jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
[The multi-central clinical laboratory study of precision of the portative glucometer "Satellite Plus"].

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

The analysis of 482 blood samples of patients with diabetes mellitus type I and II and healthy persons was made using the portative glucometer "Satellite Plus". The comparison with reference analyzer was made. The results of clinical laboratory tests demonstrated that this glucometer meets the precision requirements of inter-national standard ISO 15197:2003 (97.5% of results are in the limits of standard deviation). The evaluation of results using the technique of analysis of errors array for patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 demonstrated that 99.4% (479 out of 482) were in zone A i.e. are clinically accurate results. The measurement results capable to negatively impact the clinical course of disease, to represent significant medical risk and to result in dangerous outcomes were not registered. So, the portative glucometer "Satellite Plus" can be recommended to detect the concentration of glucose in capillary blood for self-control of the glycaemia level in patients with diabetes mellitus. The device can be applied too for express-diagnostics in conditions of emergency medical care rendering by medical personnel.
Study of the influence of the parametric identifiability degree on the estimation accuracy of navigation system errors

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The high-precision correction problem of navigation information for a small unmanned aerial vehicle flying with altitude changes over a wide range is studied. Numerical criteria of parametric identifiability degreefor one class of nonlinear systems represented by the SDC method are considered. Error models for inertial navigation system of various detail levels are studied and the results of mathematical and semi-natural modeling of a nonlinear Kalman filter with different models are presented. Keywords small unmanned aerial vehicle, inertial navigation system, errors, correction, degree of parametric identifiability, nonlinear Kalman filter, SDC method
Complete mitochondrial genome of Gallus domesticus (Galliformes: Phasianidae)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In this paper, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Gallus domesticus was determined by long PCR and primer walking methods. The complete mitochondrial genome is 16,783 bp in length and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes as well as a displacement loop (D-loop). The overall base composition of the genome is A(30.25%), T(23.79%), C(32.44%), G(13.52%), respectively. The mitogenome of G. domesticus displayed novel gene order arrangement compared with published Gallus gallus var. domesticus to date. The mitogenome would contribute to resolving phylogenetic position and interrelationships of Gallus.
The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on Protection Motivation Theory on Mothers’ Behaviors about Prevention of Home Accidents in Children under 5 Year Old

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Introduction and Purpose: Accidents are the first cause of death in children under 5 years, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study is to determination the effect of Educational intervention on promotion of prevention behaviors of home accidents in mothers with children less than 5 year in Joibar city based on protection motivation theory (PMT) in 2015. Methods: In this controlled interventional study 190 mothers with children less than 5 year were participated (95 in case group and 95 incontrol group).The data collection toolwas researcher made questionnaire based on the structures of protection motivation theory.After done pre-test and the results obtained from it, appropriate educational intervention designed and was conducted only in case group. Then two months after the educational intervention,evaluation was done and data into SPSS 20software and by using statistical testsT-test، Paired T test ، chi _square، Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis was analyzed. Results: Statistically significant difference was found between mean scores of all structures of PMTin the case and control groups after the educational intervention, so that in all cases in the case group was better than control group (p<0.05). There was a significant difference between the mean scores of all structures of PMT in case group in before and after the educational intervention (p<0.05), Whereas no significant difference was seen between mean scores of all structures in control group in before and after the educational intervention (p>0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that PMT can be used as a framework in designing educational programs in order to promotion of prevention behaviors of home accidents in mothers with children less than 5 year.
A voltage regulator module (VRM) application for a switched mode power supply (SMPS)

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

High frequency DC-DC converters are replacing large thyristor converters in the field of DC power supplies in the medium and higher power range. Depending on the given requirements these solutions provide a DC source of higher quality, dynamics and stability for demanding loads. To extend the output power of DC-DC converters to higher ranges the voltage regulator module (VRM) configuration is the most suitable solution. The paper deals with the development of a four-module 100 kW buck converter, operating as a general purpose power supply. The control concept with special respect to the current-sharing technique is also discussed.
Functionally Enhanced XNA Aptamers Discovered by Parallelized Library Screening

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

In vitro evolution strategies have been used for >30 years to generate nucleic acid aptamers against therapeutic targets of interest, including disease-associated proteins. However, this process requires many iterative cycles of selection and amplification, which severely restricts the number of target and library design combinations that can be explored in parallel. Here, we describe a single-round screening approach to aptamer discovery that relies on function-enhancing chemotypes to increase the distribution of high-affinity sequences in a random-sequence library. We demonstrate the success of de novo discovery by affinity selection of threomers against the receptor binding domain of the S1 protein from SARS-CoV-2. Detailed biochemical characterization of the enriched population identified threomers with binding affinity values that are comparable to aptamers produced by conventional SELEX. This work establishes a highly parallelizable path for querying diverse chemical repertoires and may offer a viable route for accelerating the discovery of therapeutic aptamers.
Weighted Lasso Subsampling for HighDimensional Regression

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Lasso regression methods are widely used for a number of scientic applications.Many practitioners of statistics were not aware that a small changein the data would results in unstable Lasso solution path. For instance, inthe presence of outlying observations, Lasso perhaps leads the increase inthe percentage of the false selection rate of predictors. On the other hand,the discussions on determining an optimal shrinkage parameter of Lasso isstill ongoing. Therefore, this paper proposed a robust algorithm to tacklethe instability of Lasso in the presence of outliers. A new weight function isproposed to overcome the problem of outlying observations. The weightedobservations are subsamples for a certain number of subsamples to controlthe false Lasso selection. The simulation study has been carried out and usesreal data to assess the performance of our proposed algorithm. Consequently,the proposed method shows more eciency than LAD-Lasso and weightedLAD-Lasso and more reliable results.
A Bone Projectile Point and Its Possibly Associated Workshop from the Iron Age IIA of Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

In 2006, we published in Near Eastern Archaeology a bone tool workshop dating to the Iron IIA destruction level at Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath. We managed to reconstruct the chaîne opératoire of the production of this workshop and although we did not find a finished object, we suggested that bone arrowheads were manufactured here and that they may have been produced in connection with the Aramean siege and destruction of Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath in ca. 830 BCE. In the present article, we describe and discuss a bone arrowhead from the same destruction, but from Area M in the lower city of the site. We suggest that it may very well have been produced in this previously reported workshop (or in a very similar one).
Service water quality monitor including hue and coloration grade

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

The authors introduce an index of coloration grade for evaluation of service water colour. The principle of the coloration grade measurement has been derived from authors' modification of the Tristimulus Filter Method of AWWA 1992 and JWWA 1993 Standard Method, and it has the advantage of applicability to all colours in the visible range. The characteristics of the hue and coloration grade measurement has been tested in the laboratory using various coloured samples obtained from water service pipes or an aqueduct. Compared with the “colour” measured by the platinum-cobalt method, the coloration grade is more sensitive to various water coloration and close to human senses.

Applying the above stated device, a Service Water Quality Monitor was newly developed and successfully tested at several distinctive fields. It monitors three items, colour, turbidity and residual chlorine which are obligatory in Japan to be daily examined at appropriate house taps. For the field test of about six months without any manual calibration, the accuracy of the hue and the coloration grade has shown maximum deviation of only 2.5% FS compared with the measurement by means of the standard solutions once a month.
P17 Characteristics of pathogens and their susceptibility to the main groups of antibiotics in purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues and post-operative purulent complications

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Background The problem of purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues and post-operative purulent complications remains one of the most pressing problems of modern medicine. Despite the advances in the improvement of methods for fighting infectious complications, mortality in patients with suppurative and inflammatory processes remains high, which is primarily due to inadequate antimicrobial therapy and high antibiotic resistance of microorganisms. Therefore, the study of the nature of the microflora and its susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs remains an urgent problem. Objectives To investigate the nature of pathogens and their susceptibility to the main groups of antibiotics in the patients of a general surgical hospital with purulent inflammatory diseases of soft tissues and post-operative purulent complications. Materials and methods A retrospective review of the pathogens of purulent inflammatory processes of soft tissues and post-operative purulent complications, their susceptibility to the main groups of antibiotics in 704 patients who were treated in the surgical department for abscesses, phlegmon, post-operative wound suppuration and other purulent inflammatory processes were performed. Results The analysis revealed that aerobic microflora was isolated in 560 patients (79.5%) and anaerobic microflora in 144 (20.5%). Among the isolated microflora, Staphylococcus aureus prevailed, which was isolated in 286 (40.6%) cases, Staphylococcus epidermidis in 115 (16.3%), Escherichia coli in 69 (9.8%) was in third place in terms of frequency of isolation, Klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated in 16 cases (2.3%), Enterococcus faecalis and P. aeruginosa in 26 (3.7%), and P. vulgaris in 6 (0.9%). Candida spp. were isolated in 15 (2.1%) patients and did not significantly affect the structure of pathogens of purulent inflammatory processes. Susceptibility testing of S. aureus, as the main causative agent of purulent inflammatory processes, showed its resistance to penicillin, aminoglycosides and macrolides. Third and fourth generation cephalosporins (63.1%), fluoroquinolones (76.3%) and lincosamides (70.8%) showed the highest activity against the isolated Staphylococcus strains. Conclusions The main causes of purulent inflammatory diseases of soft tissues and post-operative purulent complications were S. aureus in 40.6% of cases, S. epidermidis in 16.3%, and intestinal bacteria. Third and fourth generation cephalosporins showed highest activity against the isolated S. aureus strains (63.1% of susceptible strains), followed by fluoroquinolones (76.3% of susceptible strains) and lincosamides (70.8%). Empirical therapy for purulent inflammation should take into account the microbial landscape of pathogens and their susceptibility to antibiotics in a particular general surgical hospital.
VLSI Based FPGA Design of Digital Modulation Schemes BASK and BPSK

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Modulation is the process of facilitating the transfer of information over a medium. Digital modulation is less complex, more secure and more efficient in long distance transmission. The noise detection and correction is more efficient in digital modulation than analog. So it has more importance in modern communication system. Digital modulation represents the transfer of the digital bit stream from the transmitter to the receiver via the analog channels. During the modulation process the information signal modifies one or more carrier parameters, leading to shift keying techniques. These shift keying techniques are Amplitude shift keying (ASK), Phase shift keying (PSK) and Frequency shift keying (FSK). All of these techniques vary a parameter of a sinusoid to represent the information which we wish to send. A sinusoid has three different parameters that can be varied. These are its amplitude, phase and frequency. These digital modulation techniques can be realized using FPGA (Field- programmable gate-array). Software-Defined Radio (SDR) transmitter employs the minimum number of blocks necessary for achieving BASK and BPSK modulation. The modulating and carrier signals can be user controlled and the modulators are developed and compiled to a Verilog Hardware Description Language (VHDL) net list. The functionality of these digital modulators are demonstrated through simulations using the Model Sim software and synthesis using Quartus-II software.
Research on key technologies of railway geographical information platform

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

As the most fundamental supporting platform in railway infromationization, the railway geographic information platform can display the railway geographic information intuitively. Since MIS is commonly used in the railway system, in this paper, we propose the system framework to meet business needs for spatial data. Also, we develop the following techniques: data classification and integration, data acquisition and process, data organization modelling, and data sharing. These techniques enable the platform to display the railway network information correctly and completely, realize the data and service sharing to the maximum extent, and finally enhance the railway operation management level.
Palaeontological Approaches to the Arthropod Head Problem

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

The arthropod head problem remains a daunting problem, and stillremains some distance away from solution: several distinct palaeontologicalcontributions have been made in the last few years alone. Suchwork needs to be integrated into molecular and developmentalapproaches to make the most effective assault on the problem. The statusof the labrum, its cross-group homology, and its appendiculate ornonappendiculate nature, remains particularly controversial. Nevertheless,some progress has been made by the erection of various stemgroupsto arthropod taxa, and these allow the partial tracing of the evolutionof the arthropod head. Recent work suggests that the upper stemgroupeuarthropods are all characterized by similar head structures, theorigins of which in turn may be traced back even deeper into the anomalocarididsand their relatives. Nevertheless, several potentially key taxa,such as Sanctacaris, remain hard to understand, whilst others, notablySidneyia, are typically ignored in analyses of the problem. Such taxamay have bearings on the origin of the upper euarthropod stem groupand chelicerate stem group, respectively. Despite the apparent argumentsraging about the fossil arthropod systematics, a distinct convergence ofopinion over many clades has taken place over the last few years: puttingthem together to form a consensus of palaeontological input intoresolving the arthropod head problem, however, remains some way off.
Activin A levels in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease associates with fibrosis and the PNPLA3 I148M variant

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Circulating activin A levels were associated with advanced fibrosis and could be a potential blood biomarker for identifying advanced fibrosis in MASLD. Patients with the risk genotype PNPLA3 I148M G/G had higher levels of activin A proposing activin A as a contributor of the transition from simple steatosis to a fibrotic phenotype.
Effects of Fertility and Rain Simulation During Grain Fill on Protein Content, Starch Quality, and Alpha-Amylase Activity in Winter Wheat

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Two winter wheat cultivars ('Moro'-a soft white club and 'Mironovskaya 808'-a hard red common) were grown using various nitrogen fertilization levels and with artifical wetting of the heads at various stages in grain development. Changes in protein content and alpha-amylase activity were determined. The wetting treatments significantly influenced grain protein, alpha-amylase activity, and amylograph values; however, the effects of wetting treatments were cultivar dependent while the fertilizer treatments only influenced grain protein and was also cultivar dependent. Head wetting resulted in an increase in alpha-amylase activity and a decrease in amylograph values for Moro but not Mironovskaya 808.
How to apply best evidence to manage and care for epilepsy patients in daily clinical practice

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

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WFOT: A Wave Function Overlap Tool between Single- and Multi-Reference Electronic Structure Methods for Spectroscopy Simulation

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

We report the development of a novel diagnostic tool, named wave function overlap tool (WFOT), designed to evaluate the overlap between wave functions computed at single-reference [i.e., time-dependent density functional theory or configuration interaction singles (CIS)] and multireference (i.e., CASSCF/CASPT2) electronic structure levels of theory. It relies on truncating the single- and multireference WFs to CIS-like expansions spanning the same configurational space and maximizing the molecular orbital overlap by means of a unitary transformation. To demonstrate the functionality of the tool, we calculate the transient spectrum of acetylacetone by evaluating excited state absorption signals with multireference quality on top of single-reference on-the-fly dynamics simulations. Semiautomatic spectra generation is facilitated by interfacing the tool with the COBRAMM package, which also allows one to use WFOT with several quantum chemistry codes such as Gaussian, NWChem, and OpenMolcas. Other exciting possibilities for the utilization of the code beyond the simulation of transient absorption spectroscopy are eventually discussed.
The largest firms do the most lobbying and rarely stop once they begin

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Despite the fact that lobbying is the primary way in which businesses try to impact policy in the United States and that the influence of large corporations is hotly debated, there is little comprehensive evidence on these issues. This is particularly true with respect to business’ behavior over time. In recent research William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra study these issues for the first time for all publicly traded firms in the US. They find that lobbying is primarily done by the largest firms who have previously lobbied. Further, lobbying behavior is highly persistent over time, leading the largest firms to dominate changes in yearly total expenditures. Their findings have significant implications for understanding how lobbying works, the stability of policy, and why some types of legislation are passed and others are not.
Performance analysis of multiantenna two-way relay network with co-channel interference

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This paper presents the performance analysis of the multiple antenna two-way amplify and-forward (AF) relay network in an interference-limited environment. Multiple antenna system is considered to overcome the fading effect. To avoid the high feedback overhead and fully exploit multiple antenna diversity, we employ transmit antenna selection (TAS) at the user node and analog network coding (ANC) at relaying node. We are assuming the presence of multiple co-channel interference (CCI) at the AF relay and noisy sources, an approximate closed-form expression for the overall outage probability (OOP) is derived. To gain more insight into system performance high SNR analysis is done and asymptotic expression for OOP is obtained. Furthermore, upper bound on ergodic capacity (EC) and approximate expression for symbol error probability(SEP) are derived. The tightness of our analysis is attested through Monte Carlo simulation and provides the insight into the impact of CCI under the general operating conditions and the key system parameters on overall system performance.
From the Inside

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Beyond considerations of relative punitiveness, very little is known about how offenders understand the experience of serving a probation sentence. The current study surveyed offenders currently on probation to assess the extent to which they believed their sentence was rehabilitative, incapacitative, deserved, and a deterrent to future offending. Perceptions that probation served no purpose and that it represented a game of manipulation and impression management were also investigated. The results showed that most probationers believed that their sentence was a deterrent, and it was rehabilitative and deserved. They also felt that probation served multiple purposes, and a minority of respondents perceived that there was no point to being on probation. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

This study reviewed all patients (N = 37) treated with ECT in a psychiatric intensive care unit during 1989–91. Diagnoses were: psychotic depression (8); bipolar disorder, manic phase (13); schizoaffective disorder (14); and schizophrenia (2). All patients were very severely disturbed and had failed to respond to medication given at highest levels judged to be safe, usually over 3–4 weeks. Response to ECT was generally rapid and marked, allowing substantial reductions in medication. To achieve the same clinical outcome for each course of ECT, 50% more unilateral than bilateral treatments were required, suggesting that bilateral ECT has a more rapid effect in this highly disturbed population.