jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Resistance of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Hedayat and John (1974) studied the case of resistance of a balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) to the removal of one treatment. They showed that a necessary and sufficient condition for a BIBD to be resistant (that is, retain its variance balance) upon removal of a single treatment is that the two proper subdesigns created by this removal be BIBDs. Herein their results on the structure of resistant BIBDs are generalized and the relationship of such designs to $t$-designs (which are of interest in combinatorial theory) is shown. The main result is a structure theorem which states that a BIBD in $v$ treatments and $k$ plots per block is resistant to the removal of any subset of a specific set of $n$ treatments, $n < k < v$, if and only if all of the $2_n$ proper subdesigns formed when all $n$ treatments are removed are BIBDs in all $v - n$ remaining treatments. This leads to a lower bound (of $2^n(v - n))$ on the number of blocks required for fully locally resistant BIBDs which are not essentially trivial. Examples of resistant designs are given.
Implementing Lean Principles in DevOps for Efficiency and Cost Savings

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Modern organizations embrace DevOps as a strategy aimed at optimizing operations, increasing teams' interaction, and reducing delivery cycles in the ecosystem of software development. Most of the advantages that come with DevOps contribute to developmental delays and increased costs when implementation strategies are not well thought out. This paper examines the application of Lean principles within DevOps practices to implement improved operational efficiency and reduce waste, hence reducing costs. The original manufacturing application of Lean methodology underlined waste elimination, along with the simultaneous delivery of improved quality, and more value creation by optimization of operations. Value stream mapping, reduction of waste, and continuous improvement allow the DevOps teams to work on improving their delivery pipelines through automated collaboration and optimization of delivery pipelines. Reduction of operational prices, along with cycle times, ensues as a result. It tries to outline the specific implementation techniques of Lean in DevOps through enhanced workflow practices, establishment of continuous learning environments, and performance monitoring metrics development. The paper describes some case examples that talk about organizations that implemented Lean with DevOps methods for certain efficiency and quality performance improvements together with cost savings measurements. Organizations using Lean to DevOps processes have to implement changes in culture and ensure leadership commitment develop refining habits, leading to enduring success.
Rethinking Mitral Annular Calcification and Its Clinical Significance: From Passive Process to Active Pathology

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Mitral annulus calcification is a chronic degenerative condition affecting the fibrous base of the mitral valve. Historically viewed as an age-related phenomenon, recent studies suggest it is driven by active mechanisms involving systemic inflammation, hemodynamic stress, abnormal calcium-phosphorus metabolism, and lipid accumulation. Despite often being asymptomatic and incidentally detected, its clinical relevance stems from its strong association with increased cardiovascular disease risk, higher cardiovascular mortality, and elevated overall mortality. Methods: This article investigates the complexities and controversies surrounding mitral annular calcification as a potential embolic source, focusing on its diagnosis, its relationship with systemic inflammation, and its links to metabolic and chronic disorders. Results: The findings highlight that mitral annular calcification is not merely a passive marker of aging but an active indicator of atherosclerotic burden with significant implications for cardiovascular health. Conclusion: Mitral annulus calcification should be recognized as an important factor in cardiovascular risk assessment, offering insight into systemic inflammatory processes and metabolic dysregulation.
Soe features of DNA fragments associated in vivo with the nuclear lamina

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

Ehrlich Ascites Tumour cells were irradiated with UV-light to crosslink DNA to proteins in vivo. The DNA fragments associated with the nuclear lamina were purified and characterized. The results of the Cot analysis and the hybridization experiments suggest that the DNA fragments attached to the nuclear lamina although containing the entire complexity of genomic DNA are enriched in some highly repeated sequences.
Magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of pancreatic cancer with quantitative parameter extraction by means of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion kurtosis imaging and intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

We uploaded IVIM and DKI parameters values of included patients in the manuscript: Fusco, Roberta, Adele Piccirillo, Mario Sansone, Vincenza Granata, Paolo Vallone, Maria L. Barretta, Teresa Petrosino, Claudio Siani, Raimondo Di Giacomo, Maurizio Di Bonito, Gerardo Botti, and Antonella Petrillo. 2021. "Radiomic and Artificial Intelligence Analysis with Textural Metrics, Morphological and Dynamic Perfusion Features Extracted by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Classification of Breast Lesions" Applied Sciences 11, no. 4: 1880. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041880
Metal-mask configurable RF front-end circuits

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

This paper describes metal-mask configurable RF circuits using a base circuit fabric that can be configured for various wireless applications using only upper metal and via layers. This front-end circuit fabric achieves a wide range of configurability (e.g., operating center frequency) and is essentially applicable for any IC technology. The prototype RF front-end circuit fabric was designed to be configurable for GPS at 1.5 GHz, W-CDMA at 2.1 GHz and WLAN at 5 GHz in a 0.25-/spl mu/m 47-GHz f/sub T/ SiGe BiCMOS process. The upper three metal and via layers are the only application-specific layers for the three applications. The front-end circuits draw 10.5, 9.5, and 8.5 mA from a 2.5-V supply, respectively, at 1.5, 2.1, and 5 GHz while providing a noise figure of 2.5, 2.8, and 4.5 dB, conversion gain of 24.6, 24.2, and 12 dB, and IIP3 of -8, -9, and -4 dBm, respectively.
The Diploma in Public Health

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Objectives:

Growing evidence shows that high levels of justice are beneficial for employee health, although biological mechanisms underlying this association are yet to be clarified. We aim to test whether high justice at work protects against metabolic syndrome.

Methods:

A prospective cohort study of 20 civil service departments in London (the Whitehall II study) including 6123 male and female British civil servants aged 35 to 55 years without prevalent CHD at baseline (1985-1990). Perceived justice at work was determined by means of questionnaire on two occasions between 1985 and 1990. Follow-up for metabolic syndrome and its components occurring from 1990 through 2004 was based on clinical assessments on three occasions over more than 18 years.

Results:

Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for age, ethnicity and employment grade showed that men who experienced a high level of justice at work had a lower risk of incident metabolic syndrome than employees with a low level of justice (hazard ratio 0.75; 95% confidence interval: 0.63-0.89). There was little evidence of an association between organizational justice and metabolic syndrome or its components in women (hazard ratio 0.88; 95%CI: 0.67-1.17).

Conclusions:

Our prospective findings provide evidence of an association between high levels of justice at work and the development of metabolic syndrome in men.
‘I’m not a martyr, I’m a terrorist’: the Cospito affair and the rejection of martyrdom in insurrectionary anarchism

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

While self-sacrifice and martyrdom are considered an important component in several forms of violent extremism, including jihadism and even sectors of violent right-wing extremism, very few works have looked at the presence of these narratives and practices in today’s violent left-wing and anarchist extremism. This article aims to help fill this gap, paying attention to insurrectionary anarchism, an understudied violent extremist tendency within the diverse anarchist galaxy. In particular, the paper focuses on Alfredo Cospito, a well-known and influential exponent of this transnational clandestine movement, convicted of terrorism in Italy in 2013, and his widely publicized prison hunger strike in 2022–2023, drawing upon primary and secondary sources. During his long hunger strike to protest against detention conditions, Cospito knowingly risked his life for the cause but at the same time he explicitly rejected the idea of martyrdom with scorn. Building on this emblematic case, the paper explores the reasons why contemporary insurrectionary anarchists are reluctant to accept and promote the powerful social construct of martyrdom, with an emphasis on cultural and organizational constraints.
Regulatory Aspects of Sabin Type 2 Withdrawal From Trivalent Oral Poliovirus Vaccine: Process and Lessons Learned

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Withdrawal of type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in OPV-using countries required regulatory approval for use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine and bivalent OPV in routine immunization. Worldwide, a variety of mechanisms were used by member states, with some differences in approach observed between inactivated poliovirus vaccine and bivalent OPV. These included acceptance for use of World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified vaccines, registration and licensure pathways, participation in WHO-convened joint reviews of licensing dossiers, as well as pragmatic application of alternatively available mechanisms, when appropriate. Simple but effective tools were used to monitor progress and to record, authenticate, and share information. Essential to achievement of regulatory targets was ongoing communication with key stakeholders, including switch-country national regulatory authorities, vaccine manufacturers, partner organizations, and relevant units within WHO. Understanding of the regulatory environment gained through the OPV switch can be helpful in supporting further stages of the polio end game and other time-sensitive vaccine introduction programs.
Scrutinizing the Cybersell: Teen-Targeted Web Sites as Texts

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Darren Crovitz explains that the explosive growth of Web-based content and communication in recent years compels us to teach students how to examine the “rhetorical nature and ethical dimensions of the online world.” He demonstrates successful approaches to accomplish this goal through his analysis of the selling techniques of two Web sites targeted to a teen audience and his description of a project in which team members devise ways to teach students to consider the language and design elements of a selected site.
A model system of the liquid density, the gas density and the pressure on the saturation line of SF6

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract We have set a task to develop a system of self-consistent models in the article. The first and the second models let us describe the liquid density and the gas density on the saturation line; the third one is connected with the saturation pressure. To build these models, we have used a methodical approach based on the Clapeyron-Clausius equation. The approach also includes some requirements of the scaling theory of critical phenomena. To calculate the adjustable coefficients of these models, experimental data on the liquid density, the gas density and the saturated pressure of SF 6 have been selected. The new system let us describe the named properties in a wide interval of temperature. A comparative study has been made for these calculated properties as well as for the mean diameter of the coexistence curve. Numerical results of the study are discussed.
Learning Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized Chinese Family Firms

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This article is based on a comparative study of the learning strategies of two Singapore Chinese family firms that are incorporated into the same supplier network. As shown in this study, the firms, which work as suppliers in networks that are organized by global technology leading corporations and face state-driven institutional isomorphism on technological upgrading and quality control, have engaged in the learning of technology and management control procedures regardless of firm size, financial capability or industrial position. However, only the larger firm, with greater financial capability and a higher industrial position, has adopted a professional management system. The study provides the author with a base on which to develop propositions and a political-economic explanation that incorporates the roles of the state and foreign capital, the industrial characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises and the institutional characteristics of Chinese family firms to explicate the learning strategies of these firms.
Fulminant Guillain–Barré Syndrome with universal inexcitability of peripheral nerves: A clinicopathological study

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The pathological basis of nerve inexcitability in Guillain–Barré syndrome has not been established with certainty. We report the clinicopathological findings in a 67-year-old patient with fulminant Guillain–Barré syndrome who died 18 days after onset. Three serial electrophysiological studies revealed nerve inexcitability. Antibodies to Campylobacter jejuni were present but there was no antiganglioside reactivity. Spinal root sections revealed extensive and almost pure macrophage-associated demyelination with occasional presence of T lymphocytes and neutrophil leukocytes. Conversely, in femoral, median, and sural nerves the outstanding lesion was axonal degeneration, with some denuded axons remaining. Unmyelinated fibers, posterior root ganglia, and dorsal columns were preserved. Endoneurial postcapillary venules showed plump endothelial cells with loss of their tight junctions. We conclude that both primary demyelination and axonal degeneration secondary to inflammation account for nerve inexcitability. Our findings lend support to the hypothesis of increased endoneurial pressure as the cause of wallerian degeneration in nerve trunks. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Muscle Nerve 20: 846–857, 1997
Craniofacial Resection for Malignant Tumors of Ethmoid and Anterior Skull Base

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

A combined craniofacial approach is described for resection of tumors that involve the ethmoid sinuses and adjacent base of the skull in the frontal fossa. This operation provides a more thorough en bloc excision than by conventional methods with reasonable safety since both the neurosurgeon and the head and neck surgeon are guided by each other during the mobilization of the specimen, and adequate repair of dural defects can be accomplished. Reconstruction of the bony defect in the skull base is performed with a pedicled periosteal flap from the scalp and a skin graft.
Revision of the Microserica lineata Moser, 1915-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The species of the Microserica lineata Moser, 1915-group are revised. The species belonging to this group are characterized by the almost completely reduced left paramere, by the metafemur possessing a robust and continuously serrated line adjacent to the anterior margin, and by a phallobase with a extremely deep dorsomedian sinuation reaching almost the basal end of the phallobase. Two species, M. lineata Moser, 1915 and M. squamulata (Moser, 1915) comb. n., have been recognized to share these characters. Two additional new species, are described herein M. geberbauer sp. n., from Thailand, and M. crenatostriata sp. n., Meghalaya (India). A diagnostic key is given for the identification of the species. A lectotype is designated for M. squamulata.
Identification of the novel HLA alleles: HLA‐A*30:201, HLA‐B*51:364 and HLA‐C*08:241

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

Three novel HLA alleles HLA‐A*30:201, HLA‐B*51:364 and HLA‐C*08:241 alleles detected during routine next generation sequencing.
Prevalence and risk factors associated with brucellosis among high-risk individuals in Lafia, Nasarawa state, Nigeria

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Brucellosis caused by Brucella species is a zoonotic disease prevalent in Nigeria. Data on this disease in humans and its risk factors in Lafia, Nasarawa State, are lacking. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on high-risk individuals in the area using the Rose Bengal test (RBT) and questionnaire. Results: Out of the 160 respondents tested for seropositivity to brucellosis, 10% (16/160) prevalence was recorded with the RBT. None of the factors evaluated was found to be significantly associated with the seroprevalence of brucellosis in the area. On the other hand, final logistic regression analysis found the knowledge of brucellosis to be significantly associated with the profession (OR=11.52; 95% CI=1.47-90.46; p=0.02) and age (OR=2.6; 95% CI=1.11-4.19; p=0.023). Furthermore, practices that expose to Brucella infection were found to be significantly associated with the site (OR=4.02; 95% CI=5.29- 333.33; p=0.000) and marital status (OR=2.44; 95% CI=1.03-5.75; p=0.042). Conclusion: Brucellosis is prevalent among occupationally exposed individuals in Lafia. There should be continued surveillance for the disease and education of high-risk individuals in the area.
Axially asymmetric velocities in the boundary layer of the nearly symmetric hydromagnetic dynamo

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract An attempt has been made to include the axially asymmetric velocities into the calculation of Braginsky's Z-model of the nearly symmetric hydromagnetic dynamo. In this axisymmetric non-linear model dominated by Lorentz and Coriolis forces and maintained by a specified convection, the α-effect is prescribed. An example is shown of the axially asymmetric Archimedean buoyancy, which can imply an arbitrary alpha effect in the model with viscous core-mantle coupling. The formalisms of Tough and Roberts (1968) is also discussed and a modified α-effect in the Z-model is suggested.
African Americans and Welfare Time Limits

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study examines state lifetime limit policies for the receipt of cash assistance under the 1996 welfare reform law. It performs cross-tabulation and correlational analysis to determine whether a relationship exists between the racial composition of African Americans in a state and lifetime limit policies under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act. Findings indicate a relationship and show that a majority of the states with a large population of African Americans have adopted some of the harshest lifetime limit policies for receipt of cash assistance.
[Transfer of active oncogenes and promoters into the mouse cell genome].

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

Different cell DNA's (normal NIH 3T3 DNA; human osteosarcoma cell DNA; human malignant glioma cell DNA with amplified c-Ha-ras) were cotransfected onto NIH 3T3 cells with cloned long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences of Rous sarcoma virus. LTR RSV and normal NIH 3T3 DNA c-fos oncogen expression was detected in tumors induced in nude mice. In the same system human tumour cell DNA with amplified c-Ha-ras gene was used, that to the integration and amplification of LTP sequences with simultaneous maintenance of c-Ha-ras amplification. Nude mouse tumour DNA with integrated LTR sequences was active in successive rounds of transfection.
Contributions to the study of gomphocerine grasshoppers calling songs (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) with notes on taxonomic status and distribution of some forms from Kyrgyzstan

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Male calling songs of 10 widely distributed species of Gomphocerinae from localities in Kyrgyzstan were investigated. In all species songs of males from the Central Asiatic and European populations are almost identical in spite of the fact, that in some species localities in Kyrgyzstan are isolated from the main parts of their ranges by the deserts of the South Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Glyptobothrus maritimus is the only species from G. biguttulus group widely distributed over all the territory of Kyrgyzstan. G. mollis was found only in the North and Central Tien Shan Mts.; no other species of this group were found in Kyrgyzstan. Chorthippus apricarius from the Central and West Tien Shan Mts. does not differ from the nominotypical subspecies in the calling song pattern and demonstrates variability of diagnostic characters used earlier for distinguishing between Ch. apricarius apricarius and Ch. apricarius asiaticus. This gives grounds for establishing a synonymy Ch. apricarius apricarius (Linnaeus, 1758) = Ch. apricarius asiaticus Mistshenko, 1951, syn. n.
Showing Lip Performance And Fusion Performance SYS. LIP FEATURE DATABASE CLIENTS PERF.(%)

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The lip-region can be interpreted as either a genetic or behavioural biometric trait depending on whether static or dynamic information is used. In this paper, we use a texture descriptor called Local Ordinal Contrast Pattern (LOCP) in conjunction with a novel spatiotemporal sampling method called Windowed Three Orthogonal Planes (WTOP) to represent both appearance and dynamics features observed in visual speech. This representation, with standard speaker verification engines, is shown to improve the performance of the lipbiometric trait compared to the state-of-the-art. The improvement obtained suggests that there is enough discriminative information in the mouth-region to enable its use as a primary biometric as opposed to a “soft ” biometric trait.
Millimeter-wave self-radiation from high-Tc Josephson junction arrays

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

We report the strong microwave Josephson radiation from an array of high-T/sub c/ junctions on a MgO bicrystal substrate from centimeter- to millimeter-wave ranges. The dc bias current was fed to the junction array having parallel geometry with the pair of junctions shunted by superconducting loops. The configuration of bias leads was a series of interlocking dc SQUID's geometry which guaranteed the oscillation of all junctions at the same frequency. The phase differences between adjacent junctions with different I/sub c/R/sub n/ products could be controlled by an external small magnetic field. For a five-junctions array, we observed the coherent output power of about 13 pW without external magnetic flux, which was nearly five times higher than that of a single bicrystal junction. We observed the Josephson linewidth of the self-radiation in the coherent state to be less than 1 GHz by adjustment of the external flux.