jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
SDAG: Blockchain-enabled Model for Secure Data Awareness in Smart Grids

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

We introduce SDAG, a blockchain-enabled secure data awareness model by which energy nodes can provide visibility into energy operations without involving energy operators in the smart grids. SDAG consists of a registration protocol (RPro) for assigning a cryptographic identity to an energy node and a data-aware protocol (DAPro) for executing data awareness with the support of a shared secret session key and SDAG smart contracts, which facilitate data awareness consensus amongst energy nodes. SDAG satisfies the smart grid's data awareness security requirements, which include correctness of data, assurance of energy node identity, and fairness of data awareness transactions such as energy node registration. As a proof of concept, we apply our model to mitigate a recent issue on the loss of State Estimator (SE) due to contracting data in a real-world energy grid.
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample.We specifically investigate the explanatory power of the standard models of Eurasian state formation which emphasize the importance of high population density, inter-state warfare and trade as factors leading to political centralization.We find that while in the whole world sample these factors are indeed positively correlated with political centralization, this is not so in the African sub-sample.Indeed, none of the variables are statistically related to political centralization.We also provide evidence that political centralization, where it took place, was indeed associated with better public goods and development outcomes.We conclude that the evidence is quite consistent with the intellectual tradition initiated in social anthropology by Evans-Pritchard and Fortes in the 1940s which denied the utility of Eurasian models in explaining patterns of political centralization in Africa.
The romance of wonder in organization studies

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Wonder is the romance of all human study – a two-in-oneness of beautiful mystery and a rational inquiring mind. To wonder is to be open to mysteries beyond the known; it is to engage the largest questions of life; and above all, it is to come into being as a human person by reaching to the humanity of all peoples that resides in the transcendent. In this essay, we describe the wonder of organizational studies as literally a romance; a marriage of distinctive forms of human reasoning that, while they may show up in one and the same person, are essentially male and female. We look for wonder in a collection of stories about qualitative research in organizations in which organizational scholars at their best unite male and female aspects of human reasoning in wonder. In their stories, we find the soulful mystery and romance that delights and enchants the study of persons and organizations.
Calibration of a Kerr Cell System for High-Voltage Pulse Measurements

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Several techniques for calibration of an electrooptical (Kerr cell) high-voltage pulse measuring system are described. Independent calibrations, without reference to pulse divider measurements, are achieved by application of a direct bias voltage to the Kerr cell. After calibration, experiments with voltages as high as 100 kV demonstrate reasonable agreement (to within 1 percent) between simultaneous Kerr cell and calibrated pulse divider measurements.
Time Series Analysis of Urban Forest Waste in João Pessoa (Northeast Brazil)

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Urban afforestation requires management to ensure its sustainability within the city, and urban pruning waste is generated regularly throughout the year. This paper analyzed the time series of the urban pruning waste volume for João Pessoa (Northeast Brazil) from January 2008 to December 2014, with the objective of determining the volume of urban pruning waste generated and adjusting it to a forecast model. The models studied were part of the ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) Family. The main results indicated that the ARIMA family models presented satisfactory results for the forecast, and ARIMA (0,1,4) was the model that provided the best forecast for 2014. This study contributes with a better understanding of the pattern and amount of urban pruning waste generated in João Pessoa and could assist the future orientation of municipal public policies.
A Discriminative Model for Identifying Readers and Assessing Text Comprehension from Eye Movements

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

We study the problem of inferring readers' identities and estimating their level of text comprehension from observations of their eye movements during reading. We develop a generative model of individual gaze patterns (scanpaths) that makes use of lexical features of the fixated words. Using this generative model, we derive a Fisher-score representation of eye-movement sequences. We study whether a Fisher-SVM with this Fisher kernel and several reference methods are able to identify readers and estimate their level of text comprehension based on eye-tracking data. While none of the methods are able to estimate text comprehension accurately, we find that the SVM with Fisher kernel excels at identifying readers.
“We don't speak the same language”: SEEK in China

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This first Australasian edition of the popular text Management across Cultures explores the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams. With a clear emphasis on learning and development, the text encourages students to acquire skills in multicultural competence that will be highly valued by their future employers. As more and more managers find themselves becoming global managers, and in a world where practices and expectations can differ significantly across national and regional boundaries, this has never been more important. Rich in cases and examples, Management across Cultures integrates research from across the social sciences with contemporary management practices for a comprehensive overview of cross-cultural management.
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems With Uniform Planar Arrays

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

In this paper, we adopt a three-stage based uplink channel estimation protocol with reduced pilot overhead for an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, in which both the base station (BS) and the RIS are equipped with a uniform planar array (UPA). Specifically, in Stage I, the channel state information (CSI) of a typical user is estimated. To address the power leakage issue for the common angles-of-arrival (AoAs) estimation in this stage, we develop a low-complexity one-dimensional search method. In Stage II, a re-parameterized common BS-RIS channel is constructed with the estimated information from Stage I to estimate other users' CSI. In Stage III, only the rapidly varying channel gains need to re-estimated. Furthermore, the proposed method can be extended to multi-antenna UPA-type users, by decomposing the estimation of a multi-antenna channel with J scatterers into estimating J single-scatterer channels for a virtual single-antenna user. An orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP)-based method is proposed to estimate the angles-of-departure (AoDs) at the users. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly achieves high channel estimation accuracy, which approaches the genie-aided upper bound in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime.
A Gravity Flow Model of Fragmented Rocks in Longitudinal Sublevel Caving of Inclined Medium-Thick Ore Bodies

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

The draw theory is the foundation for decreasing ore loss and dilution indices while extracting deposits from mines.Therefore, research on draw theory is of great significance to optimally guide the draw control and improve the economy efficiency of mines.The laboratory scaled physical draw experiments under inclined wall condition conducted showed that a new way was proposed to investigate the flow zone of granular materials.The flow zone was simply divided into two parts with respect to the demarcation point of the flow axis.Based on the stochastic medium draw theory, theoretical movement formulas were derived to define the gravity flow of fragmented rocks in these two parts.The ore body with 55° dip and 10 m width was taken as an example, the particle flow parameters were fitted, and the corresponding theoretical shape of the draw body was sketched based on the derived equation of draw-body shape.The comparison of experimental and theoretical shapes of the draw body confirmed that they coincided with each other; hence, the reliability of the derived equation of particle motion was validated.
Immunohistochemical Characterisation of the Interstitial Inflammatory Environment: T-Cell- and B-Cell-Dominant Subtypes of Hidradenitis Suppurativa

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease with a complex immune response. Given the considerable heterogeneity of the clinical phenotype of HS, this study aimed to analyse the immunohistochemical pattern of interstitial inflammation. Methods: Immunohistochemical analysis was performed on skin samples from 49 patients with HS. The immunohistochemical markers CD3, CD4 and CD8 for T-cells, CD20 for B-cells, CD138 for plasma cells and CD30, CD56, Bcl-2 and Bcl-6 were stained on lesional skin. Results: The analysis of immune cell dominance in patients with HS revealed that 33.3% of the cohort exhibited B-cell dominance, defined as a ratio of the sum of CD20+ and CD138+ cells to CD3+ cells greater than 1, while the majority (66.7%) demonstrated T-cell dominance, defined as a ratio of CD3+ cells to the sum of CD20+ and CD138+ cells greater than 1. B-cell-dominant HS is associated with a significantly elevated probability of mammary involvement (13.3% vs. 0%; p = 0.041). T-cell-dominant HS patients tended to demonstrate a higher mean tobacco consumption, but not significantly (20 vs. 5 tobacco pack-years; p = 0.06). CD4-dominant HS patients exhibited a significantly greater involvement of the mons pubis (62.5% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.023) compared to CD8-dominant patients, who demonstrated a significantly higher number of abscesses (p = 0.027). Conclusions: For the first time, we describe the clinical and immunohistochemical characteristics of T-cell- and B-cell-dominant HS. Although HS seems to be more dominated by T-cells, a B-cell dominance was found in 33% of cases.
The Production of Whiteness in Education: Asian International Students in a College Classroom

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study uses a poststructural analysis to explicate the social production of Whiteness in a college classroom. Whiteness scholars define Whiteness as reference to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced, and intrinsically linked to relations of domination. Using this framework of social production, I analyze a graduate-level college classroom for evidence of Whiteness. More than 50% of the class members were Asian international students. I suggest that Whiteness was operating on multiple levels, which I categorize as: Whiteness as Domination; Resources and the Production of the Other; and the Discourse of Cultural Preference. I argue that Whiteness not only served to deny Asian international students and other students of color an equal opportunity to learn in that classroom, but most pointedly, Whiteness also served to elevate the White students by positioning the students of color as their audience.
Supplementary Figure 3 from Splenectomy Promotes Indirect Elimination of Intraocular Tumors by CD8<sup>+</sup> T Cells That Is Associated with IFNγ- and Fas/FasL-Dependent Activation of Intratumoral Macrophages

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

<p>Characterization of myeloid cells in Luc-E.G7 tumor bearing eyes.</p>
Weaving (Trans) Time in Mexican Cabaret’s La Prietty Guoman

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Abstract: In the Mexican political cabaret piece, La Prietty Guoman —created in 2016 and since performed across Mexico and the United States—César Enríquez embodies La Prietty, a transgender sex worker dreaming her story alongside Julia Roberts’ romantic entanglement with Richard Gere in the 1990 romcom Pretty Woman . Building on performance and temporality studies done by scholars such as José Esteban Muñoz, Jill Dolan, Christina Baker, and Elizabeth Freeman, this essay critiques La Prietty Guoman as performing strategic temporality. In so doing, this research illuminates La Prietty Guoman and advances performance studies scholarship by unpacking intersections between past, present, and future temporalities in trans-of-color theatre, thus suggesting the performative potential of strategic deployment of trans and anti-trans time. Ultimately, resisting absolute temporal divisions, La Prietty Guoman entangles a performed trans time with the anti-trans present to summon hope for the trans future.
Experimental models for the study of neuropathic pain

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Ideal models should reproduce just sensory deficits, such as alodynia, hyperalgesia and spontaneous pain for short periods. There are different types of animal models to evaluate different neuropathic pain etiologies and manifestations. Some models study neuropathic pain peripheral mechanisms and other study its central mechanisms. This review focuses on animal models most commonly used for neuropathic pain research. CONTENTS: Animal models based on peripheral nerves ligation which are more commonly used are described. From all models described in this review, spared nerve injury is that producing more reproducible behavioral abnormalities for a longer period, while chronic sciatic nerve compression produces behavioral signs of less predictable painful neuropathies. Spinal hemisection and cytokines-induced spinal injury are the models of choice for the study of central pain mechanisms. Other specific models are used for the study of the specific etiology of pain. CONCLUSION: Since neuropathic pain is multifactorial, different neuropathic pain animal models were developed throughout the years, which have been critical for the study of neuropathic pain, since much of current knowledge comes from studies with rats and mice. Current animal models need to be further refined and more efforts should be made to determine which animal models may be more predictive, with less biases and more complex and objective analysis parameters.
Fog Computing Architecture, Applications and Security Issues: A Survey

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a virtual wave of interconnection and intercommunication among an enormous number of universal things. This has caused an exceptional surge of colossal heterogeneous information, known as an information explosion. Until now, cloud computing has filled in as a proficient method to process and store these data. Still, it came to light that by utilizing just cloud computing, pesky issues like, the expanding requests of actual-time or speed-sensitive applications and the restrictions on system transfer speed could not be solved. Consequently, another computing platform, called fog computing has been advanced as a supplement to the cloud arrangement. Fog computing spreads the cloud administrations and services to the edge of the system, and brings processing, communications and reserving and storage capacity closer to edge gadgets and end-clients and, in the process, aims at enhancing versatility, low latency, transfer speed and safety and protection. This paper takes an extensive and wide-ranging view of fog computing, covering several aspects. At the outset is outlined the many-layered structural design of fog computing and its attributes. After that, chief advances like communication and inter-exchange, computing, reserving and storage, asset administration, naming, safety and safeguarding of privacy are delineated while showing how this backup and facilitate the installations and various applications. Then, numerous applications like augmented reality (AR), healthcare, gaming and brain-machine interface, vehicular computing, smart scenarios etc. are highlighted to explain the fog computing application milieu. Following that, it is shown that how, despite fog computing being a features-rich platform, it is dogged by its susceptibility to several security, privacy and safety concerns, which stem from the nature of its widely distributed and open architecture. Finally, some suggestions are advanced to address some of the safety challenges discussed so as to propel the further growth of fog computing.
The Changing Age Distribution and Theological Attitudes of Catholic Priests Revisited

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Journal Article The Changing Age Distribution and Theological Attitudes of Catholic Priests Revisited Get access Lawrence A. Young, Lawrence A. Young University of Wisconsin-MadisonBrigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Schoenherr Richard A. Schoenherr University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 73–87, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711629 Published: 01 March 1992
FD-SLAM: A Semantic SLAM Based on Enhanced Fast-SCNN Dynamic Region Detection and DeepFillv2-Driven Background Inpainting

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Semantic SLAM integrates semantic networks into SLAM systems to ensure the proper functioning of mobile robots by detecting and removing dynamic areas in the environment. Existing semantic SLAM approaches face challenges such as map information loss and tracking failures due to the abandonment of background information obscured by dynamic objects. In this study, we propose an FD-SLAM system, which builds upon ORB-SLAM3 and combines improved Fast-SCNN and Deepfillv2. This system employs semantic segmentation and geometric methods to identify and eliminate dynamic regions while incorporating an efficient inpainting network, utilizing free-form masks, to fill in the background occluded by dynamic objects. This complete background information augmentation enables the operation of the SLAM system in dynamic environments. The evaluation on the public TUM dataset demonstrates that FD-SLAM outperforms other dynamic SLAM methods by maintaining tracking accuracy while achieving a higher success rate in tracking. This indicates that FD-SLAM can enhance the robustness of the system in dynamic environments.
Assessment centers: A contrast of usage in diverse environments

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Abstract The assessment center technique for sales force selection, promotion, career development, and training has received substantial attention. In addition to being cited as having substantial potential for more traditional sales management applications, the approach has been identified as well‐suited for cross‐cultural and multinational sales environments. This study appraises assessment center applications in two divergent settings: the United States and Europe. Expectations of greater awareness and utilization among European marketing managers were confirmed. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Conditional Demand System for Beverages

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Estimates of a conditional demand system for twelve beverages, based on the Rotterdam model subject to a full, first-order autoregressive process, are discussed. Impacts of beverage prices, total beverage expenditures and promotions on beverage quantities demanded are provided. The results indicate that all beverages were normal goods; the majority had price elastic demands; most had a relatively large own-promotion effect; and a number of significant cross-promotional effects exist, indicating a relatively high level of competition for market share among the beverages studied.
Traumatic pseudarthrosis of the dens axis. Aetiology, course and therapy

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

In a retrospective analysis the significance of internal fixation of unstable and symptomatic non-union of the odontoid was evaluated. In all but one cases a type II fracture of the odontoid was the underlying cause for the pseudarthrosis. The time interval between trauma and definitive diagnosis varied between 6 months and 30 years. All patients asked for medical advice because of acute neck pain; in three cases additional neurological deficits were notified. In all but one case the pseudarthrosis was classified as unstable on flexion-/extension views. The occurrence of neurological deficits showed a positive correlation with the amount of dislocation of the pseudarthrotic odontoid. Nine out of 10 patients underwent internal stabilisation of the non-union. Reoperation because of persistent instability/failure of stabilisation had to be performed in two cases (22.2%). At follow-up all 9 patients were pain-free. The neurological deficits in two patients had improved significantly. According to our experience internal stabilisation in unstable non-union of the odontoid is recommended to achieve significant reduction of the pain level. Also improvement of the neurological deficits can be expected depending on the duration of the symptoms.
Single Event Effects in 1Gbit 90nm NAND Flash Memories under Operating Conditions

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

We tested a commercial 1 Gbit 90 nm NAND memory under exposure to a constant flux of heavy ions, aiming to study its behaviour in the space environment. We identified and classified different types of errors under various operating conditions. We observed single bit upsets both in the floating gate array and in the page buffer, alongside with functional interruptions during program and, to a lesser extent, erase operations. Our results provide some insight on possible issues which may arise also at sea-level with future (and more sensitive) flash generations.
Anacamptodon kamchaticus, a new species of Amblystegiaceae (Musci) from Far East

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Anacamptodon kamchaticus sp.nov. is described from two localities in the Far East: the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island.A descri ption, illustrations, and diagnostic characters are provided and the differentiation from the other species of Anacamptodon is discussed.
Brand name and corporate name : congruence vesus incongruence.

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This thesis seeks to ascertain the congruence and incongruence of brand name and corporate name. Brand name and corporate name have long been linked together in the form of mixed branding where marketers made used of both the corporate name as well as an individual brand name during branding strategy. However, there are little research done on determining the actual influence of corporate name with brand name and thus this thesis attempt to address that.