jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Outpatient Home‐based Wet Wrap Dressings with Topical Steroids with Children with Severe Recalcitrant Atopic Dermatitis: A Feasibility Pilot Study

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Wet wrapping ( WW ) appears to be effective in severe atopic dermatitis ( AD ) in children resistant to topical treatment. Seventeen children were included and were directed to use WW every night (≥6 hr) until lesions disappeared, followed by maintenance treatment of two to three treatments per week. The mean Scoring Atopic Dermatitis ( SCORAD ) score at baseline was 48.9. After 1 month of treatment the mean SCORAD score was 18.9, and efficacy was maintained after 3 months of treatment. The majority of patients were satisfied (91.7%) with the WW treatment; 92% considered it to be much more effective than the previous treatments received. WW was easy to perform for 75% of patients, 83% of patients stated that it was better tolerated, and 17% considered it to be tolerated equally to dermatologic corticosteroids without WW . The home WW program was continued on a maintenance basis for 75% of patients. This open‐label study showed that this program was a feasible and well‐tolerated alternative for the treatment of severe, refractory AD in children and adolescents.
Celebration Press: Good Habits, Great Readers —The Research Guiding an Innovative Program for Instruction in Reading Comprehension

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Introduction At the request of the U.S. Congress and after considerable research, the National Reading Panel (NRP) produced a report on effective reading instruction (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000a). The objective was to provide guidance to teachers, administrators, and researchers and lead to improved reading instruction. One major area of the report focused on instruction in reading comprehension. It is hard to imagine a more influential development in the last decade than that seen in reading comprehension instruction. The Panel’s subgroup focusing on comprehension and comprehension instruction analyzed over 200 studies. Based on that analysis, the report described comprehension instruction in three dimensions:
Electronic spectroscopy and electrochemistry of alkyne dithiocarbamate complexes of molybdenum(II) and tungsten(II)

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTElectronic spectroscopy and electrochemistry of alkyne dithiocarbamate complexes of molybdenum(II) and tungsten(II)Joseph L. Templeton, Richard S. Herrick, and Janet R. MorrowCite this: Organometallics 1984, 3, 4, 535–541Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1984Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1984https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/om00082a004https://doi.org/10.1021/om00082a004research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views224Altmetric-Citations20LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Multiple Forms ofβ2-Microglobulin in Human Colostrum

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

Purification of β2-microglobulin from human colostrum was performed by removal of fat by centrifugation and of casein by acid precipitation, followed by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography of the whey. The β2-microglobulin was isolated in two peaks by Sephadex G–75 column chromatography. The high molecular weight fraction had the molecular weight of 48,000 which is the same as that of lactollin, a tetrameric form of β2-microglobulin. The other fraction of β2-microglobulin showed three bands on disc gel electrophoresis at pH 8.5 and all of them were able to react with the antiserum of β2-microglobulin. They were not separated each other by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography and apparently had the same molecular weight of 12,000. However, they migrated as a single band in disc gel electrophoresis at pH 4.3 and it was concluded that these three bands at pH 8.5 were charge isomers.
Microbial interactions in the anaerobic oxidation of methane: model simulations constrained by process rates and activity patterns

Field: Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)

Summary Proposed syntrophic interactions between the archaeal and bacterial cells mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled with sulfate reduction include electron transfer through (1) the exchange of H 2 or small organic molecules between methane‐oxidizing archaea and sulfate‐reducing bacteria, (2) the delivery of disulfide from methane‐oxidizing archaea to bacteria for disproportionation and (3) direct interspecies electron transfer. Each of these mechanisms was implemented in a reactive transport model. The simulated activities across different arrangements of archaeal and bacterial cells and aggregate sizes were compared to empirical data for AOM rates and intra‐aggregate spatial patterns of cell‐specific anabolic activity determined by FISH‐nanoSIMS. Simulation results showed that rates for chemical diffusion by mechanism (1) were limited by the build‐up of metabolites, while mechanisms (2) and (3) yielded cell specific rates and archaeal activity distributions that were consistent with observations from single cell resolved FISH‐nanoSIMS analyses. The novel integration of both intra‐aggregate and environmental data provided powerful constraints on the model results, but the similarities in model outcomes for mechanisms (2) and (3) highlight the need for additional observational data (e.g. genomic or physiological) on electron transfer and metabolic functioning of these globally important methanotrophic consortia.
Formation, Compositions, and Properties of Hydroxy-Al- and Hydroxy-Mg-Montmorillonite

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract Hydroxy-Al- and hydroxy-Mg-montmorillonite were prepared by treating dispersed Na-montmorillonite with aluminum and magnesium nitrate solutions and titrating with NaOH solutions so that the OH/Al ratio varied from zero to 3.0 and the OH/Mg ratio from zero to 2.0. External precipitation of Al and Mg hydroxides was observed when the OH/M ratios (M = metal) approached 3 and 2, respectively. From chemical analyses of the initial Na-montmorillonite and the hydroxy-metal montmorillonites, structural formulae were derived by assuming that the silicate layer compositions remained unchanged. Prior to the addition of NaOH, the average interlayer material approximated in composition to [Al(OH) 2 ] + and [Mg(OH)] + . With additions of NaOH the interlayer compositions moved progressively towards Al(OH) 3 and Mg(OH) 2 . When the hydroxy interlayers approached completion, external precipitation was observed. X-ray powder diffraction data showed that the hydroxy-Mg products have less tendency to swell in ethylene glycol and water, and greater thermal stability than the hydroxy-Al products. Initially, when the average interlayer compositions were near Al(OH) 2 and Mg(OH), swelling followed more nearly the normal behavior.
Professional Image Perceptions in First-year Nursing Students

Field: Nursing (Health Sciences)

Background: Determining the professional image perceptions of the first-year nursing students who have recently chosen the nursing profession is of great importance in delineating the profession profile.The present study aimed to determine the image perception of first-year nursing students and its related factors.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional research was conducted in the Fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year.In total, 105 first-year nursing students were selected from the Nursing Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Bursa Uludağ University in Turkey.The study subjects were recruited randomly.A Student Identification Form and the Image Scale for the Nursing Profession were used as data collection tools.Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were applied for analyzing the obtained data in SPSS. Results:The Mean±SD score of the Image Scale for the Nursing Profession was achieved as 149.06±11.19.Students who had willingly selected the nursing profession gained higher scores than those of other students in professional qualifications, education, professional status, and appearance scale sub-dimensions and total scale mean scores (P<0.05).In addition, the mean scores of the female students in the sub-dimensions of education, gender, and total scale were significantly higher than those of their male counterparts (P<0.05). Conclusion:The nursing students indicated a good image perception of the nursing profession.Conducting a similar study is recommended for senior nursing students and staff nurses.
Integrins Are Markers of Human Neural Stem Cells

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

The identification of markers for the isolation of human neural stem cells (hNSCs) is essential for studies of their biology and therapeutic applications. This study investigated expression of the integrin receptor family by hNSCs as potential markers. Selection of alpha6(hi) or beta1(hi) cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting led to an enrichment of human neural precursors, as shown by both neurosphere forming assays and increased expression of prominin-1, sox2, sox3, nestin, bmi1, and musashi1 in the beta1(hi) population. Cells expressing high levels of beta1 integrin also expressed prominin-1 (CD133), a marker previously used to isolate hNSCs, and selection using integrin beta1(hi) cells or prominin-1(hi) cells was found to be equally effective at enriching for hNSCs from neurospheres. Therefore, integrin subunits alpha6 and beta1 are highly expressed by human neural precursors and represent convenient markers for their prospective isolation.
Disseminated Strongyloidiasis Misdiagnosed as Guillain-Barr&amp;eacute; Syndrome: The Value of High-Throughput Genetic Sequencing of Pathogenic Microorganisms in Parasitic Infections

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Peng Song, Huaichen Li, Tingting Liu, Yao Liu, Xiaobin Ma, Lili Su Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, People&amp;rsquo;s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xiaobin Ma; Lili Su, Email xbma888@163.com; sulili186@163.comBackground: With the widespread use of steroids and immunosuppressants in mainland China, disseminated strongyloidiasis is becoming a severely underestimated tropical disease due to the lack of disease-specific manifestations and well-established diagnostic methods.Case Presentation: Here, we report a 70-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barr&amp;eacute; syndrome due to autonomic disturbance, symmetrical bulbar palsy, and lower-motor-nerve damage in the extremities; her symptoms continued to worsen after hormone and immunoglobulin therapy. Later, parasitic larvae were found in the patient&amp;rsquo;s gastric fluid, and metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing (mNGS) detection of bronchoalveolar-lavage fluid also found a large number of Strongyloides roundworms. The patient was diagnosed with disseminated strongyloidiasis. The patient was given albendazole for anthelmintic treatment, but died two days after being transferred to the ICU due to the excessive strongyloidiasis burden.Conclusion: This case highlights the combined application of mNGS and traditional testing in the clinical diagnosis of difficult and critical parasitic infections in immunocompromised patients. mNGS is a new, adjunct diagnostic method to rapidly screen for possible parasitic etiologies.Keywords: disseminated strongyloidiasis, Guillain-Barr&amp;eacute; syndrome, mNGS
Linking loyalty programmes to cross-cultural marketing strategy: Implications for US Hispanic consumers

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This paper attempts to examine the impact of other-focused loyalty programmes on hedonic consumption and emotional branding among US Hispanic consumers. It investigates how consumer behaviour can vary across cultures and explains how other-focused loyalty programmes can affect customer behaviours with regard to hedonic consumption and emotional branding strategy in different cultures. More specifically, this study compares Hispanic and non-Hispanic consumer attitudes in the USA.
Henri Lefebvre, Space and Folklore

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

The complex spatial thinking of Henri Lefebvre and its implications for folkloristics are explored in the context of a fictitious conversation between him and the author as they walk around a small farm in southeastern British Columbia. Aspects of Lefebvre’s position are explored and illustrated using examples from this setting, such as fences and campfire pits. Lefebvre’s tripartite schema for conceptualizing space is articulated during this conversation, foregrounding the importance of the oft-occluded espace vécu (lived space). Viewing this as a dialogic, embodied, open-ended domain of space is shown to be a highly generative and potentially transformative approach to understanding space — an approach which has numerous implications for the study of cultural tradition.
Ossification of Pterygospinous Ligament: An Incidental Finding in Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Field: Dentistry (Health Sciences)

BACKGROUND Ossification of the pterygospinous ligament (PSL) is an osseous variation occasionally observed in the extracranial region of the foramen ovale. It occurs in 1% to 31.2% of the population. The etiology of this condition remains unclear. However, its presence in the skulls of children suggests a hereditary nature. PSL ossification has not been reported in studies on incidental findings in cone beam computed tomography of the maxillofacial region, probably owing to the unfamiliarity with this rare finding. The correct radiographic identification of PSL ossification is crucial as it may produce various neurological disturbances or interfere with surgical procedures involving the infratemporal fossa. CASE REPORT Herein, we present a case of PSL ossification in an asymptomatic 35-year-old woman that was detected as an incidental finding in a cone beam computed tomography for implant treatment planning and discuss the clinical significance of this condition. CONCLUSIONS Although this osseous variant is well known in the anatomical literature, we believe it is rarely discussed among dentists. Healthcare providers, especially dentists, should rule out PSL ossification when a patient presents with a neurological disturbance of unknown causes.
ERIC ED080003: E.I.L. Portuguese: Basic Audio-Lingual Course with Correlated Tapes, Volume 1.

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This basic textbook for Brazilian Portuguese contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution (anticipated completion time is one academic year), in an intensive program (completion time is 90-120 hours), or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited, and only basic and essential grammar is included. Although audiolingual skills are stressed, reading and writing skills may be taught at the discretion of the teacher. Each unit contains a culturally-oriented conversation, oral drill materials on the conversation and new vocabulary, pronunciation drills, extensive pattern practices on structural items, conversational drills, translation exercises, some narratives for reading practice, and a grammatical synopsis. Correlated, taped materials should be used with the text. Taped materials are available from The Experiment Press, Putney, Vermont. (DD)
The Post-Coup Military Spending Question: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Despite or because of a decade of research that yielded conflicting results, the question of whether or not military coups or regimes brought into power through coups have an impact on subsequent military spending remains open. A review of the relevant literature suggests that part of the analytical problem may result from assumptions about military political behavior as well as various limitations associated with cross-national analyses of change, and the use of exclusively cross-sectional or longitudinal research designs. In addition, some of the disparity in research findings may result from the reliance on different indicators—both dependent and independent—by a number of different analysts. In response to these potential technical problems, this analysis of military spending patterns in 66 less-developed states applies a GLS routine, pooling cross-sectional and time-series data, to the 1967–1976 relationships between two measures of military spending and several predictor variables, including regime type, coup occurrences, level of conflict, economic development, arms imports, and previous military spending. Although the empirical outcome varies according to which dependent variable is examined, we find, in general, that information on the distribution and timing of regime types—military, civilian, and mixed—and successful military coups is not very helpful in predicting post-coup military spending policies. This finding suggests, in turn, that the crucial presumption that military personnel participate in politics primarily to defend or advance their corporate interests is not a very useful predictive foundation for the examination of post-coup military spending.
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DATA USED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Valuing environmental goods through contingent valuation and through other survey techniques is difficult because of the lack of traditional markets for those goods. EPA provides leadership in overcoming these challenges, using focus groups, workshops, handbooks, and teams of distinguished economists to obtain more reliable economic data from the surveys. Agency economists have provided leadership in employing production economics tools to identify win-win approaches to solve pervasive and neglected environmental problems. In addition, we exploit the speed of sophisticated computers, building field runoff models into economic models and aggregating results from tens of thousands of field sites. These very flexible models provide much more credible, site-specific analyses than previous models, and they offer flexible and efficient remedies to support Total Maximum Daily Loads and other new programs.
An assessment of the social and environmental impacts of disposable nappy waste in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Abstract The use of disposable nappies has increased worldwide while cloth nappies usage dropped significantly. However, rural communities often dump nappy waste indiscriminately without considering the outcomes. This study first identified methods used by the community to dispose nappy waste in order to assess the social and environmental impacts posed by disposable nappy waste in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study employed a mixed-method research design where quantitative and qualitative data were collected. A snowball sampling method was used to identify 163 households with infants using disposable nappies, and purposive sampling method was used to select 7 early childhood development (ECD) centres which cared for infants. Data collected using closed-ended questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and field observation checklist were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 29.0 for quantitative data, and Atlas.ti version 24.0 for qualitative data. Results indicated that disposable nappy waste was dumped indiscriminately in areas such as roadsides, nearby streams, open spaces, pit latrines, in a mountain, as well as in termite’s mounds. It was also found that improper disposal of nappy waste causes social and environmental impacts, with (65%) of respondents indicated that it reflects bad culture and/or behaviour in society. This study suggested that cultural norms and values within communities should be improved. It was further recommended that different stakeholders should implement measures such as incentivised nappy waste take back schemes, establishment of nappy waste drop off centres, designation of environmental management champions, and encourage the use of biodegradable nappies.
Potensi Hasil Galur Harapan Padi Sawah Ultra Genjah dan Sangat Genjah

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Breeding for high yielding rice varieties with VVEM (&lt;90 days after sowing/ das) is considered important to increase cropping indexes in the fully irrigated farm lands. This research was aimed to evaluate the yield potential of 200 promising VVE and VE maturing rice lines. A total of 200 VVE and VE maturing rice lines and five check varieties (Ciherang, Dodokan, Inpari 1, Inpari 13, Silugonggo) were evaluated in Preliminary Yield Trial (PYT) at Sukamandi Experimental Farm using augmented design, during the dry season of 2012. The 17 lines selected from PYT along with three check varieties (Silugonggo, Inpari 13, Ciherang) were further evaluated in Advanced Yield Trial (AYT) using randomized complete block design at Sukamandi, Kuningan, Magelang and Klaten, during wet season of 2012. Of the 200 lines tested in PYT, three lines yielded significantly higher than the best check variety (Inpari 1) and 2 lines did equal to Inpari 1. A total of 155 lines were VVE (&lt;90 das), and 45 lines were VE maturing (91-104 das). Based on yield per day, 17 lines were selected to be evaluated in AYT in WS 2012. Based on combined analyses from four locations of AYT, seven lines produced grain yield/ha and grain yield/day higher than did the best check Silugonggo (5.51 t/ha and 51.7 kg/day); there were14 lines did better than Ciherang (5.07 t/ha; 41.9 kg/day), and 13 lines yielded better than did Inpari 13 (5.27 t/ha; 46.7 kg/day). The best seven lines and lines with higher productivity per day than that of the best check, with an average yield of 5.62 t/ha up to 6.12 t/ha, with days to maturity from 87 up to 94 das, were ready to be evaluated in Multi Locational Yield Trial to meet the requirement for the release of new variety.