jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Bullwhip Effect Based on Retailers' and Customers' Forecasting Behaviors

In a single two-stage supply chain with one supplier and one retailer,where the retailer uses the moving average(MA) and exponential smoothing(ES) forecasting techniques,we analyze the impact of price forecast by customers on Bullwhip Effect(BWE) under price fluctuation.Results show that:(1) the retailer's smooth demand forecast can reduce BWE;(2) customers' price forecasting behavior can reduce BWE: the more customers concern about price fluctuation,the smaller the BWE is,and customers observe a longer-term historical price can further reduce the BWE;and(3) BWE under MA may be significant compared to that under ES,which is different from previous research.

Topic: Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Impact of the Principle of Proportionality in Tax Law on the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Administrative Court in Poland

The principle of proportionality in tax law as an EU and constitutional standard may play an important role in the interpretation of tax law. The principle of proportionality is associated with moderation of the activities of public authorities and minimization of their interference in the sphere of rights and freedoms. The principle of proportionality is also called the principle of commensurability, moderation, and adequacy. The article analyses the impact of the proportionality principle in tax law on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The case law of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court uses the principle of proportionality when interpreting tax law, and the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Polish Constitutional Tribunal have a significant impact on the jurisprudence of administrative courts in Poland.

Topic: European and International Law Studies
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Nanosized Vanadium Diboride: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties

X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopic, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic examinations, as well as energy dispersive X-ray and elemental analyses revealed the formation of single-phase VB2 with the average particle sizes of 20–35 nm from the reaction between vanadium(III) chloride and sodium borohydride at a molar ratio of 1: 10 in the temperature range of 595–930°C in an argon atmosphere at a contact time of 14–28 h. The reaction between amorphous boron and vanadium powders at 800°C in an argon atmosphere at a contact time of 32 h in Na2B4O7 and KCl ionic melts gave VB2 with the average particle size of ~90 nm.

Topic: Superconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
How Can the Right of Young Children with Disability to be Heard be Enacted within the Policy Constructs of Participant Choice and Control?

This comprehensive literature review provides a critical examination of the concepts inherent in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme, participant choice and control. These concepts are explored in relation to enacting the child’s right to be heard, as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Enacting this right is found to be dependent on the image of young children with disability, acknowledging children’s citizenship rights and balancing these with perspectives regarding the need for protection and the child’s place in family and community. The social-relational model of disability is helpful in understanding how the enactment of the right to be heard may be supported. Parents and early childhood professionals who are sensitive to the child’s perspective may take the role as social mediators of child voice, choice and control, along with practices supporting children’s evolving capacities to enact their own rights and aspirations.

Topic: Children's Rights and Participation
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
On some sharp spectral inequalities for Schrödinger operators on semi-axis

In this paper we obtain sharp Lieb-Thirring inequalities for a Schrödinger operator on semi-axis with a matrix potential and show how they can be used to other related problems. Among them are spectral inequalities on star graphs and spectral inequalities for Schrödinger operators on half-spaces with Robin boundary conditions.

Topic: Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
City with Smart Waste Management: Introducing Waste Bin Technologies

Population growth and urbanization have led to an increase in the rate of waste production, the lack of timely and proper management of which will have adverse effects on human life and the environment. Since most of the waste management costs are spent on waste collection and transportation, it is necessary to find solutions to control the huge costs of this sector. On the other hand, today, intelligent technologies are used globally as solutions to meet challenges in various fields such as agriculture to improve agro-industrial production, transportation, and waste management, which creates a concept called smart cities. One of the categories that has changed the concept of cities and made them have easier and smarter answers to various events and needs is the "Internet of Things", in which many cases and infrastructures with new hardware technologies and Software are integrated. Waste collection is no exception to this rule and efforts have been made to make it smarter. In this research, some of the latest innovations presented globally in order to make trash smarter have been examined.

Topic: IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Broadband Resonant-Type Metamaterial Transmission Lines

In this letter, it is shown that, contrary to previous assumptions, the broadband characteristics of metamaterial transmission lines are not exclusive of the so called CL loaded composite right/left handed (CRLH) structures. In the balance condition, the typical frequency gap between the left handed (LH) and right handed (RH) transmission bands of these CRLH lines collapses, the characteristic impedance varies smoothly in the vicinity of the transition frequency, and broadband response results. However, through an appropriate design, similar behavior can be obtained in resonant type metamaterial transmission lines, namely transmission lines loaded with complementary split rings resonators. A detailed analysis of the structures, based on the equivalent circuit model is provided, and implications of balancing are pointed out. In this letter, it is clearly demonstrated that broadband balanced CRLH lines can also be implemented by means of the resonant type approach

Topic: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Nitrous oxide sedation in dentistry

Summary Nitrous oxide concentrations (V/V) at the delivery Rotameters block, nasal mask, pharynx and venous blood, were compared. There was a dilution of approximately 50% of the delivered nitrous oxide at the nasal mask which was further reduced in the pharynx. Venous blood concentrations 10 minutes after inhalation of nitrous oxide were low but as would be calculated from pharyngeal concentrations. After 5 minutes of oxygenation venous blood nitrous oxide concentrations were still relatively high. A total of 92% of subjects experienced a satisfactory effect with 30% nitrous oxide or less in the pharynx.

Topic: Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
Subfield: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Anomalous Segregation Kinetics of Phosphorus and Carbon Governed by Carbide Reactions in 2.25Cr-1.5W Heat-resistant Steel

In a 2.25Cr-1.5W heat-resistant steel containing V and Nb, the formation sequence of carbides are detailed. Such carbide reactions determine directly the anomalous segregation kinetics of phosphorus and carbon at the grain boundary/carbide interface. The anomalous segregation kinetics of phosphorus consists of two maximum segregation peaks and one minimum peak corresponding to the high segregation concentration of carbon. The roles of the carbide reactions on the anomalous segregation kinetics of the solutes are fully understood from the viewpoint of the dissolution of unstable carbides into the matrix for forming the stable carbides, the active segregation of the dissolved carbon into the newly formed carbide interface for the growth and the resultant repulsive segregation between carbon and phosphorus.

Topic: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
An Inventory Lot-sizing Model for a Manufacturing/Remanufacturing Environment with Variable Remanufacturing Lot-sizes

More manufacturers are involved in remanufacturing of used items due to the economical benefit of reusing used items and strict environmental regulation. Consequently, manufacturers have to determine the remanufacturing and manufacturing lot-sizes that minimise the total cost per unit time. Existing lot-sizing models are developed assuming a constant lot-size for both manufacturing and remanufacturing. However, a constant lot-size for remanufacturing could lead to excess inventory of remanufacturable items, resulting in high inventory holding cost. This paper develops a new lot-sizing model that considers variable remanufacturing lot-sizes. It has been established that the new model could lead to savings in total cost per unit time. This is mainly due to a reduction in the inventory holding cost of remanufacturable items. A sensitivity analysis has been carried out to test the robustness of the new model.

Topic: Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Redressing women: Feminism in fashion and the creation of American style, 1930–1960

This study examines the rise of American style ill an attempt to theorize the place of clothing design within a broader feminist tradition and recover a feminist consciousness following the fragmentation of the women's movement in the 1920s. Between 1930 and 1945, American style emerged as a viable alternative to French fashion in an effort lead by women who dominated the industry at many levels, including design, retail, and reportage. This work moves chronologically from women's early attempts at nationalizing fashion to their struggle to maintain control of the industry amid a postwar backlash against feminism. More than a business history, this work positions women in fashion as lightning rods for broader debates about women's control over their own image and bodies, the utopian possibilities of mass production, and the reorganization of work and the material world in the face of a growing female labor force. Most importantly, this project seeks to expand the sites for feminist practice and history by establishing a connection between American fashion and a feminist tradition of dress reform. I argue that the female body has been a critical site for political contestation, and that based on the principles of comfort, beauty, mobility, and economic viability, many women historically have used clothing design as a tool for liberation. My work both builds on and challenges the work of feminist critics of beauty culture, who have focused on how the fashion industry conscripts women into narrow and self-effacing gender roles and manipulates women's desire through unattainable and ever-changing standards of beauty. In so doing, these critics of contemporary culture have overlooked a crucial feminist tradition. Beginning with dress reformers of the early woman suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women have repeatedly reimagined the clothed body to signify and actualize a utopian vision of female equality and autonomy. This tradition, I argue, culminates in the creation of an American style made possible by a temporarily female-dominated fashion industry in the United States between 1930 and 1960.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Downregulation of Diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGKZ) suppresses tumorigenesis and progression of cervical cancer by facilitating cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest

Diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGKZ) participates in cancer progression. Here, the current work aims to identify the functional role of DGKZ in cervical cancer (CC). DGKZ expression in cervical cancer tissues and paired adjacent normal cervical tissues was assessed using Immunohistochemistry assay. SiHa and HeLa cells were transfected with lentivirus plasmids (sh-DGKZ or sh-NC) to evaluate the effects of DGKZ knockdown on cell proliferation, apoptosis and cell cycle distribution in vitro. Furthermore, BALB/c nude mice were injected subcutaneously with Lentivirus-sh-DGKZ-SiHa cells or Lentivirus-sh-NC-SiHa cells to analyze the influence of DGKZ silencing on tumor growth of CC in vivo. Moreover, the potential molecular mechanisms were predicted by GO and KEGG analysis and preliminarily explored through PathScan Analysis. Elevated DGKZ expression in cervical tumor was observed. Downregulation of DGKZ repressed proliferation and boosted apoptosis of SiHa and HeLa cells and induced cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase. In addition, Knockdown of DGKZ restrained tumor growth in tumor xenograft mice. Importantly, GO and KEGG analysis displayed that differentially expressed proteins induced by silence of DGKZ were mostly enriched in autophagy or mitophagy, indicating that the functions of DGKZ on cell proliferation and tumor growth may be associated with autophagy or mitophagy. PathScan analysis presented that PI3K-AKT and TAK1-NF-κB signaling pathways were prominently inhibited in SiHa cells transfected with sh-DGKZ. In summary, downregulation of DGKZ impeded cell proliferation, boosted cell apoptosis and induced cell cycle arrest to suppress tumorigenesis and progression of cervical cancer.

Topic: Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy
Subfield: Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Mio depletion links mTOR regulation to Aurora A and Plk1 activation at mitotic centrosomes

Coordination of cell growth and proliferation in response to nutrient supply is mediated by mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling. In this study, we report that Mio, a highly conserved member of the SEACAT/GATOR2 complex necessary for the activation of mTORC1 kinase, plays a critical role in mitotic spindle formation and subsequent chromosome segregation by regulating the proper concentration of active key mitotic kinases Plk1 and Aurora A at centrosomes and spindle poles. Mio-depleted cells showed reduced activation of Plk1 and Aurora A kinase at spindle poles and an impaired localization of MCAK and HURP, two key regulators of mitotic spindle formation and known substrates of Aurora A kinase, resulting in spindle assembly and cytokinesis defects. Our results indicate that a major function of Mio in mitosis is to regulate the activation/deactivation of Plk1 and Aurora A, possibly by linking them to mTOR signaling in a pathway to promote faithful mitotic progression.

Topic: Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
Subfield: Cell Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Three-dimensional microfabrication using local electrophoresis deposition and a laser trapping technique

We describe a novel fabrication method of three-dimensional (3D) microstructures using local electrophoresis deposition together with laser trapping. A liquid cell consisting of two-faced conductive substrates was filled with a colloidal solution of Au nanoparticles. The nanoparticles were trapped by a laser spot and positioned on the bottom substrate, then deposited onto the surface by the application of electrical voltage between the two substrates. By moving the liquid cell downward while maintaining the deposition, 3D microstructures were successfully fabricated. The smallest diameter of the fabricated pillar was 500 nm, almost the same as that of the Airy disc. The Young's modulus of the fabricated structure was 1.5 GPa.

Topic: Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Can scientists communicate interpersonal warmth? Testing warmth messages in the context of science communication

Warmth and competence are two fundamental dimensions of social judgments that shape stereotypes of social groups/professions. In perceiving others, people assess their intentions (warmth) and their abilities to act upon those intentions (competence). As stereotyping can influence attitudes and subsequent behaviors, pre-existing stereotypes of scientists as 'cold' may undermine trust in science and interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. How, then, can scientists portray interpersonal warmth? Drawing on the stereotype content model's warmth-competence literature, this study aimed to communicate scientists' interpersonal warmth using the morality and emotional aspects of the warmth dimension in the context of a College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) as a test case of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) colleges. We used two, 3 (message type: control, prosocial, emotional-prosocial) × 2 (gender: women, men) between-subjects experimental design (n = 849) to examine the effect of message type and participant's gender on perceptions of scientists' interpersonal warmth. Results suggest that the combination of prosocial behaviors and emotional appeals were associated with perceived warmth of scientists. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction between message type and gender (Experiment 1) and a significant main effect of gender on perceived warmth (Experiment 2). These findings suggest further exploration of the morality and sociability aspects associated with warmth to reduce unflattering stereotypes of scientists.

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Effects Of A Short Intervention Of AIS And PNF On College Students’ Shoulder Flexibility

Both Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) and Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) are widely used stretching techniques, but their difference in improving shoulder flexibility has not been evaluated. PURPOSE: To compare the effects of a 2-wk AIS and PNF intervention on the flexibility of shoulder joints. METHODS: Twenty male college physical education students (21.46±1.18 yr., height: 172.91±4.48 cm, mass:74.37±6.34 kg) without shoulder injury volunteered for the study. They were randomly divided into two intervention groups, one AIS and the other PNF intervention, with both met 5 times a week, 15 minutes each, for two weeks. Joint mobility (flexion and stretch) was measured by F-JDC type joint measurement scale before and after the intervention. Paired t-test and effect size (ES, Cohen’s d) were calculated to determine the difference between AIS and PNF. RESULTS: There was no statistical significant difference between the groups before the intervention. There were significant improvements in both groups (P<0.01), but greater improvement was found in the post-intervention AIS group (flexion: 4.1±0.86; stretch: 1.96±0.003; P < 0.001).Table: The change of shoulder flexibility before and after AIS and PNFCONCLUSIONS: Both of the methods can improve the flexibility of the shoulder joints, but AIS shows more effective. Corresponding author: Jingmin Liu Study was supported by Independent scientific research plan of Ministry of Education (20121088023)

Topic: Sports injuries and prevention
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Are Attitudes Contagious? Exposure to Biased Nonverbal Signals Can Create Novel Social Attitudes

Prior work has established that nonverbal signals that capitalize on existing cultural biases can shift attitudes toward members of familiar social groups (e.g., racial minority group members). This research is the first to examine whether nonverbal signals can influence adults’ attitudes toward unfamiliar individuals outside the context of existing cultural biases. In a series of studies, we examined whether seeing one individual receive more cold, unfriendly nonverbal signals than another individual would lead to biases in favor of the target of more positive nonverbal signals. Consistent with our preregistered hypotheses, exposure to nonverbal bias in favor of one individual over another led participants to develop nonverbal signal-consistent explicit biases. Moreover, a combined analysis of the data from all four samples indicated that participants also formed nonverbal signal-consistent implicit biases. Taken together, these findings suggest that nonverbal signals have the potential to create and spread attitudes toward others.

Topic: Cultural Differences and Values
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Knowledge asymmetry and brokerage: Linking network perception to position in structural holes

Although brokers who span structural holes have been shown to occupy a valuable position in organizations, emerging research suggests that the returns to these brokers can vary depending on whether alters can credibly threaten to disintermediate the broker and close the structural hole. Yet, the factors that shape the likelihood of disintermediation have not been extensively explored. In this article, we build from the premise that an alter’s knowledge about the structural hole is a necessary condition for disintermediation. Without this knowledge, the alter will not know with whom to disintermediate. Drawing on research about cognitive social structures, we argue that individuals are most likely to be in a structural hole under the condition of knowledge asymmetry—that is, when brokers know about the structural hole, but alters do not—which reduces the likelihood of disintermediation by alters and increases the benefits for brokers. Using advice network data from a high-tech organization, we find evidence of knowledge asymmetry in existing structural holes, and moderation of this relationship by two factors also related to disintermediation: (1) broker’s reputation and (2) alter’s position as a provider (vs. acquirer) of resources. We also show that knowledge asymmetry is related to higher returns for brokers. The broader theoretical contribution is a better understanding of how network perceptions are related to positions across structural holes, an important structure from which power is derived in organizations and markets.

Topic: Innovation and Knowledge Management
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Lichenized fungi (Ascomycota) from Dupkata Reserve (Rhodopi Mts, Bulgaria)

Results from the study on lichens in the Dupkata protected area, Rhodopi Mts are presented. Fifty-one species of lichen-forming fungi were reported for the first time from the Reserve. Among them, Arthopyrenia analepta s.l. and Lecanora argentata were new records from the Rhodopi Mts. Data on some rarely recorded and less common species in Bulgaria were briefly discussed.

Topic: Lichen and fungal ecology
Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences