nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Fundamental movement skills in relation to weekday and weekend physical activity in preschool children.
Venue: Journal of science and medicine in sport
Year: 2015

To examine associations between fundamental movement skills and weekday and weekend physical activity among preschool children living in deprived communities.  Cross sectional observation study.  Six locomotor skills and 6 object control skills were video assessed using The Children's Activity and Movement in Preschool Study Motor Skills Protocol. Physical activity was measured via hip mounted accelerometry. A total of 99 children (53% boys) aged 3 5 years (M 4.6, SD 0.5) completed all assessments. Multilevel mixed regression models were used to examine associations between fundamental movement skills and physical activity. Models were adjusted for clustering, age, sex, standardised body mass index and accelerometer wear time.  Boys were more active than girls and had higher object control skill competency. Total skill score was positively associated with weekend moderate to vigorous physical activity (p 0.034) but not weekday physical activity categories (p 0.05) When subdomains of skills were examined, object control skills was positively associated with light physical activity on weekdays (p 0.008) and with light (p 0.033) moderate to vigorous (p 0.028) and light and moderate to vigorous (p 0.008) physical activity at weekends. Locomotor skill competency was positively associated with moderate to vigorous physical activity on weekdays (p 0.016) and light physical activity during the weekend (p 0.035)  The findings suggest that developing competence in both locomotor and object control skills may be an important element in promoting an active lifestyle in young children during weekdays and at weekends.
Innovation Allies Viewpoints on Innovation
Year: 2015

I met with a former client recently to get caught up on life and his work in innovation. He leads the innovation and product development program office for a large, global life sciences corporation. The primary responsibilities of the group are management and execution of the portfolio management and program review processes, resource allocation, and innovation performance reporting. He is struggling with the company's innovation dashboard because it is focused entirely on R&D operations and doesn't really measure the value created from innovation results. They have a great scorecard for measuring development efficiency, cycle times, schedule predictability, resource utilization and throughput (in terms of number of projects) These are great things to track and improve, but do not tell us anything about the business results derived from all this effort. Elevating the scorecard to track the return on their investment in innovation would require a much more sophisticated measurement system that went outside of R&D for information. For them, tracking revenues and margins that flow from specific development programs is a bit like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. Each project can produce hundreds of products in dozens of markets in multiple ERP systems. Creating a measurement system in that environment takes allies in different functions. So we spent the back half of our time together talking about the different functional executives that he would need to seek sponsorship from in order to create a results based monitoring system. It starts in R&D, but we also need help from the CFO, the CIO, marketing, and the presidents of the business units. This got me thinking more broadly about the need to build a coalition at the executive level to do any meaningful transformation of the innovation function in a large corporation. Over the next couple of weeks I'll write about each executive and their role in improving results from innovation.
In the House
Year: 2013

Memory is labile, as we all know. We want our own stories to have shape, to take on the elegance of a beginning and ending. Hence autobiography tends toward teleology or fiction or both. But what if I try to pin down memory with objects? Is the new enthusiasm for things and thing theory in art history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary criticism any help? Despite Bruno Latour's or Arjun Appadurai's arguments for the "life" of things, objects seem to us in fact to sit there, lumpish, inarticulate, enduring. Even if polished or repainted, abused or restored, it is their stuff that migrates through time; something that was there is here still here. Can things then pin down stories, keep them honest, embody, solidify, crystallize the past exactly because they are both past and present? I want to tell a story about my mother that is inevitably also a story about myself. It is to me a painful story. Will it be a better story, less histrionic and selfinvolved, more about her and less about my telling of her, if I anchor it with things? I shall try. I start with a photograph. It stood on the bureau in my mother's bedroom among a few jars of face and hand cream, her comb and brush, a pin cushion into which needles, pins, and a few of her favorite brooches (including a silver moonscape given her by my sister) were stuck, and a slightly lopsided wooden jewelry box I had made for her at summer camp. It was a picture of the house where she grew up. There were no other photographs. The house was three stories high with a mansard roof, and, although the photo was black and white, I knew the house was yellow and the mansard roof
Towards neural abstractive clinical trial text summarization with sequence to sequence models
Venue: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)
Year: 2019

The recruitment stage in clinical trials is key in ensuring enrollment of a large and diverse number of participants. Recent trends in clinical trials recruitment strategies have leveraged social media, mobile, and web based platforms to advertise trials to a broader and more diverse set of potential participants. We develop a method to improve clinical trials enrollment rates through novel models of communication that provide accurate and unbiased information about the clinical trials and provide awareness to target participants. The contributions of this paper are two fold. First we propose a model to generate abstractive summaries for clinical trials based on sequence to sequence networks with attention policies. Second, we present a preliminary evaluation of the model in terms of learning, vocabulary development, choices of attention policies, and summarization outputs. Finally, we generate a dataset consisting of multi sentence clinical trials summaries to be used for bench marking and in future work.
Airspace Macrophages and Monocytes Exist in Transcriptionally Distinct Subsets in Healthy Adults.
Venue: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Year: 2020

Macrophages are the most abundant immune cell in the alveoli and small airways, and are traditionally viewed as a homogeneous population during health. Whether distinct subsets of airspace macrophages are present in healthy humans is unknown. Single cell RNA sequencing allows for examination of transcriptional heterogeneity between cells and between individuals. Understanding the conserved repertoire of airspace macrophages during health is essential to understanding cellular programing during disease.  We sought to determine the transcriptional heterogeneity of human cells obtained from bronchoalveolar lavage of healthy adults.  Ten subjects underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage. Cells from lavage were subjected to single cell RNA sequencing. Unique cell populations and putative functions were identified. Transcriptional profiles were compared across individuals.  We identify two novel subgroups of resident airspace macrophages defined by pro inflammatory and metallothionein gene expression profiles. We define subsets of monocyte like cells and compare them to peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Finally, we compare global macrophage and monocyte programing between males and females.  Healthy human airspaces contain multiple populations of myeloid cells that are highly conserved between individuals and between sexes. Resident macrophages comprise the largest population and include novel subsets defined by inflammatory and metal binding profiles. Monocyte like cells within the airspaces are transcriptionally aligned with circulating blood cells and include a rare population defined by expression of cell matrix interaction genes. This study is the first to delineate the conserved heterogeneity of airspace immune cells during health and identifies two previously unrecognized macrophage subsets.
Volumetric light shaping polymer dispersed liquid crystal films for mini LED backlights
Year: 2020

Volumetric light shaping polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films for mini LED backlit liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are proposed and experimentally demonstrated. With proper material engineering and good vertical alignment of liquid crystals, passive PDLC films with angle selective scattering properties can be achieved. Such films only respond to angles rather than spatial locations. By directly adhering the PDLC films onto a LED, angular intensity distribution of light can be tailored from Lambertian like to batwing like. Further simulation shows that by engineering the angular distribution, a fewer number of LEDs or equivalently a shorter light spreading distance should be required to maintain good uniformity. Such a PDLC film would find widespread applications in emerging mini LED backlit LCDs and shed light on designing other light shaping films in the future.
Valorization strategies for pyrolytic lignin
Year: 2020

Pressing environmental concerns have encouraged research towards the development of sustainable alternatives for the current petroleum based industry. In this context, lignocellulosic biomass (plant matter) is expected to play an important role in decarbonizing the economy due to its high availability, renewable character and rich chemical structure. Lignocellulose is mainly composed of carbohydrates (cellulose and hemicellulose fractions) and aromatic biopolymers (lignin fraction) Through the well established pyrolysis technology, it is thermally deconstructed into a liquid that can be fractionated into a water soluble sugar phase and a lignin phase (pyrolytic lignin) While biobased sugars are used in various processes, lignin has been overlooked due to its complex structural features and treated as residue that is burned for low value energy generation. Nonetheless, it has great potential as a source of biofuels and biobased chemicals with a range of applications. In this thesis, reductive (catalytic, using hydrogen) and oxidative (non catalytic, using ozone) strategies for pyrolytic lignin depolymerization into value added products were experimentally evaluated. Studies include the detailed characterization of a typical pyrolytic lignin structure followed by catalyst screenings for reductive upgrading, as well as ozonation in batch and continuous set ups. This led to the development of a two step oxidative reductive system for improved depolymerization to low molecular weight biobased chemicals. Furthermore, the biomass source influence was evaluated, as well as extension of novel strategies to other lignin types. The promising results reported will contribute to the development of biorefineries, whose realization ultimately depends on maximum value extraction from the lignin fraction.
Lexicalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Year: 2011

Nigerian Pidgin (henceforth NP) is indisputably the most efficient means of inter ethnic communication among the densely culturally and linguistically heterogeneous people of Nigeria, given its greater degree of linguistic simplicity which has attracted enormous grassroot appeal. The language is currently undergoing a process of social expansion as a result of its dynamic socio cultural relevance and increased communicative demands, thus, consistently expanding its lexicon and widening the range of application of the meanings of its lexical items. This paper investigates word formation strategies in NP as a means of enriching its vocabulary and expanding its internal resourcefulness and functionality, from the theoretical standpoint of lexical semantics, which is concerned with the identification and representation of the meaning of lexical items (Baldwin 2007) The paper notes that English constitutes the superstrate source of borrowing for NP, while languages like Portuguese, French, Nigerian English, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba among others are its substrate lexical influences. The study discovers that the meaning of lexical items in NP may be achieved through creativity or expressiveness and may be independent of the original meaning in the source language. The paper joins the agitation for the standardization of NP to enhance its propagation of knowledge and maximize its communicative potentials as a language of wider communication in Nigeria.
Meal Planning Program to Reduce Barriers and Improve Diet Quality in Worksite Wellness Center Members
Venue: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Year: 2018

