jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Continuity, Coherence, and Change: Examining the Conditions for Effective Intervention Practices in an Urban School District

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Public school districts are responsible for ensuring that all of their students receive a high-quality education and achieve academic success. What, then, should a district do when a student is struggling to master grade level skills and content? Research indicates that using a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework in schools can increase the success of at-risk or struggling students. However, effective and full implementation of RtI is difficult to accomplish, especially throughout an entire district. Challenges to this effort come from a complex combination of factors, including confusing and conflicting policies, competing priorities, and a long history of educators working in isolation from each other. \nAs a resident in the City School District of New Rochelle, I dove deeply into the dynamics of executing a consistent, effective academic intervention system in the district's elementary schools. In this capstone, I detail how I explored New Rochelle's current intervention practices, and collaborated with staff from across the district to redesign systems and tools needed to provide targeted, appropriate supports to students at all schools. I also present the challenges New Rochelle may face when trying to implement these systems fully, and how I believe the district can address these challenges using their current assets and resources.\n\tUsing the Public Education Leadership Project's Coherence Framework and the eight-phase model for change developed by John Kotter, I analyze the successes and challenges of this work to date. Based on the lessons learned from this analysis, I present implications for the City School District of New Rochelle, the public education sector broadly, and my own future leadership, to advance the goal of ensuring all students receive the support they need to improve as learners and achieve academic success.
Liquid crystalline microphases of DNA molecules complexed with compounds of platinum(II)

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

The formation of liquid crystalline microphases (0.3 M NaClO 4 , and 120 and 170 mg PEG/ml) from low‐ M r DNA (salmon sperm) complexed with cis and trans dichlorodiamine‐platinum(II) was investigated. It was shown that the amplitude of the negative band in the CD spectrum, characteristic of a liquid crystalline microphase of DNA, decreased upon complexing with platinum compounds. It was estimated that the influence of cis Pt(II) on the optical properties of liquid crystalline microphase of DNA molecules strongly differed from the effect of trans Pt(II); the phenomenon did not depend on [PEG]. The reasons of the decrease of the negative band in the CD spectra of the DNA liquid crystalline microphases are discussed.
Initiating development : an evaluation of state brownfield redevelopment policies and initiatives : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

In response to the 1980 Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, states have taken measures to enact their own environmental clean-up policies and initiatives. Previous studies have analyzed different variables leading states to adopt such programs. This study continues this research, providing a comprehensive review of literature and testing hypotheses concerning the relationships between state population, EPA region, fiscal expenditures/revenues, and effort/investment, and using data collected by the Environmental Law Institute (2001), this paper uses multivariate regressions to analyze three models. Similar to previous work, this paper finds population, fiscal resources, and pollution severity as major factors affecting states' adoption of Brownfield redevelopment programs.
Sound, Anthropology of

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

The anthropology of sound asks and describes what it means to identify the physical phenomenon of vibration through a transmitting medium as an aspect of experience, conveying both particular forms of knowledge and social, political, and economic significations. It explores the possible relationships between the capacities for speech and hearing and modes of social and cultural organization as formulations of difference. It considers how it may be possible to invoke a conceptualization of sound that is irreducible to linguistic and musical structures but is conditioned by ecology, matter, and media. In this field, which draws from the anthropologies of music and language and intersects with ethnomusicology and the anthropologies of media, science, space, and the senses, sound is both a subject of study and a means of representation, with the main proponent of the field, Steven Feld, advocating sound‐recording practice as a necessary, sensory resource for ethnographic communication.
Is Satan a Lover of the Good?

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

There are, apparently, two inherited stories of intentional action. On the motivational story, intentional agents are pursuers of goals. On the evaluative story, intentional agents are pursuers of value. In a spirit of unification, we might try to supplement the motivational story with the evaluative one – or even collapse the former into the latter. The problem with such moves is that they cannot accomodate certain pathologies of agency. Thus, they convert apparently perverse agents – like Satan and self‐haters – into closet lovers of the good. I argue that pathological agents like Satan and self‐haters are not lovers of the good. They are just lovers of success in action. We can make sense of such agents as practical reasoners because the cares that constitute us as practical reasoners are plural.
The Beginnings of Church Discipline: 1 Corinthians 5

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Since the rise of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of Christian origins in the 1970s, little attention has been given to the problem of social control within the early church. This is true although control issues arose early in the Christian movement and have continued throughout Christian history. Before 1970 scholars treated the problem historically and theologically under the topic of discipline. Among scholars who utilize the social sciences in their approach to Christian origins, there are some scattered materials on internal social control but little direct, sustained investigation.
Effects of lisinopril and trimetazidine treating acute coronary artery syndrome combined with 2-type diabetes mellitus

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Objective To explore effects of lisinopril and trimetazidine treating acute coronary artery syndrome combined with 2-type diabetes mellitus, such as blood vessel endothelium function and glycosylated hemoglobin effect and heart blood vessel event of acute coronary artery syndrome combined with 2-type diabetes mellitus. Methods Therapy group offered lisinopril and trimetazidine, control group received traditional method, compared with curative effect of improving blood vessel endothelium function, depressing glycosylated hemoglobin, preventing and curing heart blood vessel event. Results Therapy group is better than control group in improving blood vessel endothelium function, depressing glycosylated hemoglobin, preventing and curing heart blood vessel event. Conclusion Lisinopril and trimetazidine can improve blood vessel endothelium function, depress glycosylated hemoglobin, prevent and cure heart blood vessel event of acute coronary artery syndrome combined wih 2-type diabetes mellitus.Patients can benefit from it in many ways.

Key words:
Lisinopril; Trimetazidine ; Blood vessel endothelium function ; Glycosylated hemoglobin; Heart event
A Systematic Review of UK Educational and Training Materials Aimed at Health and Social Care Staff about Providing Appropriate Services for LGBT+ People

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Background: There is greater dissatisfaction with health services by LGBT people compared to heterosexual and cisgender people and some of this is from lack of equality and diversity training for health professionals. Core training standards in sexual orientation for health professionals have been available since 2006. The purpose of this project is to systematically review educational materials for health and social care professionals in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Methods: A protocol was developed and searches conducted in six databases. Selection criteria: any studies reporting delivery or evaluation of UK education of health and/or social care professionals in LGBT issues, with no language or setting restrictions. Inclusions and data extraction were conducted in duplicate. Narrative synthesis of educational evaluations was used. Educational materials were assessed using thematic synthesis. Results: From the searches, 165 full papers were evaluated and 19 studies were included in the narrative synthesis. Three were successful action-research projects in cancer services and in residential care. Sixteen sets of educational/training materials have been available since 2010. These varied in length, scope, target audience, and extent of development as classroom-ready materials. Conclusions: Despite the availability of appropriate training programmes for post-qualifying staff, recommendations to undertake training, best practice examples, and statements of good intent, LGBT people continue to report that they are experiencing discrimination or direct prejudice from health and/or social care services. Better training strategies using behaviour change techniques are needed.
Effect of Linseed Oil Calcium Salt on the Methane Emission and Carcass Characteristics of Beef Cattle.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

褐毛和種去勢牛12頭を,アマニ油脂肪酸カルシウムを4%添加した濃厚飼料を給与する油脂区(6頭)と無添加の濃厚飼料を給与する対照区(6頭)に分け,14ヵ月齢から10ヵ月間肥育を行い,この間のメタン発生と肥育成績を比較検討した.乾物摂取量(DMI)あたりのメタン発生量は,有意な差ではなったが,試験期間を通じて対照区よりも油脂区で小さな値を示した.また,アマニ油脂肪酸カルシウム添加によるメタン発生の減少量は不飽和脂肪酸摂取量から計算される減少量の7割程度であったことから,アマニ油脂肪酸カルシウムはメタン発生抑制に効果があったと考えられた.油脂区は対照区よりも増体成績が優れ,日増体量あたりのメタン発生量は,有意な差ではないものの13%低い値を示した.以上の結果からアマニ油脂肪酸カルシウムの添加は,DMIあたりのメタン発生を抑制し,増体成績を改善することにより,増体あたりのメタン発生量を削減する可能性が示唆された.
[Courses in health education as interventions in industry].

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Following a brief overview of approaches to workplace health promotion and more specifically of health education courses the paper describes the objectives, contents and methods of a new health course for workers at elevated health risk. This course was developed as part of a comprehensive workplace intervention programme. It comprises three consecutive modules, coping with stress, nutrition, and fitness, each consisting of five 75-minute lessons. Due to intervals of several months between the modules the whole course takes about a year. Course objectives are to improve awareness of own health-related life-style, to mobilise health resources and to develop potentials for health action. Instructional methods include teaching of relevant knowledge, exchange of experience, observational tasks as well as practical exercises.
Improving Major League Baseball Park Factor Estimates

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

The study of Park Factors (PF) is essential to the correct evaluation of player performance in Major League Baseball. We have identified two important problems with the commonly used formula which has been popularized by ESPN: it produces variable results due to unbalanced scheduling, and it has an inherent inflationary bias. To address these problems, we develop a new estimator for Park Factors using an ANOVA weighted fixed-effects model for run generation. Using simulated data, in addition to run data from 2000 through 2006, we show that this new estimator does not have the biases of the old estimator. From a strategic viewpoint, accurate PF values are needed to properly evaluate free agents and trade proposals, as well as to compare players for postseason awards. We develop a method to adjust statistics using Park Factors called a Neutral Park Adjustment (NPA), which takes into account the Park Factors of the entire schedule of a player, not simply their home park.
Updated study of peripartum cardiomyopathy and preeclampsia

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

HIGHLIGHTS 1. Cardiovascular disease that occurs during pregnancy is the peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM).2. Literature on the association between preeclampsia (PE) and PPCM was reviewed.3. It was not certain whether PE is the independent risk factor of PPCM or an early predictor of PPCM development. ABSTRACT Objectives: This paper aims to review the literature related to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) and preeclampsia (PE) in order to know their frequency and relationship and the current knowledge on their pathophysiology and management. Materials and Methods: The articles reviewed in this study were primary clinical studies published around 2016 and 2021, retrieved using Google Scholar and PUBMED databases. After several evaluations, 14-full-text studies written in English were examined. Results: Overall prevalence of PE in PPCM cases varied, about 9.9% - 44% in the individual studies. The lactation hormone prolactin and placental-derived anti-angiogenic factor soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt-1), which had been known to be able to cause cardiac dysfunction, were elevated in both PE and PPCM. This partly explained the pathophysiology that the incidence of concurrent PE in women diagnosed with PPCM was four times more than that in the general population. Conclusion: Epidemiologic studies showed significant overlap between PE and PPCM patients. However, there were not enough good quality data to fully draw conclusions about the relationship between PE and PPCM, whether PE as the independent risk factor of PPCM or an early predictor of PPCM development.
Effetto della posizione degli ovoli sulla produttivita del carciofo spinoso di sicilia

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In Sicily, the Spinoso di Sicilia artichoke is appreciated at regional level for its organoleptic characteristics, but in recent years, its cultivation area has been subject to a progressive reduction because of its susceptibility at the atrophy of head, low earliness, low productivity, and lack of uniformity of the productions. These problems are due to genetic variability, diseases and disforme propagation material (ovoli). This study was conducted to evaluate the influence of the ovoli position (apical, median and basal) in the rhizome of mother plants on morpho-phisiological and productive aspects of the artichokes. The results showed that basal ovoli gave faster growth, better plant cover, earliness and high productivity but even an increased atrophy of principal head.
A comparison of the growth performance of exotic and indigenous chickens in Lesotho

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A study was conducted on growth performance of the Lesotho indigenous chicken (LES) compared to two exotic lines, the New Hampshire (NH) and Rhode Island Red (RIR), from 3-days to 70 weeks of age, when moulting occurred. Growth traits that were under study included 3-day weight, 26-week weight, 70week weight, average daily gain (ADG), average weekly gain (AWG) and mean feed conversion ratio (FCR). Although the mean body weight, ADG and FCR for the LES were significantly poorer than those for the NH and RIR for all traits except for the FCR and hen weight at 70 weeks of age, the LES hens compared fairly well with the exotic lines for the growth parameters considered. No significant differences were observed in hen weight at 70 weeks of age between the lines. The LES, like the NH showed potential for being a good dual-purpose breed under a semi-intensive production system, as they were able to achieve an acceptable body weight at the end of the egg laying period. However, the LES cocks recorded lower body weight gains and body weight at 70 weeks of age, compared to the exotic breeds. This contributed to the significantly lower weight gains observed in the LES line between three days and 26 weeks of age. Intensive selection in males and the implementation of a planned breeding and an adequate husbandry program could result in an improvement of the traits studied in the LES.
Stochastic modeling of neurobiological time series: Power, coherence, Granger causality, and separation of evoked responses from ongoing activity

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

In this article we consider the stochastic modeling of neurobiological time series from cognitive experiments. Our starting point is the variable-signal-plus-ongoing-activity model. From this model a differentially variable component analysis strategy is developed from a Bayesian perspective to estimate event-related signals on a single trial basis. After subtracting out the event-related signal from recorded single trial time series, the residual ongoing activity is treated as a piecewise stationary stochastic process and analyzed by an adaptive multivariate autoregressive modeling strategy which yields power, coherence, and Granger causality spectra. Results from applying these methods to local field potential recordings from monkeys performing cognitive tasks are presented.
Medication adherence early after stroke: using the Perceptions and Practicalities Framework to explore stroke survivors’, informal carers’ and nurses’ experiences of barriers and solutions

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Background Secondary prevention medication after stroke reduces risk of recurrence, but adherence is often poor. Stroke survivors’, carers’ and nurses’ perspectives of early post-stroke medication adherence are unexplored. Aim The aim of this study was to explore stroke survivors’, carers’ and nurses’ views and experiences about adhering to medication early after post-stroke hospital discharge. Methods Qualitative individual and group interviews, utilising the Perceptions and Practicalities Framework, were employed. Nine people <2 months post-stroke, three carers and 15 nurses from one UK stroke unit participated. Interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed. Results There were four main themes with two sub-themes. (1) Perceptions of medication taking after stroke. Factors affecting adherence included depression, imperceptible benefits and concerns about adverse effects. (2) Perceptions about those at higher risk of poor medication adherence. Nurses suggested that poor adherence might be more likely in those living alone or with previous non-adherence. (3) Practicalities of taking medication early after stroke; these included post-stroke disabilities, cognition, polypharmacy and lack of information. (4a) Practicalities of addressing poor medication adherence during the hospital stay. Solutions included multidisciplinary co-ordination, but nurses and stroke survivors described suboptimal use of opportunities to promote adherence. (4b) Practicalities of addressing poor medication adherence post-discharge. Solutions included modifications and support from carers, but stroke survivors reported difficulties in evolving systems for taking medications. Conclusions Stroke survivors and informal carers lack knowledge and support needed to manage medication early after discharge. Nurses’ opportunities to promote medication adherence are under-exploited. Medication adherence strategies to support stroke survivors early after discharge are needed.
Design of “Click” Fluorescent Labeled 2′-deoxyuridines via C5-[4-(2-Propynyl(methyl)amino)]phenyl Acetylene as a Universal Linker: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Interaction with BSA

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Microenvironment-sensitive fluorescent nucleosides present attractive advantages over single-emitting dyes for sensing inter-biomolecular interactions involving DNA. Herein, we report the rational design and synthesis of triazolyl push-pull fluorophore-labeled uridines via the intermediacy of C5-[4-(2-propynyl(methyl)amino)]phenyl acetylene as a universal linker. The synthesized nucleosides showed interesting solvatochromic characteristic and/or intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) features. A few of them also exhibited dual-emitting characteristics evidencing our designing concept. The HOMO-LUMO distribution showed that the emissive states of these nucleosides were characterized with more significant electron redistribution between the C5-[4-(2-propynyl(methyl)amino)]phenyl triazolyl donor moiety and the aromatic chromophores linked to it, leading to modulated emission property. The solvent polarity sensitivity of these nucleosides was also tested. The synthesized triazolyl benzonitrile (10C), naphthyl (10E), and pyrenyl (10G) nucleosides were found to exhibit interesting ICT and dual (LE/ICT) emission properties. The dual-emitting pyrenyl nucleoside maintained a good ratiometric response in the BSA protein microenvironment, enabling the switch-on ratiometric sensing of BSA as the only protein biomolecule. Thus, it is expected that the new fluorescent nucleoside analogues would be useful in designing DNA probes for nucleic acid analysis or studying DNA-protein interactions via a drastic change in fluorescence response due to a change in micropolarity.
Autophagy in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Autophagy (or macroautophagy) is a key cellular process that removes damaged molecules (particularly proteins) and subcellular organelles to maintain cellular homeostasis. There is growing evidence that abnormalities in autophagy may contribute to the pathogenesis of many chronic diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In asthma, increased autophagy plays a role in promoting type 2 immune responses and eosinophilic inflammation, whereas decreased autophagy may be important in neutrophilic asthma. Acute exposure to cigarette smoke may activate autophagy, resulting in ciliary dysfunction and death of airway epithelial cells, whereas in stable COPD most studies have demonstrated an impairment in autophagy, with reduced autophagic flux and accumulation of abnormal mitochondria (defective mitophagy) and linked to cellular senescence. Autophagy may be increased or decreased in different cell types and depending on the cellular environment, making it difficult to target autophagy therapeutically. Several existing drugs may activate autophagy, including rapamycin, metformin, carbamazepine, cardiac glycosides and statins, whereas others, such as chloroquine, inhibit this process. However, these drugs are nonspecific and more selective drugs are now in development, which may prove useful as novel agents to treat asthma and COPD in the future.