jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Intention to use e-government services among the academic staff in Saudi universities

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

E-government diffusion and usage is a global topic that concerns many countries worldwide. E-government is a way for providing services of government over online channels of communication to its citizens. Saudi Arabia has implemented a program of e-government in 2005 to encourage performance of public sectors through acquiring the benefits of Information Communication Technology (ICT) advances. This study focuses on the factors that influence intention to use e-government among the academic staff in Saudi Arabia. In addition, this study is to identify the mediating role of e-government awareness on the relationships between social influence, trust of internet and trust in intermediaries and intention to use e-government and the mediating role of perceived risk on the relationships between trust of internet and trust in intermediaries and intention to use e-government. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this study integrated these factors to examine their influences on intention to use e-government. This study utilized a quantitative approach using a survey to reflect consumers’ perspectives towards e-government usage. To examine the hypothesized model, the data were collected from the academic staff working in Saudi public universities. This study employed Partial Least Squares techniques to confirm the validity and reliability of the measurement model and to examine the structural relationships. The findings of the study confirmed the influences of social influence, e-government awareness, trust in intermediary and perceived risk on intention to use e-government. Further, awareness of e-government is influenced by social influence, trust in Internet and trust in intermediary and mediates the relationship between these factors and intention to use e-government. Trust in Internet factor emerged as significant predictor of consumers’ risk perceptions and mediates the relationship between this factor and intention to use e-government. This study has important implications for e-government practitioners, researchers and policy decision makers interested in the implementation of e-government
Combined Acquired Alpha- and Delta-Storage Pool Disease in Endstage Renal

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background Bleeding due to platelet dysfunction can result from congenital or acquired defects. The laboratory approach to identify the pathogeneses of acquired platelet dysfunctions is challenging, especially in pediatric patients. A combination of immunofluorescent microscopy (IFM), flow cytometry (FC), and lumino-aggregometry (LA) may help establishing the right diagnosis.
Galen's Method - Fridolf Kudlien, Richard J. Durling (edd.): Galen's Method of Healing. Proceedings of the 1982 Galen Symposium. (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 1.) Pp. viii + 205. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill, 1991. fl. 110.

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Galen's Method - Fridolf Kudlien, Richard J. Durling (edd.): Galen's Method of Healing. Proceedings of the 1982 Galen Symposium. (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 1.) Pp. viii + 205. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill, 1991. fl. 110. - Volume 42 Issue 1
The Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and How It Is Used to Diagnose Uterine Fibroids

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

William Parker, MD discusses the use of MRI in diagnosing and managing uterine fibroids. Dr. Parker's upcoming Clinical Opinion article, “The utility of MRI for the surgical treatment of women with uterine fibroid tumors”, will be published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2012.
Electrochemical and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Characterization of Alkanethiols Adsorbed on Palladium Surfaces

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

The self-assembly of alkanethiolate monolayers on palladium substrates and their stability in aqueous solutions have been studied by electrochemical techniques and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Alkanethiols adsorb on Pd from ethanolic solutions forming a complex interface which consists of thiolates onto a diluted palladium sulfide interphase, with surface coverages θ<sub>Sulfide</sub> ≈ 0.4 and θ<sub>thiolate</sub> ≈ 0.30, respectively. These complex adlayers exhibit hydrocarbon chain-length dependent barrier properties like those formed on Au and Ag substrates. For short chain alkanethiols, thiolates are more stable against reductive desorption than self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au, Ag, and Ni. The increased stability of the organic species seems to be related to the presence of the diluted sulfide layer that also explains the chain length independence of the stability potential range. The stability of these monolayers in aqueous solutions indicates that Pd is a suitable platform for thiolate-based devices such as sensors and biosensors. These results also suggest that electrochemical cleaning should be a simple way to prepare metallic nanoparticles from thiol-capped Pd nanoparticles adsorbed on conducting substrates.
EVALUATION OF ACADEMICIANS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVITIES OF UNIVERSITIES

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Appears in: EDULEARN23 Proceedings Publication year: 2023Pages: 3851-3856ISBN: 978-84-09-52151-7ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2023.1043Conference name: 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 3-5 July, 2023Location: Palma, Spain
Improving the pyramid solar distiller performance by using pyramidal absorber, mirrors, condenser, and thermal storing material

Field: Energy (Physical Sciences)

The countries suffer from the freshwater shortage. The solar still is one of the overcoming strategies, however its distillate production is limited. The present work introduces a different arrangement of modifying the pyramid solar still (PSS). This was conducted by changing the flat absorber to a pyramidal absorber to increase the vaporization surface area of distiller. Additionally, several wick materials made of jute cloth and cotton wick were placed over the pyramidal absorber under investigation. Besides, the performance of the modified pyramid solar still (MPSS) was studied when using external condenser and utilizing external mirrors to increase the input solar energy. Finally, a paraffin wax mixed with silver nanoparticles was used as a phase change material (PCM) under the pyramidal absorber of MPSS to be tested. The results revealed that using the modified absorber increased the evaporative surface area of MPSS by around 40%. Also, using the jute cloth material is suggested to be used instead of cotton cloth for the MPSS due to its better operation. Additionally, the best performance of MPSS was obtained with mirrors and condenser, where the productivity improvement and distiller efficiency were 142% and 52.5%.
Aqueous solution thickening of amino acid‐based surfactant by alkylpyrrolidone

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract The thickening behaviors in aqueous solution of mixed surfactant mixtures containing an amino acid‐based surfactant, sodium lauroyl sarcosinate (SLSar), and a nonionic surfactant, N‐dodecylpyrrolidone (C12P) were investigated using the rheological methods of steady‐shear and frequency sweep. The results varying the added C12P concentration and the mass ratio of SLSar and C12P indicate that the addition of C12P can promote the formation of wormlike micelles and hydrogels, resulting in viscosity enhancement in the mixed aqueous solution of SLSar and C12P. Viscosity maxima in SLSar/water/C12P systems are sensitive to pH, temperature, the concentration of added C12P, and the mass ratio of SLSar and C12P. In the high concentration of total surfactant (30–39 wt%), the enhancement of viscosity obviously occurs by adding 6 wt% C12P, whereas in the low concentration of total surfactant (15 wt%), the C12P must be added more than 9 wt% in 15 wt% mixtures of SLSar and C12P. Moreover, during the solution pH lowered from SLSar' natural pH of 7.2 to the mixture's pKa 5.2, the intermolecular forces between SLSar acid, SLSar anionic salt, and C12P gradually reduce the overall headgroups areas and contribute to the formation of wormlike micelles, hydrogels, and the thickening behaviors.
Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1981: California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Minnesota, New York, and Virginia

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by arrest) through final disposition, regardless of whether the offender is convicted or acquitted. Information is provided on arrest, police action, prosecutor action, level of charges, charges filed by the prosecutor, type of counsel, pretrial status, type of trial, sentence type, and sentence length. This allows researchers to examine how the criminal justice system processes offenders, to measure the changing volume of offenders moving through the different segments of the criminal justice system, to calculate processing time intervals between major decision-making events, and to assess the changing structure of the offender population.
[Effect of electroacupuncture on proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells in the subependymal zone of the cerebral lateral ventricle in rats with hyperlipemia and cerebral ischemia].

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Acupuncture and Acupuncture + EA can further significantly upregulate the expression levels of vimentin and Tuj-1 in both the dorsolateral extension and the lateral wall of the cerebral lateral ventricle on the ischemic side in rats with CI and CI + HL, which may contribute to their effects in improving CI and HL+CI by suppressing the reduction of proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cell in the SVZ of the ischemic brain induced by CI and HL+ CI.
Investigation of surface roughness and material removal rate for UD-GFRP composite using Taguchi grey relational analysis

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

In this paper, a grey relational method was used for minimising surface roughness and maximising material removal rate during turning of unidirectional glass fibre reinforced plastic composite (UD-GFRP). Taguchi approach was used for the experiment. The parameters studied were tool rake angle, speed, depth of cut, feed, tool nose radius, and cutting environment. Castrol water (1:6) miscible soluble coolant was flooded in the machining zone. Cutting environment: Wet (33°-38°c) and Cold (5°-7°c) were used. The Taguchi L18 orthogonal array was used for performing the experiment. Significant parameters were found by applying ANOVA. The grey relational analysis was used to optimise the parameters affecting the response. Cutting speed was the factor, followed by feed rate that influenced surface roughness and material removal rate. The surface roughness of 1.761 µm and material removal rate of 275.78 mm3 were achieved.
ABSENCE OF A NEURALLY-MEDIATED PROCESS IN SALIVATION AND VASODILATION CAUSED BY McN-A-343 IN THE DOG SUBMAXILLARY GLAND

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

4-(m-Chlorophenylcarbamoyloxy)-2-butynyltrimethylammonium chloride (McN-A-343) was introduced initially as a selective stimulant of muscarinic sites in sympathetic ganglia (1). Recently, however, Taira et al. (2) demonstrated that McN-A-343 also stimulates the muscarinic sites of the parasympathetic ganglia of the dog urinary bladder. On the other hand, McN-A-343 has proved to elicit salivation in the dog submaxillary gland (3) as in the cat submaxillary gland (4). The present study was performed to elucidate whether or not the salivation caused by McN-A-343 involves a neurally-mediated process by use of tetrodotoxin (TTX) which has been shown to block selectively excitation of nerves (5).
Fa'aaliyah Ittibaa' Usluub At-Tafkiir Binasyaath Fii As-Siyaaq Al-Ijtimaa'ii (TASC) Fii Tarjamah An-Nushuush Al-'Arabiyyah Ladaa Talaamiidz Al-Madrasah Ats-Tsaanawiyyah Al-Islaamiyyah Al-Hukuumiyyah 4 Jakarta

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji tentang desain teknik Thinking \nActively in a Social Context (TASC) dan pengembangannya dalam kegiatan \nmenerjemahkan teks bahasa Arab, mengkaji tentang perbedaan secara statistik \nantara dua kelompok pada nilai siswa yang belajar menerjemahkan teks bahasa \nArab menggunakan teknik ini dan siswa yang belajar menerjemahkan teks bahasa \nArab dengan metode konvensional, dan menganalisis tingkat efektivititas teknik \nini pada kemampuan siswa menerjemahkan teks bahasa Arab. \nPeneliti menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode eksperimen \ndengan Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. Populasi penelitian ini adalah \nsiswa kelas X IPS Tahun Ajaran 2016/2017 MAN 4 Jakarta yang berjumlah 131 \norang. Sampel penelitian terdiri atas 52 siswa, peneliti mengambil 26 siswa \nsebagai kelompok eksperimen dan 26 siswa sebagai kelompok kontrol. Dalam \nmenganalisis data, peneliti menggunakan rumus t-test untuk mengetahui \nefektivitas penggunaan teknik TASC. Adapun teknik pengumpulan data yang \ndigunakan oleh peneliti adalah observasi, wawancara dan memberikan tes tulis \n(pretest-posttest). \nSetelah penggunaan teknik TASC dalam kegiatan menerjemahkan teks \nbahasa Arab, terlihat adanya efektivitas dari siswa baik pemerolehan pemahaman \nmenerjemahkan teks bahasa Arab secara konteks, peningkatan kemampuan \nberpikir, semangat belajar, maupun hasil belajar mereka. Kemudian, setelah \npemberian tes kepada siswa, diperoleh nilai rata-rata kelompok eksperimen \nsebesar 86,04 dan nilai rata-rata kelompok kontrol sebesar 81,92, ini mengarah \nbahwa nilai kelompok eksperimen lebih tinggi dibandingkan nilai kelompok \nkontrol. \nOleh karena itu, dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa terdapat perbedaan antara \nkelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol di mana penggunaan teknik TASC \ndalam menerjemahkan teks bahasa Arab pada siswa di sekolah ini efektif, \nmeskipun tingkat efektivitasnya rendah.
[Secondary cataract after mechanized extracapsular technic or phacoemulsification].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Study of 141 eyes, 30 months after ECCE (35.5%) and after phacoemulsification (64.5%), by a two-handed posterior chamber technic. After 24 months and with IOL, the incidence was 10% with phacoemulsification and 22% with ECCE. This difference was not significative (Pearson's chi 2).
[Results of SMANCS/Lipiodol injection therapy for multiple intrahepatic recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma].

