jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Perceived community disorder, hostile marital interactions, and self-reported health of African American couples: An interdyadic process

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Using a sample of African American husbands and wives, this study investigates whether marital interactions and health are linked to their perceived community disorder. Findings suggest that only husbands' perceived community disorder is associated with their hostile behaviors toward their wives. Although wives' perceived disorder is strongly associated with husbands' perceived disorder, wives' perceptions are not directly associated with their hostile behaviors toward their husbands. Findings also suggest that husbands' and wives' hostile behaviors are strongly associated with each other. In general, spouses' hostile behaviors toward their partners are associated with their own as well as their partners' physical and mental health. Furthermore, husbands' perceived community disorder is directly associated with their own physical and mental health.
Glandular Fever with Neurological Complications

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

CHEMICAL TESTS FOR BLOOD IN URINEMEDICALJOU 775volumes of glacial acetic acid and 10-volume hydrogen peroxide (acid peroxide reagent), which keeps for three months.Wash a white porcelain "spot-test" tile with cavities, rinse with 95% spirit, and allow to dry.Do not dry wvith a cloth, for fragments of fibre may give false positives.Place a "small knife-point "-about 3 mg.or the volume of a grain of rice-of o-tolidine hydrochloride in a cavity; add one drop of urine.Stir with a clean glass rod and add one drop of "acid peroxide."A positive reaction appears as a blue coloration, or spreading blue- green streaks which fade after 5-30 minutes to brown.A negativereaction is pale brown. Results
IL-2 dependence of IL-9 expression in human T lymphocytes

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

Abstract Human IL-9 is a T cell-derived lymphokine that is abundantly expressed upon activation with mitogens. The observation that IL-9 induction peaks as late as 28 h after stimulation suggested the involvement of secondary signals in this process. The finding reported here that IL-9 expression is blocked by cycloheximide strongly supports this hypothesis. Moreover, we identify IL-2 as the critical element controlling IL-9 expression in T cells. We show (i) that anti-IL-2R antibodies block IL-9 expression in T cells stimulated with PMA and anti-CD3 and (ii) that IL-2, of a panel of cytokines, is the only molecule that synergizes with PMA for IL-9 induction. The latter finding is confirmed in a T cell leukemia line. Finally, we demonstrate that IL-2 plays a regulatory role in the induction of other cytokines, such as IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, and granulocyte/macrophage-CSF, in fresh peripheral T cells.
Behavior of Curved Steel-Concrete Composite Beams Under Monotonic Load

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

The paper develops a numerical investigation on the behavior of steel-concrete composite beam curved in plan to examine the effect of the various parameters. Three-dimensional finite element analysis (FEA) is employed using a commercial software, ABAQUS. The geometric and material nonlinearities are utilized to simulate the composite beam under a monotonic load. The FEA efficiency has been proved by comparing the numerical results with experimental tests obtained from previous literature, including load-deflection curves, ultimate load, ultimate and failure deflection, and cracks propagation. The validated models are used to assess some of the key parameters such the beam span/radius ratio, web stiffeners, partial interaction, concrete compressive strength, and steel beam yield stress. From the obtained results, it is noticed that the span/radius of curvature ratio influences the loading capacity, the beam yielding (i.e. the beam yield at an early stage) when the span/radius ratio increases and inelastic behavior developed early of the beam due to the torsional effect. The presence of web stiffeners with different locations in the curve composite beam affected the shear strength. The web twisting and vertical separation at the beam mid-span are observed to decrease as the number of the stiffeners increase due to the decrease in the beam torsion incorporating with transferring the failure to the concrete slab. Furthermore, the partial interaction and steel beam yield stress developed in this study appear to have a remarkable effect on beam capacity.
Increased Value Through Sharing in Multi-Sided Markets

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

The demand for more sustainable business models is increasing the need for current businesses to develop their business processes and value creation mechanisms. One way to improve sustainability is sharing resources and services in a new sharing economy paradigm. This chapter builds a conceptual model for taxi ridesharing to describe the value potential that is born by increasing the efficiency of taxi businesses. First, a framework for multisided markets is built to understand the different value elements of taxi ridesharing. Then, a conceptual mathematical model is introduced to understand the value symmetries including the cost saving potential and allocation from the perspectives of the customer and the supplier. The model shows that it is possible to have a system that creates value for both the taxi driver and the passenger, while simultaneously leading to significant reduction in CO2 emissions.
Persistent severe muscle pain following mistakenly injected high-dose bee venom: A care-compliant case report

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Rationale: In clinical practice, bee venom injection into acupuncture points is used to relieve various types of musculoskeletal pain. In the current study, we describe a patient who had persistent severe muscle pain caused by mistakenly injected high-dose bee venom. Patient concerns: A 63-year-old woman mistakenly received an injection of high-dose (2 mL; standard dose, 0.1 mL) bee venom (diluted in saline at a 1:2000 ratio). Immediately after the injection, extreme burning pain developed at the injection site, which persisted for 1 month with a mean pain score of 9 on the numeric rating scale. T1-weighted gadolinium-enhanced axial lumbar magnetic resonance imaging revealed increased intensity in the medial part of the left psoas muscle around the L4-5 intervertebral disc level. Diagnosis: This finding indicated the presence of inflammation in the left psoas muscle, which was thought to be associated with pain. Interventions: A buprenorphine transdermal patch (releasing 5 mcg/hours) was applied to alleviate the pain. Outcomes: Six months after the bee venom injection, the pain completely resolved. Lessons: Bee venom has a strong toxic effect; therefore, only a minimal dose of diluted bee venom should be administered for musculoskeletal pain control. Special caution is required during bee venom injection to avoid excessive doses of bee venom.
CoT-AMFlow: Adaptive Modulation Network with Co-Teaching Strategy for Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The interpretation of ego motion and scene change is a fundamental task for mobile robots. Optical flow information can be employed to estimate motion in the surroundings. Recently, unsupervised optical flow estimation has become a research hotspot. However, unsupervised approaches are often easy to be unreliable on partially occluded or texture-less regions. To deal with this problem, we propose CoT-AMFlow in this paper, an unsupervised optical flow estimation approach. In terms of the network architecture, we develop an adaptive modulation network that employs two novel module types, flow modulation modules (FMMs) and cost volume modulation modules (CMMs), to remove outliers in challenging regions. As for the training paradigm, we adopt a co-teaching strategy, where two networks simultaneously teach each other about challenging regions to further improve accuracy. Experimental results on the MPI Sintel, KITTI Flow and Middlebury Flow benchmarks demonstrate that our CoT-AMFlow outperforms all other state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches, while still running in real time. Our project page is available at https://sites.google.com/view/cot-amflow.
Identification and characterization of functional genes encoding the mouse major urinary proteins.

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

Mouse Ltk- cells were stably transfected with cloned genes encoding the mouse major urinary proteins (MUPs). C57BL/6J MUP genomic clones encoding MUP 2 (BL6-25 and BL6-51), MUP 3 (BL6-11 and BL6-3), and MUP 4 (BL6-42) have been identified. In C57BL/6J mice, MUP 2 and MUP 4 are known to be synthesized in male, but not female, liver, and MUP 3 is known to be synthesized in both male and female liver and mammary gland. A BALB/c genomic clone (BJ-31) was shown to encode a MUP that is slightly more basic than MUP 2 and was previously shown to be synthesized in both male and female liver of BALB/c but not C57BL/6 mice. Comigration on two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels of the MUPs encoded by the transfecting gene provides a basis for tentative identification of the tissue specificity and mode of regulation of each gene. DNA sequence analysis of the 5' flanking region indicates that the different MUP genes are highly homologous (0.20 to 2.40% divergence) within the 879 base pairs analyzed. The most prominent differences in sequence occur within an A-rich region just 5' of the TATA box. This region (from -47 to -93) contains primarily A or C(A)N nucleotides and varies from 15 to 46 nucleotides in length in the different clones.
Age-Related Differences in Anxiety and Depression Diagnosis among Adults in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Residents of Puerto Rico bear a significant burden of mental health disorders, which the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. However, age-specific data on these disorders during the pandemic in Puerto Rico are scarce. This study evaluated age-related differences in the self-reported diagnosis of depression and anxiety among adults ≥18 years residing in Puerto Rico during the pandemic. An anonymous online survey was administered from December 2020 to February 2021 via Google Forms to measure self-reported sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics and physician-diagnosed mental health disorders. Multivariable logistic regression models were conducted for each self-reported mental health diagnosis after adjusting for sex, education, income, marital status, chronic diseases, and smoking. Out of 1945 adults, 50% were aged 40 years and over. Nearly 24% of responders self-reported an anxiety diagnosis, whereas 15.9% reported depression. Compared to individuals 50 years and over, those 18–29 y, 30–39 y, and 40–49 y had significantly higher odds of an anxiety diagnosis (OR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.34–2.55; OR = 1.50, 95% CI = 1.09–2.07; and OR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.01–1.87, respectively). However, no association between age and depression diagnosis was found. Despite anxiety and depression being frequent disorders during the pandemic in this sample, younger adults bear a higher burden of anxiety. Further research is needed to allocate appropriate mental health resources during emergencies according to population subgroups.
Exploring factors associated with the use of tobacco and smokeless tobacco in Timor-Leste

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Objective Tobacco epidemic is a serious global health issue, and it is responsible for various illnesses. The objective of this study is to examine sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with the use of tobacco and smokeless tobacco among the population in Timor-Leste.Methods Information on tobacco consumption, sociodemographic profiles, and lifestyle behavior was obtained from the Timor–Leste Demographic and Health Survey 2016. A bivariate probit regression method was developed to analyze data from 17229 respondents. The effects of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors on the likelihood of using tobacco and smokeless tobacco were estimated.Results Age, gender, educational level, wealth quintiles, employment status and alcohol drinking were significantly associated with the use of tobacco and smokeless tobacco. Older individuals, males, employed individuals and alcohol drinkers were more likely to be dual users than younger individuals, females, unemployed individuals and non-alcoholic drinkers. Having a high educational level and being in a wealthy quintile were protective against being a dual user.Conclusions Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors play an important role in determining the use of tobacco and smokeless tobacco in Timor-Leste. The findings of this study could help the authorities in formulating more effective tobacco control strategies.
The nightmare protection hypothesis: An experimental inquiry

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Using the ideas generated in Revonsuo and Valli’s Threat Simulation model of the function of dreaming, previous research looked at how military personal’s dreams were associated with video game play. A nightmare protection effect was found and replicated using an undergraduate student population. Based on the previous findings, in this study an experimental manipulation was conducted where male participants engaged in one of three computer tasks, including gaming and search. All participants also viewed a frightening movie clip. Following the laboratory session respondents were asked to report a dream. The Threat Simulation method of coding dreams was used to assess threat in participant’s dreams. The major hypothesis was that playing a combat centric game would be more likely to result in behaviors in the dream which were less nightmarish after seeing the frightening movie clip, relative to playing a creative video game or doing a computer search task. The results support the thesis for high end male gamers playing combat centric video games close in time to being exposed to a frightening film clip. These young men are either not perceiving the same danger in their follow-up dream as threatening or that the content is not as scary as those without a recent experience of combat centric gaming.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The DRC is potentially one of Africa's richest countries, but this potential has not been translated so far into a reduction of poverty.Indeed, even before the recent civil strife and war, social indicators were very low (see Box 2), and a large part of the population relied on informal activities to survive (mainly small-scale trading and cultivation of small plots).The formal economy rests on four pillars:• Agriculture.This sector (including forestry) accounts for about 55 percent of GDP and employs about two-thirds of the labor force.It includes two main subsectors:• Considerable river transport, in particular in the interior provinces (Equator, Oriental Province, Kasai, and Maniema), operated by both public and private companies.Rehabilitation may be needed in some areas (e.g., dredging and signaling).
J0450302 Effects of Heating Conditions on High Frequency Induction Fusion Joining of Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Composites

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

This study aims to reveal the heating behavior of CFRTP composites by induction heating method. The material used is UD-CF/PPS and woven CF/PPS laminates. The effects of geometry of coils, coil distance, heating time and the carbon fiber reinforcement on heating behavior of CFRTP composites in induction heating were investigated. The experimental results revealed that the surface temperature of UD-CF/PPS and woven-CF/PPS laminates was increased with increasing the heating time. Moreover, the surface temperature was increased with decreased the coil distance remarkably.
Pituitary‐Adrenal Responses to Morphine and Footshock Stress Are Enhanced following Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

The effect of prenatal ethanol exposure on pituitary‐adrenal function in adult offspring was assessed by measuring cortjcosterone (CS) levels in plasma following exposure to two forms of footshock stress, intermittent and continuous, and after administration of 20 mg/kg of morphine. The footshock experiments were conducted at two time points in the circadian pituitary‐adrenal cycle. Prenatally ethanol‐exposed (E) rats had higher levels of CS than pair‐fed and normal controls following intermittent footshock when tested at the crest of the CS circadian rhythm. However, this difference was not present when intermittent footshock was presented at the trough of the circadian cycle. At either time of day, there were no differences among the prenatal treatment groups in the basal condition or following continuous footshock. In addition, E rats had significantly higher levels of plasma CS than controls following morphine. Plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) levels were measured after intermittent footshock at the crest of the circadian rhythm and were significantly higher in E rats than in controls. These results extend our previous reports of enhanced activation of the hypothalamo‐pituitary‐adrenal axis in response to other stressors as wed as to ethanol in adult rats exposed to ethanol in utero. They also confirm that E rats are differentially hyperresponsive only to intermittent footshock stress, not to continuous footshock, as we had found to be the case when the analgesia induced by these two stressors was the dependent measure.
Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication and Dimerization Interference by Dual Inhibitory RNAs

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

The 5’-untranslated region (5’UTR) of the HIV-1 RNA is an attractive target for engineered ribozymes due to its high sequence and structural conservation. This region encodes several conserved structural RNA domains essential in key processes of the viral replication and infection cycles. This paper reports the inhibitory effects of catalytic antisense RNAs composed of two inhibitory RNA domains: an engineered ribozyme targeting the 5’ UTR and a decoy or antisense domain of the dimerization initiation site (DIS). These chimeric molecules are able to cleave the HIV-1 5’UTR efficiently and prevent viral genome dimerization in vitro. Furthermore, catalytic antisense RNAs inhibited viral production up to 90% measured as p24 antigen levels in ex vivo assays. The use of chimeric RNA molecules targeting different domains represents an attractive antiviral strategy to be explored for the prevention of side effects from current drugs and of the rapid emergence of escape variants of HIV-1.
Electron acceleration by a two stage laser-plasma interaction

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Ultraintense, short pulsed lasers with high contrast allow the exploration of new mechanisms for particle acceleration. In particular, when such lasers irradiate an overdense plasma, electromagnetic waves appear at the vacuum-plasma interface, enabling local field confinement and enhancement. Since these mechanisms involve an overdense plasma, high values of total electron beam charge ( nC) can be achieved, which is important for applications in the fields of plasma-based accelerators, electron sources, among others. Recent Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations analyzed a laser pulse interacting with the wedge of an overdense plasma, and showed that it produces a diffracted electromagnetic wave with an intense longitudinal electric field that efficiently accelerates collimated electron bunches with high charge ( nC) and relativistic energies up to 130 MeV. In this talk, I will present a new scheme which couples electron acceleration in an overdense plasma with the wakefield produced by the laser propagating through an underdense plasma. Highly charged electron bunches are emitted from the overdense plasma, and trapped by the wakefield in which they are accelerated even further. Such a scheme enables us to obtain highly charged and highly energetic electron bunches at the end of the second acceleration stage.
235. Anticancer Effectiveness of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transfected With Thymidine Phosphorylase for Colorectal Cancer Cells

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) consists of targeted delivery to tumor cells with a suicide gene responsible for in situ conversion of a prodrug into cytotoxic metabolites. One of the major bottlenecks of GDEPT is to have the therapeutic gene specifically target on cancer cells prior to the administration of prodrug. Among various gene delivery methods, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as potential cellular vehicles for gene delivery. They exhibit remarkable tumor-tropic and low immunogenic capacities. In this study, MSCs was engineered to express thymidine phosphorylase (TP) which has the capability of converting prodrug 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine into toxic 5-fluorouracil. TP expression in the MSCs post-transfection of TP cDNA was confirmed by immunoblotting analysis and its activity was determined by spectrophotometric assay. Our results showed the anticancer effectiveness of human HT29 colorectal cells co-cultured with TP-expressing MSCs was enhanced with the addition of various dosages of 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine.
Planar 2D fluxgate magnetometer for CMOS electronic compass

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 2016 (1999)Faculte des sciences et techniques de l'ingenieurJury: Denis Duret, Jean-Marc Fedeli, Francois Gueissaz, Philippe Renaud, Philippe Robert, Thomas Seitz Public defense: 1999-7-8 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-2016Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2005-03-16, modified on 2016-08-08
Molecular Epidemiology and the Control and Prevention of Cystic Echinococcosis in China: What is Known from Current Research

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

As a zoonotic parasitic disease, echinococcosis is a severe global public health issue caused by the larvae of Echinococcus spp. Not only does echinococcosis threaten human health, but echinococcosis also causes enormous economic losses. China ranks first in the range of echinococcosis endemic areas, the number of infected patients, and the number of threatened populations worldwide, hence the most severe echinococcosis epidemic currently exists in China. Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is the most important form of echinococcosis. Accounting for nearly 80% of all echinococcosis cases, CE is the most important cause of the echinococcosis disease burden. Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato ( s.l. ) is the causative agent of CE and is considered a multi-genotype complex. The different genotypes of E. granulosus s.l. exhibit differences in morphology, transmission route, and epidemic characteristics. The corresponding clinical characteristics, clinical treatment, and vaccine responses also differ between the genotypes of E. granulosus s.l. During the past two decades, China has implemented echinococcosis control and prevention programs in endemic areas with impressive results. Specifically, the prevalence of echinococcosis has decreased. With such extraordinary achievements, precise control and prevention of the genotypes of E. granulosus s.l. have never been more important. Nevertheless, insufficient attention has been devoted to molecular epidemiology in the current control programs, and the lack of genotype data from humans and animal hosts exacerbates the situation. Hence, based on the ongoing control and surveillance programs, collecting additional molecular epidemiologic data and geographic information from humans and animals, as well as monitoring the clinical manifestations and drug and vaccine responses of the different genotypes, are invaluable for establishing a molecular epidemiologic database, which in turn can enhance the precise control and prevention of echinococcosis.