jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
HIGHER EDUCATION - WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? KNOWLEDGE OR EMPLOYABILITY

Appears in: EDULEARN19 Proceedings Publication year: 2019Pages: 166-169ISBN: 978-84-09-12031-4ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2019.0066Conference name: 11th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 1-3 July, 2019Location: Palma, Spain

Topic: Higher Education Learning Practices
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Postmenopausal response to angiotensin II‐induced hypertension is blunted during perimenopause: a study in the accelerated ovarian failure (AOF) model of menopause

A female's risk of developing hypertension (HTN) increases dramatically after menopause. This study aimed to investigate the onset of ANG II‐induced HTN in the AOF model of menopause (VCD model). The AOF model preserves a perimenopausal period in mice, which is increasingly recognized as a critical timeframe for the treatment and prevention of diseases. We hypothesized that ANG II‐infusion would elicit a differential response when administered in peri vs postmenopause and examined the cardiovascular and renal impact. Female VCD treated BL/6 mice (peri and postmenopause) received 800 ng/kg/min ANG II via osmotic mini‐pump for 10 days. ANG II elicited a significant increase in MAP in postmenopausal females (ANG/POST) vs cycling females (C 105 vs ANG 128 vs ANG/POST 143 mmHg, P&lt;0.05). In contrast, there was no difference in MAP in the perimenopause study; ANG II increased MAP in cycling and PERI groups (~126 mmHg). AQP2 protein expression significantly decreased in the renal cortex of ANG/POST mice alone (C 100 vs ANG 98 vs ANG/POST 78%). Renal inflammation, measured by ICAM‐1and F4/80 staining, increased in ANG/POST vs all other groups. Cardiac collagen volume fraction significantly increased in ANG/POST vs ANG (C 0.36 vs ANG 1.36 vs ANG/POST 2.94%). Our data suggests that the perimenopause to menopause transition is a key stage in the loss of a female's protection against developing HTN, and renal and CV complications.

Topic: Endometriosis Research and Treatment
Subfield: Reproductive Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans

Influential perspectives on polarization in the United States imply that partisans will be more willing to degrade democracy when they are ideologically aligned with their own party and negatively oriented toward the opposing party. But psychological accounts of political ideology suggest that conservatives will be especially anti-democratic regardless of partisanship. Integrating insights from these areas, we argue that there are reasons to expect paradoxical partisan asymmetries in the ideological correlates of democratic attitudes. Across numerous surveys we find that cultural conservatism and out-party favorability are reliably associated with anti-democratic orientation among Democrats (but not Republicans), while left-leaning economic attitudes are reliably associated with anti-democratic orientation among Republicans (but not Democrats). These findings provide context for understanding how polarization might impact American democracy. They also suggest that increased centrality of sociocultural conflict and Republican cultivation of a right-wing populist reputation might sort anti-democratic Americans into the Republican Party.

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Molecular Identification of Newly Isolated Bacillus Strains from Poultry Farm and Optimization of Process Parameters for Enhanced Production of Extracellular Amylase Using OFAT Method

Bacillus sp. has been used as attractive and efficient industrial organisms in the last few decades due to their rapid growth rates and their potential to secrete extracellular enzymes into the medium.Amylase obtained from bacteria has gained immense interest due to its biotechnological potential in various industries.The aim of this experimental context was to isolate novel strains of Bacillus sp. from poultry farm, screening and optimization of different parameters for the enhanced production of extracellular amylase using traditional OFAT method (One Factor At a Time).Five hyperamylase producing Bacillus strains were identified after preliminary screening of poultry feces soil sample.The strains were showing maximum amylase production at pH ranging from 6-9.On the other hand strains were showing more enzyme activity at 35 and 45°C.The agitation speed of 130 and 150 rpm was found to be suitable for maximum enzyme production by Bacillus sp.The amylase activity of each isolate was reduced with increase in incubation time from 24-96 h.Starch and yeast extract were found to be the suitable carbon and nitrogen source in order to enhance the enzyme production.The enzyme obtained from the isolates was stable upto 60°C and pH 9.0 for 4 h of incubation.Percentage GC-content of 16S rRNA sequences showed a significant effect on amylase production at high temperature.The present study clearly indicates that amylase production was 2 fold higher when optimized conditions were used.The crude amylase obtained from the isolates showed stability at high temperature and pH.As to the best of our knowledge this present investigation makes a novel contribution to research on amylase production from new Bacillus strains of poultry farm by demonstrating the isolation, molecular characterization and enhanced amylase activity at optimal conditions using OFAT method.

Topic: Enzyme Production and Characterization
Subfield: Biotechnology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Arterial injuries of the lower extremity from blunt trauma.

Stevioside, a sweet-tasting diterpene glycoside derived from Stevia rebaudiana, and steviol, a product from enzymatic hydrolysis of stevioside, were tested for mutagenic activity by the in vitro Ames test, a preincubation method, using Salmonella typhimurium TA 98 and TA 100 as the tester strains, either in the presence or absence of metabolic activating system derived from the sodium phenobarbital and 5,6-benzoflavone pretreated liver S9 fractions from various animal species including rat, mouse, hamster and guinea pig. Stevioside and steviol at the concentrations up to 50 mg and 2 mg per plate, respectively showed no mutagenic effect on both tester strains either in the presence or absence of metabolic activating system. However, at the high concentration both stevioside and steviol showed some toxic effects on both tester strains. The toxic effect was decreased in the presence of the metabolic activating system.

Topic: Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Copy Cataloguing through SOUL 2.0

Cataloguing is one of the important housekeeping operations of the libraries. Almost all the libraries, with a few exceptions, use cataloguing module to create bibliographical records.The task of creating bibliographical records can be reduced to the minimum by using copy cataloguing option. It is an alternative for original cataloguing. The article describes the catalogue module and copy cataloguing through SOUL 2.0. A brief overview of copy cataloguing in India has also been taken. It has been found that it is underutilised practice and library professional need to utilise the facility of copy catalogueing through IndCat, WorldCat or any other bibliographic database providing such facility. The initiative taken by INFLIBNET in the form IndCat is praiseworthy on this background, yet there might be problems with regard to regional language documents. The recognised publishers need to provide MARC record along with books to promote copy cataloguing. In effect, the library professional have to demand books with MARC records to make them think this as regular practice. Although, copy cataloguing offers an opportunity over original cataloguing, its needs to be judiciously used. In fact its usage as the author urges will help to address and remove the issues pertaining to copy cataloguing. dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.35.5.8578

Topic: Library Science and Information Systems
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Digital Twins in Healthcare System: Communication between Society and Law

The use of digital twin technology is aimed at revolutionizing the healthcare system, which would allow testing treatment with a human's digital twin, forecasting the course of diseases, observing a body's reaction to the medication or operation applied. This, in turn, will shape the effective level of communications between medical workers and patients. As the use of this technology is still at the initial stage of development, we should pay considerable attention to its legal regulation in order not to hinder the innovative development or establish control over it by the state, on the one hand, and – on the other hand – to prevent risks and threats from its use, to prevent and suppress illegal acts in this area, which may arise with the technology introduction, and to select the most effective model of legal regulation of such legal relations. Objective. To study possible directions of digital twins' application in healthcare; to assess the state of legal regulation of these social relations and the level of communication between society and law, as well as to identify the risks of using digital technology in healthcare. Methods. In the research process, general scientific (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and specific scientific methods of scientific cognition were used.

Topic: Digital Transformation in Law
Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Location, Location, Location

The concept of remediation can help explain the cultural economy of the World Wide Web. As developed in a recently published book (co-authored with Jay Bolter), remediation refers to the way in which new digital media refashion prior media forms. Digital media like computer graphics, virtual reality, and the web define themselves by borrowing from, paying homage to, critiquing, and refashioning their predecessors, principally television, film, photography, and painting, but also print. Furthermore, older media can remediate newer ones within the same media economy. Remediation seems to be a fundamental characteristic not only for contemporary media, but for all visual media at least since the Renaissance with its invention of linear-perspective painting. Each medium seems to follow this pattern of borrowing and refashioning other media, and rivalry as well as homage seems always to be at work. In this paper I take up the cultural economy of the web in relation to three competing conceptual frameworks for making sense of new digital media: cyberspace, ubiquitous computing, and mediated public space. In so doing I hope to move towards an analysis of the cultural economy of the heterogenous networks within which digital media circulate and areconsumed.

Topic: Digital Games and Media
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Nonlinearities of the human carotid baroreceptor-cardiac reflex.

Carotid baroreceptors of nine healthy young men and women were stretched or compressed with neck suction or pressure, before and after beta-adrenergic and cholinergic blockade, to evaluate several nonlinearities of sinus node baroreflex responses. Sinus node inhibition was related linearly to the intensity of brief baroreceptor stimuli over a range extending from carotid-distending pressures of about 101 +/- 5 (mean +/- SE) to 160 +/- 6 mm Hg (the subject's average systolic pressure was 108 +/- 2 mm Hg). Sinus node response to sustained (5 seconds) neck suction or pressure were strikingly asymmetrical. Responses were abolished by atropine, or by atropine and propranolol. Propranolol alone augmented sinus node responses to both neck suction and pressure. These results suggest that, in normal human subjects, sinus node responses to abrupt alterations of afferent baroreceptor traffic are nonlinear and are mediated by fluctuations of efferent cholinergic activity. Most of the observed nonlinear behavior of the integrated reflex can be explained on the basis of known properties of afferent and central portions of the baroreflex arc.

Topic: Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Is E-speed dental film more sensitive to storage than D-speed dental film?

Two types of films with different speed, D-speed (Kodak Ultraspeed) and E-speed (Kodak Ektaspeed), were compared regarding film fogging under different storage conditions. The films were stored during one year at room temperature (+21 degrees C) without shielding, with 3 mm lead or with 200 mm iron shielding and in a refrigerator (+8 degrees C) without shielding. The films were processed in a standardised way and the film fog measured densitometrically each month. The film fog increased insignificantly with time for both film types under all storage conditions except in the refrigerator, where it reached unacceptably high levels and the faster film type (Kodak Ektaspeed) became unusable after 4 months storage in the refrigerator.

Topic: Dental Research and COVID-19
Subfield: General Dentistry
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Mixed Methods Review of A Home-Grown School Feeding Pilot in A Poor Ethnic Minority Community in Vietnam&amp;nbsp;

Abstract Background Undernutrition threatens the health and future of preschool children in disadvantaged ethnic minority communities. Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) in nursery schools could have a positive impact on children’s nutrition while creating multiple benefits for the community and local food system. Evidence is lacking on the implementation and sustainability of HGSF as part of multi-sectoral programs in remote areas. This study assessed a HGSF pilot intervention, implemented within a four-year nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) program, in five nursery schools in a mountain ethnic minority community in Vietnam. It aimed to gain insights into the diversity and cost of school meals, food sources, effects on children’s nutritional status and on process aspects related to implementation and sustainability, especially HGSF synergy with other NSA program components. Methods Mixed-methods assessment covered school meal diversity and cost; food sources; anthropometric data; and the process, including changes triggered by HGSF, perceived barriers and facilitators to implementation, and prospects for sustainability. Data came from participants selected by purposive sampling for semi-structured interviews (n = 30) and seven focus group discussions (n = 76), and from field observations and transect walks. Results School meals increased daily dietary diversity; meals cost USD 0.65/child/day. About 44% of the foods used were home-grown. There was an indicative reduction in underweight children, an increase in school attendance, and improvements in food preferences and WASH practices. Parents’ caring and feeding practices improved and their willingness to pay for school meals increased. At community level, local food systems became less cash crop-oriented and more self-reliant in production of nutrient-rich foods, contributing to household food security and income generation. Social capital increased. Positive changes were attributed to HGSF and to synergy among NSA program components. Enhanced confidence and motivation, stimulated by role models and change agents, facilitated the process. Socio-economic conditions of poor households and limited resilience to external shocks were barriers that threatened sustainability. Conclusions This study showed that implementing HGSF in a mountain ethnic minority area with a high prevalence of undernutrition benefitted children and their communities, when integrated in a multi-sectoral program that mobilises all stakeholders and stimulates both supply and demand of nutritious food.

Topic: Child Nutrition and Water Access
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Fagopyrum 17: 15-19(2000) Locallzation and morphology of the buckwheat embryo

The position, shape and size of the embryo in buckwheat seed has not yet been resolved. This paper describes com-puter aided three-dimensional reconstruction ofthe buckwheat embryo using two-dimensional images obtained by pro-gressively grinding the seeds. We found that cotyledons are double curved in the proximal part and that they reach the testa only with their margins. In the distal part, the two cotyledons extend tightly along the testa. In some seeds the cotyledons form a spiral in a clockwise direction and in others in an anticlockwise direction. The ratio among the two cotyledon orientations was 55: 45. We found no correlation between kernel weight and the orientation. The length of the embryo proper was found to be in the range of31-56 % of the seed length (in average 42%). The variability of the length of the embryo proper was much higher than the variability of the seed length.

Topic: Seed and Plant Biochemistry
Subfield: Food Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
[Palato-pharyngo-laryngeal myoclonus].

Palato-pharyngo-laryngeal myoclonus is well-known clinical criterion characterized by persistent, rapid, repetitive, rhythmic muscle twitch the rate of which ranges 50-200 Hz. It appears in the palate, pharynx, larynx, diaphragma, and the ocular or limb muscles, but the most common combination of the distribution is palate-pharyngo-laryngeal type or only palatal type. In most instances the movement is synchronous, but others show asynchronous myoclonus at different rates. There was a case report in which an electrical stimulation given at the ulnar nerve produced reset of myoclonus indicating that some feedback mechanism has some influence in the generation of pacemaker activity in the brainstem. This myoclonus has been considered to result from interruption of any one fiber system in a olivocerebellorubrotegment-olivary equipotential reverating circuit, so-called Guillain-Mollaret triangle. As etiological factors, cerebrovascular accidents are the most common, but various other causes have been encountered including tumor, trauma, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, electroshock, dialysis encephalopathy, and other degenerative neurological diseases. Analysis of the symptoms is the most important cure of the diagnosis, and this myoclonus is relatively easily differentiated from other involuntary movement, but recently MRI is a very effective examination to detect a lesion in the medulla visualizing the degenerative changes of the lower olivary nucleus. Clonazepam, trihexyphenidyl, carbamazepine, 5HTP and caeruletin have been reported as effective agents for this movement.

Topic: Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
Subfield: Rheumatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Coaxial Micro Ring Arrays Fabricated on Self‐Assembled Microtube Cavities for Resonant Light Modulation

Abstract Composite optical microcavities, as a versatile platform for light manipulation, have been theoretically revealed that the configuration of concentrically coupled resonant trajectories can significantly enhance the coupling strength, which is however challenging in experimental preparation. Here coaxial whispering gallery resonator chains were designed and fabricated with optically coupled modes split apart by more than the free spectral range (FSR) of the cavity itself. Because such three dimensional (3D) coupled optical systems are extremely difficult to obtain with traditional processing techniques an approach is developed to release and roll‐up pre‐strained, nanostructured silicon nitride membranes into microtubular optical cavities. Parallel nano‐ridges modified on the patterned membranes form into coaxial micro ring arrays after the membrane rolls up into a microtubular structure. Energetic degeneracy, as a consequence of mode splitting exceeding the FSR, leads to interference between bonding and antibonding modes with different mode identities (mode number), resulting in novel light modulation in the form of hybrid super wave modes, which display a distinct hopping behavior resembling linear stretch modes of an oscillator chain.

Topic: Photonic and Optical Devices
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
A Psychological Profile of Elite Polish Short Track Athletes: An Analysis of Temperamental Traits and Impulsiveness

The aim of this study was to determine the temperament and impulsiveness profile of short track athletes. Professional athletes (juniors and seniors), under training in the Polish National Team (Nfemale = 21, Nmale = 19, Mage = 20), completed The Temperament and Character Inventory- Revised (TCI-R (56)) and a shortened version of the Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, Sensation-Seeking, Positive Urgency, Impulsive Behavior Scale (S-UPPS-P). The results proved that skaters obtain higher scores than the general population on the temperamental scales i.e., persistence, harm avoidance and novelty seeking and impulsivity scales i.e., sensation seeking and positive urgency. After the cluster analysis, two homogeneous profiles of short track athletes were determined. The first profile includes athletes with high scores on the reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, cooperativeness, temperamental and sensation-seeking impulsiveness scales coupled with low scores on the temperamental scale, harm avoidance and impulsiveness scales: positive urgency, negative urgency and the lack of perseverance. The second profile is the reverse of the first profile for the short track athletes.

Topic: Personality Traits and Psychology
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
The Efficacy of Diltiazem Gel on Diminution of Patients’ Complaints After Anal Surgery

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background and objectives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Local pain and painful defecation are common patients’ complaints after anal surgery. Topical diltiazem, a calcium channel blocker, can decrease the tonicity of smooth muscles of anal sphincter and probably decrease the aforementioned painful condition. This study evaluates the efficacy of topical diltiazem gel on these complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, patients received either diltiazem gel or placebo (a gel not containing diltiazem), in inch at the site of operation, twice per day. All patients were followed up on 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; and 7&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; postoperative days for scoring of complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The pain and painful defecation decreased significantly in second day in patients received diltiazem. Pain was completely alleviated in all patients received diltiazem in 7&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; postoperative day. But, in the placebo group, pain was reported by some of the patients in this day. No unwanted effect was reported in patients received diltiazem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Topical 2% diltiazem gel is effective on alleviation of pain and pain during defecation after standard anal surgery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences