jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Identifying academic protective factors in gifted minority students

As the demographics of the United States continue to change rapidly, school psychologists will continue to play a role in meeting the needs of racially and ethnically diverse students. One major concern is the overrepresentation of certain ethnic minority groups (e.g., Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American) in special education, dropout rates, and school discipline and the underrepresentation of those same groups in gifted education programs. The purpose of the current study was to find what factors may be contributing to the academic success of gifted Black/African American students. The researcher conducted one on one interviews with nine Black/African American high school students who were identified as gifted in elementary school. The researcher asked questions about the participants’ early and current school experiences, experiences while enrolled in the gifted program, and personal and environmental factors that contributed to their success. The participants’ responses were transcribed and coded for common themes. The results suggested that students in the study were high achieving, had a lot of parental and teacher support, had hardworking parents and other adults in their homes, had a strong desire to go to college, and had a number of personality characteristics that contributed to their success. Implications for practice include school psychologists playing a role in fostering a school atmosphere that creates success for Black/African American students.

Topic: Education Discipline and Inequality
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
A Model of Outbound Client Traffic on The Tor Anonymity Netw

Tor is a popular low latency anonymity system. It works by routing web traffic through a series of relays operated by volunteers across the globe. Academic research on Tor frequently involves proposing new attacks on the network, creating defenses against these attacks, and designing more efficient methods for routing traffic. For ethical and practical reasons, it is often necessary to perform this research on a simulated version of the live Tor network. ExperimenTor and Shadow are two simulation environments that realistically model many aspects of the extant network. Both of these environments, however, only offer crude models of the outgoing web traffic generated by actual Tor users. In this thesis, we seek to improve on these models by collecting traffic data from the live network, clustering it into groups with similar behavior, then training a Hidden Markov Model on each cluster.

Topic: Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Birthmothers and Subsequent Children: The Role of Personality Traits and Attachment History

Fifty-five women who had surrendered their first child for adoption and went on to have subsequent children, and 32 women who had surrendered their first child for adoption and did not have more children were given the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and the Attachment History Questionnaire. Women who had more children scored significantly higher on the Extroversion scale of the NEO-PI-R. Women who did not have more children were more apt to never marry and, when there was marriage, more apt to divorce. Women who had more children reported more pressure from family to relinquish their child. Attachment History Questionnaire results showed women who did not have more children reported "Friends" as significant support figures more often than women who did have more children.

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) isolated from urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are amongst the most frequent causes of urinary tract infections. We report a systematic review and meta-analysis of virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance of UPEC isolated from urinary tract infections. Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed using PRISMA guidelines (Research Registry ref. 5874). Data were extracted from PubMed/MEDLINE and ScienceDirect databases for studies published from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2019. Studies reporting antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors of UPEC isolated in confirmed urinary tract infections (≥10 5 CFU/ml) were eligible. Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors of UPEC were estimated using random-effects meta-analysis model. Estimates with 95% confidence intervals, I-square ( I 2 ) statistic, and Cochran's Q test were computed using the score statistic and the exact binomial method by incorporating the Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation of proportions. Results Our search returned 2504 hits, of which 13 studies were included in the meta-analysis, totalling 1888 UPEC isolates. Highest antimicrobial resistance rates were observed among the antibiotic class of tetracycline in 69.1% (498/721), followed by sulphonamides in 59.3% (1119/1888), quinolones in 49.4% (1956/3956), and beta-lactams in 36.9% (4410/11964). Among beta-lactams, high resistance was observed in aminopenicillins in 74.3% (1157/1557) and first generation cephalosporins in 38.8% (370/953). Meanwhile, virulence factors with highest prevalence were immune suppressors (54.1%) followed by adhesins (45.9%). Taken individually, the most observed virulence genes were shiA (92.1%), CSH (80.0%), fimH/MSHA (75.3%), traT (75.1%), sisA (72.2%), iucD (65.7%), iutA (61.8%), kpsMTII (60.6%), and PAI (55.2%). Conclusions The increased antibiotic resistance of UPEC isolates was demonstrated and suggested a need for reassessment of empirical therapies in urinary tract infections treatment caused by this pathogen. In addition, this pathotype exhibited diverse surface and secreted virulence factors.

Topic: Escherichia coli research studies
Subfield: Endocrinology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Augmentation of Effective Thermal Gain of Solar Air Heater using a Novel Turbulator Design- A CFD Study

Augmentation of thermal performance of solar air heater has been the focus of many researchers over the last decades and the use of turbulator or artificial roughness to provide increased fluid mixing in order to achieve augmented heat transfer has been a widely accepted technique. This work aims to evaluate the effect of a novel turbulator design on the effective thermal performance of solar air heater using the methodology of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A two dimensional CFD analysis is carried out to evaluate the thermal characteristics of solar air heater at various flow Reynolds number conditions for different geometric parameters of the proposed turbulator design. The pitch of the turbulator is varied as 10mm, 20mm, 30mm, 40mm and 50mm for a fixed turbulator height of 2 mm. The Reynolds number is varied from 6,000 to 27,000. The analysis shows that the lower values of pitch produces higher improvement in heat transfer. The maximum increase in Nusselt number is found to be about 2.98 times as compared to the base model for the flow Reynolds number of about 6000. The highest increase in the friction factor is found to be about 3.05 times relative to the base model. The maximum thermal enhancement factor is found to be about 1.99 for the pitch value of 10 mm at a flow Reynolds number of about 6000.

Topic: Heat Transfer Mechanisms
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Effects of IBA and Putrescine on Root Formation of Olive Cuttings

Summary Semi-hardwood cuttings of olive cv. ‘Tokhmkabki’ (low rooting ability) and cv. ‘Roghani’ (high rooting ability) were obtained from 1-year-old shoots. Cuttings were dipped in 2000, 4000, and 6000 mg·L-1 IBA, 150 or 300 mg·L-1 putrescine and their combination before rooting in greenhouse equipped with an automatic mist system. Rooting ability was evaluated four months aft er planting for each treatment. Satisfactory rooting occurred when IBA was applied with putrescine, whereas cuttings treated with IBA or putrescine alone showed a limited capacity of rooting in both cultivars. Th e greatest rooting percentage for cv. ‘Roghani’ was detected when IBA at 4000 mg∙L-1 + putrescine 300 at mg∙L-1, IBA at 4000 mg∙L-1 + putrescine at 150 mg∙L-1 were applied. For cv. ‘Tokhmkabki’ the most successful treatments were IBA at 6000

Topic: Plant tissue culture and regeneration
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Movie Neoneurus

The oviposition behaviour of four ant parasitoids was observed and filmed for the first time. The movies are available from YouTube (search for Elasmosoma, Hybrizon, Kollasmosoma and Neoneurus). Two of the observed species (Neoneurus vesculus sp. n. and Kollasmosoma sentum sp. n.) are new to science. A third species (Neoneurus recticalcar sp. n.) is described from Slovakia and Norway. Keys to the Palaearctic species of the genera Neoneurus and Kollasmosoma are added.

Topic: Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Los Angeles city master plan, 1992-01-17

Revised edition of the City of Los Angeles's Emergency Operations Master Plan and Procedures Manual, 1992 January 17. PART OF SERIES: The series contains materials related to the tactical planning measures developed by the LAPD to manage unusual occurrences, emergencies, and instances of civil disorder. Included are manuals, training materials, and standing plans developed prior to the riots; activities logs and reports maintained during the riots; and after-action reports and analyses which evaluate the effectiveness of these planning measures in the months following the riots.

Topic: Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Authoritarian legacies, transitional justice and state crisis in Portugal's democratization

The nature of the Portuguese transition to democracy and the consequent state crises created a 'window of opportunity' in which the 'reaction to the past' was much stronger in Portugal than in the other Southern European transitions. The transition's powerful dynamic in itself served to constitute a legacy for the consolidation of democracy. This article analyses how the nature of the transition affected the legacy of authoritarianism superseding and transmuting that regime's impact on the 'quality' of Portugal's democracy, and illustrating how the majority of 'authoritarian legacies' were more a result of the nature of the transition than they were of the authoritarian regime.

Topic: French Historical and Cultural Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Progress in Bulk 4H SiC Crystal Growth for 150 mm Wafer Production

The thermoelastic stress, mechanical properties and defect content of bulk 4H n-type SiC crystals were investigated following adjustments to the PVT growth cell configuration that led to a 40% increase in growth rate. The resulting 150 mm wafers were compared with wafers produced from a control process in terms of wafer bow and warp, and dislocation density. Wafer shape was found to be comparable among the processes, indicating minimal impact on internal stress. Threading edge and threading screw dislocation densities increased and decreased, respectively, while basal plane dislocation densities were unaffected by the increase in growth rate. Loss of wafer planar stability was observed in certain cases. The elastic modulus was measured to be in the range of approximately 420-450 GPa for selected stable and unstable wafers, and was found to correspond to resistivity.

Topic: Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Automatic Classification of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Images – A Transfer-Learning Approach to Detect Wound Maceration

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a chronic wound and a common diabetic complication as 2% – 6% of diabetic patients witness the onset thereof. The DFU can lead to severe health threats such as infection and lower leg amputations, Coordination of interdisciplinary wound care requires well-written but time-consuming wound documentation. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems lend themselves to be tested to extract information from wound images, e.g. maceration, to fill the wound documentation. A convolutional neural network was therefore trained on 326 augmented DFU images to distinguish macerated from unmacerated wounds. The system was validated on 108 unaugmented images. The classification system achieved a recall of 0.69 and a precision of 0.67. The overall accuracy was 0.69. The results show that AI systems can classify DFU images for macerations and that those systems could support clinicians with data entry. However, the validation statistics should be further improved for use in real clinical settings. In summary, this paper can contribute to the development of methods to automatic wound documentation.

Topic: Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Regulation of Cholera Toxin Expression

This chapter focuses on composition and molecular mechanism of control of ToxR regulon. Early studies of the in vitro production of cholera toxin defined certain conditions that increased overall levels of cholera toxin. Early work on the genetics of cholera toxin expression relied heavily on the use of chemical mutagenesis to produce mutants altered in toxinogenesis. The gene product is a 32-kDa integral inner membrane protein. The amino-terminal two-thirds of the protein is cytoplasmic, and the carboxyterminal one-third is periplasmic. ToxR-alkaline phosphatase fusions that replaced the majority of the periplasmic domain no longer responded to high osmolality. The cytoplasmic portion of ToxR contains a region of homology to OmpR. The function of this region has been characterized by taking advantage of this homology to indicate which amino acid residues may be important for function. Amino acid substitution of glutamic acid 51 with lysine resulted in inactive protein that was dominant over wild type. Vibrio cholerae possesses an array of virulence factors that are highly regulated. Among the factors necessary for a successful infection are cholera toxin, the toxin-coregulated pilus, and other accessory colonization factors.

Topic: Vibrio bacteria research studies
Subfield: Endocrinology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Combined selection of progeny in crop breeding using best linear unbiased prediction

Viana, J. M. S., Faria, V. R., Fonseca e Silva, F. and Vilela de Resende, M. D. 2012. Combined selection of progeny in crop breeding using best linear unbiased prediction. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 553–562. Combined selection is an important strategy in crop breeding. As the classical index does not consider pedigree information, the objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) methodology for combined selection of progeny. We analyzed expansion volume (EV) and grain yield of parents and inbred and non-inbred progeny from the popcorn population Viçosa. The BLUP analyses, single-trait and of the same character measured in parents and progeny (combined parent-family) were performed using the ASReml software. Because the experiments were balanced, the estimates of the additive variance from the BLUP and least squares analyses were generally equivalent. The accuracies of the BLUP analyses do not clearly establish the superior technique. The accuracy of the classical index tended to be higher than that obtained from BLUP analyses. There was equivalence between BLUP and least squares analyses relative to half-sib and inbred progeny selection, and superiority of the combined parent-family BLUP index for full-sib selection. The BLUP analyses also differed from the least squares analysis on the coincidence of selected parents. The populations obtained by selection based on BLUP of breeding values presented a lower effective size.

Topic: Genetics and Plant Breeding
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Determination of corona, LTE, and NLTE regimes of optically thin carbon plasmas

Abstract In this work is accomplished the determination of the corona, local and non-local thermodynamic equilibrium regimes for optically thin carbon plasmas in steady state, in terms of the plasma density and temperature using the ABAKO code. The determination is made through the analysis of the plasma average ionization and ion and level populations. The results are compared whit those obtained applying Griem's criterion. Finally, it is made a brief analysis of the effects of the calculation of level populations assuming different plasma regimes in radiative properties, such as emissivities and opacities.

Topic: Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Predicting the Academic Achievement of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students From Individual, Household, Communication, and Educational Factors

Research suggests that the academic achievement of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is the result of a complex interplay of many factors. These factors include characteristics of the students (e.g., hearing thresholds, language fluencies, mode of communication, and communication functioning), characteristics of their family environments (e.g., parent education level, socioeconomic status), and experiences inside and outside school (e.g., school placement, having been retained at grade level). This paper examines the relative importance of such characteristics to U.S. DHH secondary students’ academic achievement as indicated by the Woodcock-Johnson III subtests in passage comprehension, mathematics calculation, science, and social studies. Data were obtained for approximately 500 DHH secondary students who had attended regular secondary schools or state-sponsored special schools designed for DHH students. Across all subject areas, having attended regular secondary schools and having better spoken language were associated with higher test scores. Significant negative predictors of achievement varied by type of subtest but included having an additional diagnosis of a learning disability, having a mild hearing loss, and being African American or Hispanic. The findings have important implications for policy and practice in educating DHH students as well for interpreting previous research.

Topic: Hearing Impairment and Communication
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Investigation of the scanning performance and enhancement of an electrically large array

An existing antenna used in satellite communications is investigated with the goal of improving low angle radiation performance and reducing manufacturing costs. To understand this antenna it is modelled, simulated and verified against existing measurements. This verified model is the basis for further investigation. The antenna is separated into two parts with are individually examined and enhancements are proposed for each. Simulations of the resulting final models show that little by way of improvement in the performance can be obtained but bring several key issues to light. The scanning impedance is of particular importance in such an investigation and a method of determining this impedance is recommended.

Topic: Antenna Design and Analysis
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Bridging the gap of care for chronic pain patients

Aim: Examine the need for multidisciplinary pain management support for primary care providers at a provider based ambulatory care setting in western Montana. Background: Although chronic pain ailments make up a significant portion of primary care provider visits, many providers do not feel equipped to manage nonmalignant chronic pain and often fear legal consequences of opioid prescribing. With gaps in pain specialist availability, provider comfort, and geographical and financial challenges, Telemedicine may help alleviate provider stress through the delivery of emotional support and structured case discussion and consultation, assisting providers with communication strategies, mental health referrals, and difficult decision-making surrounding opioid prescribing Method: Twenty six primary care providers received an electronic questionnaire to assess their pain management needs and views regarding the training, challenges, expectations, and impact of implementing Telehealth at their current organization. Results: Five out of twenty six providers participated in the project. Eighty percent (80% 'n=4') of providers said they would use Telehealth for pain management if it was available to them, identifying interprofessional collaborative practice, initial evaluation and treatment plan recommendation, ongoing treatments, and education as the most useful telehealth applications. Conclusion: Chronic pain management is a problem for primary care providers. Future research on small, rural organizations using telehealth to meet their patients' pain management needs and additional needs assessments are needed to gain insight into providers engagement levels prior to moving forward with implementation of a Telehealth program at this organization to ensure a successful implementation.

Topic: Pain Management and Opioid Use
Subfield: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences