jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Gamification design for behaviour change: Incentivising passengers to choose eco-friendly flights

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The advances in aeronautical technology and an increasing number of low-cost carriers have boosted global air travel in recent decades, leading to a growing concern over the environmental impact of air transport. This thesis provides an alternative intervention focusing on how gamification can affect consumers’ decisions on purchasing airline tickets as well as the choices they make every day. \n \nThe central research question is how to design a gamified service to influence passengers&apos; decision making and incentivise them to choose eco-friendly flights. This thesis studies a number of solutions provided by mainstream airlines to understand the current state of knowledge. Moreover, ten in-depth interviews were conducted with both frequent and non-frequent flyers to comprehend their thoughts on the means to reduce the environmental impact of flying. In doing so, this thesis identifies three design principles of a gamified service: playfulness, customer engagement, and education. Developed from the service blueprint and framework of behaviour change, this thesis proposes a gamification design integrated with the existing customer service system. It is a card-based game including quizzes and fun facts of sustainable travel for the airline customers, encouraging them to reflect on their traveling decisions. Players can claim rewards such as priority boarding by collecting cards and winning scores in the game. \n \nFurthermore, a virtual world called The Isle of Harpa is designed for advanced players to explore. The goal of this game is to raise environmental awareness among passengers through an uncomplicated gamified environment, acting as the first step toward changes in consumer behaviour of airline customers. This thesis demonstrates how gamification design can be applied to motivate passengers to choose eco-friendly flights as well as shows the potential of gamification to influence the decision making of consumers. While the effectiveness of it needs further examination, gamification provides various incentives for consumers to change their behaviour to help protect the environment.
Effects of the PPARγ agonist GW1929 on muscle wasting in tumour-bearing mice

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Administration of the PPARgamma agonist GW1929 (10 mg/kg body weight) results in amelioration of muscle loss in tumour-bearing mice experimental cachexia. The effect of the agonist, which seems to be specific for white muscle extensor digitorum longus (EDL), is accompanied by an increase in the levels of the transcription factor MyoD and also the GLUT-4 glucose transporter. In addition, the effects of GW1929 on skeletal muscle are direct since incubation of isolated rat skeletal muscles in its presence results in a decreased rate of protein degradation. Collectively, the results presented suggest a potential clinical application - possibly in combination with other anabolic strategies - of GW1929 in restoring muscle waste during cancer cachexia.
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging for brain tumor detection with segmentation active contour

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Evaluating the usage of classification method by semi-automatic method for determining better target size of brain tumor in tumor therapy planning and also useful significant tumor characteristics before the surgery. The dataset used in this paper includes diffusion MRI images of the brain of 6 patients with brain tumor in modes of T1, T2 and T2 fluid. The recommended method in this article is used for distinguishing the position of tumor in image. One oncologist and one radiologist manually and in a time process plotted 6 patients' images. Average of oncologist's line was assessed and considered as resource lines. Then by using simulation of Snakes method, 4 to 7 points around the edema were chosen and early center was found. Conclusion: This review shows that the Snake method has high capacity in diagnosing the tumor volume and can be a good alternative for handy methods in brain cancer. The aspect of our work innovation is MRI diffusion images.
Exploring the space of graphs with fixed discrete curvatures

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Discrete curvatures are quantities associated to the nodes and edges of a graph that reflect the local geometry around them. These curvatures have a rich mathematical theory and they have recently found success as a tool to analyze networks across a wide range of domains. In this work, we consider the problem of constructing graphs with a prescribed set of discrete edge curvatures, and explore the space of such graphs. We address this problem in two ways: first, we develop an evolutionary algorithm to sample graphs with discrete curvatures close to a given set. We use this algorithm to explore how other network statistics vary when constrained by the discrete curvatures in the network. Second, we solve the exact reconstruction problem for the specific case of Forman-Ricci curvature. By leveraging the theory of Markov bases, we obtain a finite set of rewiring moves that connects the space of all graphs with a fixed discrete curvature.
Going Viral: Virus-Based Biological Control Agents for Plant Protection

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The most economically important biotic stresses in crop production are caused by fungi, oomycetes, insects, viruses, and bacteria. Often chemical control is still the most commonly used method to manage them. However, the development of resistance in the different pathogens/pests, the putative damage on the natural ecosystem, the toxic residues in the field, and, thus, the contamination of the environment have stimulated the search for saferalternatives such as the use of biological control agents (BCAs). Among BCAs, viruses, a major driver for controlling host populations and evolution, are somewhat underused, mostly because of regulatory hurdles that make the cost of registration of such host-specific BCAs not affordable in comparison with the limited potential market. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of virus-based BCAs against fungi, bacteria, viruses, and insects, with a specific focus on new approaches that rely on not only the direct biocidal virus component but also the complex ecological interactions between viruses and their hosts that do not necessarily result in direct damage to the host.
Photoluminescence phenomena of Ce3+-doped Y3Al5O12 nanophosphors

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

The photoluminescence phenomena of Ce3+-doped Y3Al5O12 nanophosphors synthesized by the chemical gelation were investigated and compared with bulk phosphors. The oxidation state of the cerium ions in the nanophosphors was determined to be trivalent. This is an essential characteristic of phosphor’s emission. The Stokes shift for the nanophosphors was less than the bulk phosphors, which indicates that the nanophosphors had restricted surroundings. The photoionization effect was observed for the nanophosphors where the 5d electrons were lost to the conduction band and trapped at the surface-defective sites. Another observation was the high concentration of surface defects on the nanophosphors. These surface defects were investigated using the high resolution transmission electron microscope.
Assessing the Effects of Access to Safe Drinking Water on Children's Nutritional Status in Indonesia

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study analyzed the effects of access to safe drinking water on the nutritional status of children under the age of 59 months in urban and rural areas in Indonesia using the Indonesian Family Life Survey 5. Both piped water and packaged water were considered safe to drink. The descriptive statistics show that children in rural areas typically had insufficient access to safe drinking water and children who consumed safe drinking water had higher short- and long-term nutrition levels. To mitigate selection bias due to the non-random distribution of access to safe drinking water, a matching estimation was used to quantitatively determine the effects of access to safe drinking water on child nutrition. The provision of safe drinking water improved the short- and long-term nutritional status of children in rural areas but had no significant effect to that of children in urban areas. A simulation of this effect on child nutrition shows that in rural areas, improved access to safe drinking water decreases the stunting ratio by 13 percentage points and the wasting ratio by 6.1 percentage points. Additionally, both household income levels and community drinking water prices are important determinants of access to safe drinking water. Therefore, access to safe drinking water is necessary to improve the nutritional status of children in rural Indonesia, and community characteristics contribute to access. Â
Shore and re-shore sequences including age of concrete and reshore stiffnesses

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The research presented in this thesis endeavors to improve upon the Simplified (Extended) Method for the calculation of shoring/reshoring schedules, while maintaining its ease of use and practicality. The method developed assumes the parameters discussed below, most of which are contrary to those of the Simplified (Extended) Method. (1) The loads applied to the underlying shores are not necessarily uniformly distributed. (2) Shores are not infinitely stiff. (3) The relative stiffness of different age slabs has a contributory effect on the distribution of loads between shores, reshores and slabs. (4) The foundation (at the first level of shores) may not be completely rigid and the load distribution in the shores and slabs above may be affected by the foundation stiffness. During construction of reinforced concrete flat slab buildings, a freshly cast slab relies on the slabs below it for support. The Simplified Method assumes that this weight is more or less equally shared by all supporting slabs. A methodology was developed to determine more realistic load ratios supported by the slabs in the shoring and reshoring system. A basic description of this methodology is presented below (1) The stiffness characteristics of flat slabs for unit point loads applied at desired shoring and reshoring patterns were determined and stored in an array format in Microsoft Excel 2007. (2) After the stiffnesses at each shore/reshore locations were determined, equations were developed which describe the relationship between slab deflections (function of slab stiffness), shore loads and forces in reshores (unknown). (3) Parameters such as reshore stiffnesses, age adjusted slab stiffnesses, foundation stiffness, determination of load ratios applied to shores from freshly cast slab (i.e. tributary area vs. detailed analysis) and concrete creep and shrinkage were examined. The work in this thesis shows that neglecting reshore stiffness in calculating shoring/reshoring schedules is an erroneous assumption. Conclusions regarding the importance of taking into account reshore stiffnesses are provided below. (1) Neglecting the elastic stiffness of reshores greatly overestimated the average load supported by reshores for all cases studied. (2) Neglecting the elastic stiffness of reshores generally overestimates the load supported by individual reshores. (3) Using infinite reshore stiffness provided a reasonable approximation of the maximum reshore loads. (4) Neglecting reshore stiffness significantly underestimated the total load supported by the top slab in the reshored system.
How Reproducible Are Heart Rate Variability Indices Along the Time to Predict Cardiovascular Events in Hypertensive Patients?

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Hypertension is a chronic disorder consisting in an increase of blood pressure on the arteries, which can lead to cardiovascular diseases in the long-term. Although many patients are today diagnosed correctly, the disease is not properly controlled in most of them, thus increasing the risk of suffering from fatal vascular events and increasing mortality, morbidity, and disability. Early recognition of high-risk hypertensive patients is hence a significant clinical challenge, which has been mainly tackled by looking for predictors from the short-term heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. However, recent studies have analyzed 5-minute electrocardiogram (ECG) intervals randomly selected without paying attention to the daytime point where they were located. In this context, this work aims at assessing whether common HRV-based indices present a reproducible ability to discern between low-risk and high-risk hypertensive patients when ECG segments are selected from different daytime periods. The results have proven that complexity indices are less reproducible than time and frequency features along the time. However, when ECG segments were selected with a distance of about 45 minutes, only moderate differences were noticed and the risk stratification achieved by all kinds of HRV-based features remained without great changes.
Investigation of postoperative erectile dysfunction in colorectal surgery patients and comparison of results

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Although surgical treatment is curative for colorectal cancers, erectile dysfunction (ED) is one of the complications that affect the patient quality of life. The present study aimed to evaluate sexual dysfunction in patients who underwent anterior resection (AR) and low AR (LAR) surgery secondary to rectosigmoid pathologies in our clinic, to analyze the effective variables, and to compare the results. Methods: In the retrospectively designed study, male patients who underwent surgery for malignancy or other surgical pathologies in the General Surgery Clinic between January 2017 and December 2022 were examined. Female gender, patients under 18 years of age, and patients who refused to participate in the study were excluded. Results: The high age of the patient increased the risk of severe ED in the postoperative period. However, surgical technique, alcohol use, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score, and Clavien-Dindo class were not determinants in the presence of severe ED. Conclusion: ED is an emerging medical problem that affects patients who undergo colorectal surgery adversely both in social and psychological aspects. Discussions on the issue are still ongoing. Clinicians’ concerns can be addressed in the future as the number of prospectively designed studies involving more homogeneous and larger populations increases.
PERFORMANCE OF DIFFUSION STILLS UNDER EGYPTIAN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS

Field: Energy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract The performance of diffusion stills used in solar distillation was studied theoretically under the climatic conditions of Alexandria, Egypt. The governing equations for unsteady heat and mass transfer inside vertical and inclined stills were solved numerically for the glass cover, absorber plate and the water layer. The study covered all angles of tilt between horizontal and vertical positions for the twelve months of the year. The effects of the air gap spacing, inlet water flow rate, insulation thickness and wind speed on the daily production were evaluated. The daily still productivity strongly depends on the solar radiation and ambient temperature and varies between 0.5 and 5 Kg/m2. An optimum angle of tilt is given for each month of the year. The daily yield increased with increasing the insulation thickness and decreasing the gap spacing or inlet water flow rate. The effect of wind speed was almost negligible up to 5 m/s. KEY WORDS: Solar EnergySolar StillDesalination
Facilitating technology transfer in the construction industry

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Cooperative Research Centres produce a range of research outputs that have the potential to be widely applied to industry. The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Construction Innovation, for example, undertakes research for the construction and property industries. Its research outputs depend on industry acceptance and adoption for their ongoing contribution to these industries. However, take-up of the new technologies developed by CRC research, particularly in the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) sector, is problematic. Recent research has identified government and industry factors in the take-up of technology and knowledge by SMEs in the construction sector. While solutions can be implemented at government level, much can be done by the industry itself to bridge the gap between research and its implementation. A research project is being developed to identify and evaluate aids and barriers to such technology transfer; and recommend ways in which it could be better facilitated for the \nbenefit of the construction and property industries.
Strategic Fluorination to Achieve a Potent, Selective, Metabolically-Stable, and Orally-Bioavailable Inhibitor of CSNK2.

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

The host kinase casein kinase 2 (CSNK2) has been proposed to be an antiviral target against β-coronaviral infection. To pharmacologically validate CSNK2 as a drug target in vivo, potent and selective CSNK2 inhibitors with good pharmacokinetic properties are required. Inhibitors based on the pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine scaffold possess outstanding potency and selectivity for CSNK2, but bioavailability and metabolic stability were often challenging. By strategically installing a fluorine atom on an electron-rich phenyl ring of a previously characterized inhibitor 1, we discovered compound 2 as a promising lead compound with improved in vivo metabolic stability. Compound 2 maintained excellent cellular potency against CSNK2, submicromolar antiviral potency, favorable solubility, and was remarkably selective for CSNK2 when screened against 192 kinases across the human kinome. We additionally present a co-crystal structure to support its on-target binding mode. In vivo, compound 2 was orally bioavailable, and demonstrated modest and transient inhibition of CSNK2, although antiviral activity was not observed, possibly attributed to its lack of prolonged CSNK2 inhibition.
Digital Transformation Strategy Towards Insurance 4.0: Case Study of PT Reinsurance ABC

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The advancement of technology has brought significant impacts to the world of education, opening opportunities for the development of more engaging and innovative learning methods. The utilization of technology, especially in science education such as physics, enables the presentation of material in a visual, interactive, and concrete manner. One of the recent breakthroughs is the concept of Motion Dynamic Metaverse (MD-Verse), which adds a new dimension to physics learning through virtual environments. With its interactive features, MD-Verse provides a dynamic and enjoyable learning experience. This research aims to develop Metaverse Teaching Materials on the topic of dynamics of motion for college students. Validation results indicate that MD-Verse is suitable for use in physics teaching, contributing to enhancing students' understanding and interest in physics concepts.
Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Sarca Çevk H, Baykan R, Peker AG, Tekner S. Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review. 2022;24(2):156-161. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871. APA Sarca Çevk, H., Baykan, R., Peker, A. G., & Tekner, S. (2022). Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 24(2), 156-161. https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871 Chicago Sarca Çevk, Hüsna, Rana Baykan, Aye G Peker, and Selda Tekner. 2022. "Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study". Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 24 (2): 156-161. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871. Harvard Sarca Çevk, H., Baykan, R., Peker, A., and Tekner, S. (2022). Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 24(2), pp.156-161. https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871 MLA Sarca Çevk, Hüsna et al. "Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study." Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 2022, pp. 156-161. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871. Vancouver Sarca Çevk H, Baykan R, Peker A, Tekner S. Attitudes of family medicine residents in Ankara towards COVID-19 vaccines administered in Turkey: a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review. 2022;24(2):156-161. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115871.
Materials Data on RbCOF3 by Materials Project

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

RbCOF3 crystallizes in the monoclinic P2_1/c space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Rb1+ is bonded in a 12-coordinate geometry to three equivalent O2- and seven F1- atoms. There are a spread of Rb–O bond distances ranging from 2.92–3.01 Å. There are a spread of Rb–F bond distances ranging from 2.95–3.27 Å. C4+ is bonded in a tetrahedral geometry to one O2- and three F1- atoms. The C–O bond length is 1.23 Å. There are a spread of C–F bond distances ranging from 1.43–1.47 Å. O2- is bonded in a single-bond geometry to three equivalent Rb1+ and one C4+ atom. There are three inequivalent F1- sites. In the first F1- site, F1- is bonded in a single-bond geometry to three equivalent Rb1+ and one C4+ atom. In the second F1- site, F1- is bonded in a single-bond geometry to three equivalent Rb1+ and one C4+ atom. In the third F1- site, F1- is bonded in a single-bond geometry to one Rb1+ and one C4+ atom.
Notes On the Newly Hatched Phyllosoma of the Sand Lobster Scyllarus Americanus (Smith)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

NOTES ON THE NEWLY HATCHED PHYLLOSOMA OF THE SAND LOBSTER SCYLLARUS AMERICANUS (SMITH) BY HAROLD W. SIMS, JR. 1) INTRODUCTION At least two species of Scyllarus are known to occur along the west coast ot Florida. The most common, £cyllarztJ azrlerzcanu.r (Smith) is found in shallow water, usually between 3 and 12 fathoms. The not so common form, Scyllaru.r chacei Holthuis, inhabits the deeper waters, 19 to 31 fathoms. Both Dr. L. B. Holthuis (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) and Dr. Fenner A. Chace (U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.) feel that more species may occur in
Doping dependence of the electron-doped cuprate superconductors from the antiferromagnetic properties of the Hubbard model

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Within the Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson approach, we have studied the\nantiferromagnetic (AF) properties for the $t$-$t'$-$t''$-$U$ model applied to\nelectron-doped cuprate superconductors. Due to inclusion of spin fluctuations\nthe AF order decreases with doping much faster than obtained in the\nHartree-Fock theory. Under an intermediate {\\it constant} $U$ the calculated\ndoping evolution of the spectral intensity has satisfactorily reproduced the\nexperimental results, without need of a strongly doping-dependent $U$ as argued\nearlier. This may reconcile a discrepancy suggested in recent studies on\nphotoemission and optical conductivity.\n