jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Low cost particle matrices: alternatives for agar in in vitro sub-culturing of Anthurium andreanum.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Agar used in in vitro cultures of plants is relatively expensive. This study attempt to replace it from locally available, low-cost and eco-friendly inert particles as demonstrated in Anthurium in vitro sub-culturing. A laboratory experiment was conducted with the particle matrices in liquid media. Four particle types were used (sand, coir dust, charcoal and tile pieces; 1-2 mm) at different volume ratios (1:1:1:2, 1:1:2:1, 1:1:3:1, 1:1:1:1, 1:1:1:3, 0.5:1:1:1, 0:0:1:0, 0:0:0:1). It was found that all types of the inert particles produced better plants than the agar control, with added advantages of lower microbial contamination, higher rates of acclimatization and growth of plantlets and hence immense economic gain with cut off of the sub-culturing steps. Mixed particle ratio (1:1:2:1) was the best matrix for in vitro sub-culturing of Anthurium. The use of the best particle matrix increased the profit margin by 10 -fold compared to agar.
Reversal of steal syndrome following creation of arteriovenous fistula by banding with a Gore-Tex cuff: a new technique.

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Steal syndrome, especially in elderly patients with peripheral vascular disease, is a serious complication following creation of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) that, if neglected, can lead to amputation. The classic maneuver to deal with the steal syndrome is the ligation of the AVF and performance of another procedure to gain dialysis access. We describe a simple technique of effectively reversing the steal syndrome by banding the vein of the AVF with a ringed Gore-Tex cuff that salvages the AVF and allows its immediate use for dialysis.
EXINE STRUCTURE OF TRICHOSPIRA VERTICILLATA (L.) BLAKE (COMPOSITAE) AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TRIBAL POSITION OF THE GENUS

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Studies of the exine of Trichospira verticillata (L.) Blake reveal a modified Anthemoid (Liabioid) ultrastructural pattern linking the genus to the Vernonieae rather than the Heliantheae. This lends further support to Robinson and Brettell's transfer of the genus from the Heliantheae to the Vernonieae (Robinson and Brettell, 1973).
MECHANISMS OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION IN MARBLED MURRELETS: HISTORICAL VERSUS CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Abstract Mechanisms of population differentiation in highly vagile species such as seabirds are poorly understood. Previous studies of marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus; Charadriiformes: Alcidae) found significant population genetic structure, but could not determine whether this structure is due to historical vicariance (e.g., due to Pleistocene glaciers), isolation by distance, drift or selection in peripheral populations, or nesting habitat selection. To discriminate among these possibilities, we analyzed sequence variation in nine nuclear introns from 120 marbled murrelets sampled from British Columbia to the western Aleutian Islands. Mismatch distributions indicated that murrelets underwent at least one population expansion during the Pleistocene and probably are not in genetic equilibrium. Maximum-likelihood analysis of allele frequencies suggested that murrelets from “mainland” sites (from the Alaskan Peninsula east) are genetically different from those in the Aleutians and that these two lineages diverged prior to the last glaciation. Analyses of molecular variance, as well as estimates of gene flow derived using coalescent theory, indicate that population genetic structure is best explained by peripheral isolation of murrelets in the Aleutian Islands, rather than by selection associated with different nesting habitats. No isolation-by-distance effects could be detected. Our results are consistent with a rapid expansion of murrelets from a single refugium during the early–mid Pleistocene, subsequent isolation and divergence in two or more refugia during the final Pleistocene glacial advance, and secondary contact following retreat of the ice sheets. Population genetic structure now appears to be maintained by distance effects combined with small populations and a highly fragmented habitat in the Aleutian Islands. Corresponding Editor: J. Neigel
Development Of Conventional Savings And Loan Business Activities Into Sharia Savings And Loan Business Activities

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Seeing the potential of the Muslim majority in this country and the euphoria of desire from the leader in the region to apply the Sharia economic principle. However, it is not by the quantity of the successful conversion of the conventional Savings and Loans Business Cooperatives into Sharia Saving and Financing Cooperatives. This research aims to identify problems, formulate solutions, and design strategies for converting conventional Savings and Loans Business Cooperatives into Sharia Saving and Financing Cooperatives. This research uses the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method by collecting opinions from various experts, such as practitioners, regulators, and experts in converting conventional Savings and loan cooperatives into Sharia Savings and loan cooperatives. This research discovers that there were similar opinions on the problems, that internal aspects caused the low conversion rate. Stakeholder interests and human resource needs are the dominant internal problems influencing the most. To solve this problem by processing data from all the respondents based on average results, the priority is the aspect of education and communication. The second priority is the aspect of gradual conversion. The proposed solution will be more effective using a market-driven strategy and rational persuasion. The implication is that the government and other stakeholders can promote the education and communication sector, where education in the form of internships and DPS or Sharia Economics training will have a significant impact.
Assessment of eating habits and lifestyle during the coronavirus 2019 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa region: a cross-sectional study

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread globally, forcing countries to apply lockdowns and strict social distancing measures. The aim of this study was to assess eating habits and lifestyle behaviours among residents of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the lockdown. A cross-sectional study among adult residents of the MENA region was conducted using an online questionnaire designed on Google Forms during April 2020. A total of 2970 participants from eighteen countries participated in the present study. During the pandemic, over 30 % reported weight gain, 6·2 % consumed five or more meals per d compared with 2·2 % before the pandemic (P < 0·001) and 48·8 % did not consume fruits on a daily basis. Moreover, 39·1 % did not engage in physical activity, and over 35 % spent more than 5 h/d on screens. A significant association between the frequency of training during the pandemic and the reported change in weight was found (P < 0·001). A significantly higher percentage of participants reported physical and emotional exhaustion, irritability and tension either all the time or a large part of the time during the pandemic (P < 0·001). Although a high percentage of participants reported sleeping more hours per night during the pandemic, 63 % had sleep disturbances. The study highlights that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a variety of lifestyle changes, physical inactivity and psychological problems among adults in the MENA region.
Practice of ideological and political education in the course of “R language foundation”

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Comprehensively promoting the ideological and political construction of curriculum is an important strategic measure to implement moral education. This paper analyzes the objectives, contents, ideas, implementation and case teaching of Ideological and political education, and explores how to integrate ideological and political education into the course teaching. In the teaching practice of this course, rstuio development platform and mobile course learning platform are adopted. Ideological and political elements are also integrated into the course teaching. It can not only improve the professional and technical level of students, but also effectively improve the comprehensive quality of students, enhance professional quality, help students establish a correct outlook on life, cultivate patriotic feelings.
Assessment of Water Conservation Function of Forest Ecosystem in Taihe County,Jiangxi Province

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Water conservation is an important function of forest ecosystem,which could weaken rainfall erosivity,slow down surface runoff and preserve soil and water.It is a comprehensive effect of three main hydrological processes,namely canopy interception,litter containment,and soil water storage.On the basis of the sixth inventory data of forest resources(2003) in Taihe County,Jiangxi Province and literature reviews,this paper estimated the function of water conservation and its spatial distributions and variations.Also,we compared the water conservation capacity of forest ecosystem through three layers by forest types,age groups,elevations and slopes.The results showed that,the canopy layer could intercept approximately 16.31% of rainfall;the litter layer could hold 2.14% of water and the soil layer could store 81.55% of water.It can be seen that that soil layer is the main aquifer of forest ecosystem.The total amount of rainfall interception and water holding was 141 million cubic meters in Taihe.The amount of water conserved by different vegetation types in a descending order was Cunninghamia lanceolata forest Pinus massoniana forest Pinus elliottii forest Broad-leaved forest Phyllostachys pubescen forest Shrubby forest Mixed forest Economic forest.The contribution rate of water conservation of young stand,middle-aged stand,near-mature stand,mature stand and over-mature stand forests was 17.58%,65.39%,14.18%,2.48% and 0.37%,respectively.The capacity of water containment increased with the increasing age of forest.The spatial distribution of water conservation capacity of forest ecosystem in Taihe tended to decrease from eastern and western to the central part.The damage of forest vegetation or soil could lead to water loss and soil erosion,and even natural disasters.Therefore,reasonable management of forest ecosystem under different conditions would play an essential role in the enhancement of water conservation function.
Characterizing Effects and Benefits of Beam Defocus on High Energy Laser Performance under Thermal Blooming and Turbulence Conditions for Air-to-Ground Engagements

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

I would like to thank my committee for their great patience with me and their tremendous guidance. I especially appreciate Dr Miller taking on this cross-departmental topic and never giving up on completing it. Beyond the committee, I thank AFIT staff
The ORYX initiative: goals and potential application to physician quality improvement efforts.

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

Demands for public accountability in health care are more widespread today than at any time in the past. A number of national performance measurement efforts, including the ORYX initiative of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, represent an effort to provide stakeholders with the data they need to make judgments about the quality of health care provided to the public. The underlying premise of performance measurement is that organizations and clinicians can only improve what they can measure. Clinicians are the natural leaders in effecting broad-based change because of their direct influence on patient care and the respect they command in the health care environment. As performance measurement initiatives evolve, the ability of health care organizations to implement empirically based, structured improvement will increase and become commonplace.
Extracting Herbrand trees in classical realizability using forcing

Field: Mathematics (Physical Sciences)

Krivine presented in [Krivine, 2011] a methodology to combine Cohen's forcing with the theory of classical realizability and showed that the forcing condition can be seen as a reference that is not subject to backtracks. The underlying classical program transformation was then analyzed by Miquel [Miquel, 2011] in a fully typed setting in classical higher-order arithmetic (PA-omega^+). As a case study of this methodology, we present a method to extract a Herbrand tree from a classical realizer of inconsistency, following the ideas underlying the completeness theorem and the proof of Herbrand's theorem. Unlike the traditional proof based on König's lemma (using a fixed enumeration of atomic formulas), our method is based on the introduction of a particular Cohen real. It is formalized as a proof in PA-omega^+, making explicit the construction of generic sets in this framework in the particular case where the set of forcing conditions is arithmetical. We then analyze the algorithmic content of this proof.
Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Abstract The evidence of the late medieval period, 11th-15th centuries, indicates that women's participation in the labour market was both considerable and diversified. This paper studies whether and how women's wage labour was affected, controlled and regulated by laws, courts and judges, by using an array of the Mālikī legal sources from Muslim Spain and North Africa. It shows the existence of a legal approach straddling a strict application of the law of the ijāra, with adjustments to family law and admission of customary law, but more importantly, an approach inspired and adapted to the framework of women's property rights and therefore beneficial to them.
The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) failure to provide payment for invasive FFR has resulted in worse and inequitable Medicare beneficiary healthcare.

Field: Health Professions (Health Sciences)

The unintended consequences of the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision not to pay for invasive diagnostic FFR (Fractional Flow Reserve) has precluded its routine diagnostic use in hundreds of thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries, who suffered inappropriate coronary stent procedures (PCI) that worsened Medicare beneficiaries’ clinical outcomes: 20% of PCI patients have no or uncertain clinical indications but are operated upon, nevertheless, and 33% of potential PCI stenoses are non-ischemic and require no PCI. These unnecessary PCIs, often confounded by aging’s anatomical and comorbid complexities, result in preventable complications, repeat procedures, worse clinical outcomes, unwarranted deaths, and an avoidable $1 billion annual expenditure. The best coronary artery disease (CAD) patient care requires astute clinical assessment coupled with diagnostic physiologic ischemic lesion categorization, which directly links lesion treatment to patient management. CMS’ unrealistic expectation that their bundled payment to a single healthcare provider payment would motivate providers to maximize their profits through efficiently coordinated and improved care was naive; this foolish policy of eschewing invasive FFR payment and expecting providers to absorb the FFR pressure wire’s cost, has inflicted potential irreparable harm on all Medicare beneficiaries. CMS has forsaken its mission to attain the “highest level of health for all people, where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their optimal health regardless of race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, preferred language, or other factors that affect access to care and health outcomes”.
Evolutionary differentiation of androgen receptor ohnologs is responsible for the development of androgen-dependent unique sexual characteristics in a teleost fish

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

Abstract

Teleost fishes exhibit complex unique sexual characteristics, such as fin enlargement and courtship display, in response to androgens. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their evolutionary acquisition remain largely unknown. To address this question, we analysed medaka (Oryzias latipes) mutants deficient in androgen receptor ohnologs (ara and arb) generated by the teleost-specific whole-genome duplication event (TSGD). We discovered that both ar ohnologs are not required for spermatogenesis and appear to be functionally redundant for courtship display in males, while both copies were necessary for their reproductive success; ara was required for tooth enlargement and behavioural attractiveness, while arb for male-specific fin morphogenesis and sexual motivation. We further showed that the differences in both the transcription of the two ars, cellular localisation of their encoded proteins and their downstream genetic programs could be responsible for the phenotypic diversity between the ara and arb mutants. These findings suggest that the ar ohnologs have diverged in the teleost lineage in two different ways: First through the loss of their roles in spermatogenesis and second through the gene duplication followed by functional differentiation that has likely resolved the pleiotropic roles derived from their ancestral gene. Thus, our results provide insights into how genome duplication impacts the massive diversification of sexual characteristics in the teleost lineage.
Preliminary observations of impact stress using an aeroelastic model of voice production

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Voice problems are kown to be common among voice professionals, e.g. teachers. More information is needed on biomechanical forces related to voice production in order to be able to set safety limits for voice use in various professions. Impact stress, defined as the impact force divided by the contact area of the vocal folds, is an important variable in quantifying the mechanical load posed on the vocal fold tissue during voice production.
A Proposal for the Development of a Computer Literacy Curriculum in the Charleston School District

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The purpose of this study was to develop a computer literacy infusion plan for Community Unit School District Number One in Charleston, Illinois. The plan was developed to extend and build upon the existing computer usage study prepared in 1982. Specifically, this plan was prepared to provide direction and recommendations in the form of curriculum development, planning for staff development, and improved software and hardware selection processes for the elementary schools in Charleston.\nA review of the research and literature revealed that the computer and its use has developed at a remarkable rate since the late 1970's. Successful projects throughout the country were studied closely in order to identify ideas which could be useful to the Charleston schools.\nAn infusion plan was designed and implemented in the author's second grade classroom with the idea that if the plan was successful, it could serve as a model for grades K-6 in the Charleston school district. Objectives, lesson plans, activities and evaluation instruments were developed and utilized during the 1983-84 school year. The plan was designed to answer the following questions: Can young students learn to use correct terminology to describe the different components of computer systems? Can young children learn to handle, load, and interact with appropriate software? Can young children learn to discuss verbally three ways in which computers are used in society? Can young children learn simple programming and write their own programs on the computer? \nBased on the positive results of the plan, implementation of a computer literacy curriculum was determined to be feasible. A suggested outline and scope and sequence for computer literacy in grades K-6 was presented.\nA list of recommendations for Community Unit School District Number One was then presented. These recommendations concerned the following areas: formation of a microcomputer committee staff development selection of hardware selection of software computer-assisted instruction \nFinally, it was concluded that in order for any school district to enter the computer age successfully, careful planning and preparation are necessary.
Richard Dallin Westwood: Sheriff and Ferryman of Early Grand County

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Research Article| January 01 1987 Richard Dallin Westwood: Sheriff and Ferryman of Early Grand County JEAN M. WESTWOOD JEAN M. WESTWOOD Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utah Historical Quarterly (1987) 55 (1): 66–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/45061638 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JEAN M. WESTWOOD; Richard Dallin Westwood: Sheriff and Ferryman of Early Grand County. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 January 1987; 55 (1): 66–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/45061638 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressUtah Historical Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Copyright 1987 Utah State Historical Society1987 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
O PAPEL DO INSTAGRAM NO FORTALECIEMENTO DA MARCA NIKE: CONSTRUÇÃO DE IDENTIDADE

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Instagram has become crucial for businesses by providing visibility and strengthening online presence. This article examines how the platform can enhance Nike's brand identity, highlighting the company's ongoing pursuit of strategies to improve both online and offline recognition. The research includes a review of Nike's trajectory and uses theoretical foundations and scientific articles to explain the role of social media in digital marketing and branding. A case study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of Nike's Instagram, analyzing its content published over a 90-day period. The qualitative and descriptive methodology focused on understanding and detailing relevant data. The study concludes that the tool is essential for strengthening Nike's corporate identity, allowing for direct and effective contact with the target audience and increasing brand awareness. The article suggests that these findings could serve as a basis for future research on the impact of digital tools on branding.