jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Theoretical and empirical analysis of the debt-adjusted real exchange rate in selected transition economies during 1994 - 2001

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

This paper aims to enrich the debate on the overvaluation/undervaluation of the Czech koruna and the currencies of other selected transition economies by applying the concept of the debt-adjusted real exchange rate (DARER), thereby offering monetary policy makers another indicator for more responsive management of this important economic variable. The motivation for constructing DARER is the fact that many transition economies finance their long-term current account deficits with capital flows, which often leads to real overvaluation of their currencies. DARER can signal to the authorities that the real exchange rate is becoming unsustainable in the medium term and that if this signal is ignored, a currency crisis may ensue. The paper is in seven parts. The first three parts contain the theoretical underpinning of the concept. Part four defines newly proposed indicators of exchange rate overvaluation. Part five contains empirical DARER results for the Czech Republic. Part six and annex 1 to this work contain empirical DARER results for selected transition countries, including a brief description of those countries’ exchange rate histories. The final part examines the possibilities and limitations of the DARER concept in practice. The primary aim of this part, however, is to explain the information content of the real exchange rate as a very good warning signal of potential currency crisis.
Banca universale, riforma del sistema bancario statunitense e concorrenza finanziaria nella Comunità Europea

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

Economists and policy makers in Europe and the United States have devoted increasing attention towards the German financial system. In the new Single European Market, the German financial system, characterised by universal banking with unrestricted entry into all types of financial market, is expected to become the dominant form. The German kind of financial system has also been suggested as an alternative to the segmented US financial system. It is argued that the success of the German system has less to do with the freedom granted to universal banks than with its approach to regulation and supervision. JEL Codes: G21, G18
Sino-African Sport Diplomacy? “New” Wave of Chinese Stadiums in African Cities

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

As Sino-African relations emerge among the most important bilateral relationships at the critical juncture of the global geopolitical order, China’s imprints in the African socio-cultural spheres and everyday life are becoming more self-evident in many African cities. The imprints range from the proliferation of “made in China mobile phones” to constructed railways, road networks and sport facilities. Against this backdrop of China’s growing presence in African cities, this chapter examines China’s “benevolent act” of stadium diplomacy in Africa. The chapter provides a critical appraisal of China’s strategic deployment of stadium diplomacy in Africa by examining the pattern and trends of Chinese-funded stadium construction on the continent since 2001. Based on insights and evidence from news archives and other sources, it argues that stadium diplomacy is a strategic diplomatic tool in China’s foreign policy agenda in Africa.
Pelvic Retroversion is Associated with Flat Back and Cam Type Femoro-Acetabular Impingement in Young Elite Skiers

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction: The spino-pelvic complex in humans helps to maintain an upright posture, by balancing the spinal sagittal alignment with the hip joints and pelvic girdle. The extent of how the hip joint may influence the spino-pelvic alignment is not fully understood. Hip joint cam femoro-acetabular impingement is a common source of hip and groin disability in young athletes and has been linked to abnormal joint morphology from repetitive loading of the proximal femoral head abutting against the acetabulum. The aim of this study was to compare the radiological parameters of spino-pelvic sagittal alignment and spinal types according to Roussouly’s classification in relation to hip joint cam femoro-acetabular impingement.
Methods: The sample group (n=102), mean age (17.7 ± 1.4) years, consisted of elite skiers (n=75) and nonathletes (n=27). Hip joints were examined for increased morphological cam deformity, (alpha angle greater than 55o) with Magnetic Resonance Imaging and standing lateral plain radiographs were taken for measurements of the spinopelvic sagittal alignment.
Results: A significant difference was shown in a mixed population (skiers and non-athletes) for an increased Pelvic Tilt angle (13°, SD 10.2) in the presence of morphological hip joint cam deformity compared with participants without cam deformity (8.5°, SD 7.1, P=0.036). Type II Roussouly spines occurred more frequently in skiers in the presence of increased cam (67%) compared with no cam (33%), however, this was not significant (P=0.19). Secondary findings highlighted significant differences shown for the prevalence of cam in a mixed-population for gender; males 60% (n=26) shown to have significantly more cam deformity compared with females 22% (n=10, P=0.001). Similar for height, with taller participants being shown to have significantly more cam deformity >177cm (SD 7.6) compared with no cam deformity <170 cm (SD 7.5, P=0.001).
Conclusion: A significant difference was shown with an increased Pelvic Tilt angle for an age-matched mixedgroup of elite skiers and non-athletes in the presence of increased morphological hip joint cam type femoro-acetabular impingement. Moreover, Elite skiers were shown to have an increased distribution of spinal Type II classification according to Roussouly in the presence of an increased frequency of cam femoro-acetabular impingement.
Efficient Data Analytics on Augmented Similarity Triplets

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Data analysis requires a pairwise proximity measure over objects. Recent work has extended this to situations where the distance information between objects is given as comparison results of distances between three objects (triplets). Humans find comparison tasks much easier than the exact distance computation, and such data can be easily obtained in big quantities via crowdsourcing. In this work, we propose triplets augmentation, an efficient method to extend the triplets data by inferring the hidden implicit information from the existing data. Triplets augmentation improves the quality of kernel-based and kernel-free data analytics. We also propose a novel set of algorithms for common data analysis tasks based on triplets. These methods work directly with triplets and avoid kernel evaluations, thus are scalable to big data. We demonstrate that our methods outperform the current best-known techniques and are robust to noisy data.
Transition From Residency to Practice

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

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Evaluating the Risk of Hypertension in Residents in Primary Care in Shanghai, China with Machine Learning Algorithms

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Abstract The prevention of hypertension in primary care requires an effective and suitable hypertension risk assessment model. The aim of this study was to develop and compare the performances of three machine learning algorithms in predicting the risk of hypertension for residents in primary care in Shanghai, China. A dataset of 40,261 subjects over the age of 35 years was extracted from Electronic Healthcare Records of 47 community health centres from 2017 to 2019 in the Pudong district of Shanghai. The XGBoost model outperformed the other two models and achieved an AUC of 0.765 in the testing set. Twenty features were selected to construct the model, including age, diabetes status, urinary protein, BMI, elderly health self-assessment, creatinine, systolic blood pressure of the upper right arm, waist circumference, smoking status, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, frequency of drinking, glucose, urea nitrogen, total cholesterol, diastolic blood pressure of the upper right arm, exercise frequency, time spent engaged in exercise, high salt consumption, and triglycerides. XGBoost outperformed random forest and logistic regression in predicting the risk of hypertension in primary care. Integration of such a risk assessment model into primary care may improve the prevention and management of hypertension in residents.
Retrospective assessment of environmental and economic relations

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between the ecological system and the economic system in different periods of economic development. Using the characteristics of each economic period, the state of the environment is determined. The article shows that over a long period of the history of mankind, social and economic activity of a person weakly affects the environment, and the environment is not a scarce resource. Only after the industrial revolution did the human impact on the environment increase significantly, making the favorable environment scarce and, thus, becoming the subject of economic research.
RhoE Is a Pro-Survival p53 Target Gene that Inhibits ROCK I-Mediated Apoptosis in Response to Genotoxic Stress

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

The Rho family of GTPases regulates many aspects of cellular behavior through alterations to the actin cytoskeleton [1-6]. The majority of the Rho family proteins function as molecular switches cycling between the active, GTP-bound, and the inactive, GDP-bound, conformations [1-6]. Unlike typical Rho family proteins, the Rnd subfamily members, including Rnd1, Rnd2, RhoE/Rnd3, and RhoH, are GTPase deficient, and thus expected to be constitutively active [7-10]. Here, we identify an unexpected role for RhoE/Rnd3 in the regulation of the p53-mediated stress response. We show that RhoE is a transcriptional p53 target gene, and that genotoxic stress triggers actin depolymerization, resulting in actin-stress fiber disassembly through p53-dependent RhoE induction. Silencing of RhoE induction in response to genotoxic stress maintains stress fiber formation and strikingly increases apoptosis, implying an antagonistic role for RhoE in p53-dependent apoptosis. We found that RhoE inhibits ROCK I (Rho associated kinase I) activity during genotoxic stress thereby suppressing apoptosis. We demonstrate that the p53-mediated induction of RhoE in response to DNA damage favors cell survival partly through inhibition of ROCK I-mediated apoptosis. Thus, RhoE is anticipated to function by regulating ROCK I signaling to control the balance between cell survival and cell death in response to genotoxic stress.
Effect of alloxan on the incorporation of uridine diphospho D-galactose into Langerhans' islets of the rat.

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

The effect of alloxan on pancreatic islets of the rat was studied by following the change in the incorporation of uridine diphospho (UDP) D-[U-14C] galactose into glycoproteins (chloroform/methanol-insoluble fraction) and glycolipids (chloroform/methanol-soluble fraction). Islets exposed to either alloxan or alloxan plus D-glucose anomers (16.7 mM) at 37° for 5 min, were incubated in a medium containing UDP-[U-14C] galactose at 37°for 120 min. The incorporation of UDP-[U-14C] galactose into glycoproteins and glycolipids was unaffected by 1.25 mM alloxan, but was slightly reduced by 6.25 mM alloxan. Alloxan at 31.2 mM severely inhibited the incorporation. The combination of alloxan (31.2 mM) plus the α anomer abolished the inhibitory effect of alloxan to a considerable extent, while the β anomer provided no protection against the action of alloxan. The label distribution on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of islets incubated with UDP-galactose was similar to that obtained after labeling with galactose oxidase and NaB3H4. In conclusion, the present data indicate that pancreatic islets of the rat can transfer galactose from UDP-galactose on the plasma membrane and that the α anomer of glucose is more effective than the β anomer in overcoming the inhibitory effect of alloxan.
Stowing Mining Technology in the Northwest Ecologically Fragile Areas

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Northwest China is rich of coal energy. Mining activities bring serous impact on the environment and scarce water resources because of its shallow buried and severe mining impact. Stowing mining is one of the most effective measures to control strata movement and reduce surface subsidence. Based on the local surface widespread wind-blown sand for aggregate and combined with the knife pillar mining，this paper introduces the stowing mining technology.
Evaluation of biological activities of raw and cooked Brassica oleracea sprout extracts rich in bioactive compound Sulforaphane

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Background and Aims: Broccoli sprout extract (Brassica oleracea) has extensive biological activities that are mainly attributed to the presence of bioactive compounds, such as sulforaphane. This study aimed to investigate the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of cooked and raw extracts of broccoli sprouts.\nMaterials and Methods: The amount of sulforaphane in broccoli sprout extract was evaluated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Moreover, the amount of phenolic and flavonoid compounds and antioxidant capacity were investigated by the DPPH free radical scavenging method. In addition, the antibacterial activity of raw and cooked sprout extracts on some bacteria was explored using disk diffusion assay and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) by macro dilution method. Significant differences were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) through Duncanchr('39')s multiple range test.\nResults: Based on the results obtained by HPLC, the amount of sulforaphane in the raw broccoli sprout extract was determined to be 787.46 μg/mL. Moreover, the antioxidant activity of raw and cooked sprout extracts depicted a higher antioxidant activity with an increase in concentration. Furthermore, the antibacterial study showed that cooked sprout extract had higher antimicrobial activity, compared to the raw sprout extract (at a significance level of 0.05). The highest growth inhibition zone was found against Gram-positive Bacillus cereus strain with a diameter of 18±0.6 mm; moreover, the lowest amounts of MIC and MBC were obtained at 0.39 and 0.78 mg/mL, respectively.\nConclusion: In general, the results show that cooked broccoli sprout extract has significant antioxidant and antibacterial activities, compared to the raw sprout. Accordingly, it can be utilized in food, health, and medical products as a highly promising source. However, further studies are required to be conducted in this regard.
A note on using PageRank based methods as a sports competency index

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

최근에 스포츠 경쟁력을 객관적으로 판단하는 방법으로 페이지랭크 (PageRank) 방법이 사용되기 시작하였다. 원래 페이지랭크가 웹사이트의 연결 네트워크 정보를 이용하여 특정 웹사이트의 중요도를 평가하는 것에 착안하여, 특정 운동 경기의 승패 관계를 연결 네트워크로 파악하여 페이지랭크를 해당 운동 경기의 경쟁력 지수로 사용하고자 하는 시도이다. 페이지랭크는 경쟁력이 높은 상대에게 얻은 승리를 경쟁력이 낮은 상대에게 얻은 승리보다 더 높이 평가하는 구조이기 때문에 단순 승패만 따지는 방법보다 경쟁력을 판단하기 더 합리적인 방법으로 여겨진 것이다. 페이지랭크는 연결여부만 고려하기 때문에 가중페이지랭크 (weighted PageRank)로 발전하였고, 학술지 평가에서는 SJR (Scimago Journal Rank)와 아이겐팩터 (Eigenfactor)로 발전하게 되었다. 이 논문에서는 이 방법에서 사용된 공식을 중심으로 각 항목들이 스포츠 경쟁력 관점에서 어떤 의미를 가지는지 살펴본다. 마지막으로 2018년 중학교와 고등학교의 배드민턴 단체 경기 자료에 이 방법들을 적용하고 그 결과를 비교한다.
Reliability in distributed database systems (panel discussion)

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

article Reliability in distributed database systems (panel discussion) Share on Chairman: Bharat Bhargava Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W Lafayette, Indiana Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W Lafayette, IndianaView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGMOD RecordVolume 14Issue 4May 1985 pp 420–422https://doi.org/10.1145/971699.318992Online:01 May 1985Publication History 0citation263DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads263Last 12 Months5Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
Role of TGF??1 and IL-10 in the immunoregulatory effect of allogeneic CD34+ cells

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

305 Administration of allogeneic donor bone marrow (BM) to tissue and organ transplant recipients can induce significant immunoregulatory effects, leading to induction of specific allograft tolerance in experimental models and to improved allograft acceptance clinically. The mechanism by which allogeneic BM induces unresponsiveness is uncertain. Previous studies in the rhesus monkey model suggested a role for paracrine transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ1) secretion in the reduction of CTLp responses by allogeneic BMC. The beneficial effect of allogeneic CD34+ cells in promoting development of specific unresponsiveness in rodent models promoted us to examine the immunoregulatory effect of allogeneic CD34+ cells on cytotoxic and cytokine responses of rhesus monkey T cell subsets in vitro.Methods: CD34+ cells were enriched from BM using biotin-conjugated, monoclonal antibody to human CD34 and a streptavidin CellPro column. Purified CD34 cells were cultured in Click's medium with 10% normal monkey serum, IL 6, stem cell factor and leukocyte inhibitory factor. Effects of allogeneic CD34+ cells on MLR-induced T cell activation were assayed by bulk CML on 51Cr target cells and by intracellular expression of cytokines in CD8+CD3+ or CD4+CD3+ responder cells. Stimulator cells were from the same monkey supplying the CD34+ cells and from third party donors. Intracellular production of IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-4 and IL-10 was assayed by 3-color flow cytometric analysis of gated CD3+ cell subsets. To investigate the functional role of associated cytokines, neutralizing antibodies were co-incubated with cells during the MLR.Results. Allogeneic CD34+ cells inhibited MLR induced CML in a dose-dependent manner. The inhibitory effect was 100% when the ratio of responder to CD34+ cell ratio was 2:1 and was significant to at least 200:1. However, this inhibitory effect was nonspecific in that the response to third party stimulators was comparably reduced. Neutralizing antibodies against IL-10 or TGF-β1 completely reversed the inhibition of CML by CD34+ cells in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that these paracrine cytokines mediate the inhibition. Intracellular cytokine staining showed that the presence of CD34+ cells in MLR reduced IFN-γ producing cells by 100% and increased IL-10 producing cells 6-fold in the gated CD4+CD3+ population. CD8+CD3+ cells showed a 23% inhibition of IFN-γ production and no significant increase in IL-10 production. Conclusions: In summary, allogeneic rhesus monkey CD34+ cells exhibit significant immunoregulatory effects on alloreactive T cells in vitro. The inhibitory mechanism, which is dependent on IL-10 and TGF-β, blocks the response of cytolytic T cells and shifts the cytokine response of CD+ T helper cells toward a Th2 type profile. These immunoregulatory properties of CD34+ cells may contribute to the ability of allogeneic BMC to promote allograft acceptance in vivo.
Reniforma rhynchophori sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Microbotryales) from guts of red palm weevil

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

During a survey of mycobiota inhabiting guts of red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) in Assiut area of Egypt, two interesting yeast isolates were obtained from 2 different gut samples (out of 11 gut samples investigated).Two isolates were identified phenotypically and genotypically with 87% ITS sequencing similarities with the type strain Reniforma strues.The name Reniforma rhynchophori was assigned for the new species.The two strains were deposited in Assiut University Mycological Centre Culture Collection and AUMC numbers 10263 T (as the type strain) and AUMC 10264 were given.The ITS gene sequences for AUMC 10263 T & AUMC 10264 were also deposited at the National Center for Biotechnological Information (NCBI) and accession numbers are given as KX011609 and KX015891 respectively.Full description and photos of the new species are presented.This new species was recorded as the second species of the genus Reniforma.
Dimensions of holistic wellness as a result of international wellness tourism experiences

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Interest in wellness tourism has seen rapid growth in recent years from both researchers and industry representatives. However, it has been noted that research related to understanding the components of a wellness tourism experience is lacking. This research examined International wellness tourism experiences as described by user-generated content published on TripAdvisor.com. Using netnography analysis in conjunction with framework analysis, thematic qualitative coding of travel reviews provided an in-depth meaningful understanding of the wellness tourism experience. In line with Dunn’s [(1959). High-level wellness for man and society. American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 49(6), 786–792] definition of holistic wellness the results identified four dimensions of the wellness tourism experience, namely body, mind, spirit and environment. Though consumer reviews varied, there was consensus within the data that all four dimensions served as a mechanism towards wellness, in some instances, proving to be barriers. Recommendations for the planning and management of wellness tourism are discussed for each of the dimensions.
1-D Simulation of a Diesel Engines Injection Timing

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Using GT-POWER to simulate a diesel engines injection timing, calibrating simulation model has been done according to experimental data. Analysis of the effect on engine power characteristics and emission characteristics caused by different pre-injection timing and main injection timing is the main work. The simulation results show that, the output torque and NOx increased when the injection timing is advanced. In contrast, the soot emission is decreased when the injection timing is advanced.