Academic Conference Papers Research Articles

Analysis of the Impact of Graduate Scholarships on the Employment System Using the C5.0 Algorithm

In order to explore the relevant mechanisms of graduate students obtaining scholarships and employment, this study starts from the perspective of data science and utilizes the C5.0 algorithm to collect 9 basic attributes of students, thereby determining the input variables of the decision tree. Employment is taken as the output variable. The employment situation of the graduates in 2021 is used as the training set, and the situation of the graduates in 2022 is used as the test set. This opens the black box of the mechanism of scholarship acquisition and student employment. The study indicates that the publication of papers, whether a student cadre, and academic conference papers are the three most critical indicators for employment

LAME: Layout-Aware Metadata Extraction Approach for Research Articles

The volume of academic literature, such as academic conference papers and journals, has increased rapidly worldwide, and research on metadata extraction is ongoing. However, high-performing metadata extraction is still challenging due to diverse layout formats according to journal publishers. To accommodate the diversity of the layouts of academic journals, we propose a novel LAyout-aware Metadata Extraction (LAME) framework equipped with the three characteristics (e.g., design of automatic layout analysis, construction of a large meta-data training set, and implementation of metadata extractor). In the framework, we designed an automatic layout analysis using PDFMiner. Based on the layout analysis, a large volume of metadata-separated training data, including the title, abstract, author name, author affiliated organization, and keywords, were automatically extracted. Moreover, we constructed a pre-trained model, Layout-MetaBERT, to extract the metadata from academic journals with varying layout formats. The experimental results with our metadata extractor exhibited robust performance (Macro-F1, 93.27%) in metadata extraction for unseen journals with different layout formats.

Meta-analysis of the efficacy of Ningmitai capsule on the treatment of chronic prostatitis in China.

Background:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Ningmitai (NMT) capsule for treating chronic prostatitis (CP) in China.Methods:Retrieving the China Journal Full-Text Database (CNKI), Wanfang database, China's outstanding master's/doctoral dissertation database, VIP Science and Technology Periodical Database, Cochrane library, PubMed, Embase, and Chinese academic conference papers. Collecting and selecting literatures of randomized controlled trials before March 2017 on NMT capsule for CP, evaluated by Jadad scale, and then analyzed with Stata software.Results:Thirty randomized clinical trials including 6185 patients (3124 in the test group and 3061 in the control group) were included. The overall treatment risk ratios (RRs) were 1.19 (1.14, 1.24). The merged RRs were 1.05 (0.95, 1.15) and 1.22 (1.19, 1.26) for the single-drug group and the combined-drug group, respectively. The adverse events were found to be lower in all groups.Conclusion:NMT is effective and safety on the treatment of CP, especially in combined-drug groups. High quality and a good design of multicentered, randomized, parallel-controlled and blinding trials are needed in order to make further studies, and deserve further examination for the treatment of CP with NMT.

Aloe vera for prevention and treatment of infusion phlebitis.

Aloe vera for prevention and treatment of infusion phlebitis.

Herbal medicines for fatty liver diseases

Fatty liver disease is potentially a reversible condition that may lead to end-stage liver disease. Since herbal medicines such as Crataegus pinnatifida and Salvia miltiorrhiza have increasingly been used in the management of fatty liver disease, a systematic review on herbal medicine for fatty liver disease is needed. To assess the beneficial and harmful effects of herbal medicines for people with alcoholic or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We searched The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (Issue 3, 2012), MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Science Citation Index Expanded to 1 March 2012. We also searched the Chinese BioMedical Database, Traditional Chinese Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese VIP Information, Chinese Academic Conference Papers Database and Chinese Dissertation Database, and the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database to 2 March 2012. We included randomised clinical trials comparing herbal medicines with placebo, no treatment, a pharmacological intervention, or a non-pharmacological intervention such as diet or lifestyle, or Western interventions in participants with fatty liver disease. Two review authors extracted data independently. We used the 'risk of bias' tool to assess the risk of bias of the included trials. We assessed the following domains: random sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding, incomplete outcome data, selective outcome reporting, and other sources of bias. We presented the effects estimates as risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) or as mean differences (MD) with 95% CI, depending on the variables of the outcome measures. We included 77 randomised clinical trials, which included 6753 participants with fatty liver disease. The risks of bias (overestimation of benefits and underestimation of harms) was high in all trials. The mean sample size was 88 participants (ranging from 40 to 200 participants) per trial. Seventy-five different herbal medicine products were tested. Herbal medicines tested in the randomised trials included single-herb products (Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Panax notoginseng, and Prunus armeniaca), proprietary herbal medicines commercially available, and combination formulas prescribed by practitioners. The most commonly used herbs were Crataegus pinnatifida,Salvia miltiorrhiza,Alisma orientalis,Bupleurum Chinense,Cassia obtusifolia, Astragalus membranaceous, and Rheum palmatum. None of the trials reported death, hepatic-related morbidity, quality of life, or costs. A large number of trials reported positive effects on putative surrogate outcomes such as serum aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, glutamyltransferase, alkaline phosphatases, ultrasound, and computed tomography scan. Twenty-seven trials reported adverse effects and found no significant difference between herbal medicines versus control. However, the risk of bias of the included trials was high.The outcomes were ultrasound findings in 22 trials, liver computed tomography findings in eight trials, aspartate aminotransferase levels in 64 trials, alanine aminotransferase activity in 77 trials, and glutamyltransferase activities in 44 trials. Six herbal medicines showed statistically significant beneficial effects on ultrasound, four on liver computed tomography, 42 on aspartate aminotransferase activity, 49 on alanine aminotransferase activity, three on alkaline phosphatases activity, and 32 on glutamyltransferase activity compared with control interventions. Some herbal medicines seemed to have positive effects on aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, ultrasound, and computed tomography. We found no significant difference on adverse effects between herbal medicine and control groups. The findings are not conclusive due to the high risk of bias of the included trials and the limited number of trials testing individual herbal medicines. Accordingly, there is also high risk of random errors.

P04.45. A systematic review of randomized clinical trials on herbal medicines for treatment of fatty liver diseases

Methods We searched for randomised clinical trials comparing herbal medicine with placebo, no treatment, lifestyle therapy or western interventions in participants with FLD in The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group Controlled Trials Register, The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Science Citation Index Expanded till May 2011, Chinese BioMedical Database, Traditional Chinese Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese VIP Information, Chinese Academic Conference Papers Database, Chinese Dissertation Database, and Allied and Complementary Medicine Database till June 2011. We used risk of bias to assess trial methodological quality. The effects estimates were presented as relative risks (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) or as mean differences (MD) with 95% CI depending on variables of the outcome measures.

Chinese herbal medicines for hypercholesterolemia

Hypercholesterolemia is an important key contributory factor for ischemic heart disease and is associated with age, high blood pressure, a family history of hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes. Chinese herbal medicines have been used for a long time as lipid-lowering agents. To assess the effects of Chinese herbal medicines on hypercholesterolemia. We searched the following databases: The Cochrane Library (issue 8, 2010), MEDLINE (until July 2010), EMBASE (until July 2010 ), Chinese BioMedical Database (until July 2010), Traditional Chinese Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (until July 2010), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (until July 2010), Chinese VIP Information (until July 2010), Chinese Academic Conference Papers Database and Chinese Dissertation Database (until July 2010), and Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (until July 2010). We considered randomized controlled clinical trials in hypercholesterolemic participants comparing Chinese herbal medicines with placebo, no treatment, and pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions. Two review authors independently extracted data and assessed the risk of bias. We resolved any disagreements with this assessment through discussion and a decision was achieved based by consensus. We assessed trials for the risk of bias against key criteria: random sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding of participants, incomplete outcome data, selective outcome reporting and other sources of bias. We included 22 randomized trials (2130 participants). The mean treatment duration was 2.3 ± 1.3 months (ranging from one to six months). Twenty trials were conducted in China and 18 trials were published in Chinese. Overall, the risk of bias of included trials was high or unclear. Five different herbal medicines were evaluated in the included trials, which compared herbs with conventional medicine in six comparisons (20 trials), or placebo (two trials). There were no outcome data in any of the trials on cardiovascular events and death from any cause. One trial each reported well-being (no significant differences) and economic costs. No serious adverse events were observed. Xuezhikang was the most commonly used herbal formula investigated. A significant effect on total cholesterol (two trial, 254 participants) was shown in favor of Xuezhikang when compared with inositol nicotinate (mean difference (MD) -0.90 mmol/L, 95% confidence interval (CI) -1.13 to -0.68) . Some herbal medicines may have cholesterol-lowering effects. Our findings have to be interpreted with caution due to high or unclear risk of bias of the included trials.

Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust

Collections of short essays, especially when they derive from academic conference papers, run the risk of intellectual dispersal: too many ideas not sufficiently developed, repetition without a modicum of redemptive difference. Based upon an international conference held at Cardiff University in Beckett's Centenary Year, 2006, the essays in Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust only occasionally fall into this trap; only occasionally do they echo each other superficially and non-productively. For the most part, the reader of this multifaceted and well-constructed volume can only be impressed by the intelligence of the essays' writers, by their knowledge of the trio Proust–Beckett–Deleuze, and by the clarity with which they articulate their respective arguments. Usefully organized into three large sections — ‘Reading Encounters’, ‘Visual, Cinematic and Sonic Encounters’, and ‘Bodily Encounters’ — the collection as formatted by Bryden and Topping succeeds in mapping the quite diverse literary, filmic, musical, somatic, and psychosomatic levels at which the texts of Proust, Beckett, and Deleuze intersect, diverge, coalesce, and illuminate each other. The editors believe, justifiably, that the collected essays demonstrate a ‘confluence of ideas’ (p. 6) between and among the three writers; and it is no coincidence that one of them — Gilles Deleuze, occasionally accompanied by Félix Guattari — provides the theoretical armature (for example, the notions of ‘transversals’, the ‘rhizome’, and ‘deterritorialization’) with which to describe this ‘confluence’ with some sophistication. Thus the volume is by no means a contemporary rehash of an ‘influence study’, but rather an ensemble or assemblage that, in showing quite variously and quite precisely how Proust, Beckett, and Deleuze read each other, contributes in significant ways to a general theory of reading, if one understands that theory to mean the process of appropriation/misappropriation by which one writer invests but also divests himself, ingests but also eliminates from herself, the texts of that other writer to whom one is temporarily devoted or even enslaved. (In a wonderful pastiche, chosen, quite appropriately, as the Epilogue, Jérôme Cornette, an original young scholar whose premature death forms part of the texture of the collection, imagines letters written from Proust to both Deleuze and Beckett, illustrating playfully but also profoundly the uncanny textual relation whereby the earlier author appears to be the unlikely reader of his successors, linked to them in strange but beautiful ways — producing the kind of textual effect that Proust himself called ‘le côté Dostoïevski des Lettres de Madame de Sévigné’.) Although all of the essays brought together here command respect for their intellectual integrity, those that rise a bit above the others detail more than a ‘confluence of ideas’ in that they address quite concretely issues of style, of rhetoric, of linguistic immanence. Proust may doubtless have appealed to the young, philosophically inclined Beckett and to Deleuze the conceptual thinker for his ‘ideas’, but it is as craftsman, as artisan of language that he created a work that, precisely because it is appropriated by others, remains new.

Herbal medicines for viral myocarditis.

Herbal medicines are being used for treating viral diseases including viral myocarditis, and many controlled trials have been done to investigate their efficacy. To assess the effects of herbal medicines on clinical and indirect outcomes in patients with viral myocarditis. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in The Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2009, MEDLINE (January 1966 - July 2009), EMBASE (January 1998 - July 2009), Chinese Biomedical Database (1979 - 2009), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (1979 - 2009), Chinese VIP Information (1989 - 2009), Chinese Academic Conference Papers Database and Chinese Dissertation Database (1980 - 2009), AMED (1985 - 2009), LILACS accessed in July 2009 and the trials register of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field. We handsearched Chinese journals and conference proceedings. No language restrictions were applied. Randomised controlled trials of herbal medicines (with a minimum of seven days treatment duration) compared with placebo, no intervention, or conventional interventions were included. Trials of herbal medicine plus conventional drug versus drug alone were also included. Only trials that reported adequate description of allocation sequence generation were included. Two review authors independently extracted data and evaluated trial quality. Adverse effects information was collected from the trials. Fourteen randomised trials involving 1463 people were included. All trials were conducted and published in China. Quality of the trials was assessed to be low. No trial had diagnosis of viral myocarditis confirmed histologically, and only a few trials attempted to establish viral aetiology. Nine different herbal medicines were tested in the included trials. The trials reported electrocardiogram results, level of myocardial enzymes, cardiac function, symptoms, and adverse effects.Astragalus membranaceus (either as an injection or granules) showed significant positive effects in symptom improvement, normalisation of electrocardiogram results, CPK levels, and cardiac function. Shengmai injection also showed significant effects in symptom improvement. Shengmai decoction triggered significant improvement in quality of life measured by SF-36. No serious adverse effects were reported. Some herbal medicines may lead to improvement of symptoms, ventricular premature beat, electrocardiogram, level of myocardial enzymes, and cardiac function in viral myocarditis. However, interpretation of these findings should be taken with care due to the low methodological quality, small sample size, and limited number of trials on individual herbs. Further robust trials are needed to explore the use of herbal medicines in viral myocarditis.

Development and application of scoring system for academic conference papers

Objective To develop a Scoring System for Academic Conference Papers,in order to achieve real-time paper scoring in large academic conference with the information technology and network.Methods Based on Microsoft.Net technology,an information system Was developed,supporting multimeeting.multi-client and dynamic screen show.Results In this system,the conference inforrnation,meeting name and scoring standards Call be customized;the doctor information,papers information,used time,score detail and dynamic list Can be displayed in the screen.This system has been applied in national ophthalmic conferences several times and gained praise from the organizing committee and judges.Conclusions The scoring system for Academic Conference Papers can significantly improve efficiency,help to promote the standardization of paper scoring,and manifest the open,fair and just principles.It is worth of spreading. Key words: Academic conference; Academic papers; Papers scoring; Information system