jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Revisiting risk in the Global Production Network approach 2.0 - Towards a performative risk narrative perspective

Until the so-called GPN 2.0 approach placed it on the research agenda, risk had played a subordinate role in the literature on global production networks (GPN). In GPN 2.0, Knight's economic notion of risk is applied and defined as rationally calculable, in contrast to uncertainties. However, this still dominant conceptualization of risk falls short of an actor-centered focus, which is a focal point of the GPN 2.0 approach. Therefore, we advocate for a stronger conceptual integration of a social constructivist premise with a spatio-relational understanding of risk to enhance the explanatory power of GPN risk. This article highlights that GPN risk needs to be framed as becoming causally significant in the perception and expectations of organizational decision-makers. We argue that the organization-environment interaction causes the production and constitution of risk. In pursuit of an integrative research design, we develop a multi-scalar framework based on a performative risk narrative perspective.

Topic: Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Exploring the Roles of the Swi2/Snf2 Gene Family in Maize Abiotic Stress Responses

The maize Snf2 gene family plays a crucial role in chromatin remodeling and response to environmental stresses. In this study, we identified and analyzed 35 members of the maize Snf2 gene family (ZmCHR1 to ZmCHR35) using the Ensembl Plants database. Each protein contained conserved SNF2-N and Helicase-C domains. Phylogenetic analysis revealed six groups among the Snf2 proteins, with an uneven distribution across subfamilies. Physicochemical analysis indicated that the Snf2 proteins are hydrophilic, with varied amino acid lengths, isoelectric points, and molecular weights, and are predominantly localized in the nucleus. Chromosomal mapping showed that these genes are distributed across all ten maize chromosomes. Gene structure analysis revealed diverse exon–intron arrangements, while motif analysis identified 20 conserved motifs. Collinearity analysis highlighted gene duplication events, suggesting purifying selection. Cis-regulatory element analysis suggested involvement in abiotic and biotic stress responses. Expression analysis indicated tissue-specific expression patterns and differential expression under various stress conditions. Specifically, qRT-PCR validation under drought stress showed that certain Snf2 genes were upregulated at 12 h and downregulated at 24 h, revealing potential roles in drought tolerance. These findings provide a foundation for further exploration of the functional roles of the maize Snf2 gene family in development and stress responses.

Topic: Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Reverberant speech recognition combining deep neural networks and deep autoencoders augmented with a phone-class feature

We propose an approach to reverberant speech recognition adopting deep learning in the front-end as well as b a c k-e n d o f a r e v e r b e r a n t s p e e c h r e c o g n i t i o n s y s t e m, a n d a n o v e l m e t h o d t o i m p r o v e t h e d e r e v e r b e r a t i o n p e r f o r m a n c e of the front-end network using phone-class information. At the front-end, we adopt a deep autoencoder (DAE) for enhancing the speech feature parameters, and speech recognition is performed in the back-end using DNN-HMM acoustic models trained on multi-condition data. The system was evaluated through the ASR task in the Reverb Challenge 2014. The DNN-HMM system trained on the multi-condition training set achieved a conspicuously higher word accuracy compared to the MLLR-adapted GMM-HMM system trained on the same data. Furthermore, feature enhancement with the deep autoencoder contributed to the improvement of recognition accuracy especially in the more adverse conditions. While the mapping between reverberant and clean speech in DAE-based dereverberation is conventionally conducted only with the acoustic information, we presume the mapping is also dependent on the phone information. Therefore, we propose a new scheme (pDAE), which augments a phone-class feature to the standard acoustic features as input. Two types of the phone-class feature are investigated. One is the hard recognition result of monophones, and the other is a soft representation derived from the posterior outputs of monophone DNN. The augmented feature in either type results in a significant improvement (7–8 % relative) from the standard DAE.

Topic: Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Optimising project outcomes in complex environments: empirical insights on agile practices and stakeholder dynamics

Purpose This study delves into the dynamics between Agile Response to Change (AR), Adaptive Scoping (AS), Stakeholder Engagement (SE) and Project Performance (PP), with a special focus on the moderating influence of Project Complexity (PC). The research, grounded in a thorough literature review, identifies critical gaps in these areas and examines the extent to which PC moderates the effects of AR, AS and SE on PP, offering new perspectives for managing complex projects. Design/methodology/approach The research develops a conceptual model based on a critical analysis of existing literature. A comprehensive questionnaire was designed, incorporating 28 items to measure AR, AS, SE, PP and PC. Data was collected from 136 project managers across various industries, and the responses were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM) to explore the complex interplay between these variables. Findings The analysis revealed that internal AR (ARint) significantly enhances both quantitative (PPqt) and qualitative aspects of PP (PPql). AS and SE were found to positively influence PPql, but their impact on PPqt was not significant. Interestingly, PC was observed to negatively moderate the relationship between ARint and PPql, while its moderating effect on the relationship between ARint and PPql was not significant. The study also notes that PC does not significantly alter the positive correlations between AS, SE and PPql. Originality/value This research contributes to the existing body of knowledge by elucidating the relationships between ARint, AS, SE and different dimensions of PP. It uniquely explores the role of PC as a moderating variable in these relationships, offering valuable insights for practitioners and researchers in the field of complex project management.

Topic: Construction Project Management and Performance
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
265 Effects of non-Starch Polysaccharide Degrading Enzymes + Lysophospholipids in Feeds with Varied ME Contents on Growth Performance and Nutrient Utilization of Pigs from 25 to 75 Kg BW

Abstract This study aimed to investigate efficacy of the combinational use of non-starch polysaccharide degrading enzymes (NSPase) and lysophospholipids (LPL) on growth performance and nutrient utilization in pigs fed feeds with varied metabolizable energy (ME) levels. Grower pigs (n = 270; 28.1 ± 0.6 kg BW) were allotted in a randomized complete block design with a 3 x 3 factorial arrangement of treatments fed for 51 d in 2 phases (30 and 21 d, respectively). Two factors were ME (3,260, 3,335, and 3,410 kcal/kg) and NSPase + LPL (ELPL at 0.00, 0.05, and 0.10%). Growth performance and backfat were measured. Blood was collected to measure plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) concentrations. Data were analyzed using the MIXED procedure on SAS 9.4. Increasing ME tended to increase (P = 0.066) ADG during Grower 2 and increased (P &amp;lt; 0.05) G/F during the overall period. Increasing ELPL supplementation increased (P &amp;lt; 0.05) both ADG and ADFI during Grower 2, whereas it tended to reduce (P = 0.084) G/F during the overall period. Supplemental effects of ELPL on increasing ADG was prominent (P &amp;lt; 0.05) at high ME content (3% above NRC requirement). Supplementation of ELPL tended to reduce (P = 0. 057) G/F during Grower 2 at low ME content (3% below NRC requirements). Backfat thickness and NEFA were not influenced by 2 factors. Increasing ME increased (P &amp;lt; 0.05) PUN during Grower 1 whereas increasing ELPL tended to increase (P = 0.077) PUN during Grower 2. In conclusion, supplementation of ELPL enhanced growth and feed intake of pigs from 50 to 75 kg BW, especially when dietary ME was above NRC requirement (3%) by fat supplementation (4%). These improvements may be due to increased nutrient utilization as indirectly indicated by increased PUN during fed status.

Topic: Animal Nutrition and Physiology
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
LHD HDLP #100976.1

Hybrid directional probe (HDLP), a combination use of a Langmuir probe and a thermocouple for calorimeter, which can measure local current flux and heat flux simultaneously to estimate the beam component in the direction of parallel and antiparallel to the magnetic field

Topic: Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Subfield: Biomaterials
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Mortality Following Treatment With and Without Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in Dialysis Patients

Objectives: To evaluate the mortality after treatment with a paclitaxel (PTX)-coated device and with uncoated devices of iliac, femoropopliteal, and below-the-knee lesions in dialysis patients. Methods: Retrospective mortality analysis of dialysis patients with peripheral artery disease who underwent treatment of iliac, femoropopliteal, and/or infrapopliteal lesions with PTX-coated or uncoated devices. Results: Between 2010 and 2018, 1125 dialysis patients were treated with iliac and/or femoropopliteal and/or infrapopliteal lesions. In all, 359 patients were selected for this retrospective analysis. Of those, 122 patients were treated with uncoated devices without crossover to a PTX-coated device during follow-up and 237 patients were treated with a PTX-coated device. Mean follow-up time was 27.38±24.76 months (range=0–103). For the entire cohort, the overall mortality was 95.1% after uncoated treatment and 75.9% after PTX treatment (p&lt;0.001). After propensity score matching (n=119), overall mortality was 95.0% after uncoated treatment and 78.2% after PTX treatment (p&lt;0.001). For the entire cohort, multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed age (p=0.002) and critical limb ischemia (p&lt;0.001) as independent predictors for mortality. PTX treatment was a protective factor for mortality (p&lt;0.001). Conclusion: Mortality in dialysis patients is in general high and higher after use of uncoated devices compared with PTX-coated devices. Mortality predictors were risk factors and disease severity but not PTX treatment. Clinical Impact After the publication of Katsanos’s metaanalyses, the uncertainty regarding PTX device safety in peripheral interventions in patients mainly without end-stage renal insufficiency was initially considerable. The present study for the first time investigates the potential long-term mortality risk of dialysis patients following PTX device treatment of PAD. In contrast to a recent meta-analysis, this real-world study could show a better survival after PTX treatment in comparison to uncoated devices.

Topic: Peripheral Artery Disease Management
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Helping Ourselves out of the Margins: Handbooks for Creative Writing as a Tool for Analyzing Literary Dynamics

Speaking about the “margins” of literature is in itself very paradoxical. For most people, “marginal” literature is quite often the most popular form of fiction (although it is dismissed scathingly by most literary critics), whereas the most prestigious literary genres may be considered marginal from the sociological point of view. Moreover, new publication platforms and new media have made the very notion of literature, both as a textual and as an institutional phenomenon, even more complex. In this chapter, I will attempt to get a clear view on some of these paradoxes by considering literature as a form of creative, and yet constrained, activity. To this end, I analyze a very popular branch of handbooks for creative writing as instances of “normative poetics.”

Topic: Artistic and Creative Research
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Kidney donor age of 50 years or above is a risk factor for calcineurin inhibitor‐induced nephrotoxicity

Abstract Introduction Calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)‐induced nephrotoxicity (CNI‐T) is a post‐transplantation complication that leads to graft dysfunction. Older‐donor kidney grafts may be susceptible to chronic CNI exposure because of long‐term arteriolar damage. The primary aim of this study was to examine the CNI‐T incidence and time‐course changes in the graft function according to donor age. Methods We included 334 kidney transplant recipients. CNI‐T was defined by Banff arteriolar hyaline thickening scores of ≥2 based on allograft protocol biopsy. Depending on donor age, participants were divided into the D &gt; 70 (≥70 years), D60 (60–69 years), D50 (50–59 years), and D &lt; 49: (≤49 years) groups. We investigated the extent to which CNI‐T affected the transplanted kidney function. Patients who did not develop CNI‐T during the study period were included in the non‐CNI‐T group; the remaining were grouped into the CNI‐T group. Results The CNI‐T incidence was higher in donors aged &gt;50 years. Compared to D &lt; 49, the CNI‐T risk was 1.86 times higher in D50 and 2.9 times higher in D &gt; 70. Furthermore, the CNI‐T group exhibited a significantly lower graft function 10 years after transplantation. Conclusion CNI‐T incidence increases in donors aged ≥50 years and affects renal function after 10 years.

Topic: Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
Subfield: Transplantation
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Broad Phenotypic Cross-Resistance to Elvitegravir in HIV-Infected Patients Failing on Raltegravir-Containing Regimens

ABSTRACT The failure of raltegravir (RAL) is generally associated with the selection of mutations at integrase position Y143, Q148, or N155. However, a relatively high proportion of failures occurs in the absence of these changes. Here, we report the phenotypic susceptibilities to RAL and elvitegravir (EVG) for a large group of HIV-infected patients failing on RAL-containing regimens. Plasma from HIV-infected individuals failing on RAL-containing regimens underwent genotypic and phenotypic resistance testing (Antivirogram v2.5.01; Virco). A control group of patients failing on other regimens was similarly tested. Sixty-one samples were analyzed, 40 of which belonged to patients failing on RAL-containing regimens. Full RAL susceptibility was found in 20/21 controls, while susceptibility to EVG was diminished in 8 subjects, with a median fold change (FC) of 2.5 (interquartile range [IQR], 2.1 to 3.1). Fourteen samples from patients with RAL failures showed diminished RAL susceptibility, with a median FC of 38.5 (IQR, 10.8 to 103.2). Primary integrase resistance mutations were found in 11 of these samples, displaying a median FC of 68.5 (IQR, 23.5 to 134.3). The remaining 3 samples showed a median FC of 2.5 (IQR, 2 to 2.7). EVG susceptibility was diminished in 19/40 samples from patients with RAL failures (median FC, 7.71 [IQR, 2.48 to 99.93]). Cross-resistance between RAL and EVG was high ( R 2 = 0.8; P &lt; 0.001), with drug susceptibility being more frequently reduced for EVG than for RAL (44.3% versus 24.6%; P = 0.035). Susceptibility to RAL and EVG is rarely affected in the absence of primary integrase resistance mutations. There is broad cross-resistance between RAL and EVG, which should preclude their sequential use. Resistance to EVG seems to be more frequent and might be more influenced by integrase variability.

Topic: HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca

Granada and Federico the Republic Granada before the terror Lorca and the popular front Ramon Ruiz Alonso the fall of Granada the repression Granada cemetery Lorca at the Huerta de San Vicente Lorca with the Rosales Lorca in the civil government building death at dawn - Fuente Grande why did they kill Lorca? Lorca's asassination - press and propaganda from 1936 until the death of Franco. Appendices: A - a complete list of town councillors holding office in Granada between February and July 1936 and of those executed B - the origins of a rumour - Federico Garcia Lorca and the Spanish civil guard C - Jean-Louis Schonberg and his homosexual jealousy thesis concerning Lorca's death D - further reference by Arab authors to Ainadamar E - an anonymous ballad on the death of Garcia Lorca.

Topic: Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Genetic variability studies in Gossypium barbadense L. genotypes for seed cotton yield and its yield components

A study was carried out during kharif 2006-07 with twenty five Gossypium barbadense L genotypes to obtain information ongenetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for seed cotton yield and its yield attributes. Significant differences wereobserved for characters among genotypes. High genetic differences were recorded for nodes/plant, sympodia, bolls as well asfruiting points per plant, seed cotton yield, lint index indicating ample scope for genetic improvement of these charactersthrough selection. Results also revealed high heritability coupled with high genetic advance for yield and most of the yieldcomponents as well as fibre quality traits. Sympodia/plant, fruiting point /plant, number of nodes/plant, number of bolls perplant, and lint index were positively correlated with seed cotton yield per plant and appeared to be interrelated with eachother. It is suggested that these characters could be considered as selection criteria in improving the seed cotton yield of G.barbadense, L genotypes.

Topic: Research in Cotton Cultivation
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
GRAM-SCHMIDT PROCESS OF ORTHONORMALIZATION IN BANACH SPACES

Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization in Banach spaces is considered. Using this orthonormalization process we can prove that if $P$ is a projection on a reflexive Banach space $X$ with a basis $\\{e_n;f_n\\}$, then there exists a basis $\\{u_n;g_n\\}$ of $X$ such that $\\{g_n\\}\\approx\\{f_n\\}$ and the matrix of $P$ with respect to $\\{u_n;g_n\\}$ has the property that all but a finite number of entries of each column and each row are zero.

Topic: Advanced Banach Space Theory
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Removal of Orange II by Phosphonium-modified Algerian Bentonites

An Algerian montmorillonite was modified with two organic surfactants, methyltriphenyl phosphonium bromide and n-hexyltriphenyl phosphonium bromide. The solids obtained were used as adsorbents to remove Orange II, an anionic dye from aqueous solutions. Batch experiments were conducted to study the effects of temperature (20–60°C), initial concentration of adsorbate (50–150 mg L−1) and pH of solution 6.5 on dye adsorption. Due to their organophilic nature, exchanged montmorillonites were able to adsorb Orange II at a very high level. Adsorption of Orange II for B-NHTPB and B-MTPB at different pH show that the adsorption capacity clearly decreases with an increase in pH of the initial solution from 2 to 8, this decrease being dramatic for pH > 8. This may be due to hydrophobic interactions of the organic dye with both phosphonium molecules and the remaining non-covered portion of siloxane surface. The kinetics of the adsorption was discussed on the basis of three kinetic models, i.e., the pseudo-first-order, the pseudo-second-order, and the intraparticle diffusion models. Equilibrium is reached after 30 min and 60 min for B-MTPB and B-NHTPB, respectively; the pseudo-second-order kinetic model described very well the adsorption of Orange II on modified bentonites. The non-linear Langmuir model provided the best correlation of experimental data, maximum adsorption of Orange II is 53.78 mg g−1 for B-NHTPB and 33.79 mg g−1 for B-MTPB. The thermodynamic parameters, such as free energy of adsorption (ΔG°), enthalpy change (ΔH°), and entropy change (ΔS°) were also determined and evaluated. From thermodynamic studies, it was deduced that the adsorption was spontaneous and exothermic.

Topic: Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
Subfield: Water Science and Technology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
No Uber, no tourists? Public attitudes toward municipal regulation of the sharing economy

The rise of the sharing economy has led to political fights between users of these platforms, local government officials, city residents, and members of the traditional taxi and hotel industries. Municipalities have crafted policies that restrict the operation of sharing economy companies in a variety of ways. However, scholars have not systematically analysed public attitudes regarding these policies. What local-level regulations of the sharing economy, if any, do citizens support? What factors explain citizen support for municipal regulation of the sharing economy? Further, given that these services are popular with travellers, what impact do local sharing economy restrictions have on tourism intentions? In this article, I analyse a series of survey questions from the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and find that a majority of Americans support some, but not all, sharing economy regulations. Additionally, local restrictions on sharing economy companies are associated with decreased tourism intentions.

Topic: Sharing Economy and Platforms
Subfield: Marketing
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Modification of a glass micro-extractor aiming to enrichment of traces of water contaminating organochlorinated pesticides and their quantitative gas chromatographic analysis.

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Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences