jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF AGGLOMERATED CORK PANELS BOUND WITH CHITOSAN BINDER

In this paper, acidified chitosan was used as an adhesive to prepare aldehyde-free, environmentally-friendly agglomerated cork panels by hot-pressing. After preparation, thephysical, mechanical, and the finishing properties of the chitosan-glued agglomerated cork panels were investigated. The optimal mass ratio of acetic acid solution (1wt.%) to chitosan was determined to be 30:1. The resulting hot-pressed agglomerated cork panels, which featured adensity of 0.55 g.cm-3and a thickness of 4 mm, exhibited a tensile strength of 1.70 MPa and athermal conductivity of 0.11W.m-1·K-1. The agglomerated cork panels coated with theoil-based polyurethane and water-based, acrylic-modified polyurethane paints exhibited significantly lower lightness and higher glossiness. The total color differences (ΔE*) ofboth agglomerated cork panels increased before and after finishing. The oil-based polyurethane paint coating exhibited high adhesion of paint film, reaching a level-0 adhesion, while thewater-based, acrylic-modified polyurethane paint coating achieved a level-1 adhesion. Theabrasion resistance results showed that the substrates of cork agglomerates coated two types of paint did not expose after undergoing abrasion for 100 revolutions atthe turntable speed of 60 rpm.

Topic: Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Framework for Open Source Software implementation in the Government Sector of Dubai

In recent years, Open Source Software (OSS) has gained a popularity in the government sector because of its potential advantages. Developed countries the United States of America, Australia and United Kingdom have adopted OSS in their government sector in an exceptional manner (resource). Though the United Arab Emirates government in general and Dubai government are excelling in every field of the Information Technology and Science, yet it has not utilized this type of software to fullest benefit.

Topic: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
ANALYSIS ON THE CAUSES AND COUNTERMEASURES OF GRASSLAND DESERTIFICATION IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN AREA

Taking Sunan County in Qilian mountain area as an example mountain-grassland desertification,the paper analyzes the eauses the present state and the imperilment of in Qilian mountain area,and combining its history,from the perspective of nature and humans probes into reasons of grassland desertification.The natural factors are the basis of forming grassland desertification,and human factors are its dominance. So the paper puts forward a series of control for grassland desertification and reconstruction countermeasures for ecological environment mainly in human factors.These measures include increasing capital input and introducing and popularizing some new techniques, reducing grassland pressure on population and livestock,and realizing reasonable use of water to improve grassland quantity and quality.Implementing these measures can inhibit more development of grassland desertification,and result in the healthy development of regional environment.

Topic: Remote Sensing and Land Use
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
1997 training profile : 1997-1998 industry training plans

The implementation of 'Training South Australia's Future - the 1997 State Training Profile' has seen substantial progress in the six priority areas for South Australia's response to the National Strategy for Vocational Education and Training. This article discusses the highlights: South Australian quality system implementation; industry training plans; VISA - VET in SACE arrangements; access and equity strategy implementation; user choice pilots; and development of a set of user-friendly guidelines to assist those seeking accreditation or registration. Also outlined is the development of the 'State strategic plan for vocational education and training - 1998-2000'.

Topic: Education Systems and Policy
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
The aqueous corrosion behavior of technetium - Alloy and composite materials

Metal waste forms are under study as possible disposal forms for technetium and other fission products. The alloying of Tc is desirable to reduce the melting point of the Tc-containing metal waste form and potentially improve its corrosion resistance. Technetium-nickel composites were made by mixing the two metal powders and pressing the mixture to make a pellet. The as-pressed composite materials were compared to sintered composites and alloys of identical composition in electrochemical corrosion tests. As-pressed samples were not robust enough for fine polishing and only a limited number of corrosion tests were performed. Alloys and composites with 10 wt% Tc appear to be more corrosion resistant at open circuit than the individual components based on linear polarization resistance and polarization data. The addition of 10 wt% Tc to Ni appears beneficial at open circuit, but detrimental upon anodic polarization. Qualitatively, the polarizations of 10 wt% Tc alloys and composites appear like crude addition of Tc plus Ni. The 1 wt% Tc alloys behave like pure Ni, but some effect of Tc is seen upon polarization. Cathodic polarization of Tc by Ni appears feasible based on open circuit potential measurements, however, zero resistance ammetry and solution measurements are necessary tomore » confirm cathodic protection.« less

Topic: Nuclear Materials and Properties
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Translating climate projections into usable information for business. A case study from Tasmania

Long-term changes in climate, in particular changes in precipitation patterns, are of particular concern for hydropower generators. Hydropower generation is directly reliant on rainfall, and investment in hydropower generation infrastructure is recovered over long time periods, typically forty years. Translating climate projections into information that can be used to inform business decisions is not a trivial task. This task is made more difficult in regions such as Tasmania where Global Climate Models (GCMs) poorly replicate regional rainfall distributions. Tasmania is characterised by its highly heterogeneous rainfall distribution, resulting from its complex topography. The West Coast of Tasmania receives average annual rainfalls in excess of 3,000 mm while the East Coast has average annual rainfalls of less than 700 mm, all within a distance of 200 km. This disparity in rainfall is poorly replicated by GCMs. The Climate Futures for Tasmania (CFT) project includes major downscaled climate modelling, which better replicates the distribution of rainfall over the state.

Topic: demographic modeling and climate adaptation
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Nutritional Management of the Infant With Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Optimal nutrition and growth in patients with severe, established bronchopulmonary dysplasia are complex and require an understanding of the factors and challenges that affect this population. Most publications have reported weight gain as the primary outcome because of ease of measurement, accuracy, and repeatability. There is, however, increasing evidence that linear growth is better correlated with long-term development and pulmonary outcomes. In addition, factors such as stress, inflammation, respiratory support and stability, and medication exposures have a direct influence on achieving nutritional success in infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. This article reviews concepts related to these challenges and provides recommendations for achieving successful nutrition in this population.

Topic: Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
High Speed Performance and Yield Optimization Technique for Analog Integrated Circuits

Abstract — This paper presents a novel predictive modeling technique for yield and performance of analog integrated circuits. Trade-offs between performance functions can be explored through the use of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm and Monte Carlo simulations. When compared to conventional simulation based approaches, the results show a significant improvement in overall simulation time and efficiency without a corresponding drop in accuracy. The behavioral model has been developed in Verilog-A and tested extensively with practical designs using the Spectre simulator. Two OTA topologies are used to demonstrate the proposed algorithm and their behavior has been verified through transistor level simulations. The examples have demonstrated that accurate performance and yield prediction can be achieved using the proposed method in a fraction of the time taken by conventional simulation based methods. Keywords—Analog circuit design, Behavioral modeling, circuit synthesis, design automation, multi-objective optimization, yield optimization. 1

Topic: Plant chemical constituents analysis
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Comparative Proteomics Profiling Reveals Role of Smooth Muscle Progenitors in Extracellular Matrix Production

Objective— Recent studies on cardiovascular progenitors have led to a new appreciation that paracrine factors may support the regeneration of damaged tissues. Methods and Results— We used a shotgun proteomics strategy to compare the secretome of peripheral blood–derived smooth muscle progenitors (SPCs) with human aortic smooth muscle cells. The late-outgrowth SPCs produced fewer proteolytic enzymes and inflammatory cytokines and showed reduced invasive capacity. Similar to smooth muscle cells, SPCs secreted extracellular matrix. However, SPCs produced different matrix proteins, as evidenced by the truncation of proangiogenic domains in collagen α-1 (I) and increased production of periostin. Moreover, SPCs retained serum proteins, including proteoglycans, regulating collagen assembly; and pigment epithelium–derived factor, a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis. As a functional consequence, their conditioned medium was less angiogenic, as demonstrated by endothelial tube formation assays in vitro and implantation of Matrigel plugs into nude, severe combined immunodeficient mice (NOD/SCID). Conclusion— The present study represents an important conceptual development, suggesting that SPCs may contribute to extracellular matrix production.

Topic: Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Cascading effects of variation in plant vigour on the relative performance of insect herbivores and their parasitoids

Abstract 1. Consequences of variation in food plant quality were estimated for a system consisting of two monophagous noctuid herbivores and three ichneumonid parasitoids. 2. In a natural population, pupal weights of the herbivores in this system, Nonagria typhae and Archanara sparganii , were found to be highly variable. Pupal weights increased strongly and consistently with the increase in the vigour of the host plant, Typha latifolia , providing support for the plant vigour hypothesis. Correspondingly, as the moths do not feed as adults, a strong, positive correlation between host vigour and fecundity of the herbivores would be expected. 3. There were strong and positive relationships between adult body sizes of the parasitoids and the sizes of their lepidopteran hosts. Moreover, a direct, positive link between plant quality and parasitoid size was documented. 4. For all three parasitoids, cascading effects of plant quality on body size were weaker than for the herbivores. Differences in the importance of adult feeding and oviposition behaviour suggest that dependence of fitness on body size is also weaker in the parasitoids than in the moths. It is therefore concluded that the numerical response of the herbivore population to a change in plant quality should exceed the corresponding response in the parasitoids. 5. The results of this work imply that variation in plant variables may affect performance of different trophic levels to a different extent. It is suggested that the importance of adult feeding for the reproductive success (capital vs. income breeding strategies) in both herbivores and parasitoids is an essential aspect to consider when predicting responses of such a system to changes in plant quality.

Topic: Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Subfield: Insect Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
The Effects of Methods of Trading Margin in the Movement of Trading Stocks in the Iraq Stock Exchange

This paper investigates the swapping scale depreciation impact on the amount and intensive margin trading (trades value), in addition the exporting of new items and products into new export markets (extensive margin trading). We use data for monthly sector-level and firm-level for the period 2006-2017. This investigation is done to Iraq, which has all the earmarks of being an intriguing case to be analyzed, considering a few changes that have happened in its conversion scale system. The swapping scale is measured by swapping scale misalignment and the real effective swapping scale. The consequences of the exchanging edge show that a lessening in the genuine swapping scale raises the fares an incentive without influencing the amount of fares. Also, emphasizing the observed fact, that the value effect is more important as compared to the quantity effect: devaluation decreases the foreign currency price of trades, but does not raise the number of exports. At the sectorial level, the escalated edge exchanging appears to issue for barely any things and items more than others. Indeed, the most beneficial items and products are those for Iraq, which has a comparative benefit and that are sensitive to real exchange rate (RER) devaluations, such as vegetables and fruits, fibers, apparel and clothing, mineral, oils, and fuels products.

Topic: Market Dynamics and Volatility
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
The Generation of Textual Entailment with NLML in an Intelligent Dialogue system for Language Learning CSIEC

This research report introduces the generation of textual entailment within the project CSIEC (Computer Simulation in Educational Communication), an interactive web-based human-computer dialogue system with natural language for English instruction. The generation of textual entailment (GTE) is critical to the further improvement of CSIEC project. Up to now we have found few literatures related with GTE. Simulating the process that a human being learns English as a foreign language we explore our naive approach to tackle the GTE problem and its algorithm within the framework of CSIEC, i.e. rule annotation in NLML, pattern recognition (matching), and entailment transformation. The time and space complexity of our algorithm is tested with some entailment examples. Further works include the rules annotation based on the English textbooks and a GUI interface for normal users to edit the entailment rules.

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Supplemental Table 1-9 and supplemental Figure 1-12 from Long Noncoding RNA &lt;i&gt;GCASPC&lt;/i&gt;, a Target of miR-17-3p, Negatively Regulates Pyruvate Carboxylase–Dependent Cell Proliferation in Gallbladder Cancer

&lt;p&gt;Supplemental Table 1-9. Clinical characteristics of 5 GBC patients used for lncRNA array (Table 1). Clinicopathological characterisitcs of 42 GBC patients (Cohort 1) (Table 2). Clinicopathological characterisitcs of 89 GBC patients (Cohort 2) (Table 3). Correlation between GCASPC expression and GBC clinicopathological characteristics in 42 patients (Cohort 1) (Table 4). Univariate and multivariate analyses of OS in 89 GBC patients by Cox regression analysis (Table 5). Proteins in the three bands specific to GCASPC identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (Table 6). miRNAs binding sites of GCASPC by MirTarget2 (Table 7). Information on antibodies used for correlation analysis (Table 8). Primer sequence used in this study (Table 9). supplemental Figure 1-12. Expression levels of 10 lncRNAs by qRT-PCR in 15 GBC tissues and paired non-tumor tissues (Figure 1). Expression levels of 8 mRNAs by qRT-PCR in 15 GBC tissues and paired non-tumor tissues (Figure 2). Molecular characteristics of GCASPC (Figure 3). Nucleotide sequence of the full-length human GCASPC gene (Figure 4). GCASPC has no coding capability (Figure 5). The expression level of GCASPC in gallbladder cancer cells (Figure 6). Manipulation of GCASPC expression level (Figure 7). Anti-proliferative activity of GCASPC (Figure 8). GCASPC acts in trans (Figure 9). The effect of GCASPC on the protein, activity and mRNA levels of PC (Figure 10). GCASPC destabilizes PC protein (Figure 11). GCASPC directly binds to miR-17-3p (Figure 12).&lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Miniature-paintiDg Of about half of the collection. Hamza-Nama, India 16th c. Colour transparencies

Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Handschriften-, Autographen-und NachlassSammlung Josefsplaa 1, 1015 Vienna 1 Tel.: +43 1 534100. Fax: +43 1 53410280.Year when estabHshed The collection of Islamic documents was started already in the 16th c.

Topic: Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Experimental Investigations on the Influence of the Concentration of Polyacrylamide Solutions on Elongational Flow Behavior

Information about the elongational flow behavior of dilute polymer solutions was obtained, which allows conclusions to be formulated about the extension of polymers and the elastic characteristics of such systems. It is shown that dilute polyacrylamide solutions, which show Newtonian behavior concerning the shear viscosity, can show elastic properties in elongational flow experiments.

Topic: Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Subfield: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Field: Chemical Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Clinico-pathological correlations of bilateral femoral neck fractures in a 13-year-old girl

A fatal case of bilateral simultaneous femoral neck fractures in a 13-year-old girl was reported. Post-mortem and histological examinations showed that avascular necrosis was not inevitable even in grossly displaced fractures. Fixation in valgus should be avoided in order to preserve the remaining inferior retinaculum.

Topic: Bone fractures and treatments
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume II, American Theatre: Sept. 3, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; European Theatre: Aug. 11, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; American Theatre: Nov. 1, 1775–Dec. 7, 1775. <i>William Bell Clark</i> Editor. With A Foreword By <i>Lyndon Johnson B.</i> and an introduction by <i>Ernest McNeill Eller</i>. (Washington, D. C: Navy Department. 1966. Pp. xliii, 1463. $8.50.)

Journal Article Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume II, American Theatre: Sept. 3, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; European Theatre: Aug. 11, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; American Theatre: Nov. 1, 1775–Dec. 7, 1775. William Bell Clark Editor. With A Foreword By Lyndon Johnson B. and an introduction by Ernest McNeill Eller. (Washington, D. C: Navy Department. 1966. Pp. xliii, 1463. $8.50.) Get access Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume II, American Theatre: Sept. 3, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; European Theatre: Aug. 11, 1775–Oct. 31, 1775; American Theatre: Nov. 1, 1775–Dec. 7, 1775. Clark William Bell Editor. With A Foreword By Johnson Lyndon B. and an introduction by Ernest McNeill Eller. (Washington, D. C: Navy Department. 1966. Pp. xliii, 1463. $8.50.) George Athan Billias George Athan Billias Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 73, Issue 1, October 1967, Pages 216–217, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/73.1.216 Published: 01 October 1967

Topic: American Constitutional Law and Politics
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Dermal Delivery of the High-Molecular-Weight Drug Tacrolimus by Means of Polyglycerol-Based Nanogels

Polyglycerol-based thermoresponsive nanogels (tNGs) have been shown to have excellent skin hydration properties and to be valuable delivery systems for sustained release of drugs into skin. In this study, we compared the skin penetration of tacrolimus formulated in tNGs with a commercial 0.1% tacrolimus ointment. The penetration of the drug was investigated in ex vivo abdominal and breast skin, while different methods for skin barrier disruption were investigated to improve skin permeability or simulate inflammatory conditions with compromised skin barrier. The amount of penetrated tacrolimus was measured in skin extracts by liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), whereas the inflammatory markers IL-6 and IL-8 were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Higher amounts of tacrolimus penetrated in breast as compared to abdominal skin or in barrier-disrupted as compared to intact skin, confirming that the stratum corneum is the main barrier for tacrolimus skin penetration. The anti-proliferative effect of the penetrated drug was measured in skin tissue/Jurkat cells co-cultures. Interestingly, tNGs exhibited similar anti-proliferative effects as the 0.1% tacrolimus ointment. We conclude that polyglycerol-based nanogels represent an interesting alternative to paraffin-based formulations for the treatment of inflammatory skin conditions.

Topic: Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
Subfield: Pharmaceutical Science
Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Domain: Life Sciences
<i>BRAF</i> inhibition with concomitant tumor treating fields for a multiply progressive pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas can be very resistant to treatment if they progress after standard therapy with surgery and radiation. We present the case of a patient with a multiply recurrent pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma which demonstrated a sustained partial response to a combination regimen of the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib and tumor treating fields. The regimen proved tolerable and efficacious in this case.

Topic: Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Power Saving Approaches in 2-hop Relaying Cellular Networks

This paper discusses various approaches to save power in relay-based cellular networks. We introduce an optimization method based on the Hungarian assignment problem to globally minimize the power-based allocation of relays. We compare this approach with the greedy approach of choosing a relay. We introduce another approach based on the concept of intelligent relays. Here, based on the expected power values of mobiles at the relay's location, the relay chooses to carry call for a mobile. We show that this approach introduces less intra-cell interference

Topic: Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences