jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
LHD Magnetics4 #124612.169

Magnetic measurements for estimating global parameters and for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) study to introduce diamagnetic flux measurement and MHD mode analysis. Various types of magnetic sensors are used; Rogowski coils and magnetic probes inside and ourside the LHD vacuum vessel.

Topic: Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The hand mouse: Gmm hand-color classication and mean shift tracking

This paper describes an algorithm to detect and track a hand in each image taken by a wearable camera. We primarily use color information, however, instead of prede ned skin-color models, we dynamically construct hand- and background-color models by using a Gaus-sian mixture model to approximate the color histogram. Not only to obtain the estimated mean of hand color necessary for the restricted EM algorithm that esti-mates the GMM but to classify hand pixels based on the Bayes decision theory, we use a spatial probability distribution of hand pixels. Because the static distribu-tion is inadequate for the hand-tracking stage, we trans-late the distribution with the hand motion based on the mean shift algorithm. Using the proposed method, we implemented the Hand Mouse, that uses the wearer&amp;apos;s hand as a pointing device, on our Wearable Vision Sys-tem. 1.

Topic: Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Risk-Adapted, Combined-Modality Therapy for Unfavorable Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphom

Background and Objectives: Risk-adapted therapy for children with HL is directed toward high survival, minimal toxicity and optimal quality of life, with long term follow up. We assess the impact of prognostic factors associated with local treatment failure of pediatric HL patients with unfavorable criteria treated with combined modality: Alternating ABVD (Doxorubicin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine and Decarbazine) and COEP (Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, Etoposide and Prednisone) chemotherapy and response-based, involved-field radiation for newly diagnosed unfavorable pediatric HL patients, also will detect toxicities and long-term complications observed in the patients. Methods: This prospective study was carried out from January 2010 to January 2018, with a median follow up of 74 months (range 8 - 103 months). 54 patients were eligible for this study stratified into two groups: intermediate risk (IR) and high-risk group (HR). Patients were treated with (4 - 6 cycles) and (6 - 8 cycles) respectively of alternating ABVD/COEP chemotherapy followed by involved-field radiation therapy (IFRT): 15 Gy for patients achieved complete response, and 25.5 Gy for those achieved a partial response. Results: 27 patients were IR and 27 patients were HR. There were 16 treatment failures; 5 patients had progressive disease; and 11 patients had a relapse. 9 patients died from their disease progression. The 5-year overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) rates (±SE) were 81.8% ± 5.7% and 71.8% ± 6.2% respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that the only independent factor for inferior OS was radiotherapy. Conclusion: Treatment results of unfavourable HL patients in our study are satisfactory for with IR group but not for HR group who needs intensification of therapy. Radiotherapy is considered as a cornerstone in the treatment of the patients with unfavourable criteria with better assessment of early responders needed by PET-CT to identify patients at risk for relapse.

Topic: Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
Subfield: Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Is the Quality of Diabetes Care Better in a Diabetes Clinic or in a General Medicine Clinic?

OBJECTIVE To compare the quality of ambulatory diabetes care delivered by physicians in the diabetes clinic versus the general medicine clinic of a university-affiliated Veterans Administration medical center. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This is a retrospective study that involved the review of medical records against predetermined process-of-care criteria. A total of 112 patients with diabetes were randomly selected, of whom 56 were cared for in the general medicine clinic and 56 in the diabetes clinic. The following main outcome measures were examined: 1) the compliance with individual criteria; and 2) the proportion of patient visits in each clinic receiving minimally acceptable quality, defined as a blood pressure measurement, a record of type of hypoglycemic medication, a glycated hemoglobin measurement within the past year, a urinalysis within the past year, an ophthalmologist or optometrist eye examination within the past year or scheduled in the next six months, a record of change in therapeutic management, and a scheduled return visit. RESULTS The diabetes clinic performed significantly better than the general medicine clinic on the following criteria: a record of a patient's self-monitoring of blood glucose levels; a foot examination; a comprehensive eye examination; a glycated hemoglobin measurement; and a referral for diabetic education. The proportion of patient visits meeting the minimally acceptable levels of quality was better in the diabetes clinic than the general medicine clinic (73 vs. 52%, P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS Patients cared for by physicians in the diabetes clinic receive better quality of diabetes care than do patients cared for by physicians in the general medical clinic. If patient care is to be shifted from specialists to generalists, additional attention needs to be paid to ensure that generalists have the knowledge and system resources necessary to deliver an acceptable quality of diabetes care.

Topic: Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Low back pain : a comparative study on the value of core training versus traditional strengthening exercises

This randomised controlled trial (RCT) employed a&#13;\npre-test/post-test design to compare the effects of core training&#13;\n(Pilates method) and traditional back exercises on a population&#13;\nwith low back pain (LBP). Therapeutic intervention related to&#13;\nthe Pilates method has recently become popular, but there is&#13;\nlittle evidence to prove it works. In this study, 120 individuals&#13;\nwith LBP were allocated to three different groups. Group A&#13;\nwas the control group, Group B was given modified Pilates&#13;\nintervention and Group C received traditional back exercises.&#13;\nAll three groups were given a posture re-education session and&#13;\nback-care advice. After the initial session, the control group had&#13;\nindividual sessions on posture re-education. The other groups&#13;\nundertook a six-week course of either modified Pilates or general&#13;\nback exercise classes. The modified Pilates group was taught&#13;\nhow to use the core muscles, incorporating stabilisation with&#13;\nincreasing functional movements. The back exercise group did&#13;\nsimilar exercises without learning to specifically stabilise. The&#13;\nOswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (ODQ) and&#13;\nthe Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were used as measures for&#13;\npain and functional disability. Post-test ODQ readings showed&#13;\nno significant difference for pain-related function whilst VAS&#13;\nreadings revealed a significant improvement in pain levels in all&#13;\nthree groups, with the control group showing the best scores.&#13;\nHowever, the six-month follow-up scores showed that only the&#13;\nmodified Pilates group continued to improve. At this stage, the&#13;\ncontrol group was beginning to regress and the back exercise&#13;\ngroup was almost back to baseline measures. It was therefore&#13;\nconcluded that core stability exercises have better long-term&#13;\neffects than traditional back exercises

Topic: Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Women in the Mycenaean economy

It is a truism that in many societies throughout history women have little visibility and little 
power. They motivate men but they do not act alongside them; they are property, not property holders; they can be found at home, not out in the world. Only the exceptions make an 
indelible mark in the historical record. Mycenaean society was as patriarchal as any, but 
women are not quite invisible. Our best source of evidence for their economic status is the 
Linear B tablets from various palatial centers. These provide valuable information about 
the status, occupations, and property holdings of certain groups and individuals, but they do 
not necessarily describe a representative cross-section of society, let alone female society. 
They are palatial records, and focus on those with whom the palatial administrators engaged 
in transactions of various kinds. Thus they are principally concerned with certain types of 
people: elite officials, menial work groups, individual craftsmen and craftswomen involved 
in palatial production, and holders of land or other property allocated by the center. This 
list excludes the silent majority of ordinary people who made up Mycenaean society, and 
who lived and died without provoking comment in the archival record. The population of 
the Mycenaean state of Pylos, for example, is estimated to have been about 50,000 people 
(Whitelaw 2001: 63-64), but only 4,100 are referred to in the tablets (Nakassis 2013: 16) and 
of these just 900 are women (Olsen 2014: 236). The Knossos and Pylos archives combined 
make reference to 5,000 men and 2,000 women (Olsen 2014: 49, 61); data from other sites 
do not change this proportion. Within these limitations, though, we can draw some useful 
conclusions about the women who do figure in the archives of Knossos, Pylos, and to a lesser 
extent Mycenae and Thebes.

Topic: Law, logistics, and international trade
Subfield: Accounting
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
‘Tis Pity She's A Whore

First paragraph: Joss Whedon has been praised for his positive representations of women, and the way he has sought to challenge the negative portrayal of marginalised members of society. In the short-lived series Firefly (shown on the US cable channel Fox between September and December 2002) these aspects of his work have the potential to come together in the character of Inara, whose occupation as "Companion" is, as the text makes clear, that of whore. With Inara, Whedon is seeking to incorporate perhaps the most marginalised of women into the text in an ostensibly non-pejorative way. This is more problematic than his earlier attempts to rewrite the role of women, as the discourse around the commercialisation of sex has been a constant source of tension within feminism, with heated debate as to whether prostitution is crucial to the patriarchal affirmation of masculinity or can - in some instances - offer women the possibility of empowerment.

Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Sizable spin-transfer torque in the Bi/Ni80Fe20 bilayer film

The search for efficient spin conversion in Bi has attracted great attention in spin–orbitronics. In the present work, we employ spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance to investigate spin conversion in Bi/Ni80Fe20(Py) bilayer films with a continuously varying Bi thickness. In contrast with previous studies, sizable spin-transfer torque (i.e., a sizable spin-conversion effect) is observed in the Bi/Py bilayer film. Considering the absence of spin conversion in Bi/yttrium–iron–garnet bilayers and the enhancement of spin conversion in the Bi-doped Cu, the present results indicate the importance of material combinations to generate substantial spin-conversion effects in Bi.

Topic: Magnetic properties of thin films
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Climate change alters the ability of neotropical forests to provide timber and sequester carbon

Logging is widespread in tropical regions, with approximately 50% of all humid tropical forests (1.73 × 109 ha) regarded as production forests. To maintain the ecosystem functions of carbon sequestration and timber supply in tropical production forests over a long term, forest management must be sustainable under changing climate conditions. Individual-based forest models are useful tools to enhance our understanding about the long-term effects of harvest and climate change on forest dynamics because they link empirical field data with simulations of ecological processes. The objective of this study is to analyze the combined effects of selective logging and climate change on biomass stocks and timber harvest in a tropical forest in French Guiana. By applying a forest model, we simulated natural forest dynamics under the baseline scenario of current climate conditions and compared the results with scenarios of selective logging under climate change. The analyses revealed how substantially forest dynamics are altered under different scenarios of climate change. (1) Repeated logging within recovery times decreased biomass and timber harvest, irrespective of the intensity of climate change. (2) With moderate climate change as envisaged by the 5th IPCC Assessment Report (representative concentration pathway 2.6), the average biomass remained the same as in the baseline scenario (−1%), but with intensive climate change (RCP 8.5), the average biomass decreased by 12%. (3) The combination of selective logging and climate change increased the likelihood of changes in forest dynamics, driven mainly by rising temperatures. Under RCP 8.5, the average timber harvest was almost halved, regardless of the logging cycle applied. An application-oriented use of forest models will help to identify opportunities to reduce the effects of unwanted ecosystem changes in a changing environment. To ensure that ecosystem functions in production forests are maintained under climate change conditions, appropriate management strategies will help to maintain biomass and harvest in production forests.

Topic: Forest ecology and management
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Platelets modulate ischemia/reperfusion-induced leukocyte recruitment in the mesenteric circulation

P-selectin-dependent leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion has been implicated in the pathogenesis of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in several vascular beds, including the gut. Because platelet-endothelial (P/E) cell adhesion also occurs in postischemic venules, the possibility exists that the expression of P-selectin on the surface of platelets that are adherent to venular endothelial cells may mediate the leukocyte recruitment elicited by I/R. P-selectin expression [dual radiolabeled monoclonal antibody (MAb) technique] and neutrophil accumulation [myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity] were measured in the postischemic small intestine of untreated rats and rats treated with either antiplatelet serum (APS) or MAbs directed against either P-selectin, GPIIb/IIIa, or fibrinogen. The increases in P-selectin expression and tissue MPO normally elicited by I/R were significantly attenuated in the different treatment groups, suggesting that I/R-induced neutrophil recruitment is a platelet-dependent, P-selectin-mediated process. Intravital microscopy was then employed to examine this process relative to leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion in postischemic rat mesenteric venules. The recruitment of adherent and emigrated leukocytes after I/R was attenuated by pretreatment with a MAb against, either P-selectin, GPIIb/IIIa, or fibrinogen, as well as an Arg-Gly-Asp peptide. Whereas thrombocytopenia greatly blunted leukocyte emigration, it did not alter the leukocyte adherence response to I/R. These findings suggest that platelet-associated P-selectin contributes to the accumulation of leukocytes in postischemic tissue via a mechanism that alters transendothelial leukocyte migration.

Topic: Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
Subfield: Immunology and Allergy
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Book on early Christianity : The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature Edited by Jean-Sebastien Rey , Universite de Lorraine €121,00 $166.00 ISBN13: 9789004227033 E-ISBN: 9789004230071 Publication Year: 2013 BRILL The relationships between Pauline literature and the Dead Sea scrolls have fascinated specialists ever since the latter were first discovered. Now that all the Qumran scrolls have been published, it is possible to see more clearly the amplitude and impact of this corpus on first century Judaism. This boo...

Topic: Biblical Studies and Interpretation
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Assessing the performance of volunteers in monitoring streams

1. Citizens are concerned about the quality of water resources and many participate in monitoring activities, though doubts remain about the quality of the data volunteers collect. We trained volunteers to collect benthic macroinvertebrates using professional protocols. Of the seven stream sites sampled by volunteer crews, six sites were also sampled by professional crews. 2. In the laboratory, volunteers used morphological features to identify as many different taxa as possible within the major insect orders; their identification was approximately to family. Volunteers calculated five metrics: total taxon richness, richness of three key groups (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera), and percentage dominance of the three most abundant taxa. All metrics were strongly correlated with (a) the percentage of urbanized area in the catchment and (b) the metrics derived from a more complete taxonomic identification by a professional scientist. Taxon richness metrics declined with urban development, while percent dominance increased. 3. An overall summary multimetric index was used to compare the field and laboratory procedures of volunteers and professionals. Using an ANOVA model, we detected no significant difference between field samples collected by volunteers and professionals. The variance of index values associated with differences between crews was zero. The ability of the index to detect significant differences among sites (statistical power) improved by only 13% for assessments based on professional laboratory identification instead of volunteer laboratory identification. 4. Citizen volunteers, when properly trained, can collect reliable data and make stream assessments that are comparable to those made by professionals. Data collected by volunteers can supplement information used by government agencies to manage and protect rivers and streams.

Topic: Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
[Protective effect of ranitidine in acute experimental pancreatitis in the rat].

Acute experimental pancreatitis was induced in rats, with a polyethylene splint placed into the duodenum, by the closed duodenal loop technique. Ranitidine (20 mg . kg-1) or saline were administered intraperitoneally every 8 hrs, beginning 15 min prior to surgery. The degree of pancreatitis and the amylase to creatinine clearance ratio (ACCR) were evaluated in all the animals after sacrifice. Ranitidine-treated animals showed significant by reduced pancreatic damage and ACCR values in comparison with non-treated rats. These data confirm the efficacy of ranitidine as a preventive agent in the development of acute pancreatitis and suggest that controlled trials should be performed with this H2-antagonist in the human subyects with this disease.

Topic: Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Omnidirectional in the Azimuth Plane Antennas Based on Circular Arrays with Horizontal Polarization for Radio Monitoring Systems

Omnidirectional in the azimuth plane antennas are needed to emit or receive signals in the whole plane. Such antennas are used in various applications: digital television or mobile communications, sensors, radio monitoring systems and others. Here we show design results of omnidirectional antennas based on circular arrays composed by elements of different types. Limitation on key parameters and the dependences of the radiation pattern irregularity in azimuth plane on them are given. This allows you to use the presented mathematical models for the design omnidirectional in the azimuth plane antennas according to the requirements for frequencies, dimensions and the radiation pattern azimuthal irregularity.

Topic: Antenna Design and Optimization
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Alkenone stable carbon isotopes, planktic foraminfera stable carbon isotopes, alkenone unsaturation indices and calculated sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pCO2 for ODP Site 165-999

Temperature reconstructions indicate that the Pliocene was ~3 °C warmer globally than today, and several recent reconstructions of Pliocene atmospheric CO2 indicate that it was above pre-industrial levels and similar to those likely to be seen this century. However, many of these reconstructions have been of relatively low temporal resolution, meaning that these records may have failed to capture variations associated with the 41 Kyr glacial-interglacial cycles thought to operate in the Pliocene. Here we present a new, high temporal resolution alkenone carbon isotope based record of pCO2 spanning 2.8 to 3.3 million years ago from ODP Site 999. Our record is of high enough resolution (~19 Kyrs) to resolve glacial-interglacial changes beyond the intrinsic uncertainty of the proxy method. The record suggests that Pliocene CO2 levels were relatively stable, exhibiting variation less than 55 ppm. We perform sensitivity studies to investigate the possible effect of changing sea surface temperature, which highlights the importance of accurate and precise SST reconstructions for alkenone palaeobarometry, but demonstrate that these uncertainties do not affect our conclusions of relatively stable pCO2 levels during this interval.

Topic: Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences