jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Liberatory Pedagogy in Action

To analyze the marginal status of community college faculty represented in television and film, the first half of the chapter contrasts stereotypical disembodied representations of university professors with the embodied portrayals of community college faculty. In the second half of the chapter, I argue that community college instructors' embodied performance in television and film adheres to bell hooks's description of liberatory pedagogy, a pedagogy dedicated to close interaction with students in an attempt to cross borders and open lines of communication in a diverse classroom setting. While most embodied portrayals take place within the context of comedies, instructors reveal personal and professional sides of their characters while shedding their authoritative omnipotent image. The decentering of authority sets the stage for comedy as viewers see instructors' faults, struggles, and strengths through their close interactions with students.

Topic: Communication in Education and Healthcare
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
On the Influence of the Laminar-Turbulent Transition in the Numerical Modeling of the Wing Airfoil

The applicability of numerical methods based on the averaging the Navier–Stokes equations and the use of turbulence models, as well as eddy-resolving methods, under conditions of transition of a laminar flow to a turbulent one and formation of a separation bubble on the wing airfoil surface was studied.

Topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene-Induced Encephalopathy in Male Fischer-344 Rats

Administration of 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene (TNB) to male Fischer-344 rats produced ataxia after 6 or 7 oral doses (71 mg/kg). Light microscopic examination after 10 days revealed petechial hemorrhages in the brain stem and cerebellum and bilaterally symmetric degeneration and necrosis (malacia) with reactive gliosis in the cerebellar peduncles. The malacia was dorsal and lateral to the fourth ventricle involving the cerebellar nuclei, medial and lateral vestibular nuclei, and inferior colliculi. Blood vessels associated with the lesion had widened Virchow-Robin spaces, occasionally with extravasated erythrocytes. Rats administered daily oral doses of 35.5 mg/kg of TNB for 10 days and 35.5 and 71 mg/kg of TNB for 1 or 4 days did not have brain lesions.

Topic: Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
Subfield: Biochemistry
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Leveraging Large Language Models and Machine Learning for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection

As blockchain technology and smart contracts become widely adopted, securing them throughout every stage of the transaction process is essential. The concern of improved security for smart contracts is to find and detect vulnerabilities using classical Machine Learning (ML) models and fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLM). The robustness of such work rests on a labeled smart contract dataset that includes annotated vulnerabilities on which several LLMs alongside various traditional machine learning algorithms such as DistilBERT model is trained and tested. We train and test machine learning algorithms to classify smart contract codes according to vulnerability types in order to compare model performance. Having fine-tuned the LLMs specifically for smart contract code classification should help in getting better results when detecting several types of well-known vulnerabilities, such as Reentrancy, Integer Overflow, Timestamp Dependency and Dangerous Delegatecall. From our initial experimental results, it can be seen that our fine-tuned LLM surpasses the accuracy of any other model by achieving an accuracy of over 90%, and this advances the existing vulnerability detection benchmarks. Such performance provides a great deal of evidence for LLMs ability to describe the subtle patterns in the code that traditional ML models could miss. Thus, we compared each of the ML and LLM models to give a good overview of each models strengths, from which we can choose the most effective one for real-world applications in smart contract security. Our research combines machine learning and large language models to provide a rich and interpretable framework for detecting different smart contract vulnerabilities, which lays a foundation for a more secure blockchain ecosystem.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Law
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Integration of &amp;#x03B1;-fairness with DEA based resource allocation model

How to allocate a resource efficiently and fairly attracts the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been brought to bear on its solution. The existing literature applies Gini coefficient to measure the fairness in the resource allocation process. However, the Gini coefficient is inapplicable in many applications. This paper proposes a novel centralized resource allocation model based on DEA that considers both the efficiency and the fairness. This paper adopts a notion of fairness, namely α-fairness that is well studied in welfare economics and is of practical significance. The new model integrates α-fairness with DEA to support resource allocation decisions. It aids decision makers in making a trade-off between the efficiency and the fairness. An illustrative application is used to validate the proposed approach.

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
PHOTOCHEMICAL AFTER-EFFECT IN THE OXALATE IODINE REACTION

The after-effect rate in the oxalate-iodine reaction increases with the length of period of pre-illumination. The shapes of the curves obtained indicate that the after-effect rate of reaction is identical with the photochemical rate at the instant of darkening. It falls off very rapidly at first, so that it has already been largely reduced by the time the first reading is taken. The duration of the after-effect, i.e., period during which a measurable falling velocity can be detected by the disappearance of I<sub>2</sub>, is independent of temperature and period of pre-illumination. The end-rates, when the fall in velocity becomes very slow, are found to be at a higher level than the normal dark reaction to an extent depending upon the period of pre-illumination. The value<sub>.</sub>of the "secondary after-effect" obtained by adding fresh iodine in the dark to solutions in which all the original iodine has been used up by exposure to light is diminished (a) with increase of the time interval between decolourisation and addition of iodine, (b) with increase of temperature and (c) with increase of concentration of KI. In the absence of iodine the "activity" disappears completely in the course of time depending upon the temperature. Solutions of free oxalic add and iodine react photochemically but there is no after­-effect. Mixtures of oxalate (or oxalic acid) and iodine from which all the molecular iodine has been removed photochemically do not reduce mercuric chloride, indicating the absence of "activated oxalic acid" in the sense in which the term has been applied in the permanganate-oxalate reaction. A mechanism has been suggested dispensing with assumptions about the existence of activated molecules, and depending solely upon a simple extension of the Berthoud chain mechanism for the oxalate iodine photo-reaction.

Topic: Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic Compounds
Subfield: Organic Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Overexpression of the Chemosensory Protein CSP7 Gene Contributed to Lambda-Cyhalothrin Resistance in the Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid <i>Rhopalosiphum padi</i>

Lambda-cyhalothrin is one of the most important pyrethroids used for controlling wheat aphids. Extensive spraying of lambda-cyhalothrin has led to the development of high resistance to this pyrethroid in<i>Rhopalosiphum padi</i><i>.</i> The mechanisms of resistance are complex and not fully understood. In this study, we found that a laboratory-selected strain of <i>R. padi</i> showed extremely high resistance to lambda-cyhalothrin and cross-resistance to bifenthrin and deltamethrin. The expression level of <i>RpCSP7</i> was significantly elevated in the resistant strain compared to that in the susceptible strain. Knockdown of <i>RpCSP7</i> increased the susceptibility of <i>R. padi</i> to lambda-cyhalothrin, whereas the susceptibility to bifenthrin and deltamethrin was not significantly changed. The recombinant RpCSP7 displayed a high affinity for lambda-cyhalothrin but no affinities to bifenthrin and deltamethrin. These findings suggest that the overexpression of <i>RpCSP7</i> contributes to the resistance of <i>R. padi</i> to lambda-cyhalothrin. This study provides valuable insights into CSP-mediated insecticide resistance in insects.

Topic: Insect Resistance and Genetics
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reﬂ ections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds

In 2007, CBS news featured a short segment on "dogs who talk," prompted by Barbara Walters' report that her dog had said "I love you." It is still available on their web site. The dogs in the segment, when cued by their human companions, all produce sounds-howls, yowls, yips, and even something close the voice of the Wookie in Star Wars-that ever-so-slightly resemble the English words "I love you." Viewing this grotesque performance is, needless to say, painful for anyone critical of anthropomorphism or concerned about respecting canine diff erence. It crystallizes some of the worst tendencies within our culture when it comes to the desire to hear what other animals might have to tell us: we only recognize communication when it comes in the form of human speech, and the only message we want to hear is that we are inherently lovable. While ostensibly establishing a connection between humans and dogs (both through their love for us and their ability to "talk" like us), this segment powerfully confi rms human superiority over other animals (look how imperfectly they do what we do!), measuring their abilities by the yardstick of our own. Thus, they are held at a distance from us through their incapacities, while the many things they can do that we cannot-such as smell cancer-are erased. We are left with the image of slavishly devoted, imperfect versions of ourselves rather than capable beings with their own lives, perspectives, and abilities.

Topic: Animal and Plant Science Education
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Reactive microservices for the internet of things

The Future Internet will be able to connect most of the objects that are not yet connected on the current Internet. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an important part of the Future Internet and involves connectivity between several physical and virtual objects, allowing the emergence of new services and applications. These intelligent objects, along with their tasks, constitute domain-specific applications (vertical markets), while ubiquitous and analytic services form independent domain services (horizontal markets). The development of these applications and services in these markets brings challenges such as deployment, scalability, integration, interoperability, mobility and performance. Recent research indicates that Microservices has been successfully applied by companies such as Netflix and SoundCloud to address some of these issues in their cloud computing applications. However, in the field of IoT, the use of Microservices to deal with these challenges still presents unresolved issues. In this paper, we present a reactive Microservices architecture and apply it in a Fog Computing case study to investigate these challenges at the edge of the network. Finally, we evaluate our proposal from the perspective of performance of Microservices provided by intelligent objects (IoT gateways) at the edge of the network.

Topic: IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Up to standard: planning the needs of an archaeological archive

Records and finds from over 1200 sites excavated in London during the past 25 years have recently come under the curatorial care of the Museum of London, generating one of the largest and most diverse archaeological archives in Europe. The museum's Conservation Department, which has been involved in the project from the beginning, is setting up a programme to bring both finds and documentation materials up to agreed standards for study and long-term care. This paper describes these standards and progress to date. The potential of the archive as a resource for evaluation of past conservation techniques is also discussed.

Topic: Archaeological Research and Protection
Subfield: Space and Planetary Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
A Critical Analysis of Parental Alienation Syndrome and Its Admissibility in the Family Court

Over the past three decades, parental alienation syndrome (PAS) has been proposed to explain behaviors by a child who refuses to spend time with a parent and actually denigrates that parent within the context of a child custody dispute. Although some mental health professionals and child custody evaluators, attorneys, and judges have been quick to accept and admit PAS as evidence in these disputes, there has been no consistent empirical or clinical evidence that PAS exists or that the alienator's behavior is the actual cause of the alienated child's behavior towards the target parent. This article attempts to help those working with custody issues understand how the PAS construct fails to meet scientific standards and should not be admissible in courts.

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
COMPLEX MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR PROTECTION ANALYSIS OF LIGHT MASS CATEGORY COMBAT VEHICLES FROM SMALL ARMS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT VEHICLE GEOMETRY, LOCATION RELIEF AND ADDITIONAL ARMOURING

A developed complex mathematical model is presented for 3D tactical diagrams constructing on the locality and the armored protection levelestimation from small arms for light mass category combat vehicles. This model allows to calculate the bullet flight parameters depending on the range, on the bullet meeting angles with armored housing element, on the arrow position and the armored hull element position, as well as the breakthrough speed of hull armored elements, taking into account the additional armouring. The created mathematical model allows to solve the tasks of the safe zone estimation for light mass category combat vehicles, taking into account the actual hull geometry, location relief and armor-proofing of existing and projected light mass category combat vehicles, for a reasoned choice of protection methods from modern small arms, in particular with allowance for additional armoring.

Topic: Military Technology and Strategies
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Servant Leadership: The Style of Frank Chikane from Early Life to the Presidency of Thabo Mbeki

This article is a historical study of Frank Chikane from early life to the presidency of Thabo Mbeki. The article looks at the early life of Chikane; his experience of the crusade organisation â€œChrist for all Nationsâ€ in 1975; theological studies at the Pan-African Bible Correspondence College; pastoral duties at Kagiso; ordination in 1980; detention by government; suspension by the church; involvement in Institute for Contextual Theology; reconciliation with Adriaan Vlok; involvement in the unity of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM); and his role as a director general in the presidency of Thabo Mbeki. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the leadership style of Chikane is servant leadership.

Topic: African cultural and philosophical studies
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Reducing obstacles to the provision of quality diabetic care

Abstract High quality diabetic care is seen as influenced by the organisation of care, health care workers' involvement in diabetes-specific areas, co-operation among staff members, the availability of resources, and the competence of medical staff (including both physicians and nurses). In a prospective study we have tested a programme for improvements of the quality of diabetes services which combined organisational development and continuing medical education (CME) measures. The study involved 34 primary health care centres over an 18 month period and was based on the responses to questionnaires answered by 123 general practitioners and 247 registered nurses at the 34 PHCCs. The combined programme had a considerable influence on inter-group co-operation, staff members' perceptions of resources available, and nurses' involvement in diabetic care (54 versus 30% seeing diabetic patients for regular check-ups). The results show that, in order to diminish obstacles to high quality care, organisation of care as well as care workers' theoretical knowledge has to be focused.

Topic: Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Complement Factor I Deficiency With Recurrent Aseptic Meningitis

Patients with deficiency of the complement regulatory protein factor I typically present with systemic pyogenic bacterial infections, including meningitis. We report a novel case with total deficiency of factor I in serum and plasma; the patient experienced nine consecutive episodes of aseptic meningitis within a 2-year period. There was no history of previous bacterial sepsis. Aseptic meningitis recurred despite attempted penicillin prophylaxis. Each episode resolved rapidly without sequelae, with or without antibiotic treatment. Serum complement profiles showed persistently low levels of C3, factor B, and factor H and undetectable factor I protein. Family complement studies could not be performed. Except for a minimally increased titer of antinuclear antibody, no other immunologic abnormality was detected. Results of an oral ibuprofen challenge were negative. We conclude that deficiency of factor I may predispose to aseptic, as well as pyogenic bacterial, meningitis.

Topic: Complement system in diseases
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Macrosomia, microphthalmia, ± cleft palate and early infant death: a new autosomal recessive syndrome

An Arab girl with macrosomia, severe microphthalmia and early infant death is reported. Four other sibs were similarly affected; three of them had median cleft palate. All five sibs showed respiratory infections in early life and died either unexpectedly or because of a documented overwhelming infection. Parental consanguinity and affected sibs of both sexes strongly suggest autosomal recessive inheritance in this apparently new syndrome.

Topic: Ocular Disorders and Treatments
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Discovering the Bioactive Compounds Binding to α<sub>1A</sub>‐Adrenergic Receptor in Guizhi Fuling Formula and Revealing Their Interactions by Immobilizing the Receptor Through Colicin L7 DNase/Immunity Protein 7 Ultra‐Affinity System

ABSTRACT In this work, Guizhi Fuling Formula (GFF), as well as α 1A ‐adrenergic receptor (α 1A ‐AR) were taken as the research objects. By utilizing the ultra‐affinity between Colicin L7 DNase (CL7) and its homologous immune protein 7 (Im7), CL7‐tagged α 1A ‐AR was oriented immobilized to the Im7‐coated silica gel surface. With the α 1A ‐AR immobilized column in hand, the active compounds in GFF targeted to α 1A ‐AR were screened, and the binding procedures were analyzed. The composite characterization demonstrated that the α 1A ‐AR can be immobilized to the chromatographic stationary phase with good specificity and stability in 3 weeks. Paeoniflorin, cinnamic acid, and paeonol were identified as the active compounds in GFF targeted to α 1A ‐AR. Among them, cinnamic acid and paeonol have the same binding site on α 1A ‐AR as the specific drug tamsulosin. The binding parameters obtained by frontal analysis and injection amount‐dependent analysis were consistent in the same concentration range. Collectively, these results indicated that the α 1A ‐AR chromatographic column synthesized by a novel immobilized method was capable of screening and analyzing the functional compounds from the complex matrix, which provided an alternative for rapid screening and analysis to traditional ethnic drugs.

Topic: Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Domain: Life Sciences
THE EXPECTATIONS HYPOTHESIS OF THE TERM STRUCTURE IN EUROCURRENCY MARKETS

This paper uses daily eurocurrency deposit rates for six currencies to extend previous research on the expectations hypothesis of the term structure. The reported results confirm earlier findings that the behavior of long term interest rates is perverse. For example, it is shown that in the case of five‐year eurocurrency deposits denominated in US dollars, German marks and Swiss francs, the coefficient relating the excess holding period return to the yield spread between long and short term securities exceeds one, implying that long term rates tend to move in a direction opposite to the prediction of the expectations hypothesis. This study also employs a variety of techniques to examine the temporal stability of the coefficient in both the long and short maturity regressions used in testing the expectations hypothesis. While we do find instability, the nature of the parameter variation is markedly different from that found in foreign exchange markets when similar tests are employed.

Topic: Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Proteomic investigation of <i>Vibrio alginolyticus</i> challenged <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> revealed regulation of cellular homeostasis proteins and their role in supporting innate immune system

Caenorhabditis elegans has been the preferred model system for many investigators to study pathogenesis. In the present investigation, regulation of C. elegans proteome was explored against V. alginolyticus infection using quantitative proteomics approach. Proteins were separated using 2D‐DIGE and the differentially regulated proteins were identified using PMF and MALDI TOF/TOF analysis. The results thus obtained were validated using Western blotting for candidate proteins. The corresponding transcriptional regulation was quantified subsequently using real‐time PCR. Interaction network for candidate proteins was predicted using search tool for the retrieval of interacting genes/proteins (STRING) and functional validation was performed using respective mutant strains. Out of the 25 proteins identified, 21 proteins appeared to be upregulated while four were downregulated. Upregulated proteins included those involved in stress‐response (PDI‐2, HSP‐6), immune‐response (protein kinase ‐18, GST‐8) and energy‐production (ATP‐2) while proteins involved in structural maintenance (IFB‐2) and lipid metabolism (SODH‐1) were downregulated. The roles of these players in the host system during Vibrio infection was analyzed in vivo using wild type and mutant C. elegans . Survival assays using mutants lacking pdi‐2, ire‐1 , and xbp‐1 displayed enhanced susceptibility to V. alginolyticus . Cellular stress generated by V. alginolyticus was determined using ROS assay. This is the first report of proteome changes in C. elegans against V. alginolyticus challenge and highlights the significance of unfolded protein response (UPR) pathway during bacterial infection.

Topic: Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Subfield: Aging
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences