jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Critical thinking skills, English language, and intercultural competence among Chinese medical student

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

The study aimed at exploring the relationship among critical thinking skills, English language and intercultural competence among Chinese medical students.It proposed an English program to enhance these skills and competence.The study employed descriptive method and respondents answered through the e-questionnaires.A total of 630 students from four-year levels from a medical college in Anhui in the eastern part of China were involved in the study.Results showed that respondents hold a generally positive attitudes towards critical thinking, English language and intercultural competence, however, they have relatively weak confidence and abilities in understanding within the aspects of thinking critically, listening capacities and knowledge of other cultures, especially in the subscales of understanding texts from various fields, listening and comprehending spoken English in a variety of accents and dialects, and understanding foreign cultural taboos.It also indicates that critical thinking skills and English language competence are closely related, critical thinking and intercultural competence are closely related, and intercultural competence and English language competence are closely related as well.The study showed that the better the English language competence is, the better critical thinking skills are employed.In addition, the better critical thinking skill are applied, the better intercultural competence is.Therefore, an English program was put forward to help students in medical college to improve their English related abilities and skills.
Electrocardiographic findings in a group of physically active young adults who reside at 2,600 meters above the sea level: an exploratory study

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Purpose: The physiological adaptations to regular physical activity and hypobaric hypoxia associated with high-altitude residence are related to a series of cardiovascular adaptations that can generate electrocardiographic modifications. This study aimed to describe the principal findings and determine the mean values of the electrocardiographic parameters in a group of physically active young adults who reside at a high altitude. Methods: 49 young, physically active subjects (11 women) in a Sports Sciences program participated in the study. Each participant was subjected to a medical interview, a physical examination, and a resting electrocardiogram. Two physicians analyzed the electrocardiogram, searching for criteria of anatomical or physiological abnormalities; a descriptive analysis of the duration of waves and intervals and the amplitude of the T and P waves was also carried out. Results: The mean values of the electrocardiographic parameters were between the expected values. The principal findings involve sinus bradycardia and changes associated with the right side of the heart: incomplete right bundle branch block, right QRS axis deviation, and right ventricular hypertrophy. Conclusions: The findings of this study are related to other studies that describe changes in the right side of the heart in inhabitants of high altitude and sinus bradycardia in physically active subjects and, in some cases, in high-altitude residents. Every young dweller of the altitude who engages in physical activity should be submitted to a resting ECG, considering there is a high probability of finding asymptomatic changes in the ECG that could require further exploration. Keywords: Electrocardiogram, high altitude, hypoxia, exercise
Open‐Mindedness in a “Post‐Truth” Era

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Abstract In discussing open‐mindedness, virtue epistemologists emphasize revising one's cognitive standpoint by taking seriously the views of others, where this process is seen to be a reliable way of identifying one's biases and forming true beliefs. Yet in defending open‐mindedness, virtue epistemologists tend to give little attention to two areas of scholarship. First, they tend to overlook the psychoanalytic challenges of evasion and disavowal that so often operate in the enactment of and attempts at open‐mindedness. Second, they undervalue scholarship that notes the longer arc of a relation between post‐truth conditions and settler colonial structures. In other words, there appears to be an evasion of those views that associate the United States with dispossession, settler colonialism, and projects of decolonization according to postcontinental philosophies. This essay by Troy Richardson clarifies some of the critical vocabulary needed to bridge virtue epistemology committed to open‐mindedness and scholarship that has shifted the terms of analysis toward active projects for decolonization based on postcontinental philosophies.
Quality of the pirenic and apirenic fruits of surinam cherry tree accesses (Eugenia uniflora)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Surinam cherry is a native fruit tree with market potential. However, the pulp yield can be impaired by the size of the fruit seed. At UTFPR there is a genotype which produces seedless fruits, that can intensify the use of this species in orchards, and it is important to analyze the quality of the produced fruit. The aim of this study was to determine the quality of fruits from pirenic and apirenic accessions of Surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora). In 2012, 2013 and 2015, 40 ripe fruits were collected from 23 Surinam cherry accessions, including an apirenic genotype one. The fruits were taken to the laboratory and analyzed regarding total fruit and seed weight, equatorial fruit and seed diameter, and total soluble solids content (SST). The twenty-third access presented physical characteristics that stood out from the other accesses, but, a larger size of the seed is an undesirable factor, once with industrialization it diminishes the use and yield of the pulp. Access 19, corresponding to the apirenic cherry tree, presented a smaller diameter and seed weight, which is a desirable feature. This genotype also has the physicochemical characteristics considered appropriate for processing or fresh market.
The impact of piracy on the structure of the Pay TV market: a case study for Latin America

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

The purpose of this paper is to show that piracy affects competition by reducing the ability of operators to enter and expand in the market. We expect this to be reflected in a more concentrated market. We empirically assess this by employing an unbalanced panel data set for 17 countries in Latin America (years 2013–2015). By using the Herfindahl Hirshman Index (HHI) as an indicator of market concentration, we find that halving piracy reduces market concentration by 6.5% in markets where the HHI index is above 1500. When controlling for endogeneity, halving piracy reduces market concentration by 11–15% for all levels of HHI. Since in most Pay TV markets in Latin America the HHI is above 1500, the results suggest that fighting piracy is a tool for promoting competition.
CacyBP/SIP protein promotes proliferation and G1/S transition of human pancreatic cancer cells

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

Abstract Calcyclin‐binding protein or Siah‐1‐interacting protein (CacyBP/SIP), a component of the ubiquitin‐mediated proteolysis, could participate in beta‐catenin degradation, which was found to be related to the malignant phenotypes of pancreatic cancer previously. However, the role of CacyBP/SIP itself in pancreatic cancer has not been investigated. In the present study, CacyBP/SIP expression was assayed and manipulated to reveal the potential mechanism in pancreatic cancer carcinogenesis. Here, we show that CacyBP/SIP is over‐expressed in pancreatic cancer cells. Down‐regulation of CacyBP/SIP by small interference RNA (siRNA) severely suppresses the proliferation and tumorigenesis in pancreatic cancer. G1/S transition arrest induced by inhibition of CacyBP/SIP is at least partly mediated by down‐regulation of Cyclin E and CDK2 as well as up‐regulation of p27 and Rb. Collectively, CacyBP/SIP as an enhancer of pancreatic cancer malignance might develop into another possible therapeutic target. Mol. Carcinog. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Writing product and process in children with English as an additional language

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Children draw on limited cognitive resources to write and these resources are under more demand when writing in English as an additional language (EAL). This study investigated the relationship between writing process measures along with two language measures, phonological awareness and lexical retrieval, and measures of writing product. Thirty-nine EAL children took part in the study and their writing was digitised so that execution speed, burst length, and the pattern of pauses were available for analysis. The results found that lexical retrieval was significantly associated, indirectly through execution speed and burst length, with the number of words, lexical richness, and writing quality. The results are discussed in the context of common underlying proficiency theory and lexical retrieval as part of the translation process of writing.
Isolation and characterization of multiple Drug resistant bacteria isolated from poultry waste water

Field: Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)

India is one of the biggest producers of poultry all over the world. Huge quantities of poultry meat consumption lead to generation of large amount of poultry wastes. This waste may consist of many disease-causing microorganisms and thus improper disposal of it may pose severe environmental and Health risks. Irrational application of antibiotics in poultry and other veterinary set ups may result in abundance of microorganisms resistant to antibiotics is a serious problem for humanity. This research work aims at the isolation and characterization of multiple drug resistant bacteria from poultry sites. Water samples were taken from 10 different poultry sites of Raipur city, Chhattisgarh. The preliminary identification of bacterial Isolates was done on the basis of Morphological and Biochemical Characterization using a online software tool. The presence of Multidrug resistant bacteria was screened using 12 common antibiotics. The isolate showing multiple drug resistance was subjected to molecular characterization using 16S RNA sequencing.
ROSF: Leveraging Information Retrieval and Supervised Learning for Recommending Code Snippets

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

When implementing unfamiliar programming tasks, developers commonly search code examples and learn usage patterns of APIs from the code examples or reuse them by copy-pasting and modifying. For providing high-quality code examples, previous studies present several methods to recommend code snippets mainly based on information retrieval. In this paper, to provide better recommendation results, we propose ROSF, Recommending cOde Snippets with multi-aspect Features, a novel method combining both information retrieval and supervised learning. In our method, we recommend Top-Kcode snippets for a givenfree-form query based on two stages, i.e., coarse-grained searching and fine-grained re-ranking. First, we generate a code snippet candidate set by searching a code snippet corpus using an information retrieval method. Second, we predict probability values of the code snippets for different relevance scores in the candidate set by the learned prediction model from a training set, re-rank these candidate code snippets according to the probability values, and recommend the final results to developers. We conduct several experiments to evaluate our method in a large-scale corpus containing 921,713 real-world code snippets. The results show that ROSF is an effective method for code snippets recommendation and outperforms the-state-of-the-art methods by 20%-41% in Precision and 13%-33% in NDCG
Pollen ultrastructure in anther cultures of Datura innoxia: I. Division of the presumptive vegetative cell

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

ABSTRACT Ultrastructural features of embryogenic pollen, in Datura innoxia are described, just prior to, during, and after completion of the first division of the presumptive vegetative cell. In anther cultures initiated towards the end of the microspore phase and incubated at 28 °C in darkness, the spores divide within 24 h and show features consistent with those of dividing spores in vivo. Cytokinesis is also normal in most of the spores and the gametophytic cell-plate curves round the presumptive generative nucleus in the usual highly ordered way. Further differentiation of the 2 gametophytic cells does not take place and the pollen either switches to embryogenesis or degenerates. After 48–72 h, the remaining viable pollen shows the vegetative cell in division. The cell, which has a large vacuole and thin layer of parietal cytoplasm carried over from the microspore, divides consistently in a plane parallel to the microspore division. The dividing wall follows a less-ordered course than the gametophytic wall and usually traverses the vacuole, small portions of which are incorporated into the daughter cell adjacent to the generative cell. The only structural changes in the vegetative cell associated with the change in programme appear to be an increase in electron density of both plastids and mitochondria and deposition of an electron-dense material (possibly lipid) on the tonoplast. The generative cell is attached to the intine when the vegetative cell divides. Ribosomal density increases in the generative cell and exceeds that in the vegetative cell. A thin electron-dense layer also appears in the generativecell wall. It is concluded that embryogenesis commences as soon as the 2 gametophytic cells are laid down. Gene activity associated with postmitotic synthesis of RNA and protein in the vegetative cell is switched off. The data are discussed in relation to the first division of the embryogenic vegetative cell in Nicotiana tabacum.
Short-Term Highway Traffic Flow Prediction via Wavelet–Liquid Neural Network Model

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Accurate, efficient, and reliable traffic flow prediction is pivotal for highway operation and management. However, traffic flow series present nonlinear, heterogeneous, and stochastic characteristics, posing significant challenges to precise prediction. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel wavelet-LNN model, integrating the strengths of wavelet decomposition and liquid neural networks (LNNs). Initially, multi-scale wavelet decomposition is applied to the original traffic flow data to yield approximation components and detailed components. Subsequently, each component is trained using the LNN. Ultimately, the predicted results of all components of the LNN models are aggregated to derive the final traffic flow prediction. The experiments conducted on four highway datasets demonstrate that the proposed wavelet-LNN model surpasses SVR, LSSVM, LSTM, TCN, and transformer models in prediction performance across R2, MSE, and MAE metrics. Notably, the wavelet-LNN model features the fewest parameters (<2% of typical deep learning models).
Diagnosis of non-atherosclerotic carotid disease

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Non-atherosclerotic carotid disease in an uncommon group of angiographic defects. It includes the entities: Takayasu's arteritis, giant cell arteritis, fibromuscular disease, moyamoya syndrome, arterial dissection and extracranial carotid aneurysms. Due to advance in imaging techniques, they are being increasingly identified. Growing awareness of diverse clinical picture along with advances in imaging technologies enables early diagnosis. Although catheter angiography is a gold standard in diagnosing most of these diseases, neurosonological tests serve as an excellent screening tool, and are suitable for monitoring. Brain MR and MRA are sometimes essential for confirmation of the diagnosis. Mortality rates are low and functional outcome is generally good if the disease is diagnosed early.
The Employment Distribution and the Creation of Financial Dependence

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

A fall in national income has varied consequences for the working population: some carry on working as normal, others become unemployed. Those excluded from work lose their main income source and must usually rely on public welfare, entering a financial dependence created endogenously as the economy adjusts. The current paper examines this induced financial dependence and its implications within a Post Keynesian model. A skewed employment distribution forces higher transfer payments than would occur if employment was distributed more evenly. The additional expenditures help to sustain profitability, so it is in the collective interest of employers and profit recipients to concentrate unemployment in a subset of the working population.
Study on quality standard for Ruanmailing oral Liquid

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

OBJECTIVE To establish the quality standard for Ruanmailing oral liquid.METHODS Radix polygoni multiflori praeparatacum succo glycines sotae,Radix paeoniae alba,Radix astragali and Herba epimedii in Ruanmailing oral liquid was identified by TLC;the content of salvianolic acid B in Ruanmailing oral liquid were determined by HPLC.RESULTS Radix polygoni multiflori praeparatacum succo glycines sotae,Radix paeoniae alba,Radix astragali and Herba epimedii could be detected.Salvianolic acid B showed a good linear relationship at the range of 0.04μg～1.83μg,the average recovey of added sample was 101.7% with RSD of 1.5%.CONCLUSION The method is simple with good reproducibility and can be used for control of Ruanmailing oral liquid.
STUDI PENINGKATAN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT MELALUI PERSEPSI DUKUNGAN ORGANISASI DAN COUNTER PRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIOR DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. INTERNATIONAL FORTUNA EKSPRESINDO

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This study was conducted to examine the effect of perceptual variables on organizational support and counterproductive work behavior on employee engagement in improving employee performance at PT. International Fortuna Ekspresindo. The population in this study were employees of PT. International Fortuna Ekspresindo. The analysis technique used is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), where SEM is to test whether the model described in the study is in accordance with actual reality. Based on SEM results, it shows that perceptions of organizational support have a significant positive effect on employee engagement; perceived organizational support has a significant positive effect on employee performance; counterproductive work behavior has a significant positive effect on employee engagement; counterproductive work behavior has a significant positive effect on employee performance; and employee engagement has a significant positive effect on employee performance
The Establishment of Official Analytical Methodology

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTThe Establishment of Official Analytical MethodologyWilliam HorwitzCite this: J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1977, 17, 2, 97–102Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1977Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1977https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ci60010a010https://doi.org/10.1021/ci60010a010research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views61Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access options Get e-Alerts
Empiric Transcatheter Embolization for Acute Arterial Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Meta-Analysis

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis to assess the safety and efficacy of empiric embolization compared with targeted embolization in the treatment of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). MATERIALS AND METHODS. We searched the PubMed and Cochrane Library databases for studies performed without language restrictions from January 2000 to November 2019. Only clinical studies with a sample size of five or more were included. Clinical success, rebleeding and complication rates, survival rates, bleeding cause, embolic materials, and vessels embolized were recorded. Empiric embolization and targeted embolization (i.e., embolization performed based on angiographic evidence of ongoing bleeding) were compared when possible. Meta-analysis was performed. RESULTS. Among 13 included studies (12 retrospective and 1 prospective), a total of 357 of 725 patients (49.2%) underwent empiric embolization for UGIB. The clinical success rate of empiric embolization was 74.7% (95% CI, 63.1-86.3%) among the 13 studies, and the survival rate was 80.9% (95% CI, 73.8-88.0%) for 10 studies. On the basis of comparative studies, no statistically significant difference was observed between empiric and targeted embolization in terms of rebleeding rate in 111 studies (36.5% vs 29.6%; odds ratio [OR], 1.13; 95% CI, 0.77-1.65; p = .53), mortality in eight studies (23.3% vs 18.0%; OR, 1.44; 95% CI, 0.89-2.33; p = .14), and need for surgery to control rebleeding in four studies (17.8% vs 13.4%; OR, 1.34; 95% CI, 0.58-3.07; p = .49). The pooled embolization-specific complications were 1.9% (empiric) and 2.4% (targeted). CONCLUSION. According to all available published evidence, empiric embolization assessed with endoscopic or preprocedural imaging findings (or both) appears to be as effective as targeted embolization in preventing rebleeding and mortality in patients with angiographically negative acute UGIB. Because of its favorable safety profile, empiric embolization should be considered for patients in this clinical scenario.
Detection in non-erythroid cells of a factor with the binding characteristics of the erythroid cell transcription factor EF1

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

The erythroid transcription factor erythroid factor-1 (EF1) plays a critical role in the transcription of erythroid-specific genes. Here we report the presence of a factor with the mobility and sequence-specific DNA-binding characteristics of EF1 at low abundance in a wide variety of non-erythroid cell types. This is the first report of an EF1-like activity in non-erythroid cells and indicates that this factor may play a role in the regulation of genes expressed in such cells.