jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Undergraduate students’ perceptions on academic advising in Eritrean higher education: A case study of Eritrea Institute of Technology

Academic advising is an essential service in facilitating students' educational and personal goals at higher education institutions.It guides students with the institutional policies and procedures.It fosters students' interaction with academic advisors to exchange information about academic matters and future goals.This study examines undergraduate students' perspectives on academic advising at Eritrea Institute of Technology.The study also identifies some challenges concerning academic advising.Using semi-structured interview, the findings revealed that the experiences of undergraduate students on academic advising is characterized by infrequent advisee-advisor communication.However, it serves as bridge to other offices, offer information and motivate students for better outcomes.In addition, the study found that lack of close contacts, advisor's lack of follow-ups, and advisee shyness were some of the challenges identified related to academic advising.Despite its small scale, the study contributes in filling the research gap on academic advising in Eritrean higher education and enhancing the literature on the subject.In order to broaden our understanding on this area, further study is needed from the faculty members' perspectives and the voices from other Eritrean higher education institutions.

Topic: Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Nutritional assessment of asylum seekers' children in The Netherlands

De studies in dit proefschrift beschrijven de groei en voedingsstatus van 2 tot 12 jarige asielzoekerskinderen in Nederland afkomstig uit Afrika, Oost Europa en Centraal Azië. Het is aannemelijk dat asielzoekers hun voedingsgewoonte veranderen afhankelijk van eigen culturele achtergrond, bekendheid met lokale voedingsproducten en richtlijnen, en de prijs van voedingsmiddelen. Het was onbekend of de voedingsgewoonten van asielzoekers in Nederland een risico betekenen voor adequate voeding en groei van hun kinderen. De groei van asielzoekers’ kinderen bleek adequaat geëvalueerd te kunnen worden met de Nederlandse groeicurves. Het percentage kinderen met overgewicht en obesitas nam tijdens het verblijf in Nederland toe van 15 tot 21%. Vierentwintig procent van de kinderen had een vetinname hoger dan de maximale aanbevolen hoeveelheid. Kinderen uit Oost Europa hadden de meest ongunstige vet- en koolhydraatinname. De micronutriënt-inname was lager dan 80% van de aanbevolen dagelijkse hoeveelheden voor calcium, ijzer, vitamine A en vitamine D in respectievelijk 42%, 49%, 45% en 80% van de kinderen. De prevalentie van thallasemie, ijzerdeficiëntie en ijzergebreksanemie was 6%, 16% en 4% respectievelijk. IJzerdeficiëntie werd het meest gevonden bij kinderen onder de 6 jaar en bij kinderen uit Afrika. In de lente bleken veel kinderen biochemisch aanwijzingen te hebben voor ernstig (13%) of mild (42%) tekort aan vitamine D. Bij Afrikaanse kinderen werd deze insufficiënte vitamine D status niet volledig genormaliseerd door zonblootstelling in de Nederlandse zomer. Asielzoekerskinderen in Nederland lopen een hoog risico op ongunstige voedingsgewoontes en op tekorten aan belangrijke micronutriënten. Vroegtijdige onderkenning van subklinische voedingsdeficiënties, preventieve voedingsvoorlichting en zonodig provisie van supplementen aan asielzoekerskinderen lijken gerechtvaardigd.

Topic: Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Targeting Cleavage of C-Terminal Fragment of Cytoskeletal Filamin A in Cancers

Human cancers express altered levels of actin-binding cytoskeletal filamin A (FLNA) protein. FLNA in mammals consists of an actin-binding domain at its N-terminus that is followed by 24 immunoglobulin-like repeat modules interrupted by two hinge regions between repeats 15–16 and 23–24. Cleavage of these hinge regions produces a naturally occurring C-terminal 90 kDa fragment of FLNA (FLNACT) that physically interacts with multiple proteins with diverse functions. This cleavage leads to actin cytoskeleton remodeling, which in turn contributes to cellular signaling, nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of transcriptional factors and nuclear receptors, and regulation of their transcriptional activities that are important for initiation and progression of cancers. Therefore, recent studies have proposed blocking FLNA cleavage as a means of cancer therapy. Here, we update how FLNA cleavage has been targeted by different approaches and their potential implications for future treatment of human cancers.

Topic: Nuclear Structure and Function
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
The Evolution of a German Teleradiology System

This paper describes the evolution of a german teleradiology system. The development started from simple image file transfer, continued with a dedicated teleradiology system and ended up with a general radiology workstation with teleradiology features. The main features, advantages and drawbacks of the different generations are described. The own developments are compared with developments at other places. The influence by standards is also included in this investigation. The latest systems are mainly used by the radiologists and the image transfer for scientific cooperation is nowadays just one of several application fields of teleradiology.

Topic: Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Adenomas Arising in Barrett’s Esophagus

Three cases of the unusual esophageal adenoma are described. The patients included two men and one woman, with a mean age of 61 years, who presented with dysphagia or heartburn. Histologically, the esophageal adenomas were composed of dysplastic epithelium in a polypoid configuration, similar to adenomas elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract. All three adenomas arose within Barrett's esophagus (columnar epithelium-lined distal esophagus), and dysplastic Barrett's mucosa was found in the adjacent mucosa of each case. Critical review of the literature identified three additional cases; similar clinicopathologic features were described. Esophageal adenomas are a complication of Barrett's esophagus and are best considered as macroscopic variants of epithelial dysplasia rather than as isolated adenomatous polyps. As such, they likely represent premalignant lesions.

Topic: Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The New Democratic Revolution in Music during the Play Experience of Ideological and Political Education Function

After a deep investigation on the maximum terms space of the clause set, the concept of the partial maximum terms space of the clause set, which the maximum terms of the clause set decomposed, is brought forward.By investigating the extension rule, this paper introduces the concept of the satisfiability and the unsatisfiability of the partial maximum terms space, and gives an algorithm determining the satisfiability of a partial space of the maximum terms -algorithm PSER (Partial Semi-Extension Rule).Then, the TP problem is decomposed into several sub-problems independent of each other, which can be solved by the given parallel computing method PPSER (Parallel Partial Semi-Extension Rule).

Topic: Ideological and Political Education
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
POS-718 IMPACT OF INITIAL STEROID RESPONSE ON TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN WITH STEROID RESISTANT NEPHROTIC SYNDROME

Limited data suggest that children with SRNS who were initially steroid sensitive (ISS) have an increased risk of recurrence post transplantation. ISS may be a proxy for those with circulating factor disease. There are no data on risk of transplant loss stratified by ISS.

Topic: Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
Subfield: Nephrology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
J&q'+ p'p- and B+J/v,yf Cross Sections

This paper presents a measurement of J/$,$J’ differential cross sections in pp collisions at fi = 1.8 TeV. The cross sections are measured above 4 GeV/c in the central region (IqI < 0.6) using the dimuon decay channel. The fraction of events from B decays is measured, and used to calculate b quark cross sections and direct J/JI,$’ cross sections. The direct cross sections for the I/J’ are found to be more than an order of magnitude above theoretical expectations.

Topic: High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Cu II -exchanged montmorillonite K10 clay-catalyzed direct carboxylation of terminal alkynes with carbon dioxide

A new, simple and straight-forward protocol for direct carboxylation of terminal alkynes has been developed using Cu-montmorillonite K10 clay as a heterogeneous catalyst and CO2 as the C1 carbon feedstock. Also coupling of terminal alkynes with CO2 (1 atm) in the presence of alkyl halides has been achieved under the same reaction conditions, thereby providing access to a variety of functionalized alkyl-2-alkynoates in high yields.

Topic: Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
Subfield: Process Chemistry and Technology
Field: Chemical Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Abstract 212: Hydrogen Peroxide Acutely Stimulates Cardiogenic Gene Expression in Cardiac Progenitor Cells

Following acute myocardial infarction, billions of myocytes are lost to cell death. The damage is regional and lost cells are replaced with a collagen scar. One potential therapy to delay or prevent progression into heart failure is regeneration of the damaged myocardium through cell therapy with cardiac progenitor cells (CPC). Reactive oxygen species, specifically hydrogen peroxide, elicit varying responses from different stem/progenitor cells. In the present studies, we sought to determine the effect of acute H2O2 treatment on CPC survival and differentiation. CPCs were isolated and cultured with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) to retain their stem-like qualities. CPCs were allowed to differentiate in the absence of LIF for up to 5 days + H2O2. H2O2 (100μM) significantly increased expression of the smooth muscle marker, alpha smooth muscle actin (αSM) by Day 2 as compared to time-matched controls (Ctl: 1.8+1.3 vs 100 μM: 8.5+1.1; p&lt;0.001; N=3). We also observed a trend for an increase in smooth muscle 22 alpha (SM 22α) gene expression by Day 2. Interestingly, by Day 5 the stimulatory effect of 100 μM H2O2 treatment on α SM and SM 22α was reversed and significantly decreased compared to Day 2 (D5: α SM: 0.43+0.05, SM 22α: 0.41+0.2 vs. D2: SM 22α: 10.58+2.3; p&lt;0.01; N=3-4). Evaluation of the endothelial marker VEGFR-2 (Flk-1) showed a trend for an increase in gene expression by Day 2 following 100 μM H2O2 treatment compared to the time-matched control. We also observed an anti-apoptotic effect on CPCs following serum removal, in which 2 days of 100μM H2O2 pretreatment lead to approximately a 55% decrease in cell death compared to untreated CPCs (Ctl: 19.1+2.4 vs 100 μM: 10.5+1.7; p&lt;0.05; N=3-4). The protective effect of the H2O2 pretreatment could be attributed to an increase in anti-oxidative enzymatic capacity in CPCs. There was a trend for an increase in catalase gene expression. In conclusion, our results showed that acute H2O2 preconditioning exerted a stimulatory effect on smooth muscle gene expression and an anti-apoptotic effect compared to time-matched Control CPCs. Furthermore, acute H2O2 preconditioning may aid in directing CPC differentiation towards a vascular phenotype and angiogenesis in the infarcted myocardium, which may prevent or delay heart failure.

Topic: Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion
Subfield: Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Financial Crime and its Implications on Nigeria’s Social Image

Financial crime has eaten deep into the fiber of Nigeria’s social status. A country is economically, socially and environmentally secured when it financial crimes level is at barest minimum. In spite of government efforts to reduce financial crimes through it established agencies, not much has been achieved as the trend of crime in Nigeria sporadically increased. This review explored the social effects of financial crime in the light of recent financial insecurity experienced in the country with the primary aim of exploring its causes and possible ways of controlling the menace in Nigeria. The study observed among others that the rise in the rate of financial Crime earned Nigeria disputable image both locally and internationally, and that vulnerability of institution's internal structure and rule of law could decoy financial crime tendencies. Therefore, the security of territorial integrity and effective resources' control measures in enhancing the growth and dignity of Nigeria’s social, economic and political image should be taken much more seriously than before by all stakeholders.

Topic: Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis and Characterization of 7,16‐Dinicotinoyl‐ and 7,16‐ Diisonicotinoyltetraaza(14)annulene and Their Nickel(II) and Copper(II) Complexes.

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.

Topic: Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Stability of rotating magnetic field pinch

Note: IVth European Conference on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Physics, Rome 31 aout - 4 septembre 1970 Reference CRPP-CONF-1970-004 Record created on 2008-05-13, modified on 2017-05-12

Topic: Magnetic confinement fusion research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Hordeum vulgare L. convar. vulgare var. hybernum Viborg, HOR 544

PGRFA accession of IPK Gatersleben Plant Genetic Resource Taxon: Hordeum vulgare L. convar. vulgare var. hybernum Viborg Accession number: HOR 544 Conserved by: DEU146 Acquisition: 1946 Origin country: TUR Biological status: Traditional cultivar/landrace MLS status: Included AEGIS status: Included Historic: No

Topic: Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
EScope: Effective Event Validation for IoT Systems Based on State Correlation

Typical Internet of Things (IoT) systems are event-driven platforms, in which smart sensing devices sense or subscribe to events (device state changes), and react according to the preconfigured trigger-action logic, as known as, automation rules. "Events" are essential elements to perform automatic control in an IoT system. However, events are not always trustworthy. Sensing fake event notifications injected by attackers (called event spoofing attack) can trigger sensitive actions through automation rules without involving authorized users. Existing solutions verify events via "event fingerprints" extracted by surrounding sensors. However, if a system has homogeneous sensors that have strong correlations among them, traditional threshold-based methods may cause information redundancy and noise amplification, consequently, decreasing the checking accuracy. Aiming at this, in this paper, we propose "EScope" , an effective event validation approach to check the authenticity of system events based on device state correlation. EScope selects informative and representative sensors using an Neural-Network-based (NN-based) sensor selection component and extracts a verification sensor set for event validation. We evaluate our approach using an existing dataset provided by Peeves. The experiment results demonstrate that EScope achieves an average 67% sensor amount reduction on 22 events compared with the existing work, and increases the event spoofing detection accuracy.

Topic: Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
The introduction of Taiwan's automatic computer time service

A PC-based system that controls up to 8 lines, measures the delay and transmits an ASCII time-code has been built. It will connect to any modem at speeds from 1200 bits/s to 9600 bits/s using standard protocols. The fluctuation of total delay is less then 0.5 ms. That is, we can synchronize the time system of the whole Taiwan island via the telephone network with an accuracy of 0.5 ms if we can measure the path delay of our telephone system.

Topic: Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Ryanodine receptors: next generation of insecticide targets

Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are calcium channels located on the endo(sarco)plasmic reticulum of muscle cells and neurons. They are the largest ion channels known made up of four monomers, each 565kDa in size. Mammals have 3 different RyR isoforms, encoded by different genes, while insects express only one isoform of the receptor, which is only 46% similar (at the amino acid level) to its mammalian counterpart(s). RyRs function to regulate the release of luminal Ca2+ stores into the cell cytoplasm and play a key role in muscle excitation-contraction coupling (ECC). The plant alkaloid ryanodine, from which the receptor derives its name, has been investigated extensively as a potential pest control agent, but to date no commercial products have been identified. Recently two synthetic insecticides selectively&#13;\ntargeting pest RyRs were introduced to the market. These compounds belong to the novel group of insecticides called diamides.&#13;\nIn this study two insect ryanodine receptors were isolated sequenced and cloned into suitable expression vectors from economically important pests M. persicae and P. xylostella to identify protein site of interaction for the novel compounds. Both&#13;\nproteins were expressed in HEK 293 cells and Sf9 cells and analysed for evidence of function using ryanodine binding assays and calcium release imaging. In the case of M. persicae RyR the expression level was not sufficient to obtain any functional&#13;\ndata. However the expression of P. xylostella RyR showed evidence of function in both HEK and Sf9 cells. &#13;\nFunctional studies showed that expressed P. xylostella RyR can bind [3H] ryanodine and respond to various caffeine concentrations; the protein was also sensitive to both diamide compounds. DNA sequencing of RyR from field evolved diamide resistant strains of P. xylostella identified a mutation causing amino acid change G4946E. Functional analysis of modified RyR construct in Sf9 cells showed significantly reduced sensitivity to to both diamide compounds while retaining caffeine and ryanodine sensitivity comparable to the expressed WT form.

Topic: Insect and Pesticide Research
Subfield: Insect Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Effects of Different Types of Verbal Activities on Heart Rate Variability

In the present study, the effects of different types of verbal activities on heart rate variability (HRV) were investigated. ECG signals were recorded in ten volunteers during resting (R), reading silently (RS), reading aloud (RA) and talking freely (TF). Time domain, frequency domain and Poincaré plot measures of HRV were calculated for analyzing. Time domain parameter of pNN50, frequency domain parameter of LF (n.u.) and Poincaré plot parameter of SD1/SD2 were found statistically difference in RA and TF compared to R and RS. The results in this study show that HRV decreased while subjects were reading aloud and talking freely. The results also indicated that verbal activities of reading aloud and talking freely improve the sympathetic nervous activity.

Topic: Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
ACCOUNTING FOR LIVESTOCK: PRINCIPLES OF PALATIAL ADMINISTRATION IN SEALAND I BABYLONIA

The Sealand I dynasty ruled in southern Mesopotamia in the latter part of the Old Babylonian and at the beginning of the Middle Babylonian period. Unprovenanced archival documents dating to the middle years of this dynasty were published by Dalley in 2009. Most of these documents pertain to the palatial administration of resources. The present article aims at establishing a number of accounting principles and practices that were in place at a Sealand I palace. The administration of animal husbandry is examined in depth and its underlying principles of resource management are presented; these suggest that this palace functioned as an extended household providing resources for its own needs and for a number of temples.

Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
New Approach for Hybrid Stenting of the Aortic Arch in Low Weight Children

We present the first case of hybrid stenting of coarctation of the aorta using a retrograde approach through the descending aorta.An 8-month-old, 5.7 kg infant developed severe obstructive lesion of the aortic arch and isthmus after primary correction of the common arterial trunk and surgical management of coarctation of the aorta.As a result, emergency intervention was needed.Taking into the account the low body weight of the patient and the impossibility of using a transfemoral approach, we decided to obtain access through a 6th intercostal space posterolateral thoracotomy to advance a 6-F guiding catheter to the descending aorta via counter-aperture.After implantation of a Valeo stent, there were no complications, and complete elimination of the obstruction was achieved.This case demonstrates that a retrograde hybrid stenting technique via the descending thoracic aorta for aortic isthmus and arch obstruction produces good anatomical and hemodynamic results and can be applied in cases with no other alternative.

Topic: Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Crystal and molecular structure of sceletium alkaloid A4 by X-ray analysis

Sceletium Alkaloid A4, (1), C20H24N2O2, isolated from Sceletium namaquense L. Bolus crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P21, with a= 8·33(2), b= 14·74(3), c= 7·18(2)Å, β= 95·04(20)°, and Z= 2. The structure was solved from photographic X-ray data by direct phase-determining methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares calculations to R 0·100 over 1523 observed reflexions. The alkaloid which contains a 2,3-disubstituted pyridine moiety is representative of a third structure variant in Sceletium species.

Topic: Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
Subfield: Organic Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences