jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Ozonated Water as a Potential Intervention to Reduce Salmonella and Indicator Organisms on Raw Chicken Wing Sections

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effective-ness of ozonated water to reduce Salmonella and aerobic plate counts (APCs) on raw chicken wing sections. Sam-ples were inoculated with a cocktail of five poultry-borne Salmonella strains (mean 6.3 ± 0.3 log10 CFU/ml rinsate). The chicken wing sections (51.3 ± 12.4 g) were treated with ozonated water at three concentrations (2.5, 5.0, and 10.0 ppm) and three exposure times (15, 30, and 45 s) by either immersion or direct application (directly from a hose). Tap water was used as control, and the experi-ments were performed in triplicate with three wings per treatment. Salmonella reductions with ozonated water ranged from 0.3 ± 0.1 to 0.7 ± 0.1 log10 CFU/ml rinsate. APC reductions with ozonated water ranged from 0.3 ± 0.1 to 1.8 ± 0.7 log10 CFU/ml rinsate. Reductions were numerically higher, although not significantly, with ozonat-ed water than with tap water. Ozone concentration had a significant effect (P = 0.003) on Salmonella reductions in immersion treatment. Although Salmonella reductions on chicken wing sections were considered marginal, future work should focus on evaluating longer exposure times and ozone concentrations on the microbiological quality of raw chicken parts, possibly as part of a multihurdle antimicro-bial approach.
Viscosity Influence on Flutter Boundary and Limit Cycle Oscillation in Transonic Regime

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Viscosity has a great influence on nonlinearity especially in the transonic regime: however only preliminary research into the viscous effect on the aeroelstic response was conducted. Nonlinearity of the flowfield assumed to be the main source of flutter behaviours. This paper reports the results of intensive numerical simulations carried out on 2D aerofoil sections to investigate the effect of viscosity on flutter boundary and especially on limit cycle oscillation (LCO) characteristics. Unsteady Euler and Navier-Stokes flow solvers are developed for use in aeroelastic analysis with the moving grid method, while the aeroelastic response is calculated with the aeroelastic equations of motion in two degrees of freedom. The flow solvers are verified with simulations of pitching aerofoil. Two aeroelastic test cases ranging from subsonic to transonic flow regimes (M∞=0.3∼0.92, Rec = 12.3×106) were simulated in depth to obtain flutter boundaries as well as characteristics of LCO. The results indicate that the LCO occurs in the subsonic flow regime as well as in the transonic flow regime with far greater intensity caused by viscous effect. It has been shown that the weak divergence is found to be a transonic aeroelastic phenomenon.
18-Crown-6

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

[17455-13-9] C12H24O6 (MW 264.32) InChI = 1S/C12H24O6/c1-2-14-5-6-16-9-10-18-12-11-17-8-7-15-4-3-13-1/h1-12H2 InChIKey = XEZNGIUYQVAUSS-UHFFFAOYSA-N (solubilization of a variety of metal salts, particularly potassium salts, in nonpolar solvents; activating agent for many nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations) Physical Data: colorless, mp 36.5–38.0 °C; IR (neat) 2875, 1450, 1350, and 1120 cm−1; 1H NMR (60 MHz, CCl4) 3.56 ppm (singlet). Preparative Methods: commercially available. 18-Crown-6 has been synthesized by a variety of methods involving modified Williamson ether procedures.1-6 Crude 18-crown-6 forms a crystalline complex with Acetonitrile from which the pure crown can be isolated.4, 5 18-Crown-6 may also be isolated from the cyclic oligomerization of Ethylene Oxide in the presence of gaseous Boron Trifluoride and alkali metal cation templates such as CsBF4.7-10 Handling, Storage, and Precautions: use in a fume hood.
Evaluation of Deep Learning Framework for Detection and Diagnosis of Glaucoma

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Fundus images are the source of data used by physicians for clinical validation of glaucoma, a medical condition that leads to loss of vision over time. A diagnostic tool for automated detection of glaucoma would preferably assists the physicians in screening and further diagnosis of vision loss. Hence, it is essential to clinically validate the stages of glaucoma by measuring the cup disc ratio (CDR). This work investigates the maturity of deep learning framework for the diagnosis of glaucoma that aims at detection of glaucoma. Further, the performance measures of deep learning frameworks are evaluated and compared. Towards the end the machine learning workflow is summarized with directions for future research.
Saddle-point solutions and grazing bifurcations in an impacting system

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

This paper focuses on the intricate relationship between smooth and nonsmooth phenomena in an impacting system. In particular a boundary saddle-point solution, that is born in a nonsmooth fold, is analysed. Accessible boundary saddle-point solutions play a key role in determining the global dynamics of a system and here we will show how grazing bifurcations can affect their existence.
Development of primers for loop-mediated isothermal amplification for <i>Mycoplasma canadense</i> detection

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

Bovine mycoplasma mastitis is highly transmittable and hard to treat by chemotherapy. It causes severe economic loss and is considered a major problem for milk production. Mycoplasma canadense is one of the causative agents of mycoplasma mastitis. A primer set to detect M. canadense was developed based on single nucleotide polymorphism-specific loop-mediated isothermal amplification. Using this primer set, 10 fg M. canadense DNA corresponding to the DNA amount of ~13 cells was detected within 40 min. Cross-reactivity with other bovine Mycoplasma spp., Acholeplasma laidlawii, and mastitis-related bacteria was not observed when ≤1 pg DNA was applied. These results would provide a basis for validating future experiments with spiked-milk and field samples for the development of rapid detection of M. canadense.
Rapid prototyping: A paradigm shift in investment casting

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The quest for fabricating complex metal parts rapidly and with minimal cost has brought rapid prototyping (RP) processes to the forefront of the investment casting industry. Relatively recent advances in DTM Corporation`s selective laser sintering (SLS) and 3D Systems stereolithography (SL) processes have had a significant impact on the overall quality of patterns produced using these rapid prototyping processes. Sandia National Laboratories uses patterns generated from rapid prototyping processes to reduce the cycle time and cost of fabricating prototype and small lot production parts in support of a program called FASTCAST. The SLS process is used to fabricate patterns from materials such as investment casting wax, polycarbonate, and a new material called TrueForm PM{trademark}. With the timely introduction of each of these materials, the quality of patterns fabricated has improved. The development and implementation of SL QuickCast{trademark} software has enabled this process to produce highly accurate patterns for use in investment casting. This paper focuses on the successes with these new pattern materials and the infrastructure required to cast rapid prototyping patterns successfully. In addition, a brief overview of other applications of rapid prototyping at Sandia will be discussed.
Near supermartingales for convergence analysis of recursive identification and adaptive control schemes

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

An equivalent stochastic feedback system can be associated to many recursive identification and adaptive control schemes. This equivalent feedback system has a certain structure which is used for constructing near supermartingales allowing to establish a.s. convergence. Explicit convergence conditions are then obtained for recursive identification and adaptive control schemes which admit an equivalent stochastic feedback representation of the form considered. The usefulness of the results is llustrated by their application to the straightforward convergence analysis of Several schemes.
DDoS Intrusion Detection Through Machine Learning Ensemble

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been the prominent attacks over the last decade. A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) should seamlessly configure to fight against these attackers' new approaches and patterns of DDoS attack. In this paper, we propose a NIDS which can detect existing as well as new types of DDoS attacks. The key feature of our NIDS is that it combines different classifiers using ensemble models, with the idea that each classifier can target specific aspects/types of intrusions, and in doing so provides a more robust defense mechanism against new intrusions. Further, we perform a detailed analysis of DDoS attacks, and based on this domain-knowledge verify the reduced feature set [27, 28] to significantly improve accuracy. We experiment with and analyze NSL-KDD dataset with reduced feature set and our proposed NIDS can detect 99.1% of DDoS attacks successfully. We compare our results with other existing approaches. Our NIDS approach has the learning capability to keep up with new and emerging DDoS attack patterns.
Polymer coatings containing nano particles of zinc oxide for the UV protection of dyed polyester fabrics

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

\n\t\t\t\t\tThe useful life of many outdoor textile products is limited by degradation caused by exposure to sunlight, in particular by the ultra violet component (below 400 nm). The degradation results in fading of colours and also loss of physical properties, such as tear strength and abrasion resistance. Degradation can be decreased with UV absorbers, often used in conjunction with antioxidants or free radical quenchers. The protection afforded by these organic compounds is, however, limited as they are ultimately destroyed by the UV radiation they absorb.<br />An alternative approach is to coat fabrics with a polymer containing an inorganic UV absorber, such as zinc oxide. The inherent stability of zinc oxide would be expected to provide a protective effect over a much longer period than can be achieved with an organic UV absorber. A possible disadvantage of zinc oxide when applied in a polymer film is that absorption and scattering of visible light can produce hazy films and, hence, an unacceptable change in fabric appearance.<br />This poster paper examines the possibility of using nano particles of zinc oxide dispersed in acrylic polymers for protecting dyed polyester fabrics against sunlight fading. Factors affecting both UV absorbance and film clarity will be discussed. The possibility will also be examined that the protective effect may be reduced in some circumstances by reactive oxygen species, generated by the interaction of UV with zinc oxide in the presence of air and water.<br />\n\t\t\t\t
The use of biologics and small molecules in pregnant patients with rheumatic diseases

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Biological agents have radically changed the prognosis of rheumatic patients. Current evidence demonstrates that tight disease control during pregnancy is mandatory to minimize adverse outcome risk. As the new therapeutic tools are pivotal to maintain appropriate disease activity, it is timely to review available evidence about the safety of biologics and small molecules in pregnancy. Areas covered: A comprehensive literature review has been performed, reporting available data about the passage into breast milk, rate of pregnancy loss and fetal malformations, and long-term complications due to in utero exposure to biological agents and small molecules. Expert commentary: Data about the safety of agents against tumor necrosis factor in pregnancy are reassuring. Even rituximab, tocilizumab, belimumab, ustekinumab, secukinumab, and abatacept have not been associated with an increased rate of fetal abnormalities or adverse pregnancy outcome. Experience with small molecules is too small to draw any conclusion. Even if further data are warranted to define the possible long-term effects of in utero biologic exposure on the infant immune system development, it is reasonable to speculate that in the next future the use of biologics during pregnancy will continue to expand, at least when maternal benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Role of epidermal growth factor, interleukin-1 and lipid peroxidation in healing of experimental gastric ulcer in rats

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The aim of our study was to evaluate the role of the epidermal growth factor (EGF), interleukin-1 (IL-1) and of lipid peroxides (TBARS) in the development and healing of experimental gastric ulcer in the rat. In 66 male Sprague Dowley rats, gastric ulcer was induced by means of the serosal application of 100% acetic acid. The animals were followed up for 1 (6 cases), 3 (6) and 5 (6) hours, and 1 (6 cases), 2 (6), 3 (7), 5 (6), 10 (6) 15 (6) and 21 (6) days. Five animals were sham operated. Samples from the ulcer margin (U), from an ulcer adjacent area (UAA) and from the antrum (A) were obtained. All treated animals developed gastric ulcer, evident just after one hour; the ulcer progressively healed and after 21 days all were scarred. Mucosal U-EGF significantly increased immediately after ulcer induction; it progressively and slowly decreased paralleling ulcer scarring. UAA-EGF and A-EGF behaved likewise: they significantly increased after 1, 3 and 5 hours and returned to normal levels just 1 day after ulcer induction. Variations in mucosal IL-1 were similar to those in EGF, a correlation being found between these two parameters. The EGF serum levels of rats with ulcers of 1 and 5 hours, were significantly lower than those of controls. One day after ulcer induction, U-TBARS levels were increased, and the high levels persisted, even when the ulcers had healed. In conclusion: (1) the rapid increase in mucosal EGF occurring in the presence of gastric ulcer may be consequent to an enhanced local and/or submandibular production; (2) the parallel behaviour between EGF and IL-1 suggests that this cytokine may play a role in stimulating EGF production; (3) chronic gastric ulcer is associated with an enhancement of lipid peroxidation phenomena, which persist after healing and which may create a “loci minoris resistentiae”.
PENGARUH FASILITAS, GAJI DAN INSENTIF TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Company must be able to strive for anything that can increase the productivity of its employees in meeting the company itself, one alternative is to provide incentives. Work productivity is the ability to produce goods and services from various resources or production factors that are used to increase the quality and quantity of work produced in a company. The variables in this research are Facilities (X1), Salary (X2) Incentives (X3) and Employee Productivity (Y). The number of samples in this study were as many as 80 people who were obtained from all employees of UD. Karya Abadi Kediri. The technique used in this sampling is saturated sampling. To process the data in this study using the validity test, reliability test, double linear regression test which includes t test and f test. The results obtained in this study indicate that the Facility, Salary, and Incentive variables have positive and significant results on the Employee Productivity variable. From the results of the t test, it is stated that the facility variable has a value of 0.000, which is less than 0.05, it can be stated that the facility variable has a positive and significant impact on employee productivity. The salary variable has a result of 0.000, where the result is less than 0.05, it is considered positive and significant. The incentive variable has a result of 0.022, where the result is less than 0.05, it is considered positive and significant. The results of the F test calculation show that the F count is 38,470 with a sig. F (0.000) <0.05, thus facilities, salaries, and incentives simultaneously influence employee productivity variables.
Technique of Refrigerated Coil Preservation Haemodialysis with Femoral Venous Catheterization

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The use of daily haemodialysis in the treatment of severe acute renal failure has resulted in a significant improvement in mortality rates: 75 % of patients with acute " hypercatabolic " renal failure survived (Teschan et al., 1960).More recently Murray et al. (1961), using continuous haemodialysis, obtained 80% survival rates in similar patients.However, these results were obtained with MacNeill-Collins (MacNeill et al., 1959), Skeggs-Leonards (Skeggs and Leonards, 1948), or modified Kiil (1960) dialyser, which require considerable technician-time in assembling and are not available in most haemodialysis units.To overcome these problems, and to provide an efficient dialyser
Life Cycle Consumption and the Great Recession

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Using Italian Household Budget Survey data for the period 1997-2013, this paper estimates the life cycle profiles of consumption and cross-sectional variance in the Great Recession. The study examines age profiles for total and durable expenditure, and four subcomponents of non-durable expenditure. We document significant heterogeneity in the way the recession affects consumption and the variance within-cohorts. The crisis has entailed a fall in expenditure for the youngest cohorts, and a notable reduction of inequalities for the middle and oldest cohorts with some differences between high and low income elastic expenditure. We also found that socio-demographic factors account for a substantial heterogeneity in consumption behaviour during the recession across households and expenditure subcomponents.
Hematopoietic Engraftment of Human Embryonic Stem Cell‐Derived Cells Is Regulated by Recipient Innate Immunity

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

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) provide an important means to characterize early stages of hematopoietic development. However, the in vivo potential of hESC-derived hematopoietic cells has not been well defined. We demonstrate that hESC-derived cells are capable of long-term hematopoietic engraftment when transplanted into nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mice. Human CD45(+) and CD34(+) cells are identified in the mouse bone marrow (BM) more than 3 months after injection of hESCs that were allowed to differentiate on S17 stromal cells for 7-24 days. Secondary engraftment studies further confirm long-term repopulating cells derived from hESCs. We also evaluated two mechanisms that may inhibit engraftment: host immunity and requirement for homing to BM. Treatment with anti-ASGM1 antiserum that primarily acts by depletion of natural killer cells in transplanted mice leads to improved engraftment, likely due to low levels of HLA class I expressed on hESCs and CD34(+) cells derived from hESCs. Intra-BM injection also provided stable engraftment, with hematopoietic cells identified in both the injected and contra-lateral femur. Importantly, no teratomas are evident in animals injected with differentiated hESCs. These results demonstrate that SCID-repopulating cells, a close surrogate for hematopoietic stem cells, can be derived from hESCs. Moreover, both adaptive and innate immune effector cells may be barriers to engraftment of these cells.
Optical floating zone growth of high-quality Cu2MnAl single crystals

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

We report the growth of large single-crystals of Cu2MnAl, a ferromagnetic Heusler compound suitable for polarizing neutron monochromators, by means of optical floating zone under ultra-high vacuum compatible conditions. Unlike Bridgman or Czochralsky grown Cu2MnAl, our floating zone grown single-crystals show highly reproducible magnetic properties and an excellent crystal quality with a narrow and homogeneous mosaic spread as examined by neutron diffraction. An investigation of the polarizing properties in neutron scattering suggests a high polarization efficiency, limited by the relatively small sample dimensions studied. Our study identifies optical floating zone under ultra-high vacuum compatible conditions as a highly reproducible method to grow high-quality single-crystals of Cu2MnAl.
SU‐E‐T‐684: A Comprehensive Dosimetric Study of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Using Three Dimensional (3D) Conformal Radiation Therapy, Intensity‐Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Volumetric Modulated Radiation Therapy (VMAT), Passive Scattering and Modulated Scanning Proton Therapy (PT)

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Purpose: This study is to evaluate different radiation therapy modalities in pancreas cancer treatment and to explore the potential role of organs‐at‐risk (OARs) sparing using proton therapy (PT). Methods: Seven consecutive pancreatic cancer patients who had been previously treated with passive‐scattering PT were identified. The clinical target volume (CTV) include the pancreatic tumor bed as well as the adjacent high risk nodal areas. Treatment plans were generated using three‐field and four‐field 3DCRT, five‐field IMRT, two‐arc VMAT, two‐field passive‐scattering and modulated‐scanning PT. All plans delivered 50.4Gy to the initial planning target volume (PTV). 98% of PTV is covered by 95% of the prescription dose and 98% of CTV received 98% prescription dose. Posterior and right posterior oblique proton beams were used to minimize the range uncertainty and improve PT robustness. Pencil beam scanning (PBS) fields with single field uniform dose technique was used for modulated‐scanning PT. Results: All proton plans significantly reduced patient's body integrated dose. Both modulated‐scanning and passive‐scattering PT offer lower doses to the left kidney (mean and V18Gy) and bowel (mean and V20Gy). Modulated‐scanning PT reduced average stomach's mean dose to 168.2 cGy compare to 3‐field 3DCRT (1618.9 cGy P=0.0059), 4‐field 3DCRT (1565.3 cGy P=0.0062) IMRT (1003.47 cGy P=0.0162) and VMAT (1213.4 cGy P=0.0163), and average right kidney's mean dose to 765.7 cGy compared to 3‐field 3DCRT (2205.6 cGy P=0.0013), 4‐field 3DCRT(1825.9 cGy P=0.0009), IMRT(1515.5 cGy P=0.0028) and VMAT (1470.6 cGy P=0.0013). Moreover, modulated‐scanning PT offer lower bowel V20Gy(15.07%) compared to the passive‐scattering PT(28.18% P=0.006). However, IMRT and VMAT offer better target conformity compared to passive‐scattering PT (Passive‐scattering Conformity Index 80% =2.10±0.4, vs IMRT CI80=1.59 ±0.10 P=0.007, vs VMAT CI80=1.44 ±0.15 P=0.0015) Conclusion: The dosimetric advantage of modulated‐scanning PT points to the possibility of treating tumor bed and comprehensive nodal areas while providing a more tolerable treatment course.