jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The Exemplary Citizen on the Exemplary Hill: The Production of Political Subjects in Contemporary Rural Rwanda

ABSTRACT Since the end of civil war and genocide in 1994, the Rwandan government has embarked on an ambitious plan to reshape the rural setting. Through a strategy of agrarian modernization, the Rwandan government is reorganizing rural space and production in order to foster economic growth. This article looks at how this spatial and productive reconfiguration contributes to the production of political subjects in post‐genocide Rwanda, and how this is constitutive of the political power of government. First, it points to the way in which the state authorities’ discursive practices utilize the concept of ‘exemplary citizenship’ to reinforce policy adherence. Second, it analyses how the reconfiguration of access to productive resources is intertwined with the reinforcement of the state's authority. Hidden behind the discourse of modernization and rationalization, the reorganization of space helps central authorities to gain a greater degree of control over rural settings. Finally, it analyses the way in which the reorganization of rural space contributes to the construction of political subjectivity. Political subjects are defined through adherence to or rejection of the government's rhetoric of economic development and good citizenship as redefining moments of public life.

Topic: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Choosing Motherhood: Matilda Robbins’ Story

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments Some of the research for this article was undertaken while I was a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar directed by Susan Groag Bell and Karen Offen. I am grateful to NEH for its support and to Professors Bell and Offen and the members of the seminar for their critical comments, intellectual stimulation, and warm encouragement. My colleagues at Florida International University, Meri-Jane Rochelson and Marilyn Hoder-Salmon, also read the manuscript and helped me to think about Matilda Robbins' life. Katherine Aiken graciously provided me with a copy of her dissertation on the Florence Crittenton Missions and shared ideas about the situation of single mothers in the early twentieth century. I appreciate the assistance of Raymond Boryczka and the staff of Wayne State University Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs for checking references and leading me to additional information. Special thanks go to Dione Miles, former reference archivist at Wayne State, now deceased, for her help in locating references and additional information and for her encouragement to write about Matilda Robbins.

Topic: American Literature and Culture
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Cocaine Use Patterns and Overdose

The question of how cocaine overdoses are related to preferred routes of cocaine administration and other aspects of cocaine use patterns is sufficiently complex that very little information is available on it. Even the most extensive information on cocaine overdoses, that of the Drug Abuse Warning Network, is severely limited for purposes of examining this topic. Findings are presented from a 1988-1990 study of a purposive but demographically diverse sample of 699 crack and other cocaine users in Miami, 349 of them interviewed in residential treatment and 350 interviewed on the street. Among these respondents: a history of cocaine overdose is extremely common; overdose episodes do not commonly motivate treatment entry and in some populations are relatively unlikely to result in an emergency room visit; cocaine overdose is less associated with crack smoking than with snorting or intravenous (IV) use, whereas IV use is especially likely to result in overdose; and the street and treatment samples are strikingly different in regard to drug use patterns, overdose history, changes some users made to use patterns as a result of overdose experiences, and reasons given by other users for not making such changes.

Topic: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
DESIGN OF TRANSFORMER LESS UPFC BASED ON MULTI LEVEL INVERTER

The conventional Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) exists two back 2 back inverters and more complex zigzag transformers for isolation and accomplishment high power & voltage ratings. To overcome these difficulties, two zigzag transformers are wholly eliminated in this place two cascaded multi-level inverters are presented. The single configuration and control of two CMIs as a power flow controller lead to the possible to separately control real and reactive power over a transmission line. The proposed configuration is exceptional features and several advantages over the traditional UPFC such as transformer less, high efficiency, light weight, low cost, high reliability and fast dynamic response. In this work, Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is design to improve the system performance. In this work is done by MATLAB/Simulation model.

Topic: Microgrid Control and Optimization
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Resources and datasets for automated high-throughput droplet screening by iSort

Contains the design files and source data linked to the following publication in Cell Reports Methods (2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100478) <strong><em>iSort </em></strong><strong>enables automated complex microfluidic droplet sorting in an effort to democratize technology.</strong> <strong>Abstract: </strong><br> Fluorescence activated droplet sorting (FADS) is a widely used microfluidic technique for high throughput screening. However, it requires highly trained specialists to determine optimal sorting parameters, resulting in a large combinatorial space that is challenging to optimize systematically. Additionally, there is currently no way to track every single droplet within a screen, leading to compromised sorting and “hidden” false positive events. To overcome all these limitations, we have developed a setup in which the droplet frequency, spacing and trajectory at the sorting junction are monitored in real time using impedance analysis. The resulting data is used to continuously optimize all parameters automatically and to counteract perturbations, resulting in higher throughput, higher reproducibility, increased robustness and a beginner-friendly character. We believe this provides a missing piece for the spreading of phenotypic single-cell analysis methods, similar to what we have seen for single-cell genomics platforms. <strong>To cite:</strong> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100478

Topic: Scientific Computing and Data Management
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
GECCO: Geometrically-Conditioned Point Diffusion Models

Diffusion models generating images conditionally on text, such as Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, have recently made a splash far beyond the computer vision community. Here, we tackle the related problem of generating point clouds, both unconditionally, and conditionally with images. For the latter, we introduce a novel geometrically-motivated conditioning scheme based on projecting sparse image features into the point cloud and attaching them to each individual point, at every step in the denoising process. This approach improves geometric consistency and yields greater fidelity than current methods relying on unstructured, global latent codes. Additionally, we show how to apply recent continuous-time diffusion schemes. Our method performs on par or above the state of art on conditional and unconditional experiments on synthetic data, while being faster, lighter, and delivering tractable likelihoods. We show it can also scale to diverse indoors scenes.

Topic: Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Caffeic Acid and Biopesticides Interactions for the Control of Storage Beetles

Infestations of stored-product pests cause significant losses of agricultural produce every year. Despite various environmental and health risks, chemical insecticides are now a ready-to-use solution for pest control. Against this background and in the context of Integrated Pest Management research, the present study focuses on the potential insecticidal effect of caffeic acid at five different concentrations (250, 500, 750, 1500 and 3000 ppm), and their combination with Cydia pomonella Granulovirus (CpGV), Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis and Beauveria bassiana strain GHA on three major insect stored-product beetle species, Tribolium confusum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) and Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Treatment efficacy was expressed as mortality in relation to exposure time and adult species number. Compared to the control, the results showed a clear dose-dependent pesticidal activity, expressed as significant adult mortality at a high-dose application, although some of the combinations of caffeic acid concentrations with the other substances acted positively (synergistically and additively) and some negatively. Based on our results, bioinsecticides can be combined with plant compounds such as caffeic acid and be integrated with other modern IPM tools in storage facilities.

Topic: Insect Pest Control Strategies
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Inhibitory Neurons in Nucleus Tractus Solitarius Are Involved in Decrease of Heart Rate Variability and Development of Depression-Like Behaviors in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Abstract Background Diminished heart rate variability (HRV) has been observed in epilepsy, especially in epilepsy with depressive disorders. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Methods We studied HRV, spontaneous recurrent seizures, and depression-like behaviors in different phases of pilocarpine-induced temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in mice. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis was used to identify various nerve cell subsets in TLE mice with and without depression. Differentially expressed gene (DEG) analysis was performed in epilepsy, depression, and HRV central control–related brain areas. Results We found decreased HRV parameters in TLE mice, and alterations were positively correlated with the severity of depression-like behaviors. The severity of depression-like behaviors was correlated with the frequency of spontaneous recurrent seizure. Characteristic expression of mitochondria-related genes was significantly elevated in mice with depression in glial cells, and the enrichment analysis of those DEGs showed an enriched GABAergic synapse pathway in the HRV central control–related brain area. Furthermore, inhibitory neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius, which is an HRV central control–related brain area, were specifically expressed in TLE mice combined with depression compared with those in mice without depression. A significantly enriched long-term depression pathway in DEGs from inhibitory neurons was found. Conclusions Our study reported correlations between HRV and epilepsy–depression comorbidity in different phases of TLE. More importantly, we found that HRV central control-related inhibitory neurons are involved in the development of depression in TLE, providing new insights into epilepsy comorbid with depression.

Topic: Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Fatty Acids of Neutral and Phospholipids, Rancidity Scores and TBA Values as Influenced by Packaging and Storage

ABSTRACT The fatty acid (FA) of neutral lipids (NL) and phospholipids (PL) and this composition's relationship to rancidity score and TBA values of cooked beef patties, during frozen storage at times up to 4½ months under vacuum and nonpackaged conditions were studied. The predominant FA in the NL was C 18:1 (46.0%), followed by C 16:0 at 29.2%. However, the PL fraction gave a more balanced distribution of FA. In the neutral lipid fractions, reduction in the C 16:1 and C 18:2 fatty acids made significant contributions to increased rancidity scores and TBA values but in the phospholipid fraction, changes in the C 18:3 and C 20:4 were of greatest importance. After 3 months of frozen storage a regression model containing the neutral lipid fatty acids C 18:1 and C 18:2 and the phospholipid fatty acids C 18:3 and C 20:4 accounted for 88% and 85% of the variation in rancidity score and TBA value.

Topic: Meat and Animal Product Quality
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Stumbling into Crossfire: William Carlos Williams,<i>Partisan Review</i>, and the Left in the 1930s

Though actively involved in leftist causes and committees throughout the 1930s, William Carlos Williams had an almost uncanny knack for getting between warring factions and alienating power centers of the Left, particularly Partisan Review. This paper examines three such incidents: two in which PR intentionally humiliated the poet in 1936–37, and one in which Williams joined, signed petitions, then resigned from several leftist splinter groups battling each other in 1939. Among the reasons considered for these mishaps are: Williams’s political naïveté about factionalism and editorial good faith; his skepticism regarding communism; his desire to be published in the leading leftist magazines; and the byzantine political alignments of the late 1930s. Ironically, Williams’s own poetry and fiction in the 1930s show a genuine empathy (without cant or cliché) for the working class — a quality that was more talked about than achieved in leftist circles.

Topic: Poetry Analysis and Criticism
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Single spin probe of many-body localization

We use an external spin as a dynamical probe of many body localization. The\nprobe spin is coupled to an interacting and disordered environment described by\na Heisenberg spin chain in a random field. The spin-chain environment can be\ntuned between a thermalizing delocalized phase and non-thermalizing localized\nphase, both in its ground- and high-energy states. We study the decoherence of\nthe probe spin when it couples to the environment prepared in three states: the\nground state, the infinite temperature state and a high energy N\\'eel state. In\nthe non-thermalizing many body localized regime, the coherence shows scaling\nbehaviour in the disorder strength. The long-time dynamics of the probe spin\nshows a logarithmic dephasing in analogy with the logarithmic growth of\nentanglement entropy for a bi-partition of a many-body localized system. In\nsummary, we show that decoherence of the probe spin provides clear signatures\nof many-body localization.\n

Topic: Quantum many-body systems
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Learning communities: Pathways for educational success and social transformation through interactive groups in mathematics

Schools as learning communities have been recommended by the European Commission as an effective model to support school quality and development. Aiming at studying how these schools are achieving such positive results, this article focuses on the analysis of a particular classroom intervention called ‘interactive groups’. A five-year longitudinal case study has been conducted in a socio-economically deprived urban school under the European Union-funded large-scale research project INCLUD-ED: Strategies for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe from Education. Descriptive and interpretative analysis was conducted based on quantitative indicators on school performance in mathematics and including qualitative data from classroom observations and interviews with pupils, parents and teachers. Particularly, the authors aim to explore in which ways and under which conditions dialogic interactions take place in culturally diverse small groups when doing interactive groups in mathematics. Data on school performance in mathematics shows a sustainable improvement over time. Families, teachers and students seem to link the interactions in interactive groups with an improvement in their relationships in the school and in the community. The authors conclude that the dialogical approach identified in interactive groups among students, teachers and parents improves students’ achievement and increases the potential of community-based mathematical interventions in primary classrooms. Lessons learned from this study have informed educational policies in Europe.

Topic: Parental Involvement in Education
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Banking crises of the Great Depression: a reassessment

We set out initially to reconstruct each of the four banking crises of the Great Depression. That task is now completed. What remains to be done is to extract from that account what we have learned, if anything, about the banking crises of the Great Depression. Did these crises differ from pre–1914 banking panics? And, if they did, how did they differ? Did panic–induced failures in the early 1930s differ from the nonpanic–induced suspensions in the twenties? Did panic–induced failures cause output to vary? And, finally, what was the response of the Federal Reserve to accelerated bank closings between 1930 and 1933? We have the knowledge and experience of four separate banking crises with which to attempt to answer these important questions.

Topic: Economic, financial, and policy analysis
Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Interactive Generation of Path-Traced Lightmaps

&lt;p&gt;Indirect illumination is an important part of realistic images, and accurately simulating the complex effects of indirect illumination in real-time applications has long been a challenge for the industry. One popular approach is to use offline precomputed solutions such as lightmaps (textures containing the precomputed lighting in a scene) to efficiently approximate these effects. Unfortunately, these offline solutions have historically enforced long iteration times that come at a cost to artist productivity. These solutions have additionally either supported only the low-frequency diffuse component of indirect lighting, yielding poor visual results for glossy or metallic materials, or have used overly expensive approximations. In recent years, the state of the art lightmap precomputation pipeline has shifted to using highly vectorised path tracing, often on GPU hardware, to compute the indirect illumination effects. The use of path tracing enables progressive rendering, wherein an approximation to the full solution is found and then refined as opposed to solving for the final result in a single step. Progressive rendering through path tracing thereby helps to provide rapid iteration for artists. This thesis describes a system that can progressively path-trace indirect illumination lightmaps on the GPU.Contributing to this system, itintroduces a new gather-based method for sample accumulation, enhances algorithms from prior work, and presents a range of encoding methods, including a novel progressive method for non-negative least-squares encoding of spherical basis functions. In addition, it presents a novel, efficient solution for high-quality precomputed diffuse and low-frequency specular indirect illumination that extends the Ambient Dice family of spherical basis functions. This solution provides comparable or better specular reconstruction to prior work at lower runtime cost and has potential for widespread use in real-time applications.&lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Subfield: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Money Laundering and the Risk in the Risk-Based Approach: The Australian Context

In recent years, the Australian regulator has taken enforcement action against reporting entities for failure to comply with the risk-based approach to anti-money laundering (‘AML’) and counterterrorism financing (‘CTF’), resulting in massive penalties and other damaging repercussions. These actions have highlighted the need for reporting entities to identify and respond to the AML/CTF risks posed by their businesses even more than before. This paper aims to provide a critical analysis of how the concept of risk operates within Australia’s AML/CTF regulatory framework and to suggest ways of enhancing the efficiency of compliance with the global standard. Against the backdrop of these enforcement actions and their pronounced implications, this article offers an original and interdisciplinary contribution by thoroughly exploring the subtle nuances of how risk, as a pivotal concept, orchestrates the course of AML/CTF regulatory endeavours within Australia. By meticulous analysis and well-reasoned suggestions, this article takes on the mantle of not only investigating the status quo but also envisioning pathways for augmenting compliance efficiencies in harmony with global standards. In doing so, it navigates uncharted avenues within the legal domain, casting a spotlight on the intrinsic symbiosis between risk comprehension and regulatory adeptness.

Topic: Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Foundations of empowerment evaluation

Introduction Introducing Empowerment Evaluation as Part of the Intellectual Landscape of Evaluation Background and Theory Exploring the Background and Theory of Empowerment Evaluation with Relevant Examples and Tools Three Steps Presenting the Three Steps of Empowerment Evaluation and Related Facets Four Case Examples Highlighting the Steps of Empowerment Evaluation with Four Case Examples A High Stakes Case Example Documenting the Utility, Credibility, and Rigor of Empowerment Evaluation in a High-Stakes Arena-Accreditation The Standards Applying the Standards to Empowerment Evaluation Caveats Discussing Caveats and Concerns About Empowerment Evaluation A Dialogue Distinguishing Empowerment Evaluation From Other Approaches The World Wide Web Using the Internet as a Tool to Disseminate Empowerment Evaluation Worldwide Conclusion Concluding by Speaking One's Truth About the Strengths, Limitations, and Conditions of Empowerment Evaluation

Topic: Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Additional file 1: of Taxonomic features and comparisons of the gut microbiome from two edible fungus-farming termites (Macrotermes falciger; M. natalensis) harvested in the Vhembe district of Limpopo, South Africa

Table S1. Sample metadata. All sample metadata information of this study data and external data used can be found here. (XLSX 30 kb)

Topic: Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences