jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Digital Europe – Chance for Job in Hungary

The 35 percents of EU total population use the advanced Internet services. This rate is very low and has to increase in the next years, because the employed person needs ICT user's skills. At the first level the digital literacy and at the second level the higher knowledge of ICT acquiring is very important, because nowadays, without these abilities it is not so easy to get qualified jobs in Hungary. In the information society it is very important to measure the digital literacy. For this measuring we have to ask the users to evaluate their own knowledge. In the World Internet Project evaluation we did not find a significant disparity between the evaluation of average Internet knowledge usage and that of the computer usage. In both cases, most people thought that their knowledge was good. Approximately every tenth person surveyed characterized his or her knowledge as outstanding and in a similar proportion the users thought their knowledge is weak. Taking part in organized courses and training can help to increase the digital literacy and ICT users’ skills. This taking part is decreasing parallel with increasing of age. That is why we need to take into account how we can connect these “older” people to the lifelong learning programmes, where we use the e-Learning tools. Nowadays, the importance of e-Learning is growing rapidly, partly due to the information and communication technologies in the information/knowledge-based society is developing. The goal is to enable the knowledge and skills to help the individual to become an active member of society, teamwork, motivation, and to possess the skills necessary for finding a place in the labour market.

Topic: Open Education and E-Learning
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
PROMISING AREAS OF EXPORT DEVELOPMENT IN THE KHABAROVSK TERRITORY

It is established that the development of non-primary exports is a priority direction of the strategic development of the Russian Federation and its regions. In order to develop exports in the Khabarovsk Territory, it is proposed to increase the production of soybeans and soybean oil. For the development of foreign economic activity in the Khabarovsk Territory, it is proposed to increase the competitiveness of soybean production in the region by creating favorable, first of all, financial conditions for enterprises to master the production of new types of products competitive on world markets, certification of manufactured goods and services.

Topic: Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
Subfield: Food Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Effect of thinning on carbon storage in soil, forest floor and coarse woody debris of<i>Pinus densiflora</i>stands with different stand ages in Gangwon-do, central Korea

This study was conducted to investigate effects of thinning on carbon (C) storage of soil, forest floor and coarse woody debris (CWD) in Pinus densiflora stands, central Korea. Two study stands (25- and 55-year-old stands) were located in P. densiflora forests of Gangwon-do and thinned in 2008. Each stand was divided into three plots by different thinning intensities based on stand density: no thinning (control, 0%), moderate thinning (M, 30%), and heavy thinning (H, 50%) in the 25-year-old stand and no thinning (control, 0%), light thinning (L, 20%), and moderate thinning (M, 30%) in the 55-year-old stand. We measured C storage of 0–30 cm depth soil, forest floor and CWD in 2009. Total C storage (t C ha−1) of soil, forest floor and CWD in two thinned plots was significantly higher than that in the control plot only in the 55-year-old stand: 66.4 for control, <84.2 for L, <117.9 for M. On the other hand, total C storage in the 25-year-old stand did not show a consistent tendency among thinning intensities. We speculated that 1 year was too short to detect any consistent changes in total C storage of soil, forest floor and CWD by thinning, and long-term observation would be needed.

Topic: Fire effects on ecosystems
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Wage Difference Between Formal Sector and Informal Sector Jobs; With Special Reference to the Labour Market in Sri Lanka

It is globally understood that wage-based employment structure and wages are a central aspects of the labour force at work. The informal sector is ranging to a broader concept that is difficult to define. The formal–informal wage gap is crucial to understand labour market informality, especially in developing countries with the large informal sectors. The basic model is taken from Mincer (1974), and the study is primarily based on secondary data. The new dummy variable of Job_type and an interactive term were incorporated into the Mincer earning function to analyse wage differences between formal sector and informal sector jobs. The study concludes that there is a wage gap between the a formal and informal sector. Moreover, if a person engages in formal sector job with good education qualification and good working experience, he will be entitled for a higher wage rate. Policies that promote education and equal opportunities for workers in both formal and informal sectors would improve earnings for many workers by increasing productivity and incomes.

Topic: Taxation and Compliance Studies
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Temporal dynamics of EEG microstates across brain development and risk for developing schizophrenia: atoms for peace of mind?

L'objectif de cette thèse était d'avancer nos connaissances sur les dynamiques temporelles de l'activité neuronale au repos, dans un premier temps, à travers le développement cérébral, et dans un deuxième temps, d'explorer ces dynamiques chez les adolescents atteints de la microdélétion 22q11.2 ainsi que chez les patients schizophrènes. Les individus porteurs de la microdélétion 22q11.2 ont un risque génétique élevé (30%) de développer la schizophrénie à l'âge adulte. Ainsi, la recherche sur cette population pourrait conduire à l'identification de nouveaux marqueurs neurophysiologiques (endophénotypes) de la schizophrénie, l'approfondissement de la connaissance de sa pathogenèse et la détermination précoce des individus qui développeront cette maladie psychiatrique à l'âge adulte. A cette fin, nous avons utilisé la technique de neuroimagerie la plus appropriée – l'électroencéphalogramme (EEG) - et avons analysé les enregistrements de haute densité (256 électrodes) de l'activité cérébrale au repos à l'aide de l'analyse spatio-temporelle des configurations quasi-stables du potentiel électrique au niveau du scalp, à savoir les microétats d'EEG.

Topic: Congenital heart defects research
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Investigating parents' and prospective parents' knowledge of oral hygiene for infants and children

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge of parents and future parents regarding the oral hygiene of newborns and children. Understanding parental awareness is crucial to identifying gaps in knowledge and improving early oral health practices. Methods: An anonymous questionnaire was constructed and disseminated to patients of dental practices and parents of children attending nursery and primary schools in municipalities between Vicenza and Padua. Data collection took place from January 2022 to June 2023, yielding 600 completed questionnaires, of which 532 were completed by women and 68 by men. Statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the influence of educational levels on oral hygiene knowledge and practices. Results: Significant differences (p < 0.05) were observed based on participants’ educational levels. Parents with higher educational attainment demonstrated better knowledge regarding the appropriate age to start oral hygiene, the impact of sugary drinks on tooth decay, and the transmissibility of carious disease. Among university-educated parents, 83.8% reported frequent brushing, compared to 76.4% of parents with only elementary or middle school education. Additionally, over 25% of respondents expressed concerns about toothpaste safety, and there was limited understanding of the importance of early oral hygiene practices and fluoride use. Conclusions: The findings highlight the need for targeted educational interventions to improve parents’ understanding of oral hygiene, with a particular focus on nutrition, bacterial transmissibility, and the importance of early oral care. Educators, healthcare professionals, and community programs should prioritize addressing the gaps identified, especially among parents with lower educational backgrounds, to foster better oral health practices from an early age.

Topic: Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
Subfield: Emergency Medical Services
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Suppressive Effect of a Proanthocyanidin-rich Extract from Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) Flowers on Nitric Oxide Production in LPS-Stimulated Macrophage Cells

Anthocyanidins found in certain flowers have been shown to act as strong antioxidants in various systems, exhibiting multiple biological actions. The antioxidative effects of water extract and ethanolic extract of longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) flowers were evaluated by radical scavenging activity and compared to those of gallic acid, myricetin, and epigallocatechin gallate. In this study, the suppressive effects of longan flower extracts on nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 production were investigated using a lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW 264.7 cell model. Abundant levels of phenolic compounds including flavonoids, condensed tannins, and proanthocyanidins were found in water or ethanolic extracts prepared from dried longan flowers. The antioxidative effect of longan flower extract was similar to the effect exhibited by pure antioxidants. Moreover, longan flower extract showed prominent inhibitory effects on prostaglandin E2 production. Significant concentration-dependent inhibition of nitric oxide production was detected when cells were cotreated with lipopolysaccharide and various concentrations of longan flower extracts. These inhibitory effects were further attributed to suppression of inducible nitric oxide synthase protein expression and not to reduced enzymatic activity. These results suggest that longan flower crude extracts, especially ethanolic extract, have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, and the probable mechanism involves inhibition of inflammation by proanthocyanidins. Preliminary observations suggest that longan flower extract, especially alcoholic extract, could be another potential source of natural dietary antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent.

Topic: Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
Subfield: Biochemistry
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Twenty-year recovery of managed stand, in structure and composition, in boreal mixedwood stands of northwestern Quebec

The natural disturbance-based management (NDBM) aims to maintain specific structural and compositional attributes of natural forests in managed stands. Operationally, NDBM relies on diversifying and adapting silvicultural practices, including partial harvesting (PC), to expand the range of options beyond that of simply clearcuts (CC). Established in 1998, the Sylviculture et Aménagement Forestier Écosystémique (SAFE) project evaluates this potential in hardwood, mixedwood, and coniferous stands in northwestern Québec, Canada. Our results confirmed a part of the NDBM objectives, i.e., PC allowed the maintenance of stands with mixed structure and composition, constituting an interesting complement to CC, which reset stand regeneration. However, PC did not accelerate the stand transition to later stages with less intensive harvesting or to earlier stages with more intensive harvesting. We essentially had an initial impact, delaying or stopping the stand evolution that dissipates over time and more quickly with less intensive harvesting. Furthermore, our results did not support the ability of PC to enhance the development of old-growth attributes like deadwood. Despite the 20-year horizon of this study, further field surveys will be required in the future to better understand the impact of different silvicultural treatments on forest productivity and biodiversity preservation throughout a forest rotation.

Topic: Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
Subfield: Insect Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Distributed Low-Interaction Honeypot System to Detect Botnets

The objective of this research is to detect the existence of botnets in the monitored network by designing a distributed low-interaction honeypot, and to provide clues from the detection for the threat evaluation by botnets propagation estimation. A distributed framework of nepenthes honeypots is built to collect as more as possible malware samples. These samples are analyzed firstly by features via antivirus scan, then by behavior via two online sandboxes. The configuration of Nepenthes is optimized to improve the capture efficiency.

Topic: Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
A Factor in Heat-Treated Mulberry Leaves That Inhibits Metamorphosis in Bombyx mori : Effects on Development of Last Instar Larvae and Pupae

When leaves of the mulberry tree, Morus alba L., were dried at high temperature (615°C), a diet containing those leaves (HT diet) caused 5th instar larvae of Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera : Bombycidae) to become permanent larvae. These larvae attained a large body size and developed huge silkglands. Their failure to spin cocoons may be related partly to the whitening and hardening of the middle silkglands. Normal development and pupation occurred when larvae were reared on a standard diet containing low-temperature (100°C) treated leaves (LT diet). When larvae kept on the HT diet for several days were transferred to the LT diet, some formed large cocoons and pupated and others failed to do so and diet at different stages of the larval-pupal transformation proces. Pupae obtained from larvae kept longer on the HT diet during the 5th instar took longer ot emerge as adults and produced fewer adults. It is thus likely that the HT diet contained some factor inhibiting metamorphosis in B. mori. Rearing on mixtures of the two diets indicated that the factor appeared to influence growth and development of 5th instars in a dose-dependent manner.

Topic: Silkworms and Sericulture Research
Subfield: Insect Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Dual Function of CCAT2 in Regulating Luminal Subtype of Breast Cancer Depending on the Subcellular Distribution

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women around the world. Emerging evidence has indicated the important roles that non-coding RNAs play in regulating tumor development and progression in breast cancer. Herein, we found a dual function of long non-coding RNA (LncRNA) CCAT2 in the luminal subtype of breast cancer, depending on its subcellular distribution. CCAT2 showed an overall downregulation in the tumor tissues from luminal breast cancer patients. Transient overexpression of CCAT2 in the luminal subtype of breast cancer cell MCF-7 or T47D significantly suppressed cell proliferation in vitro and inhibited tumor growth in vivo. Gene expression analysis of cancer stem cell markers including OCT4, NANOG, h-TERT, SOX2 and KLF4; flow cytometry analysis of breast cancer stem cell population, and mammosphere formation assay demonstrated inhibition of cancer cell stemness with transient transfection of CCAT2 in which exogenous CCAT2 mainly distributed in the cytoplasm and regulated miR-221-p27 signaling via RNA sequence interaction. However, overexpression of CCAT2 in MCF-7 cells through pMX retroviral nuclear expression vector accumulated CCAT2 in the nucleus, leading to upregulation of OCT4-PG1, a pseudogene of stem gene OCT4, thereby promoting the cancer cell stemness. In conclusion, the current study, for the first time, revealed a dual function of lncRNA CCAT2 as a tumor suppressor or oncogene depending upon its subcellular distribution. It also demonstrated the regulatory mechanism of cytoplasmic CCAT2 in suppressing tumorigenesis in the luminal subtype of breast cancer.

Topic: Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Subfield: Cancer Research
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
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Topic: Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Aliasing with incoherent-light stimuli

At the 1985 OSA meeting we demonstrated a dissociation between spatial summation and acuity. The extent of spatial summation varies only about 2X across the parafovea, while acuity varies nearly a log unit. We therefore proposed that in the outer parafovea acuity is primarily determined by the separation between neural detectors, and not by their summation areas. In fact, if the separation between detectors significantly exceeds their summation area, the effects of undersampling (e.g., aliasing) should appear. Since grating orientation is readily lost with undersampling, we used a comparison of simple detection and orientation discrimination to demonstrate aliasing. Although the two measurements are similar in the fovea, they diverge with retinal eccentricity. 7° in the periphery, gratings between 10 and 20 c/deg can be detected only in aliased form. It is significant that this aliasing is certainly not at the level of the photoreceptors, but is proximal thereto, perhaps at the level of spatial summation.

Topic: Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Ground Penetrating Radar measure from quarries

The data set contain Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data from in-situ measurements in four ornamental stones quarry located in Italy (Botticino quarry) and Romania (Ruschita, Carpinis and Pietroasa quarries). The GPR data contains radargrams for discontinuities and fracture detection, besides of the geographic location of the measures. For each measurement site, a set of radargrams has been acquired in two orthogonal directions, allowing for a 3D reconstruction of the investigated site.

Topic: Geophysical Methods and Applications
Subfield: Ocean Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Napoleon is Coming! Maximilian is Coming?

Thomas Schoonover contends in this chapter that before, during, and after the Civil War, Americans and Europeans competed diplomatically, economically, culturally, and sometimes militarily for advantage in the countries of the Gulf-Caribbean region, often for purposes of social imperialism (improving conditions at home through foreign ventures). Schoonover argues that the Union was better situated to navigate this competition than the Confederacy because of its superior economic position. He gives particular attention to the French intervention in Mexico and argues that the Confederacy erred in its priorities in the Gulf-Caribbean region. Schoonover's chapter incorporates Spain, Prussia, and other countries into its narrative and cautions against ethnocentric treatments of the American past.

Topic: European Political History Analysis
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
One‐Pot Dual‐Labeling of a Protein by Two Chemoselective Reactions

Duales System für Proteine: Die ortsspezifische Zweifarbenmarkierung einer Rab-GTPase gelang in einem Eintopfverfahren durch die Kombination von chemoselektiver nativer chemischer Ligation und Oximligation. Auf diesem Prinzip könnte eine einfache, allgemeine und effiziente Methode zur spezifischen Mehrfachmodifizierung von Proteinen aufbauen. Ein Rab-GTPase-Biosensor für das Studium von Proteinfaltung und Protein-Protein-Wechselwirkungen wird vorgestellt. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.

Topic: Click Chemistry and Applications
Subfield: Organic Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
The polyphasic rise of the chlorophyll A fluorescence (O-K-J-I-P) in heat-stressed leaves

La cinetique de l'induction de fluorescence de la chlorophyll a (Chl a) depuis sa valeur minimale Fo jusqu'a sa valeur maximale Fm, est un indicateur de la reduction nette de la plastoquinone primaire (Qa⁻). Dans ce papier nous avons examine l'effet de la haute temperature (autour de 44°C) sur l'ascension de la cinetique de la fluorescence de Chl a des feuilles de pomme de terre et de petit pois, en utilisant un systeme sans obturateur qui nous permet de mesurer des signaux de fluorescence de 10 μs jusqu'a 120 s. Apres un traitement a la chaleur, la fluorescence variable de la Chl a a ete considerablement diminuee. Cependant, en augmentant la temperature ou la duree du traitement, la fluorescence caracteristique appelee la transition O-J-I-P est transformee en une fluorescence O-K-J-I-P avec une nouvelle etape rapide appelee etape-K, detectee aux environs de 200 μs. Une grande depression apparait apres l'etape K, suivie d'une augmentation de l'intensite de la fluorescence de la Chl a. Nous avons essaye de determiner l'origine et de faire une interpretation photochimique des changements observes en utilisant du NH₂OH connu comme donneur electron du PSII, et du DCMU qui est connu comme inhibiteur de la chaine de transport d'electrons entre Qa⁻ et Qb. Avec les differentes donnees obtenues, nous proposons que l'apparition de cette nouvelle etape-K est due a une inhibition du water-splitting-system et a une partielle inhibition de la chaine de transport d'electrons entre PPhe⁻QA et PPheQA⁻.

Topic: Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
The Broadening ‘Soft Law’ Powers of the European Banking Authority

The European Banking Authority (EBA), one of the pillars of the European System of Financial Supervision, has a power to issue guidelines and recommendations, both representing soft-law instruments, in order to achieve effective and common regulatory and supervisory standards in the banking industry. In the recent decision (15 July 2021), the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified the power of the EBA to issue soft law instruments, a decision that has important repercussions on all European supervisory authorities. Court of Justice of the European Union, European Banking Authority

Topic: Global Financial Regulation and Crises
Subfield: Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences