Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Behind the Headline Number: Why not to Rely on Frey and Osborne’s Predictions of Potential Job Loss from Automation

We review a highly influential study that estimated potential job loss from advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics: Frey and Osborne (FO) (2013, 2017) concluded that 47 per cent of jobs in the United States were at ‘high risk’ of automation in the next 10 to 20 years. First, we investigate FO’s methodology for estimating job loss. Several major problems and limitations are revealed; especially associated with the subjective designation of occupations as fully automatable. Second, we examine whether FO’s predictions can explain occupation-level changes in employment in the United States from 2013 to 2018. Compared to standard approaches which classify jobs based on their intensity in routine tasks, FO’s predictions do not ‘add value’ for forecasting the impact of technology on employment.
Effectiveness of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccine on Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Patients

Aim: Information on the effect of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine in tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance will be useful in planning the application of the BCG vaccine. The aim of this study was to explore BCG vaccine effectiveness on TB drug resistance in pulmonary TB patients. Methods: Patients with pulmonary TB were enrolled and had sputum samples obtained at TB laboratories in five provinces of Iran. Drug susceptibility testing was carried according to the proportion method. BCG vaccination scar were confirmed by medical records. The vaccine effectiveness (VE) was estimated as [100% × (1− adjusted odds ratio)] for TB drug susceptible patients versus TB drug resistance patients. Results: A total of 288 cases (80.8%) had no BCG vaccination scar. The resistance frequency to isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RMP) and streptomycin (SMP), was 18 (5%), 40 (11.2%) and 12 (5.2%) respectively. Frequency of multiple drug resistant (MDR)-TB was 10 (4%). We analyzed adjusted BCG Vaccine effectiveness (VE) in prevention of TB drug resistance on the basis of first line TB drugs. BCG vaccine showed harm effect against SMP resistance (VE 87.5%) after controlling of age and sex. Conclusion: It was hypothesized, that it may be necessary planning to modify of BCG vaccine strains in favor of the prevention of tuberculosis drug-resistant.
Preparation and characterization of nanometer-sized mechano-responsive liposomes for physically-triggered drug delivery

For natural scientists and engineers, learning from nature has tradition and is often driven by bio-inspired processes and materials. For example, engineers have designed multifunctional materials with hierarchical structures. Lipid bilayers, the principal components of cell membranes, can form vesicles, termed liposomes. Such liposomes are usually recognized as foreign by the immune system of a patient, which makes it challenging to use liposomes as containers for targeted drug delivery. There are, however, promising non-spherical, mechano-sensitive, artificial liposomes about 100 nm in diameter, which were recently identified. These bio-inspired containers offer a wide range of applications. In particular, the targeted release at critically stenosed arteries formed as a result of atherosclerosis significantly reduces the undesired side effects such as a drop of blood pressure. It is well known that FDA-approved liposomal drugs, currently on the market, often induce adverse immune responses. Therefore, to exclude the hypersensitivity of the recently discovered mechano-sensitive liposomes, we have performed in vitro complement activation experiments and related animal studies with pigs. Recently, it has been shown that the drug-free Pad-PC-Pad liposomes surprisingly lack any complement activation. In this study, we demonstrate that nitroglycerin-loaded liposomes with relevant human therapeutic dosage exhibit low complement activation compared to the FDA-approved phospholipid drugs, including Abelcet. Furthermore, the liposomal suspensions applied are stable for a period of more than two months. Consequently, the non-spherical liposomes of nanometer size we have developed are promising containers for physically triggered, targeted drug delivery.
Nursing Faculty Members' Attitudes and Perceived Barriers toward Conducting Scientific Research: A Descriptive Study from Saudi Arabia

Background: Despite changes in the academic arena in Saudi Arab ia including the national accreditation that mandates research productivity by university facult y members, no study has investigated nursing facult y members' attitudes towards research and their perceived barr iers. Aims: To investigate nursing academicians' attitudes towa rds, barriers of, and intention to conduct research in a Saudi public university, and to compare Saudi and n on-Saudi nursing academicians in terms of study var iables. Methods: This study used a quantitative correlational resear ch design utilizing a self-reported questionnaire t o collect data from 62 faculty members in a nursing c ollege at a large governmental university in the ea st rn region of Saudi Arabia. Results: Participants were found to have moderate negative titudes 1.77/5 (SD=0.70), higher organizational ( M=2. 89, SD=1.05) than individual (M=2.32, SD=0.94), and relatively high intention to conduct research (M=3 .71, SD=0.88). In general, Non-Saudi participants had mo re negative attitudes (t= -2.90, df=59.29, p=.005), but barriers were not significantly different. Participants with master degree reported more individual barriers (F =7.06, df=61, p=.002) than participants with bachelor degree, and more organizational barriers (F=10.73, df=61, p=.0 00) than their counterparts. Attitudes significantly correlated wi th both individual (r=.399, p=.001) and organizatio nal barriers (r=.436, p=.000). Interestingly, neither participan t's attitudes nor their perceived barriers correlat ed with their intention to conduct research. Discussion: Establishing structured research program that conta ins research training, research mentorship, time allocated for research, and allocating research fun d is highly recommended in Saudi nursing faculties o overcome barriers of conducting research. Clinical Relevance: Nurses in Saudi Arabia are in need for nursing rese arch, which should overcome barriers in order to produce more clinical-relevant knowledge c oncerning healthcare in Saudi Arabia.
MTBHsp70-exFPR1-pulsed Dendritic Cells Enhance the Immune Response against Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer is the most common malignancy of the female reproductive system. Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunological therapy is a novel treatment for this cancer. DCs are specialized antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the human immune system, and they can activate the T cells used in tumor immunological therapy. In this study, we developed a novel immunotherapeutic peptide by linking the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) functional peptide to the extracellular domain of FPR1, a protein overexpressed in cervical cancer, to obtain an MTBHsp70-exFPR1 fusion protein. Our experiments confirmed that the MTBHsp70-exFPR1 protein could promote DC maturation and induce the secretion of IL-12p70, IL-1β, and TNF-α. The antitumor effect of human cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) activated by autologous DCs was assessed in NOG mice. These results indicate that DCs pulsed with MTBHsp70-exFPR1 can enhance antitumor immunity against cervical cancer, providing a novel immune therapeutic strategy.
PII: S0014-2921(01)00190-8

The liquidity e$ect, de3ned as a decrease in nominal interest rates in response to a monetary expansion, is a major stylized fact of the business cycle. This paper 3rst con3rms that, with separable preferences, a low degree of intertemporal substitution in consumption is a necessary condition for the existence of the liquidity e$ect. In contrast to this result, in a model with non-separable preferences and capital accumulation it takes an implausibly high elasticity of intertemporal substitution to produce a liquidity e$ect. The robustness of these results to alternative degrees of nominal rigidities, capital adjustment costs and stochastic monetary processes is also analysed. We conclude that price stickiness, by itself, does not guarantee the existence of a liquidity e$ect. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classi&cation: E32; E43
Application of multidimensional simulation research tools in the diagnosis of aggressiveness among the youth – review of innovative methods

Background & Study Aim: The catharsis hypothesis proved to be counterproductive. Instead of reducing aggressiveness through, for example, repeatedly viewing scenes of violence and aggression, the effect is reversed. It is impossible to reverse this trend in the Internet age and the expansion of electronic media. From the early years of life, the child participates indirectly in the acts of violence and extreme aggression (despite protests, even animated films are saturated with such scenes). Moving these scenes to the real world and interpersonal relations manifests itself in the destruction of toys and other things, attacking peers or animals. The purpose of this review is the cognitive and applicative advantages of simulation research and direct observation in diagnosing youth aggressiveness as well as limitations in the use of these methods. Material & Methods: Meta analysis of the methods of diagnosing aggressiveness recommended in the scientific literature. Results: The paradigm of diagnosing aggressiveness is based – mainly on ethical considerations – on indirect observation. RM Kalina developed (1991), and then empirically verified (1997) the method of not only diagnosing aggressiveness based on indirect observation. A certain category of fun forms of martial arts (FFMA) allows this observation. FFMA used during specific prophylactic and/or therapeutic sessions or permanently during PE classes, health-related trainings, and professional sports training become the main means of reducing aggressiveness. In addition, a simple KS-4M projection test developed by Kalina et al. (1992, 1997) and accepted by respondents of all ages (4 images, simulation of activities on the micro, medium and macro scale) enables verification of test results with data from direct observation. Our long-term observations of young people (but also their educators) provide credible results that the mere undertaking of systematic sports training does not bring the expected effect of reducing of aggressiveness. Conclusions: The questionnaires developed in the middle of the previous century are no longer useful. The main reason (in our opinion) is the need for the respondent to focus attention for a long time, but also the ability to read with understanding. Apart from professional therapeutic sessions, the universal possibilities of using FFMA (e.g. during warm-up, as a resounding of the monotonous repetition of simple motoric activities, as a separate part of PE, as spontaneous recreational fun) open the prospect of a radical improvement of interpersonal relations. However, it is necessary to have a verbal impact and engaging the media in this promotion of mainly mental health and social health. It is necessary to know this unique methodology.
Online store trustworthiness and customer loyalty: Moderating the effect of the customers perception of the virtual environment

This research seeks to determine which elements of trust, namely, ability, integrity and benevolence, influence customer loyalty. The study also examines how the customer’s perception of the virtual environment influences the effect of the elements of trust on customer loyalty. It was found that only integrity and benevolence have a positively significant effect on customer loyalty and that the customer’s perception of the virtual environment positively moderates the relationship between these two variables (integrity and benevolence) and customer loyalty. The results suggest that the online store should adjust the online transaction environment to maximize the effect of trust on customer loyalty. Key words: Trustworthiness, online store loyalty, perception of the virtual environment, moderating effect.
Deep Long Audio Inpainting

Long (> 200 ms) audio inpainting, to recover a long missing part in an audio segment, could be widely applied to audio editing tasks and transmission loss recovery. It is a very challenging problem due to the high dimensional, complex and non-correlated audio features. While deep learning models have made tremendous progress in image and video inpainting, audio inpainting did not attract much attention. In this work, we take a pioneering step, exploring the possibility of adapting deep learning frameworks from various domains inclusive of audio synthesis and image inpainting for audio inpainting. Also, as the first to systematically analyze factors affecting audio inpainting performance, we explore how factors ranging from mask size, receptive field and audio representation could affect the performance. We also set up a benchmark for long audio inpainting. The code will be available on GitHub upon accepted.
Postharvest AminoethoxyVinylGlycine (AVG) Treatment Affects Maturity and Storage Life of Plum

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of different concentrations (0, 100, 200 and 300 mg L) of postharvest AminoethoxyVinylGlycine (AVG) on fruit quality, chilling injury, and bioactive compounds in cold-stored plum fruit (Prunus salicina L. cv Friar). Fruit were stored at 0-1°C with 90±5% Relative Humidity (RH) for 60 days. Weight loss, flesh firmness, Soluble Solids Content (SSC), titratable acidity, total anthocyanin content, total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity, respiration rate, and chilling injury were determined at the harvest and during the storage period at 15-day intervals. As compared to the control, AVG treatment delayed ripening and prolonged storage life, as indicated by prevented fruit softening, and retarded the increase in SSC. The 200 and 300 mg L AVG treatments considerably reduced respiration rate and maintained higher bioactive compounds contents than other treatments. The severity of the chilling injury was reduced by AVG treatments compared to the control during storage. The results indicated that postharvest 200 and 300 mg L AVG treatments could be an effective tool for prolonging storage of 'Friar' plums.
Broadband X-ray observations of four gamma-ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) is one of the few classes of active galactic nuclei harboring powerful relativistic jets and detected in γ-rays. NLS1s are well-known X-ray sources. While in non-jetted sources the origin of this X-ray emission may be a hot corona surrounding the accretion disk, in jetted objects, especially beamed ones, the contribution of corona and relativistic jet is difficult to disentangle without a proper sampling of the hard X-ray emission. For this reason, we observed with NuSTAR the first four NLS1s detected at high energy γ-rays. These data, along with XMM-Newton and Swift/XRT observations, confirmed that X-rays originate both in the jet and in the accretion disk corona. Time variability in hard X-rays furthermore suggests that, as observed in flat-spectrum radio quasars, the dissipation region during flares could change its position from source to source, and it can be located both inside and outside the broad-line region. We find that jetted NLS1s, and other blazars as well, seem not to follow the classical fundamental plane of black hole (BH) activity, which therefore should be used as a BH mass estimator in blazars with extreme care only. Our results strengthen the idea according to which γ-NLS1s are smaller and younger version of flat-spectrum radio quasars, in which both a Seyfert and a blazar component co-exist.
Optimal Mini-Batch Size Selection for Fast Gradient Descent

This paper presents a methodology for selecting the mini-batch size that minimizes Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) learning time for single and multiple learner problems. By decoupling algorithmic analysis issues from hardware and software implementation details, we reveal a robust empirical inverse law between mini-batch size and the average number of SGD updates required to converge to a specified error threshold. Combining this empirical inverse law with measured system performance, we create an accurate, closed-form model of average training time and show how this model can be used to identify quantifiable implications for both algorithmic and hardware aspects of machine learning. We demonstrate the inverse law empirically, on both image recognition (MNIST, CIFAR10 and CIFAR100) and machine translation (Europarl) tasks, and provide a theoretic justification via proving a novel bound on mini-batch SGD training.
Even-odd effect and Majorana states in full-shell nanowires