Many adults struggle with eating healthfully. To address this problem, dietitians and a physician at a worksite wellness center designed and implemented a healthy eating program to identify and reduce barriers and to improve nutrition knowledge, confidence, and eating habits.  A single cohort study design of members of a worksite wellness center who attended the program.  Eight six participants demonstrated significant improvement in reducing perceived barriers (P 0.001) improving nutritional knowledge (P 0.001) increasing confidence (P 0.001) and increasing the frequency of preparing healthy meals (P 0.001) and intake of fruits and vegetables (P 0.001) These improvements were maintained at the 6 month follow up.  These results suggest that participation in a 6 week nutrition education program at a worksite wellness center decreases barriers to healthy eating and improves dietary intake.
Pituitary apoplexy presenting as acute painful isolated unilateral third cranial nerve palsy.
Venue: Archives of Iranian medicine
Year: 2008

A 40 year old man presented with a sudden severe headache and complete right sided ptosis. Neuro ophthalmic examination revealed a right oculomotor nerve palsy. Computed tomography of the brain showed a round isodense intrasellar mass. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a pituitary tumor with some areas of infarction and invasion into the right cavernous sinus, which was diagnosed as pituitary apoplexy. The patient received intravenous steroid for 10 days with no recovery of the oculomotor nerve palsy. He underwent trans sphenoid tumor resection followed by complete recovery of the oculomotor nerve and no sign of tumor in postoperative MRI, two weeks after the surgery.
A New Parallel Detection Recognition Approach for End to End Scene Text Extraction
Venue: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
Year: 2019

In this work, we present a new conceptually simple and flexible network for accurate scene text extraction, which handle text detection and text recognition concurrently. Apart from solving feature sharing by designing a unified network, we implement end to end training of the whole system by a set of new optimization strategies. More importantly, this method highlights its novel parallel detection recognition structure, which constructs a loose connection between both detection and recognition. This loose connection is embodied in the definition of overall loss and derivative back propagation for the model parameter updating, which automatically balances the contribution of the two branches to the system performance. It is different from the existing end to end methods where two subtasks are connected serially and thus yielding heavy dependence of the predecessor text detection task on the follow up text recognition task and sensitivity of recognition to detection noise. In addition, a simple Mask Rectifier mechanism is applied to easily adapt our system to incidental text recognition with arbitrary orientation and shape. Experiment results on Incidental Scene Text ICDAR2015 dataset surpass the current state of the art FOTS method, as suggests the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Interfacial oxygen vacancy layer of a Z scheme BCN TiO2 heterostructure accelerating charge carrier transfer for visible light photocatalytic H2 evolution
Year: 2018

All solid state Z scheme BCN TiO2 binary heterostructures with a surface oxygen vacancy layer as the contact interface are fabricated by NaBH4 reduction and ball milling. The effect of the surface oxygen vacancy layer of BCN TiO2 binary heterostructures on the charge carrier transfer and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution was thoroughly investigated. UV vis diffuse reflection spectra results reveal that the surface oxygen vacancy can extend the light absorption from the UV to the visible light region for BCN TiO2 binary heterostructures. The steady state/time resolved photoluminescence spectra exhibit an increased charge carrier lifetime, improved charge carrier separation efficiency and strengthened direct Z scheme charge transfer process for BCN TiO2 x heterostructures. As expected, the BCN TiO2 x heterostructures exhibited a higher visible light photocatalytic efficiency, about 7 and 11 times higher than that of the pure TiO2 and BCN samples. Namely, the photocatalytic activity of hydrogen evolution can be greatly promoted by constructing the surface oxygen vacancy layer. This work provides a new pathway to construct an efficient contact layer for the direct Z scheme system to improve the charge carrier separation and transfer and thereby improve the photocatalytic activity.
Conceptualizing human resource management in the gig economy
Venue: Journal of Managerial Psychology
Year: 2019

Although it is transforming the meaning of employment for many people, little is known about the implications of the gig economy for human resource management (HRM) theory and practice. The purpose of this paper is to conceptually explore the notion of HRM in the gig economy, where intermediary platform firms design and implement HRM activities while simultaneously trying to avoid the establishment of employment relationships with gig workers.  To conceptualize HRM in the gig economy, the authors offer a novel ecosystem perspective to develop propositions on the role and implementation of HRM activities in the gig economy.  The authors show that HRM activities in the gig economy are designed to govern platform ecosystems by aligning the multilateral exchanges of three key gig economy actors: gig workers, requesters and intermediary platform firms, for ensuring value co creation. The authors argue that the implementation of HRM activities in the gig economy is contingent on the involvement and activities of these gig economy actors. This means that they are not mere recipients of HRM but also actively engaged in, and needed for, the execution of HRM activities.  The study contributes to research by proposing a theoretical framework for studying the design of HRM activities, and their implementation, in the gig economy. From this framework, the authors derive directions for future research on HRM in the gig economy.
Corporate social responsibility and the reproduction of (neo)colonialism in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Venue: The Extractive Industries and Society
Year: 2019

Ecuador's famed Yasuni National Park is home to Waorani indigenous communities and the Block 16 oil concession, operated by Repsol oil and gas company. Inspired by feminist geographic methodology we carried out qualitative research on Repsol's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs in the Waorani communities of northern Block 16/Yasuni, with attention to the micro scale relationships, discourses, and everyday social relations enacted through CSR. In doing so we demonstrate how a better understanding of these dynamics can help to shed light on the ways that CSR produces forms of intimate governance that ultimately serve to facilitate resource extraction. Specifically, we argue that colonial epistemologies communicated through Repsol's CSR programs reinforce neocolonial social relations between Waorani residents and the people facilitating Repsol's CSR programming. This serves to assert Repsol's legitimacy and belonging as a territorial authority in this place, facilitating the company's ongoing oil extraction and the state's larger project of neo extractivism. Our grounded analysis contributes a unique perspective on how CSR efforts function between a multinational oil company and indigenous communities, providing a postcolonial critique that has implications within and beyond Ecuador for how hierarchical colonial relationships are reproduced over historically subjugated populations through CSR.
ANALISIS PENGARUH PERPUTARAN KAS, PERPUTARAN PIUTANG DAN PERPUTARAN SEDIAAN TERHADAP LIKUIDITAS PERUSAHAAN YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA TAHUN 2013 2015
Year: 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji mengetahui pengaruh Perputaran Kas, Perputaran Piutang dan Perputaran Persediaan terhadap Likuiditas perusahaan yang diukur menggunakan Current Ratio (CR) Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah perusahaan manufaktur sektor 3 yaitu di bidang Industri Dasar dan Kimia yang terdaftar di BEI pada periode 2013 2015. Variabel independen penelitian ini adalah Perputaran Kas, Perputaran Piutang dan Perputaran Persediaan. Variabel dependen penelitian ini adalah Likuiditas atau Current Ratio Analisis data dilakukan dengan uji asumsi klasik dan pengujian hipotesis dengan model regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian secara parsial adalah Perputaran Kas berpengaruh signifikan negative terhadap Likuiditas, Perputaran Piutang berpengaruh signifikan positif terhadap Likuiditas dan Perputaran Persediaan tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Likuiditas perusahaan. Dan untuk hasil uji simultan adalah Perputaran Kas, Perputaran Piutang dan Perputaran Persediaan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Likuiditas Perusahaan.  Perputaran Kas, Perputaran Piutang, Perputaran Persediaan dan Likuiditas.
A Roadmap for Integrated Green Health EcoTourism Infrastructures, Safe Cultural Heritage Experience and AgriTourism Destinations in the Post Covid 19 Pandemic Era
Venue: Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems
Year: 2020

This study addresses a road map on how information technologies can be used to enhance the safe cultural heritage experience throughout the visitors' journey time within integrated health green ecotourism sustainable infrastructures and associated agritourism facilities for particular activities in space. As its main contribution, it presents a model of information communication technology to enhance effective project management for sustainable fast applied construction designs for environmental public health protection and safe cultural heritage experience for tourists at ecological landscapes, forests and sea shore, coastal destinations. In the examining application of relative web project management technologies it is not limited to the onsite stage of the cultural experience, but is extended also to the integrated educational agri tourism and ecotourism travel destinations for all stakeholders. The examining presented roadmap at a cultural heritage site provides insights into the opportunities to use a combination of applications in rehabilitation projects for enriching and facilitating the cultural visit in terms of a healthy environment with cultural, heritage life for renewable energy consumption from biofuels, wastewater units, landfill design emissions units. Also qualitative food, drink production activities should be promoted that are improving human health, promoting biological agricultural products, gastronomic healthy ones and biological drinks at the destination according to an extended, multi stage perspective of the gastronomic heritage experience for all ages. In this way integrated green health tourism infrastructures and reclamation works are necessary for different ages and interests of tourists.