jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
A Review On The Use Of Polyethylene Terephthalate (Pet) As Aggregates In Concrete

Massive amount of plastic and polymer products are being produced worldwide on a daily basis. Most of these are intended to be recycled, but the reality is quite different. Statistics show that the percentage of recyclable plastic and polymer products that are actually recycled is very insignificant. These plastic products are mostly non-biodegradable. As a result, they persist in the environment as potential pollutants. Hence there have been countless attempts to reuse these plastic products through versatile applications. This paper attempts to compile the studies which explored the reusability of plastic products in structural concrete. The principal focus will be on use of recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) in structural concrete in various forms. This study concludes that incorporating PET as a supplementary material in different forms has both beneficial and harmful impacts on various fresh and hardened properties of concretes and thus should be considered for comprehensive investigation. Keywords: PET; fresh concrete; concrete composites; supplementary materials; sustainable building material.

Topic: Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Impact of Social CRM Capabilities on Firm Performance

The emergence of social media technologies have drastically changed the face of customer relationship management (CRM), hence firms are incorporating social media technologies in their existing CRM systems which has led to the evolution of social CRM. This article extends capability-based perspective of traditional CRM by integrating it with social media technologies and to assess empirically their significant impact on firm performance. It also examines the mediating role of co-created customer experience. The developed hypothesis and proposed model were tested through structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that co-created customer experiences play a role of mediator between social CRM capabilities and performance outcomes. Sales/marketing centric technology resources significantly influence four dimensions and customer centric technology resources influence two dimensions of relational information processing capability. The findings also depict that there is an influence of Sales/marketing and customer centric technology resources on customer linking, market sensing and social CRM capabilities.

Topic: Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Multiplexed model predictive control for active vehicle suspensions

Multiplexed model predictive control (MMPC) is a recently proposed efficient model predictive control (MPC) algorithm, which can effectively reduce the computational burden of the online optimisation in MPC implementation by updating the control inputs in an asynchronous manner. This paper investigates the application of MMPC in active vehicle suspension design. An MMPC controller integrated with soft constraints and a Kalman filter is proposed based on a full-car model. Ride comfort, roadholding and suspension deflection are considered in this paper, where ride comfort and roadholding are formulated as a quadratic cost function in terms of sprung mass accelerations and tyre deflections, while suspension deflection performance is formulated as a hard constraint. The saturation of the actuator force is also considered and formulated as a hard constraint as well. Numerical simulation is performed with respect to different choices of weighting factors, vehicle speeds and control horizons. The results show that the overall performance of ride comfort and roadholding can be improved significantly by employing MMPC and the average time taken by MMPC to solve the individual quadratic programming problem is considerably smaller than that of the conventional MPC, which effectively demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Topic: Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Binary Indicated Numbers with Bit-Level Integrated Scalability Support (BINBLISS)

The Tactile Internet is a prominent example for the need to re-evaluate the trade-off between compression and real-time needs for smaller messages from/to sensors and actuators. Considering the ultra-low latency requirements in the millisecond range, we developed a use-case agnostic low-level approach to compress the amount of data that need to be sent. Our approach combines threshold-based delta-coding for individual values (BIN) and bit-plane level flexible compression through precision reduction (BLISS). We demonstrate how realistic data savings can be obtained with low compression losses and overheads using common Tactile Internet data sets through application of our approach. We find that our agnostic and case-independent approach yields data savings over the 50% range for low compression losses for Tactile Internet scenarios.

Topic: Network Time Synchronization Technologies
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Construction of an Artificial Cell Capable of Protein Expression at Low Temperatures Using a Cell Extract Derived from Pseudomonas fluorescens

A liposome-based artificial cell (LBAC) consists of a liposome encapsulating a cell-free protein expression system (CFPES) and protein-encoding DNA. It is surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane and synthesizes proteins that resemble actual cells. Hence, they have been one of the most studied artificial cells. According to recent studies, they have been able to sense bio-functional molecules by synthesizing fluorescent proteins in response to target molecules. Therefore, they are expected to be used as biosensors. However, previously reported LBACs encapsulated the CFPES derived from Escherichia coli, resulting in the most productive protein expression at 20–40 °C. To broaden the range of their working temperatures to lower temperatures, in this study, we constructed LBACs using a CFPES derived from Pseudomonas fluorescens that grows at a temperature range of 4 °C to 30 °C. We then demonstrated that the constructed LBAC expressed proteins at 8 °C and that, the protein expression capability of the LBAC derived from P. fluorescens was four-fold higher than that derived from E. coli at 8 °C. This study will pave the way for the development of artificial cell-based biosensors that work in cold environments or for the synthesis of heat-labile proteins in LBACs.

Topic: Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Humic and fulvic acids stimulate the growth of Mycobacterium avium

Mycobacterium avium, an environmental, opportunistic pathogenic mycobacterium, has been isolated frequently and in high numbers from waters in Finland and from acid, brown water swamps of the southeastern coastal USA. M. avium has also been recovered in high numbers from Finnish drinking water and frequently isolated from Finnish AIDS patients. Boreal forests and brown water swamps are similar in that they are rich in humic and fulvic acids and of low pH and dissolved oxygen. Growth of representative isolates of M. avium in natural water was stimulated markedly by the addition of humic and fulvic acids. Further, the M. avium isolates grew at pH levels as low at 4.0 and at oxygen levels equal to 4% of atmospheric levels. The high numbers of M. avium in boreal waters and brown water swamps are likely due to their ability to proliferate in those humic- and fulvic-rich, acidic, micro-aerobic environments.

Topic: Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
&lt;title&gt;Preliminary characterization of a new hybrid structure with CdTe: x-ray imaging capabilities&lt;/title&gt;

This paper presents a new structure of a 2-D imaging system devoted to radiology. The detection upper medium, made with bulk cadmium telluride, is connected to the electronic 2D readout circuit through indium bumps. The 60 X 60 micrometers <SUP>2</SUP> electrodes, 100 micrometers pitch, are made on the CdTe:Cl detector with standard lithography and ion etching techniques. The silicon circuit is made of n X n independent integrated amplifiers with serial multiplexing readout. The feasibility of such arrangement is made with 64 X 64 pixels. The thickness of 900 micrometers is well suited for 100 keV x rays. Characterization is performed with 10 ms x-ray pulses. Due to electric field the charges are well channelled and high spatial resolution is available in addition with a very high absorption efficiency. The direct absorption of x ray in the readout circuit is negligible. It does not affect either the signal to noise ratio, or the lifetime of the silicon low level analogue ASIC. The presentation includes linearity, sensitivity, noise FTM, and dynamic image discussion.

Topic: Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Supplementary Figure 3 from DACT2 Is a Candidate Tumor Suppressor and Prognostic Marker in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

&lt;p&gt;PDF file - 66K, Response of TopFlash/FOPflash reporter to DACT2.&lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Cancer-related gene regulation
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
New Species of Crane-Flies from South America. Part VI1 (Tipulidae: Diptera)

The present paper is based almost solely upon extensive series of crane-flies taken in Brazil and Paraguay by Mr. Francisco Schade, and by Dr. John G. Myers in Venezuela and on Mount Roraima in northern Brazil. A few scattered specimens were included in materials secured by Dr. Ogloblin in Argentina and by Mr. Raymond C. Shannon in Peru. With the exception of the latter material, all of the species discussed herewith are preserved in my collection through the continued friendly interest of the entomologists mentioned.

Topic: Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
DNA matching exotic species detected in samples from sedentary birds and the environment

The development of DNA-based methods in recent decades has opened the door to numerous new lines of research in the biological sciences. While their speed and accuracy are clearly beneficial, the sensitivity of these methods has the adverse effect of increased susceptibility to false positives resulting from contamination in field or lab. Here, we present findings from a metabarcoding study on the diet of and food availability for several insectivorous birds, in which multiple lepidopteran species not known to occur locally were discovered. After describing the pattern of occurrences of these non-local species in the samples, we discuss various potential origins of these sequences. First, we assess that the taxonomic assignments appear reliable, and local occurrences of many of the species can be plausibly ruled out. Then, we look into the possibilities of natural environmental contamination, judging it to be unlikely, albeit impossible to fully falsify. Finally, while the pattern of occurrences did not suggest lab contamination, we find overlap with material handled in the same lab, which was undoubtedly not coincidental. Even so, not all exact sequences were accounted for in these locally conducted studies, nor was it clear if these and other sequences could remain detectable years later. Although the full explanation for the observations of non-local species remains inconclusive, these findings highlight the importance of critical examination of metabarcoding results, and showcase how species-level taxonomic assignments utilizing comprehensive reference libraries may be a tool in detecting potential contamination events, and false positives in general.

Topic: Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
The detection of thyroxine and related compounds on paper chromatograms by optical methods

Abstract The ceric sulphate‐arsenious acid reagent has been applied to the detection of thyroxine and triiodothyronine on paper chromatograms. The sensitivities achieved were such as to suggest that this reagent might enable physiological concentrations of these substances to be detected. Preliminary experiments on the extraction of the iodine components of plasma are described.

Topic: Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
Subfield: Spectroscopy
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Principles and practice of social security reform

Summary This paper is intended to provide an insight into the principles and the practical experience observed in the process of social security reform. In the first place, the paper reviews the main ideas behind social security reform, the main features of proposed reform approaches and the goals established in both economic and social terms. An overview of main reformed pension systems is provided. Some reflections about prospects and issues to be taken into account for policy consideration are presented as conclusions. Final remarks are also made about the the role of the actuary in this process.

Topic: Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Subfield: Accounting
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Chiarini's Retort to Zanella: Browning's Italian Critics

Giuseppe Chiarini was an Italian poet, translator, and critic. In 1874 he sent a copy of his Poesie to Robert Browning. Among the English poets Chiarini translated were Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shelley, Tennyson, Swinburne, and Robert Browning. As an example of the liberties he took with Italian metrics in order to render the gusto of Browning's rollicking manner, I cite the first stanza of “Up at a Villa – Down in the City” (“Su in Villa e Giù in Città”): S' i' avessi denari, se n'avessi Abbastanza e d'avanzo, la mia casa Sarebbe al certo alla città, giù in piazza. Oh dolce vita, oh, dolce vita starsene Affacciati laggiù alla finestra. ( Poesie 421) (If I had money, if I had Enough and cash on hand, my house Would certainly be in the city, down in a piazza. O sweet life, O sweet life, to be Leaning out of a window there.) [My translation]

Topic: Translation Studies and Practices
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Visual illusions associated with previous drug abuse.

We describe the visual illusions experienced by five patients with a history of previous use of hallucinogens, marijuana, or both. Symptoms included shimmering of images, illusory movement of images, visual perseveration of stationary objects, streaking of moving objects, and moving objects appearing as a consecutive series of stationary images. In all cases, the symptoms had persisted or recurred after periods of drug abstinence ranging from several months to several years. Despite thorough and repeated examinations and investigations, there was no evidence of neurologic ophthalmologic disease in these patients. When patients present with these and other visual illusions, a thorough drug history may afford the answer, provided that other recognized causes of these visual symptoms, such as migraine, epilepsy, and intracranial lesions have been excluded.

Topic: Drug-Induced Ocular Toxicity
Subfield: Ophthalmology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Outage Analysis of mmWave Integrated Device-to-Device Communication System under Nakagami Fading Channel

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication has emerged as a promising candidate to meet the capacity demand in highly dense indoor environments for the next-generation cellular networks. Utilization of directional mmWave for Device to Device (D2D) communication systems provides low powered, high data rate transmission with manageable interference. In this paper, the rate and outage probability for mmWave integrated D2D communication system under Nakagami-m fading channel are derived. The performance of the model is analyzed by obtaining the closed-form expressions for the outage probability of a D2D user, wherein multiple cellular or D2D users are interfering with a mmWave integrated D2D transmission. The impact of various system parameters such as sectored beamforming gain probabilities and distance from interfering nodes on D2D outage probability are also investigated. Results show that the D2D outage probability decreases with an increase in main lobe gain, whereas increases with an increase in side lobe gain.

Topic: Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
1.2 kV 4H‐SiC planar power MOSFETs with a low‐K dielectric in central gate

Abstract A 1.2 kV 4H‐SiC planar power MOSFET with a low‐K dielectric in central gate (LK‐MOS) is proposed in this paper. The LK‐MOS features a P+ shielding region and a thick low‐K dielectric layer under the central gate. The insulation layer capacitance is reduced by the thick low‐K dielectric, while the depletion layer capacitance is decreased due to the reduced gate‐to‐drain overlap. The LK‐MOS is demonstrated to have 97.8%, 70.6%, and 52.2% lower HF‐FOM ( R on × C gd ), and 98.9%, 97.4%, and 69.4% lower HF‐FOM ( R on × Q gd ), when compared with that of the conventional MOSFET (C‐MOS), Buffered‐Gate MOSFET (BG‐MOS) and Thick Central Oxide MOSFET (TCOX‐MOS), respectively. Besides, the LK‐MOS can also have 16.8%, 5.9% lower C gs , and 19.9%, 12.4% lower Q gs compared with that of BG‐MOS and TCOX‐MOS.

Topic: Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Effects of Immediate Feedback and Pacing of Item Presentation on Ability Test Performance and Psychological Reactions to Testing.

The study investigated the joint effects of knowledge of results (KR or no-KR), pacing of item presentation (computer or self-pacing), and type of testing strategy (50-item peaked conventional, variable-length stradaptive, or 50-item fixed-length stradaptive test, on ability test performance, test item response latency, information, and psychological reactions to testing. The psychological reactions to testing were obtained from likert-type items that assessed test-taking anxiety, motivation, perception of difficulty, and reactions to knowledge of results. Data were obtained from 447 college students randomly assigned to one of the 12 experimental conditions. The results indicated that there were no effects on ability estimates due to knowledge of results, testing strategy, or pacing of item presentation. although average latencies were greater on the stradaptive tests than on the conventional test, the overall testing time was not substantially longer on the adaptive tests and may have been a function of differences in test difficulty. Analysis of information values indicated higher levels of information on the stradaptive tests than on the conventional test. There was no statistically significant main effect for any of the three experimental conditions when test anxiety or test taking motivation were the dependent variables, although there were some significant interaction effects.

Topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Trends in Female Sterilization Since Dobbs v. Jackson at an Academic Institution [ID 2683460]

INTRODUCTION: The Dobbs v. Jackson United States Supreme Court decision, issued June 24, 2022, fundamentally altered options for addressing unintended pregnancy. This curtailing of access to abortion care may be an inflection point in how individuals capable of becoming pregnant select contraceptive options. We hypothesize that in the immediate wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, those undergoing surgical sterilization will be younger in age and more likely to be nulliparous. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review study. IRB approval was obtained for the study. Using CPT codes, we utilized Epic to identify all patients undergoing surgical sterilizations at an academic, tertiary care hospital during the 12 months preceding the Dobbs decision (June 24, 2021 to June 24, 2022) and the 12 months immediately after the Dobbs decision (June 25, 2022 to June 25, 2023). Charts were reviewed for age, insurance status, highest level of education, gravidity, parity, and type of sterilization procedure, as well as time between request for and completion of surgical sterilization. RESULTS: In the 12 months after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, individuals undergoing female surgical sterilization via salpingectomy or tubal occlusion had a lower mean age and lower mean parity compared to those undergoing sterilization in the 12 months preceding Dobbs . CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that, since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, individuals seeking female surgical sterilization are younger and less likely to be multiparous. This implies that as access to abortion care in the United States becomes more tenuous, those who seek female surgical sterilization procedures as contraception are younger and lower parity individuals.

Topic: Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
The Element Determination of Four Samples of Vegetables by Using XRF Spectrometry

利用X射线荧光光谱法对大叶蒲公英、空心菜、紫薯叶、红薯芽苗四种蔬菜植物的粉末样品中元素的种类和含量进行测定，并对样品的测定结果进行比较分析。结果表明，四种植物的样品粉末中元素含量丰富；除含有常量元素外，还含有如铁、钴、锰、硅、硒等多种微量元素，但各个样品中的微量元素的种类及含量有所差异；大叶蒲公英的叶中钾、钙元素含量是所有样品中最多的。 Elements and contents in four samples of vegetables of grandifoliate dandelion and spinach, purple sweet potato leaves, sweet potato sprout were determined by using XRF technic, and the data in every group were compared and analysed. The results indicated that all vegetables contain abundant elements. Besides major elements, they also contain multiple kinds of trace elements such as Fe, Co, Mn, Si, Sr, Sn. But the type and content of each trace element vary in the samples of different vegetables. Grandifoliate dandelion contains most K and Ca among all the samples.

Topic: Heavy Metals in Plants
Subfield: Analytical Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
<scp>alfred c. mierzejewski</scp>. <i>The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway</i>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1988. Pp. xx, 285. $35.95

Journal Article alfred c. mierzejewski. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1988. Pp. xx, 285. $35.95 Get access Mierzejewski Alfred C.. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1988. Pp. xx, 285. $35.95. Earl R. Beck Earl R. Beck Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 95, Issue 3, June 1990, Pages 857–858, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/95.3.857-a Published: 01 June 1990

Topic: European history and politics
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences