jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Removal of GAGs Regulates Mechanical Properties, Collagen Fiber Formation, and Alignment in Tissue Engineered Meniscus

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The complex fibrillar architecture of native meniscus is essential for proper function and difficult to recapitulate in vitro. In the native meniscus, proteoglycan content is low during the development of collagen fibers and progressively increases with aging. In vitro, fibrochondrocytes produce glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) early in culture, in contrast to native tissue, where they are deposited after collagen fibers have formed. This difference in the timing of GAG production hinders the formation of a mature fiber network in such in vitro models. In this study, we removed GAGs from collagen gel-based tissue engineered constructs using chondroitinase ABC (cABC) and evaluated the effect on the formation and alignment of collagen fibers and the subsequent effect on tensile and compressive mechanical properties. Removal of GAGs during maturation of in vitro constructs improved collagen fiber alignment in tissue engineered meniscus constructs. Additionally, removal of GAGs during maturation improved fiber alignment without compromising compressive strength, and this removal improved not only fiber alignment and formation but also tensile properties. The increased fiber organization in cABC-treated groups also appeared to influence the size, shape, and location of defects in these constructs, suggesting that treatment may prevent the propagation of large defects under loading. This data gives another method of modulating the ECM for improved collagen fiber formation and mechanical properties in tissue engineered constructs.
Social sustainability with businesses through civil society engagement: a missed opportunity

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The role of business organizations has been challenged owing to its adverse social impact. Civil Society (CS) is considered as possible contender to shape business outcomes enabling social order and social sustainability. However, CS does not demonstrate an active interest to carry out its role, raising the question ‘How does the civil society engages with businesses’. Theoretical lens the study primarily employs, the Deliberative Democracy Theory (DDT) by Habermas (1996), underscores role of CS to identify social issues and take that into deliberation in public sphere in finding just solutions and social order. However, DDT has not been able to explain the failure of CS to engage with businesses in finding solutions despite businesses causing social issues. Hence, in exploring how the civil society engages with businesses, the present study employed qualitative research design with Multiple Embedded Case Study method. Data collected through in-depth interviews and documents were analyzed through thematic analysis method. Findings indicate CS generally comprehends business conduct as a transactional relationship in private sphere and translate into a social issue only when attached with sentiments and emotions that prompts engagement in public sphere. Businesses too in general perceive society as a transactional partner undermining human esteem, and therefore fail in enabling social sustainability through democratic means of engagement. The study thus makes theoretical contribution towards DDT by explaining why CS does not engage with businesses. Furthermore, illuminate implications on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social sustainability attempts of businesses.
IWSHM 2017: Quantifying the benefit of structural health monitoring: what if the manager is not the owner?

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

Only very recently our community has acknowledged that the benefit of structural health monitoring can be properly quantified using the concept of value of information ( VoI). The VoI is the difference between the utilities of operating the structure with and without the monitoring system. Typically, it is assumed that there is one decision-maker for all decisions, that is, deciding on both the investment on the monitoring system and the operation of the structure. The aim of this work is to formalize a rational method for quantifying the value of information when two different actors are involved in the decision chain: the manager, who makes decisions regarding the structure, based on monitoring data; and the owner, who chooses whether to install the monitoring system or not, before having access to these data. The two decision-makers, even if both rational and exposed to the same background information, may still act differently because of their different appetites for risk. To illustrate how this framework works, we evaluate a hypothetical VoI for the Streicker Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Princeton University campus equipped with a fiber optic sensing system, assuming that two fictional characters, Malcolm and Ophelia, are involved: Malcolm is the manager who decides whether to keep the bridge open or close it following to an incident; Ophelia is the owner who decides whether to invest on a monitoring system to help Malcolm making the right decision. We demonstrate that when manager and owner are two different individuals, the benefit of monitoring could be greater or smaller than when all the decisions are made by the same individual. Under appropriate conditions, the monitoring VoI could even be negative, meaning that the owner is willing to pay to prevent the manager to use the monitoring system.
A novel scheme based on coarse‐grained localization and fine‐grained isolation for defending against Sybil attack in low power and lossy networks

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Abstract Due to the lack of security mechanisms and sensor resources, the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy networks (RPL) is vulnerable to various attacks, among which Sybil attack has received a lot of attention. This paper proposes a novel scheme based on coarse‐grained localization and fine‐grained isolation (CLFI) for defending Sybil attack. In CLFI, normal neighbor nodes are identified based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI). To further identify Sybil nodes, a physical address identifier called is defined, which is calculated as the difference of RSSI at two different receivers when they are receiving the same packet. In order to facilitate the calculation of , a set of anchor nodes are deployed to broadcast the received RPL control packets. Then Sybil behaviors can be detected by comparing the physical address identifier with the logical address embedded in the received packets. The proposed CLFI scheme has been completely implemented in the Contiki operating system. The extensive evaluation in comparison with the state‐of‐the‐art scheme indicates that CLFI can quickly localize and isolate Sybil nodes.
Nilpotency Indices of Symmetric Elements of Group Algebras

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Let G be a group and let F be a field of characteristic different from 2. Denote by (FG)+ the set of symmetric elements and by U +(FG) the set of symmetric units of the group algebra FG, with respect to the canonical involution on FG sending each group element to its inverse. In this article, we give some lower and upper bounds on the Lie nilpotency index of (FG)+ and the nilpotency class of U +(FG); furthermore, we classify the groups for which these bounds are achieved.
Espace de lacets formels et algèbres de Lie tangentes

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

If M is a symplectic manifold then the space of smooth loops C(S^1,M) inherits of a quasi-symplectic form. We will focus in this thesis on an algebraic analogue of that result.In their article, Kapranov and Vasserot introduced and studied the formal loop space of a scheme X. It is an algebraic version of the space of smooth loops in a differentiable manifold.We generalize their construction to higher dimensional loops. To any scheme X -- not necessarily smooth -- we associate L^d(X), the space of loops of dimension d. We prove it has a structure of (derived) Tate scheme -- ie its tangent is a Tate module: it is infinite dimensional but behaves nicely enough regarding duality.We also define the bubble space B^d(X), a variation of the loop space.We prove that B^d(X) is endowed with a natural symplectic form as soon as X has one.To prove our results, we develop a theory of Tate objects in a stable infinity category C. We also prove that the non-connective K-theory of Tate(C) is the suspension of that of C, giving an infinity categorical version of a result of Saito.The last chapter is aimed at a different problem: we prove there the existence of a Lie structure on the tangent of a derived Artin stack X. Moreover, any quasi-coherent module E on X is endowed with an action of this tangent Lie algebra through the Atiyah class of E. This in particular applies to not necessarily smooth schemes X.
An evidential reasoning extension to quantitative model-based failure diagnosis

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

The detection and diagnosis of failures in physical systems characterized by continuous-time operation are studied. A quantitative diagnostic methodology has been developed that utilizes the mathematical model of the physical system. On the basis of the latter, diagnostic models are derived each of which comprises a set of orthogonal parity equations. To improve the robustness of the algorithm, several models may be used in parallel, providing potentially incomplete and/or conflicting inferences. Dempster's rule of combination is used to integrate evidence from the different models. The basic probability measures are assigned utilizing quantitative information extracted from the mathematical model and from online computation performed therewith.< >
Serial Multiple Mediation Model of Depression, Anxiety and Sleep Quality Between Perceived Stress and Life Satisfaction

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Life satisfaction can both affect and be affected by occupational factors in military personnel. Perceived stress is considered an important predictor of life satisfaction. The objective of this study is to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of perceived stress on life satisfaction and the mediating role of depression, anxiety, and sleep quality among Iranian military personnel. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 301 military personnel were investigated by using standard self-report questionnaires, consisting of the Revised Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90-R), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) in our study. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient, ordinary least square regression, and the bootstrap method. The direct effect of perceived stress on life satisfaction was significant. Perceived stress also affects life satisfaction indirectly through single mediation of sleep quality; serial multiple mediations of anxiety as the first and sleep quality as the second mediator; and the serial multiple mediations of depression, anxiety, and sleep quality, as the first to the third mediator, respectively. Lower levels of perceived stress, depression, and anxiety, along with better sleep quality, are correlated to higher levels of life satisfaction in military personnel. There are several points of prevention and intervention in order to increase the life satisfaction of military personnel, which can improve their quality of life and occupational efficiency.
Genómica de la población, filogenómica y genómica del paisaje del lagarto de cerca occidental (Sceloporus occidentalis) en la cordillera de Sierra Nevada

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Environments can structure the genetics of populations in diverse ways. Temperature similarity between areas can influence gene flow between populations, as can vegetation, precipitation, and topography. In this dissertation I examine how climate, vegetation, and topography structure the genetics of wild populations of Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) in different spatial locations, areas of different sizes, and different levels of evolutionary history. I found that climate similarity between low- and high-elevation areas predicts genetic differentiation in temperate regions. This is similar to the pattern identified previously for broad latitudinal gradients across temperate- tropical comparisons, and suggests a common mechanism acts both within and across biomes. When comparing the landscape features that promote gene flow across areas, I found that the abiotic environment within canyons—higher temperature, less seasonal, lower elevation areas—are consistently implicated as important in maintaining gene flow between populations across landscapes. This suggests these similar landscape features are important in maintaining genetic connectivity across space. Finally, I found that landscape genetics approaches are most accurate at spatial scales up to 4,225 km-sq, beyond which resolution of the fine-scale features of the landscape that impede and promote gene flow are lost. At larger spatial scales, phylogeographic approaches that link phylogenetic trees to spatial locations reiterate landscape genetics approaches at smaller spatial scales, and implicate mountain ridges as critical landscape features shaping genetic structure in both recent and more ancient clades. Broadly, we find that canyon river valleys, and the climatic conditions contained therein, may be critical habitat features promoting gene flow and maintaining genetic connectivity between populations across landscapes.
An Educology of Values Education: The Attitudes of Thirteen to Fifteen Year Old Teenagers Towards Spiritual Values--Priorities, Change and Some Pre-Conditions.

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

An analysis was conducted in Lithuania of teenager attitudes towards spiritual values which function in both microand macro-environments. The data obtained in this contemporary investigation were compared with those registered two decades ago, in the authoritarian type of society of that time. The focus of the study is on the peculiarities of teenagers’ attitudes towards spiritual values in different types of secondary school.
Nursing FORM) 2023(2024,Nana College of Nursing Sciences, Anyingba ADMISSION Form is out call (O8O3664O134 or O8O3664O134) Post-Basic Nursing form, Midwifery candidates must fulfil the following criteria: Candidates Call O8O3664O134 must possess five credits (Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Biology, Physics) in WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or a combination of WAEC and NECO. Please come with a photocopy of your results. All candidates should submit a handwritten application letter addressed to the Principal of the Candidates are required to provide four recent passport photographs.

Field: Nursing (Health Sciences)

Nursing FORM) 2023(2024,Nana College of Nursing Sciences, Anyingba ADMISSION Form is out call (O8O3664O134 or O8O3664O134) Post-Basic Nursing form, Midwifery candidates must fulfil the following criteria: Candidates Call O8O3664O134 must possess five credits (Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Biology, Physics) in WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or a combination of WAEC and NECO. Please come with a photocopy of your results. All candidates should submit a handwritten application letter addressed to the Principal of the Candidates are required to provide four recent passport photographs.
GDPR v. GDPL

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Purpose ”“ The main purpose of this article is to analyze the aspects of the responsiveness approach adopted by European and Brazilian lawmakers in the elaboration of data protection rules, such as GDPR and LGPD. Methodology ”“ The applied methodology is based on the responsive regulation theory and, additionally, the network governance theory, through the comparative analysis of personal data protection legal frameworks in Brazil and the EU. Findings ”“ Based on the comparative analysis of the GDPR and the LGPD, it is verified the adoption of escalated regulatory techniques of Ayres and Braithwaite’s enforcement pyramid in the developed of these norms, as a strategy adopted by lawmakers to guarantee a greater compliance from regulated entities.
Community Empowerment in Implementing the Policy of Kelurahan Fund Allocation in Kelurahan Agung, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The purpose of this study is to find out how to empower the community in Tabalong Regency and to find out what factors are the success of community empowerment in implementing the Village Fund allocation policy in Agung Village, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive type of research. Data collection techniques used through interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis used qualitative data analysis techniques, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. The results showed that community empowerment in implementing the village fund allocation policy in Agung Village, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency had been going well but not yet fully successful. It is still found factors that affect community empowerment, several factors that affect the implementation of community empowerment with the allocation of village funds in the Agung sub-district, Tabalong Regency, such as the identification of the social system of the village apparatus for the village community is still not optimal and there has been no follow-up from the village government on the empowerment group that has been implemented. successful in directing and developing the results of empowerment group products.
The Default Rule Paradigm and the Limits of Contract Law

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Default rule analysis has become a central feature of modem contracts scholarship. This scholarship is illuminating but less helpful than it could be for two reasons: first, there are several types of default rules but the literature does not distinguish adequately among them; second, legal' institutions vary in their ability to write helpful defaults but the question which institution should create what kind of rule has not been seriously asked. This essay addresses both deficiencies.
Finding a T-cell epitope for a melanoma vaccine by an immunomics technique.

Field: Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)

The identification of tumor-associated T cell epitopes has contributed significantly to the understanding of the interrelationship of tumor and immune system and is instrumental in the development of therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer. Here, the author reports preliminary data from the computation analysis of available Homo sapiens melanoma associate antigen to find potential T-cell epitopes using bioinformatics tool namely MHCPred. Using computational algorithm, we predicted the most potential T cell epitope from known melanoma associated antigen. This data are useful for further vaccine development because these promiscuous peptide binders allows to minimize the total number of predicted epitopes without compromising the population coverage required in the design of multi-epitope vaccines.
Molecular Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in Plant Natural Populations

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Recent advances in studies of genetic variation at protein and DNA levels in plant natural populations and its relationship with environmental changes were reviewed with special reference to the works on the wild barley ( Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch.). On one side, adaptation was shown in statistic data, on the other side, the fact that a considerable part of genetic variation does exist within populations (subpopulations) under same ecological condition indicated its maintainability of neutral or near_neutral mutations in natural populations. The researches on adaptive populations of plants, especially on wild soybean ( Glycine soja Sieb. et Zucc.) mainly conducted in author's laboratory, have shown that the most part of molecular variation within and among populations can not be explained by selection particularly as far as the individual uniqueness was concerned. There are some data shown that adaptation may be caused by accumulation of a few near_neutral mutations. Recent publications on molecular mechanisms of morphological evolution has been received special attention to elucidate the discrepancy between molecular evolution and morphological adaptive evolution. A frame on the unified evolution theory has been built. Finally some related viewpoints of philosophy were discussed.
Dietary pattern with high dairy intake is associated with linear growth in Peruvian infants

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Post‐natal linear growth faltering is a multi‐factorial process that is affected by children's diet and infectious exposures. Little research has documented how young children's dietary patterns are related to growth, so we reanalyzed previously collected data from young children in Trujillo, Peru to assess these relationships. Dietary intakes of children 6–8 months of age at baseline were assessed prior to and at the mid‐point of a 6‐month zinc supplementation trial [Brown, et al. Am J Clin Nutr 2007].Food and breast milk intakes were assessed by direct observation and weighing for 1–2 days at each time. The intakes at the mid‐point when children were 9–11 months of age were used for these analyses, as all children were consuming complementary foods by this age. Dietary pattern factors, with energy from 14 food groups as inputs, were derived by principal components analysis with orthogonal transformation. Linear growth was assessed at baseline and 6‐months. A linear regression model with the change in length‐for‐age z‐score (DLAZ) as the outcome was used with all derived dietary factors entered as independent variables along with covariates including initial LAZ, age, gender, intervention group, low maternal height (<145 cm), persistent diarrhea episodes, an index of socioeconomic status, and total energy. The mean DLAZ was −0.11 (0.41 SD).Five dietary patterns were derived that explained 54% of the variation in the intakes, with the greatest proportions of variation being explained by a ‘potato, meat, vegetable’ pattern (14%) and a ‘dairy’ pattern (12%).The dairy pattern score was positively associated with DLAZ (p=0.008). None of the other dietary patterns were significantly associated with DLAZ. Higher socioeconomic status was also associated with greater DLAZ (p=<0.0001). DLAZ was lower among children whose mothers had low height (p=0.03). While breastfeeding throughout the first year of life is important for young children's healthy growth, the introduction of animal source foods, such as dairy products, to children's diets is important given their nutrient profile that includes high quality protein, bioavailable micronutrients and possibly other bioactive components that are essential for growth. The importance of dietary quality and the multiplicity of nutrient factors in foods should be recognized in efforts to reduce linear growth faltering globally. Support or Funding Information Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant # OPP1112895
Study of selected cereal pathogens and their interactions with host plant.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The first part of the study was focused on bunt species Tilleta laevis and T. tritici. The next part of the study was focused on leaf rust Puccinia recondite, f. sp. tritici. Several species of the genus Thalictrum were inoculated. Presence of a gene Lr10 was proved in selected wheat cultivars by a molecular marker. These cultivars were tested for response to 7 different isolates of the leaf rust together with near isogenic lines for particular genes of resistance. According to the infection tests the effectiveness of Lr10 is probably enhanced in the presence of Lr13 in comparison with the lines carrying Lr13 and Lr10 separately. Presence of Lr10 in 16 wheat cultivars was confirmed by the molecular marker.