jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Agent-based experimental investigations of the robustness of tactical planning and control policies in a softwood lumber supply chain

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

This article investigates the robustness of different tactical planning and control policies for a softwood supply \nchain using an agent-based environment that simulates a distributed advanced planning and scheduling system \nand its corresponding supply chain operations. Simulations were modelled using a novel agent-based \nmethodology combined with a robust experimental design approach and an industrial data set obtained from \ntwo companies in Eastern Canada. Experimental results provide insights about the dynamic relations among \nfactors related to control levels, planning methods and planning horizon lengths. Results indicate that supply \nchain control levels play a relevant role in defining robust service levels, while the planning horizon and the \nplanning method have lower impact in this context. In addition, from the supply chain inventory level point of \nview, we verified that the three investigated tactical rules have to be configured together if one desires to maximise \ntheir contribution for a robust supply chain system capable of coping with uncertainties from the business \nenvironment. When these rules are evaluated individually, it is not possible to make the most of their potential \ndue to interactions between them. The article concludes by proposing an optimum robust configuration of the \ntactical rules to minimise the impact of supply chain uncertainties
The Effect of the Addition of Oat Flour in Low-Fat Chicken Nuggets

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The objective of this study was to develop low-fat chicken nuggets with the inclusion of Oat Flour (OF) and assess the cooking yield, textural properties, sensory properties and proximate composition. Chicken nuggets were prepared with the addition of 0%, 10% and 20% of OF over and above the quantity of meat. The cooking yield was significantly higher in the nuggets containing OF. The increased OF level significantly increased the hardness and adhesiveness; however, the cohesiveness, springiness and resilience significantly decreased with no significant difference between the treatments. No significant difference in the gumminess and chewiness values was noted. The juiciness score increased, whereas the texture and flavor scores and overall acceptability decreased with the increased levels OF inclusion. The increased OF levels resulted in a significant increase in moisture, crude fiber and gross energy and a decrease in the percentage of crude protein and fat. Hence, acceptable dietary fiber-enriched low-fat chicken nuggets can be made with the addition of up to 10% OF over and above the amount of chicken meat.
Effects of salinity and ascorbic acid on growth, water status and antioxidant system in a perennial halophyte

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Salinity causes oxidative stress in plants by enhancing production of reactive oxygen species, so that an efficient antioxidant system, of which ascorbic acid (AsA) is a key component, is an essential requirement of tolerance. However, antioxidant responses of plants to salinity vary considerably among species. Limonium stocksii is a sub-tropical halophyte found in the coastal marshes from Gujarat (India) to Karachi (Pakistan) but little information exists on its salt resistance. In order to investigate the role of AsA in tolerance, 2-month-old plants were treated with 0 (control), 300 (moderate) and 600 (high) mM NaCl for 30 days with or without exogenous application of AsA (20 mM) or distilled water. Shoot growth of unsprayed plants at moderate salinity was similar to that of controls while at high salinity growth was inhibited substantially. Sap osmolality, AsA concentrations and activities of AsA-dependant antioxidant enzymes increased with increasing salinity. Water spray resulted in some improvement in growth, indicating that the growth promotion by exogenous treatments could partly be attributed to water. However, exogenous application of AsA on plants grown under saline conditions improved growth and AsA dependent antioxidant enzymes more than the water control treatment. Our data show that AsA-dependent antioxidant enzymes play an important role in salinity tolerance of L. stocksii.
An Improved Blind Multiuser Detector Algorithm Based on Subspace Tracking

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Adaptive OPAST algorithm can ensure the orthogonality of weighted matrix in every iterations, and accelerate the convergence rate, improve the performance of error stably. However, it also enhance the complexity of algorithm. In this paper, an improved OPAST algorithm is proposed. The algorithm reduce cumulative error in the process of every iterations by inducting the dual Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, ensure the algorithm has a better stability. Simulation results show this algorithm has stability convergence.
Ab initio calculations relevant to the mechanism of chemical carcinogenesis by N-nitrosamines. Part 3.—Transition structures in nitrosamine formation and metabolism

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

A large number of fully optimised transition structures for rotation, inversion, N → O CH+3 shifts, N → O CH2OH+ shifts, N → O H+ shifts, N → O H3O+ shifts, N → N H+ shifts and N → N H3O+ shifts of first and second order are reported for several reactions of N-nitrosamines. The optimisations were carried out mainly at the restricted Hartree–Fock level (RHF) with a 4–21G split-valence basis set, but a representative H+-shift saddle point was studied with a 6–31G* double-zeta plus polarisation basis set at both the RHF and second-order Møller–Plesset levels. The relevance of these transition structures to the formation and decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines is discussed.
Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia : negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

<p dir="ltr">In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this paper explores. Drawing on ten months of qualitative fieldwork in Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in the Northern Transversal Strip (FTN) region, I ask: what roles do WHRDs play in resolving VAW and in challenging gendered and environmental injustices? Secondly, what political and collective strategies are drawn on by WHRDs; what challenges do they face; and what movements and processes do they engage in, to envision a better future? This paper foregrounds the intersections of municipal political spaces and a constellation of postwar women’s rights legal frameworks, including a 2008 Law on Femicide criminalising all forms of VAW as central to WHRDs’ mobilisations. I explore how locally elected members of <i>consejos de mujeres</i> (women’s councils) and municipal <i>oficinas de la mujer</i> (women’s offices) offer important spaces for WHRDs to organise collectively. I also highlight connections between WHRDs’ struggles against VAW, extractivism, and environmental devastation in the FTN. Simultaneously, I identify several ‘roadblocks’ to WHRDs’ engagement in these spaces and the dangers and criminalisation they face. Ultimately, such ‘roadblocks’ contribute to a vernacularisation of women’s rights in the FTN, which instrumentalises and empowers the language of rights for WHRDs’ struggles.</p>
Exponential Stability of an Improved Dual-Phase-Lag Model for Ultrafast Heating of Materials

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Abstract

The goal of this work is to demonstrate the exponential stability of a recently proposed thermoelastic theory called the improved dual-phase-lag (IDPL) model given by Zarei and Pilla (2023), precisely to address the encounters posed by fast and ultrafast heating of materials. In order to obtain it, we consider the one-dimensional problem of the theory of thermoelasticity with an IDPL model. Then, using the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, we prove that when τ0 < τ1, the solutions are obtained exponentially stable, and when τ0 < τ1, there exist unstable solutions.
US intelligence at the crossroads: agendas for reform and Dirty tricks and trump cards: US covert action and counterintelligence

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Journal Article US intelligence at the crossroads: agendas for reform and Dirty tricks and trump cards: US covert action and counterintelligence Get access US intelligence at the crossroads: agendas for reform. Edited by Roy Godson, Ernest R. Mayand Gary Schmitt. London: Brassey's. 1995. 315pp. £20.95.ISBN 1 57488 036 5.Dirty tricks and trump cards: US covert action and counterintelligence. By Roy Godson. London: Brasseys. 1995. 337pp. Index. £21.95. ISBN 1 57488 034 9. Nigel Clive Nigel Clive Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625670 Published: 01 July 1996
Establishing Standards for the Integrated Recommendation and Diagnosis System (DRIS) for Irrigated Bean Crops

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

This article addresses the establishment of integrated diagnostics and recommendation system (DRIS) standards for irrigated bean crops (Phaseolus vulgaris) and compares leaf concentrations and productivity in low- and high-productivity populations. The work was carried out in Santa Fe de Goias, Goias State, Brazil, in the agricultural years 1999/2000 and 2000/2001. For the nutritional diagnosis, leaf samples were collected, and leaf concentrations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), boron (B), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), and zinc (Zn) were established in 100 commercial bean crops. A database was set up listing the leaf nutrient content and the respective productivities, subdivided into two subpopulations, high and low productivity, using a bean yield value of 3000 kg ha-1 to separate these subpopulations. Sufficiency values found in the high-productivity population matched only for the micronutrients B and Zn. The nutritional balance among the populations studied was coherent and was lower in the high-productivity population. The DRIS standards proposed for irrigated bean farming were efficient in evaluating the nutritional status of the crop areas studied. Calcium, Cu, and S were found to be the least available nutrients, indicating high response potential for the fertilizing using these nutrients.
Separation of Δ4-3-oxo steroids and Δ5-3β-hydroxy steroids by chromatography on digitonin-silica thin layers

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Research Article| June 01 1970 Separation of Δ4-3-oxo steroids and Δ5-3β-hydroxy steroids by chromatography on digitonin-silica thin layers T Taylor T Taylor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Author and article information Publisher: Portland Press Ltd © 1970 The Biochemical Society1970 Biochem J (1970) 118 (2): 13P. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1180013Pa Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Citation T Taylor; Separation of Δ4-3-oxo steroids and Δ5-3β-hydroxy steroids by chromatography on digitonin-silica thin layers. Biochem J 1 June 1970; 118 (2): 13P. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1180013Pa Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsBiochemical Journal Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1970 The Biochemical Society1970 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse Today

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

There have been many accounts, in Rousseau's own day and since, of the enormous success enjoyed by La Nouvelle Hélo¨se, in France and elsewhere, in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Rousseau himself speaks in the Confessions (I, 545–8) of its initial enthusiastic reception, and in his correspondence we find numerous letters from people in all walks of life and from all social classes whose praise of Rousseau, following the publication of his novel, bordered on idolatry. Recently, Claude Labrosse has analysed, in great detail, the reception of Rousseau's novel on its publication in 1761 and the years immediately following.
A Treasure Hunt Model for Inquiry-Based Learning in the Development of a Web-based Learning Support System

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

One of the main problems of web-based learning is staying motivated at a sufficient level. Learning games offering challenges and entertainment may stimulatestudent motivation for learning and mitigate this problem. Web-based learning support systems combined with learning games may efficiently promote learning by encouraging student participation in learning. This study introduces a treasure hunt model, which represents the idea of inquiry-based learning using set theory. We demonstrate this via a prototype of a web-based learning support system called OTHI, which employs an online treasure hunt game as the learning game. We integrate the sound learning strategies of inquiry-based learning with the Web and online game technologies in this system. We expect that our learning support system will motivate students, and furnish an inter- active student-centered learning environment.
Folate binders in body fluids

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

In normal serum, saline dialysis for 48 hours in Visking casing resulted in folate clearance closely comparable to that produced by haemoglobin-coated charcoal adsorption, except in kwashiorkor where charcoal removed a greater proportion of folate. Pre- and post-dialysis values probably represented total and bound folate, respectively. Urinary folate consisted almost exclusively of dialyzable or free folate. Folate in saliva, bile, and erythrocytes consisted of dialyzable and non-dialyzable fractions; gastric juice contained minimal amounts of folate. In spite of low serum albumin in kwashiorkor the bound folate fraction was increased rather than decreased; in myeloma with hyperglobulinaemia there was no increase in the bound folate fraction. Nephrotic urine did not contain excess folate, but pregnancy urine (third trimester) showed increased total folate. Serum, chromatographed on Sephadex G-25, produced two folate peaks, only the first being associated with serum proteins. Urine contained only a second folate peak corresponding to the elution peak of pteroyl-monoglutamic acid (PGA). Adsorption studies with charcoal coated with `molecular sieves' of varying size suggested that the predominant serum folate binder was of molecular weight 70,000-120,000. It is unlikely to be albumin.
Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes towards Teaching of Tamazight Language in Moroccan Elementary Schools

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Morocco is a multilingual country with rich antiquity. Seemingly, the sociolinguistic status quo in Morocco is marked by its diverse tongues, which are in regular contact. Given this assortment and variety in its linguistic landscape, Morocco opted for teaching Tamazight language in some of its elementary schools since 2003. The current paper brings to the forepart the status of Tamazight in Moroccan elementary schools to know the attitudes of Moroccan elementary teachers towards the teaching of Tamazight in Moroccan Elementary Schools. This study is based on structured interviews targeting Moroccan elementary teachers in different districts of Morocco, using content analysis as the primary method to process the data of this study. In undertaking the aim of this study, this paper addresses the following research questions: (i) what is the status of Tamazight in Moroccan schools? (ii) What is the nature of Moroccan teachers’ attitudes towards Tamazight in Moroccan elementary schools? To see whether Moroccan elementary teachers clutch favourable or unfavourable attitudes towards the teaching of Tamazight in Moroccan elementary schools and to what extent those teachers are ready for this change that touches upon the instructive Moroccan context. The findings of this study highlight that Moroccan elementary teachers hold positive and strong attitudes toward Tamazight and its use in Moroccan elementary schools. Participants stated that Tamazight witnessed a period of high-spiritedness and vivacity.
Niger - Agricultural sector risk assessment

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Niger, owing to its climatic, institutional, livelihood, economic, and environmental context, is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world. Poverty is pervasive in Niger and it ranks low on almost all the human development indicators. Agriculture is the most important sector of Niger’s economy and accounts for over 40 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) and is the principal source of livelihood for over 80 percent of the country’s population. The performance of the agricultural sector is very volatile, however, due to its high exposure to risks. Niger has experienced multiple shocks, largely induced by agricultural risks over the past 30 years, which impose high welfare cost in terms of food availability, food affordability, and malnutrition. It also adversely affects household incomes, performance of the agricultural sector, the government’s fiscal balance, and the growth rate of Niger’s economy.
Blindsight Mediated by an S-Cone-independent Collicular Pathway: An fMRI Study in Hemispherectomized Subjects

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Abstract The purpose of our study was to investigate the ability to process achromatic and short-wavelength-sensitive cone (S-cone)-isolating (blue–yellow) stimuli in the blind visual field of hemispherectomized subjects and to demonstrate that blindsight is mediated by a collicular pathway that is independent of S-cone inputs. Blindsight has been described as the ability to respond to visual stimuli in the blind visual field without conscious awareness [Weiskrantz, L., Warrington, E. K., Sanders, M. D., & Marshall, J. Visual capacity in the hemianopic field following a restricted occipital ablation. Brain, 97, 709–728, 1974]. The roles of the subcortical neural structures in blindsight, such as the pulvinar and the superior colliculus, have been debated and an underlying neural correlate has yet to be confirmed. Using fMRI, we tested the ability to process visual stimuli that isolated the achromatic and short-wavelength-sensitive (S-)-cone pathways in three subjects: one control subject, one hemispherectomized subject with blindsight, and one hemispherectomized subject without blindsight. We demonstrated that (1) achromatic and S-cone-isolating stimuli presented to the normal visual hemifield of hemispherectomized subjects and to both visual hemifields of the control subject activated contralateral visual areas (V1/V2), as expected; (2) achromatic stimulus presentation but not S-cone-isolating stimulus presentation to the blind hemifield of the subject with blindsight activated visual areas FEF/V5; (3) whereas the cortical activation of the control subject was enhanced by an additional stimulus (achromatic and S-cone isolating) presented in the contralateral visual field, activation pattern of the subject with blindsight was enhanced by achromatic stimuli only. We conclude that the human superior colliculus is blind to the S-cone-isolating stimuli, and blindsight is mediated by an S-cone-independent collicular pathway.
Special forms of calcific tendonitis in the rotator cuff, with predominance of osseous involvement. Apropos of 6 cases

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Poster: ECR 2013 / C-1021 / Special forms of calcific tendonitis in the rotator cuff, with predominance of osseous involvement. Apropos of 6 cases by: A. Alcala-Galiano Rubio, M. Baeva, M. J. Argueso Chamorro; Madrid/ES
Theory Development of Genetic Counseling among Patient with Genetic Diseases

Field: Nursing (Health Sciences)

Genetic Counseling is a communication process undertaken to address the issue of genetic diseases affected in the family. The basic concept of Selfcare is active awareness, while genetic counseling is passive awareness. The nursing theory is based upon the philosophy that all wish to care for themselves. The objective of this study to sustain the theory development of genetic counseling related to Orem’s Selfcare theory following on from three relationship construction theories which include self care theory, self care deficit theory and nursing system theory. Genetic counseling is relevan with Orem’s selfcare theory as a gold standard to improve self care awareness, increase quality of life and reduce stress level among patients and families with genetic diseases.
A Summarization System for Scientific Documents

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on these findings, we built a system that retrieves and summarizes scientific documents for a given information need, either in form of a free-text query or by choosing categorized values such as scientific tasks, datasets and more. Our system ingested 270,000 papers, and its summarization module aims to generate concise yet detailed summaries. We validated our approach with human experts.
School Nurses: A Resource for Young Worker Safety

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

On average, 67 youths under age 18 die at work in the United States each year, and many more suffer work-related injuries. In 1998, an estimated 77,000 young workers suffered work injuries that required treatment in hospital emergency rooms. It is estimated that only one third of work-related injuries are seen in emergency departments; therefore, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) estimates that nearly 230,000 youths suffer work-related injuries each year. Through NIOSH’s Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, NIOSH investigators identified poor knowledge of child labor laws, lack of safety training and supervision, inappropriate job assignment, and lack of employer compliance with labor laws as factors contributing to young worker deaths. School nurses serve as a resource to other professionals, parents, employers, and students and can help foster safer working conditions for youth by providing these groups with young worker safety information.