jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Language Intervention via Text-Based Tele-AAC: A Case Study Comparing On-site and Telepractice Services

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

There is a shortage of qualified speech and language pathologists (SLPs) to not only meet the needs of students with a variety of communicative disabilities, but also the needs of those students with severe impairments who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Special education administrators need to consider additional methods of service delivery, such as telepractice. However, there is limited evidence regarding the efficacy of services delivered to students using AAC via telepractice as opposed to face-to-face services. This study examines the effectiveness of services provided using both methodologies, and aims to provide some validation of telepractice as an alternative treatment method. Using a single-subject design to compare performance outcomes, a 7 year-old male participant, who used a Vantage Plus™ device with an 84-sequenced overlay, was studied over an eight-week period, with four weeks of on-site therapy immediately followed by four weeks of telepractice therapy. Student progress was measured by comparing outcomes in both conditions to baseline data with respect to short-term goals focused on grammatical morphemes. The results indicate that the performance outcomes were comparable in both conditions. The authors discuss the implications of using telepractice to deliver direct intervention and future applications of telepractice as a service delivery model for individuals using AAC.
High expression of TMEM40 contributes to progressive features of tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Transmembrane protein 40 (TMEM40) is a 23‑kDa protein and its association with tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the expression and clinical significance of TMEM40 in TSCC and its roles in TSCC cells. Immunohistochemical analysis was performed to detect the expression levels of TMEM40 in 60 tongue tissue samples. Furthermore, TMEM40 was overexpressed and inhibited in two TSCC cell lines by transfection with pEZ‑M98‑TMEM40 plasmid or TMEM40 small interfering RNA, respectively. Cell Counting Kit‑8 and colony formation assays were used to investigate the effects of TMEM40 on cell proliferation and colony formation ability, respectively. Flow cytometry was performed to determine cell apoptosis and cycle conditions of transfected cells. Wound‑healing and Transwell assays were processed to explore the effects of TMEM40 on cell migration and invasion, respectively. The results indicated that TMEM40 expression levels were significantly increased in TSCC tissues compared with adjacent normal tongue tissues (P<0.01). Clinicopathological analysis revealed that TMEM40 expression was positively correlated with pathological TNM (pTNM) status (P<0.05), histological grade (P<0.001) and clinical stage (P<0.01), but not with sex or age. Results of cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration and invasion assays indicated that when TMEM40 had been successfully overexpressed or knocked down in CAL27 and SCC9 TSCC cell lines, cell growth and invasion increased in the TMEM40 overexpressing cells, while they decreased in TMEM40‑knockdown cells. Furthermore, experiments revealed that TMEM40 knockdown resulted in increased levels of p53 and Bax, and decreased levels of MMP‑9, which indicated that TMEM40 regulated cell apoptosis and migration via involvement of p53, Bax and MMP‑9 in TSCC cells. Our findings indicated that increased expression of TMEM40 contributed to progressive features of TSCC via regulation of p53, Bax and MMP‑9.
Immediate impact of hyaluronic and methylcellulose artificial tears on tear film stability

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Purpose To evaluate immediate impact of hyaluronic and methylcellulose artificial tears on tear film stability. Methods We performed keratography with tear film analyze in 21 volunteers using Keratograph 4 (Oculus, Germany). After base measurement, volunteers received topical artificial tears drops containing 0.15% Sodium Hyaluronate into right eye and 0.5% Carboxyl Methylcellulose into left eye. After 15 and 30 minutes keratography measurements were repeated. Results In keratography analyzes we observed 4 types of tear film instability, short‐time break‐up on small area or big area, long‐time break‐up on small or big area. Mean size of tear meniscus in right eyes before drops was 0.3±0.1 mm and 0.32±0.09/0.33±0.09 mm 15/30 minutes after hyaluronic drops respectively (p<0.05, Kruskal‐Wallis test). In left eyes tear meniscus size was 0.32±0.1/0.33±0.1/0.34±0.1 mm respectively before and after methylcellulose drops (p<0.05, Kruskal‐Wallis test). First and mean non‐invasive break‐up‐time in right eyes was 10.7/16.8 sec before drops and 12/18; 12/17 – 15 and 30 minutes after hyaluronic drops application (p>0.05, Kruskal‐Wallis test). In left eyes these parameters were 12/16; 13/18 and 13/17 sec respectively before and after methylcellulose drops (p>0.05, Kruskal‐Wallis test). Conclusion Immediate impact of hyaluronic and methylcellulose artificial tears on tear film seems to be related more to increase of tear meniscus size, not to tear film break‐up time or break‐up surface. Keratograhy measurements allow for detail analyzes of tear film state, which includes not only break‐up time but also break‐up surface, which could be novel indicator for tear film stability impossible to measure in classic slit lamp.
Design and Evaluation of Temporal Summarization Systems

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Temporal Summarization (TS) is a new track introduced as part of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) in 2013. This track aims to develop systems which can return important updates related to an event over time. In TREC 2013, the TS track specifically used disaster related events such as earthquake, hurricane, bombing, etc. This thesis mainly focuses on building an effective TS system by using a combination of Information Retrieval techniques. The developed TS system returns updates related to disaster related events in a timely manner. \n \nBy participating in TREC 2013 and with experiments conducted after TREC, we examine the effectiveness of techniques such as distributional similarity for term expansion, which can be employed in building TS systems. Also, this thesis describes the effectiveness of other techniques such as stemming, adaptive sentence selection over time and de-duplication in our system, by comparing it with other baseline systems. \n \nThe second part of the thesis examines the current methodology used for evaluating TS systems. We propose a modified evaluation method which could reduce the manual effort of assessors, and also correlates well with the official track’s evaluation. We also propose a supervised learning based evaluation method, which correlates well with the official track’s evaluation of systems and could save the assessor’s time by as much as 80%.
Opportunity areas for expanding Kirtland's warbler nesting habitat in Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) is a long-distance Neotropical migratory bird with narrow suitable nesting habitat conditions consisting of dense, young (3â20 year) jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests growing on nutrient-poor and well-drained soils primarily within northern Lower Michigan. The Kirtland's warbler was officially delisted after more than 50 years of conservation and management activities following initial listing in 1966 under the U.S. Endangered Species Preservation Act (Byelich et al. 1976). However, Kirtland's warbler is considered a conservation-reliant species, meaning their sustained presence on the landscape requires continued management intervention. Expanding their nesting habitat is a key element in continuing conservation actions outlined by the Kirtland's Warbler Conservation Team. To this end, known characteristics of jack pine ecosystems suitable for nesting Kirtland's warblers were used to identify opportunities for expanding their nesting habitat across Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.Visit the Research Data Archive to view the Geodatabase containing opportunity areas for expanding Kirtland's warbler nesting habitat in Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan (.2 KB)
An Analysis of Teacher's Knowledge about Reductio Ad Absurdum -Focused on 'Subject Matter Knowledge' and 'Knowledge of Students' Understanding'-

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

The aim of this study was to analyze characteristics of teachers' knowledge about reductio ad absurdum. In order to achieve the aim, this study conducted didactical analysis about reductio ad absurdum through examining previous researches and developed a questionnaire with reference to the results of the analysis. The questionnaire was given to 34 high school teachers and qualitative methods were used to analyze the data obtained from the written responses by the participants. This study also elaborated the framework descriptors for interpreting the teachers' responses in the light of the didactical analysis and the data was elucidated in terms of this framework. The specific features of teachers' knowledge about reductio ad absurdum were categorized into five types as a result. This study raised several implications for teachers' professional development for effective mathematics instruction related to reductio ad absurdum.
US EPA green-lights paraquat

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

The acutely toxic herbicide paraquat can stay on the US market with new safety measures to reduce farmworker exposures, the Environmental Protection Agency says in an interim decision announced Aug. 2. The decision comes as the pesticide's manufacturer Syngenta and distributor Chevron Phillips Chemical face more than 100 lawsuits from agricultural workers who claim that exposure to paraquat contributed to their Parkinson's disease. The EPA acknowledges the acute toxicity of paraquat, stating on its website , "One small sip can be fatal and there is no antidote." But the agency dismisses several scientific studies that link paraquat exposure to Parkinson's disease, claiming the studies vary in quality and provide conflicting results. Under the Trump administration, the EPA proposed banning most aerial spraying of paraquat. But after reviewing data from the pesticide industry, the agency now says aerial applications are allowed with some restrictions, including no-spray buffers in residential areas. Other
A critical-density closed universe in Brans-Dicke theory

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

In a Brans-Dicke (BD) cosmological model, the energy density associated with some scalar field decreases as $\displaystyle a^{{-2}(\frac{\omega_{o}+ {\frac12}%}{\omega_{o}+1})} $ with the scale factor $a(t)$ of the Universe, giving a matter with an Equation of state $\displaystyle p=-{1/3}(\frac{2+\omega_{o}}{1+\omega_{o}}) \rho $. In this model, the Universe could be closed but still have a nonrelativistic-matter density corresponding to its critical value, $\Omega_{o}=1$. Different cosmological expressions, such as, luminosity distance, angular diameter, number count and ratio of the redshift tickness-angular size, are determined in terms of the redshift for this model.
Capabilities for Use of Improved Catfish Production Technologies among Fish Farmers in Delta State, Nigeria

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The survey was conducted to assess use of improved catfish production technologies among fish farmers in Delta State, Nigeria. Data were collected from a sample of 50 different fish farmers in Delta State using questionnaire. Frequency, percentage and mean score were used in analyzing data for the study. Results indicated that majority (70.0%) of the respondents were male, 40.0% were between the ages of 25 and 34 years, 72.0% were married, 60.0% had a household size of 6-10 persons, 50.0% got an annual income of above ₦300,000 with 92.0% having formal education. Sources of funds for the respondents were personal savings (60.0%), friends/relations (20.0%), cooperative society (12.0%) and loans from banks (8.0%). Findings showed that improved catfish production technologies used by the respondents included fortification of cat fish feeds using root and tuber crops (M= 2.2), improved techniques in pond construction and maintenance (M= 1.7), non-conventional feed stuff for catfish (M= 1.6), fertilization and liming of catfish pond (M= 1.6), improving water quality in catfish culture (M= 1.3), prevention and control of catfish diseases (M=1.0), among others. Also, constraints to use of improved catfish production technologies were inadequate processing and storage facilities (M= 2.5), disease infestation (M= 2.3), high cost of feeds (M= 2.2), high cost of inputs (M= 2.1), inadequate funds (M= 2.1), poor market network (M= 2.0), etc. The study recommended that financial institutions should ensure timely availability of credit facilities to enable catfish farmers make provision for improved processing and storage facilities in order to boost their productivity.
[A Case of Chemotherapy with Low-Dose Paclitaxel and Bevacizumab for Elderly Recurrent Breast Cancer Patient].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

An 86-year-old woman underwent mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy for cStage ⅡA breast cancer. The subtype of tumor was triple negative breast cancer. Pulmonary metastasis was found 1 month after surgery. Chemotherapy was done because of her good performance status(PS)and her hope. Administration of S-1 produced SD status of tumor for 8 months. However, NCC-ST-439 was increased and tumor size was enlarged. Therefore, the second line of chemotherapy by low-dose- biweekly paclitaxel and bevacizumab was planned because of her high age and good PS. Thereafter, tumor maker levels dramatically decreased and lung metastasis turned to be small. This therapy had been continued without any severe adverse events for 9 months. Unfortunately, this therapy was failed because of proteinuria, but pulmonary metastasis kept favorable efficacy during administration. Biweekly low-dose paclitaxel and bevacizumab therapy can be safe and effective therapy even for elderly patient with recurrent and metastatic breast cancer.
Land of a Thousand Hills: Socioeconomic Development in Post-Conflict Rwanda

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Crooked Trails seeks to expand its education abroad opportunities with the introduction of a new thematic program in the subject area of socioeconomic development. This four-week, short-term study abroad program was developed in partnership with Western Washington University and is scheduled to take place in Rwanda during August and September of 2008. Land of a Thousand Hills: Socioeconomic Development in Post-Conflict Rwanda is based upon sound theories of international education, such as experiential learning, and also employs the use of a new philosophical approach, appreciative inquiry. Throughout this program, students will meet, work, study and live with local Rwandans, thus furthering Crooked Trails mission to help people “broaden their understanding of the planet and its diverse cultures though education, community development and responsible travel” (“Crooked Trails,” Mission Statement section, 2006).
Labour Shortages in Saskatchewan

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

The predictions in the media and from think tanks sound altogether alarming: Saskatchewan, with its booming economy, could be facing a worker shortage so severe that it could drastically hobble the province’s ultimate economic potential. While the world craves only more of Saskatchewan’s abundant natural resources, the province won’t possibly be able to keep up, due to a scarcity of workers that could be as significant as one-fifth of the labour supply by 2020. The Saskatchewan government has rushed to analyze the predicament, issuing reports that urgently seek solutions. But it hasn’t really developed any solutions. In fact, it hasn’t done much about the supposedly looming crisis at all. And that, actually, might just be all it can — and should — do. In truth, Saskatchewan can’t be sure it will be facing a serious shortage, or any shortage, at all. And any attempt by the provincial government to substantially intervene in the labour market could cause more problems for employers and the economy, than it addresses. Saskatchewan’s labour market has already shown a remarkable ability to adjust, on its own, to the commodities boom, and what employers today call a shortage, could well just be everyone getting used to a much tighter, but still very functional, labour market. The province’s lack of action did mean it missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redirect a huge cohort of Gen-Y students into training for trades that are in high demand (that cohort is already in its mid-20s and finished, or finishing, its career training). That was a mistake. But one big thing the Saskatchewan government can still do to help employers — and workers — is to stop making the strains on labour worse by launching imminent public infrastructure projects that compete with the private sector for labour. Instead, the province should plan those for when the boom slows down and workers need the jobs. It should also abandon any ideas of ramping up the import of temporary foreign workers to fill short-term job vacancies: those workers have a way of dampening wage signals that would draw more permanent, and therefore desirable, workers to the province. What few things the province could be actively doing, it should do anyway. It should help retrain workers with skills in low-demand for jobs in higher demand. It should recruit migrants from other provinces and overseas to settle in Saskatchewan. It should carefully review its post-secondary education system to minimize drop-out rates from apprenticeship programs and to ensure it is training people to match the economy’s demands. And it should be finding ways to mobilize large portions of the population that could be working, yet aren’t, including underemployed males and Aboriginals, but also the elderly and disabled. If there is, indeed, a shortage somewhere in Saskatchewan’s future, having those people working can only help. But even if there is never a shortage, having large pools of potential labour sitting idle is something that will truly limit Saskatchewan’s economic potential.
Two-Tone Forward Masking Patterns and Tinnitus

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Forward masking is the masking of a signal by a preceding masker. For normal observers, if two tones are employed as the forward masker, the addition of the second tone (which increases the masker energy) may make the signal easier to hear. This decrease in the masking effect (or unmasking) has been interpreted as evidence for lateral suppression in hearing. For five subjects with tinnitus, all of whom have a sensorineural loss caused by noise trauma or noise exposure, there is no unmasking for (at least) one signal frequency in the region of the tinnitus. However, unmasking does occur for (at least) one signal frequency in the region without tinnitus. The frequency region of the tinnitus is inferred from pitch matches and from determination of the frequency region of the noise needed to mask it. For comparison, data from three normal subjects also are included. For the subjects with tinnitus, two-tone forward masking patterns are decidedly different in the normal and the tinnitus regions.
A.K. Sandoval-Strausz. Hotel: An American History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-10616-9, $37.50 (cloth). - Rachel Sherman. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii + 366 pp. ISBN 0-520-24782-5, $21.95 (paper). - Wayne Koestenbaum. Hotel Theory. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2007. ix + 174 pp. ISBN 978-1-933368-69-6 (paper).

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

A.K. Sandoval-Strausz. Hotel: An American History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-10616-9, $37.50 (cloth). - Rachel Sherman. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii + 366 pp. ISBN 0-520-24782-5, $21.95 (paper). - Wayne Koestenbaum. Hotel Theory. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2007. ix + 174 pp. ISBN 978-1-933368-69-6 (paper). - Volume 9 Issue 4
Model Updating of a RC Frame Building using Response Surface Method and Multiobjective Optimization

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

본 논문에서는 반응표면법과 다목적최적화 기법을 이용한 유한요소모델개선기법의 절차를 제안하고 이를 저층의 철근콘 크리트건물의 모델개선에 적용하였다. 대상건물은 전단벽 신설 및 댐퍼부착을 위한 부재의 강재보강을 통해 내진보강이 이 루어진 건물로서 보강전후에 소형 가진기를 이용한 진동실험을 실시하여 동특성을 구하였다. 대상건물의 개선에 사용된 변 수는 기존콘크리트, 신규타설된 콘크리트, 조적의 탄성계수, 신축줄눈부의 스프링계수, 강재보강된 부재의 유효강성비이다. 보강전후 건물의 초기모델을 구축한 후 중심합성법에 따라 개선변수의 값을 변화시키면서 얻은 해석결과를 통해 고유진동 수의 오차와 모드형상의 오차를 나타내는 2개의 반응함수를 구하고, 이를 다목적최적화의 목적함수로 사용하였다.
Cytologic examination of post prostatic massage specimens as an aid in diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The results of cytologic examination fo post-massage prostatic secretion from symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects were evaluated by comparison with available tissue diagnosis. Specimens studied consisted of post-prostatic massage secretion and urine. The latter specimen gave much superior results. Although possibility of the cytologic diagnosis in prostatic carcinoma cases was limited, it proved to be reliable. Presently available short follow-up data indicate that this technique may play a role only as a diagnostic aid, however, its real value in prostatic cancer detection, could be only evaluated by long term follow-up of the "high risk" group.
Kleptoplasty in a shallow water benthic foraminifer, Haynesina germanica

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Some benthic foraminifera have the ability to incorporate functional chloroplasts from diatoms (kleptoplasty). Our objective was to investigate kleptoplast cellular organisation, functionality (O2 flux, C and N incorporation), pigment composition and photoprotection mechanism in one shallow water benthic foraminiferal species (Haynesina germanica). Different experimental strategies (light regimes, stable isotopes) and analytical methods (TEM observations, O2 microsensor, NanoSIMS, PAM fluorometry, reflectance and HPLC pigment analysis) were used.Haynesina germanica showed net oxygen production up to 1000 pmol.O2.cell-1.day-1. Its Fv/Fm (ratio informing about photosystem II functionality) slowly decreased from 0.65 to 0.55 in 7 days in darkness and quickly decreased to 0.2 under high light (70 µmol photons.m-2.s-1). Kleptoplast functional time was estimated between 11-21 days in darkness and between 7-8 days at HL. The H. germanica cells are able to assimilate 1) labelled bicarbonate( 13C) in some chloroplasts, lipid droplets, fibrillar vacuoles; and 2) ammonium (15N), in some chloroplasts, fibrillar vacuoles, nucleus, dense bodies, crystalline structures and unidentified organelles (NanoSIMS observations coupled to TEM). Pigment composition was similar to diatoms.A “functional” xanthophyll cycle was observed on H. germanica exposed to different short term light regimes. However, on long term experiments total pigment content decreases or d by more than 50% after 5 days of starvation and then slowly decreases over time (15 days). These results showed that Haynesina germanica kleptoplasts are able to be completely functional but only over a relatively short time. This strategy may be an advantage for this species if,continuous chloroplast resupply from food source.