jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The impact of restorative justice circles used during experiential outdoor education on alternative students' feelings of connectedness

This capstone project explores the use of Restorative Justice Circles on building feelings of connectedness when used in experiential outdoor education. The paper explores current research on Restorative Justice Circles and summarizes how Circles are being used in schools. Eleven students, labeled at-risk by their district, are interviewed in-depth about their previous disconnection with school, peers, and teachers. Students then describe the Circle process that was used during the summer school program and the feelings that they had about Circle and connectedness. The author also interviews students about Restorative Justice Circles and their opinions about whether or not Circle restores justice in any way. The results of the study show that Restorative Justice Circles do impact feelings of connectedness when used properly, but have limits on restoring justice as a whole.

Topic: Outdoor and Experiential Education
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
UNRAVELING MARKET EFFICIENCY THROUGH BANK STOCK RETURNS INSIGHTS FROM SYNDICATED LOAN ANNOUNCEMENTS IN BORSA ISTANBUL

This study explores the effect of syndicated loan announcements on the stock returns of banks listed on Borsa Istanbul, utilizing the event study methodology over the 2017–2022 period. Eight publicly traded banks were analyzed to assess abnormal returns (AR), average abnormal returns (AAR), and cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) within an extensive event window. The findings reveal that syndicated loan announcements did not result in statistically significant abnormal returns, indicating a deviation from the semi-strong form of market efficiency in Borsa Istanbul. Unlike previous studies, this research makes an original contribution by focusing specifically on syndicated loan events in an emerging market context, applying a longer observation window and a rigorous empirical setup. By isolating bank-specific stock reactions to syndicated loans, the study enhances the understanding of informational efficiency in developing capital markets. Moreover, it addresses an underexplored topic in Turkish financial literature, offering new insights for investors, policymakers, and academics interested in market behavior and external financing announcements.

Topic: Corporate Finance and Governance
Subfield: Accounting
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Applying dynamic programming to assembly line balancing and sequencing problems

Este trabalho apresenta dois algoritmos de Programação Dinâmica que tratam os problemas Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem (SALBP) e Bin-Packing Problem with Precedence Constraints (BPP-P). Enquanto o primeiro problema já foi longamente explorado, o segundo só foi estudado anteriormente em um único artigo. Para o BPP-P, nossa abordagem é a primeira a utilizar Programação Dinâmica e nós fornecemos uma nova solução ótima que, até a publicação de nosso algoritmo, era desconhecida (duas instâncias do conjunto de testes consagrado pela literatura ainda continuam sem uma resposta ótima). Para ambas variações, nossas implementações conseguem lidar com instâncias pequenas comumente utilizadas na literatura. Em média, tratamos tais instâncias com tempos de execução que vão de milissegundos até poucos minutos. Também apresentamos, para cada algoritmo explicado, uma forma de reduzir o espaço de busca: uma implementação da regra de corte Jackson Dominance Rule e uma aproximação do princípio de utilizar estações preenchidas de maneira ótima proposto por Jackson. Os impactos dessas otimizações são discutidos, medidos e comparados com os algoritmos do estado-da-arte. Observações sobre trabalhos importantes (incluindo trabalhos antigos e algortimos que são o estado-da-arte) e pesquisas são feitas com o intuito de direcionar ao leitor da área mais informações sobre problemas de balanceamento de linhas de montagem (em especial, as variantes SALBP e BPP-P).

Topic: Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Setting a national research agenda in nursing informatics.

An active program of research assures the development and evaluation of nursing informatics solutions to the challenges of contemporary patient care. Experts in nursing informatics research participated in a two-part electronic mail survey of research priorities. Priorities identified included formalization of nursing vocabularies, design and management of databases for nursing information, development of technologies to support nursing practice, use of telecommunications technology in nursing, patient use of information technology, identification of nurses' information needs, and systems modeling and evaluation. Many of these priorities are similar to those advanced in the 1993 US PHS NINR PEP Report on Nursing Informatics. Additionally, the findings suggest the need for greater emphasis on the application of emerging technology to nursing practice problems, and the expansion to consider patients as direct users of information systems.

Topic: Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
Subfield: Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
ChemInform Abstract: The Solid Sulfides of the Rare Earths at High Temperatures

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: Crystal Structures and Properties
Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
High-Rate Nitrification at Low pH in Suspended- and Attached-Biomass Reactors

ABSTRACT This article reports on high-rate nitrification at low pH in biofilm and suspended-biomass reactors by known chemolithotrophic bacteria. In the biofilm reactor, at low pH (4.3 ± 0.1) and low bulk ammonium concentrations (9.3 ± 3.3 mg · liter −1 ), a very high nitrification rate of 5.6 g of N oxidized · liter −1 · day −1 was achieved. The specific nitrification rate (0.55 g of N · g of biomass −1 · day −1 ) was similar to values reported for nitrifying reactors at optimal pH. In the suspended-biomass reactor, the average pH was significantly lower than that in the biofilm reactor (pH 3.8 ± 0.3), and values as low as pH 3.2 were found. In addition, measurements in the suspended-biomass reactor, using isotope-labeled ammonium ( 15 N), showed that in spite of the very low pH, biomass growth occurred with a yield of 0.1 g of biomass · g of N oxidized −1 . Fluorescence in situ hybridization using existing rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes showed that the nitrifying bacteria were from the monophyletic genus Nitrosomonas , suggesting that autotrophic nitrification at low pH is more widespread than previously thought. The results presented in this paper clearly show that autotrophic nitrifying bacteria have the ability to nitrify at a high rate at low pH and in the presence of only a negligible free ammonia concentration, suggesting the presence of an efficient ammonium uptake system and the means to cope with low pH.

Topic: Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Subfield: Pollution
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Proteasome inhibitors blunt myeloma induced osteocyte death targeting autophagy both in vitro and in vivo in multiple myeloma patients

Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized by severe bone destruction. Recently it has been shown that an increased osteocyte death is involved in MM‐induced osteolysis. In this study we show that autophagy rather than apoptosis is involved in MM‐induced osteocyte death and that proteasome inhibitors (PI)s, a class of drugs known to stimulate osteoblast formation, significantly blunted MM‐induced osteocyte and pre‐osteocyte death. PIs also reduced osteocyte death induced by high dose of dexamethasone (DEX) and potentiated the anabolic effect of PTH(1‐34). PIs, such as Bortezomib (BOR), are able to block the autophagic process in osteocytes and pre‐osteocytes, as shown by an increased of the level of the autophagic marker LC3 and a decreased of p62. Moreover, both MM‐induced and DEX‐induced autophagic cell death were blunted by PIs. Transmission electron microscopy and confocal microscopy evaluation confirmed observations. These data were further expanded in vivo by a histological analysis of osteocyte viability on bone biopsies in MM patients. A significant increase in the number of viable osteocytes was demonstrated in patients treated with Bortezomib (BOR)‐based regimen as compared to those treated with other regimen. Our data identify osteocyte autophagy as a potential target in MM bone disease and support the use of PIs to increase osteocyte viability and improve bone integrity in MM patients.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
[An evaluation of parotid gland masses].

Superficial parotidectomy is the minimal surgery for parotid gland masses. If the deep lobe of the gland is involved, total parotidectomy should be performed with preservation of the facial nerve. In malignant tumors, neck dissection and postoperative radiotherapy should be added.

Topic: Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Diagnostic Value of Circulating Progranulin and Its Receptor EphA2 in Predicting the Atheroma Burden in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Background. Progranulin (PGRN) and its potential receptor Eph-receptor tyrosine kinase-type A2 (EphA2) are inflammation-related molecules that present on the atherosclerotic plaques. However, the roles of circulating PGRN and EphA2 in coronary artery disease (CAD) remain unclear. Objective. To study the clinical significance of circulating PGRN and EphA2 levels in Chinese patients undergoing coronary angiography. Methods. Levels of circulating EphA2 fragments and PGRN were examined in 201 consecutive individuals who underwent coronary angiography for suspected CAD in our center from Jan 2020 to Oct 2020. Demographic characteristics, results of biochemical and auxiliary examinations, and other relevant information were collected. The coronary atheroma burden was quantified by the Gensini score and the existence of chronic total occlusion (CTO). Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the risk factors for acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In patients with ACS and SAP, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was generated to detect the accuracy and discriminative ability of levels of EphA2 and PGRN, the Gensini score, and cardiac injury biomarkers as surrogate endpoints for CTO. Results. Circulating EphA2 levels were significantly higher in patients with ACS than in subjects with stable angina pectoris (SAP) or control subjects ( <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"> <a:mi>p</a:mi> <a:mo>&lt;</a:mo> <a:mn>0.001</a:mn> </a:math> ). A positive linear correlation was verified between EphA2 levels and the Gensini score ( <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M2"> <c:mi>r</c:mi> <c:mo>=</c:mo> <c:mn>0.306</c:mn> </c:math> , <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M3"> <e:mi>p</e:mi> <e:mo>&lt;</e:mo> <e:mn>0.001</e:mn> </e:math> ), and negative correlation was detected with the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ( <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M4"> <g:mi>r</g:mi> <g:mo>=</g:mo> <g:mo>−</g:mo> <g:mn>0.405</g:mn> </g:math> , <i:math xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M5"> <i:mi>p</i:mi> <i:mo>&lt;</i:mo> <i:mn>0.001</i:mn> </i:math> ). Both PGRN and EphA2 were positively associated with cardiac injury biomarkers (i.e., NT-proBNP, cTnT, and hs-CRP) ( <k:math xmlns:k="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M6"> <k:mi>p</k:mi> <k:mo>&lt;</k:mo> <k:mn>0.05</k:mn> </k:math> ). The area under the ROC curve of PGRN and EphA2 was 0.604 and 0.686, respectively ( <m:math xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M7"> <m:mi>p</m:mi> <m:mo>&lt;</m:mo> <m:mn>0.01</m:mn> </m:math> ). Conclusions. Higher circulating EphA2 and PGRN levels were detected in patients with ACS than in patients with SAP. Circulating EphA2 and PGRN levels might be diagnostic factors for predicting the atheroma burden in patients with CAD.

Topic: Apelin-related biomedical research
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The analysis of modulation-broadened mode admixed Lorentz magnetic resonance line shapes

A summary is given of the analysis of pure absorptive and pure dispersive Lorentz modulation-broadened line shapes detected at either the first or second harmonic of the modulation frequency. Correction curves are derived and a procedure outlined to enable values of relative intensities, admixture parameters and linewidths of the absorptive component to be determined from modulation-broadened mode admixed Lorentz resonances.

Topic: NMR spectroscopy and applications
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
[The effect of the combined prevention of stomatologic diseases on the quality of the treatment of dental caries and the stability of fillings].

The state of teeth filled with silver amalgam, silidont, 'evicrol' was clinically assessed in 280 schoolchildren which had been earlier subjects to dental caries prevention. The quality of dental care was assessed by 5 scores developed by the Central Stomatological Institute. One to two years after a combined preventive intervention, the state of filling was found unsatisfactory in 11.0 to 11.3% of amalgam-filled teeth, in 15.8-22.7% of silidont- and 4.3-10.8% of 'evicrol'-filled teeth. The respective values were 18.8-26.3% ; 37.9-39.1%; 14.9-23.9% in control groups. The combined prevention of caries was conductive to improved treatment quality which was accounted for by a 1.5 to 2-fold reduction in the rate of disorders in marginal contact with filling material and secondary caries. The electrometric diagnostic technique was used to evaluate the marginal permeability of filling and to diagnose the caries relapses. The technique allowed detection of the initial stages in the state of filling and concealed secondary caries.

Topic: Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments
Subfield: Oral Surgery
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Safety of immunization injections in Africa: not simply a problem of logistics.

In 1995, the WHO Regional Office for Africa launched a logistics project to address the four main areas of immunization logistics: the cold chain, transport, vaccine supply and quality, and the safety of injections in the countries of the region. The impact of this logistic approach on immunization injection safety was evaluated through surveys of injection procedures and an analysis of the injection materials (e.g. sterilizable or disposable syringes) chosen by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and those actually seen to be used. Re-use of injection materials without sterilization, accidental needle-stick injuries among health care workers, and injection-related abscesses in patients were common in countries in the WHO African Region. Few health centres used time-steam saturation-temperature (TST) indicators to check the quality of sterilization and, in many centres, the injection equipment was boiled instead of being steam sterilized. Facilities for the proper disposal of used materials were rarely present. Although the official EPI choice was to use sterilizable equipment, use of a combination of sterilizable and disposable equipment was observed in the field. Unsafe injection practices in these countries were generally due to a failure to integrate nursing practices and public awareness with injection safety issues, and an absence of the influence of EPI managers on health care service delivery. Holistic rather than logistic approaches should be adopted to achieve safe injections in immunization, in the broader context of promoting safe vaccines and safety of all injections.

Topic: Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Hepatocyte nuclear factor‐1β suppresses the stemness and migration of colorectal cancer cells through promoting miR‐200b activity

Abstract The effects of hepatocyte nuclear factors (HNFs) have been established in various tumors; however, the roles of HNF‐1β in colorectal cancer progression are never been found. In the present study, HNF‐1β expression was initially detected in clinical tissue samples and online datasets and HNF‐1β was found to be highly expressed in colorectal cancer tissues. In addition, a positive correlation existed between HNF‐1β expression and the overall survival of patients with colorectal cancer. In vitro and in vivo experiments revealed that HNF‐1β suppressed the stemness and migration of colorectal cancer cells. Combined with microRNAs (miRNAs) based on transcriptome‐sequencing analysis, mechanistic studies showed that HNF‐1β directly bound to miR‐200b promoter and thus promoted miR‐200b expression, this HNF‐1β/miR‐200b resulted in the downregulation of the expression of miR‐200b downstream effectors. Furthermore, HNF‐1β inhibits the stemness and migration of colorectal cancer cells through miR‐200b. This study reveals a novel HNF‐1β/miR‐200b axis responsible for the stemness of colorectal cancer cells.

Topic: MicroRNA in disease regulation
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
The ZZ/WZ signal as a background to ZH/WH (

\nThe WZ/ZZ (VZ) production channels with Z decaying to bottom quarks are one of the less reducible backgrounds for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson search in the same event topology (VH). The study of the VZ signal described here should be considered as a validation of the analysis strategy developed for the VH search in the boosted regime. The 8 TeV data sample including 19.0 fb−1 from the 2012 running period has been analyzed in the Z(μμ, ee, νν)Z and W(μν, eν)Z channels and the presence of the signal has been established with a significance of 7.5σ.\n

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
How Credible Is Trade Union Research? Forty Years of Evidence on the Monopoly–Voice Trade-Off

This article is the second in a series to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ILR Review. The series features articles that analyze the state of research and future directions for important themes this journal has featured over many years of publication. In this article, the authors assess the credibility of research that has tested the theoretical contests between the monopoly and the collective voice model of unions developed by Freeman and Medoff in What Do Unions Do? The authors go beyond prior analyses by examining more than 2,000 estimates that consider the effects of unions on a broad range of organizational and individual outcomes, including productivity, productivity growth, capital investment, profits, and job satisfaction. They advance our understanding of the current empirical findings and credibility of this research by using meta-statistical analysis to evaluate research quality, publication selection bias, statistical power, and heterogeneity. The authors conclude that compared to other areas of economics, research on union effects has lower bias but larger problems of statistical power. They argue that Freeman and Medoff’s monopoly–collective voice model helped produce more credible results, and they suggest ways to reduce the power and heterogeneity problems in existing research.

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Efficient Cluster Server Construction and Management for Service Orientation

현대의 서버 시스템은 대부분의 경우 클러스터 시스템으로 이루어지어 가능한 많은 사용자를 지원할 뿐만 아니라 가능한 많은 어플리케이션을 지원하는 것을 목적으로 하는 서비스 지향 클러스터 시스템이다. 클러스터 시스템 아키텍쳐의 발전으로 자바 프레임웍에 기반한 미들웨어 어프로치가 발전하고 있다. 미들웨어에 의한 방법은 서버 시스템의 성능과 어플리케이션의 활용도를 보장하면서도 서버 시스템 구축을 위한 대부분의 노력을 덜어준다. 본 연구에서는 JMX를 이용하여 클러스터 시스템의 손쉬운 구현과 관리를 달성할 수 있는 새로운 클러스터 시스템을 소개한다. 일단 클러스터 시스템의 구축과 구성단계를 보이며, 어플리케이션과 시스템 양자에 걸쳐서 손쉬운 구축과 확장, 그리고 관리가 미들웨어에 기반한 시스템에서 이루어짐을 보인다. 덧붙여 서비스 지향 클러스터 시스템이 미들웨어에 기반하여 우수한 성능을 보임을 성능 평가 실험 결과를 통하여 검증하였다. 기본적인 성능 평가 결과는 서버의 가용성, 그리고 로드 밸런싱과 스케쥴링 알고리즘의 효율성을 검증하였다. 특히, 우리의 서비스기반 스케줄링 방법이 정상부하시 적재불균형문제와 과부하시의 대처능력에서 타 방법에 비해 우수함을 보였다. Modern server systems are usually composed in the form of cluster systems in order to serve not only as many users but also as many kinds of applications as possible. The progression of the cluster system architecture leads in a middleware approach based on the Java framework. The middleware approach alleviates the efforts for the construction and the management of a server system but still preserves its performance and applications on the server. In this research, we introduce a new clustering scheme for the easy construction and maintenance of a cluster server system with the Java Management Extensions. We first demonstrate the construction and configuration process. Our experiment sets can verify that it is easy to construct, expand and manage a middleware based cluster system as well as the applications which reside on it. In addition, we can achieve reasonable performance on our service oriented clustered system with the help of state-of-the-art middleware. The experimental results of performance demonstration contain the availability of a server, and the effectiveness of load balancing and scheduling mechanisms. Especially, our service oriented scheduling mechanism was shown to successfully manage load imbalance under the normal load and cope with the overloaded situations, compared with other known scheduling mechanisms.

Topic: Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
The Impact of Central Blood Pressure Levels on the Relationship Between Oscillometric and Central Blood Pressure Measurements: A Multicenter Invasive Study

The aim of this study was to investigate impact of central blood pressure ( BP) levels and sex on the difference between central and upper arm oscillometric BP values. Oscillometric arterial BP measurements of 675 patients were simultaneously compared with values measured from the ascending aorta. The patients were divided into 3 groups according to systolic BP levels. The upper arm oscillometric device overestimated systolic BP ( SBP) at low and medium BP levels but it underestimated SBP at high BP level. As for the effect of sex on differences in central and oscillometric BP , SBP was overestimated to a lesser degree in women than in men at low BP levels, but it was more highly underestimated in women than in men at high BP levels. The difference between oscillometric upper arm BP and aortic BP was directly affected by the patient's central BP level. In addition, the difference between central and oscillometric BP was also affected by sex factor.

Topic: Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences