jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The approach of subjectivity in qualitative social research – Work on signifiers (Lacan) in interview-research as a possibility to consider subjectivity and singularity in a disciplined way

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The question of discipline is an important subject for each field of research and in our mind it is most important when you are researcher in the social sciences and especially if you work in the field of qualitative research. The main idea is that qualitative research can’t operate with the same criteria on quality in research like quantitative research. If qualitative research wants to get to know something about the subjectivity of the world, it has to use different methods of research. The aim of this communication is the question of how subjectivity and singularity can be focussed in a field of science where the mainstream has the norm of objectivity in a concept of quantitative research. Do only these criteria of objectivity have something to do with discipline in research or is research also disciplined that considers the subjectivity, singularity and inter-subjectivity of persons? And what means discipline in this context? This cluster of questions will be discussed and touches the issue of the researcher position. In which kind is the researcher involved in his research? How does his or her subjectivity affect the object of research? And what does this mean for the quality of our findings? Second part of the communication is an insight on our project, which is affiliated at the University of Luxembourg. This part can be read as an example how subjectivity and singularity not only be considered but how these aspects can be main topic of research. The project focuses on the decision to get secondary-school-teacher and the personal relation to knowledge of these persons. This subject is linked to the biography of these persons: How developed the personal relation to knowledge? How does this relation influence their decision to teach and their teaching styles? This project analyse the intra- and intersubjective conflicts this brings about. For this reason ten students from Luxembourg and Switzerland get interviewed four times (at the beginning, two times during the formation and once after the closure of formation). The lightly structured interviews (which include narrative parts) are analysed in orientation at the depth hermeneutic (Lorenzer) and we work with the theory of signifier of Lacan. Because of the four interviews we can see if (and how) the relation to knowledge and ignorance diversify and the process of professionalization continues. This method, in our opinion, is one possibility to respect the subjectivity of the interviewees as well as of the researcher. We highlight our epistemological position when analysing interviews by using the theory of Lacan. We discuss the term of discipline in this context and also the question of psychoanalysis in the field of qualitative social science.
Orthodontic knowledge and referral patterns: a survey of paediatric specialists and general dental practitioners

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Abstract Introduction Early diagnosis and referral is essential in order to provide the best orthodontic care. Paediatric specialists (PSs) and general dental practitioners (GDPs) are usually the first dental professionals to diagnose a malocclusion. Aim To evaluate the knowledge and approach of PSs and GDPs in the management of children in reference to the timing of referral and early orthodontic intervention. Methods A survey assessed referral patterns and the respondents’ orthodontic knowledge regarding treatment timing and indications for early treatment in the early and late mixed dentition. Results One hundred and seventeen dentists participated in the study, of whom 79 were GDPs and 38 were PSs. The average total accuracy score in a 27-knowledge questionnaire was 68.6%, resulting in a statistically significant difference between the PSs and the GDPs. This difference arose from confusion regarding the prevention of maxillary permanent canine impaction and the need for a leeway space maintainer. Conclusions The GDPs and the PSs had a sound knowledge of orthodontics and a reasonable referral pattern, although the knowledge of PSs was significantly higher than that of the GDPs. There is a need for further education regarding orthodontic treatment needs and timing both in undergraduate/postgraduate training as well as in professional continuing education programs.
Drought Stress Acclimation Imparts Tolerance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Pseudomonas syringae in Nicotiana benthamiana

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Acclimation of plants with an abiotic stress can impart tolerance to some biotic stresses. Such a priming response has not been widely studied. In particular, little is known about enhanced defense capacity of drought stress acclimated plants to fungal and bacterial pathogens. Here we show that prior drought acclimation in Nicotiana benthamiana plants imparts tolerance to necrotrophic fungus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, and also to hemi-biotrophic bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci. S. sclerotiorum inoculation on N. benthamiana plants acclimated with drought stress lead to less disease-induced cell death compared to non-acclimated plants. Furthermore, inoculation of P. syringae pv. tabaci on N. benthamiana plants acclimated to moderate drought stress showed reduced disease symptoms. The levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in drought acclimated plants were highly correlated with disease resistance. Further, in planta growth of GFPuv expressing P. syringae pv. tabaci on plants pre-treated with methyl viologen showed complete inhibition of bacterial growth. Taken together, these experimental results suggested a role for ROS generated during drought acclimation in imparting tolerance against S. sclerotiorum and P. syringae pv. tabaci. We speculate that the generation of ROS during drought acclimation primed a defense response in plants that subsequently caused the tolerance against the pathogens tested.
Public-Health Training for Veterinarians Joint Degree Programs in Public Health

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Public health and veterinary medicine share a focus on population health and primary prevention, along with a commitment to preparedness, response, and recovery in the event of disease outbreaks. Public-health and veterinary professional degree programs share commonalities in their educational accreditation requirements related to epidemiology and public-health practice. The initiation of a number of joint professional degree programs over the last five years, including the joint Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Public Health (DVM/MPH), represents an exciting development for inter-professional education for veterinarians interested in public health. Various models for joint DVM/MPH educational programs are discussed, including pre-veterinary public-health credentialing, integrated programs, and post-DVM executive programs. Collaborations between colleges of veterinary medicine and schools of public health show great promise in both educational and research innovation.
A Review of the European Union Countries on Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Market

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

It is a well-known fact that the main objective of every corporation is to generate profits and enhance its shareholders' wealth. Corporate growth may be achieved either internally (through organic growth) or externally (through mergers and acquisitions). In parallel with global trends, corporate growth is achieved by cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that have increased dramatically in economies especially over the last few decades. It is also established that mergers and acquisitions come in waves - so far, six waves have been researched. The main aim of the presented paper is to analyse the activity of the European Union countries on the M&As market and to describe the main motives for cross-border M&As and how the performance of cross-merger M&As is measured.
Instructional leadership practices among principals in rural areas of Sandakan district, Malaysia

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study aimed to examine the extent of instructional leadership exhibited by principals and to gauge the work commitment levels of teachers in four rural secondary schools within the Sandakan district. Additionally, the study explored the relationship between principals' instructional leadership and teachers' commitment to their work. Quantitative descriptive research was conducted, collecting data via a 21-item questionnaire administered to teachers. The data were analyzed using SPSS Version 29 software, employing descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results indicated that principals demonstrated high levels of instructional leadership, and teachers exhibited high levels of work commitment. However, the correlation between the instructional leadership of principals and the work commitment of teachers was found to be weak. The findings suggest opportunities to strengthen the connection between principals' leadership approaches and teachers' commitment to their roles. By focusing on introspection, professional development, effective communication, and recognition, principals can enhance academic outcomes in their schools by cultivating a culture of dedication and high-quality work among teachers.
Occurrence Download

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A dataset containing 26 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query: { "TaxonKey" : [ "is Metaeritrichium microuloides W.T.Wang" ] } The dataset includes 26 records from 7 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0038983-230530130749713/datasets/export for details. Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
Large T antigens of simian virus 40 and polyomavirus efficiently establish primary fibroblasts

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

Recombinant retroviruses that transduce the simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen or the polyomavirus large T antigen as well as encoding resistance to antibiotic G418 were used to investigate whether these genes alone were sufficient for immortalization of primary cells. The results provided definitive evidence that either viral gene can efficiently establish primary fibroblasts. The capability of the SV40 large T antigen to establish primary fibroblasts was undiminished by a mutation that alters its binding to sequences within the origin of replication. Surprisingly, most of the primary cells established by the expression of the SV40 large T antigen did not have a transformed phenotype. This suggests that transformation by SV40 is not simply due to a high level of expression of the SV40 large T antigen and stabilization of cellular p53.
Rapid communication: Integrating working memory capacity and context-processing views of cognitive control

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Individuals low in working memory capacity (WMC) exhibit impaired performance on a variety of cognitive control tasks. The executive-attention theory of WMC (Engle & Kane, [2004[) accounts for these findings as failures of goal maintenance and response conflict resolution. Similarly, the context-processing view (Braver et al., [2001]) provides an explanation of cognitive control deficits observed in schizophrenia patients and older adults that is based on the ability to maintain context information. Instead of maintenance deficits, the inhibition view (Hasher, Lustig, & Zacks, [2007]) states that older adults and individuals low in WMC primarily have an impairment in the ability to inhibit information. In the current experiment, we explored the relationships among these theories. Individuals differing in performance on complex span measures of WMC performed the AX-Continuous Performance Test to measure context-processing performance. High-WMC individuals were predicted to maintain the context afforded by the cue, whereas low-WMC individuals were predicted to fail to maintain the context information. Low-WMC individuals made more errors on AX and BX trials and were slower to respond correctly on AX, BX, and BY trials. The overall pattern of results is most consistent with both the executive-attention and context-processing theories of cognitive control.
Strategi Pemasaran Produk Tabungan Emas dalam Meningkatkan Jumlah Nasabah

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the marketing models and strategies for gold savings products at PT. Makassar Area Pawnshops 2. The analytical method used is a descriptive qualitative analysis by looking at the model and market segmentation (segmentation, targeting and positioning). The results showed that the strategy m odel used was online media using Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, tik tok and advertising in various media to introduce more gold savings products and their advantages apart from being a long-term investment to teach people to be able to save, setting aside savings for added value in the future. Determining and implementing various segmentation, targeting and positioning such as looking at communities, MSMEs, schools, agencies, and universities and carrying out several programs according to PODC (planning, organizing, directing and controlling) is a marketing strategy for selling gold savings products implemented by PT Pegadaian Area Makassar 2. With the implementation of this strategy, there was a significant increase in the number of customers and the number of account openings in the number of gold savings owned by PT Pegadaian Area M Makassar 2.
Divergent Seasonal Reproductive Patterns in Syntopic Populations of Two Murine Species in Southern Spain, Mus spretus and Apodemus sylvaticus

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

In most mammals with seasonal reproduction, males undergo testis regression during the non-breeding period. We performed a morphological, hormonal, functional, and molecular study of the testes of sexually inactive males of two species of murine rodents, the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, and the Algerian mouse, Mus spretus, in syntopic populations of southern Iberian peninsula. Both species reproduce during most of the year, but wood mice stop breeding in the summer whereas Algerian mice do it in winter. Sexually inactive males of A. sylvaticus show complete testis regression with reduced levels of serum testosterone and abnormal distribution of cell-adhesion molecules. Contrarily, inactive males of M. spretus maintain almost normal spermotogenesis despite a significant reduction of androgenic function. The lack of an evident explanation for the divergent seasonal breeding patterns found in southern populations of A. sylvaticus and M. spretus, compared with northern ones, implies that very subtle species/population-specific features and/or non-conspicuous environmental cues probably operate to determine their seasonal breeding pattern. These results also support the notion that multiple models of circannual testis variation are possible for different populations of the same species, showing that the mechanisms controlling seasonal reproduction are in fact very plastic and fast evolving.
The Canopy Starts at 0.5 m: Predatory Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) Differ between Rain Forest Floor Soil and Suspended Soil at any Height

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

ABSTRACT Suspended soils in forest canopies are thought to harbor a substantial fraction of canopy biomass and many arboreal specialists, but do forest floor generalist predators with high vagility also use this habitat? We tested the hypothesis of no difference between forest floor and suspended‐soil predatory mite faunas (Acari: Mesostigmata) in an Australian rain forest. Our results show that instead of being habitat generalists, many predatory mites partition soil into two main strata: soil suspended aboveground irrespective of height (0.5–20 m) and soil on the ground. Of 53 species of Mesostigmata in suspended soil, 53 percent (28 species) were absent from or rarely found on the ground. This increased to 60 percent (15/25 species) if only common species are considered. Among these 15 ‘suspended‐soil specialists’, all but the three least abundant were found throughout the arboreal strata. Moreover, ten species also occurred in litter accumulated on the surface of decaying logs or boulders close to the forest floor. Thus, although the arboreal predatory mite fauna is distinct from that on the forest floor, it is not restricted to the high canopy: even slightly elevated substrate appears acceptable as habitat for these suspended‐soil specialists. Our data suggest that a substantial portion of a rain forest's soil and litter fauna is held above the forest floor.
Okanagan Lake water chemistry dataset

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Raw data for the Okanagan Lake water chemistry dataset submitted to the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. Data is available through the landing page in JSON format. The landing page referenced by the DOI also contains links to publications and a map-based viewer for the dataset. The Neotoma Paleoecology Database maintains a homepage at https://www.neotomadb.org.
SH1594635.08FU

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.
Three-dimensional solitons and vortices in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Three-dimensional solitary and vortex structures in Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the framework of Gross-Pitaevskii model including the simultaneous action of local cubic-quintic nonlinearity and nonlocal dipole-dipole interactions. Nonlocal interactions are shown to change significantly the formation threshold and the numbers of atoms confined into the coherent structures. An appearance of robust high-order ($m=2$) three-dimensional vortices is revealed.
PREDICTION OF RECESSION

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

The purpose of our research is to examine the predictive power of inverted yield curve for the recession in the near future. The data used in this research are between Jan 1, 1959 to Nov, 2008. There are 8 recessions during this period, including current one. We conducted two sets of tests. The first set consists of spread between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month Treasury bill and spread between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month LIBOR; and we find the predictive power of spread between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month Treasury bill is much stronger than the other one. The second set consists of spread between 10-year SWAP rate and 3-month LIBOR, spread between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month Treasury bill, as well as the spread between 10-year Treasury bond and 3 month LIBOR. For the second test, we find that although there is a couple of recession involved and data is relatively limited, predictive power of spread between 10-year T-bond and 3 month still stands out and we also find the spread between 3-month LIBOR and 10-year SWAP could be a better indicator in the future by using more data. We conclude that term spread of Treasury rate is still the most powerful tool for forecasting the recession.
Package Inserts for Prescription Drugs as Evidence in Medical Malpractice Suits

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

1 Id. at 557, 317 P.2d at 180.Defendant and amicus briefs had warned that inserts were conservative and quickly outdated, and that medical progress could be significantly impaired "if physicians were required to follow blindly the suggestions of the manufacturers who prepare but do not use [drugs]."Id.I? See, e.g., Incollingo v. Ewing, 444 Pa.263, 282 A.2d 206 (1971) (mother administered Chloromycetin to her child without a doctor's supervision after lying to a doctor to obtain a renewal of the prescription; insert information warning against "indiscriminate use" of the drug, together with independent medical testimony, overcame a defense based on the custom of the profession).
Chemo‐Selective Single‐Cell Metabolomics Reveals the Spatiotemporal Behavior of Exogenous Pollutants During Xenopus Laevis Embryogenesis

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

Abstract In‐depth profiling of embryogenesis‐associated endogenous and exogenous metabolic changes can reveal potential bio‐effects resulting from human‐made chemicals and underlying mechanisms. Due to the lack of potent tools for monitoring spatiotemporal distribution and bio‐transformation behavior of dynamic metabolites at single‐cell resolution, however, how and to what extent environmental chemicals may influence or interfere embryogenesis largely remain unclear. Herein, a zero‐sample‐loss micro‐biopsy‐based mass spectrometric platform is presented for quantitative, chemo‐selective, high‐coverage, and minimal‐destructive profiling of development‐associated cis‐diol metabolites, which are critical for signal transduction and epigenome regulation, at both cellular level and tissue level of Xenopus laevis. Using this platform, three extraordinary findings that are otherwise hard to achieve are revealed: 1) there are characteristically different cis‐diol metabolic signatures among oocytes, anterior and posterior part of tailbud‐stage embryos; 2) halogenated cis‐diols heavily accumulate at the posterior part of tailbud‐stage embryos of Xenopus laevis; 3) dimethachlon, a kind of exogenous fungicide that is widely used as pesticide, may be bio‐transformed and accumulated in vertebrate animals in environment. Thus, this study opens a new avenue to simultaneously monitoring intercellular and intraembryonic heterogeneity of endogenous and exogenous metabolites, providing new insights into metabolic remolding during embryogenesis and putting a warning on potential environmental risk.
Is the colour of the mature aerial mycelium (spore mass) of streptomycetes a diagnostic key-character of decisive taxonomic importance?

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A white sporulated stable mutant strain (strain No. 66/m) of a Streptomyces sp. belonging to the nigrescens group of the typical grey Streptomyces spp. has been isolated. On the basis of ISP *International Streptomyces Project) criteria strain No. 66/m would be considered a true member of the albus-group of Streptomyces (regarded by some workers as a well separated assemblage of species) all the more so because it fits into this alien group at least in such a degree as into that from which it has originated. Caution is necessary in using the aerial mycelium colour as a distinguishing diagnostic property for establishing large intraspecific groups, series, or even in separating species of Streptomyces.