jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Light Movement & Sound: An Approach to Energetic Education

Communication exists on several levels. A widely accepted definition of these levels of communication is the exchange of ideas through a symbolic, gestural or linguistic system. For the purposes of this paper, a broader definition of communication which includes the use of human energy is reached by categorizing these levels as: 1) The conscious levels of intelligence which are language, academic disciplines, artistic expressions; and, 2) The subconscious levels of non-verbal communication, gestures and body language; and, 3) The energy fields around the human body and how they may interact with other fields. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of "Energetic Communication" based on the process of working with human energy fields and an understanding of how human energy can be affected by the theatrical experience. Working with the human energy fields of a participant is communicating on a deeper level, either physiological, subconscious, or energetic, and sensing problem areas which can then be addressed by a component of theatre. This process is a way of reaching participants both artistically and therapeutically without imposing a pre-conceived educational agenda on the participant, by allowing the process to be guided by the participant's own needs. Physically and emotionally the participants present blocks of energy and the techniques outlined are to promote physiological responses through creativity.

Topic: Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Dietary fiber monosaccharide content alters gut microbiome composition and fermentation

ABSTRACT Members of the mammalian gut microbiota metabolize diverse complex carbohydrates that are not digested by the host, which are collectively labeled “dietary fiber.” While the enzymes and transporters that each strain uses to establish a nutrient niche in the gut are often exquisitely specific, the relationship between carbohydrate structure and microbial ecology is imperfectly understood. The present study takes advantage of recent advances in complex carbohydrate structure determination to test the effects of fiber monosaccharide composition on microbial fermentation. Fifty-five fibers with varied monosaccharide composition were fermented by a pooled feline fecal inoculum in a modified MiniBioReactor array system over a period of 72 hours. The content of the monosaccharides glucose and xylose was significantly associated with the reduction of pH during fermentation, which was also predictable from the concentrations of the short-chain fatty acids lactic acid, propionic acid, and the signaling molecule indole-3-acetic acid. Microbiome diversity and composition were also predictable from monosaccharide content and SCFA concentration. In particular, the concentrations of lactic acid and propionic acid correlated with final alpha diversity and were significantly associated with the relative abundance of several of the genera, including Lactobacillus and Dubosiella . Our results suggest that monosaccharide composition offers a generalizable method to compare any dietary fiber of interest and uncover links between diet, gut microbiota, and metabolite production. IMPORTANCE The survival of a microbial species in the gut depends on the availability of the nutrients necessary for that species to survive. Carbohydrates in the form of non-host digestible fiber are of particular importance, and the set of genes possessed by each species for carbohydrate consumption can vary considerably. Here, differences in the monosaccharides that are the building blocks of fiber are considered for their impact on both the survival of different species of microbes and on the levels of microbial fermentation products produced. This work demonstrates that foods with similar monosaccharide content will have consistent effects on the survival of microbial species and on the production of microbial fermentation products.

Topic: Gut microbiota and health
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Implementation and evaluations of vision-based finger flicking gesture recognition for tabletops

Finger flicking is a familiar finger movement, and we often flick a small object on the table with a finger in our daily life. We developed a flicking gesture recognition system called the dasiaOHAJIKI interfacepsila, which can track very rapid flicking movements using a high-speed camera, and estimate the flicking power and direction in real time. In this paper, we describe the recognition techniques of the flicking gesture on a large LCD to produce a novel tabletop system that enables us to use the gesture to flick a virtual marble on the table. Moreover, we also present an evaluation of a vision-based flicking tabletop system as an entertainment application.

Topic: Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Tissue Stress and Tumor Promotion

Cutaneous carcinomas often arise in patients with severe epidermolysis bullosa (or other cutaneous ulcers) at multiple primary sites. Chronic tissue stress thus appears to promote carcinogenesis in preexisting somatic mutants in a stem cell population. Altered contractile properties of fibroblasts cultured from skin with epidermolysis bullosa may result from an altered interaction of these cells with their surrounding, chronically stressed, connective tissue matrix.

Topic: Skin and Cellular Biology Research
Subfield: Cell Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
The Scalenus Accessorious Muscle

Muchas de las variaciones anatomicas no estan suficientemente descritas o cuantificadas y son actualmente clinica y quirurgicamente significativas mas que curiosidades anatomicas. Reportamos una variacion anatomica en el grupo de los musculos escalenos, presente en un cadaver de una mujer de 56 anos. Este tipo de variacion puede afectar el tamano del triangulo escalenico y por lo tanto, puede potencialmente resultar en variados signos y sintomas en pacientes vulnerables al sindrome de salida toracica. La proximidad de los musculos escalenos con el plexo braquial, arteria y vena suclavias, coexistiendo con fasciculos aberrantes pueden predisponer a sindromes de compresion.

Topic: Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Who Are the Populists in Iceland? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Icelandic Voters

Populism has become a buzz word, as everyone, from politicians to the media, throw the term around without much regard to what it truly means. The great majority of the research on populism has been focused on radical right-wing populist movements across Europe, and less attention has been given to left or center populist movements. Additionally, most research focuses on the causes of populism, and less so on the characteristics of the individuals who display populist attitudes. For this reason, the purpose of this research is to identify the individual-level attributes and party preferences of populist supporters in Iceland. To do this, the thesis analyzes the repercussions of the 2008 economic crisis and assesses whether the political events that followed the “crash” were the catalyst for the rise of center-left populism. Through the interpretation of the post-crisis election results, the study postulates who are the individuals who are most likely to display populist attitudes. To substantiate the hypotheses, the study builds a theoretically-consistent and empirically-sound mechanism to measure populist attitudes, through the creation of a “populism scale”. Using the populism scale, the research then assesses whether there exists a relationship between populist attitudes and individual-level characteristics and party preferences.

Topic: European Socioeconomic and Political Studies
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Creating a European Health Union in Times of COVID-19: A Trajectory Towards a Fundamental Right to Health Care?

COVID-19 appears to have provided the European Union (EU, the Union) with a window of opportunity to infiltrate the arena of policy-making in the field of health, which is evident in the proliferation of initiatives under the auspices of the creation of a European Health Union (EHU). To that effect, one of the first steps taken has been, inter alia, the Commission proposal for a regulation on serious cross-border health threats, which, if adopted, seeks to repeal an existing decision on the same issue. However, how influential can the EHU initiative be post-pandemic? This contribution seeks to discover what the role of COVID-19 has been for the materialisation of an EHU and what the implications are (if there are any) for the future of European health care. By combining an interestbased and structuralist narrative on the recognition of a right to health care, this contribution argues that COVID-19 has given the EU a marginal opportunity to prove its ability to act on health threats. Success in doing so may contribute towards resolving the joint-decision trap by providing the Member States with the confidence in the EU as a health actor.

Topic: European and International Law Studies
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Interventions outside the workplace for reducing sedentary behaviour in adults under 60 years of age

Interventions outside the workplace to reduce sedentary behaviour probably lead to little or no difference in device-measured sedentary time in the short term, and we are uncertain if they reduce device-measured sedentary time in the medium term. We are uncertain whether interventions outside the workplace reduce self-reported sitting time in the short term. Interventions outside the workplace may result in little or no difference in self-report TV viewing time in the medium or long term. The certainty of evidence is moderate to very low, mainly due to concerns about risk of bias, inconsistent findings, and imprecise results. Future studies should be of longer duration; should recruit participants from varying age, socioeconomic, or ethnic groups; and should gather quality of life, cost-effectiveness, and adverse event data. We strongly recommend that standard methods of data preparation and analysis are adopted to allow comparison of the effects of interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour.

Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Swedish Literature on the British Market 1998-2013: A Systemic Approach

This thesis examines the role and function of contemporary Swedish fiction in English translation on the British book market in the period 1998-2013. Drawing on Bourdieu’s Field Theory, Even Zohar’s Polysystem Theory and DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory, it constructs a model capable of dynamically describing the life cycle of border-crossing books, from selection and production to marketing, sales and reception. This life cycle is driven and shaped by individual position-takings of book market actants, and by their complex interaction and continual evolution. The thesis thus develops an understanding of the book market and its actants that deliberately resists static or linear perspectives, acknowledging the centrality of complex interaction and dynamic development to the analysis of publishing histories of translated books. The theoretical component is complemented by case studies offering empirical insight into the model’s application. Each case study illuminates the theory from a different angle, creating thereby a composite picture of the complex, essentially unmappable processes that underlie the logic of the book market. The first takes as its subject the British publishing history of crime writer Liza Marklund, as well as its wider context, the Scandinavian crime boom. The second case study considers the role of multi-platform mediality and media convergence in the case of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Let the Right One In. The Swedish contribution to Canongate’s Myth series, The Hurricane Party by Klas Östergren, is then examined through the lens of a globalising world literature. The final case study widens the scope to the institutional level by analysing the role and impact of the Swedish Arts Council’s efforts to disseminate Swedish literature abroad. Together, the case studies begin to illuminate the functioning of the contemporary translated fiction market in the UK, providing a nuanced understanding of the success of Swedish fiction in English translation.

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
On the Evolution of the conceptual framework of Culturologyin Russia

The article is devoted to the evolution of the conceptual framework of cultural studies in Russia from philosophical categories implementation to «categories of culture» and subsequently to the study of «mentalities», «national and ethnic worldviews», «cultural concepts» and the sphere of concepts, cognitive characteristics of knowledge and world perception toward the affinity with cultural anthropology.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
American neutral rights reappraised: identity or interest in the foreign policy of the early Republic?

This article analyses the early American commitment to maintaining its neutral rights from several theoretical perspectives. Rejecting recent constructivist interpretations as unsubstantiated by the empirical evidence, it concludes that early American leaders largely mirrored traditional eighteenth century mercantilist practices to suit the interests of the United States. In particular, Jefferson's ‘two-tiered’ approach to the international system was based on astringent calculations of power rather than prevailing notions of ‘republicanism’. This ideology, while manifest in partisan rhetoric, had little measurable impact on the conduct of early American neutral rights policy. By focusing on the relationship of theory and practice in this context, this article offers a case study of the role of norms and ideology in the shaping of foreign policy in a republican state.

Topic: American Constitutional Law and Politics
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Selfish Flow Games in Non-Cooperative Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks With Interference Constraint Topology

Abstract—Due to the advancement in technology, routers of Wireless Mesh Networks can be equipped with multiple interfaces to achieve parallel communication sessions among nodes. Assigning distinct non-overlapping channels to each set of communicating radios increases network connectivity and throughput. On the other hand, the performance of wireless networks is always limited by the interference phenomena among the concurrent transmission sessions. Combined with interference constraint topology due to limited available orthogonal channels, selfishness of end users further degrades individual fairness and affects overall network performance due to their protocol deviation in a non-cooperative environment. In this paper, we have proposed a non-cooperative game theoretical model in a multi-radio multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network based on the end users flows in an interference constrained topology. Necessary conditions for the existence of Nash Equilibrium have been derived. Our simulation results show that our distributed algorithm converges to a stable state in finite time where each node gets fair end to end throughput across multiple-collision domains at the end of the game. Further, the Price of Anarchy of the system was measured for several runs which is always near to one; showing the strength and stability of our proposed scheme.

Topic: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Alcohol dehydrogenase activity and electron transport in living yeast

1. The excretion of H+ ions, with practically equivalent uptake of K+ ions (from 0·1m-potassium chloride), occurs during the aerobic oxidation of ethanol. 2. Acetaldehyde and acetic acid formed at the same time are quantitatively equal to the amount of ethanol oxidized. 3. A slow uptake of K+ ions occurs during the oxidation of acetaldehyde and a more rapid uptake during the oxidation of d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. 4. The anaerobic reduction of methylene blue is studied, and the inhibitory effect of K+ and other inorganic cations on the system demonstrated. 5. The cation requirement for equal inhibitory effect is parallel with the reciprocals of the transport affinities for the ‘physiological K-carrier’ (as taken from Conway &amp; Duggan, 1958). 6. The cation inhibition of methylene blue reduction is reversed by treatment of the yeast with Teepol or by freezing-and-thawing. 7. Azide is shown to inhibit the reduction of methylene blue with intact cells. The inhibition is partially reversed by Teepol treatment and completely by freezing-and-thawing.

Topic: Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
Subfield: Food Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
PolarizationMaintaining Erbium Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser 1

A polarization maintaining erbiumdoped phot onic crystal fiber laser (PMErPCF), is pre� sented. The laser operates in a ring cavity in the near infrared wavelength range. We believe that it is the first report of the successful realization of a polarization maintaining erbiumdoped photonic crystal fiber laser. Singlewavelength and multiwavelength operation of the developed fibre laser was observed. Experimental results show that the laser operates with good output parameter stability over a period of one hour and exhibits a 37 dB signaltonoiseratio. We present a detailed description of the design process and of the experimental characterization and validation for the PMErPCF. We also analyze the impact of the photonic crystal struc� ture on the laser parameters.

Topic: Optical Network Technologies
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
A Measurement of Multi-Level Semantic Relations among Mandarin Lexemes with Radical mu4: A Study based on Dictionary Explanations

In this study, we utilize a quantitative method measuring the Multi-Level Semantic Relations based on 4549 Mandarin lexemes containing the radical mu4 (目). The research is carried out by first extracting all dictionary definitions for all lexemes containing this radical. Then, we consider the different layers of definitions (e.g., the definitions of the keywords in a definition) and measure whether two different mu4 (目) lexemes are related in meanings. It was found that both width (the number of lexemes covered) and depth (the number of levels to be calculated) contribute to the measurement of semantic relatedness. Some seemingly unrelated mu4 (目) lexemes are found related when the depth of definitions increases. The study also compares two sets of results one based on MI value and the other based on t-score. Our findings show that our measurement based on multi-level semantic relations produces better results than MI value does, as a collocation measurement like MI value is less suitable for analyzing semantically related dictionary entries.

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Stiffness analysis of 3D spheroids using microtweezers - Fig 1

&lt;p&gt;A. Microtweezer system showing the three main components: tweezer arms with a flexible plate spring, a bimorph piezo actuator and two cantilevers as the force sensing tips. The moving arm was actuated (direction indicated by the arrow) to move the cantilever closer to the fixed arm. B. The cantilever holder along with SU8 micro-cantilevers. C. Micro-cantilevers were made from SU8 and brass to obtain a wide measureable force range of sub hundred nN to more than 1 mN.&lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Challenges in the acceptance/licensing of a mobile ballistic missile range safety technology (BMRST) system

Abstract : This paper describes the challenges in the acceptance and licensing of a mobile range safety system. The paper details, in particular, the Ballistic Missile Range Safety Technology (BMRST) System that has been developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicle Directorate, Ballistic Missile Technology program. The BMRST Program is to develop and to demonstrate a certifiable mobile launch range tracking and control system based upon the Global Positioning System (GPS) that can support military and commercial space launch vehicles for range safety applications. The BMRST System does provide precise remote position using the GPS and an Inertial Navigation System (INS). The BMRST equipment installed on-board the launch vehicle transmits information using an S band data link to two mobile ground tracking antenna systems that are part of the BMRST Mobile Operations Center (MOC). The BMRST also has a Command Destruct System (CDS) capability. The uniqueness of design and operation results in challenges for the acceptance/licensing process. This paper will outline and discuss the overall BMRST Acceptance/Licensing Program that includes various test and demonstration efforts. Coordination with the DoD ranges, the Range Commanders Council, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will also be addressed.

Topic: Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
The bd-model of ageing: from individual-based dynamics to evolutive differential inclusions

Ageing's sensitivity to natural selection has long been discussed because of its apparent negative effect on individual's fitness. Thanks to the recently described (Smurf) 2-phase model of ageing we were allowed to propose a fresh angle for modeling the evolution of ageing. Indeed, by coupling a dramatic loss of fertility with a high-risk of impending death - amongst other multiple so-called hallmarks of ageing - the Smurf phenotype allowed us to consider ageing as a couple of sharp transitions. The birth-death model (later called bd-model) we describe here is a simple life-history trait model where each asexual and haploid individual is described by its fertility period $x_b$ and survival period $x_d$. We show that, thanks to the Lansing effect, $x_b$ and $x_d$ converge during evolution to configurations $x_b-x_d\approx 0$. This guarantees that a certain proportion of the population maintains the Lansing effect which in turn, confers higher evolvability to individuals. \\To do so, we built an individual-based stochastic model which describes the age and trait distribution dynamics of such a finite population. Then we rigorously derive the adaptive dynamics models, which describe the trait dynamics at the evolutionary time-scale. We extend the Trait Substitution Sequence with age structure to take into account the Lansing effect. Finally, we study the limiting behaviour of this jump process when mutations are small. We show that the limiting behaviour is described by a differential inclusion whose solutions $x(t)=(x_b(t),x_d(t))$ reach the diagonal $\lbrace x_b=x_d\rbrace$ in finite time and then remain on it. This differential inclusion is a natural way to extend the canonical equation of adaptive dynamics in order to take into account the lack of regularity of the invasion fitness function on the diagonal $\lbrace x_b=x_d\rbrace$.

Topic: Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences