jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Successful treatment of acute-on-chronic liver failure and hemolytic anemia with hepato-protective drugs in combination with intravenous ozone without steroids: A case report

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Both acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) are common causes of jaundice. A co-occurrence of ACLF and AIHA is rare in clinical practice. This report describes a male elderly patient who developed persistently increased levels of total bilirubin and ascites after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for the successful treatment of common bile duct stones. Eventually, he was diagnosed with ACLF and AIHA according to current diagnostic criteria. The patient was given conventional hepato-protective drugs, human albumin, and diuretics in combination with immune ozone without steroids, and he responded well. The therapeutic role of immune ozone in this case is also discussed. When immune ozone was given, total bilirubin gradually decreased; however, no change in total bilirubin was observed after immune ozone was stopped. Notably, when immune ozone was re-initiated, total bilirubin decreased again.
Use of Cereal Residues in Beef Cattle Production Systems

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Historically, United States cereal residues have been neglected as feedstuffs. Population growth has brought about more competition between man and animals for available food, and competitive feeds have increased in price. Consequently, interest in feeding these materials has increased. Approximately 71.2 million metric tons of cereal residues are available for feed use in the United States (Walker et al, 1976). Nutrient analyses are limited but indicate that these residues are low in protein and phosphorus, marginal in calcium and high in fiber and lignin. Consequently, digestibility is poor, passage rate slow and voluntary intake low. Processing and/or supplementation increases passage rate and voluntary intake, but the former reduces digestibility. Responses to urea and/or readily available carbohydrate supplements have been variable. Feedlot cattle cannot consume enough pelleted feed containing high levels of straw to support high performance, but these residues can form a major part of a maintenance ration for wintering mature, dry, pregnant beef cows.
Recognizing human postures in a complex background employing MRRF method

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

In this paper, we propose a technique for extracting a human region from images and for recognizing human postures. We employ a background subtraction technique using texture information and gray scale for extracting a human region and a technique for recognizing a 3-D object from a 2-D image. Many extraction techniques must be performed in the outdoors and need thresholds tuned by manual operations and many recognition techniques need extraction of specific characteristics or modeling. Since the proposed technique does not necessitate manual operations, it can perform the recognition from extraction automatically. The proposed technique obtained satisfactory results by the experiment performed in the outdoors.
Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Polygonum Perfoliatum L and Its IR Spectroscopy Investigation

Field: Chemical Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Polygonum perfoliatum L,as one of Chinese traditional medicines,was effective to herps zoster and extensive burns.The effects of extraction temperature,pressure,time,co-solvent types and their consumption to the extraction yields were studied,while Polygonum perfoliatum L was treated with CO_2 supercritical fluid extraction.Some extracts were investigated with IR spectroscopy.The optimum extraction condition was confirmed to be as follows: extraction pressure was 45 MPa,extraction temperature 50℃,extraction time 180 min,ethyl acetate as co-solvent,and its consumption up to 40%.It's beneficial to both the development of a novel separation method of Polygonum perfoliatum L and the accumulate of important scientific data.
Killing Me Unsoftly

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The aorta is a blood vessel that provides a low-resistance path for blood flow directed from the heart to peripheral organs and tissues. However, the aorta has another central hemodynamic function, whereby the elastic nature of the aortic wall provides a significant biomechanical buffering capacity complementing the pulsatile cardiac blood flow, and this is often referred to as Windkessel function. Stiffening of the arterial wall leads to fundamental alterations in central hemodynamics, with widespread detrimental implications for organ function. In this Recent Highlights article, we describe recent contributions in ATVB that have highlighted the novel mechanisms and consequences of arterial stiffness and the clinical conditions in which arterial stiffness occurs, with a focus on advancements in the field.
Languaged lives: A new perspective on language teacher identity

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Teachers of languages generally strive to pass on their love of language in their teaching. As plurilinguals, they work with at least two languages. Students also are frequently plurilinguals, navigating between the different contexts of use of language in their various languages, practices that often go unnoticed in the education system, where they may be required to work in one language, or one language at a time, in a dedicated languages classroom. In this paper, teachers are invited to reflect on their languaged lives, or the relationship between the language(s) they teach and the languages of their histories and heritage, and which figure in determining their identity(ies). New ways of thinking about 'proficiency' open up spaces for valuing various levels of use and engagement with languages, and of seeing these as semiotic or meaning-making resources, which impact not only on the teachers' lives, but how they interact with students, and how they value and acknowledge students' various language resources, and can usefully invite students to make use of these resources in the classroom.
Judas Iskariot im Neuen Testament und im Judasevangelium

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Abstract The Gospel of Judas is an interesting document, which completes our knowledge of (especially) the Sethianic gnosis. This is, on the one side, a contribution to the history of Christianity in the 2nd century, which shows a growing of the picture of Judas from Irenaeus, Haer. 1.31.1 to the Codex Tchacos. But on the other side, we can also better understand the historic Judas and (somehow) the presuppositions of the death of Jesus. All in all, the Gospel of Judas enables us (despite all ambivalence) to get a new and more differentiated impression of Judas in comparison to the canonical tradition.
Morphometric analysis of neuronal soma size within the motor nucleus of a transplanted murine skeletal muscle

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Abstract Since the number of motor neurons supplying a muscle graft is reduced, the peripheral field for the surviving motor neurons would be enlarged. This possible change in motor unit size may result in morphologic changes in the size of motor neurons within the motor neuron pool of the graft. The extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle from 19 transplanted and 17 age‐matched normal 129 ReJ female mice were injected with horseradish peroxidase in order to examine the cell size distributions of the motor neuron pools supplying these muscles. Computer‐assisted morphometric analysis of cell sizes within the motor neuron pool to the transplants indicated a singnificant shift in cell size, with the largest areas ranging between 630 and 1250 μm 2 . A number of the alpha neurons supplying the grafts were twice the average cell size for the control population ( X = 592 μm 2 ). The increase in the number of large motor neurons indicates an hypertrophy of neurons reinnervating the grafts. The long‐term graft is reinnervated by a decreased population of motor neurons ( X = 7), which vary in size from small to very large, reflecting both changes in the possible source of the nerve reinnervating the graft as well as alteration in the size of the motor unit, respectively.
[The rate and factors of return-to-work in head-injured patients following hospitalization].

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Return-to-work is often used as a measure of overall recovery from injury or illness. This study focuses on the labor force population who inhabit in Kaohsiung City, and were hospitalized into Chung Ho Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical College in 1992. The patients were contacted for an interview at least six months post-discharge. In addition to the rate of return-to-work by severity, factors were examined for their influence on return-to-work. Of those 85 eligible individuals, the rate of return-to-work was 81.2%. According to the Glasgow Coma Scale, the head injury severity was classified as mild, moderate and severe. The rate of return-to-work by severity were 86.4%, 78.6%, and 58.3%, respectively. Factors influencing return-to-work were divided into pre-injury, hospitalization, and post-discharge period. According to the study, the three influencing factors that correlated with post-injury employment status were number of productive members in family, length of stay, and physical handicap.
Wnt Signaling in C. elegans

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

The Wnt signaling pathway controls many aspects of Caenorhabditis elegans development A canonical Wnt pathway functions to control cell migrations and determine certain cell fates. Noncanonical Wnt pathways function primarily to control the polarity of specific cells. C. elegans shares the involvement of canonical and noncanonical Wnt pathways in various developmental processes with many other animals. However, other aspects of Wnt signaling appear to be unique to C. elegans. This chapter will review the major process in C. elegans development that involve Wnt signaling, discuss the interactions of Wnt pathway components involved in each process and compare and contrast Wnt signaling pathways in the worm with those found in other species.
Multicriteria Analysis Tool for Civil UAV Configurations/applications Matching

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) systems are now common in the military inventory but are new on the emerging civil market. These systems are a significant step forward in aeronautics evolution and capabilities, giving a potential to perform dull, dirty or dangerous missions that could not be flown safely by manned aircraft. As UAVs are new entrants, the present knowledge on what the numerous possible platform configurations and associated technologies can offer is still poor. In order to help clarifying the situation, the European project CAPECON (Civil UAV APplications & Economic effectivity of potential CONfiguration solutions) has been launched. Its purpose is to identify civil UAV applications and define civil UAV configurations that are candidate solutions to perform these applications. The CAPECON project will be concluded at the beginning of next year by issuing recommendations on the configurations to use for specific missions. In order to ease the configurations evaluation process, ONERA has developed a software tool for decision making, that helps the user to get a clear vision of the configurations limitations and capabilities. The purpose of this tool is to find the most adapted system to perform a given application, using Multi-Attributes Decision Making (MADM) methods. Six different MADM methods have been selected to rank the studied systems, characterized by several types of attributes in the goal to perform the analysis. Before using this tool, a preliminary analysis is necessary : the attributes have to be identified, the relative importance of each attribute for the considered application has to be defined and the systems have to be marked to assess their capabilities. Then the program can start: its action is two-fold. The selection of a given application sets up the weighting scheme applied to the attributes and withdraw the systems which do not meet the application requirements (for example, the range of the platform is not large enough). Then, the multi-attributes analysis is performed. A ranking is given by all of the six MADM methods and a synthesis is made using only two final ranks for each system : the multi-attributes methods that are the most optimistic and the most pessimistic for a given system are first eliminated to give more reliable results, then the remaining best and worst results are visualized in a 3D graph. This graph shows the rankings of each system along two axis, one for each criteria category: performance criteria and general criteria, including safety and technological maturity (2D). The cost is added as the third dimension. The assessment of the systems is made using this graph and making compromises. Optional features allow to find potential multi-purpose systems that could perform a wide range of applications.
Migration of Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunt into the Chest

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

A rare complication, migration of the peritoneal catheter of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, is reported. The patient was a 23-year-old female who had a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt installed at the age of 19 years, for her hydrocephalus secondary to tuberculous meningitis. The patient had 3 days' history of seizure and recurrent bouts of fever. A plain chest X-ray revealed the tip of the peritoneal catheter in the right hilar area with local pneumonitis. Metrizamide shuntgram revealed seepage of the contrast material into the right lower thoracic cavity. A computed tomography scan of the thorax confirmed the presence of the tip of the catheter in the right hilar area, and the site of entry into the thoracic cavity was identified as the anterior portion of the right diaphragm. The patient underwent shunt revision and the peritoneal catheter was repositioned into the peritoneal cavity. Among various complications related to peritoneal catheters of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts, migration of a peritoneal catheter into the thoracic cavity by perforation through the diaphragm is extremely rare. The literature is reviewed regarding perforation of various viscera by peritoneal catheters of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts, and the possible causative mechanism of migration of a peritoneal catheter into the thoracic cavity is discussed. Although there is no consensus regarding the optimal length of a peritoneal catheter, unnecessarily long peritoneal catheters should be avoided.
Molecular Forms of Porphobilinogen Deaminase in Acute Intermittent Porphyria. A Study by Western Immunoblotting

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

Acute intermittent porphyria is an inborn error of haem synthesis which is transmitted as a dominant character with variable phenotypic expression. The disorder is caused by a partial deficiency of porphobilinogen deaminase in all tissues so far studied. The nature of the enzymatic deficiency of porphobilinogen deaminase in haemolysates from patients with acute intermittent porphyria was examined by the use of monospecific antibody probes. In affected heterozygotes from three British pedigrees of diverse ancestry, the catalytic deficiency of porphobilinogen deaminase was accompanied by diminished enzyme protein, as determined by radial immunodiffusion. No evidence of functionally attenuated enzyme was demonstrable by kinetic studies. The molecular forms of the residual enzyme were investigated in red cell extracts and in lysed preparations of reticulocytes by a sensitive Western blotting procedure. This revealed the presence of reduced amounts of porphobilinogen deaminase polypeptide co-migrating with wild type enzyme (Mr approximately 40,000), and no evidence of variant forms in situ. The studies show that porphobilinogen deaminase deficiency in acute intermittent porphyria is commonly associated with a CRM-phenotype. The residual activity under these circumstances is thus related to expression of a single normal allele, since sensitive techniques detected neither aberrant nor degraded forms of the enzyme in erythroid tissues.
Preparation of N′4‐[11C]methyl‐ciprofloxacin for positron emission tomography studies

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Abstract The synthesis of N′ 4 ‐[ 11 C]methyl‐ciprofloxacin for pharmacological studies using positron emission tomography is described. The starting material was treated with [ 11 C]methyl iodide at 120°C in DMF for 5 min. After HPLC separation on a C 18 ‐column with water/ethanol as mobile phase, the [ 11 C]methyl labelled compound was produced with a radiochemical yield of at least 25% (end of synthesis from [ 11 C]CO 2 ). Activities from 1.48 to 2.22 GBq (40 to 60 mCi) were obtained 1 h after the irradiation, ready for intravenous injection. The carrier ranged between 0.05 and 0.08 μmol (0.010–0.016 μmol/ml). Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Detection of Stock Price Manipulation Using Kernel Based Principal Component Analysis and Multivariate Density Estimation

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Stock price manipulation uses illegitimate means to artificially influence market prices of several stocks. It causes massive losses and undermines investors' confidence and the integrity of the stock market. Several existing research works focused on detecting a specific manipulation scheme using supervised learning but lacks the adaptive capability to capture different manipulative strategies. This begets the assumption of model parameter values specific to the underlying manipulation scheme. In addition, supervised learning requires the use of labelled data which is difficult to acquire due to confidentiality and the proprietary nature of trading data. The proposed research establishes a detection model based on unsupervised learning using Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) and applied increased variance of selected latent features in higher dimensions. A proposed Multidimensional Kernel Density Estimation (MKDE) clustering is then applied upon the selected components to identify abnormal patterns of manipulation in data. This research has an advantage over the existing methods in overcoming the ambiguity of assuming values of several parameters, reducing the high dimensions obtained from conventional KPCA and thereby reducing computational complexity. The robustness of the detection model has also been evaluated when two or more manipulative activities occur within a short duration of each other and by varying the window length of the dataset fed to the model. Validation on multiple datasets and a comprehensive assessment of the model performance has been conducted without providing any prior information about the location of the manipulation. The results show a significant performance enhancement in terms of the F-measure values and a significant reduction in false alarm rate (FAR) has been achieved.
Anesthetic management of a patient undergoing abdominal surgery with bilateral ventricular peritoneal shunt in situ

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Abstract Background Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts are commonly performed procedures for a variety of disorders and are mostly long standing. These patients when present for non-neurological surgeries like gastrointestinal, urology, or caesarean section, there are several concerns like difficult abdominal surgery due to peritoneal adhesions, chances of shunt infection with potential retrograde infective meningoencephalitis, and ventriculitis or shunt failure with recurrent hydrocephalus. Case presentation A 35-year-old male, known case of third ventricular tumour with functional left-sided ventricular peritoneal shunt was scheduled to undergo cholecystectomy for gall bladder stone. Intraoperatively optic nerve sheath diameter was measured as an indicator of raised intracranial pressure. Intraoperative was uneventful. Efforts were taken to prevent rise in intracranial pressure perioperatively. Patient was discharged on third postoperative day. Conclusion A vigilant perioperative care along with adequate team work go a long way in achieving success in patients of ventriculoperitoneal shunts presenting for non-neurological surgeries.
Simulation of effects of ground-water development on water-levels in glacial-drift aquifers in the Brooten-Belgrade area, west-central Minnesota

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

Ground-water flow in the confined- and unconfined-drift aquifers in the Brooten-Belgrade area of west-central Minnesota was simulated with a three-dimensional finite-difference ground-water-flow model. Model results indicate that about 96 percent of the total inflow to the modeled area is from precipitation. Discounting evapotranspiration, 63 percent of the total outflow is ground-water discharge to the East Branch Chippewa and North Fork Crow Rivers, and 34 percent is ground-water pumpage. The model was used to simulate the steady-state effects of below-normal precipitation (drought) and hypothetical increases in ground-water development. Model results indicate that reduced recharge and increased pumping during a hypothetical 3-year extended drought would lower regional water levels from 2 to 5 feet in each aquifer and as much as 20 feet in the lowermost aquifer zone; ground-water discharge to the East Branch Chippewa and North Fork Crow Rivers would be reduced by 38 percent. The addition of 10 to 20 hypothetical wells in confined aquifers, pumping 123 to 246 million gallons per year, would result in regional water-level declines of 0.1 to 0.5 feet. Simulated water-level declines in wells completed in the lower part of the system would be as much as 5.0 feet as a result of pumping 246 million gallons per year from 20 hypothetical wells. Water-level declines in overlying and underlying aquifers would range from 0.4 to 2.8 feet. Ground-water discharge to the East Branch Chippewa and North Fork Crow Rivers would be unaffected by the pumpage.
Microencapsulated nanostructured lipid carriers as delivery system for rutin

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

A new delivery system based on loading of drug into nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) and then encapsulating it into hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPCD) has been developed for rutin (RT) to overcome its limitation for practical application. Light microscope, scanning electronic microscope (SEM) and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) were used to determine the morphology, microstructure and thermal properties of rutin-loaded microencapsulated nanostructured lipid carriers (RT-loaded MNLC), respectively. The effect of HPCD on the performance of RT-loaded MNLC was investigated in terms of particle size, entrapment efficiency, UV absorptivity and in vitro release. It is revealed that the combined encapsulated technology could successfully resolve the leakage and instability problems of rutin. The obtained RT-loaded MNLC in the size range of 210–270 nm (polydispersity index < 0·4) were spherical and homogeneous. The presence of HPCD influences the particle size, entrapment efficiency and release profile of rutin and has synergistic effect on UV protection.