jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
STRESS AND ANXIETY IN GENERAL POPULATION IN ROMANIA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The mental health challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmingly affect the general population. Stress and health anxiety, the risk of losing a job and working at home, online education for children, and isolation have a devastating cumulative effect. This study aims to achieve the following: i) to identify the epidemiological specifics of the perceived stress levels in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic; ii) to evaluate the correlation between socioeconomic factors and the level of perceived stress and anxiety; iii) to analyze the correlation between the perceived stress scores and the anxiety scores in the general population. We applied Perceived Stress Score (PSS) validated questionnaire and Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) online to a group of respondents (N=1.362), profiling the data based on demographics: age, sex, COVID-19 infection, behavior compliance to sanitary limitations, socioeconomic status, and pre-existing health issues. Results show differentiation of PSS values in female and male respondents; occupation significantly influences the perceived stress score among COVID-19 positive respondents. Educational level and income significantly influence the perceived stress score. Low educational level and low income increase the perceived stress score among negative COVID-19 respondents. Subsequent research is needed to clarify other correlations between the perceived stress levels and general population well-being. While certain life conditions enhance the perception of stress, others could provide protective value to demographic groups. Therefore, we suggest further studies and qualitative approaches to general population stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Four New Species of Dictyostelids from Soil Systems in Northern Thailand

Dictyostelid cellular slime molds (dictyostelids) are ubiquitous microorganisms found in the uppermost layers of most soils. Reports on the species diversity of dictyostelids in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, are few in number. A survey for dictyostelids performed in northern Thailand in 2008 recovered 15 distinctive forms, including several common species and a number of forms morphologically different from anything already described. Five of the latter were formally described as new to science in a previous paper. An additional five isolates appeared to be morphologically distinct, and this was supported by DNA sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. These isolates representing four species are described herein as species new to science. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of these new species are provided.

Topic: Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Localization of a receptor nonapeptide with a possible role in the binding of the type I interferons.

Interferons (IFNs) in common with other cytokines activate Janus tyrosine kinases and latent STAT transcription factors upon binding to their cell surface receptor. Type I IFNs bind to a receptor composed of two transmembrane polypeptides, IFNAR1 and IFNAR2, which belong to the class II cytokine receptor family that also includes the cellular receptors for IFN-gamma, interleukin-10 and coagulation protease factor VII (tissue factor). The extracellular domain of the type I IFN receptor chain IFNAR1, has four fibronectin type-III sub-domains. Human IFNAR1 has intrinsic weak affinity for type I IFNs and plays an essential role in transmembrane signaling, formation of a high affinity complex with IFN and the modulation of ligand specificity. In order to characterise the ligand binding site on IFNAR1 we analysed the epitope recognized by the anti-IFNAR1 mAb, 64G12, which inhibits the binding and biological activities of both IFN-alpha and IFN-beta. The target peptide recognized by the 64G12 mAb was determined by screening a set of 48 overlapping peptides covering the first two subdomains (residues 23-229) of the extracellular region of IFNAR1. The results of this study show that the peptide (FSSLKLNVY), localized within the first sub-domain (residues 89-97) of IFNAR1, which is recognized by the 64G12 mAb, most likely overlaps a site to which both IFN-alpha and IFN-beta bind in the ligand-receptor complex. Thus, since the 64G12 mAb can neutralize the biological activities of all the type I IFNs tested, we suggest that the target peptide recognized by the 64G12 mAb, is a possible anchorage point on IFNAR1, common to binding of both IFN-alpha and IFN-beta.

Topic: Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Modelling the effect of energy consumption on different environmental indicators in the United States: The role of financial development and renewable energy innovations

Abstract This study offers new insights into the relationship between energy consumption and environmental degradation in the United States by controlling for financial development, renewable energy innovations, economic expansion, and trade policy uncertainty over the period 1985:Q1 to 2014:Q4. Based on the flexible autoregressive distributed lag model, our findings show that energy consumption deteriorates the environment, while renewable energy innovations reduce CO 2 emissions but has no significant effect on ecological footprint. Furthermore, the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis is valid only when ecological footprint is used as an environmental indicator. The causality results establish a feedback effect between CO 2 emissions and renewable energy innovations, a unidirectional causal flow from financial development to CO 2 emissions, energy consumption, and economic growth. Also discovered is a unidirectional causal flow from the ecological footprint to energy use and economic growth, and from renewable energy innovations and energy consumption to economic growth. Therefore, the policy implications for this study, among others, include the provision of grants and subsidies for research in renewable energy to enhance sustainable environmental quality.

Topic: Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
A Quantitative and Qualitative Exploration of Photoaversion in Achromatopsia

This study offers new insights into PA in ACHM. It provides the first structured evidence of the great significance of this symptom to patients, suggesting that PA should be considered as an additional outcome measure in therapeutic trials. It also offers new insights into the characteristics of PA in ACHM, and describes both subjective and objective measures of PA that could be employed in clinical trials.

Topic: Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Subfield: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis

Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a perfect artistic vehicle to represent the crisis-ridden reality of the twenty-first-century. Being a mixture of fragmentary incompatible voices, collage embodies the chaos of the media-dominated world. Examining the artistic, sociopolitical and personal crises addressed in contemporary collage literature, the book argues that the 21st Century has brought a revival of collage-like novels and essays.

Topic: Contemporary Literature and Criticism
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Recent Aggravation of Export Earnings in Bangladesh: Is This an Outcome of Export Subsidence of RMG Sector Due to COVID-19 Outbreak?

Bangladesh has the 2nd largest economy in term of purchasing power parity in South Asia after India. Bangladesh is also considered as one of the fastest growing middle-income countries with a market based mixed economy. Despite of trade deficit in the current account of the balance of payment, the country has been recognized as one of the key destinations of foreign direct investment. Availability of cheap labor made the cost of production lower which makes it possible to attract foreign buyers. Export oriented RMG sector has made a huge contribution in the economy of Bangladesh. Readymade garments have been the key source of export earnings with its accolades in the foreign market. This sector also provides a greater number of job creation especially for female workers. Current pandemic outbreak has raised an unfavorable situation in the RMG sector due to the lockdown in many developed countries, especially European countries which adversely affects the total export earnings of Bangladesh. Because of that, many factories have shut down their production with a huge extinction of foreign demand for RMG products. This voluminous impact of COVID-19 in the export earning capability of readymade garments industry has shifted the trade balance into an unstable situation to create short term alarm in the economy.

Topic: Global trade and economics
Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
High (pressure, temperature) phase diagrams of ZnO and AlN from second harmonic generation measurements

The pressure-induced B4 → B1 structural phase boundaries of ZnO and AlN have been determined with the second harmonic generation (SHG) technique at high temperature. The SHG measurements of AlN show that between 15.6 and 18 GPa, the phase boundary has a negative slope of nearly −627 K/GPa, and that below 15.6 GPa, the slope is significantly smaller (−77 K/GPa). ZnO has a phase boundary with a negative slope of nearly −1427 K/GPa around 5.3–6 GPa and −228 K/GPa below 5 GPa. The phase transition pressure of AlN is sensitive to deviatoric stress and varies from 18 to 24.5 GPa.

Topic: ZnO doping and properties
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
[Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic method in Chlamydia trachomatis infections].

This study is based on 526 female patients investigated by gynecologists in an ambulatory practice (G.P.'s). The samples originating from within the uterine neck have been analysed by one so-called "rapid" test (D.I.F.T.) and after culture in McCoy cells. Prevalence by culture is 20.5% and sensitivity is 96.5%, whereas prevalence is only 4.9% and sensitivity about 20.4% for D.I.F.T. For D.I.F.T.-test, the predictive positive value is 76.6%, when the predictive negative value is close to 82.8%. These results give the evidence that the inoculation of uro-genital specimens in cell-cultures still remains the gold standard method for detecting C. trachomatis infections.

Topic: Reproductive tract infections research
Subfield: Microbiology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Dinghuibacter silviterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from forest soil

A novel Gram-stain negative, non-motile, rod-shaped, aerobic bacterial strain, designated DHOA34T, was isolated from forest soil of Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong Province, China. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that it exhibited highest similarity with Flavisolibacter ginsengiterrae Gsoil 492T and Flavitalea populi HY-50RT, at 90.89 and 90.83%, respectively. In the neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, DHOA34T formed an independent lineage within the family Chitinophagaceae but was distinct from all recognized species and genera of the family. The major cellular fatty acids of DHOA34T included iso-C15:0, anteiso-C15:0, iso-C17:0 3-OH and summed feature 3 (C16:1ω6c and/or C16:1ω7c). The DNA G+C content was 51.6 mol% and the predominant quinone was menaquinone 7 (MK-7). Flexirubin pigments were produced. The phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data demonstrate consistently that strain DHOA34T represents a novel species of a new genus in the family Chitinophagaceae, for which the name Dinghuibacter silviterrae gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Dinghuibacter silviterrae is DHOA34T (=CGMCC 1.15023T=KCTC 42632T).

Topic: Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Intracellular degradation of Fc gamma RIII in mouse bone marrow culture-derived progenitor mast cells prevents its surface expression and associated function.

Although mouse interleukin-3-dependent, bone marrow culture-derived progenitor mast cells (BMMC) and a Kirsten sarcoma virus (KiSV)-immortalized mouse mast cell line (MC4w) both express on their surfaces receptors for the Fc portion of IgG (Fc gamma R), only MC4w degranulate upon Fc gamma R perturbation. As shown by surface iodination and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of deglycosylated proteins immunoprecipitated with the Fc gamma R-specific monoclonal antibody 2.4G2, a 26-kDa protein, identified as Fc gamma RIII by immunoblotting with antibody to Fc gamma RIII, was predominantly expressed on the surface of MC4w but minimally on BMMC. However, both BMMC and MC4w expressed mRNA for Fc gamma RIII as determined by RNA blot analysis, and both translated Fc gamma RIII as assessed by intrinsic radiolabeling and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of deglycosylated monoclonal antibody 2.4G2 immunoprecipitates. Pulse-chase analysis showed that intrinsically radiolabeled Fc gamma RIII was stable in MC4w cells but was degraded rapidly in BMMC and that newly synthesized Fc gamma RIII remained sensitive to digestion by endoglycosidase H in BMMC but rapidly became resistant in MC4w. These data suggest that the deficiency in surface Fc gamma RIII expression on BMMC is due to the degradation of Fc gamma RIII in the endoplasmic reticulum. Immunoprecipitation of surface Fc gamma R and Fc receptors for IgE (Fc epsilon RI) from digitonin-extracted cells followed by immunoblotting with antibody to Fc epsilon RI gamma-chain showed that gamma-chain is associated with surface Fc epsilon RI and Fc gamma R in MC4w, but only with Fc epsilon RI in BMMC, which lack surface Fc gamma RIII. Inasmuch as BMMC are progenitors of serosal mast cells, which, like MC4w, express surface Fc gamma RIII and undergo Fc gamma R-mediated activation, the data suggest that maturation of BMMC enables Fc gamma RIII to bypass degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum, resulting in the acquisition of functional Fc gamma RIII/gamma-chain complexes on the cell surface.

Topic: Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
The Scripture Principle

Book Review| December 01 1986 The Scripture Principle The Scripture Principle, Clark H. Pinnock. Trent C. Butler Trent C. Butler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1986) 105 (4): 700–701. https://doi.org/10.2307/3261218 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Trent C. Butler; The Scripture Principle. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 December 1986; 105 (4): 700–701. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3261218 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveSBL PressJournal of Biblical Literature Search Advanced Search Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Topic: Biblical Studies and Interpretation
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Decadally Resolved Lateglacial Radiocarbon Evidence from New Zealand Kauri

Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Radiocarbon 58 (2016): 709-733, doi: 10.1017/RDC.2016.86.

Topic: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Use of the End to End Anastomotic Stapler From Above for Difficult Pelvic Surgery for Distal Rectal Disease

Introduction Transabdominal utilization (TAU) of the end to end anastomotic (EEA) stapler in low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer is an excellent alternative to the most widely performed techhnique. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database which obtained data on 104 patients with rectal disease who underwent EEA-assisted LAR with TAU. Records of all patients were used to evaluate demographics, complications, tumor location, margin status, postoperative complications, clinical sphincter function, adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment, disease stage, and survival. Results Of the 104 patients, 48% were women with a mean age of 64 years (range 34-85 years). The average tumor location was 8 cm above the dentate line, and the mean tumor distance from the distal margin was 1.9 cm. All distal margins in cases for patients with rectal cancer were negative. Hospital length of stay averaged 8.7 days (6-15 days). There were no anastomotic complications (leaks, bleeding, or obstruction), and there were no leaks at the separate colotomy site. All patients have had normal postoperative sphincter function. Conclusion Transabdominal utilization of the EEA stapler in LAR for colorectal carcinoma is an alternative to the conventional approach and may be advantageous in avoidance of the lithotomy position with potential nerve injury, risk of deep venous thrombosis, and stapler-induced sphincter trauma.

Topic: Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Crosstalk analysis and a cancellation method for an image sensor operating at 1Gfps

Temporal resolution and crosstalk of an ultra-high-speed image sensor operating at 1 Gfps are analyzed by using Monte Carlo simulation. An impulse response method is proposed to analyze crosstalk and to cancel large crosstalk involved in output signals of the sensor. The sensor is backside-illuminated (BSI) with multi-collection-gate (MCG) at central area of a pixel on the front side. Signal electrons generated by incident light near the back side travel to the central area of the pixel and are collected by the collection gates. The travel time and the path of a signal electron randomly distribute due to randomness in arriving spot on the backside of the sensor and penetration depth of an incident photon which generates the electron, and in the motion of the generated electron. The travel time is analyzed to define the temporal resolution of the sensor. A collecting gate is defined as one of the collection gates which is supposed to collect all the signal electrons at a certain time interval. However, due to the randomness, some of signal electrons migrate to other collection gates than the collecting gate, resulting in mixture of signal electrons at neighboring collection gates and/or pixels, causing crosstalk in time and space. The proposed impulse method is used to analyze crosstalk when the sensor operating at 1 Gfps. From the analysis, a cancellation method of crosstalk involved in output signals is presented and successfully applied in cancellation of crosstalk in an example of 2 dimensional images.

Topic: CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
WE‐A‐303A‐01: DCE MRI for Quantitative Assessment of Therapy Response

Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MR imaging is emerging as a promising biomarker for therapy assessment. While initial results from research groups are promising, a significant gap exists between preliminary research studies and practical utilization. In addition to variations in data acquired from different image acquisition techniques, a large variety of pharmacokinetic models have been explored from which to derive quantitative metrics. Examples of such models include those from Patlack, Toft, and Elizabeth, with a number of others in use in various research groups. These models have various levels of complexity, which in general is inversely related to the robustness with which the models perform on imaging data. Furthermore, the selection of an optimal pharmacokinetic model may be highly dependent on the tissue or organ being investigated. Currently, a national effort is underway to help standardize the extraction of physiological parameters from DCE‐MRI and related pharmacokinetic models. This talk explores these issues, comparing various models and their performance, and provides an overview of the areas that need consideration prior to widespread adoption of DCE‐MRI derived model parameters as assessment tools. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of commonly used pharmacokinetic models 2. Understand the influence of image acquisition parameters and image quality on derived quantitative metrics 3. Provide examples of clinical applications

Topic: MRI in cancer diagnosis
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Radial Tunnel Syndrome

In a ten-year experience with radial tunnel syndrome surgery, 34 of 42 patients had follow-up examination of more than six months (average, 24 months). Although 74% of the patients were improved after surgery, about one-third had some persistent pain and functional restriction. Static electromyographic analysis was not diagnostically helpful. However, diagnostic radial tunnel block was prognostically helpful. Patients selection was important in predicting surgical outcome. In worker's compensation cases, symptoms would often persist. Some patients also appeared to have symptoms referable to compression of the posterior interosseous nerve and tendinitis of the extensor origin, and others had additional ipsilateral compressive neuropathies.

Topic: Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences