jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Assessment Measures For Sexual Predators: Step-by-Step Guidelines

Abstract As a result of recent legislative changes in both the United States and Canada regarding sexually violent predators (Glancy, Regehr, 2001; Zonona, 1999), mental health practitioners are increasingly being called upon to provide predictions regarding the future dangerousness of convicted sex offenders. Prediction of dangerousness based solely on clinical assessments for offenders of any kind and in particular sexual offenders, however, has proved to be remarkably inaccurate and to result in very low interrater reliability between professional assessors (Hilton, Simmons, 2001). Consequently, there has been considerable effort in the past decade to develop actuarial tools with the aim of improving predictive accuracy. Developers of the tools have reported favorable results in terms of predictive validity, but, nevertheless, considerable controversy exists about the place of actuarial testing in the assessment of sexual offenders (Zonona, 2000; Sreenivasan, Kirkish, Garrick, Wineberger, Phenixa, 2000). The original actuarial instruments focused exclusively on “static” or historical factors such as the age at first offence and the nature of violent offenses. The developers suggested that these tools for the prediction of dangerousness are accurate enough to be used in isolation and that adjunctive clinical assessments not only may fail to add to the predictive validity but in fact may be detrimental (Quinsey, Khanna,, Malcolm, 1998).

Topic: Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Financial Stability in Kenya. Does Inclusive Finance Matter?

Kenya has made significant stride in financial inclusion compared to other Sub-Saharan economies. Using time series data for the period 2004 to 2017 and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), this study seeks to investigate whether there are trade-offs or synergies between inclusive finance and financial stability. Previous evidence suggests both positive and negative effects, but evidence on emerging economies such as Kenya is clearly lacking. This can partly be attributed to scarcity of data on inclusive finance. Estimation results reveal that access and usage of financial services may foster financial stability in Kenya. Therefore, policies that enhance access and usage of financial services may boost financial stability. Keywords : Financial Inclusion, Structural Equation Model, Financial Stability JEL classification: G21, G28, O16. DOI : 10.7176/JESD/10-6-07 Publication date :March 31 st 2019

Topic: Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
African feminism, activism and decolonisation: the case of Alimotu Pelewura

Consequent to colonial policies that restricted women's participation in public space, the Nigerian woman of the colonial era experienced strenuous socio-political and economic marginalisation/oppression. This marginalisation spurred many of the affected women into acts of subtle and overt resistance. However, historical narratives have typically downplayed narratives portraying women's agency as an integral and essential part of the anti-colonial resistance. Contemporary efforts at redressing this imbalance have resulted in the identification of women activists including Funmilayo (Ransome) Anikulapo-Kuti (FRK), Margaret Ekpo and Oyinka Abayomi to mention a few. Such efforts at identifying feminists and women activists have nevertheless significantly downplayed or outrightly ignored earlier generations of women activists whose successful activisms paved way for this group of identified activists. This study, therefore, sets out to interrogate the socio-economic and political philosophy of Alimotu Pelewura, an unlettered activist and the leader of the first mass-based women's interest group in colonial South-west Nigeria. Utilising historical and analytical research methods, it presents an exposition of Pelewura's economic, social and political activities and subjects such to critical analysis, with a final aim of distilling her socio-political and economic philosophies from these activities, thus, presenting Pelewura's philosophy as an African feminist narrative towards decolonisation efforts.

Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
INFLUENCE OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE MESFET TRANSISTOR CHARACTERISTICS

A two-dimensional numerical analysis is presented to investigate the field effect transistor characteristics. Our main aim is related to the optimization of a two dimensional (2D) analytical model for the static characteristics of short gate-length GaAs MESFET’s. The model takes into account the different physical specific phenomena of the device and we consider also the influence of the two-dimensional analysis on the variation of some intrinsic elements (transconductance and drain conductance). The suggested model enables to calculate and trace informative curves. The results obtained are well represented and interpreted.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
The Feature of Garment CAD Drawing, Its Form and Technique

This paper analyzes the application of garment CAD in China, and compares the garment CAD drawing with the traditional garment drawing. In the light of the feature of garment drawing, it goes on to discuss how to combine CAD of PAD garment and the professional drawing software CORELDAW, ILLUSTRATER to draw various kinds of garments. In the end, it expounds the approach and technique of garment CAD drawing.

Topic: 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Social Realism in Jaiprakash Kardam’s Novel Chhappar

Through his novel Chhappar, Jaiprakash Kardam attempts to portray the story of the most marginalized section of society. Set against the backdrop of a small village named Matapur in Western Uttar Pradesh, the protagonist of this novel is Chandan, who moves from the village to the city for his education. His parents dream of seeing him become a high-ranking officer. Upon arriving in the city, Chandan becomes aware of the harsh realities of urban life. His primary objective is to awaken the Dalit community, which has been trapped for centuries in ignorance and backwardness. While studying in college, he simultaneously runs a school and teaches young children himself. He believes that education is the most effective and powerful weapon to win the battle against the disparities prevailing in life and society. Abstract in Hindi Language: जयप्रकाश कर्दम ने ’छप्पर’ उपन्यास के माध्यम से समाज के सबसे पिछड़े वर्ग की कहानी कहने की कोशिश की है। पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के एक छोटे से गाँव मातापुर की पृष्ठभूमि पर लिखे गए इस उपन्यास का कथा नायक चंदन है, जो गाँव से शहर पढ़ने जाता है। उसके माता-पिता की इच्छा है कि वह कोई बड़ा अधिकारी बने। शहर पहुँचकर चंदन को शहर की सच्चाई का पता चलता है। चंदन का उद्देश्य है कि वह सदियों से अज्ञानता और पिछड़ेपन की गति में पड़े हुए दलित समाज को जगाए। वह कॉलेज में पढ़ते हुए भी स्कूल चलाता है और छोटे बच्चों को स्वयं पढ़ाता है। वह जानता है कि जीवन और समाज में व्याप्त विसंगतियों के खिलाफ लड़ाई जीतने के लिए शिक्षा सबसे मारक और शक्तिशाली शस्त्र है। Keywords: दलित समाज, सहानुभूति, स्वानुभूति, गुलामगिरी, अल्पसंख्यक, अतिवाद।

Topic: Indian History and Philosophy
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Flight Ability of Juvenile Songbirds at Fledgling: Examples of Fledgling Drop Tests

This data publication provides example video clips related to research on association among flight ability of juvenile songbirds at fledging and juvenile morphological traits (wing emergence, wing length, body condition, mass, and tarsus length. File names reflect the species dropped in each video. These videos are supplemental material for scientific publications by the authors and reflect an example subset of all videos collected form 2017-2018 as part of a larger study on the post-fledging ecology of grassland and shrubland birds in east-Central Illinois, USA. No birds were harmed/injured in the production of these videos and procedures were approved by the Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), protocol no. 18221. Individuals depicted in the videos have given consent for the videos to be shared (talent/model release form; https://publicaffairs.illinois.edu/resources/release/)

Topic: Avian ecology and behavior
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Odor stimulus inference based on neural spike signal in rats

This paper presents a novel method for inferring the odor based on neural activities observed from rats' main olfactory bulbs. Multi-channel extra-cellular single unit recordings were done by micro-wire electrodes (tungsten, 50μm, 32 channels) implanted in the mitral/tufted cell layers of the main olfactory bulb of anesthetized rats to obtain neural responses to various odors. Neural response as a key feature was measured by substraction of neural firing rate before stimulus from after. For odor inference, we have developed a decoding method based on the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation. The results have shown that the average decoding accuracy is about 100.0%, 96.0%, 84.0%, and 100.0% with four rats, respectively. This work has profound implications for a novel brain-machine interface system for odor inference.

Topic: Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Subfield: Sensory Systems
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
ChemInform Abstract: Guaianolides from Centaurea musimomum.

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.

Topic: Sesquiterpenes and Asteraceae Studies
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Effects of Hydrothermal Chemistry on Reservoir Evolution

Although the corrosion and scaling problems associated with handling geothermal fluids are well known, the effects of hydrothermal reactions are often overlooked in geothermal reservoir modeling. Water-rock chemistry can be expected to affect the evolution of a reservoir in at least three ways: (a) the heats of reaction may contribute directly to the energy production, (b) the viscosity and thermodynamic properties of water are affected by the dissolved solidsâthis is especially important in two-phase regimes, and (c) the porosity and permeability change with time due to dissolving and precipitation as well as due to the volume change associated with alteration. In the case of alteration reactions, the reaction rate is not limited by solubility and, depending on the alteration rate, significant chemical energy may be extracted. One of the objectives of our experimental program is to determine alteration rates in typical reservoir rocks, and thus assess the importance of such reactions to the total thermal regime. The changes in porosity and permeability associated with both dissolving and alteration reactions are easily incorporated into standard finite difference schemes commonly used in numerical reservoir modeling; the paper illustrates this with a system of equations incorporating the dissolution and precipitation of SiO{sub 2}. Kinetics of these SiO{sub 2} reactions are briefly discussed. 6 refs., 2 tabs., 1 fig.

Topic: CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
U.S. Tobacco Growers’ Concern about the Impact of the FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

The objective of the paper is to establish an empirical relationship between household characteristics and tobacco growers’ perception of the impact of the FDA regulation. A logistic model is applied on primary data that came from the Center for Tobacco Grower Research’s (CTGR’s) 2011 mail survey of tobacco producers. Results indicate that over 80 percent of the sample tobacco growers are concerned about the impact of the FDA regulation. The profiles of growers who reported to be concerned about the impact of the FDA regulation are not significantly different from those of growers who reported that they are not concerned or somewhat concerned. This result highlights the importance of engaging all groups of growers in discussion to elaborate whether, and if so how the FDA regulation would actually affect tobacco production, and how growers should adjust in light of the expected changes. This would help growers build confidence in the industry, and work towards making the necessary changes in agricultural practices that would help address the regulatory issues related to the contents of tobacco products. Given the widespread concern, the failure to do so could have a negative impact on resource allocation and investment decisions because of an overreaction to a potentially erroneous perception of the impact of the FDA regulation.

Topic: Organic Food and Agriculture
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
ANALYSES OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PRECIPITATION DATA BY RANDOM CASCADES

We investigated temporal and spatial precipitation data from the view point of scale invariance or scaling, and examined applicability of random cascades whose generators are defined by β model, since random cascades generate data which exhibit fractal behavior. Although β model is too simple to simulate daily precipitation time series, 151 of observation points are classified into two groups depending on ρ value of β model; one is a set of observation points along the Japan Sea, and the other is along the Pacific. Regardless of the groups, daily precipitation at 151 observation points exhibit properties of multifractal. Regarding spatial data, we investigated scaling properties using relatively long term's hourly precipitation data. Although each scan exhibits well scaling, the relationship between ρ value and spatial mean precipitation is not one to one function, if all data are used. If relatively short term's data, namely, data of each precipitation event is used, the relationship is relatively clear and parameters in the relationship depend on events.

Topic: Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
New evidence on testosterone and cooperation: reply

van Honk and colleagues have taken our findings on the role of testosterone in ultimatum gamebargaining1 a step forward by showing that the hormone has important prosocial effects beyondthe ultimatum game by increasing cooperation in the public goods game (PGG)2. In contrast to theultimatum game, participants in the PGG decide simultaneously about their cooperation levels andare not confronted with a rejection threat from other participants, suggesting a much moreuniversal effect of testosterone on prosociality than revealed by our study1. As the PGG captures alarge class of evolutionarily and contemporaneously important situations, their findings are ofgreat interest, and considerably extend our knowledge about the causal effect of testosterone onsocial behaviour. In addition, their results raise intriguing questions regarding the motivationaland biological mechanisms through which testosterone increased cooperation levels, suggestingthat the study will trigger further important experiments.

Topic: Hormonal and reproductive studies
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
How to Take a “Portrait” of Interpersonal Synergies Formation? – Exemplar Data with Expert Badminton Doubles

In the last decades, previous research regarding interpersonal synergies formation has emerged under the Uncontrolled Manifold concept, identifying synergies formation based on a single combination of task elements. However, in social systems with redundant degrees of freedom, several combinations to stabilize a performance goal may be the most common picture. Thus, the main goal of this explorative study was to create a “portrait” of a set of task elements combinations (i.e., player’s positions and velocities) adopted to stabilize a performance goal (i.e., interpersonal distance) in expert badminton doubles, which is usually associated with synergies formation. The Uncontrolled Manifold concept was used for that purpose. Our results displayed that the created “portraits” did not display any pattern of interpersonal synergies. Moreover, for all the portraits there were combinations of task elements that had the primacy over the others. A primacy that changed with the rally length. For the shortest and for the longest rallies, the player’s velocity seemed to be more relevant to form interpersonal synergies, whereas for the middle length, both the player’s position and velocity were important for that purpose. Also, there were a decreasing of synergies strength with the increasing of the rally length.

Topic: Motor Control and Adaptation
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation

This paper provides empirical evidence of the persistent effect of exposure to political violence on human capital accumulation. I exploit the variation in conflict location and birth cohorts to identify the long- and short-term effects of the civil war on educational attainment. Conditional on being exposed to violence, the average person accumulates 0.31 less years of education as an adult. In the short term, the effects are stronger than in the long run; these results hold when comparing children within the same household. Further, exposure to violence during early childhood leads to permanent losses. I also explore the potential causal mechanisms.

Topic: Agricultural risk and resilience
Subfield: Soil Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
DERIVATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF CHILD BIOLOGICAL TISSUES AT RADIO FREQUENCIES

The knowledge of electromagnetic properties of biological tissues is required to assess the radio frequency energy deposition in children exposed to electromagnetic flelds. The issue whether children should be considered a dosimetric sensitive group in comparison to adults, to which the conflrmation of age-dependence of human tissue electromagnetic properties potentially may contribute remains debatable at scientiflc forums. This paper derives the formula for calculation of electromagnetic properties (permittivity and conductivity) of children tissues, as a function of height, weight, and age, respectively. By using the proposed formula, we have calculated and presented electromagnetic properties of the muscle, brain (gray matter) and skin for 1-year-old to 10-year-old children for 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2.4GHz, at which frequencies most of radio frequency devices used by children operate. The trend over the age of child electromagnetic properties has been presented, and electromagnetic properties at difierent frequencies for the same child age have also been compared. For certain tissues, comparison between the children at various age and adult electromagnetic parameters has been given. A database with electromagnetic properties for children, of all ages, tissues and frequencies may be built up with the proposed approach. It will further advance research on the assessment of children exposure to electromagnetic flelds. Formula can also be used for the determination of electromagnetic parameters for children with speciflc height and weight.

Topic: Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
Subfield: Biophysics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
67 k calcimedin (67 kDa) is distinct from p67 calelectrin and lymphocyte 68 kDa Ca2+-binding protein

The 67 k calcimedin is a Ca2+-binding protein present in both muscle cells and peritoneal macrophages. Many tissues, including lymphoid tissues, liver and lymphocytes, have been shown to contain Ca2+-binding proteins of similar molecular size, such as the p67(67 kDa) calelectrin or the 68 kDa lymphocyte protein. We have tested affinity-purified antibodies raised to the smooth-muscle 67 k calcimedin in these several tissues and here report that the 67 k calcimedin is not detectable in liver, thymus, spleen or thymic lymphocytes. These findings support recent biochemical evidence, discussed here, suggesting that the 67 k calcimedin is a protein different from calelectrin and the 68 kDa lymphocyte protein. The more limited tissue distribution of the 67 k calcimedin, which includes muscle and macrophages, suggests that the 67 k calcimedin may function in Ca2+-mediated events special to these cell types. The affinity-purified antibodies to the 67 k calcimedin will be useful in obtaining information concerning the special roles of this Ca2+-binding protein in these cells.

Topic: Ion channel regulation and function
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
A sacrificial altar attached to a tree. People sacrifice produce here and pray to the spirits or to the dead, so that the spirits of illness may pass by without doing any harm.

Stamped: "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."

Topic: Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus
Subfield: Endocrinology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Contributes to Apoptosis Induced by the Bcl-2 Inhibitor Venetoclax in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains a challenge especially among the elderly. The Bcl-2 inhibitor venetoclax recently showed significant survival benefits in AML patients when combined to low-dose cytarabine or azacitidine. Bcl-2 inhibition initiate mitochondrial apoptosis, but also respiration and cellular ATP production in AML. AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) is a central energy sensor activated by increased AMP:ATP ratio to restore the cellular energy balance. Unexpectedly, we observed that venetoclax inhibited AMPK activity through caspase-dependent degradation of AMPK subunits in AML cells. On the other hand, genetic models of AMPK invalidation and re-expression suggested that AMPK participated to the early stages of apoptotic response through a negative regulation of multi-domain anti-apoptotic effectors such as Mcl-1 or Bcl-xL. Together our results suggested a new link between AMPK and Bcl-2-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis that participated to the anti-leukemic activity of venetoclax in AML.

Topic: Cell death mechanisms and regulation
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Arabic phonetics and phonology for text analytics and natural language processing applications

We plan to apply Text Analytics techniques honed on English for corpus-based exploration of Arabic, for Arabic Text-to-Speech (TTS) and other applications. Such techniques depend on a corpus or sample of naturally-occurring language texts capturing empirical data on the phenomena being studied, for example prosodic-syntactic patterns at phrase juncture or perceived pauses in the speech stream. For Modern Standard Arabic, this would require a representative, multi-speaker corpus of transcribed speech with phrase break annotations and ‘gold standard ’ part-of-speech (POS) categories. We can then mine these annotations as well as plain text.

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences