jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Locus of Control, Organization Citizenship Behavior and Work’s Life Quality to Employee’s Performance

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Abstract : This research is to evaluate: (1) the influence of locus of control to employee’s performance, (2) the influence of organization citizenship behavior to employee’s performance and (3) the influce of work’s life quality to employee’s performance. The population is taken from 40 respondents by using stratified random sampling and data is analysed by PLS (partial least square). The research reveals that (1) locus of control doesn’t influence employee’s performance, (2) organization citizenship behavior influences employee’s performance and (3) quality of work’s life influences employee’s performance. Locus of control doesn’t influence employee’s performance indicates that employess of this hospital - RSUD Kotabaru are not able to develop locus of control both internally and externally in order to create competitive work condition and inedequate efforts are taken to encounter problems, in that it will be overcome in a better manner and have outstanding performances. Keywords : Locus of control, organization citizenship behavior, quality of work’s life and employee’s performance
Agricultural SandboxNL: A Crop Parcel Level Database Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Google Earth Engine

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The systematic high temporal coverage of Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is ideal for agricultural monitoring. The availability of these data on cloud computing infrastructure eliminates the need for massive computing power to process imagery. However, their distribution as SAR imagery still limits their accessibility for non-expert users. In Agricultural SandboxNL, Copernicus Sentinel-1 imagery on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) was mined to produce a database of spatially-tagged, parcel-level backscatter for every agricultural parcel in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2019. The database includes descriptors from the publicly available Basisregistratie Gewaspercelen, allowing the user to query the database by crop type and administrative boundary for any region of interest within The Netherlands. Publication of this database reduces the burden of processing and extracting a large volume of Sentinel-1 SAR data for experts. More importantly, it provides easy access to the Sentinel-1 data for agriculture/agronomy experts with limited SAR processing experience. In addition, the GEE package Sen1byParcel developed for Agricultural SandboxNL is made publicly available so that Sentinel-1 imagery can be extracted for any user-provided shapefile.
Megachile (Eutricharaea) communis Morawitz 1875

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Megachile (Eutricharaea) communis Morawitz, 1875 Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Central Asia (Ascher & Pickering 2021). GBIF 2021, SEMC: Bekaa, Der Mar Maroun, 700 m, 26.V.1996, 1♂, determiner unknown; 2.VI.1996, 1♀, determiner unknown, 1♂, det. Baker D.; 9.VI.1996, 1♂, determiner unknown; all leg. Roche C.G. Viewing the distribution of this species, the taxon name may be wrongly assigned to the specimens, they have to be re-examined for confirmation.
Image-Based Radiodensity Profilometry Measures Early Remodeling at the Bone-Callus Interface in Sheep

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Bone healing has been traditionally described as a four-phase process: inflammatory response, soft callus formation, hard callus development, and remodeling. The remodeling phase has been largely neglected in most numerical mechanoregulation models of fracture repair in favor of capturing early healing using a pre-defined callus domain. However, in vivo evidence suggests that remodeling occurs concurrently with repair and causes changes in cortical bone adjacent to callus that are typically neglected in numerical models of bone healing. The objective of this study was to use image processing techniques to quantify this early-stage remodeling in ovine osteotomies. To accomplish this, we developed a numerical method for radiodensity profilometry with optimization-based curve fitting to mathematically model the bone density gradients in the radial direction across the cortical wall and callus. After assessing data from 26 sheep, we defined a dimensionless density fitting function that revealed significant remodeling occurring in the cortical wall adjacent to callus during early healing, a 23% average reduction in density compared to intact. This fitting function is robust for modeling radial density gradients in both intact bone and fracture repair scenarios and can capture a wide variety of the healing responses. The fitting function can also be scaled easily for comparison to numerical model predictions and may be useful for validating future mechanoregulatory models of coupled fracture repair and remodeling.
Emergency logistics siting-path question for engineering construction projects based on quantum particle swarm algorithm

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

Emergency material security is the key to post-disaster emergency relief in complex environment engineering construction projects. Aiming at the emergency logistics center site path planning problem, the uncertain parameters of congestion time and maximum rescue time are described using trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, and the emergency logistics site path model of the two-phase engineering construction project is established. A quantum particle swarm optimization model is designed to avoid premature population convergence and maintain population diversity. The particle swarm algorithm uses the quantum spin gate’s rotation angle update to represent the particle velocity update. Taking the engineering construction project in the western mountainous area as an example, the validity and applicability of the model are verified through model comparison and sensitivity analysis. The results of the example show that in the complex environment, the quantum particle swarm algorithm takes 29.35 s in convergence time, and the particle swarm algorithm takes 40.12 s, which is 36.69% higher than the efficiency of PSO. In total cost, the quantum particle swarm algorithm has a total cost of 46,632.40 RMB, and the particle swarm algorithm has a total cost of 48,319.51 RMB, which is 3.62% lower than the cost of PSO. The quantum particle swarm algorithm’s total distance is 550.57 km, and the particle swarm algorithm’s total distance is 579.35 km, 5.23% lower than the total distance of PSO. The model established in this study can scientifically select the location of emergency facilities and formulate the emergency rescue path, reduce the response time of emergency rescue and storage costs, and provide decision support for the scheduling of emergency supplies for engineering construction projects in complex and dangerous areas.
Additional Tax‐Planning Considerations

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

This chapter discusses tax-planning topics encountered by cross-border individuals. It begins with an overview of passive foreign investment corporations (PFICs) and foreign accounts. After walking readers through three PFIC scenarios, the chapter explains the Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) requirements so people understand how to properly report assets. Social Security totalization agreements aim to provide clarity and to avoid double Social Security tax obligations. Then, other tax situations, including taxes on high-earners, gift taxes, estate taxes, and expatriation taxes (exit taxes) are explored. Finally, planning strategies to minimize tax problems are explained to prepare cross-border individuals.
Individuals' Concern about Information Privacy in AR Mobile Games

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Augmented Reality (AR) proves to be an attractive technology in mobile games. While AR techniques energize mobile games, the privacy issue is raised to be discussed. Employing social media analytics (SMA) techniques, this research makes efforts to examines Twitter postings of “PokemonGo” case and explores individuals’ attitudes toward privacy in AR games. In this research, we examine what are the privacy concerns of individuals in AR games and what are the individuals’ sentiments toward privacy. In the interesting case of PokemonGo, this paper suggests that individuals’ concerns about privacy are emphasized on six dimensions - collection, improper access, unauthorized secondary use, errors, post event reimbursement and proactive announcement. The findings could benefit AR game industry to identify privacy problem in discussion and to manage post privacy-event intervention.\nKeywords: Information Privacy, Individuals’ Concern, AR Games, Social Media Analytics
Poly(phenanthrenequinone)-Poly(acrylic acid) Composite as a Conductive Polymer Binder for Submicrometer-Sized Silicon Negative Electrodes

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

나노 크기에 비해 부피 변화가 상대적으로 더 큰 서브마이크로미터 크기의 실리콘 음극의 성능 향상을 위해 도전재 역할을 하는 3,6-poly(phenanthrenequinonone) (PPQ) 전도성 고분자 바인더와 카복시기를 가져 결착력이 좋은 poly(acrylic acid) (PAA)를 블렌딩 한 복합 바인더를 도입하였다. PAA를 PPQ와 블렌딩하여 전극을 제조했을 때 결착력이 월등히 증가하였고 충방전실험 결과 PPQ 바인더를 단독으로 사용한 전극보다 안정된 수명 특성을 나타냈다. PPQ와 PAA의 함량 비율을 2:1, 1:1, 1:2(무게비)로 하여 각 전극의 수명 특성을 비교했을 때, PPQ의 함량이 가장 큰 전극(2:1, QA21)이 50번째 사이클에서 가장 좋은 용량 유지율을 보였다. 이는 PPQ가 입자 간 또는 입자와 집전체 사이에서 도전재로서 존재하여 전자가 이동할 수 있는 통로를 제공해 주고 PAA가 적절한 결착력을 제공해주어 전극의 내부 저항이 가장 작았기 때문이다. PPQ-PAA 복합 바인더를 사용한 전극은 입자 형태의 도전재인 super-P를 전체 전극 무게 대비 20%를 첨가하여 제조한 전극보다도 더 안정적인 수명 특성을 나타내었다. In order to improve performances of submicrometer-sized Si negative electrode which shows larger volumetric change than nano-sized Si, composite binders are introduced by blending between poly(phenanthrenequinone) (PPQ) conductive polymer binder and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) having good adhesion strength due to its carboxyl functional group. Blending between PPQ and PAA shows an effect that the adhesion strength of the Si electrode with the composite conductive binder is greatly improved after blending and this makes its better stable cycle performance. Blending ratios between PPQ and PAA in this work are 2:1, 1:1, 1:2 (by weight) and the best capacity retention at 50th cycle is observed in the electrode with the blending ratio 2:1 (named QA21). This is because that PPQ plays a role of conductive carbon among the Si particles or between Si particles and Cu current collector and PAA binds effectively the particles and the current collector. According to this synergetic effect, the internal resistance of the Si electrode with the blending ratio 2:1 is the smallest value. In addition, the Si electrode with PPQ-PAA composite binder shows the better stable cycle performance than the electrode with conventional super-P conductive carbon (20 wt.%).
Rapid Identification of Coumarins from Micromelum falcatum by UPLC-HRMS/MS and Targeted Isolation of Three New Derivatives

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

Micromelum falcatum, a medicinal plant of the Rutaceae family, has been used in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) mainly against colds and rheumatoid arthritis. Despite its traditional use the association of its constituents with possible anti-inflammatory activity has not been explored. During this study, a rapid UPLC-ESI(+)-HRMS method was developed for the profiling of M. falcatum leave extracts and the targeted isolation of coumarin constituents. Based on chromatographic, spectroscopic and spectrometric features several 7-oxygenated coumarin derivatives were detected. After targeted isolation, eight coumarins, among them three new natural products, namely microfalcrin, microcoumaririn and micromelosidester, were purified using semi-preparative HPLC and unambiguously identified by 1 and 2D NMR. Furthermore, important spectrometric characteristics were revealed based on the HRMS and HRMS/MS spectra of the isolated 7-oxygenated coumarins facilitating their identification in complex mixtures. Finally, the anti-inflammatory properties of the extracts and representative compounds were evaluated by measuring the inhibition of the pro-inflammatory mediator NF-κB induction and nitric oxide (NO) production.
Using Controlled Global Buckling to Improve Buried Pipelines Performance Under Large Compressive Ground Displacements

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

This paper presents the basic concept and verification tests results of a novel method designed to prevent failures of buried pipelines subjected to compressive deformations which are usually caused by ground movements. In this method the boundary conditions of the buried pipes are modified by installing soft elements next to the pipe before backfilling. With the new boundary conditions, the pipe response under large compressive forces will be in form of a stable global buckling mode with a predefined deformed shape. This behavior prevents rapid increase in the compressive axial force that causes local buckling, wrinkling, and subsequent softening, and strain localization. By using this method, pipes can have an extended compressive hardening response that absorbs large compressive displacements. The evaluation of this concept and its performance level were studied through a series of lab tests on 4-1/2 inch pipe specimens under simulated field conditions. The test results confirmed the anticipated performance of this technique which can evolve into a design method.
Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of Bacterial Isolates in Patients of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction: CSOM is a massive public health problem with incidence higher in developing countries like India, especially among low socio-economic society because of malnutrition, overcrowding, poor hygiene, inadequate health care, and recurrent upper respiratory tract infections. It is associated with various complications like persistent otorrhoea, hearing impairment, mastoiditis, labyrinthitis, facial nerve paralysis to more serious intracranial abscesses etc. The knowledge of microbiological profile is essential to enable efficacious treatment of this disease & thereby reducing the potential risk of complications. Methodology: This study was aimed to determine the microbial profile & their antimicrobial resistance pattern using Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method among the patients suffering from CSOM between April 2013 to March 2014. Results: Out of 216 samples processed, isolates were Original Research Article Mahajan et al.; IJTDH, 5(2): 165-169, 2015; Article no.IJTDH.2015.017 166 seen in 145 (67.1%) cases with male to female ratio of 1.5: 1 and age group affected was 10-20 years. Most common organism isolated was Pseudomonas spp. (49%) followed by S. aureus (35.9%). Pseudomonas spp. showed high degree of resistance to gentamicin (57.7%) and ciprofloxacin (53.5%). Also, S. aureus was found resistant to ciprofloxacin (61.5%) and cotrimoxazole (40.4%). Conclusion: Management of CSOM consists mainly of eradicating infection and closure of tympanic membrane. Periodical monitoring of bacterial isolates and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern is necessary for administering appropriate antibiotics for empirical treatment and also helps in reducing the potentially disabling and fatal complications of CSOM.
Radiographic manifestations of congenital anomalies of the aortic arch.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

This article discusses congenital anomalies of the aortic arch. Many malformations of a left, right, or double aortic arch produce tracheal, bronchial, and esophageal compression and can be recognized on chest radiographs or esophagrams and confirmed by angiography, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging. Other congenital lesions of the aortic arch are characterized by aortic obstruction and include supravalvular aortic stenosis, aortic arch interruption or atresia, and coarctation.
A scoping review of the uses of the care index in children.

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Overall, it is recommended that future studies should clearly state the definitions and thresholds used to obtain CI and RI, which would enable comparison between communities and allow temporal trends to be studied. Additionally, deriving separate CI and RI scores for groups based on caries extent would help to highlight inequalities in the provision of care. Further research is needed to explore the applicability of CI and RI to changing approaches to caries management with current care recommendations emphasising on minimal treatment and secondary prevention.
Usefulness of Subjective Symptoms and Imaging Findings in the Diagnosis of Unilateral Sinus Disease

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

副鼻腔 CT で片側性副鼻腔陰影を認めた場合, 慢性副鼻腔炎以外に副鼻腔真菌症や歯性上顎洞炎, 腫瘍性疾患が鑑別に挙がり, 診断や治療方針の決定に苦慮することがある. 今回われわれは片側性副鼻腔陰影を示す症例を診断するに当たり, 自覚症状や鼻腔腫瘤の評価, 副鼻腔 CT 所見, MRI 所見が有用であるか検討し, その結果から MRI 施行の適正性について検討した. 自覚症状は鑑別において有用性に乏しかった. 鼻腔腫瘤は鼻茸合併慢性副鼻腔炎と腫瘍性疾患の可能性が高いが, 鼻腔腫瘤を認めない悪性腫瘍症例もあり, 注意が必要であった. 生検の正診率は高く, 積極的に施行するべきであった. 副鼻腔 CT 所見は, 骨破壊は悪性腫瘍で, 石灰化は副鼻腔真菌症でのみ認められ, 鑑別診断に有用であった. Lund-Mackay 重症度分類のスコアは急性副鼻腔炎で有意に低値であり, 鑑別の一助になると考えられた. 濃淡 (陰影内部が不均一で低吸収域の中に高吸収域が混在するもの) + 小気泡 (陰影内に 1mm 以下の気泡が2個以上), 濃淡 + 小気泡 + 骨肥厚を同時に認める場合は石灰化を認めなくても副鼻腔真菌症の可能性が高く, 鑑別診断に有用であった. 中鼻道の換気が良いにもかかわらず生じる歯性所見を有する片側性副鼻腔炎は歯性上顎洞炎を示唆しており, 鑑別の一助になると考えられた. MRI の施行は当院の特性上, 過剰になる傾向があった.
Tender Assisted Drilling: A World First Approach to Reactivate an Idle Platform Rig in Deepwater Angola

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Abstract The objective of this paper is to present the novel approach that the drilling contractor implemented for an operator in West Africa confronted with significant reactivation/recertification costs for one of its idle integrated platform rig. The drilling contractor proposed to couple the platform rig to one of their existing tender vessel, that is usually used to assist its own drilling rig, creating the first ever hybrid platform rig assisted by a tender vessel. The tender vessel was mobilized alongside the platform during the reactivation phase, offering ample POB capacity and avoiding the hiring of accommodation vessel, then the power and fluid system were hooked up to platform equipments that were to be used. This approach avoided the refurbishment/overhaul/recertification of the main and emergengy engine, the mud pumps and the mud pits and all the auxiliary systems that support the rig equipement. For the operator' s eighteen month workover and drilling campaign, the drilling contractor also proposed a cost-effective approach, looking into their available capital equipment inventory for compatible equipment still under certification. Once identified, the equipment were simply swapped so no additional recertification cost was required. The drilling contractor took the opportunity of this major reactivation to review completely the working flow of the rig and proposed a new offline pipe handling system and upgrade the online one, to improve the rig overall performance compare to the original design. All these novel approaches are reducing the overall project cost by 20% compare to a refurbishment of existing rig by OEM and introduce the offline pipe handling bringing an additional minimum 5% of operation time saving, making the project viable. The use of a tender vessel along a platform, feeding the platform rig equipment with power and fluids to extend the platform life is a novel approach in the industry that offer significant cost saving for operator suffering prohibitive reactivation/recertification costs of an idle fixed platform rig or any operator looking to reduce equipment weight on aging platforms. This paper will describe the major modifications that were required to make this world first attempt a success.
Multi Criteria Decision Making for Ranking Digital Vocational Education

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

In this paper, the researchers were interested in multi criteria decision making (MCDM) for ranking of digital vocational education. The framework for such a ranking, when combined with academic processes, can be significantly improved. This paper aims to 1) Synthesise the components of digital vocational education. 2) Synthesise the ranking process using the MCDM method. 3) Propose a conceptual framework for digital vocational education ranking. The results revealed that the framework of digital vocational education consists of five components: (1) the learner, (2) the teacher, (3) the course of study, (4) participation and (5) fundamentals. The MCDM method has five method for ranking: (1) collect data, (2) data normalization, (3) incorporate weightings, (4) analyze, and (5) ranking. At the analysis stage, there are four ideal methods for sequencing data. These are AHP, Fuzzy-AHP, TOPSIS and Fuzzy-TOPSIS.
Taylor-DBN: A new framework for speech recognition systems

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Speech recognition is a rapidly emerging research area as the speech signal contains linguistic information and speaker information that can be used in applications including surveillance, authentication, and forensic field. The performance of speech recognition systems degrades expeditiously nowadays due to channel degradations, mismatches, and noise. To provide better performance of speech recognition, the Taylor-Deep Belief Network (Taylor-DBN) classifier is proposed, which is the modification of the Gradient Descent (GD) algorithm with Taylor series in the existing DBN classifier. Initially, the noise present in the speech signal is removed through the speech signal enhancement. The features, such as Holoentropy with the eXtended Linear Prediction using autocorrelation Snapshot (HXLPS), spectral kurtosis, and spectral skewness, are extracted from the enhanced speech signal, which is fed to the Taylor-DBN classifier that identifies the speech of the impaired persons. The experimentation is done using the TensorFlow speech recognition database, the real database, and the ESC-50 dataset. The accuracy, False Acceptance Rate (FAR), False Rejection Rate (FRR), and Mean Square Error (MSE) of the Taylor-DBN for TensorFlow speech recognition database are 96.95%, 3.04%, 3.04%, and 0.045, respectively, and for real database, the accuracy, FAR, FRR, and MSE are 96.67%, 3.32%, 3.32%, and 0.0499, respectively. Similarly, for the ESC-50 dataset, the accuracy, FAR, FRR, and MSE are 96.81%, 3.18%, 3.18%, and 0.047, respectively. The results imply that the Taylor-DBN provides better performance as compared to the existing conventional methods.
Methods for preventing pseudomonas folliculitis.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

This outbreak highlights a number of significant factors related to most pseudomonas folliculitis outbreaks. The bath water had not been changed in more than four weeks which led to a build-up of high levels of organic carbon. There was an extended interval of six days between subsequent OTD chlorine residual tests, allowing the chlorine residual to decrease to low levels between tests. It should also be noted that the OTD test, by design, measures both the active free chlorine and the inactive combined chlorine residual. Therefore OTD residual readings in the low normal range may actually represent below normal free active chlorine residual levels. The following measures are suggested to reduce the growth of pseudomonads in hot tubs and whirlpool baths and to prevent subsequent cases of pseudomonas folliculitis: 1. The OTD chlorine residual should be checked every day. The residual should be well above the minimum level suggested for the bath. Or, preferably, an automatic chlorinator should be installed. This device measures the free chlorine residual and automatically adds chlorine to keep the residual in the desired range. 2. The water in the bath should be changed at least every eight weeks in order to reduce the total organic carbon level. The water should be changed more frequently if the bath is used by a large number of persons. 3. If an outbreak of pseudomonas folliculitis is associated with a bath, the water should be changed and the bath washed with a chlorine-based solution. Also, the method of keeping the chlorine residual in the operating range should be re-evaluated.