jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Advancing Environmental Responsibility in Times of Global Consolidation

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Summary The oil and gas industry is continuing its trend toward global consolidation. The merged corporations are establishing their future environmental and social responsibility benchmarks as they structure their new organizations. Improvements in these areas result only when the best personnel and environmental management systems of the predecessor entities are preserved and spread throughout the merged corporation. Our industry is becoming more efficient and profitable through the efforts of its best people, the electronic exchange of best practices, and through other technological advancements. Mergers provide a unique opportunity to advance our industry's tradition of environmental and social responsibility in the same manner-by building new organizations that draw from the best resources and practices of both predecessors. The phone rang in the middle of a dark, cold January night at 3 a.m. On the other end of the phone was one of my best friends calling me from the West Coast. "Did you hear?" were the first words I recognized, struggling to wake up. "Hear what?" was my reply. "We were just sold." At that instant, a cold feeling came over me as I realized that the company that I had toiled for, defended, and invested the greater part of my life in had suddenly vanished. The next morning, we all read about the deal in the newspapers and on the Internet. The papers told how the alliance would increase shareholder value by reducing costs and improving profits. The synergies of adjacent producing properties and how overhead could be reduced by eliminating duplication was constantly touted. Employees would be treated extremely well because those who wanted to leave would be given a "golden parachute." Every where in the press there was a buzz about how much business sense this merger would make and how the stock price would benefit. But where was the discussion about environment, health, and safety? There were no press reports about that. The Wall Street Journal did not mention it. The local newspapers did not write about it. The safety and health aspects of the merger were not mentioned on the television news. We constantly hear about how mergers lead to reductions in costs, greater economies of scale, and the elimination of duplication. Reservoir engineers and the exploration staffs marvel at the combined potential strength of the new company. But there is virtually no comment or thought about how the merging of two great companies can help the environment or reduce injuries to personnel. Can mergers improve safety and environmental performance? Obviously, each of the merged companies is going to already have safety and environmental programs in place. A side-by-side comparison of each company's programs would usually find areas of greater strengths and weaknesses. Safety and environmental professionals, much like the reservoir engineers and exploration staffs, should be able to develop new programs and practices, taking the best from each of the merged companies, to create a better result.
M5-Branes, D4-Branes and Quantum 5D super-Yang-Mills

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

We revisit the relation of the six-dimensional (2,0) M5-brane Conformal Field Theory compactified on a circle to 5D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills Gauge Theory. We show that in the broken phase 5D super-Yang-Mills contains a spectrum of soliton states that can be identified with the complete Kaluza-Klein modes of an M2-brane ending on the M5-branes. This provides evidence that the (2,0) theory on a circle is equivalent to 5D super-Yang-Mills with no additional UV degrees of freedom, suggesting that the latter is in fact a well-defined quantum theory and possibly finite.
A new computational method for the functional inequality constrained minimax optimization problem

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Considers a general class of functional inequality constrained minimax optimisation problems. This problem is first converted into a semi-infinite programming problem. Then, an auxiliary cost function is constructed based on a positive saturated function. The smallest zero of this auxiliary cost function is equal to the minimal cost of the semi-infinite programming problem. However, this auxiliary cost function is non-smooth. Thus, a smoothing function is introduced. Then, an efficient computational procedure is developed for approximating the smallest zero of this auxiliary cost function. Furthermore, an error bound is established to validate the accuracy of the approximate solution. For illustration, two numerical examples are solved using the proposed approach.
Pharmacokinetic evaluations with highly sophisticated analytical methods.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

26 patients, aged between 53 and 72 years, with chronic myocardial insufficiency of different degrees, proved radiologically by an enlargement of the heart and a mean reduction of left ventricular ejection fraction by more than 50%, were subjected to 4 weeks of treatment with 3 x 60 drops/day Miroton, (Chemische) Werke Minden GmbH), a cardioactive glycoside mixture, following a washout phase of 4 weeks. The effect on end-diastolic volume (EDV) and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was recorded and calculated by ECG-triggered radionuclide angiography both before, and after 2 and 4 weeks of medication with Miroton. On therapy with Miroton the EDV decreased by 4% after 14 days and by 18% after 4 weeks (compared to the baseline value of 126.8 ml). In contrast to this, the LVEF increased to 47.2% after 14 days and to 56% after 4 weeks (baseline value 43.7%). The inverse relation between EDV and LVEF shows a positive inotropic influence on the myocardium which was more pronounced in the last 2 weeks of treatment than in the first 2 weeks.
The Tail Empirical Process for Stationary Sequences

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Diagnostic plots are an important part of extreme value statistics. This paper provides a theoretical basis for such plots by proving weak convergence of the tail empirical process for a large class of stationary processes. The conditions needed for convergence are (i) restrictions on the longrange dependence (fi-mixing), (ii) moment restrictions on the amount of clustering of extremes, and (iii) convergence of the covariance function. We further establish how the limit process is changed if exceedances of a nonrandom level are replaced by exceedances of a high quantile of the observations. Two simple examples, k-dependent sequences and stable AR(1)-processes are considered. 1 Introduction In semiparametric methods for extremes, such as the peaks over thresholds method, the statistical analysis only uses the part of the observations which exceed some suitably chosen high level. The methods, in particular with a generalized Pareto assumption for the tail distribution, are ønding signiø...
Erythrobacter westpacificensis sp. nov., a Marine Bacterium Isolated From the Western Pacific

Field: Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)

A novel Gram-negative, orange-pigmented bac- terial strain JLT2008 T was isolated from the surface seawater of the Western Pacific and subjected to a polyphasic tax- onomic study. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain JLT2008 T belonged to the genus Erythrobacter, sharing the highest similarity (96.6 %) with Erythrobacter gangjinensis K7-2 T and the lowest similarity (94.9 %) with Erythrobacter litoralis DSM 8509 T. Strain JLT2008 T did not contain bacterio- chlorophyll a, and the predominant respiratory lipoquinone was ubiquinone-10. The major fatty acids were C18:1 x7c, C16:0 ,C 16:1 x7c/C16:1 x6c. The prominent polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phos- phatidylglycerol. The genomic G ? C content was 60.1 mol %. Based on the polyphasic taxonomic data, a novel species within the genus Erythrobacter, and with the name Erythrobacter westpacificensis sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is JLT2008 T (=CGMCC 1.10993 T = JCM 18014 T ).
Hotspot formation and dynamics for a continuum model of urban crime

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

The existence, stability, and dynamics of localized patterns of criminal activity are studied for the reaction–diffusion model of urban crime introduced by Short et al. ( Math. Models. Meth. Appl. Sci. 18 (Suppl.), (2008), 1249–1267). In the singularly perturbed limit of small diffusivity ratio, this model admits hotspot patterns, where criminal activity of high amplitude is localized within certain narrow spatial regions. By using a combination of asymptotic analysis and numerical path-following methods, hotspot equilibria are constructed on a finite 1-D domain and their bifurcation properties analysed as the diffusivity of criminals is varied. It is shown, both analytically and numerically, that new hotspots of criminal activity can be nucleated in low-crime regions with inconspicuous crime activity gradient when the spatial extent of these regions exceeds a critical threshold. These nucleations are referred to as “peak insertion” events, and for the steady-state problem, they occur near a saddle-node bifurcation point characterizing hotspot equilibria. For the time-dependent problem, a differential algebraic (DAE) system characterizing the slow dynamics of a collection of hotspots is derived, and the results compared favourably with full numerical simulations of the PDE system. The asymptotic theory to construct hotspot equilibria, and to derive the differential algebraic system for quasi-steady patterns, is based on the resolution of a triple-deck structure near the core of each hotspot and the identification of so-called switchback terms.
Niobium pentoxide phosphate invert glass as a mineralizing agent in an experimental orthodontic adhesive

Field: Dentistry (Health Sciences)

ABSTRACT Objective: The aim of this study was to develop an experimental orthodontic adhesive and evaluate how adding phosphate invert glass containing niobium pentoxide (PIG-Nb) affected the adhesive's properties. Material and Methods: PIG-Nb was added at 1, 2.5, and 5 wt% to experimental adhesive (75 wt% bisphenol A methacrylate [BisGMA], 25 wt% triethylene glycol dimethacrylate [TEGDMA], 5 wt% colloidal silica and photoinitiator system). The adhesives were evaluated for mineral deposition, degree of conversion (DC), softening solvent by Knoop microhardness (KNH) variation, pH changes, and shear bond strength (SBS). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (DC and ΔKHN%), two-way ANOVA (SBS), repeated measures ANOVA (pH), and paired test (KNH1 and KNH2) were used at a significance level of P &lt; .05. Results: Adding PIG-Nb to orthodontic adhesives induced deposition on its surface associated with a constant neutral pH. The SBS increased after immersion in artificial saliva, and the PIG-Nb5 exhibited less softening. Conclusion: The addition of PIG-Nb into orthodontic adhesives induced mineral deposition. Experimental orthodontic adhesive containing 5% wt of PIG-Nb exhibited increased mineral deposition and suitable properties for orthodontic applications.
Yolngu Education, a Brief Background: Analysis of 5 Texts Concerning Yolngu Education in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The paper analyzes pedagogical articles dealing with Yolngu and their knowledge status in the mainstream curriculum. My intent is to find out which arguments the authors use to broaden the curriculum with Indigenous knowledge. For this reason, I aim to answer two questions; how Yolngu people are constructed in texts, and which discourses can be unveiled in those texts. I use discourse analyses to deconstruct writers` issues and attitudes towards Indigenous knowledge and different approaches to integrating various traditions in day-to-day school experiences. I apply Norman Fairclough’s methodology but concentrate mostly on the first, textual level. Critical linguistics is an additional tool to deepen the analyses that reveal the emancipatory discourse`s predominance.
The Antidepressant-Like Actions of Furosemide, Bumetanide and Nifedipine in the Forced Swim Test in Mice

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

The effects on down-stream signalling and neuroplasticity are the ways the actions of the presently-used antidepressants, the tricarboxylic acids (TCAs) and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are enhanced and effected. The present study aims to determine whether the actions of the calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, and the loop diuretics, furosemide and bumetanide are enhanced on chronic administration in the forced swim (FST) model of depression in mice. Six groups (six mice in each group) of male albino mice (25-40g) were used. They were housed in a soundproof laboratory and allowed food and water ad libitum in labeled metal cages. Respective groups were pretreated with 5mg/kg of nifedipine, 10mg/kg of imipramine, 5mg/kg of sertraline, 2.5mg/kg of bumetanide and 10mg/kg of furosemide daily intra-peritoneally for 30 days. A control group received 0.25ml of placebo daily for 30 days. On the test days (Day 1, 15 and 31), the doses were gicen but those on furosemide received 100mg/ kg and the bumetanide group received 75mg/kg intra-peritoneally. Experiment using the forced swim test was then used to evaluate their effect on the prolongation of onset of the period of immobility in mice.The compounds enhanced the prolongation of period of onset of immobility over the acute treatment significantly (F(5,30)= 20.35; (p<0.01) and post-hoc DMR test showed imipramine produced the most significant response with bumetanide producing the least response. The order of magnitude of response was imipramine>sertraline>nifedipine> furosemide>bumetanide.Keywords: FST, imipramine, sertraline, nifedipine, furosemide, bumetanide, chronic.
A New Type of Renal Cancer—Tubulocystic Carcinoma of the Kidney

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

In 2004, A new peculiar subtype of renal cell carcinoma, which later received the name of tubulocystic carcinoma (TCC-RC), was recognized. Though the tumor has distinct macroscopic, microscopic and immunohistochemical features, the tumor was previously considered to have some similarities to various other renal cancers. We did an extensive review of literature using PubMed and CrossRef, which yielded more than 80 cases reported from various parts of the world. We evaluated the epidemiology, tumor presentations, pathological characteristics, treatment, and outcome of TCC-RC.
Measurement and analysis for cat eye characteristics of sky target

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

At present, there are many theory analysis on the cat eye characteristics of different targets, but the experiment for cat eye characteristics measurement of dynamic sky target has not been reported. In order to validate the feasibility of the detection of the cat eye effect of the sky target through active laser, an experiment for cat eye characteristics measurement of sky target is designed and put into practice. Firstly, based on the theory analysis of the cat eye characteristics of the sky target, a scheme of the experiment for cat eye characteristics measurement is designed. Then the main technology difficulties of the experiment and correspondingly resolving methods are brought forward, and the experiment is put into practice through the flow. Finally, a cat eye characteristics index is brought forward to analyse the measurement data, which can give a suitable evaluation to the implementation of the experiment. The experiment result indicates that the detection of the cat eye effect of the sky target through active laser is feasible.
The Life History of Schinia scissa (Grote) (Noctuidae: Heliothinae)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Schinia scissa (Grote) is endemic to Florida and one of the most rarely-encountered North American flower moths (Heliothinae), known to science from less than 10 specimens for nearly 150 years. The life history and larval host plant, previously unknown, is documented here for the first time. Larvae feed on the flowering parts of Arcadian St. John's Wort (Hypericum edisonianum, Hypericaceae), and circumstantial evidence indicates other Hypericum species may be suitable hosts as well.
Guidance and best practices for nuclear cardiology laboratories during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: An Information Statement from ASNC and SNMMI

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

1022 Purpose: The programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunohistochemistry correlates moderately with the response to PD-L1 immunomodulatory therapy. Here we present the initial results from the studies to assess the feasibility of non-invasive PD-L1 imaging with 68Ga-WL12 (a 12-mer anti-PD-L1 peptide) radiotracer from animal experiments to the first-in-human study. Methods: PD-L1 binding peptide, NOTA-WL12, was synthesized by custom services with >95% chemical purity. , we generated 68Ga-WL12 with high specific radioactivity and radiochemical purity. We select human non-small cell lung cancer cells ( HCC827) , which with moderate expression of PD-L1. To demonstrate PD-L1-specific binding of 68Ga-WL12, both binding affinity test and cell uptakes were carried out with excess WL12. Normal Mice were used for PET/CT imaging and biodistribution study. Finally, we recruited a patient ( 80 years old female ;ethical approval No.2019KT) with non-small cell lung cancer who was positive for PD-L1(>80%) and performed PET/CT imaging with 68Ga-WL12 before and after immunomodulatory therapy.
Results: To demonstrate PD-L1 specificity and cell uptake, we generated 68Ga-WL12 with radiochemical purity >99% after purification, specific activity 27.8-111.2 GBq/umol. High 68Ga-WL12 uptake was observed in PD-L1-positive HCC827 cells. TO confirming radiotracer specificity, we observed a significant reduction in bound 68Ga-WL12 in the presence of the excess unmodified peptide, indicating that 68Ga-WL12 binding to PD-L1 is specific. We performed PET imaging of the tumor model with 68Ga-WL12. The uptake value was consistent with tracer biodistribution. Finally, in this first-in-human assessment of 68Ga-WL12, we show that the imaging signal corresponds to PD-L1 expression at sites of the primary tumor and metastatic focus. The SUVpeak of different tumor lesions ranged from 2.0 to 6.0. The SUV value of PD-L1 positive tumors decreased significantly after immunomodulatory therapy.
Conclusions: In this study, we demonstrated that 68Ga-WL12 exhibited a high affinity to PD-L1 in the Cell uptake experiment in vitro. 68Ga-WL12 demonstrated PD-L1 specific uptake first-in-human study. Therefore, 68Ga-WL12 PET/CT imaging may be a useful tool to assess PD-L1 expression in lesions. Future clinical studies are needed to confirm our findings in a larger patient population, to comprehensively assess different 68Ga-WL12 uptake features in combination with other clinical data to optimize therapy response prediction, and to evaluate whether 68Ga-WL12 PET could also be used as a response predictor for treatment with other monoclonal antibodies targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis.
Servizi legali, regolamentazione e mercato negli Stati Uniti

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The paper focuses on the market of legal services in the US. The author depicts some of the institutional features of the legal profession and the specific role that attorneys play in the US legal system. Public law and private law issues are analysed in depth. The article then turns to the recent tendency to consider the legal profession as a commercial activity subject, as any other, to antitrust scrutiny. In this perspective, the Sherman Act has been applied to unauthorized practice of law rules, professional advertisements bans, tariffs, considered as price fixing agreements, rules banning corporations of lawyers. The article finally draws some comparative remarks regarding the recent European debate on the modernization of liberal professions.
Evaluation and Clinical Application of a New Commercial Test Kit (Seralute-Total T3RIA) for Triiodothyronine Radioimmunoassay

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

RIAを利用した血清T3測定用キット (Seralute-Total T3 RIA) の検討を行ない, 臨床例において血清T3測定を行なった。被験血清 (100～200μl) と, 125I-T3-アルカリ溶液をSephadex G25小カラムに添加, T3, 125I-T3をカラムに吸着させたのち, 抗T3抗体を加えインキュベート, のちカラムを洗い残置する125I-T3を計測 (遊離分画) , 標準曲線よりその濃度を推定した。最小検出濃度, 10ng/dl, 測定内および測定間の変動係数3%といずれも良好であった。臨床例の測定値は健常者, 159±29ng/dl (n=40) , 甲状腺機能低下症, 65±31ng/dl (n=20) , 同亢進症, 450±174ng/dl (n=20) , 妊娠, 224±38ng/dl (n=10) , 血漿サイロキシン結合グロブリン増加症, 224～328ng/dl, 血漿サイロキシン結合グロブリン減少症50～98ng/dl, ネフローゼおよび肝硬変, 58～115ng/dlであった。
Hospice Administrators' Knowledge of Music Therapy: A Comparative Analysis of Surveys

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Journal Article Hospice Administrators' Knowledge of Music Therapy: A Comparative Analysis of Surveys Get access Russell E. Hilliard Russell E. Hilliard State University of New York at New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Music Therapy Perspectives, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 104–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/22.2.104 Published: 01 November 2004
ІНСТИТУЦІИНІ ПЕРЕТВОРЕННЯ В СИСТЕМІ ДЕРЖАВНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ ЗЕМЕЛЬНИМИ РЕСУРСАМИ

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Today one of the problems is the fact that a significant part of the management team of different levels of government management is not well acquainted with the real state of the economy of the country and the necessity of its urgent reforming, which objectively impedes the transition to a new, more progressive, model of management of the country. Thus, a well- grounded judgment those radical changes in human resources policy have long been on time.The scientific and theoretical aspects of the infrastructure restructuring of Ukraine’s economy, its structural elements and institutional ways of state management of land resources are researched in the article. General tendencies of decreasing of economic indicators in the most significant spheres of economy of the country, including the land one, are investigated on the basis of the continuation of the destructive influence of crisis phenomena due to the global financial crisis.It is pointed out the importance of a radical change of the vector of the investment policy of the state from the passive and expectation one to the dynamically active one, which will give the opportunity to obtain modern technologies that are extremely necessary today, taking into account the miserable state of science in the state
Effectiveness of a Soft Robotic Glove to Assist Hand Function in Stroke Patients: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Purpose. Stroke patients have difficulty performing tasks using their paretic hands. There are limited data on the effects of using a soft robotic glove to assist with hand function. The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a soft robotic glove in assisting hand function in stroke patients. Methods. This study was a cross-sectional pilot study. Twenty stroke patients with partial or complete hand weakness were recruited from a rehabilitation centre. The Box and Block Test (BBT) and the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) were performed under two conditions: with and without use of the soft robotic glove. The order of the conditions was randomly assigned by a computer-generated program. Results. BBT scores increased 6.4 blocks when using the soft robotic glove ( p < 0.001 ). ARAT grasp, grip, pinch, and overall scores increased by 27.08% ( p < 0.01 ), 28.75% ( p < 0.001 ), 15.89% ( p < 0.01 ), and 21.15% ( p < 0.001 ), respectively, using the glove versus not using the glove. Conclusions. The findings of this study suggest that using a soft robotic glove can assist a poststroke paretic hand in executing grasp, grip, and pinch.