Partial Summary Research Articles

Distribution and endemic causes of existing endangered and critically endangered species of snakes in China

China has a vast territory, rich resources, diverse habitats, and many unique species. Paying attention to Chinas endemic species can increase a deeper understanding of these endemic species and protect biodiversity at the same time. This study is mainly about the endemic species of snakes in China and is also a partial summary of the research on snakes in China. Use literature research methods to study the distribution, endemic causes, and population trends of endangered and critically endangered snake species in China. This helps us understand how to protect the populations of endangered and critically endangered species of snakes and better study them. The study found that most endangered and critically endangered Chinese endemic species are distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Sichuan, and other northwest areas, while a small number are distributed in Liaoning, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions. Part of the reason for the uniqueness is that the unique geographical environment is suitable for the survival of snakes, and the other part is forced selection due to relatively isolated geographical location or crustal movement. This research aims to better understand and pay attention to Chinas endemic snake species and protect endangered and critically endangered species.

Pengaruh Kompetensi terhadap Kualitas Pelayanan Administrasi Kelurahan Setiamanah Kota Cimahi

Community services are various government organizations engaged in services whose job is to provide services for public. Public services in question are various forms of service-related activities carried out by an organization or individual. Every organization is formed to achieve certain goals, and if these goals are achieved, the organization can be said to be successful. Competence is a strong foundation for achieving success. Employee competence is needed when carrying out services. The services provided to the community are part of the identity of the organization. If in providing services, there is a good impression from its employees, then the organization looks good in the eyes of the public. This study aims to determine how competence influences the quality of administrative services in the Setiamanah Village, Cimahi City. The method in this study used quantitative methods with a population and sample of 21 employees. The data analysis technique used in this study is a simple linear regression analysis technique. Based on the partial linear regression test summary model table above it proves that the magnitude of the R Square correlation value is 0.600 or 60%. This means that the influence of competence on the quality of administrative services is 60%. And 40% is influenced by other factors that are not present in this study.

Between Partial Translation and Summary Translation in Translating the Sundanese Folklore into English

The strategies of partial translation and summary translation are related but not exactly the same. There are some characteristics indicating each of them. This research article is about the translation of the most popular Sundanese folklore, which is written in the Sundanese language and translated into English. It deals with literary translation as the data source is folklore, and folklore is included as literary work. Using content analysis of the descriptive qualitative research method, this research aims to identify what information in the source text is partially translated and which information is summarized. The theory used is one of the pragmatic strategies given by Chesterman: the strategy of partial translation. The results show that the strategies used in identifying the missing information are partial translation, summary translation, and the combination of partial translation and summary translation. The partial translation is used to avoid repetition, eliminate very detailed information or complex information, and change explicit information into implicit information. The summary translation is used to create a short summary of information involving the key points or messages given in the source text by adopting the syntactic form of the target text based on the grammatical rules.

Recent development and prospect on heavy-ion collisions in colliders

Heavy ion collisions play a key role in advancing our understanding of the universe. These are collisions in which two atomic nuclei collide at high energy, releasing large amounts of energy and creating new elements. One of the fundamental theories of heavy-ion collisions is the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) theory. It suggests that in collisions at sufficiently high energies, the quarks and gluons of the colliding nuclei are no longer confined to individual particles, but form a new state of matter. In some heavy-ion collisions, the QGP may exhibit properties similar to those found in the early universe. In addition, studying heavy ion collisions could help answer some fundamental questions, such as the origin of mass and the nature of dark matter. This article focuses on the experimental setups related to Heavy-ion collisions and the results obtained by the researchers so far. The focus is on the more cutting-edge research built on Relativistic Heavy-ion Colliders. This article provides a partial summary of these results and an outlook on their future development.

Thyroid cancer pathologic upstaging: Frequency and related factors

IntroductionHistopathologic assessment of thyroid tumors can lead to stage migration. We assessed frequency of pathologic upstaging, and associations with patient and tumor factors. MethodsPrimary thyroid cancers treated between 2013 and 2015 were included from our institutional cancer registry. For tumor, nodal, and summary stage, upstaging was present when final pathologic stage was greater than clinical staging. Multivariate logistic regression and Chi-squared tests were performed. Results5,351 resected thyroid tumors were identified. Upstaging rates for tumor, nodal, and summary stage were 17.5% (n = 553/3156), 18.0% (n = 488/2705), and 10.9% (n = 285/2607), respectively. Age, Asian race, days to surgery, lymphovascular invasion, and follicular histology were significantly associated. Upstaging was significantly more common after total vs partial thyroidectomy, for tumor (19.4% vs 6.2%, p < 0.001), nodal (19.3% vs 6.4%, p < 0.001), and summary stages (12.3% vs 0.7%, p < 0.001). ConclusionsPathologic upstaging occurs in a considerable proportion of thyroid tumors, most commonly after total thyroidectomy. These findings can inform patient counseling.

A Critical Survey of Korean Translations of John Milton’s Works

This paper is an exhaustive survey of Korean translations of John Milton’s writings from 1895 to the present. It begins with a brief overview of the early history of translation of western literature into Korean in the late-nineteenth century and moves on to the early translations of Milton, which are more partial summary than full translation. After examining the paucity of translations during the colonial period, together with an examination of the causes for the paucity, it finally moves to post-liberation developments in Milton translation, including the first full translations of Paradise Lost. Following a critical survey of these translations, the study inquires into the sad state of the publishing market in Korea, including a look into plagiarisms and pirated works. Then follows a comparative examination of three of the more reliable translations (two from South Korea and one from the North) of Paradise Lost. The survey concludes with a ‘wish list’ of the type of translations expected for the 21st century.

Auto-regressive extractive summarization with replacement

Auto-regressive extractive summarization approaches determine sentence extraction probability conditioning on previous decisions by maintaining a partial summary representation. Despite its popularity, the framework has two main drawbacks: 1) the partial summary representation is irresolutely denoted by a weighted summation of all the processed sentences without any filtering, resulting in a noisy representation and degrading the effectiveness of extracting subsequent sentences; 2) earlier sentences are biased towards a higher extraction probability due to the sequential nature of sequence tagging. To address these two problems, we propose the Auto-regressive Extractive Summarization with Replacement (AES-Rep), a novel auto-regressive extractive summarization model. In particular, the AES-Rep model consists of two main modules: the extraction decision module that determines whether a sentence should be extracted, and the replacement locater module that enables extracted deficient sentences to be replaced with latter sentences by comparing their expressiveness with respect to the main idea of the document. These modules update the partial summary with explicit actions using elaborated multidimensional guidance. We conduct extensive experiments on the benchmark CNN and DailyMail datasets. Experimental results show that AES-Rep can achieve better performance compared with various strong baselines in terms of multiple ROUGE metrics.

Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys

Myanmar (formerly Burma) has 150 species of formally described amphibians (5 salamanders, 2 caecilians, and 143 frogs) and more than 200 species of reptiles (2 crocodilians, 20 turtles, 100+ lizards, and 100+ snakes). This herpetofauna was never the focus of a countrywide survey and study until recently, from 1997 through 2010. This treatise is the beginning of an overview of this fauna through sets of generic identification keys and checklists for adult amphibians, crocodilians, and turtles of Myanmar. It offers a partial summary of the biological findings of the Myanmar Herpetology Survey from 1997 through 2010, together with rapid assessment surveys during 2014−2017 for Fauna &amp; Flora International’s Myanmar Programme and recent herpetological research and surveys of other zoologists.

Development and Research Progress of Anti-Drug Resistant Bacteria Drugs.

Bacterial resistance has become increasingly serious because of the widespread use and abuse of antibiotics. In particular, the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria has posed a serious threat to human public health and attracted the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the governments of various countries. Therefore, the establishment of measures against bacterial resistance and the discovery of new antibacterial drugs are increasingly urgent to better contain the emergence of bacterial resistance and provide a reference for the development of new antibacterial drugs. In this review, we discuss some antibiotic drugs that have been approved for clinical use and a partial summary of the meaningful research results of anti-drug resistant bacterial drugs in different fields, including the antibiotic drugs approved by the FDA from 2015 to 2020, the potential drugs against drug-resistant bacteria, the new molecules synthesized by chemical modification, combination therapy, drug repurposing, immunotherapy and other therapies.

Interplay between superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior at a quantum-critical point in a metal. V. The γ model and its phase diagram: The case γ=2

This paper is a continuation and a partial summary of our analysis of the pairing at a quantum-critical point (QCP) in a metal for a set of quantum-critical systems, whose low-energy physics is described by an effective model with dynamical electron-electron interaction $V({\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Omega}}}_{m})=(\overline{g}/|{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Omega}}}_{m}{|)}^{\ensuremath{\gamma}}$ (the $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ model). Examples include pairing at the onset of various spin and charge-density-wave and nematic orders and pairing in SYK-type models. In previous papers, we analyzed the physics for $\ensuremath{\gamma}&lt;2$. We have shown that the onset temperature for the pairing ${T}_{p}$ is finite, of order $\overline{g}$, yet the gap equation at $T=0$ has an infinite set of solutions within the same spatial symmetry. As the consequence, the condensation energy ${E}_{c}$ has an infinite number of minima. The spectrum of ${E}_{c}$ is discrete, but becomes more dense as $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ increases. Here we consider the case $\ensuremath{\gamma}=2$. The $\ensuremath{\gamma}=2$ model attracted special interest in the past as it describes the pairing by an Einstein phonon in the limit when the dressed phonon mass ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{D}$ vanishes. We show that for $\ensuremath{\gamma}=2$, the spectrum of ${E}_{c}$ becomes continuous. We argue that the associated gapless ``longitudinal'' fluctuations destroy superconducting phase coherence at a finite $T$, such that at $0&lt;T&lt;{T}_{p}$, the system displays pseudogap behavior of preformed pairs. We show that for each gap function from the continuum spectrum, there is an infinite array of dynamical vortices in the upper half-plane of frequency. For the electron-phonon case, our results show that ${T}_{p}=0.1827\overline{g}$, obtained in earlier studies, marks the onset of the pseudogap behavior, while the actual superconducting ${T}_{c}$ vanishes at ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{D}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$.

THE CHEROKEE NATION, THE CHICKASAW NATION, AND THE CHOCTAW NATION, Plaintiffs, THE CITIZEN POTAWATOMI NATION, THE MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION, THE QUAPAW NATION, THE DELAWARE NATION, THE SEMINOLE NATION, THE WICHITA AND AFFILIATED TRIBES, Plaintiffs-in-Intervention, v. J. KEVIN STITT, in his official capacity as the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Defendant/Counterclaimant. No. CIV-19-1198-D United States District Court for the Western

THE CHEROKEE NATION, THE CHICKASAW NATION, AND THE CHOCTAW NATION, Plaintiffs, THE CITIZEN POTAWATOMI NATION, THE MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION, THE QUAPAW NATION, THE DELAWARE NATION, THE SEMINOLE NATION, THE WICHITA AND AFFILIATED TRIBES, Plaintiffs-in-Intervention, v. J. KEVIN STITT, in his official capacity as the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Defendant/Counterclaimant. No. CIV-19-1198-D United States District Court for the Western

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Chemistry Instruction at a Large Public University in the Midwest: Challenges Met, (Some) Obstacles Overcome, and Lessons Learned

This communication presents a partial historical summary of some of Iowa State University’s Chemistry Department teaching response to the shift to online course delivery caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The observations reflect discussions between and informal surveys of an instructor cohort that impacted roughly 1200 undergraduate students. These students were enrolled in general chemistry I, organic chemistry II, inorganic chemistry, quantum mechanics, and chemistry for non-physical-science majors. The paper highlights the challenges faced and describes how faculty and students met them.

Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: A Call to Action by the American College of Physicians.

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A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to the Summarization of Long Documents

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller summarization problems. In particular, we break a long document and its summary into multiple source-target pairs, which are used for training a model that learns to summarize each part of the document separately. These partial summaries are then combined in order to produce a final complete summary. With this approach we can decompose the problem of long document summarization into smaller and simpler problems, reducing computational complexity and creating more training examples, which at the same time contain less noise in the target summaries compared to the standard approach. We demonstrate that this approach paired with different summarization models, including sequence-to-sequence RNNs and Transformers, can lead to improved summarization performance. Our best models achieve results that are on par with the state-of-the-art in two two publicly available datasets of academic articles.

Partial characteristics for marked spatial point processes

AbstractThis paper introduces a new class of partial summary characteristics for two types of marked planar point processes. We consider purely qualitatively marked spatial point processes and multitype spatial point processes with quantitative marks. After a survey of classical functional summary characteristics for qualitatively and quantitatively marked point processes, the class of partial characteristics is presented. These characteristics are defined through the periodogram, which makes the computations efficient. We demonstrate the application of our method in the analysis of a multispecies tree data recorded in the City of Melbourne.

Waite, S. (2017). Teaching queer: Radical possibilities for writing and knowing. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh.

I started reading “Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing” on an unusually warm day in April, peacefully sitting outside on my blanket under a tree. Now covered in tree sap, the book sticks to my desk, requiring a firm but gentle nudge to remove it. The sap also obscures the back of the book from view, offering only a partial summary to the curious. Inspired by all of this, in this review I allow myself to be guided by sap and partial readings. My aim is to make you sufficiently curious enough to pick up a copy and enjoy Teaching Queer as I have.

Tattoos in policing: a survey of state police policies

PurposePolicing agencies across the USA have cited difficulty recruiting qualified applicants, thus leaving many employment vacancies unfilled. One reason for this challenge may be that those who would make exceptional police officers are barred from employment because of their body art. Varying appearance policies exist concerning tattoos, yet little is known about these policies. The purpose of this paper is to survey the tattoo policies of policing agencies.Design/methodology/approachThe tattoo policies of all 50 state-level policing agencies were reviewed to explore similarities and state-level correlates.FindingsThe majority, but not all, of state police have some type of appearance policy targeting tattoos. State policing agencies that have a “no visibility” policy regarding tattoos more often were in states with a low percentage of millennial residents, high percentage of young veterans, men and non-Hispanic white citizens, and low crime; t-tests indicate “no visibility” policy states significantly differed from other states in the percentage of non-Hispanic whites and crime. Further, state policing agencies with a “no visibility” policy tended to be in northeastern states, with southern states having the fewest state policing agencies with such policies, although the χ2 test was non-significant.Originality/valueDespite the ubiquity of tattoos in the American society, the literature is scant with studies of police appearance policies regarding tattoos. This study provides a partial summary of tattoo policies at the state policing level.

Sociopreneurship Sebagai Tren Karir Anak Muda

The Demographic Bonus that has taken place in this decade has a significant influence on Indonesia's social, political, economic and cultural system. Youth who are the drivers of the demographic bonus are rapidly taking up positions and roles in the world of workforce to the political and idealism platforms that intersect on the space of capitalism. In taking on the role of the flow of economic system, several youth feel that they have the potential and space of freedom to develop business and self potential through the way of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, youth are trying to take the role of becoming a social entrepreneur agent. Socioenterpreneurship is not new for several youth as the key to reducing the level of disparities in Indonesia. In addition, the emergence of smart city trends, a challenge the government to collaborate with the private sector and civil society to create a good social business ecosystem in the village. In other hand, smart village becomes an interesting output as the mainstreaming goal of sociopreneurship. Empowerment and creative economy become a play area for youth and society to do social business. Especially with the potential of nature and international market share has been from history always looking at the creative products of young Indonesians. So, this is not difficult to achieve. This paper is a partial summary of the results of the author's experience in interacting for several years with start-ups, creative economy business actors, social business communities, and social entrepreneurs in the community. From the results of this paper, it was found that youth with a variety of technologies that are very fast and sophisticated have begun to looking social business opportunities as a choice of survival amid their narrowness in finding a job. Social entrepreneurship becomes one of the keys for the Indonesian state to accelerate rapid and equitable economic and social development.

Neurologic Injury Predicts Plaintiff Award in Federal Cardiac Surgery Trials

Cardiothoracic surgery is one of the more highly litigated medical specialties. The incidence and outcomes of federal cases related to cardiac surgery have not been previously explored. A legal research service was queried for cardiac surgery-related terms. Citations and related documents were reviewed for relevance and case details. Inclusion criteria were federal district court cases involving cardiac operations. Exclusion criteria were rulings on solely procedural matters. Associations were explored using the Fisher exact test. Of 354 unique citations from 1956 to 2017, 19.2% (n= 68) met criteria. The highest number of cases (25% [n= 17]) were litigated in the Third Circuit. Operations involved coronary artery bypass grafting in 33.8% (n= 23), valves in 32.4% (n= 22), and congenital operations in 19.1% (n= 13). Litigation was prompted by media reporting in 10.3% (n= 7) and involved neurologic injury in 17.6% (n= 12), death in 33.8% (n= 23), and informed consent issues in 29.4% (n= 20). Findings were summary judgment for the defendant in 45.6% (n= 31), partial summary judgment in 17.6% (n= 12), dismissal in27.9% (n= 19), and ruling for the plaintiff in 7.4% (n= 5). Of the rulings for the plaintiffs, damages had a median dollar amount of $591,300 (interquartile range, $214,2673.50 to $5,807,687.00]. In Fisher's exact test analysis, neurologic injury was significantly associated with ruling for the plaintiff (p < 0.01); death, surgeon defendant, surgical decision-making/conduct, and adult cardiac case type were not associated. Federal cardiac malpractice court cases are rare. Rulings in favor of the plaintiff, although also rare, are associated with neurologic injury. A comprehensive picture of cardiac surgery-related litigation will require advances in data abstraction techniques and codification.

Easy and accurate reconstruction of whole HIV genomes from short-read sequence data with shiver.

Studying the evolution of viruses and their molecular epidemiology relies on accurate viral sequence data, so that small differences between similar viruses can be meaningfully interpreted. Despite its higher throughput and more detailed minority variant data, next-generation sequencing has yet to be widely adopted for HIV. The difficulty of accurately reconstructing the consensus sequence of a quasispecies from reads (short fragments of DNA) in the presence of large between- and within-host diversity, including frequent indels, may have presented a barrier. In particular, mapping (aligning) reads to a reference sequence leads to biased loss of information; this bias can distort epidemiological and evolutionary conclusions. De novo assembly avoids this bias by aligning the reads to themselves, producing a set of sequences called contigs. However contigs provide only a partial summary of the reads, misassembly may result in their having an incorrect structure, and no information is available at parts of the genome where contigs could not be assembled. To address these problems we developed the tool shiver to pre-process reads for quality and contamination, then map them to a reference tailored to the sample using corrected contigs supplemented with the user’s choice of existing reference sequences. Run with two commands per sample, it can easily be used for large heterogeneous data sets. We used shiver to reconstruct the consensus sequence and minority variant information from paired-end short-read whole-genome data produced with the Illumina platform, for sixty-five existing publicly available samples and fifty new samples. We show the systematic superiority of mapping to shiver’s constructed reference compared with mapping the same reads to the closest of 3,249 real references: median values of 13 bases called differently and more accurately, 0 bases called differently and less accurately, and 205 bases of missing sequence recovered. We also successfully applied shiver to whole-genome samples of Hepatitis C Virus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus. shiver is publicly available from https://github.com/ChrisHIV/shiver.