jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The efficacy and safety of intrathecal dexmedetomidine for parturients undergoing cesarean section: a double-blind randomized controlled trial

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract

Background The efficacy and safety of spinal anesthesia by intrathecal dexmedetomidine (DEX) for parturients undergoing cesarean section are still lack of evidence. This aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intrathecal DEX for parturients undergoing cesarean section to provide more data evidence for intrathecal applications. Methods 300 parturients undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia from two centers were randomly assigned into 3 groups : group B: 9.0 mg (1.2 ml) of bupivacaine 0.75% with saline (1 ml) ; group FB: 9.0 mg (1.2 ml) of bupivacaine 0.75% with 20 µg of fentanyl (1 ml) ; group DB : 9.0 mg (1.2 ml) of bupivacaine 0.75% with 5 µg of DEX (1 ml). Intraoperative block characteristics, parturients’ postoperative quality of recovery, maternal and neonatal outcomes and the plasma concentration of DEX were measured. All parturients were followed up for 30 days to determine whether nerve injury occurred. Results Compared with group B, the duration of sensory block in group FB and group DB were significantly prolonged (108.4 min [95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 104.6-112.3] in group B, and 122.0 min [95% CI = 116.8-127.3] in group FB, 148.2 min [95% CI = 145.3-151.1] in group DB). The overall score of quality recovery in group DB (71.6 [95% CI = 71.0-72.2]) was significantly higher than that in group FB (61.5 [95% CI = 60.8–62.2]) and group B (61.7 [95% CI = 61.0-62.4]). There were no statistically significant among the 3 groups for PH, PaO2, and PaCO2 in the umbilical artery and umbilical vein blood of newborn. The concentration of DEX in umbilical artery and umbilical vein was too low to be detected. The 30-days follow-up of parturients did not show any new onset of back, buttock or leg pain or paresthesia. Conclusion DEX is a potential local anesthetics adjuvant and the combination of 5 µg of DEX can exhibit a facilitatory effect when administered intrathecally as part of spinal anesthesia. However, large sample clinical studies to support the safety of intrathecal DEX use in the clinical setting are still needed. Trial registration : Chinese Clinical Trail Registry (Registration number # ChiCTR1900022019; Date of Registration on March 20th, 2019).
Resonant Oder Theory of Everything Molecular Theory

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

This paper presents a deterministic theory of molecular vibration and entropy based on the Resonant Order Theory of Everything (ROTE). Anchored at the electron (n = 0), molecular structures such as H₂, CO, and OH emerge at specific φ-spiral indices as stable harmonic resonators. Using no fitted parameters, we reproduce empirical infrared and Raman vibrational data, and derive a natural entropic temperature ladder from spiral frequency scaling. The Molecular Spiral Resonance Layer (n ≈ 4–6.5) is formally defined. We further introduce a φⁿ-based Lagrangian for molecular dynamics and show that entropy increases with spiral index—not disorder. This work unifies structure and thermodynamics under frequency resonance, and predicts molecular voids at ψ-null (prime-indexed) shells.
Estimation of average values for pulse rate, respiratory rate and rectal temperature and development of a heat stress index for adult Yankasa sheep

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

Records on 384 adult Yankasa sheep were studied at Shika in the sub-humid zone of Nigeria over three seasons of the year to determine the average values of pulse rate (P), respiratory rate (R) and rectal temperature (T) and also to develop a measure of susceptibility or tolerance to heat stress. Average values for P, R and T were 87.0 ± 1.96 beats/min, 59. 0 ± 3.53 breaths/min, and 39.0 ± 0.10°C respectively. There was a negative correlation between P and R (r = - 0.55) (P < 0.05), which was utilised to derive a heat stress index H: {(R/59)*(87/P)}.
Improving Quantitative Analysis of Frac-Hits and Refracs in Unconventional Plays Using RTA

Field: Energy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract One of the most common field development plans in shale plays involves drilling lease/acreage retention wells in different areas followed by coming back and drilling infill wells. In majority of these shale plays, job sizes for hydraulic fracturing treatment are getting bigger over time in order to achieve more volume as well as value. However, due to depletion, there exists a pressure sink around the older existing producers and that significantly increases the possibility of older well getting "frac-hit" by new stimulation, and receiving large volume of frac fluid. Frac-hits can easily be seen using pressure gauges in older wells, and other surveillance techniques including chemical/RA tracers, microseismic, etc. One of the other "interference" effects that change the behaviour of parent well is refracturing. Operators are identifying candidates that were either poorly stimulated initially or have lost productivity over their life, and are refracturing those wells. In both frac-hits and refracs, there is a change in well productivity; and understanding and quantifying this loss/gain in production still remains challenging. In this paper, both analytical and numerical modeling techniques were used to explore the existing workflows and techniques in the literature to study frac-hits and refracs. Rate transient analysis (RTA) was used to complement the numerical reservoir simulation models. Flow regimes were identified on superposition time plots using RTA (linear flow regime, boundary-dominated regime), and numerous sensitivities were run on the frac-hit/refrac timing, reservoir matrix permeability. Frac-hit examples from Eagle Ford shale were examined. This paper studies the existing RTA techniques to model frac-hits/refracs and compares them with the new technique proposed herein. It was observed that RTA models needed to be re-initialized to model post frac-hit or refrac behaviour to correctly quantify the changes in SRV. It is shown that although the existing techniques work reasonably well at low matrix permeability, the error margin goes up as the permeability increases. In Eagle Ford, the permeability is high enough to warrant using this new analysis method. Existing analyses methods primarily use diagnostic plots (superposition time) and are only applicable to frac-hits or refracs prior to boundary dominated flow (BDF) regime. This proposed method is valid over different flow regimes & larger permeability ranges. The analysis method recommended in this study allows the operators to better analyse the efficiency and benefits of their refracs, as well as detrimental impact of frac-hits from infilling and downspacing the wells.
Levels of Processing and the Retention of Paired-Associates

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

The effect of self-reference, semantic, and rote processing on the retention of paired-associates was examined at intervals of 5 min. and 2 wk. 25 subjects per group were given 120 sec. to process each of 15 paired-associates by self-reference, semantic, or rote. The pairs were a low meaningful nonsense word and a high meaningful English noun. At both retention intervals, self-reference and semantic processing produced significantly higher retention than rote processing and there was no difference in retention between self-reference and semantic processing. The results were compared with those of similar studies.
POSSIBILITIES OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FORDIAGNOSTIC ETIOLOGIC FACTORS IN THE OCCURRENCE OF ARRHYTHMIASOF THE MILITARYS

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Surveyed 652 patients with persistent violations of rhythm who applied to the cardiologist of the center of VMA during the 2 years. Of 652 patients was highlighted that some patients (543), in which the rhythm disturbance with daily monitoring Holter ECG were significant, that is, the number of ventricular and supraventricular extrasystoles exceeded the acceptable rate. These patients were divided into 3 groups to assess the frequency of ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias: Group 1: patients with a primary rhythm disturbance according to the type of ventricular arrhythmia — 96 people (80 men and 16 women). Their average age was 68 years (18–89). Group 2: patients with a primary rhythm disturbance according to the type of supraventricular extrasystole — 343 (271 male and 72 female). Their average age was 67 years (17–83). Group 3: patients with complex arrhythmias (supraventricular and ventricular premature beats) — 106 patients (94 male and 12 female). Their average age was 65 years (18–87). Compulsory medical examination for the patient included a complete medical examination with the filling of a formalized medical history; laboratory studies (clinical blood analysis, biochemical blood — potassium, sodium, magnesium, chlorine, glucose, lipid spectrum, creatinine, total protein, coagulation profile, thyroid hormones T3, T4, TTG); instrumental examinations (ECG, daily monitoring of Holter ECG, radiography of the chest, echocardiography). Identified possible etiologic factors in the occurrence of arrhythmias in patients. The main etiological factors of arrhythmia were: ischemic heart disease (IHD), arterial hypertension (AH), heart failure II–IV FC, the presence of sclerodermatineae acquired heart disease, cardiomyopathy, diabetes mellitus type II, thyroid disease (hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism), cancer, history of pulmonary embolism (PE), acute violations of cerebral circulation (cerebral vascular accident), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), family history of coronary heart disease, overweight, menopause. The main provoking factors according to the survey patients were: alcohol abuse and Smoking, daily repeated use of strong tea and coffee, psycho-emotional and physical stress, infectious diseases.48 surveyed (8,84%) did not identify any apparent cause arrhythmias. This group of patients underwent heart MRI for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the arrhythmias. In 32 patients performing MRI of the heart has allowed to establish probable cause rhythm disturbances, draws attention to the high frequency of detection of MR-signs of myocarditis (1⁄3 of the surveyed).
Clustering for Topological Interference Management

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

To reduce the overhead and complexity of channel state information acquisition in interference alignment, the topological interference management (TIM) was proposed to manage interference, which only relied on the network topology information. The previous research on topological interference management via the low-rank matrix completion approach is known to be NP-hard. This paper considers the clustering method for the topological interference management problem, namely, the low-rank matrix completion for TIM is applied within each cluster. Based on the clustering result, we solve the low-rank matrix completion problem via nuclear norm minimization and Frobenius norm minimization function. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed clustering method combined with TIM leads to significant gain on the achievable degrees of freedom.
Design of a power electronic emulator for parallel operation of renewable energy resources in microgrids

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The design and implementation of a voltage source inverter (VSI) is presented to emulate similar characteristics of an autonomous diesel generator for using as an emulator for microgrids. The mechanical and electrical parts of a commercial diesel engine generator are modeled mathematically and then the model is fed to a VSI as reference signals to produce the same output power characteristics as in a real diesel engine generator. Droop control is also included in the control loop. The underlying inverter is designed with voltage and current control loops in the dq-frame and proper filtering and coupling inductors are included. The synchronous machine is also modeled as a generator represented by model 2.1 of the IEEE Std. 1110-2002. The emulator is designed in a modular way to have the flexibility to allow the study of parallel operation of wind or hydro-kinetic energy conversion system with the diesel generator where are being considered in remote parts of Quebec. For experimental validation, the control algorithm is implemented in dSpace using the DS-1103 controller board where the external measured and internal signals are processed.
Glucokinase, glucose sensing, and diabetes.

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

Laser ablation MC-ICP-MS allows in situ strontium isotope data to be obtained for incrementally formed bioapatites such as enamel with extremely high spatial resolution. Here, we provide a large-scale application of the method comparing the ...Understanding mobility and landscape use is important in reconstructing subsistence behavior, range, and group size, and it may contribute to our understanding of phenomena such as the dynamics of biological and cultural interactions between distinct ...
Online Intercultural Exchange

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange(OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges in university contexts such as internationalisation, virtual mobility and intercultural foreign language education.Since the 1990s, educators have been using virtual interaction to bring their classes into contact with geographically distant partner classes to create opportunities for authentic communication, meaningful collaboration and first-hand experience of working and learning with partners from other cultural backgrounds. Online exchange projects of this nature can contribute to the development of learner autonomy, linguistic accuracy, intercultural awareness, intercultural skills and electronic literacies.

OIE now has reached a stage where it is moving beyond individual classroom initiatives and is assuming a role as a major tool for internationalization, intercultural development and virtual mobility in universities around the globe.

This volume reports qualitative and quantitative findings on the impact of OIE on universities in Europe and elsewhere and offers comprehensive guidance on using OIE at both pedagogical and technological levels. It provides theoretically informed accounts of OIEs relevant to researchers in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), computer-mediated communication or virtual education. Finally, contributors offer a collection of practitioner-authored and practically oriented case studies for the benefit of teachers of foreign languages
or in other subject areas who wish to engage in developing the digital literacy and intercultural competences of their learners.
Fully Automated Segmentation of 2D and 3D Mobile Mapping Data for Reliable Modeling of Surface Structures Using Deep Learning

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Maintenance and expansion of transport and communications infrastructure requires ongoing construction work on a large scale. To plan and execute these in the best possible way, up-to-date and highly detailed digital maps are needed. For example, until recently, telecommunication companies have performed documentation and mapping of as-built urban structures for construction work manually and with great time expense. Mobile mapping systems offer a solution for documenting urban environments fast and mostly automated. In consequence, large amounts of recorded data emerge in short time, creating the need for automated processing and modeling of these data to provide reliable foundations for digital planning in reasonable time. We present (a) a procedure for fully automated processing of mobile mapping data for digital construction planning in the context of nationwide broadband network expansion and (b) an in-depth study of the performance of this procedure on real-world data. Our multi-stage pipeline segments georeferenced images and fuses segmentations with 3D data, which allows exact localization of surfaces and objects, which can then be passed via interface, e.g., to a geographic information system (GIS). The final system is able to distinguish between similar looking surfaces, such as concrete and asphalt, with a precision between 80% and 95%, regardless of setting or season.
Bocheński's Formalization of Summa Theologiae (Ia,75,6) Reconsidered

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

I investigate Bocheński's first-order logic formalization of the argument for the incorruptibility of the human soul given by Aquinas in Summa Theologiae (Ia,75,6). I suggest a slightly different axiomatization that reflect better Aquinas' informal argument. Along the way, I also fix a mistake in Bocheński's derivation that the human soul is not corruptible per se.
Analysis of spontaneous, carcinogen‐induced and promoter‐induced chromosomal instability in patients with hereditary retinoblastoma

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

Abstract Skin fibroblasts from patients with hereditary retino‐blastoma (RB cells) were examined since predisposition to the tumour might be expected to involve some degree of chromosomal instability, as has been noted for several cancer‐prone conditions. Spontaneous and N ‐Methyl‐ N ′‐nitro‐ N ‐nitrosoguanidine (MNNG)‐induced aberration frequencies were measured, the cytogenetic effects of long‐term treatment with 12‐ O ‐tetradecanoyl‐phorbol‐13acetate (TPA) were examined and also the spontaneous and TPA‐induced sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies. In all the studies the RB cells behaved in a similar fashion to normal human skin fibroblasts.
EGIS - An Environmental GIS Developed for NASA Field Center Applications

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

As the principal center for Environmental Geographic Information Systems (EGIS), the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC), located in Hancock County, Mississippi, has been assigned technical support requirements to design and to implement a basic EGIS data base for all NASA Field Centers. The intent of this Phase I effort is to produce a baseline EGIS data base incorporating newly available remotely sensed data as well as existing environmental data. A example application of the use of the data base at Stennis Space Center will be to illustrate baseline environmental conditions for consideration with proposed propulsion test stand development and operation. To effectively answer questions related to environmental issues at each center, organization of the data layers and sources will include the following categories: Cadastral/Geodetic; Geopolitical; Hydrography; Infrastructure; Physical Geography; Socioeconomic; Remote Sensing Imagery; Associated Metadata. As part of a Phase II effort, site-specific data and applications will be implemented and added to the data base at each Field Center. This poster illustrates the framework of the design and implementation of a basic EGIS data base. Shown are example data sources, hardware and software, and data base delivery and installation. The poster also depicts future recommendations for a centrally located server to house each of the NASA Field Center data bases. The server will allow real-time data base updates with additional layers and models for each center. Expansion of the EGIS data base will continue to grow as site-specific applications are developed addressing the ongoing evolution of environmental concerns at all NASA Field Centers.
Brief Reminiscence Activities Improve State Well-Being and Self-Concept in Young Adults: A Randomised Controlled Experiment

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Reminiscence-based psychotherapies have been demonstrated to have robust effects on a range of therapeutic outcomes. However, little research has been conducted on the immediate effects of guided activities they are comprised of, or how these might differ dependent on the type of reminiscence. The current study utilised a controlled experimental design, whereby three-hundred and twenty-one young adults (mean age = 25.5 years, SD = 3.0) were randomised to one of four conditions of online reminiscence activity: problem-solving (successful coping experiences), identity (self-defining events contributing to a meaningful and continuous personal identity), bitterness revival (negative or adverse events), or a control condition (any memory from their past). Participants recalled autobiographical memories congruent with the condition, and answered questions to facilitate reflection on the memories. The results indicated that problem-solving and identity reminiscence activities caused significant improvements in self-esteem, meaning in life, self-efficacy and affect, whereas no effects were found in the bitterness revival and control conditions. Problem-solving reminiscence also caused a small effect in increasing perceptions of a life narrative/s. Differences between the conditions did not appear to be explained by the positive-valence of memories. These results provide evidence for the specific effects of adaptive types of problem-solving and identity reminiscence in young adults.
Native, Non-Native, or Bilingual? A Concise Assessment of ChatGPT’s Suitability for Second-Language Instruction as a Native or Non-Native Pedagogue

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from non-native speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is widely taken by non-native English speakers of varying proficiency levels. This study also measures ChatGPA’s response to discourses produced by non-native speakers - one containing grammatical errors and the other incorporating sociolinguistic or strategic competence expressions. The findings indicate that ChatGPT demonstrates proficiency in lexical and grammatical features and can comprehend non-perfect grammatical discourses produced by non-native speakers. However, ChatGPT does not accurately perceive the varying degrees of difficulty experienced by non-native speakers. Moreover, while ChatGPT can comprehend sociolinguistic expressions when the context is clear, its understanding of other communication strategies employed by non-native speakers is relatively limited.