jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Meniscus transplantation in skeletally immature patients

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Meniscal pathology in skeletally immature patients includes meniscal tears and discoid lateral meniscus. Total or subtotal meniscectomy may occur in patients with discoid lateral meniscus or severe meniscal tears. Meniscal transplantation may be an option in skeletally immature patients status after total or subtotal meniscectomy with knee symptoms or dysfunction. This study focuses on the surgical technique and short-term outcomes of meniscus transplantation in skeletally immature patients. We reviewed our clinical database for skeletally immature patients who had undergone meniscus transplantation with a minimum of 2 years of follow-up. Patients were contacted, invited for a physical exam, and asked to complete a Pedi-IKDC, Lysholm, and Tegner outcomes questionnaire. The study protocol was approved by the responsible institutional review board. Three patients (two females/one male) were eligible for the study, each of whom responded to our invitation indicating availability for physical exam and questionnaire. Two patients had undergone subtotal discoid meniscus resection, leading to early lateral compartment degeneration. One patient developed advanced degeneration after a delay in treatment for a medial bucket-handle tear associated with anterior cruciate ligament rupture. The mean age of the patients at the time of surgery was 12.6±2.3 years. At a mean follow-up of 31±20 months, the mean Pedi-IKDC score was 68.3±4, the mean Lysholm was 55.7±22.3, and the median Tegner was 7 points. There were no indications of growth deformity during the regular postoperative radiological assessments. One patient required subsequent lysis of adhesions along the lateral mini arthrotomy and mobilization under anesthesia. The other two patients were able to return to sports at the same level as before meniscus transplantation and were able to do so within 9 months postoperatively. Over-resection of discoid menisci as well as untreated meniscus injury, the latter typically in conjunction with ligamentous instability, can lead to advanced cartilage degeneration and recalcitrant complaints necessitating surgical treatment before skeletal maturity. We were able to show that meniscus transplantation in skeletally immature patients leads to acceptable clinical outcomes without growth deviation. Level of Evidence: IV.
Prolonged Survival in a Patient with Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cecum and Diffuse Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a well-known factor of poor prognosis in patients with digestive adenocarcinomas. Peritoneal dissemination may also occur in midgut well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors, but its influence on survival is ill-defined. We report here the history of a 64-year-old woman who had a neuroendocrine tumor of the cecum with multiple synchronous metastases in the liver and diffuse peritoneal carcinomatosis. She underwent surgical resection of the primary tumor and cytoreduction of liver metastases, and received subsequently chemotherapy and somatostatin analogs. In spite of the widespread extension of the disease, she survived for 13 years and died from a carcinoid heart disease. We discuss the natural history and prognostic factors in patients with midgut well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors, with a focus on the impact of the peritoneal carcinomatosis.
Additional file 1 of Relationship between the number of hospital pharmacists and hospital pharmaceutical expenditure: a macro-level panel data model of fixed effects with individual and time

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Additional file 1. The data is constituted of two sheets. Sheet 1 named ‘panel data for analysis’ which included all variables using for empirical analysis. Sheet 2 named ‘original data’ which included the original data abstracted from yearbooks and website of the National Bureau of Statistics of China. The first two rows were individual and time terms then came to the value of variables
Evolution of Dactylorhiza baltica (Orchidaceae) in European Russia: evidence from molecular markers and morphology

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Four plastid markers, four nuclear markers and 14 morphometric characters were used in this study to investigate the evolution of Dactylorhiza baltica (Orchidaceae) in European Russia. In total, 98, 214 and 775 samples from 85, 112 and 121 populations were involved in the combined and separate molecular and morphometric analyses, respectively. In most cases, morphometric measures were done on exactly the same plants that were used for DNA studies. Dactylorhiza baltica plants from European Russia are most probably the products of several recent and mostly local hybridization events between the diploids D. fuchsii and D. incarnata, which have each been the maternal parent on different occasions. Considerable introgression into the parental diploids via the allopolyploid D. baltica is also hypothesized. Several morphological characters, such as length of the lip lateral lobe and the length of longest leaf, were found to be robust and could be useful in identification of D. baltica. This study demonstrates the advantage of 'combined' techniques, especially in the case of taxonomically complex taxa.
Race-Associated Genomic Correlates of Therapeutic Response in African American Patients With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

PURPOSE African American individuals are disproportionately affected by lung cancer in terms of incidence and mortality. In oncogene-driven non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), emerging evidence indicates that underlying molecular heterogeneity, which can be affected by ancestry, contributes to variable drug sensitivity and therapeutic responses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate race-associated differences in reported treatment decisions, therapeutic outcomes, and molecular features in KRAS- and EGFR-mutant NSCLC. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study using real-world clinical-genomic data from health systems in the United States to evaluate race-associated outcomes in advanced-stage KRAS- or EGFR-driven NSCLC. Our overall objectives were to evaluate race-associated therapeutic outcomes and to describe molecular features in non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients with NSCLC. RESULTS A total of 723 NSCLC patients with KRAS and 315 patients with EGFR oncogenic mutations were evaluated. In KRAS-mutant patients, variable outcomes were observed in NHB and NHW patients on the basis of receiving chemotherapy alone or in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors. NHB patients received treatment at significantly lower rates compared with NHW patients. In the EGFR-mutant cohort, NHB and NHW patients received EGFR-targeted agents at similar rates, and overall survival was not significantly different. Race-associated differences in molecular features included a higher frequency of TP53 comutation in KRAS-mutant NHB patients and higher prevalence of EGFR G719S subtype in NHB patients. CONCLUSION In a real-world cohort of patients with NSCLC, we identified race-associated differences in therapeutic outcomes and described molecular characteristics in NHB and NHW patients with NSCLC. To proactively identify patients most likely to respond to systemic therapies, a more comprehensive approach is needed to help guide therapy selection in individualized patient populations.
Finite element modeling of electrode contacts in electrical injury

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Finite element analysis was used to evaluate the contact parameters of electrical burn injury. Model development was iterative and started with a simple steady-state thermal model and ended with a transient analysis of the thermoelectric model. The final model was two-dimensional for depth and radius. The contact simulated a 2-cm circular disk contacting the skin and applying 100 V across the tissue. Results give thermal and potential profiles through the media for each model iteration. These models show the extent of the edge effect which correlates with burns at the contact site. The models correlate with experimental data.< >
A potential natural tablet binder from Grewia Optiva

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of mucilage obtained from G. optiva as tablet excipient, in particular as binder. Gum mucilage was isolated from the bark of G. optiva. The rheological behavior of the obtained gum mucilage was compared with other gums. The mucilage was further subjected to physicochemical characterization. Also, a comparative study on binding properties of gum mucilage and starch was performed. The gum mucilage obtained from the G. optiva exhibited superior rheological properties. The studies performed with preservatives revealed that inclusion of preservatives, effectively control the tendency of gum to loose viscosity on keeping for long. The physicochemical characterization showed good flow properties and excellent swelling ratio. Grewia optiva gum mucilage could be considered as a cheap, economic and easily available tablet binder. Moreover being of natural origin, it will be more acceptable.
Creating a Public Space for Georeferencing Sanborn Maps: A Louisiana Case Study

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

As institutional archives digitize their historical map collections and make them publicly available online, new methods for engaging with these materials emerge. Georeferencing the maps transforms their content from static images to dynamic map overlays, and allows for the extraction of geographic data like building footprints or place name coordinates. Many organizations have turned to crowdsourcing to georeference their large holdings, and this thesis approaches crowdsourced georeferencing from the perspective of participatory heritage, taking much inspiration from the idea of the archival commons. To test these ideas, a new extension was created for GeoNode—an open source geospatial content management system—that allows users to georeference map documents in a web browser. Further augmentation facilitated direct ingestion of digital content from the Library of Congress Sanborn Map collection, and a pilot project was conducted to engage the public in georeferencing maps of towns and cities across Louisiana. By the end of the project, 66 participants—from within Louisiana and without—had georeferenced all or a portion of 267 different Sanborn map volumes, creating over 1,500 new layers. These layers combine to create mosaics of 138 different communities across the state, including comprehensive coverage of the city of New Orleans in the years between 1885 and 1893—an especially valuable dataset in its own right. Seamless mosaics will be made from these layers and published via the LSU Atlas data portal for long-term public access. This experience led to new ideas for how to better engage citizens with historical maps of their communities, while the underlying construction of the georeferencing system itself provided insight into how users participated in the work. Ultimately, this thesis lays a conceptual foundation for future efforts of a similar nature, whether they pursue exactly the same technological approach or not.
Ciné place-making

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

In the artistic doctoral study Ciné Place-Making, Robin Vanbesien traces, through various artistic processes and projects, different cinematic ways of making common cause with situated practices of place-making. These practices emerge within various grassroots initiatives, networks, and social movements as people resist and dismantle the oppressive spaces to which they are involuntarily confined. This resistance is a response to the enduring legacies of colonial racial capitalism. Vanbesien explores how to work out the relationship between cinema and these place-making practices. He views cinema as a collaborative practice that allows other connections to emerge rather than reinforcing dominant meanings and subjectivities. This approach is crucial in revealing how dominant representations obscure the processes and institutions of power that differentially discriminate and dehumanize people. It’s essential to envision a cinema that begins with a refusal to conform to the language, desires, and terms of these dominant representations. From this perspective, Vanbesien examines how cinema can offer a method to view the world differently. He investigates how it can help reclaim collective desire, intensity, and imagination for those involved in place-making. He proposes ciné place-making as a way to rehearse collective imaginaries, speculating on new approaches to creating concrete places for equally livable lives and habitable futures. How can cinema provide ways to acknowledge, reclaim, reassemble, rehearse, and redistribute the social collective body and sensory imagination of a situated practice of place-making? How to make a cinema that emerges from reassembly and recreation with assemblers who speak and act nearby these situated practices of place-making? Ciné place-making is a cinema of incompleteness. It is a kind of imperfect cinema, which initiates (new) social assemblies. How to contribute to the ongoing redistribution of such a cinema of place-making? The study, which ran from 2018 to 2024, encompasses three artistic projects: ‘the wasp and the weather’ (2018-2020), ‘ciné assemblies’ with The Post Film Collective (2020-2023) and ‘Holding Rehearsals’ (2021-2024). These projects culminated into cinematic outcomes that involve a lens and a screen - films and video-installations - but they also would encompass ways of sharing and presenting without them, before and after – in the form of study circles, workshops, performances, assemblies, archives and installations.
Design of perfect-reconstruction hybrid filter banks: A second-order cone programming approach

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

In this paper, we present a new convex programming design methodology for hybrid filter banks (HFB) by solving a linear equation system derived from the perfect reconstruction (PR) conditions. The relationship between the PR conditions and each different solution situations are discussed regarding the consistent and inconsistent equation case, the general solution and the lower bound to the error of reconstruction are given. A second order cone programming (SOCP) based algorithms for designing PR HFB is proposed to get the exact solution with the constrained of stopband energy minimum which can also be used to calculate the minimizing norm solution of the equation. Finally, we consider some design examples and evaluate their performance.
It's time to defund Planned Parenthood

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Professor O. Carter Snead is the Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture and is a Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.\nPlanned Parenthood is in full damage control mode after a video was released describing the grim details of an abortion.\nProfessor Snead writes, "No minimally decent society can support an organization whose business is killing and harvesting body parts for money. Defund Planned Parenthood now."
The structure of personality-based emotional decision making in robotic rescue agent

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

One of the most important factors which can affect decision making in a disaster environment is the structure of the agent's personality. It is obvious that the more the agent is able to control its emotions in harmful environments, the better it can perform its task. In this paper we will introduce a new structure for decision making in emergency situations, which is based on emotional intelligence of the human being's mind. We have designed a model that combines personality characteristics of an agent, its emotional behaviors and the external events that can affect him. This new decision making model has been tested on a typical disaster space called Robocup Rescue Simulation (RRS). Our method has been implemented on three types of agents in the RRS environment. In fact this model tries to use a different kind of intelligence on these rescuer agents. The results of this research can help disaster managers by optimizing their rescue management in a disaster space.
Cytogenetic Effects of Honey Contaminated With Fumagillin (Dicyclohexylamine) on Male Mice Mus Musculus Balb/C In Vivo

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Cytogenetic effects of honey contaminated with fumagillin that collected from different sources in Duhok province was investigated in mouse bone-marrow cells using damaged cells%, (chromatids and chromosomal aberrations and mitotic index (M.I). A group of mice was orally administrated with honey that gave a positive result with qualitative chemical test. Fumagillin was administered to another group of mice by gavage, at doses of 25, 50, 75 mg/kg body weight (b.w) prepared with honey that give a negative result by biochemical test as artificially contaminant honey. All mice were treated for two different periods, 7 and 35 days at 24-hrs intervals .The treated groups were compared with negative control and Cyclophosphamide (40 mg/kg bw) as a positive control. The biochemical test for all honey samples shows that 16.67% of honey samples were contaminated with fumagillin. The honey sample that give a positive result in the presence of fumagillin in biochemical test revealed its ability to increase the damage cell% and chromosomal aberrations in bone marrow cells after 7 and 35 days of treatment .The ability of this sample equivalent to that of honey experimentally contaminated with fumagillin (25 mg/kg b.w).The result of the present study shows that the contaminated honey sample revealed its ability to reduce the M.I after 35 days of treatment in bone marrow cells as compared to negative controls.
Incorporating Data Governance Frameworks in the Financial Industry

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Data governance frameworks are critical to reducing operational costs and risks in the financial industry. Corporate data managers face challenges when implementing data governance frameworks. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that successful corporate data managers in some banks in the United States used to implement data governance frameworks to reduce operational costs and risks. The participants were 7 corporate data managers from 3 banks in North Carolina and New York. Servant leadership theory provided the conceptual framework for the study. Methodological triangulation involved assessment of nonconfidential bank documentation on the data governance framework, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's standard 239 compliance documents, and semistructured interview transcripts. Data were analyzed using Yin's 5-step thematic data analysis technique. Five major themes emerged: leadership role in data governance frameworks to reduce risk and cost, data governance strategies and procedures, accuracy and security of data, establishment of a data office, and leadership commitment at the organizational level. The results of the study may lead to positive social change by supporting approaches to help banks maintain reliable and accurate data as well as reduce data breaches and misuse of consumer data. The availability of accurate data may enable corporate bank managers to make informed lending decisions to benefit consumers.
Biosynthesis of the Non‐Canonical C17 Sesquiterpenoids Chlororaphen A and B from Pseudomonas Chlororaphis

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

Abstract Chlororaphens A and B are structurally unique non‐canonical C 17 sesquiterpenoids from Pseudomonas chlororaphis that are made by two SAM‐dependent methyltransferases and a type I terpene synthase. This study addresses the mechanism of their formation in isotopic labelling experiments and DFT calculations. The results demonstrate an astonishing complexity with distribution of labellings within a cyclopentane core that is reversely connected to two acyclic fragments in chlororaphen A and B. In addition, the uptake of up to 14 deuterium atoms from D 2 O was observed. These findings are explainable by a repeated late stage multistep rearrangement sequence. The absolute configurations of the chlororaphens and their biosynthetic intermediates were elucidated in stereoselective labelling experiments.
The complexity of generating functions for integer points in polyhedra and beyond

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Motivated by the formula for the sum of the geometric series, we consider various classes of sets S ⊂ ℤ\_d\_ of integer points for which an a priori "long" Laurent series or polynomial Σ\_m\_∈\_S\_ xm can be written as a "short" rational function f(S; x). Examples include the sets of integer points in rational polyhedra, integer semigroups, and Hilbert bases of rational cones, among others. We discuss applications to efficient counting and optimization and open questions. This enables to show that a priori different discrete models define the same curves in the scaling limit and exhibit some surprising symmetries. It gives also a way to tie links between these concrete measures on curves and conformal field theory. Important roles in this theory are played by Brownian loops and by the Schramm–Loewner Evolutions (SLE). Most of the results described in this paper were derived in joint work with Greg Lawler, and Oded Schramm.
Comparative Studies on the Effect of Adjuvants with Urea to Reduce the Overwintering Inoculum of Venturia inaequalis

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A 2-year study on the use of organic and conventional adjuvants alone, or mixed with urea, was conducted for management of overwintering inoculum of the apple scab pathogen, Venturia inaequalis. Select adjuvants (LI 700, Bond Max, Latron B-1956, and Organic Wet Betty [OWB]) have the potential to hasten urea-driven leaf litter decomposition and reduce V. inaequalis overwintering inoculum comparable to urea, and that one organic surfactant could perform the same level of leaf decomposition as urea. Combinations of adjuvants with urea significantly improved leaf litter degradation compared with urea alone, concomitant with reducing the number of pseudothecia present and pseudothecium fertility. We demonstrate that the combination of urea with Bond Max or OWB reduced pseudothecia fertility and ascospore production to less than 5% in the remaining pseudothecia, a significantly greater reduction than with urea alone. These results suggest that conventional growers combine urea with Bond Max or OWB to more effectively reduce overwintering inoculum, and that the adjuvant OWB can provide organic growers with comparable performance to urea used in conventional orchards for improved sanitation.