jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Relational Life through an African Lens:A Theological Exploration of Ubuntu in a Western Contemporary Church Context

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This research explores the origins and usage of the term ubuntu in sub-Saharan Africa and the applied ubuntu theology developed by Desmond Tutu in order to consider what, if anything, a theologically applied concept of ubuntu might offer to a Western contemporary church context as it seeks to grow in its relational life.
Chapter 1 is an introduction to the research, offering the primary thesis statement, definitions, scope and an outline of chapter content.
Chapter 2 provides some background to ubuntu through an exploration
of its historical, contextual and linguistic development, its system of values and practice, and its subsequent understanding of personhood. This acts as a base from which the ubuntu theology of Desmond Tutu is overviewed in the context of post-apartheid South Africa.
Chapter 3 outlines the ontology, methodology and methods chosen to explore the interface between the paradigmatic frameworks that govern the social sciences and theology. This includes a reflection on the nature of epistemology in the discipline of practical theology in which this research is located, and upon the characteristics of group interviews as the selected method of gathering qualitative data about ubuntu and the experience of relational life, both in urban Britain and in sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter 4 takes a thematic analytical approach to the qualitative data generated from two group interviews and extrapolates four correlative themes to bring into discussion with previous my exploration of ubuntu, in order to illuminate any transferrable aspects that might offer transformative resonance in relational life as experienced in a Western contemporary church context such
as urban Britain.
El derecho de veto en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas: la historia de la válvula de seguridad que paralizó el sistema

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This article presents an analysis the veto right in the Security Council of the United Nations from its creation until the present time. It begins with the origins of the veto, as well as the determinative reasons for its establishment. It looks at how the veto has been used and, as alleged by some, “abused” by some permanent members of the Security Council. Taking into account that the majority of doctrinal works referring to this issue were written some decades ago, it is timely to analyze how this right has developed from the era of the creation of the United Nations until the present.
Modelling the 3D stratigraphic complexity inherent in mixed fluvial-aeolian successions: examples from the Pennsylvanian to Permian of Southern Utah, USA

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

Within Paradox foreland basin of southeastern Utah and northern Arizona, the Pennsylvanian-Permian Cutler Group records a varied array of aeolian-fluvial interactions within its various stratigraphic divisions: the Lower Cutler Beds, the Cedar Mesa Sandstone, the Organ Rock Formation and the Undivided Cutler Formation. The preserved architectural elements and facies arrangements that record these styles of fluvial-aeolian interaction within the Cutler Group are typically intimately related to each other and, in places, smaller-scale elements are nested inside \nlarger elements suggesting that interactions commonly occur on several spatial and temporal scales. Specifically, autogenic interactions arising from intrinsic competition between coeval fluvial and aeolian processes can be shown to occur within sequences ascribed to allogenic controls, such as climatic cycles and systematic variations in sediment supply. Many of the types of interaction inferred \nfrom the Cutler Group successions are widely recognised within other ancient successions and within present-day desert systems. Criteria for the recognition and prediction of styles of fluvial-aeolian interaction have applied implications because resultant facies configurations exert a primary control on stratigraphic heterogeneity and compartmentalisation within hydrocarbon reservoirs. The 3D summary models resulting from this work provide a set of tools for predicting architectural relationships and for predicting sand body connectivity within sub-surface reservoir intervals.
Mevalonate Signaling, COPD and Cancer: The Statins and Beyond

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Evidence suggests that smoking confers a persistent and/or exaggerated inflammatory response in the lungs that, with underlying genetic susceptibility, may result in lung remodeling and impaired repair. The innate immune response to smoking described above, which is modified by the mevalonate pathway, provides a plausible pathogenic link between the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. The mevalonate pathway modifies innate responsiveness through important intracellular signaling molecules called guanine phosphate transferases (GTPases) such as Rho-A. Smoke exposure activates cell surface proteins which, through the mediating influence of GTPases, then modifies the activation of nuclear factor kappa -light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NFκB) its downstream effects on genes underlying innate immunity, neutrophilic inflammation and carcinogenesis. The mevalonate pathway is modifiable through the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-Coenzyme A (HMGCo-A) reductase. This enzyme controls the rate limiting step of the mevalonate pathway and is subject to inhibition by statin drugs (HMGCo-A reductase inhibitors) and small chain fatty acids derived from high dietary fiber intake. Ths, inhibitory effect dampens the innate immune response to smoking and may modify pulmonary inflammation and lung remodeling. This article is a symposia summary outlining the preclinical and clinical data suggesting that statins and a high-fiber diet may have a chemopreventive effect on lung cancer.
Development of cerebral artery mimicking system

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

To understand the characteristics of blood flow within the cerebral artery, many kinds of models were presented to mimic the cerebral artery. Some models are based on in vivo models which relates to the surgical operations on animal brains and other models are computed mathematically with the aid of computer software. However, not many researches are performing studies on in vitro mechanical models. Studies have also shown the inaccuracies of using animal based models to experiment the characteristics of blood flow within the cerebral artery system. Such animal based models cannot be comparable to the human physiological cerebral anatomy. The aim of this report is to identify the blood flow characteristics in the cerebral artery, more specifically in the region of Circle of Willis, by using a mechanical model and obtaining results for investigations. Certain experimental parameters are used to further understand the flow characteristics such as the presence of occlusion within the segments of the cerebral artery network and also the velocity in each segment of the cerebral artery model. In conclusion, the highest flow rate (an increase of more than 200%) was observed at the Posterior Cerebral Communicating Artery segment when occlusion was present in either the Anterior Cerebral Artery or the Posterior Cerebral Artery. Therefore, further investigations can be done to remedy such occlusion hazard. The cerebral artery brain tissue mimicking model created in this experiment can be used as an experimental aid for non-invasive method of treatment. The reliance of focus ultrasound can be tested and maybe used to substitute for current treatment procedures.
Consumer expenditures on clothing and footwear: a mixed methods study

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the predictors of consumers’ annual monetary expenditures on clothing and footwear in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, a developing Latin American country. Design/methodology/approach The research followed an exploratory, sequential, mixed methods design. The first phase consisted of in-depth interviews with adult individuals. The second phase involved surveying a similar segment of the population. Findings The present study supports the importance of demographic and psychological factors as predictors. The study also identifies two new groups of predictors: consumers’ reception of used clothing and physical space at home and its management. Practical implications In addition to demographic variables, consumer panels that measure expenditures on clothing and footwear should include psychological measures of participants, particularly clothing involvement. Clothing manufacturers and retailers in developing countries should consider the impact of receiving used clothes by consumers. Because clothing buying and disposal behaviors are positively associated, companies should become more involved in their customers’ disposal behavior. Originality/value The contribution of the present study is twofold. First, it contributes to the understanding of clothing and footwear expenditures by considering the individual consumer as a unit of analysis. Furthermore, it provides insights into this behavior from a little-studied context.
A SPECIES-SPECIFIC PCR ASSAY BASED ON THE INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER (ITS) REGIONS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MYCOSPHAERELLA EUMUSAE, M. FIJIENSIS AND M. MUSICOLA ON BANANA

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

A study on development of a rapid PCR-based detection method based on ITS region of M. eumusae, M. fijiensis, and M. musicola on banana was carried out. The main objecive of this study was to develop a fast and species-specific PCR-based detection method for the presence of Mycosphaerella species on banana. The methods include collection of specimens, morphological identification supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis, RFLP analysis, species-specific primers development, and validation. Two species of Mycosphaerella, namely, M. fijiensis and M. musicola, and one unidentified Pseudocercospora species were found in Java island. Three restriction enzymes used in the RFLP analysis, viz, AluI, HaeIII, and TaqI were capable to discriminate M. eumusae, M. fijiensis, and M. musicola. Two species-specific primer pairs, viz, MfijF/MfijR and MmusF/MmusR have been successfully developed to detect for the presence of M. fijiensis and M. musicola, respectively.
Effect of Hiwa syrup, a Persian Medicine Product, on Autism Symptoms and in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Randomized Double-Blinded Clinical Trial

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex condition that affects communication, social interaction, and behavior. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a Persian Medicine product, Hiwa syrup, which consists of consisted of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) fruit, quince (Cydonia Oblonga Mill.) fruit, basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), green cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), and sandalwood (Santalum album Linn), in ameliorating autism symptoms and extending eye contact duration in children diagnosed with ASD. Methods: A double-blind randomized clinical trial involved 60 children (3-5 years) with level 1 autism, randomly assigned to intervention and control (placebo) groups. The intervention group received Hiwa syrup for eight weeks alongside routine therapy. Autism status was assessed using Persian version of Gilliam Autism Rating 2nd edition (GARS-2) questionnaire, and eye contact duration in response to auditory stimuli was measured pre and post-intervention. SPSS software version 25.0 was used for data analysis. Results: The Hiwa syrup group exhibited a significant decrease in the mean GARS-2 score from 75.03 ± 7.83 to 69.47 ± 5.87 (p=0.01) with a mean difference of 5.56 ± 3.12. This decrease surpassed that of the placebo group. Furthermore, the intervention group showed a significant increase in eye contact duration, from (7.90 ± 3.81 seconds to 9.26 ± 3.21 seconds (p=0.05), with a mean difference of 1.36±1.88 seconds. In contrast, the placebo group exhibited a smaller increase, from (7.50 ± 2.21seconds to 7.83 ± 2.91 seconds (p=0.64), with a mean difference of 0.33 ± 0.48 seconds. Conclusion:The polyherbal product from Persian Medicine appears to be effective in ameliorating autism symptoms and extending the duration of eye contact in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Further clinical trials are essential to validate the efficacy of this product in treating autism spectrum disorders.
Benefits of £12bn IT programme in NHS are “unclear,” MPs say

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

MPs have called for an urgent review of the programme to computerise the NHS in England, which they criticise for unprecedented delays and costs and whose benefits, they say, are uncertain.

In its report the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts cites two former aides who attack the national programme for information technology (IT) in the NHS for the poor consultation with clinicians on how the new system should be designed and the use of “bullying tactics” with NHS trusts and suppliers.

Edward Leigh, chairman of the committee, said: “The programme is not looking good. The electronic patient clinical record, which is central to the project, is already running two years late. The suppliers are struggling to deliver. Scepticism is rife among the NHS clinicians whose commitment to the programme is essential to its …
Performance of the Human Peripheral Visual System under Various Loads

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

Abstract : This report measured the effects of single and multiple spatial presentations in various positions in the human peripheral visual field. Subjects fixated on a central point and attempted to accurately discern orientations of peripherally located stimuli. The peripheral tasks were sine- wave gratings generated on HP-120 5A oscilloscopes. Stimuli were presented at various positions along the horizontal and vertical axes of the visual field. Stimulus presentation times were 20, 50, 100, and 500 msec. Lateral differences in perception were noted with the data showing high statistical significance. The number of events processed also proved to be a significant variable. The dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere for processing spatial information was very evident. Such results have strong implications as to where spatial presentations should be located in the visual field to maximize visual performance.
Prediction of the potential survival area of Xanthium italicum in China.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Xanthium italicum is one of the harmful quarantine weeds in China and it has spread rapidly in China since it invaded in the 1990s.In order to monitor and control X.italicum effectively,it is necessary to predict potential survival areas in China.Its ecological niches were modeled through application of the Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Prediction(GARP) on the basis of its native region(North America).The model's accuracy was evaluated by Receiver Operator Characteristic(ROC) curve based on invaded areas in Europe,Asia,and South America.The area under the ROC curve(AUC) was 0.91,which indicated that all models had a highly predictive ability.The ecological models developed on the basis of the native occurrences were projected on the landscape of China.With the exception of Qinghai,Tibet,southern parts of Xinjiang,and northern parts of Inner Mongolia,most areas in China were potential survival areas for X.italicum.Because of X.italicum's high dispersal ability,and diverse dispersal routes,the potential distribution areas in China are huge and it may invade more areas and spread faster in the future.To prevent further invasion and spread,an early eradication program should be adopted in the newly invaded areas.Meanwhile,the monitoring programs should be applied in potential survival areas,especially in coastal harbors,airports,and tourism areas which are highly vulnerable for X.italicum invasion.
A Web Service for Hypermedia Role-Based Policies.

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

High level security is a key requirement in hypermedia/web applications. The systems opening to the Internet makes the research effort to move towards protecting the information transmission (i.e. SOAP messages, policy descriptions...), but little attention is paid to what the user can do with the system. Role-based access control (RBAC) allows to formulate the organization’s resource access policy in a natural way, so a role-based access model for hypermedia will make it easier to integrate the security design with the rest of the system design. In service oriented architectures, an access policy service would allow to gather the management and deployment of the security policy in distributed and heterogeneous environments. This paper describes a role-based access control model for hypermedia called MARAH, and its implementation as a web service. An use case of the model in the design of the ARCE application is also discussed. 1.
Zearalenone exposure affects mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and granulosa cell proliferation

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

Zearalenone (ZEN) is a metabolite of Fusarium and is a common contaminant of grains and foodstuffs. ZEN acts as a xenoestrogen and is considered to be cytotoxic, tissue toxic, and genotoxic, which causes abortions and stillbirths in humans and animals. Since estrogens affect oocyte maturation during meiosis, in this study we investigated the effects of ZEN on mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and granulosa cell proliferation. Our results showed that ZEN-treated oocyte maturation rates were decreased, which might be due to the disrupted cytoskeletons: (1) ZEN treatment resulted in significantly more oocytes with abnormal spindle morphologies; (2) actin filament expression and distribution were also disrupted after ZEN treatment, which was confirmed by the aberrant distribution of actin regulatory proteins. In addition, cortical granule-free domains (CGFDs) were disrupted after ZEN treatment, which indicated that ZEN may affect mouse oocyte fertilization capability. ZEN reduced mouse granulosa cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner as determined by MTT assay and TUNEL apoptosis analysis, which may be another cause for the decreased oocyte maturation. Thus, our results demonstrated that exposure to zearalenone affected oocyte meiotic maturation and granulosa cell proliferation in mouse.
Using "crib cards" on exams: doubling their value

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTUsing "crib cards" on exams: doubling their valueA. H. Kalantar Cite this: J. Chem. Educ. 1983, 60, 12, 1058Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1983Publication History Received3 August 2009Published online1 December 1983Published inissue 1 December 1983https://doi.org/10.1021/ed060p1058RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views45Altmetric-Citations1LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (366 KB) Get e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Vacating Chrysler

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This article examines the Chrysler section 363 transaction and the opinions that approved it. Chrysler may be merely another example of good facts and a crisis making what is, perhaps, bad law, which has been a pattern in the evolution of chapter 11 jurisprudence since the Bankruptcy Code was enacted in 1978. The Supreme Court appears to have recognized this in the Chrysler case and took the opportunity created by the petition for the certiorari to attempt to wipe the slate clean and reestablish the pre-Chrysler status quo. If this was the Justices’ intent, it is not clear that they succeeded and, if past events are taken as predictive, more likely that they did not.
Preliminary Paleomagnetic Results from Early Tertiary Plutons of the British Columbia Coast Ranges, Mt. Waddington Area.

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)

New paleomagnetic results from two early Tertiary granodioritic-to-tonalitic plutons suggest that NE-side-up tilting is not ubiquitous in the Coast Ranges of British Columbia. The study area, located ~350km NNW of Vancouver, extends northeastward across the Coast Ranges from Mt. Waddington. At each of 11 sites we used a gasoline-powered drill to extract 7 one-inch diameter core samples. The orientation of each core was measured using either a sun compass or a magnetic compass. After a preliminary thermal demagnetization experiment, 7 of 11 sites exhibited scattered remanence directions. More careful work is needed to establish the primary paleomagnetic direction of these sites. Four sites yielded consistent directions. Three of these exhibited site-mean directions (two normal; one reverse) close to the expected early Tertiary field direction. The fourth site exhibited a normal polarity remanence that is ~45 degrees clockwise and 15-20 degrees shallow compared to the expected direction. Combined with previous results from Douglas Channel (400 km. to the NW) we see no evidence of widespread NE-side-up tilting within the Coast Ranges of British Columbia. This finding indirectly supports the "Baja BC" hypothesis, which interprets the shallow remanence of older plutons as the result of tectonic transport rather than local tilting.
Fokker-Planck analysis of superresolution microscopy images

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

A method for the analysis of superresolution microscopy images is presented. This method is based on the analysis of stochastic trajectories of particles moving on the membrane of a cell with the assumption that this motion is determined by the properties of this membrane. Thus, the purpose of this method is to recover the structural properties of the membrane by solving an inverse problem governed by the Fokker-Planck equation related to the stochastic trajectories. Results of numerical experiments demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to reconstruct the potential of a cell membrane by using synthetic data similar those captured by superresolution microscopy of luminescent activated proteins.
Study of the histological and anatomical characteristics of the human oral mucosa. A step towards the developement of tailored-artificial oral mucosa

Field: Dentistry (Health Sciences)

Several pathologies may affect the histological structure and physiology of the human oral mucosa, being necessary to use oral mucosa grafts. In this context, the scarce number of donors has increased the need to develop artificial substitutes of human oral mucosa, most of them, without attending to the histological differences found in the different anatomical areas of the oral cavity. The objective of the present bibliographic review is to carry out a histological description and a morphological classification of the human oral mucosa and to determine the translational potentiality of the new artificial models of oral mucosa.