jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPACTS ON TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGY

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study aimed at investigating continuous professional development and its impacts on teachers’ pedagogy among 103 (85 females and 18 males) elementary level teachers at private school of Turbat region Baluchistan. The researcher collected data from all the elements of population to explore teachers’ perceived knowledge of pedagogy before conduction of the training and examined teachers’ perceptions regarding the impacts of continuous professional development training on teachers’ pedagogy after training. Data were collected through pre-survey and post-survey Questionnaires which included lesson planning, classroom management, classroom assessment, teaching methods, test development and continuous professional development. Through the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and partial least squares and structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) were used to test hypotheses. The results of (PLS-SEM) revealed all the five hypotheses are accepted and supported each with significant value of (P=0.000). The study concludes teachers have positive perceptions about their knowledge of pedagogy after attending the training. Hence, the study suggests CPD training must be made compulsories for all the schoolteachers and recommends introducing training workshops in schools to withstand quality of school teaching and learning.
Combined UMN-MPCA 2014-2017 lake data on Secchi depth, CDOM, Chlorophyll and total suspended solids

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

This file contains approximately 1460 records on four water quality variables measured on near-surface water samples of lakes in Minnesota (primarily) and also in Wisconsin and Michigan collected by our research group from 2014 to 2017 and similar data collected by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in its annual lake water quality assessment program from 2015 to 2017. The variables are Secchi depth (SD), colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) measured as the Napierian light absorption coefficient at 440 nm, chlorophyll-a, and total suspended solids concentrations. The database was used for a published paper to analyze the effects of CDOM on SD and show that high CDOM levels limit light penetration and thus SD in colored lakes.
Why Digital Games Can Be Advantageous in Vocabulary Learning

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Vocabulary learning is an integral part of language learning; however, it is difficult. Although there are many techniques proposed for vocabulary learning and teaching, researchers still strive to find effective methods. Recently, digital games have shown potentials in enhancing vocabulary acquisition. A majority of studies in digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) literature investigate the effectiveness of DGBVL tasks. In other words, there are enough answers to what questions in DGBVL literature whereas why questions are rarely answered. Finding such answers help us learn more about the structure of the DGBVL tasks and their effects on vocabulary learning. Hence, to achieve this aim, the available literature on digital games and vocabulary learning were systematically reviewed from 1996 to 2020. The results revealed seven themes such as motivation, authenticity, repetition, instantiation, dual encoding, interactivity, and feedback. Based on the available literature, these themes are factors, in digital games, that can contribute to enhancing vocabulary acquisition.
Cholesterol Transport, Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor, and Steroidogenesis in Aging Leydig Cells

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

ABSTRACT The cellular mechanisms responsible for age‐related decline in the ability of Leydig cells to produce testosterone are not yet fully understood. The decline in testosterone production could result from a reduction in the Leydig cell enzymatic activities mediating testosterone synthesis, the amount of substrate available for these enzymes, or both. In the present study, we examined the effect of age on a critical early step in the steroidogenic pathway, the transport of cholesterol into mitochondria. Leydig cells were isolated from the testes of young and old Brown Norway rats and incubated with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and the side‐chain cleavage cytochrome P450 scc inhibitor aminoglutethimide (AMG). Mitochondria were isolated from these cells in the presence of AMG. Upon removal of AMG, the mitochondria from old cells produced 80% less steroid than those from young cells, only a fraction of which could be accounted for by a decrease in P450 scc activity. These results suggest that the accumulation of hormonally recruited cholesterol into mitochondria is defective in old Leydig cells. With this in mind, we turned our attention to peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), a mitochondrial cholesterol‐binding protein known to be involved in mediating cholesterol transport. PBR messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein expression were decreased in old cells. Moreover, both the dissociation constant (Kd) and the number of binding sites (Bmax) of the PBR were decreased in the old cells by 50% and 30%, respectively. Taken together, these results suggest that alterations in cholesterol transport and in PBR may play critical roles in age‐related decreases in testosterone production in Brown Norway rat Leydig cells.
WASH, vulnerability, severity, and the response of urban slum dwellers to the COVID-19 pandemic

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Abstract Urban slum dwellers lacked water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and health care assistance during the COVID-19 outbreak. This research aimed to investigate the lived experiences of slum dwellers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were obtained through 453 questionnaires and 29 semi-structured interviews with community people and organizations from two slum neighbourhoods in Bangkok, Thailand. The results showed that respondents who had no access to WASH perceived the pandemic as more severe (t = −3.807, p &lt; 0.001; df = 451), whereas respondents who had access to WASH had a higher protective intention towards COVID-19 (t = −3.947, p &lt; 0.001; df = 431). However, there are no differences between the two groups in terms of knowledge, practice, vulnerability, perceived self-efficacy, response efficacy, or response cost between accessibility and non-accessibility to WASH. The Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) results showed that the knowledge of slum dwellers drives their current practice (β = 0.456, p &lt; 0.001) and perceived vulnerability (β = 0.180, p &lt; 0.001), wherein the current practice is influenced by their perceived vulnerability (β = 0.163, p = 0.002). Their current practice also influences their perceived self-efficacy (β = 0.314, p &lt; 0.001), response efficacy (β = 0.557, p &lt; 0.001), and severity (β = 0.198, p = 0.003). Their perceived severity affects their protective intention (β = 0.102, p = 0.043) and perceived self-efficacy promotes their protective behaviours (β = 0.308, p &lt; 0.001). Future pandemic prevention programmes should improve the awareness about COVID-19 protection, self-efficacy, and response efficacy through community sensitization.
Occurrence Download

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A dataset containing 2229518 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query: { "and" : [ "Country is Guatemala", "HasCoordinate is true", "HasGeospatialIssue is false" ] } The dataset includes 2229518 records from 509 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0021765-200613084148143/datasets/export for details. Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
Sufi in Masnavi-Ma'navi Rumi's Positive View about Sufi and Sufism

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi known as one of the great mystics of the seventh century AD, that his work is considered one of the main sources of mysticism. Sufi is one of the key words of his works, especially in the Masnavi. Added on Rumi, the Sufi exploration puts. Added to this is an understanding of the terms and concepts used can be any one of us closer to the truth Sufi knowledge. This article features Sufi Rumi's works show that it is trying the apparent separation of the true Sufi mystic from False Sufis, It review about Rumi's positive view about Sufism and Sufi that came in Rumi's work.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage in Iwate Prefecture compared in 1980 and 1992.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

岩手県におけるくも膜下出血の発症状況について,昭和55年と平成4年の脳卒中登録の結果を比較検討し,発症率,発症状況,転帰を比較検討した.発症率:人口十万対発症率で比較すると,昭和55年は19.9人,平成4年は19.7人であった.年代別発症率では男性すべての年代で減少し,女性では80歳以上の高齢者を除き減少した.原因:くも膜下出血の原疾患のうち破裂脳動脈瘤の割合は,昭和55年が66.5%,平成4年が69.9%であった.原疾患が不明瞭なものを除外すると,両年とも95%以上であった.来院時意識:両年の来院時意識に有意差は認めなかった.高齢者の来院時意識は重症例が多い傾向にあった.転帰:致命率は昭和55年の29.5%,平成4年の41.5%と有意に増加した.年代別転帰では高齢者ほど致命率が高値であった.
Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people’s well being rises when other people share their personal opinions. By conveying credible information on attitudes, votes give pleasure to individuals who agree with them and thereby confer vicarious utility on voters. Substantial equilibrium turnout emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as higher turnout by more informed and more educated individuals. For certain parameters, the model predicts that third party candidates will lose votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the model predicts ‘vote-stealing’ where the addition of a third candidate robs a major candidate of electoral support.
The New Right, Fundamentalism, and Nationalism in Postmodern America: A Marriage of Heat and Passion

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

English Religious fundamentalism in the United States early in the 20th century went into cultural eclipse. Mainline Protestant numbers were large. Both wings increased throughout the first half of the 20th century. In this period the political right also remained in the shadows. After the 1960s, the mainline Protestant denominations began to suffer decline. Western civilization moved into a cultural phase of postmodernity, and the politically liberal suffered fragmentation. The political right had a clear and uncompromising ideology. The political right began to organize in new ways, and courted the resurgent religious right, encouraging them to become more political. The religious right also had a clear and uncompromising ideology. There was a convergence of issues and interests, and both share a jingoism that functions as a powerful bond and as an effective cultural weapon. They are currently in a de facto political marriage. French Au début du 20ème siècle, le fondamentalisme religieux aux Etats-Unis a connu une éclipse de l'influence culturelle. Les protestants des Grandes Eglises comptaient le plus de membres. Ensuite, tout au long de la première moitié du 20ème siècle, les deux segments de l'Eglise protestante ont vu leurs rangs s'étoffer. Pendant ce temps, la droite politique se tenait dans l'ombre. Après les années 60, les dénominations protestantes des Grandes Eglises ont commencé à décliner. La civilisation occidentale évoluait vers une phase culturelle de postmodernisme, tandis que la frange politique 'libérale' se divisait. Face à elle, la droite politique avait une idéologie claire et sans compromis. Cette droite politique commença à s'organiser différemment et se mit à courtiser la droite religieuse résurgente, poussant ses adeptes à s'engager davantage au plan politique. De son côté, la droite religieuse avait, elle aussi, une idéologie claire et peu encline au compromis. Il y avait donc une convergence de préoccupations et d'intérêts. De plus, l'une et l'autre ont en commun une forme de chauvinisme qui fait à la fois office de ciment interne et d'arme culturelle efficace. Il existe actuellement un mariage politique de fait entre la droite politique et la droite religieuse.
Advanced Waldenström's macroglobulinemia: usefulness of Morel's scoring system in establishing prognosis.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

New treatments for patients with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) have necessited the development of prognostic indices. Using a sample of 92 patients with refractory or relapsing WM treated in a randomized trial, we show that Morel's prognostic scoring system for patients at diagnosis is also effective in patients with advanced disease.
Phylogenetics and Species Status of Hawai‘i's Endangered Blackburn's Sphinx Moth, Manduca blackburni (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Manduca blackburni, commonly known as Blackburn's Sphinx Moth, is a federally listed endangered species restricted to localized habitats on three islands in the Hawaiian archipelago. Manduca blackburni was thought to be closely related to the widely distributed New World species M. quinquemaculatus, but this has never been formally tested, and shortly after its description, many authors dismissed it as a subspecies or form of M. quinquemaculatus. We used one mitochondrial gene, COI, and two nuclear genes, CAD and EF-1α (2,975 bp total), to examine the phylogenetic relationships between M. blackburni and putative sister species in the genus. The phylogeny resulting from two single-gene analyses (CAD, COI) and the concatenation of all three genes suggest that M. blackburni M. quinquemaculatus are sister taxa, and the monophyly of each species is supported with relatively high branch support under parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference. Manduca blackburni and M. quinquemaculatus also differ in genetic distance for CAD and COI, and we therefore consider them separate species. Thus, our molecular results corroborate previous studies on the morphology of M. blackburni and retain the species rank of this taxon. Our results also indicate that one or more South American subspecies of M. sexta may merit elevation to species.
Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Tracheobronchitis and Pneumonia

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Department of PaediatricsUniversity of Cape TownCape Town, South Africa Department of PaediatricsUniversity of Cape Town; and Paediatric Intensive Care UnitRed Cross War Memorial Children’s HospitalCape Town, South Africa *See also p. 533. Supported, in part, by Medical Research Council of Southern Africa. Dr. Morrow has received grant support from the Medical Research Council of Southern Africa and has received travel and accommodations for being an invited speaker at Congress. Professor Argent has received grant support from the Wellcome Foundation and received travel reimbursements from speaking at several Congresses.
A emergência da urbanização turística com base na rede hoteleira da cidade de Maceió-Alagoas

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The theme of this research is the emergency of tourist urbanization based on hotel chain of Maceió – Alagoas. Our goal is to investigate the process of urbanization of the city of Maceió from the implantation of its hotel network. The realization of this study is justified by the recent expansion of the hotel chain in Maceió, which extended mainly along the seafront of the city, including the expansion of the urban space. We used a qualitative methodology by collecting data from photographic survey, research in public and private agencies, annotations in the field book and non-directive interviews. After this, all collect data was analyzed together. We add a bibliographical review listing concepts and propositions of the main authors who study tourist urbanization, tourism and leisure, urban space and the main agents producing tourism. This theoretical framework supports data analysis. The results indicate the existence of four phases on Maceió hotel chain development. The installation of the hotels began in the center of the city. On that time, the demand to hotels was to bureaucratic questions linked to the State. In this perspective, we verified that the buildings from the hotels in de center are deprived and used to other purposes nowadays. The installation of new equipment in other sites redefined the destination of lodging in the capital of Alagoas. The increased in tourist demand contributed to install new equipment in areas that were being incorporated into the initial urban space. We note that the second phase of expansion took place around Praia da Avenida, having its apogee until the eighties of the twentieth century. After this, a third phase of installation of the hotel chain started in Pajuçara, Ponta Verde and Jatiúca arises. The fourth phase corresponds to installation of large tourist enterprises such as the various resorts, as well as a large number of hotels in the neighborhoods located in the north of the capital, such as Cruz das Almas, Ipioca, Riacho Doce, Pescaria, Jacarecica and Guaxuma. We can attest that Maceió, for having become a tourist destination of great prominence in the last two decades, has obtained an increase in the number of new equipment of accomodation, mainly for being a destiny of sun and beach mass tourism. In view of the above, the results of this dissertation can contribute to new studies to generate knowledge and increase the number of publications on this subject little publicized in the literature.
Exploring the conformational dynamics and key amino acids in the CD26-caveolin-1 interaction and potential therapeutic interventions

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

This study aimed to decipher the interaction between CD26 and caveolin-1, key proteins involved in cell signaling and linked to various diseases. Using computational methods, we predicted their binding conformations and assessed stability through 100 ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We identified two distinct binding conformations (con1 and con4), with con1 exhibiting superior stability. In con1, specific amino acids in CD26, namely GLU237, TYR241, TYR248, and ARG147, were observed to engage in interactions with the F-J chain of Caveolin-1, establishing hydrogen bonds and cation or π–π interactions. Meanwhile, in con4, CD26 amino acids ARG253, LYS250, and TYR248 interacted with the J chain of Caveolin-1 via hydrogen bonds, cation–π interactions, and π–π interactions. Virtual screening also revealed potential small-molecule modulators, including Crocin, Poliumoside, and Canagliflozin, that could impact this interaction. Additionally, predictive analyses were conducted on the potential bioactivity, drug-likeness, and ADMET properties of these three compounds. These findings offer valuable insights into the binding mechanism, paving the way for new therapeutic strategies. However, further validation is required before clinical application. In summary, we provide a detailed understanding of the CD26 and caveolin-1 interaction, identifying key amino acids and potential modulators, essential for developing targeted therapies.
Cathodic Protection (CP)

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

This chapter focuses on the practical aspects of cathodic protection (CP). It outlines the key parameters in the choice of impressed current over sacrificial anode protection and vice versa, specific applications in deepwater, and issues with regard to alternating current (AC) interference. The chapter describes the implementation of CP on structures exposed to water. Particular care is required where CP is applied to corrosion-resistant alloys (CRAs). In particular, careful control of welding and weld overlay parameters is necessary to avoid the production of localised microstructures which are susceptible to hydrogen-assisted cracking (HAC). The case of CP systems for structures in contact with the ground is discussed briefly. All CP systems on structures in contact with the ground should be installed with sufficient test facilities to allow the operator to check the operation and effectiveness of the CP system at regular intervals throughout the life of the structure.
Controlled Release of Chlorhexidine from UDMA-TEGDMA Resin

Field: Dentistry (Health Sciences)

Chlorhexidine salts are available in various formulations for dental applications. This study tested the hypothesis that the release of chlorhexidine from a urethane dimethacrylate and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate resin system can be effectively controlled by the chlorhexidine diacetate content and pH. The filler concentrations were 9.1, 23.1, or 33.3 wt%, and the filled resins were exposed to pH 4 and pH 6 acetate buffers. The results showed that Fickian diffusion was the dominant release mechanism. The rates of release were significantly higher in pH 4 buffer, which was attributed to the increase of chlorhexidine diacetate solubility at lower pH. The higher level of filler loading reduced the degree of polymerization, leading to a greater loss of organic components and higher chlorhexidine release rates.
Neural tracking of attended versus ignored speech is differentially affected by hearing loss

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Hearing loss manifests as a reduced ability to understand speech, particularly in multitalker situations. In these situations, younger normal-hearing listeners' brains are known to track attended speech through phase-locking of neural activity to the slow-varying envelope of the speech. This study investigates how hearing loss, compensated by hearing aids, affects the neural tracking of the speech-onset envelope in elderly participants with varying degree of hearing loss ( n = 27, 62–86 yr; hearing thresholds 11–73 dB hearing level). In an active listening task, a to-be-attended audiobook (signal) was presented either in quiet or against a competing to-be-ignored audiobook (noise) presented at three individualized signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The neural tracking of the to-be-attended and to-be-ignored speech was quantified through the cross-correlation of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and the temporal envelope of speech. We primarily investigated the effects of hearing loss and SNR on the neural envelope tracking. First, we found that elderly hearing-impaired listeners' neural responses reliably track the envelope of to-be-attended speech more than to-be-ignored speech. Second, hearing loss relates to the neural tracking of to-be-ignored speech, resulting in a weaker differential neural tracking of to-be-attended vs. to-be-ignored speech in listeners with worse hearing. Third, neural tracking of to-be-attended speech increased with decreasing background noise. Critically, the beneficial effect of reduced noise on neural speech tracking decreased with stronger hearing loss. In sum, our results show that a common sensorineural processing deficit, i.e., hearing loss, interacts with central attention mechanisms and reduces the differential tracking of attended and ignored speech. NEW & NOTEWORTHY The present study investigates the effect of hearing loss in older listeners on the neural tracking of competing speech. Interestingly, we observed that whereas internal degradation (hearing loss) relates to the neural tracking of ignored speech, external sound degradation (ratio between attended and ignored speech; signal-to-noise ratio) relates to tracking of attended speech. This provides the first evidence for hearing loss affecting the ability to neurally track speech.