jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The Actor's Voice as a Creative Role in Solo Performance of Playwright Neil Labute’s Medea Redux

This practice-based research centers on four different elements of Stanislavski’s Acting System which include objectives, given circumstances, emotion memory and subtext. I choose to focus on a set of two interpretive elements as well as creative elements to examine an actor’s voice within the performance text based on playwright Neil LaBute’s Medea Redux—a one-act play from Bash: Latter-Day Plays. The practical performance and exploration of LaBute’s perspective leads to a conclusion which determines that an actor’s voice indeed serves as a creative vessel in collaboration with a dramatist (and my director, Joe Salvatore). Although, significant evidence points to the actor’s interpretive qualities throughout dramatic production and analysis, a clear parallel between voice and creative properties of an actor’s contribution is paramount. Both elements emotion memory and subtext offer vast possibility for an actor to connect with a playwright’s creative material which is fundamental to the artist’s collaborative work. Whilst focused on a monologue piece with one actor and one playwright, both the dramatic text and mise-en-scene intersect on a creative level which is then tested by placing greater emphasis or concentration on the practice-led performance to offer meaningful understanding of all related concepts surrounding an actor’s voice. In lieu of many contrasting views regarding this subject of an actor’s interpretive and creative nature, I sought to develop a linear approach to my research; the analysis and interviews with LaBute further provide dimension surrounding an actor’s trajectory of comprehensive questions rooted in a monologue text. The actor’s ability to interpret a dramatic story and character ultimately strengthens his creative role via solo performance. Therefore, an actor’s voice is essential for any dramatic character to fully develop or engage an audience within the context of artistic expression and performance text.

Topic: Theatre and Performance Studies
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Reasonable Accommodation of Conscientious Objection in Health Care Is Morally and Legally Required

While mainstream, establishment medical journals have published opinion pieces condemning conscientious refusals in medical care, American law has consistently and repeatedly supported a right to such refusals. Law has not relied on a particular philosophical basis for health care. Indeed, legal precedents reject any monolithic model, whether based on consumerism or on professional obligations. Law focuses on the coexistence of diverse understandings, motivations, and delivery models. Scholarly approaches tend to ignore the fact that, fundamentally, conscientious objection involves a minority telling the majority that the objector(s) cannot ethically participate according to the majority's preferred model or set of rules. Religious liberty is protected in the US by applying strict scrutiny. Any governmental burden on religious liberty must further a compelling governmental interest and be implemented using the least restrictive means reasonably available. After years of scholarly controversy, strict scrutiny continues to be the law. The moral basis for the legal right of conscientious objection has been affirmed and expanded by Hobby Lobby in 2014, outlined in an Attorney General Memorandum in 2017, and codified in a Final Conscience Rule by the Department of Health and Human Services in May 2019.

Topic: Ethics in medical practice
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Inter-Life: a novel, three-dimensional, virtual learning environment for life transition skills learning

This paper presents the findings from one of the first empirical research studies which has investigated the impact of Inter-Life; a novel three-dimensional immersive virtual learning environment, on learning and development of social and educational life transition skills in a group of looked after and accommodated children. Drawing on social constructivism in which meaningful learning is related to context and situated in practice, we report on a series of Inter-Life workshops that enabled young people to work together and through the processes of participation in authentic learning activities contributed to the development of life transition skills such as self-confidence, empathy, negotiation and mediation skills, teamwork and active problem-solving skills. The novel affordances of the Inter-Life virtual world which contributed to the development of the learning community included the ability to personalise learner engagement and activities from the outset along with ‘co-presence’ and ‘immersion’ and the flexibility provided by the innovative, technology-enhanced Inter-Life platform. This study presents some empirical evidence to demonstrate the efficacy of new models of learning that are mediated by innovative malleable technologies that can be shaped by the learner in a participatory manner.

Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Simulation Parameter Selection and Steady Seepage Analysis of Binary Structure Slope

The selection of calculation parameters for slope excavation support design and the analysis of seepage stability is a significant challenge. This difficulty also hinders the development of slope support engineering. This study examined the right binary structure slope engineering of the K5 + 220–K5 + 770 section of the TJ1A mark of the Jiangkou-Weng’an Highway in Guizhou province. In this study, we propose and use the deep displacement monitoring data and p value test method to check the simulation parameters. Furthermore, the superposition calculation method for steady-state seepage analysis of slope geotechnical structure is proposed. A comparative analysis of the displacement, strain, stress, and safety factor of the slope after the application of pore water pressure was carried out for three slope conditions. The analysis showed that steady-state seepage has a significant effect on the displacement of the slope during the completion of excavation. As a result, a continuous distribution of strain arises on the slope along the interface between the potential sliding surface and the rock–soil layer, and then forms a continuous sliding zone. Additionally, steady-state seepage has a significant effect on the position of the displacement distribution during the initial support of the slope, leading to a significant increase in the extreme value of the shear outlet displacement of the potential slip surface of the slope and in the extreme value of equivalent strain. Finally, steady-state seepage reduces the displacement and equivalent strain upon construction of the secondary slope support. The steady-state seepage has a limited effect on the stress concentration, but reduces the safety factor calculated using the strength reduction method, in all three stages of slope excavation and support. This study enriches the analysis methods for determining the stability of a dual-structure slope during the rainy season, and provides new ideas for the safety and control of slope support projects.

Topic: Landslides and related hazards
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
IceCube neutrinos from hadronically powered gamma-ray galaxies

In this work we use a multi-messenger approach to determine if the high energy diffuse neutrino flux observed by the IceCube Observatory can originate from γ-ray sources powered by Cosmic Rays interactions with gas. Typical representatives of such sources are Starburst and Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies. Using the three most recent calculations of the non-blazar contribution to the extragalactic γ-ray background measured by the Fermi-LAT collaboration, we find that a hard power-law spectrum with spectral index α ≤ 2.12 is compatible with all the estimations for the allowed contribution from non-blazar sources, within 1σ. Using such a spectrum we are able to interpret the IceCube results, showing that various classes of hadronically powered γ-ray galaxies can provide the dominant contribution to the astrophysical signal above 100 TeV and about half of the contribution to the energy flux between 10–100 TeV . With the addition of neutrinos from the Galactic plane, it is possible to saturate the IceCube signal {at high energy}. Our result shows that these sources are still well motivated candidates.

Topic: Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
[Lenalidomid (Revlimid) in the treatment of multiple myeloma--first experience in the Czech Republic].

The prognosis of multiple myeloma (MM) has substantially improved during last decades due to new, so-called targeted drugs--proteasome inhibitor bortezomib and immunomodulatory drugs (ImiDs), thalidomide and lenalidomide. They could be used in various combinations and/or sequentially thanks to different mechanism of action and toxicity. Both bortezomib and thalidomide are widely used in Czech republic, however, lenalidomide was approved for the treatment of MM (and MDS) at the very latest and its usage is limited due to high costs, as well. According to the results of clinical trials lenalidomide is effective in myeloma refractory to various therapy including other new drugs. First time in the Czech republic the combination of lenalidomide and dexamethasone was given in our center to 2 patients with relapsed myeloma as 7th and 10th line of therapy. Acceptable results of treatment with improved clinical status in the first patient enabled to suspend his therapeutic plasmaferesis. Disease stabilization lasting three months was observed also in the second patient.

Topic: Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
CONDITION OF RARE PLANT SPECIES CENOPOPULATIONS: LILIUM CALLOSUM AND IRIS ENSATA IN THE VILLAGE OF POKROVKA VICINITY (KHABAROVSK TERRITORY)

The author provides the phytocenosis characteristics in the Lilium callosum and Iris ensata place of growth, as well as the data for each species on the number of individuals in the cenopopulation, frequency of occurrence, ontogenetic structure, and vitality. It is also provided morphometric parameters of individuals, in order to assess the species cenopopulation state. The author offers the measures for these rare plants protection.

Topic: Soil and Environmental Studies
Subfield: Soil Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
The genus &lt;i&gt;Waltheria&lt;/i&gt; in southern Africa

Waltheria indica L., the only species of Waltheria represented in southern Africa, is revised. This species, which occurs throughout the tropics and substropics of the world, is found abundantly in the northern Cape, Swaziland, northern Natal, Transvaal and northwards through South West Africa/Namibia and Botswana. Thoughout its wide distribution the species is uniform. A scrutiny o f herbarium specimens revealed that what appeared as a distinct species or subspecies was without doubt an abnormality, probably caused by insect injury.

Topic: Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
The Poverty of Truth-Seeking

In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn-despite its benefits-is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernist challenge to the tenets of social science. I then advance a two-part argument promoting discourse analysis for feminist scholars who seek to benefit from postmodernism's respect for difference and inclusivity, yet refuse to give up a critical perspective. The first part of the argument deals with the charge that the postmodern turn disables critical inquiry; the second with the related debate over the need for `generalizing' or `totalizing' concepts (e.g. the concept `women') in the service of a feminist politics. I argue that postmodernist scholars' wide-spread tendency to discuss language outside its context of use has hobbled their ability to respond to this serious challenge, and I suggest that a closer look at routine talk can help feminists reframe these debates about politicality in helpful ways.

Topic: Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Tactics for getting high communication apprehensive students to attend workshops: Are they effective?

This study examined the effectiveness of various ways to encourage high communication apprehensives (CA) to attend CA reduction workshops. Five different techniques were used to convince 156 high CAs to attend CA reduction workshops. Results indicated that none of the approaches were effective in getting students to attend workshops. The discussion section addresses why these approaches were ineffective.

Topic: Communication in Education and Healthcare
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Targeted myocardial transgenic expression of HIV Tat causes cardiomyopathy and mitochondrial damage

Cardiac effects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transactivator (Tat) are unclear, but Tat decreases liver glutathione (an important mitochondrial antioxidant) when ubiquitously expressed in transgenic mice (TG). With an α-myosin heavy chain promoter, Tat was selectively targeted to murine cardiac myocytes. One high-expression hemizygous ( +/− Tat high ; 12 copies) and two low-expression ( +/− Tat lowA,B ; 2–5 copies) TG lines were created. Cardiomyopathy was documented with increased left ventricle (LV) mass, ventricular expression of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) mRNA, mitochondrial ultrastructural defects, and myocardial depletion of glutathione. In +/− Tat high TGs, normalized LV mass (determined echocardiographically) increased 46% (90 days), 134% (240 days), and 96% (365 days) compared with wild-type littermates (WT). LV fractional shortening was decreased to 28% (90 days), 27% (240 days), and 19% (365 days). +/− Tat low LV mass was unchanged (≤365 days). ANF in +/− Tat high ventricles (180 days) was twofold WT values. Glutathione was selectively decreased in +/− Tat high hearts (120 days). +/− Tat high hearts contained damaged mitochondria (≥210 days); however, profound mitochondrial destruction occurred in homozygous +/+ Tat high hearts (10 days) and the pups died (14 days). Tat caused cardiac dysfunction in this TG and may impact on cardiomyopathy in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Topic: HIV-related health complications and treatments
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
A systematic literature review on building collaboration between teaching faculty and librarians in university education

【目的】大学図書館が提供する情報リテラシー教育に関する研究の中で,教員と図書館員の連携の重要性を指摘する論文は数多くある。だが,その多くが実践報告の中で当事者が指摘するものであり,第三者の立場で分析したり理論の構築を目指したりするものではない。また,教員と図書館員の連携構築に焦点をあてた議論はほとんど見られない。本研究の目的は,図書館情報学分野の研究の中で,大学教育における教員と図書館員の連携構築について,どのような研究論文があるのか,また,どのような研究方法や理論枠組みが用いられているのか,その中で何が論じられているのかを明らかにすることである。【方法】研究の方法は文献レビューのひとつの手法であるシステマティック・レビューである。この手法をもとに,研究の手順を厳密に定め,文献を選択する基準と除外する基準を明確にして文献を厳選し,内容分析によって分析対象となる文献を全体として統合する。これによって,大学教育における教員と図書館員の連携構築に関する研究の全体像を明らかにする。【結果】大学教育における教員と図書館員の連携構築をテーマとする研究論文の分析をもとに,次のことを明らかにした。①本テーマの論文に占める研究論文の割合は極めて少ない。②著者には,図書館情報学や図書館情報学以外の研究者もいるが,大学図書館員が最も多い。③本テーマの研究論文を継続して発表している著者は限定されている。④質的研究が多い。⑤理論枠組みを用いる研究論文は多くない。⑥本テーマの研究において中心的な役割を果たす論文を特定できない。⑦図書館員による連携構築のための戦略として,《教育開発》,《目標や手段の共有》,《個々の教員との人的交流》,《図書館外とのつながり》がある。その戦略に影響を与える条件として,《教員への対抗意識》,《図書館の対応力》,《認証評価への対応》,《教員の図書館(員)観》,《教員中心の大学文化》がある。

Topic: Library Science and Information Literacy
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Klippel Feil Syndrome: A Case Report

Klippel-Feil Syndrome (KFS) is a complex syndrome comprises of classical clinicaltriad of short neck, limitation of head and neck movements and low posteriorhairline. This syndrome is resulting from failure of the normal segmentation ofcervical vertebra.In this present case in addition to classical clinical triad we have found short stature,scoliosis at cervico- dorsal junction and sprengel deformity of the shoulder. Wedidn’t find any association of hearing impairment, congenital heart disease andrenal abnormalities. There was no any neurological deficit and normal schoolperformance.Patient with KFS usually have good prognosis if cardiopulmonary, genitourinary,auditory problems are identified and treated early.&#x0D; Chatt Maa Shi Hosp Med Coll J; Vol.19 (1); January 2020; Page 78-81

Topic: Hip disorders and treatments
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Assessment of rate of O2 release from single hepatic sinusoids of rats

Characteristics of O2 release from single hepatic sinusoids are described in relation to the sinusoidal O2 inflow for the first time. Microspectroscopic measurement of the rate of O2 release (RO2) from single sinusoids to surrounding hepatocytes was carried out at the edge of the liver of anesthetized rats. The oxyhemoglobin inflow ([HbO2] inflow) into sinusoids, which is a product of sinusoidal blood flow rate and inflowing oxyhemoglobin concentration ([HbO2]), was varied by exchange transfusion of blood with physiological saline. 1) RO2 from single hepatic sinusoids of control rats was fairly constant [0.66 +/- 0.14 (SD) nmol.cm-2.s-1, with 18 sinusoids of 9 rats] over a wide range of [HbO2] inflow (50-200 fmol/s). 2) In the cases of mild anemia, [HbO2] inflow scarcely decreased but RO2 increased, probably because of the increased metabolism of hepatocytes. 3) In the cases of severe anemia, [HbO2] inflow decreased below 50 fmol/s and RO2 decreased accordingly. 4) In all cases no difference was observed between the RO2 values obtained from periportal zone and those from pericentral zone. These results are discussed on the bases of the vascular structure and function of hepatic sinusoids and on the animal model of hemorrhagic shock.

Topic: Hemoglobin structure and function
Subfield: Cell Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Contributions of Lactobacillus plantarum PC170 administration on the recovery of gut microbiota after short-term ceftriaxone exposure in mice

This study aimed to determine the impact of Lactobacillus plantarum PC170 concurrent with antibiotic treatment and/or during the recovery phase after antibiotic treatment on the body weight, faecal bacterial composition, short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) concentration, and splenic cytokine mRNA expression of mice. Orally administrated ceftriaxone quantitatively and significantly decreased body weight, faecal total bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila , and Lactobacillus plantarum , and faecal SCFAs concentration. Ceftriaxone treatment also dramatically altered the faecal microbiota with an increased Chao1 index, decreased species diversities and Bacteroidetes , and more Firmicutes and Proteobacteria . After ceftriaxone intervention, these changes all gradually started to recover. However, faecal microbiota diversities were still totally different from control by significantly increased α- and β-diversities. Bacteroidetes all flourished and became dominant during the recovery process. However, mice treated with PC170 both in parallel with and after ceftriaxone treatment encouraged more Bacteroidetes , Verrucomicrobia , and Actinobacteria , and the diversity by which to make faecal microbiota was very much closer to control. Furthermore, the expression of splenic pro-inflammatory cytokine tumour necrosis factor-α mRNA in mice supplemented with PC170 during the recovery phase was significantly lower than natural recovery. These results indicated that antibiotics, such as ceftriaxone, even with short-term intervention, could dramatically damage the structure of gut microbiota and their abilities to produce SCFAs with loss of body weight. Although such damages could be partly recovered with the cessation of antibiotics, the implication of antibiotics to gut microbiota might remain even after antibiotic treatment. The selected strain PC170 might be a potential probiotic because of its contributions in helping the host animal to remodel or stabilise its gut microbiome and enhancing the anti-inflammatory response as protection from the side effects of antibiotic therapy when it was administered in parallel with and after antibiotic treatment.

Topic: Gut microbiota and health
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Relation of Left Ventricular Ejection Rate to Ejectional Flow Velocity

Left ventricular ejection rate (LVER) is a useful measurement with no noninvasive counterpart. We hypothesized that mean Doppler-measurable left ventricular ejectional flow velocity should reflect the mean ejection rate. In 37 patients without left ventricular outflow obstruction who required pulmonary artery catheterization, cardiac output was measured in triplicate with simultaneous measurement of left ventricular ejection time (LVET) by external carotid pulse sensor; LVER was calculated from the relation stroke volume/LVET = LVER. Ejection flow velocities were measured from pulsed Doppler recording with sample volume in the aortic anulus and simultaneous Doppler LVET measurement. Mean LVER correlated well (r = 0.90) with mean Doppler flow velocity (p < 0.01). The regression equation for LVER vs. mean flow velocity (MFV) was ER = 491 MFV - 61 ± 37 (SEE) ml/s.

Topic: Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Radiolarian abundances from IODP Holes 349-U1431D, 349-U1432C and 349-U1433A

We studied radiolarian abundances in 303 samples from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 349 in the South China Sea (SCS), which cored five deep-sea sites. Three of them, Sites U1431, U1432, and U1433, are located along a latitudinal gradient. We analyzed, using a light microscope, the total radiolarian abundance (radiolarians per gram of dry sediment) for middle and upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequences from these three sites. Radiolarian abundances are higher uphole, in particular at Site U1432 (northern SCS). Site U1433 (southwestern SCS) contains the lowest numbers of radiolarians. In general, there are more barren samples in the older part of the section, with the upper Pleistocene having higher abundances and more consistent presence of radiolarians.

Topic: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Subfield: Environmental Chemistry
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences