jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
A retrospective comparative study of venous vs nonringed expanded polytetrafluoroethylene extension grafts for anterior sector outflow reconstruction in right lobe living donor liver transplantation

Abstract Background Prosthetic vessel grafts are increasingly being used for anterior sector (AS) outflow reconstruction in right lobe living donor liver transplantation (RL‐LDLT) in view of easy availability and proper fit. The aim of the study was to analyze technique and outcomes of AS reconstruction using nonringed expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) grafts and compare outcomes with venous extension grafts. Methods This is a retrospective study of 437 consecutive RL‐LDLTs from January 2014 to August 2015. Vein (V) and ePTFE (alone or composite) were used alternatively or best fit for particular right lobe graft. Result V graft was used in 200 recipients and ePTFE in 237 recipients with comparable preoperative donor and recipient characteristics. Cold ischemia time was significantly high in the ePTFE group. Postoperative recipient outcomes were comparable between the groups. The graft patency rate was comparable between the groups at different time intervals of follow‐up. However, 12‐month patency was low in those with multiple venous tributaries than with single outflow reconstruction ([V 90%, ePTFE 86.7%] vs [V 97.4%, ePTFE 95.2%]). No patient was re‐explored for graft blockage. There was no significant difference in 30‐day (V 92%, ePTFE 94.5%, P = 0.34), 90‐day (V 90%, ePTFE 90.7%, P = 0.87) and one‐year (V 87.5%, ePTFE 89%, P = 0.66) patient survival between the groups. Conclusion Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene gives equivalent patency and recipient outcomes with the added advantage of proper size match fit, allowing more complex AS reconstruction with ease without increased infection rate or associated complications.

Topic: Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Laisser des traces à travers une œuvre

Hervé Di Rosa comments his own work in which traces mainly have two meanings : on one hand, those left in his works by the know-how of the craftsmen from the different cultures he works with and, on the other hand, Man's traces in architecture, the landscape he gets inspiration from.

Topic: French Urban and Social Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Podcast: The Time Toxicity of Cancer Treatment

Dr. Arjun Gupta, a GI medical oncologist at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center in Minneapolis, speaks with host Dr. John Sweetenham, associate director for Clinical Affairs at UT Southwestern’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, about the concept of time toxicity in cancer treatment. Dr. Gupta proposes a measure of time toxicity and a framework for how it could be implemented in research and clinical practice.

Topic: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Postpartum preeclampsia in Bhutan: A case report

Pre-eclampsia usually occurs in the antenatal period after 20 weeks of gestation. However, case of postpartum preeclampsia can also occur especially within the first one week after the delivery. The diagnosis of postpartum preeclampsia can be easily missed since it is rare.

Topic: Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Compressibility of an Isolated Spheroidal Cavity in an Isotropic Elastic Medium

Research Papers Compressibility of an Isolated Spheroidal Cavity in an Isotropic Elastic Medium R. W. Zimmerman R. W. Zimmerman Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Author and Article Information R. W. Zimmerman Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720 J. Appl. Mech. Sep 1985, 52(3): 606-608 (3 pages) https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3169108 Published Online: September 1, 1985 Article history Received: August 1, 1984 Revised: January 1, 1985 Online: July 21, 2009

Topic: Elasticity and Material Modeling
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Region-based affine motion segmentation using color information

This paper presents region-based affine motion parameter clustering methods by motion-vector and intensity matching to provide improved robustness and alignment of motion boundaries with real object boundaries. Regions may be formed as fixed- or variable-size rectangular blocks, triangular patches, or arbitrary-shaped areas defined by color or texture uniformity. A particular combination of these affine clustering methods is then proposed to obtain the best segmentation results on a variety of image sequences. Experimental results showing the benefits of the proposed scheme are provided.

Topic: Advanced Vision and Imaging
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Unstable angina pectoris: an examination of modes and costs of therapy.

Debate exists over the most appropriate form of treatment for patients with unstable angina pectoris. This study examined 106 patients randomized at the University of Alabama in Birmingham as part of the National Cooperative Study Group and focuses on the phenomenon of patients who fail medical therapy and thus require late surgery, and the costs of therapy. Discriminant function analysis revealed that the significant predictors (p less than 0.01) of patients who would later require surgery were: total number of vessels diseased, angina severly, presence of congestive heart failure, hypertension, and number of years that the patient had had angina. By means of this analysis, 85% of the late surgery patients were correctly predicted. Late surgery patients averaged 2.4 diseased vessels vs 1.5 for persistent medical patients (p less than 0.01). Mean charges for the first 2 years in the study were $6,226 (SD $2,967) for persistent medical patients, $10,416 (SD $2,146) for surgery patients, and $20,059 (SD $10,748) for late surgery patients (p less than 0.001). These data indicate that surgery is clearly an expensive procedure; but that it is more expensive for late surgery patients, who have total costs that are twice as high as surgical costs and 3.5 times as high as persistent medical costs.

Topic: Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Expression of cancer-associated genes in prostate tumors at mRNA and protein levels

Aim. To analyze an expression pattern of the cancer-associated genes in prostate tumors at mRNA and protein levels and find putative association between the expression of these genes and the genes, controlling epithelial to mesenchymal cell transition (EMT), the markers of prostate cancer and stromal elements. Methods. Relative expression of genes was assessed by a quantitative PCR in 29 prostate cancer tissue samples (T) of different Gleason score (GS) and tumor stage, 29 paired conventionally normal prostate tissue (CNT) samples and in 14 samples of prostate adenomas (A). Immunohistochemistry (IHC) was used to assess protein expression. Results. We found significant differences (p&lt;0.05) in RE of three genes (FOS, PLAU, EPDR1) between the T, N and A groups. FOS was induced in T and CNT, compared with A whereas PLAU and EPDR1 were decreased. Noteworthy, RE of the five genes (FOS, EFNA5, TAGLN, PLAU and EPDR1) changed significantly, depending on GS (p&lt;0.05) in T, compared to the A and/or CNT groups. Moreover, according to the K-means clustering, RE of the FOS, PLAU and EDPR1 genes varied in the tumor groups, consisting of cancers with different GS. The FOS protein signal was higher in adenocarcinomas, compared to hyperplasia. The same trend was demonstrated by q-PCR. FOS expression increased upon the tumor development i.e. was higher in the tumors at stage 3-4. PLAU expression was decreasing meanwhile, as was shown by q-PCR and IHC. Conclusions. IHC data allowed us to understand the high levels of RE dispersion. Mainly, it is due to the expression in other cell types, and not in the prostate gland cells. For the meaningful clustering, prognosis and also for the creation of specific biomarker panels, these two methods should be adequately merged.

Topic: RNA modifications and cancer
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Norepinephrine vascoconstrictor escape in isolated meseneric arteries

When isolated superfused cat mesentric arterial rings were exposed to norepinephrine(NE) 10'-6 g/ml, force initially increased but subsequently declined despite continuedadministration of NE. Phasic contractions occurred in 48% of the vessels. Norepinephrine concentrations just above threshold induced tonic contractions without escape. When NE was administered after brief exposure of the arterial rings to low-calcium solutions, peak force development and escape were both reduced and phasic contractions were abolished. Escape did not occur in potassium-depolarized vessels. The peak response was increased and escape was reduced by substituting sodium in the Krebs solution by lithium and by substituting chloride with iodide or perchlorate. Substitution of chloride by isethionate reduced the peak NE resonse and abolished escape. Propanolol was without effect. It is suggested that escape from NE vasoconstriction in mesenteric arteries is due to fading of propagated activity.

Topic: Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The European Union and Turkey’s regional policy

This chapter deals with the misfit between the European Union (EU) regional development policy and the Turkish practice by looking at the EU requirements and the Turkish case in pre-accession process. It analyzes the Europeanization process taking place at the regional development domain. The chapter explains the outcomes of the process. The mechanism of Europeanization is a mechanism of lesson-drawing, where the EU provides the benchmark and basic guidelines and expects the member states or potential member states to find the best practice in line with EU standards. In terms of the mechanism of change triggered by Europeanization, it is possible to argue that the outcome of the process depends on the domestic institutional structure and position of the major political actors. In Turkish regional policy reform case, the EU membership prospects and financial instruments of pre-accession have triggered a policy transfer by which Turkey tried to reform its regional development policy according to the principles provided by the EU.

Topic: European Union Policy and Governance
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
[What are the causes and the reason why of diseases prevalence and incidence in occupational sample of women].

In women subset, cardiovascular and vertebral degenerative disease, skin, wrist and elbow (carpal canal and epicondylitis) pathologies were much more represented than in men's ones. Psychiatric and psychosomatic symptoms and diseases were much more represented in the women sample and furthermore at younger age. In women, heavier work load has been the most responsible factor of degenerative diseases, while shift work of psychiatric and psychosomatic diseases. In the same gender, the stable living together and family charge increased the incidence of chronic degenerative diseases, suggesting an empowering effect coming from the occupation. In conclusion, from data analysis it is possible to speculate that working women's health profile is sensible to various determinants with synergic effect; consequently the clinical emergence of diseases is shown up earlier.

Topic: Workplace Health and Well-being
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Composition and function of rhizosphere microbiome of Panax notoginseng with discrepant yields

Abstract Background Panax notoginseng is a highly valuable medicinal plant. Reduced P. notoginseng yield is a common and serious problem that arises in a continuous cropping system. Variation in the composition and function of soil microbial community is considered the primary cause of yield reduction. Methods This study used shotgun metagenomic sequencing approaches to describe the taxonomic and functional features of P. notoginseng rhizosphere microbiome and screen microbial taxa and functional traits related to yields. Results A total of 43 families and 45 genera (relative abundance &gt; 0.1%) were further confirmed to be related to P. notoginseng yields. Nitrosomonadaceae, Xanthomonadaceae, Mycobacterium and Arthrobacter that were enriched in soils with higher yields were positively correlated with P. notoginseng yields, thereby suggesting that they might increase yields. Negative correlation coefficients indicated that Xanthobacteraceae, Caulobacteraceae, Oxalobacteraceae, Chitinophagaceae, Sphingomonas , Hyphomicrobium , Variovora x and Phenylobacterium might be detrimental to P. notoginseng growth. A total of 85 functional traits were significantly ( P &lt; 0.05) correlated with P. notoginseng yields. Functional traits, likely steroid biosynthesis and MAPK signaling pathway were positively correlated with P. notoginseng yields. In contrast, functional traits, such as bacterial secretion system, ABC transporters, metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450 and drug metabolism–cytochrome P450, were negatively associated with yields. Conclusions This study describes an overview of the rhizosphere microbiome of P. notoginseng with discrepant yields and confirms the taxa and functional traits related to yields. Our results provide valuable information to guide the isolation and culture of potentially beneficial microorganisms and to utilize the power of the microbiome to increase plant yields in a continuous cropping system.

Topic: Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Sonic warfare and music both exploit the negative effects of sound: what are the similarities - if any - between these two distant practices?

This study aims to explore and analyse the uses of sound as a negative energy by the military, via sonic warfare, and modern music artists, via noise music and the avant-garde. Both fields employ the psychological and physiological properties of sound to affect human targets, but by bringing together the literature around both topics, this study provides evidence of their links and identifies the influences that these two practices have on each other. This dissertation shows that they not only deploy sound in similar ways, but also with the same intentions, with the only difference being the context in which they are implemented. Noise music shows to have even stronger links with sonic warfare; showing comparable characteristics all round with the only difference being potential restrictions in amplitude.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
The Traditional Model of Public Service Provision

The debate on the role of government in the 1980s and 1990s has not simply been about how its activities can be limited and controlled but also about the institutional character of the state. It is argued that the state must not only be smaller, but also different; it must become market-oriented, fired by the spirit of entrepreneurship (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992). The British welfare state, as it developed in the post-war years, was organised according to principles of hierarchy, planning, direct control, self-sufficiency, centralisation and professionalism (Stewart and Walsh, 1992). Premfors' (1991) description of the Swedish model captures the nature of the welfare state as now exists in the UK: The big problems of Swedish society, as perceived by the adherents of the model, were seen to require big solutions. Big solutions meant nationwide and uniform social programmes, planned and administered in a centralised fashion by big, hierarchically organised government agencies, and financed out of all-purpose tax funds. In some services, local governments would be appropriate producers and distributors, but only following a radical programme of amalgamation and centralisation. It is this model that the new market-based public service management is intended to replace.

Topic: Social Policy and Reform Studies
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
CCDC 1556163: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.

Topic: X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Supplementary Data from Clinicogenomic Analysis of &lt;i&gt;FGFR2&lt;/i&gt;-Rearranged Cholangiocarcinoma Identifies Correlates of Response and Mechanisms of Resistance to Pemigatinib

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Topic: Fibroblast Growth Factor Research
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Wilkie′s syndrome

Wilkie's syndrome, well known as superior mesenteric artery syndrome, is a rare but well-recognized clinical entity causing upper abdominal symptoms. A 26-year-old woman presented with recurrent upper abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of weight, early satiety, and fullness of upper abdomen for 2 years. She was subjected to open appendicectomy and laparoscopic adhesionolysis within 20 months without relief. Clinical suspicion and thorough investigation revealed compression at transverse portion (third part) of duodenum. Though ideally a duodenojejunostomy is preferred, due to technical reasons an anterior gastrojejunostomy was performed, which resulted in relief of obstructive symptoms.

Topic: Vascular anomalies and interventions
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Dynamical Bayesian cue integration in a volatile Posner dual-cueing task

This research investigates the Bayesian integration of visual and auditory cues in a dynamic decision-making task. We introduce a volatile Posner dual-cueing task to simulate the volatility nature of sensory information and develop a Bayesian agent to model human behavior. The agent employs a hierarchical Bayesian model to estimate the validity of visual and auditory cues, which are assumed to follow a multivariate Bernoulli distribution with a time-varying coefficient of variation (CV). The agent's response model integrates the cues' attentional factors, weighted by their precisions, to predict reaction speed (RS). Through simulations, the agent demonstrates the ability to adapt to changes in cue validity and precision, reflecting the dynamic allocation of attention and the optimization of reaction speed. The results show that the agent's performance is consistent with theoretical predictions, suggesting that the model is promising to effectively captures the essence of human multimodal integration. The study paves the way for future work to validate the model with human behavioral data and enhance our understanding of cognitive processes underlying attention and decision-making.

Topic: Neural dynamics and brain function
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Holographic Equipartition and Gravitational Collapse

It is argued in the literature that gravity is an emergent phenomenon and is a statistical tendency for a gravitational system to attain the maximal entropy state which maintains the holographic principle. In this paper, we show that gravitational collapse is due to the same mechanism as the expansion of the universe that the departure of the surface degrees of freedom and the bulk degrees of freedom in a region of space drives the evolution of a gravitational system. We also argue that the ordinary thermal radiation can be taken as a signal for the existence of some kind of "confined" bulk degrees of freedom which prevent a gravitational system from collapse. When the mount of "confined" bulk degrees of freedom is not adequate, the collapse occurs untill an new equilibrium is attained. Our rusults provide a new paradigm to understand the gravitational collapse.

Topic: Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Dehalogenation of 1-halogenothienyl-di- and -tetra-hydroisoquinolines by sodium methoxide in dimethyl sulphoxide

On treatment with sodium methoxi-dimethylsulphoxide (NaOMe–DMSO) 1-(5-halogeno-2-thienyl)-6,7-dimethoxy-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines suffer loss of halogen and are converted into the related 1-hydroxytetrahydroisoquinolines. The reaction fails with comparable 1-bromophenyl- and 1 -(halogeno-3-thienyl)tetrahydroisoquinolines. A similar transformation takes place with (5-halogeno-2-thienyl)phenylmethoxymethanes, leading to the dimethyl acetal of the 5-dehalogenated-2-thienyl phenyl ketone. α-Halogenated-2- and 3-thienyl-3,4-dihydroisoquinolines undergo dehalogenation-aromatisation with NaOMe–DMSO. Mechanisms for these conversions are proposed.

Topic: Synthesis and Biological Activity
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Contrasting Educator and Black Student Perspectives of the Special Education Placement Process: A DisCrit Counter-Narrative Analysis

This critical qualitative inquiry employed a Disability Critical Race Studies Counter-Narrative framework (DCCN) to explore the contrast between educator and Black student understandings of the special education placement process and their implications. Interviews with 21 members of school personnel and 20 Black students between the ages of 14 and 18 were cross-referenced to narratively reconstruct the special education placement process in Quebec, Canada. Analysis of the results reveals a striking gap between educator and student understandings of the process, which can be linked to adverse student experiences. Subsequently, implications for enhancing educators’ knowledge of diverse learners and professional practices are discussed.

Topic: Education Discipline and Inequality
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Evaluating Coordinated Care: Complex Problems do not Have Simple Solutions

The current trials of coordinated health care are aimed at changing health service delivery to be more patient-focussed, through care planning and funds pooling. The strategies being implemented with patients with a variety of chronic conditions include creating more supportive environments, developing personal skills and re-orientation of health services.

Topic: Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences