jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Occupational exposure to high frequency electromagnetic fields and its effect on human immune parameters.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The present study recorded a considerable excess of recommended exposure limits in the vicinity of shortwave diathermy devices used for medical treatment of patients. Different kinds of field probes were used to measure electric and magnetic field strength and the whole body exposure of medical personnel operating shortwave, decimeter wave and microwave units was calculated. To investigate the influence of chronic exposure on the immune system of operators, blood was sampled from physiotherapists working at the above mentioned devices. Eighteen exposed and thirteen control persons, matched by sex and age, were examined. Total leucocyte and lymphocyte counts were performed and leucocytic subpopulations determined by flow cytometry and monoclonal antibodies against surface antigens. In addition, to quantify subpopulations of immunocompetent cells, the activity of lymphocytes was measured. Lymphocytes were stimulated by mitogen phytohemagglutinin and their proliferation measured by a flow cytometric method. No statistically significant differences between the control and exposed persons were found. In both study groups all immune parameters were within normal ranges.
SH1410539.08FU

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

UNITE provides a unified way for delimiting, identifying, communicating, and working with DNA-based Species Hypotheses (SH). All fungal ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are clustered to approximately the species level by applying a set of dynamic distance values (<0.5 - 3.0%). All species hypotheses are given a unique, stable name in the form of a DOI, and their taxonomic and ecological annotations are verified through distributed, web-based third-party annotation efforts. SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification as far as possible (phylum, class, order, etc.) by taking into account identifications for all sequences in the SH. An automatically or manually designated sequence is chosen to represent each such SH. These sequences are released (https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php) for use by the scientific community in, for example, local sequence similarity searches and next-generation sequencing analysis pipelines. The system and the data are updated automatically as the number of public fungal ITS sequences grows.
Fermi- and non-Fermi-liquid ground states in Mx_xUxPd 3

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

A growing number of chemically substituted intermetallic compounds of Ce and U exhibit non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior in their low temperature physical properties and apparently constitute a new class of strongly correlated f-electron materials. In this paper, we update the experimental situation for the archetypal NFL f-electron system Y1 xU~Pd3 and briefly describe recent experiments on the related systems M 1 _ xUxPd 3 (M-- Sc, La, Pr, Zr, Th). 1.
Restoring what? The practice, promise and perils of restorative justice in New Zealand

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

In the opening pages of his recent book Crime, Punishment, and Restorative Justice, American author Ross London tells of what prompted him to embark on the journey of discovery that led to the writing of the book. After more than 25 years of professional involvement in the criminal justice system as an attorney, a public defender and a municipal judge, London found himself asking the question: ‘Is this the best we can do?’
How Does Your Radiation Oncology Service Line Measure Up?

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeri U. GuidiTeri U. Guidi, MBA, FAAMA, is president and CEO, and Elaine Kloos, RN, NE-BC, MBA, is senior consultant, Oncology Management Consulting Group.Elaine KloosTeri U. Guidi, MBA, FAAMA, is president and CEO, and Elaine Kloos, RN, NE-BC, MBA, is senior consultant, Oncology Management Consulting Group.
3‐Benzoyl‐2‐hydroxy‐9‐methylpyrido[1,2‐A] pyrimidin‐4‐one

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract The single aberrant product of the reaction between 2‐amino‐3‐methylpyridine ( 2 ) and ethyl benzoylacetate ( 4 ) in diethylbenzene at ca. 180° was 3‐benzoyl‐2‐hydroxy‐9‐methylpyrido‐[1,2‐ a ]pyrimidin‐4‐one ( 5 ). When administered to naive rats, 5 induced behavioral effects strikingly similar to those manifested by morphine‐addicted rats who have been deprived of that analgetic.
Methods for Insect Raising and Insecticide Resistance Selection with Rice Planthoppers

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Experiment was carried out to select the method suitable for raising rice planthoppers in large quantity for insecticide resistance selection. Results showed that among the methods tested, seedling soilless cultured at 20-25℃ served the turn of raising large numbers of planthoppers. When various insecticide application methods were used, both the methods of topical treatment and spraying insecticides on seedlings together with planthoppers could speed up the development of resistance to methamidophos. For convenience, the later was recommended for the insecticide resistance selection with large population of planthoppers.
Rewriting Introduction to Composite Materials Software to function on 64-bit Windows Operating Systems

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This paper will be used to describe the process I’ve taken into rewriting complementary software for the Introduction to Composite Materials Course at the University of South Florida. The program is entitled PROMAL and it has been used since 1990 to assist students in understanding and calculating various theoretical models of composite laminates. The software is unable to operate on 64 bit operating systems and needs to be rewritten with a newer programming language in order to remain compatible. I will describe my methods, the improvements and changes made to the PROMAL program, as well as objectives attained and future implementation of the software.
Optical clearing: an alternative sample preparation method for propagation based phase contrast μCT

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Synchrotron radiation propagation-based phase-contrast micro-computed tomography (SR μ CT) has been used increasingly for detailed characterization of tissue specimens, alternative to classical histology. It allows rapid and non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) virtual histology of unstained specimens. Although many studies show that standard protocols for formalin-fixation and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue specimens are well suited for propagation based phase-contrast imaging (PBI), refinement of sample preparation protocols for this relatively recent development is still in its early stage. There are several limitations using FFPE blocks including air-bubble inclusion, and crack formation, which affect the quality of the micro-CT scans. In this study we demonstrate that optical clearing of colon cancer specimen followed by embedding in Phytagel, as an alternative sample preparation protocol yields comparable PBI micro-CT image quality and mitigates the aforementioned drawbacks of FFPE specimens. Moreover, since single-distance phase retrieval algorithms for PBI image reconstruction expect scanned materials to be either weakly-absorbing or having a fixed ratio between absorption and phase shift, we hypothesize that optical clearing will result in specimens that are well in line with these mathematical assumption of the applied phase retrieval algorithm (homogeneous form of the Transport-of-Intensity equation TIE-HOM). In addition, we show that classical histological analysis is still possible after re-embedding of the specimen in paraffin. Thus, the proposed novel workflow to scan optical cleared specimens using SR μ CT can be used in combination with light sheet microscopy and can be integrated in a classical pipeline for pathological tissue characterization.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Two Patients with Persistent Postural- Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD).

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

We report two patients with Persistent Postural- Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD) who were successfully treated by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) after initially showing limited responses to vestibular rehabilitation and pharmacotherapy. The vestibular symptoms and psychiatric status were evaluated by the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), respectively, before and after six sessions of biweekly CBT intervention. The difficulties and abilities in handling activities of daily living as assessed by medical interviews improved in both patients, suggesting the effectiveness of CBT for PPPD. However, the results of assessment by the DHI/HADS differed between the two patients. Patient 1 showed improvement in the score on the DHI, but not in that on the HADS, whereas Patient 2 showed improvement in the score on the HADS, but not on that in the DHI. Given that both the patients reported improvements in the difficulties and abilities in handling the activities of daily living, we consider that the different results of assessment by the DHI may suggest the need for use of more appropriate measures to evaluate the quality of life after CBT than the DHI. These results might also suggest that CBT may not always exert equal effects on the psychiatric status and vestibular symptom status.
Angiotensin Receptors: Structure, Function, Signaling and Clinical Applications

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Angiotensinogen - a serpin family protein predominantly produced by the liver is systematically processed by proteases of the Renin Angiotensin system (RAS) generating hormone peptides. Specific cell surface receptors for at least three distinct angiotensin peptides produce distinct cellular signals that regulate system-wide physiological response to RAS. Two well characterized receptors are angiotensin type 1 receptor (AT1 receptor) and type 2 receptor (AT2 receptor). They respond to the octapeptide hormone angiotensin II. The oncogene product MAS is a putative receptor for Ang (1-7). While these are G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), the in vivo angiotensin IV binding sites may be type 2 transmembrane proteins. These four receptors together regulate cardiovascular, hemodynamic, neurological, renal, and endothelial functions; as well as cell proliferation, survival, matrix-cell interactions and inflammation. Angiotensin receptors are important therapeutic targets for several diseases. Thus, researchers and pharmaceutical companies are focusing on drugs targeting AT1 receptor than AT2 receptor, MAS and AngIV binding sites. AT1 receptor blockers are the cornerstone of current treatment for hypertension, heart failure, renal failure and many types of vascular diseases including atherosclerosis, aortic aneurism and Marfan syndrome.
The Lateral Femoral Condyle Index Is Not a Risk Factor for Primary Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: The lateral femoral condyle index (LFCI)—a recently developed measure of the sphericity of the lateral femoral condyle—was reported to be a risk factor for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. However, issues have been raised regarding how the index was measured and regarding the patient group and the knee in which it was measured. Purpose: To investigate the association between the LFCI and the risk of sustaining a primary, noncontact ACL injury, and to examine whether this association was moderated by the posterior-inferior–directed slope of the lateral tibial plateau. Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted of deidentified magnetic resonance images of the uninjured knees of 86 athletes with ACL injury and the corresponding knees of 86 control athletes, matched for sports team, sex, and age. From those images, we measured the LFCI and the posterior-inferior–directed slope of the middle region articular cartilage surface of the tibial plateau’s lateral compartment. Conditional logistic regressions were performed to determine whether the LFCI was significantly associated with ACL injury risk and whether the lateral tibial compartment middle cartilage slope moderated this association. Data were analyzed for female and male participants separately as well as for both groups combined. Results: The LFCI was not found to be significantly associated with experiencing a primary, noncontact ACL injury for all analyses. The lateral tibial slope measure was not found to moderate the association between the LFCI and ACL injury. A conditional logistic regression analysis using the LFCI data of the injured knees, instead of the uninjured knees, of the participants with ACL injury revealed that the LFCI was significantly associated with ACL injury. Conclusion: In this population of athletically active female and male participants, the LFCI was not found to be a risk factor for noncontact ACL injury, regardless of the geometric features of the lateral tibial slope.
Dream Analysis and Literary Interpretation

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Over the time, the human relationships and personalities are threatened by various anxieties, multiple manifestations of phobias, grievances, sense of loss or detachment, sense of nostalgia and belongings, struggles to get oneself free, fears of persecution, the fragmentation of self and the unfulfilled desires which have vividly served in a greater degree to the development of 'Psychoanalytic Theory' as an innovative technique of criticism in interpreting the literary texts.
Analysis of initial core and time dependent fuel burnup for high temperature testing reactors (HTTRs)

Field: Energy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract HTTRs are high temperature testing reactors which are considered generation IV nuclear power reactors. The reactor core startup and fuel burnup time dependent are simulated and analyzed. For the present computer model core startup, fuel loading with approach to criticality, control rod critical positions, scram reactivity and control rod worth, different core excess reactivity are evaluated. The results are compared with both typical measurements and other previously published methods. Moreover, the time dependent core model and fuel burn up are simulated to calculate the core multiplication factor, cycle length, discharged burnup, core isotopic evolution with time and burnable poisons behavior.
On Quantum Corrections in String Compactifications: Effective Actions and Black Holes

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

The overarching theme of this thesis is the study of quantum effects in string theory, a theory of quantum gravity. \n \nIn the first part of this thesis we focus on compactifications of type II string theory and M-theory on Calabi-Yau three- and fourfolds. In all cases we take leading higher derivative corrections into account. For the case of compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds we obtain four- and five dimensional effective actions. The higher-derivative corrections lead to corrections in the low-energy effective actions and we compute the couplings which govern these corrections explicitly. Furthermore, we investigate compactifications of M-theory with higher derivatives on Calabi-Yau fourfolds with a single Kähler modulus. In this setting we are able to identify a new correction to the three-dimensional N=2 two-derivative effective action. \n \nThe second part of this thesis studies embeddings of black holes in type IIB/F-theory utilizing D3-branes. These black holes descend from strings in compactifications type IIB/F-theory to six dimensions. On the worldvolume of these strings there is a two-dimensional superconformal field theory (SCFT) with N = (0,4) supersymmetry, which we investigate both from a microscopic and macroscopic point of view. We compute anomaly coefficients of these SCFTs and find that for the macroscopic computations the inclusion of one loop corrections play a very important role to obtain the expected results. These anomaly coefficients may then be used to compute the entropy of the associated black hole.
Research on operating domain optimization of power split hybrid electric vehicle based on global bifurcation and chaos threshold

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The power-split hybrid electric vehicle (PS-HEV) has multiple working modes to maintain high operation efficiency according to different conditions. The main modes involved in the vehicle driving process are pure electric mode and the hybrid driving mode. Because the electromechanical coupling problem is involved in the above two working modes, the transmission system exhibits strong non-linear characteristics. If the operation range of the engine and motor are unreasonable, the rotor system will vibrate and become instability. In this paper, the non-linear dynamic equations of the electromechanical coupling of the transmission system are established for electric driving mode and hybrid driving mode. The closed-homoclinic phase trajectory equation at the center point of the disturbance-free Hamilton system is determined. The chaotic thresholds for the pure electric and hybrid driving modes are derived through the Melnikov’s method to obtain the optimal working domain of the engine and motor. Finally, numerical simulation analysis is conducted to verify the feasibility of the work domain optimization scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed engine and motor working area optimization scheme can effectively avoid the homoclinic bifurcation in the PS-HEV during the driving process and prevent the vehicle from entering the chaotic state.
Temporal variation and phytotoxicity of Batatasin-III produced by Empetrum hermaphroditum

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In northern Sweden, the clonal dwarf shrub Empetrum hermaphroditum Hagerup exerts strong inhibitory effects on other plant species. These inhibitory effects may, at least in part, be attributed to the high production of the secondary metabolite, batatasin-III, which is released from leaves and transported to the soil by rain (throughfall) and snowmelt. Considerable amounts of batatasin-III are also added to the soil by senescent leaves and litter. The quantification of batatasin-III in soil solution throughout one growing season showed that the concentration was high both in early spring and in August, coinciding with the periods of snowmelt, maximum litter fall, and with higher production of batatasin-III in E. hermaphroditum foliage. Under laboratory conditions, batatasin-III was found to interfere with physiological functions of birch, Betula pendula L. When the birch seedlings were exposed to batatasin-III for a short period (i.e. two hours), dry weights were reduced by more than 70 %, even ten weeks after the treatment. The growth inhibition may be explained by the findings that batatasin-III interfered with both the photosynthesis and ammonium uptake. The interference of batatasin-III with membrane processes and the presence of batatasin-III in soil solutions throughout the whole growing season suggest that batatasin-III not only has the potential to inhibit soil microorganisms, but also to exert phytotoxic effects in field. Reducing growth of surrounding plants would be advantageous for E. hermaphroditum, since it is shade intolerant and competes with difficulty under a closed canopy.
Trichostatin A Inhibits Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Induced by TGF-β1 in Airway Epithelium - Fig 2

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

<p>(A) Effects of trichostatin A on morphology of TGF-β1-stimulated A549 cells as observed under a phase contrast microscope. Effects of trichostatin A on expression of E-cadherin, vimentin, fibronectin, and α-smooth muscle actin protein in TGF-β1-stimulated A549 cells were determined by western blotting (B) and immunofluorescent staining (C). Representative of independent experiments. Scale bar = 50 μm.</p>
Radionuclides And Heavy Metals Pollution Of The Bottom Sediments Of The Reservoir At Dzierzno Duze Near The Upper Silesia Region, Poland

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

The Dzierzno Duze lake is big artificial reservoir on Klodnica river which goes through the Silesia region, the most industrial area in Poland. The mine waters and other industrial pollution were collected in the sediments in this lake for years. There are plan to give people of the region clean and beautiful lake for leisure activities, so, the global chemical, biological and radiological measurements were done for the reservoir. These samples have been taken from water, bottom sediments (7 points). The concentration of radionuclides was measured by high sensitive gamma spectrometry technique with semiconductor detector HPGe type. The heavy metals were evaluated by ASA method.
Basal carbon sources and planktonic food web in a tropical lake: an isotopic approach

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Trophic connections among habitats may be central to food-web dynamics in lakes. Lacustrine zooplankton can rely on basal carbon (C) sources from different origins and plays an important link between these and organisms in higher trophic levels. We investigated the basal C sources supporting the planktonic food web and the trophic relationships among zooplankton size fractions in a tropical lake (Carioca) in Brazil. To do so, we measured the C and nitrogen (N) stable-isotope ratios in basal C sources originated in terrestrial, littoral, and pelagic habitats and in zooplankton size fractions, and data were analysed through Bayesian mixing models. Mesozooplankton showed seasonal variation in resource use, specifically a smaller dependence on algae in the wet than in the dry season. In the wet season, mesozooplankton relied more on the detritivore food chain eating mostly microzooplankton (mode: 95.1%), which in turn consumed mostly terrestrial C in this season (mode: 74.7%). Zooplankton size fractions also occupied different relative trophic positions between seasons. These variations seem to follow the seasonal dynamics of in-lake primary production and of terrestrial C inputs. Also, all size fractions of zooplankton, and particularly Chaoboridae larvae, showed low C staple-isotope values, suggesting the consumption of a missing C source.
Advances of mass spectrometry based proteomics in biomarker research in neurodegenerative diseases

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

Proteomics is the research focused on the composition and expression changes of proteins in cells, tissues or organisms at a large scale. Compared to the traditional biological research, proteomics possesses the advantages of fastness, high sensitivity and high throughput. Neurodegenerative diseases are a kind of disorders characterized by the progressive impairment or loss of specific neuronal cells that eventually leads to neurological dysfunctions. In recent years, mass spectrometry based proteomic technologies have been widely applied in the research of neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we briefly summarize the technological development of proteomic technologies including sample separation, peptide quantification, mass spectrum detection and clinical validation of biomarkers, accompanied by examples to demonstrate the research advances of mass spectrometry based proteomics in biomarker discovery and validation in neurodegenerative diseases.