Full-shell nanowires (semiconducting nanowires fully coated with a superconducting shell) have been recently presented as a novel means to create Majorana zero modes. In contrast to partially coated nanowires, it has been argued that full-shell nanowires do not require high magnetic fields and low densities to reach a putative topological regime. Here we present a theoretical study of these devices taking into account all the basic ingredients, including a charge distribution spread across the section of the nanowire, required to qualitatively explain the first experimental results (Vaitiekenas et al., arXiv:1809.05513). We derive a criterion, dependent on the even-odd occupation of the radial subbands with zero angular momentum, for the appearance of Majorana zero modes. In the absence of angular subband mixing, these give rise to strong zero-bias anomalies in tunneling transport in roughly half of the system's parameter space under an odd number of flux quanta. Due to their coexistence with gapless subbands, the zero modes do not enjoy generic topological protection. Depending on the details of subband mixing in realistic devices, they can develop a topological minigap, acquire a finite lifetime or even be destroyed.
CORRELATION BETWEEN ADDITIONAL CONCERNS AND PERSONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN HOSPITALIZATION FOR HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

The objective was to correlate the additional concerns and personal performance with the general/global quality of life of adult patients with hematologic cancer hospitalized for autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. A longitudinal, observational and analytical study was carried out in a public hospital in the south of Brazil with 55 patients. Data collection took place between September 2013 and November 2015. The sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires, Quality of Life Questionnaire Core-30 and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Bone Marrow Transplant were used. The data were evaluated using the software Statistical 7.0. The mean age for autologous transplantation was 45 years, with a prevalence of multiple myeloma diagnosis; for the allogeneic was 31 years with predominance of leukemia. The general/ global quality of life, personal performance and additional concerns characterized by body image, fatigue, sexuality and appetite presented significantly lower mean values in the period of pancytopenia than baseline, with a gradual improvement in the hospital pre-discharge period. It is concluded that transplantation is a therapy with potential curing role, however, it has negative impacts on the domains of quality of life, personal performance, additional concerns and the life experience of the recipients.
The role of photovoltaics in a sustainable European energy system under variable CO2 emissions targets, transmission capacities, and costs assumptions

PyPSA‐Eur‐Sec‐30 is an open‐source, hourly resolved, networked model of the European energy system that includes one node per country as well as electricity, heating, and transport sectors. The capacity and dispatch of generation and storage technologies in every country can be cost optimized under different CO2 emissions constraints. This paper presents an overview of the most relevant results previously obtained with the model, highlighting the influence of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation on them. For 95% CO2 emissions reduction, relative to 1990 level, PV generation supplies in average 33% of the electricity demand. Southern European countries install large PV capacities together with electric batteries, while northern countries install onshore and offshore wind capacities and use hydrogen storage and reinforced interconnections to deal with wind fluctuations. The strong daily generation profile of solar PV heavily impacts the dispatch time series of backup generation and storage technologies. The optimal PV and wind capacities are investigated for variable CO2 emissions, transmission interconnection among neighbouring countries, and cost assumptions.
Surface Treatment of Superabsorbent Polymer with Corn Starch for Improved Properties

Samples of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) were treated with corn starch to modify absorption and permeability properties. The process was done by homogenously mixing the superabsorbent polymer particles with starch suspension using starch loading of 0.002-0.20 g of starch per g of SAP. The resulting mixture was then dried at temperature of 150oC. The absorption properties such as Free Swell Capacity (FSC) and Absorption Under Pressure (AUP) of treated SAP were determined at different starch loading using test solution of varying sodium chloride concentrations and compared with the untreated SAP. At starch loading of 0.04 g/g, AUP gave better results than untreated SAP. GLP of treated SAP gave significant improvement which is explained in terms of the controlled swelling of SAP particles and a more porous structure of the SAP gel layer that allows faster liquid flow rate.
The different phases of hairy black holes in AdS5 space

Gaston Giribet, 2, ∗ Andrés Goya, † and Julio Oliva ‡ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Instituto de F́ısica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparáıso, Casilla 4059, Valparáıso, Chile. Instituto de F́ısica y Matemática, Universidad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile UACh, Valdivia, Chile.
A3GAN: An Attribute-Aware Attentive Generative Adversarial Network for Face Aging

Face aging has received significant research attention in recent years. Although great progress has been achieved with the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in synthesizing realistic images, most existing GAN-based face aging methods have two main problems: 1) unnatural changes of high-level semantic information due to the insufficient consideration of prior knowledge of input faces, and 2) distortions of low-level image content (e.g. modifications in age-irrelevant regions). In this article, we introduce A3GAN, an Attribute-Aware Attentive face aging model to address the above issues. Facial attribute vectors are regarded as the conditional information and embedded into both the generator and discriminator, encouraging synthesized faces to be faithful to attributes of corresponding inputs. To improve the visual fidelity of generation results, we leverage the attention mechanism to restrict modifications to age-related areas and preserve image details. Unlike previous works with attention modules, we introduce face parsing maps to help the generator distinguish image regions of interest and suppress attention activation elsewhere. Moreover, the wavelet packet transform is employed to capture textural features at multiple scales in the frequency space. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in synthesizing photo-realistic aged face images and achieving state-of-the-art performance on popular datasets.