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often recurs in the remnant liver after hepatectomy. Treatment is often ineffective in cases of multiple recurrence. We treated 18 cases of multiple recurrence with SMANCS/Lipiodol injection (SML). Four patients were treated with SML once, 11 patients were treated twice, and each patient was treated with three or four times with SML. The Effective rate of the 1st SML was 30%, but the effective rate of the 2nd SML was 60% in the plasma tumor marker levels. The effective rate between unilobular recurrence and bilateral recurrence was the same. A complete response was obtained in 2 cases, and partial response in 2 cases. The effective rate of SML was 4/18 (22.2%). These effective cases suffered a recurrence within a year. The cumulative survival rate at the end of the 24th month was 42.4%. Overall survival was significantly higher in the group with SML than in the group with TAE or TAI with the multiple recurrence. SML may be effective in early recurrence because these recurrent nodules are vascular-rich and there is much lipiodol accumulation. SMANCS/lipiodol injection therapy is expected to be an effective treatment in cases of early multiple recurrence after hepatectomy.
Nonmetastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer treated with salvage focal brachytherapy after external beam radiotherapy

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction The efficacy of salvage local therapy after external beam radiotherapy has recently gained attention. However, a challenge with these therapies is the risk of significant genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity. Focal brachytherapy may be a treatment option because of its potential to reduce side effects. Case presentation A patient with castration‐resistant prostate cancer was found to be free of metastases on whole‐body magnetic resonance imaging following external beam radiotherapy, and prostate biopsy revealed a localized recurrence in the ventral prostate. The patient underwent salvage focal brachytherapy and had a prostate‐specific antigen progression‐free survival of 23 months. No adverse effects were observed following salvage brachytherapy. Conclusion Our case suggests that salvage focal brachytherapy may be an effective local treatment option for nonmetastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer that has relapsed after external beam radiotherapy, wherein the lesion is confined to a small area within the prostate.
The coordination of V-ATPase and ATG16L1 is part of a common mechanism of non-canonical autophagy

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

The conjugation of Atg8-family proteins with phospholipids on the double-membrane phagophore is one of the hallmarks of macroautopahgy/autophagy. However, in the past decades, Atg8-family proteins have also been identified on single-membrane structures, including the phagosome, endosome and lysosome. While the physiological importance of the non-canonical Atg8-family protein conjugation has been demonstrated, the mechanism of this process and the underlying regulation are still not very clear. In a recent paper, Hooper et al. found that during LC3-associated phagocytosis, reactive oxygen species are required for V-ATPase assembly, which is essential for the subsequent LC3 conjugation to the phagosome. Enhanced V-ATPase assembly and the direct engagement of ATG16L1 are also observed in a wide range of non-canonical Atg8-family protein conjugation processes, defining the V-ATPase and ATG16L1 as taking part in a common mechanism.
Translocator Protein Is Involved in the Induction and Regulation of Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Opening in C6 Glioma Cells

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

Translocator protein (TSPO), formerly known as the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), is a 18-kDa protein localized in the outer mitochondrial membrane and involved in cell proliferation and apoptosis. In the present work, we found TSPO as a monomer and dimer in rat C6 glioma cells. We have shown that a reduced TSPO expression in cells affects the induction of a mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP). It also stimulated the Ca2+-induced opening of mPTP. The natural endogenous TSPO ligand protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) accelerated the opening of mPTP. The stimulatory effect of PPIX was higher in the mitochondria of wild-type C6 glioma cells than in TSPO knockdown C6 glioma cells. Phosphorylation of membrane receptors, ion channels, and transcription factors is an important intracellular signaling event responsible for the regulation of various enzymes and many cellular functions. In the present study, PPIX modulated protein phosphorylation. We hypothesized that TSPO is an important protein in the regulation of cell survival and may be involved in mPTP functioning.
Nature, Prevalence, and Impact of Undernutrition on Intelligence Among School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study from South India

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Good nutrition is a basic criterion for optimum health, productivity, and overall functional efficiency. The children who had malnutrition in their early years secured poor cognitive test scores in school years compared to children with optimal nutrition. The present study aimed to associate the degrees of undernutrition and intelligence among school children. This is a cross-sectional study that included 600 children aged 6 and 12 years, and assessed the anthropometry and intelligence quotient levels through appropriate scales. The results revealed that the higher percentage of stunted, underweight, and thinness were highly associated with below-average intelligence, which was more than two times greater risk compared to the percentage with the degrees of undernutrition to the above-average intelligence. The children’s age, gender, birth weight, and socioeconomic status were also strongly associated with the intelligence quotient level. This study offers new insight for formulating the policies and intervention programs in the future.
The difference of two brain states: A simultaneous EEG/fMRI study

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Simultaneous EEG/fMRI is a new technique which can record the EEG and fMRI signal currently. By using this new method people expect to obtain both high temporal and spatial resolution of brain activity. Resting state, which is referred to the brain state under no task conditions, has been one of the focuses of the neuroscience research field. Recently researchers have found the resting state is well organized into very complex structure. Several studies using simultaneous EEG/fMRI have demonstrated that there is some relationship between the EEG and fMRI patterns. In our study, we explored the difference between the functional networks of the two brain states under the resting state, which were identified by two prominent EEG rhythms (alpha and theta). The results demonstrated that the default mode network's activity deceased whereas the other resting networks' activity increased when the prominent rhythm shifted from alpha to theta.
United we stand: Perovskite quantum dot/AIEgen hybrids with high optical stability and efficiency

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

Abstract

Perovskite quantum dots and aggregation-induced-emission luminogens (AIEgens) are both widely investigated luminescent materials, yet they generally suffer from poor photostability. In this study, we fabricated a nanocomposite exhibiting exceptional stability and luminescence efficiency. Specifically, we grafted an AIEgen (TBBA), which has low single-molecular photoluminescence efficiency and poor photostability, onto the surface of CsPbBr 3 perovskite quantum dots (QDs) that also have limited photostability. The intense absorption of CsPbBr 3 QDs enabled them to function as optical antennas, efficiently transferring their excitons to the AIEgens in 43.1 ps with near-unity yield. This rapid extraction of the excitation energy from CsPbBr 3 QDs and avoidance of ultraviolet photon absorption in AIEgens effectively solved the photostability issues for these two individuals, resulting in remarkable photostability with an effective half-life of 1800 days under simulated outdoor solar illumination. Additionally, strong restriction of intramolecular motions for AIEgens grafted onto the QD-surface led to near unity photoluminescence efficiency, with minimized reabsorption loss, which was leveraged to demonstrate high-efficiency, large-area luminescent solar concentrator devices. This study exemplifies how the principle of philosophical holism can guide the development of stable and bright optical composite materials from constituents with inherent poor stability and low emissivity.