jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Modeling customer satisfaction in mortgage credit companies

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This paper presents an analysis of price and service quality effects through customer satisfaction on customer loyalty and recommendations in a business‐to‐business setting of mortgage credit. The research question is examined based on returned questionnaires from the largest companies in Denmark. An initial study applying LISREL does not support a full model including the five‐factor structure of the SERVPERF model. The further LISREL analysis however gives statistical evidence of a recursive model that explains willingness to recommend by customer loyalty and customer satisfaction, customer loyalty by customer satisfaction and customer satisfaction by price, assurance and reliability.
Chlorine and ozone applications used for fruit and vegetable disinfection in tourism accommodation facilities

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Samples of vegetable and fruit were taken from the kitchens of tourism accommodation facilities and microbiological analyses were made. The samples were analysed after being disinfected with 100 ppm chlorine for 2-10 minutes and with 2 ppm ozone for 2-10 minutes. In the examined vegetables and fruit samples, Escherichia coli, E. coli O157, Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes were examined in terms of microorganisms. Before disinfection, E. coli was detected in all 30 samples: E. coli O157 in 8 samples, Salmonella spp. in 4 samples, and L. monocytogenes in 3 samples. As a result of disinfection applications with 100 ppm chlorine for 2 minutes, E. coli decreased by more than 45%. Salmonella spp. was detected in 1 sample and E. coli O157 was detected in 2 samples. After disinfection applications with 2 ppm ozone for 2 minutes, E. coli decreased by more than 60%. A decrease of more than 70% was observed in E. coli. after disinfection applications with 100 ppm chlorine for 5 minutes. As a result of disinfection applications with 2 ppm ozone for 5 minutes, E. coli decreased by more than 85%. No bacteria were found in the samples after disinfection with 100 ppm chlorine and 2 ppm ozone for 10 minutes. It was observed that there was a decrease in the microorganism loads as a result of the chlorination and ozonation processes of the vegetable and fruit samples.
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland - Material Culture, Practices, Landscape Setting and Social Context

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This thesis develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record, as well as determining how distinct ritual practices relate to each other, their immediate environment and wider landscape, and the social contexts within which they were carried out. Ritual practices find expression in a range of contexts which can be studied separately; however, they belong in, and thus require, an over-arching, integrated ritual system to contextualise and attempt to understand their broader purpose. Consequently, this project centres on the question: Can an investigation of the practices of ritual feasting, death ritual, ritual deposition and fertility ritual, as situated within their broader socio-cultural contexts, yield fresh perspectives on the Irish LBA socio-cultural system? A more nuanced understanding of the social context of LBA ritual practice in Ireland is thus developed, thereby putting a human face on a body of scholarship previously dominated by studies of monument and artefact types. By applying anthropological analysis and a contextually focused theoretical framework to the large body of data this thesis examines aspects of LBA ritual practice and society not consistently engaged with by previous studies.
Heart disease diagnosis using data mining technique

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Data mining is an advanced technology, which is the process of discovering actionable information from large set of data, which is used to analyze large volumes of data and extracts patterns that can be converted to useful knowledge. Medical data mining has a great potential for exploring the hidden patterns in the data sets of medical domain. These patterns can be utilized to do clinical diagnosis. These data need to be collected in a standardized form. From the medical profiles fourteen attributes are extracted such as age, sex, blood pressure and blood sugar etc. can predict the likelihood of patient getting heart disease. These attributes are fed in to K-means algorithms, MAFIA algorithm and Decision tree classification in heart disease prediction, applying the data mining technique to heart disease treatment; it can provide as reliable performance as that achieved in diagnosing heart disease. By this medical industries could offer better diagnosis and treatment of the patient to attain a good quality of services. The main advantages of this paper are: early detection of heart disease and its diagnosis correctly on time and providing treatment with affordable cost.
Some aspects of the Settlement Geography of Southern Manitoba

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This study is an attempt to deal with some aspects of the Settlement Geography of Southern Manitoba. After a preliminary examination, it was observed that the entire area of Southern Manitoba was too large for the scope of this work. Therefore an area of some eight hundred square miles in South Central Manitoba was chosen. It covers the rural municipalities of Rhineland and Stanley, and was set aside in the 1870s as a "Reserve" for Mennonite immigrants from Russia and to this day the region retains its strong ethnic character. The settlements are dominated by three towns' Morden, Winkler and Altona. The first step was to find out how close the towns in the area were with regard to rank and size... It was found that the towns of Morden, Winkler, and Altona were close together in rank and size. It was also observed that the population distribution in both the municipalities was uniform and that the density was about thirty persons per square mile... The pattern of settlement was examined statistically after a nearest neighbor method used by L. J. King for areas in the United States... The morphology of the settlements was then examined. It was a well known fact that the major settlements in the area came into existence as railroad towns... The functional structure of the three towns was then examined to determine their relation to the rest of the municipality and to observe any similarities or differences in function that came out of the examination. The next step was to examine the settlements of the area to see if a hierarchy of service centres was present... The final step was to examine this hierarchy for variations from theory, and to explain these differences with regard to the ethnic and cultural character of the region. An effort was also made to evaluate the contribution made by cultural factors on the present day spatial system of settlements and their functional role in the municipalities.
Dampak Meningkatnya Kewirausahaan Sosial terhadap Pengentasan Kemiskinan untuk Pembangunan Berkelanjutan

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Social entrepreneurship has attracted significant attention from scholars and practitioners, becoming an increasingly popular method for addressing social issues such as poverty, rural development, and economic growth in developing countries. The main focus of this research is to understand the role of social entrepreneurship in tackling complex socio-economic and environmental challenges. The aim of this study is to analyze the views of social entrepreneurs to design effective strategies for poverty alleviation. The method used involved a Rasch model with a questionnaire involving university students and students. The research results show that social entrepreneurship not only contributes to economic benefits but also has a significant social impact, such as community empowerment and job creation. In conclusion, social entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in promoting inclusive and sustainable development and provides innovative solutions to socio-economic problems. This research recommends increased support for social entrepreneurship initiatives as part of a national strategy for sustainable development. ABSTRAK Kewirausahaan sosial telah menarik perhatian signifikan dari cendekiawan dan praktisi, menjadi metode yang semakin populer untuk menyelesaikan masalah sosial seperti kemiskinan, pengembangan daerah pedesaan, dan pertumbuhan ekonomi di negara-negara berkembang. Fokus utama penelitian ini adalah memahami peran kewirausahaan sosial dalam mengatasi tantangan sosial ekonomi dan lingkungan yang kompleks. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pandangan wirausahawan sosial untuk merancang strategi efektif dalam pengentasan kemiskinan. Metode yang digunakan melibatkan rasch model dengan kuesioner yang melibatkan mahasiswa dan pelajar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kewirausahaan sosial tidak hanya berkontribusi pada keuntungan ekonomi tetapi juga membawa dampak sosial yang signifikan, seperti pemberdayaan masyarakat dan penciptaan lapangan kerja. Kesimpulannya, kewirausahaan sosial memainkan peran penting dalam mendorong pembangunan inklusif dan berkelanjutan, serta menyediakan solusi inovatif untuk masalah sosial ekonomi. Penelitian ini merekomendasikan peningkatan dukungan terhadap inisiatif kewirausahaan sosial sebagai bagian dari strategi nasional untuk pembangunan yang berkelanjutan.
Norwegian judges’ knowledge of factors affecting eyewitness testimony: a 12-year follow-up

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Eyewitness evidence often plays a critical role in decisions made in the criminal justice system. To evaluate eyewitness testimony accurately, judges must be aware of factors that can contaminate this type of evidence. In 2008, a survey of judges in Norway revealed a lack of awareness of several factors that affect eyewitness testimony. In the current study, a survey was administered to Norwegian judges (N=98) to evaluate their knowledge of factors that affect eyewitness testimony. Results showed that judges' overall knowledge scores were similar to those reported in 2008, but substantial increases and decreases in knowledge were observed for specific factors. Additional analyses indicated that increased uncertainty regarding some eyewitness factors led to a decline in accuracy when compared to responses observed in 2008. The current study provides an updated assessment of judges' knowledge of eyewitness factors and highlights the need for more comprehensive training for judges regarding these factors.
Spontaneous Cytotoxicity by Monocyte‐Enriched Subpopulations of Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells against Human or Mouse Anchorage‐Dependent Tumour Cell Lines

Field: Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)

Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNC) were found to be cytotoxic for mouse or human anchorage‐dependent target cell lines in a 48‐72 h [ 125 I)iododeoxyuridine (IUDR) release assay. Unfractionated, adherent or nonadherent cells had significant levels of cytotoxicity, as did cells fractionated according to size into ‘lymphocytes’ or ‘monocytes’ by elutriation. Intermediate size cells, not enriched for monocytes, had high levels of cytotoxicity. In all fractions tested, including adherent populations, some cells with the morphology of large granular cells were observed. Treatment of all fractions with interferon (IFLrA, a purified. recombinant α‐IFN) boosted cytotoxicity against four target cells lines. Treatment with lymphokines containing putative‘macrophage‐activating factor’(MAF) also enhanced cytotoxicity in fractions depleted of monocytes. Culture in fetal bovine serum enhanced cytotoxicity mainly in unfractionated and nonadherent PBMNC. These experiments indicated that N K‐like cells can be appreciable contaminants in clutriator‐purified monocyte‐enriched or adherent cell populations and thereby contribute to observed cytotoxicity, particularly after pretreatment with IFN or other stimulatory factors.
Courier management system

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

With the rising trend of online purchasing from websites such as Taobao and Amazon, there would be more demands expected from the couriers to do deliveries and hence more customers would be using the courier service to make their orders. This project aims to create a courier management system that provides a user friendly interface for users to make their orders and also efficiently schedules job allocations to the couriers by using clustering algorithms like k-means algorithm to estimate the workload of the couriers with equability and using ranking algorithm such as Dijkstra’s algorithm to rank their job lists.
Pain and Piaget: Qualitative change with age in the content area of children's ideas about pain

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

Piaget's views of qualitative change in the development of children's thinking have been criticised by Carey (1985) who proposed that development is a function of information. This paper describes the development of children's ideas about some aspects of pain in an Irish sample of 680 five to fourteen year olds. The results show statistically significant patterns consonant with Piagetian theory and with findings in other health-related areas. However, some areas in this and other studies are identified which also require specific information for conceptual development, which is especially relevant in the context of information provision to hospitalised children.
Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing their adult and child labour supply. The mechanisms at play include the intensity of the shock, food prices and the timing of Agatha with respect to local harvest cycles. The results are robust to placebo treatments, migration and measurement error, and partly explain the increase in poverty in the country previously attributed solely to the collateral effects of the global financial crisis.
Effects of fertilizer phosphorus and poultry droppings treatments on growth and nutrient components of pepper (Capsicum annuum L)

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The effect of five phosphrous levels (0, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kg/ha) and five poultry dropping (0, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 kg/ha) levels on the growth, growth yield, yield components, nutrients concentration and food values of pepper (Capsicum annuum L) were observed from 2002 to 2003 raining seasons. Phosphrous levels significantly increased pepper plant height, number of leaves per plant, number of branches per plant and leaf area up to 125 kg (p/ha) level. The phosphorus application also significantly increased early flowering, maturity and yield (ton/ha) of the treated plants. Application of organic waste, poultry dropping increased the growth yield and yield components of pepper significantly more than the fertilizer phosphrous. Since poultry dropping is cheap to obtain and enhances the pepper plant performance, it is recommended for use. C. annuun was found to contain both the major and minor nutrient elements which can supply the body with necessary ingredients for growth.

Key words: Poultry droppings; caspicum species, nutrient contents, interaction absorption.
Implementing a choice of pulmonary rehabilitation models in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (HomeBase2 trial): protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction There is compelling evidence that either centre-based or home-based pulmonary rehabilitation improves clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There are known health service and personal barriers which prevent potentially eligible patients from accessing the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation. The aim of this hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial is to examine the effects of offering patients a choice of pulmonary rehabilitation locations (home or centre) compared with offering only the traditional centre-based model. Method and analysis This is a two-arm cluster randomised, controlled, assessor-blinded trial of 14 centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation services allocated to intervention (offering choice of home-based or centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation) or control (continuing to offer centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation only), stratified by centre-based programme setting (hospital vs non-hospital). 490 participants with COPD will be recruited. Centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation will be delivered according to best practice guidelines including supervised exercise training for 8 weeks. At intervention sites, the home-based pulmonary rehabilitation will be delivered according to an established 8-week model, comprising of one home visit, unsupervised exercise training and telephone calls that build motivation for exercise participation and facilitate self-management. The primary outcome is all-cause, unplanned hospitalisations in the 12 months following rehabilitation. Secondary outcomes include programme completion rates and measurements of 6-minute walk distance, chronic respiratory questionnaire, EQ-5D-5L, dyspnoea-12, physical activity and sedentary time at the end of rehabilitation and 12 months following rehabilitation. Direct healthcare costs, indirect costs and changes in EQ-5D-5L will be used to evaluate cost-effectiveness. A process evaluation will be undertaken to understand how the choice model is implemented and explore sustainability beyond the clinical trial. Ethics and dissemination Alfred Hospital Ethics Committee has approved this protocol. The trial findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals, submitted for presentation at conferences and disseminated to patients across Australia with support from national lung charities and societies. Trial registration number NCT04217330 .
Assessing the performance of volunteers in monitoring streams

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

1. Citizens are concerned about the quality of water resources and many participate in monitoring activities, though doubts remain about the quality of the data volunteers collect. We trained volunteers to collect benthic macroinvertebrates using professional protocols. Of the seven stream sites sampled by volunteer crews, six sites were also sampled by professional crews. 2. In the laboratory, volunteers used morphological features to identify as many different taxa as possible within the major insect orders; their identification was approximately to family. Volunteers calculated five metrics: total taxon richness, richness of three key groups (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera), and percentage dominance of the three most abundant taxa. All metrics were strongly correlated with (a) the percentage of urbanized area in the catchment and (b) the metrics derived from a more complete taxonomic identification by a professional scientist. Taxon richness metrics declined with urban development, while percent dominance increased. 3. An overall summary multimetric index was used to compare the field and laboratory procedures of volunteers and professionals. Using an ANOVA model, we detected no significant difference between field samples collected by volunteers and professionals. The variance of index values associated with differences between crews was zero. The ability of the index to detect significant differences among sites (statistical power) improved by only 13% for assessments based on professional laboratory identification instead of volunteer laboratory identification. 4. Citizen volunteers, when properly trained, can collect reliable data and make stream assessments that are comparable to those made by professionals. Data collected by volunteers can supplement information used by government agencies to manage and protect rivers and streams.
A predictive system shutdown method for energy saving of event-driven computation

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This paper presents a system-level power management technique for energy savings of event-driven application. We present a new predictive system-shutdown method to exploit sleep mode operations for energy saving. We use an exponential-average approach to predict the upcoming idle period. We introduce two mechanisms, prediction-miss correction and prewake-up, to improve the hit ratio and to reduce the delay overhead. Experiments on four different event-driven applications show that our proposed method achieves high hit ratios in a wide range of delay overheads, which results in a high degree of energy with low delay penaties.
What Mexican Deaf Culture and Epistemologies Bring to Critical Spanish Language Education in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

In this article, we elaborate on our journey as researchers and educators developing cultural humility (Tervalon &amp; Murray-García, 1998). Moreover, we describe a pedagogical approach to developing critical literacy among hearing and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) students in higher education enrolled in the School of Architecture and Design (SAD) at a Mexican university. We argue for a Critical Sociocultural Linguistic Literacy (CriSoLL) approach. CriSoLL-based pedagogies have the potential to support students in critically evaluating their own sociolinguistic practices and developing other languages and styles beyond notions of “correctness” and normative cultural hegemony in academic settings that still follow and perpetuate ideologies of “deficiency.” Through CriSoLL, as a team of researchers and educators, we have started developing materials to develop critical literacy. In this piece, we also share these Open Educational Resources as thematic units that offer opportunities for shifts in attitudes and beliefs about how people’s ways of communication are perceived and the social meanings associated with how they look and/or sound. We believe this approach supports creating a more inclusive campus climate that better understands and serves all students.
Chapter Two. How the east and the west shall meet

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

To understand why theories, especially in sociology, have been so dominant, two factors come to mind: that the normative practices of theoretical development favor theoretical confirmation rather than theoretical challenge, and that empirical discrepancies observed in Eastern societies tend to be explained away with theories purportedly capturing societal differences, with Western Europe and North America seen as the anchor or point of social reference. The chapter describes a recent effort made to exercise the possibility of theory construction based on fragmented but consistent observations regarding social exchanges as practiced in the East. The target received theory is economic rationality, quite dominant in both economics and sociology in the West. Keywords: Eastern societies; normative scientific behaviors; relational rationality; social exchanges; sociological theories; Western Europe