life has been shown statistically significant with chi square (P<0.001, P<0.001 respectively). The mean of ICI-Q and QOL score is 7.6±3.1 and 3.2±1.7 respectively. The most com- mon type of urinary incontinence is urge incontinence following by stress, mix and overflow (12.8%, 12%, 11.3% and 4.5% respectively). Discussion And Conclusion: Our results suggest that urinary incontinence is a significant problem which is underdiagnosed and undertreated in cancer patients. It inversely affects the quality of life. While focusing on cancer and chemotherapy, this important problem should not be underestimated. This leaves incontinent patients with unresolved physical, functional, and psychological morbidity, and diminished quality of life. The study suggests that awareness and education regarding inconti- nence should be increased among cancer patients and screening of Urinary Incontinence is an important part of their assess- ment. Abstract doi: 10.15824/actamedica.49858
Virtual Education Environment For Engineering Courses

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This research studies a virtual education environment for engineering courses. The virtual education environment consists of networked functional blocks where each functional block is a combination of hardware and software that provides a specific function. Specific service environments such as a virtual learning environment and virtual teaching environment can be derived by integrating different sets of functional blocks. The research involves the development of all the different functional blocks to demonstrate the viability of Virtual Education Environment, with specific focus on the knowledge base and interface for the learning environment. The development of the knowledge base, the multimedia database, and user interface would provide hands-on experience in integrating new technologies. \n \nA multimedia knowledge base is being developed for the virtual education environment. The knowledge base is designed using the object-oriented approach, to represent concepts taught by lecturers. This representation would be used to deliver lessons in the virtual learning environment. Each concept consists of characterristics, and each characteristic can be presented to students using different media. The knowledge base consists of reusable objects can be used to represent each piece of knowledge. Combinations of objects will lead to contents of the lecturers within the courses. With this environment, multimedia education components should not be part of one and only one lecture anymore, but can be part of many lecturers. An Object Oriented approach would permit dynamic access to education material where the presentation of the material will be continuously adapted to match user expectation and competence. \n \nA prototype of the knowledge base was developed to illustrate this representation. The main objective is to facilitate the development of the knowledge base, and to explore the usage of the knowledge base by lecturers and students. The prototype was completed with the development of simple implementation for the media base, lecture base, and the user interfaces.
[Surgery of the oblique muscles].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The principles of surgery of the oblique muscles are different from those of the rectus muscles according to their anatomy and physiology. Their exposure is difficult as they are inserted on the sclera behind the equator and because they form an angle of 51s with the visual axis they have a triple action. The types of procedures one can practice on the oblique muscles are: weakening and strengthening of their actions. This paper presents the actions and anatomy of the oblique muscles, as well as the most important surgical techniques.
Design and Evaluation of a Smooth-Locking-Based Customizable Prosthetic Knee Joint

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Abstract Limb loss affects many people from a variety of backgrounds around the world. The most advanced commercially available prostheses for transfemoral amputees are fully active (powered) designs but remain very expensive and unavailable in the developing world. Consequently, improvements of low-cost, passive prostheses have been made to provide high-quality rehabilitation to amputees of any background. This study explores the design and evaluation of a smooth-locking-based bionic knee joint to replicate the swing phase of the human gait cycle. The two-part design was based on the condyle geometry of the interface between the femur and tibia obtained from magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human subject, while springs were used to replace the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. A flexible four-bar linkage mechanism was successfully achieved to provide not only rotation along a variable instantaneous axis but also slight translation in the sagittal plane, similar to the anatomical knee. We systematically evaluated the effects of different spring configurations in terms of stiffness, position, and relaxion length on knee flexion angles during walking. A good replication of the swing phase was achieved by relatively high stiffness and increased relaxation length of springs. The stance phase of the gait cycle was improved compared to some models but remained relatively flat, where further verification should be conducted. In addition, 3D printing technique provides a convenient design and manufacturing process, making the prosthesis customizable for different individuals based on subject-specific modeling of the amputee’s knee.
Learning Levels And Gaps In Pakistan

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular standards and international norms. Tested at the end of the third grade, a bare majority had mastered the K-I mathematics curriculum and 31 percent could correctly form a sentence with the word "school" in the vernacular (Urdu). As in high-income countries, bivariate comparisons show that higher learning is associated with household wealth and parental literacy. In sharp contrast to high-income countries, these gaps decrease dramatically in a multivariate regression once differences between children in the same school are looked at. Consequently, the largest gaps are between schools. The gap in English test scores between government and private schools, for instance, is 12 times the gap between children from rich and poor families. To contextualize these results within a broader South Asian context, the authors use data from public schools in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Levels of learning and the structure of the educational gaps are similar in the two samples. As in Pakistan, absolute learning is low and the largest gaps are between schools: the gap between good and bad government schools, for instance, is 5 times the gap between children with literate and illiterate mothers
Response of Conifer Seedlings to Potting Medium Amendment with Meadowfoam Seed Meal

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba L., Limnanthaceae) is an herbaceous winter-spring annual, grown as an oilseed crop in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, US and in New Zealand. The exceptionally high quality seed oil, consisting almost entirely of long-chain fatty acids, is used in cosmetics and lubricants. The seed meal (MSM) remaining after extraction of the oils with hexane solvent under elevated temperature is a granular by-product with little apparent commercial value, at present, except as an organic fertilizer or as an additive to livestock feed. However, MSM has some characteristics that suggest its potential utility in agriculture as a soil amendment to enhance plant growth and possibly suppress soil pests. For example, MSM contains the glucosinolate glucolimnanthin (Bartlett and Mikolajczak 1989; Vaughn et al. 1996) that, when hydrolyzed in the presence of the enzyme thioglucosidase glucohydrolase (myrosinase), can produce allelochemic compounds (aglycones), including isothiocyanates, thiocyanates, nitriles, and ionic thiocyanate (Van Etten and Tookey 1983), which have been shown to be potent biocides in soil (Bartlett and Mikolajczak 1989; Brown and Morra 1997; Deuel and Svensen 1999). Furthermore, MSM has been shown to have plant growth-enhancing properties of a phytohormonal nature (W.A. Deuel and S.E. Svensen, 1998, unpubl.; Deuel, US Patent No. 6,596,323 B1, 2003), but the nature of the responsible compound(s) remains unknown. At concentrations of MSM amendment to soil&gt;2 % by volume, inhibition of seed germination and other herbicidal properties occurs. Vaughn et al.
The Landscape of Challenges for Cross-Disciplinary Activity

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This chapter discusses the challenges facing cross-disciplinary researchers and argues that recognizing them early in the research process increases the likelihood of a cross-disciplinary research team’s success. Based on work by the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI), the chapter urges cross-disciplinary practitioners to carefully define their research problems, questions, goals, and end products, and to enlist collaborators from other disciplines at the beginning of their process. Doing so will help researchers shed light on potential obstacles early in their process, which can improve efficiency by avoiding wasted time. Early interventions can help teams identify and negotiate difficulties, which promotes successful and effective integration. Disciplinary assumptions, differences in communication styles, variations in scale and/or scope of partner contributions, failure to holistically integrate, and an inability or unwillingness to share control of a project are just a few challenges teams may need to address. The chapter presents questions teams should ask before embarking on a cross-disciplinary research project and then offers reasons why researchers should consider engaging in cross-disciplinary activities, even given the hurdles they may face.
Willa Cather's southern connections: new essays on Cather and the South

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Willa Cather spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where her family had lived for five generations. Even after the Cathers' move to Nebraska, she came of age in an emphatically southern extended family, surrounded by Virginia stories, customs, and controversies. As Eudora Welty has declared, She did not come out of Virginia for nothing. Throughout her career, Cather's fiction drew strength from the people, places, and issues of the Reconstruction South of her birth, culminating in her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.This collection of essays is the first to look at this important southern connection in Cather's writing life. Ann Romines has brought together eminent Cather critics and fresh new voices. Judith Fetterley and Lisa Marcus restore Cather's southern origins to a central place in her career. Robert K. Miller reads My Mortal Enemy as a Reconstruction narrative, and Patricia Yaeger theorizes the racial language of Cather's landscapes. Among several essays on Sapphira, Mako Yoshikawa's and Tomas Pollard's contributions explore the novel's racial and sexual dynamics and abolitionist concerns. Cynthia Griffin Wolff views Cather's youthful experiments with clothes and gender as responses to contemporary theater and her mother's southern feminine style. Other critics compare Cather to other Southern writers: Allen Tate, Ellen Glasgow, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison.Grounded both in traditional literary criticisms and in cultural studies, these sixteen essays make a compelling claim for the importance of Cather's southern connections.Contributors: Roseanne V. Camacho, University of LouisvilleJudith Fetterley, University at Albany, State University of New YorkLisa Marcus, Pacific Lutheran UniversityMarilyn Mobley McKenzie, George Mason UniversityRobert K. Miller, University of St. ThomasElsa Nettels, College of William and MaryShelley Newman, University of British ColumbiaTomas Pollard, Texas A&M UniversityAnn Romines, The George Washington UniversityMary R. Ryder, South Dakota State UniversityMerrill Maguire Skaggs, Drew UniversityJanis P. Stout, Texas A&M UniversityJoseph R. Urgo, Bryant CollegeGayle Wald, The George Washington UniversityCynthia Griffin Wolff, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPatricia Yaeger, University of MichiganMako Yoshikawa, Harvard University
“I couldn't even talk to the patient”: Barriers to communicating with cancer patients as perceived by nursing students

Field: Nursing (Health Sciences)

Communication is closely related to safe practice and patient outcomes. Given that most clinicians fall into routines when communicating with patients, it is important to address communication issues early. This study explores Taiwanese nursing students' experiences of communication with patients with cancer and their families. Senior nursing students who had cared for cancer patients were recruited to participate in focus group interviews. These semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed for content analysis. Among the 45 participants, about 36% of them never received any communication training. Up to 76% of the participants stated that their communication with cancer patients was difficult and caused them emotional stress. Subsequent data analysis revealed four themes: disengagement, reluctance, regression and transition. Students' negative communication experiences were related to the patients' terminally ill situation; the students' lack of training, low self-efficacy and power status, poor emotional regulation, and cultural considerations. The findings of this study provide a deeper understanding of nursing students' communication experiences in oncology settings within the cultural context. Early and appropriate communication training is necessary to help students regulate their emotions and establish effective communication skills. Further studies are needed to examine the relationship among students' emotional labour, communication skills and outcomes.
Vernalization and Photoperiod Requirements for Maximum Flowering of Cicer Milkvetch1

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Cicer milkvetch ( Astragalus cicer L.) does not flower in artificial environments that are used to induce flowering of the more commonly grown forage legumes. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine the vernalization and photoperiodic requirements of cicer milkvetch and to develop a practical chilling treatment for subsequent flowering in a greenhouse environment. When field grown plants of the cultivar ‘Lutana’ were brought to the greenhouse every 2 weeks from mid‐September through December, percent of plants flowering increased linearly from 29 to 100. Removal of top growth in mid‐September reduced subsequent flowering from 75 to 33%. Flowering after vernalization at 5 C night/20 C day (5/20 C) the laboratory was better than after vernalization in the field except for the late November and early December sampling dates. Percentge of plants flowering (95 to 100%) and profuseness of flowering (12 to racemes/plant) were similar [or the 5/20 C laboratory treatment and the late field sampling dates. The 5/20 C treatments were 6 weeks in duration with a total of 364 hours at 5 C. Considerable variability exists among vernalized plants of the cultivar Lutana for photoperiodic response to flowering. Although only 30% of the plants flowered at the 13‐hour photoperiod, a few plants flowered profusely. The highest percentage of plants flowering (98%) and the most profuse flowering (13.3 racemes/plant) occurred at photoperiods of 15 and 16 hours.
Ethics of Conducting Research in Social Sciences at the University Level in Pakistan

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Ethical consideration has a fundamental importance in conducting any research. It plays an important role, especially in social science. This study is designed to examine the perceptions and practices of research students towards ethical concerns in conducting social sciences research. A survey design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised all the public sector universities of Pakistan. The sample of 26 public universities was selected from all administrative areas of Pakistan. Document review was further used to identify ethical concerns in social sciences research and a self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. This study revealed that students were not completely aware of the ethical norms of their research in social sciences. Most of the research students do not obey the research norm during conducting their study in social sciences. This study also highlights the impact of research aptitude on the quality of research and it helps to improve the performance of students in the context of research.
Towards Parameter Estimation in Global Hydrological Models

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

The provided elementary effects are used in the publication J. Kupzig, R. Reinecke, F. Pianosi, M.Flörke and T. Wagener: Towards Parameter Estimation in Global Hydrological Models (submitted to Environmental Research Letters in Feb 2023). In a large sample study, the Morris Method (Morris 1991) application produces the provided elementary effects using a new lightweight version of the global hydrological model WaterGAP3: WaterGAPLite. elementary_effects.zip : elementary effects for all 50 trajectories and all basins (each trajectory is the result of 18 model runs; used bounds of parameters can be found in the Supplement of the manuscript) results_overview.xlsx: parameter ranks for each basin and different evaluation criteria based on the elementary effects. MC_Sample.csv: normalized parameter samples of the additional Monte-Carlo Simulation (used bounds of parameters are the same as for the Morris method) MC_NSE.csv: resulting NSE values of the Monte-Carlo simulation better_performing_basins.csv: list of basins (using GRDC no.) where minimal NSE is greater than -1 within all Monte-Carlo runs standard_calib.csv: calibrated gamma value for each basin and corresponding evaluation criteria, using the standard calibration for WaterGAP3 (fit to mean discharge) standard_calib_mod.csv: calibrated gamma value for each basin and corresponding evaluation criteria, using a modified version of the standard calibration for WaterGAP3 (maximizing the NSE)
The use of calcitonin in the effective preoperative management of neonatal hypercalcemia in congenital mesoblastic nephroma

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Subcutaneous administration of calcitonin is effective in the preoperative management of hypercalcemia associated with congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN). The short onset of action (within 2 hours) and duration (6 to 8 hours), makes it a viable alternative to bisphosphonates (action 48 hours and duration of 7 to 14 days). A 15-day-old late preterm, male, presented with dehydration, failure to thrive and a large abdominal mass. On admission, he was hypertensive, and a firm mass was palpable in the abdomen. Severe hypercalcemia was noted on the blood work. An abdominal ultrasound shows a large 9×8 cm dominant solid right renal mass. Echo and electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) were normal. The patient initially received IV hydration, nicardipine and furosemide. The hypercalcemia persisted after 24 hours of treatment; thus, one dose of calcitonin (6 units/kg subcutaneously) was given, resulting in a decrease in serum calcium to the upper limits of normal within 4 hours. The patient then underwent a successful radical right uretero-nephrectomy. Pathology reported congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN) of the cellular type. This is the third case report describing the use of calcitonin for a likely PTH-rP-mediated severe hypercalcemia in a neonate with CMN.
Over Use of Ionisation Radiation Imaging With Paediatric Head Trauma

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Purpose: Is to determinate the incidence of paediatric head trauma age 0-17 years in our region in central Europe and the number of radiographic images done for paediatric patients to make a data base for further researches, to be effective in investigating, controlling, and preventing head trauma in our population and to study the real need of radiographic images: Methods : This is a retrospective study from the records of children with head trauma seen at the trauma clinics during the year 2018 Results : There were 3261 attendees recorded in paediatric age groups 0-17 years in 2018. 1168 paediatric patients presented with trauma to the head. 831 (36%) with simple injuries of the head, 295 (23.3%) with wounds in head area, 17 (1.5%) children had fractures, 23 (2%) had concussion and 2 (0.2%) patients had intracranial haematoma. 1097 (93.9%) children with head trauma were imaged by X ray (1032 patients) and CT scan (65 patients) in accordance with local guidelines for head trauma management. The percentage of patients in need of radiation is only 3.42%. Conclusion : Most head trauma in children was minor and not associated with brain injury. The radiation is over used in diagnosis of paediatric head trauma