Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Structural Equation Model-Based Study of the Effect of Perceived Risk of Performance on the Consumption Behaviour of Soccer Spectators

The purpose of this research is to examine the intentions of sports consumption of viewers of two Chinese Super League soccer teams and to determine whether changes in behaviour are related to the teams’ league standings. Spectators from both teams participate in the study voluntarily. The study employs descriptive statistics and fieldwork, and the questionnaire used in the study has a reliability coefficient of 0.87. Experts in sports management determine the content validity, while validation factor analysis is used to determine the structural validity. The statistical population is composed of two Chinese Super League teams (one team is relatively successful and one less successful). Six hundred and seventy-eight valid questionnaires are distributed randomly. Following data collection, the link between consumption behaviour and perceived risk is examined. The findings show that performance risk has an effect on game watching intention, t = 0.04, with a standard solution of 1.99, on recommending others watch the game, t = 0.11, with a standard solution of 0.98, on team licenced merchandise consumption, t = −0.05, with a standard solution of −0.41, and on the consumption of media, t = 4.21, with a standard solution of 1.19. Therefore, performance perceived risk significantly affects game watching and media consumption intention has a significant effect but has no significant effect on recommending others to watch the game and licensed merchandise consumption.
AKAP1 contributes to impaired mtDNA replication and mitochondrial dysfunction in podocytes of diabetic kidney disease

Podocyte injury is involved in the onset and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and is associated with mitochondrial abnormalities. Defective mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication results in mitochondrial dysfunction. However, whether podocyte mtDNA replication is impaired in DKD is still unclear. A-kinase anchoring protein 1 (AKAP1) is localized in the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) and acts as a regulator and conductor of mitochondrial signals. Herein, we investigated the role of AKAP1 in high glucose-induced mtDNA replication. Decreased mtDNA replication and mitochondrial dysfunction occurred in podocytes of DKD. AKAP1 expression was up-regulated, and protein kinase C (PKC) signaling was activated under hyperglycemic conditions. AKAP1 recruited PKC and mediated La-related protein 1 (Larp1) phosphorylation, which reduced the expression of mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM), a key factor in mtDNA replication. In addition, mtDNA replication, mitochondrial function and podocyte injury were rescued by knocking down AKAP1 expression and the PKC inhibitor enzastaurin. In contrast, AKAP1 overexpression worsened the impairment of mtDNA replication and podocyte injury. In conclusion, our study revealed that AKAP1 phosphorylates Larp1 via PKC signaling activation to decrease mtDNA replication, which accelerates mitochondrial dysfunction and podocyte injury in DKD.
Fludrocortisone Induces Aortic Pathologies in Mice

Background and Objective: In an experiment designed to explore the mechanisms of fludrocortisone-induced high blood pressure, we serendipitously observed aortic aneurysms in mice infused with fludrocortisone. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether fludrocortisone induces aortic pathologies in both normocholesterolemic and hypercholesterolemic mice. Methods and Results: Male adult C57BL/6J mice were infused with either vehicle (85% polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG-400) and 15% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO); n = 5) or fludrocortisone (12 mg/kg/day dissolved in 85% PEG-400 and 15% DMSO; n = 15) for 28 days. Fludrocortisone-infused mice had higher systolic blood pressure, compared to mice infused with vehicle. Fludrocortisone induced aortic pathologies in 4 of 15 mice with 3 having pathologies in the ascending and aortic arch regions and 1 having pathology in both the ascending and descending thoracic aorta. No pathologies were noted in abdominal aortas. Subsequently, we infused either vehicle (n = 5/group) or fludrocortisone (n = 15/group) into male ApoE −/− mice fed a normal laboratory diet or LDL receptor −/− mice fed either normal or Western diet. Fludrocortisone increased systolic blood pressure, irrespective of mouse strain or diet. In ApoE −/− mice infused with fludrocortisone, 2 of 15 mice had ascending aortic pathologies, but no mice had abdominal aortic pathologies. In LDL receptor −/− mice fed normal diet, 5 had ascending/arch pathologies and 1 had pathologies in the ascending, arch, and suprarenal aortic regions. In LDL receptor −/− mice fed Western diet, 2 died of aortic rupture in either the descending thoracic or abdominal region, and 2 of the 13 survived mice had ascending/arch aortic pathologies. Aortic pathologies included hemorrhage, wall thickening or thinning, or dilation. Only ascending aortic diameter in LDLR −/− mice fed Western diet reached statistical significance, compared to their vehicle. Conclusion: Fludrocortisone induces aortic pathologies independent of hypercholesterolemia. As indicated by the findings in mouse studies, people who are taking or have taken fludrocortisone might have an increased risk of aortic pathologies.
COVID-19 and the Rapid Expansion of Telehealth in Social and Behavioral Health Services

The spread of COVID-19 changed the landscape of how social service agencies operate. Essential services providers have had to adapt and innovate in order to carry out their mission. As a result, technology has become an integral part of their service model, with an increased emphasis on telehealth services. For many agencies, the abrupt transition to remote services has brought about important conversations around access, use, policy, effectiveness, and efficiency. A qualitative, narrative study was conducted with CEOs or social work directors of 37 social service agencies in the Mid-South region to understand their experience and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews were conducted and data were transcribed and analyzed. Thematic analysis highlighted seven themes: 1) a rapid transition to virtual services, 2) the need to improve infrastructure, 3) new technology and innovation, 4) barriers, 5) benefits, 6) funding, and 7) changes that will be kept. Implications at the client level include continuing to offer telehealth services. At the agency level, implications include managing the logistics of telehealth and the need for insurance and regulator changes. Implications for social work include ethical considerations for providing telehealth services and educating current and future social workers in the use of telehealth services.
Broadband aperture‐coupled conducting sphere antenna

An aperture‐coupled conducting sphere antenna is proposed, whereby a signal is fed to the antenna from a microstrip feed line via an aperture on the ground plane. Broadband characteristics are achieved by the gradual change of spacing between the ground plane and the conducting sphere. An equivalent network was developed, with its associated circuit element values extracted both analytically and numerically. Based on the results of a parameter study, an X‐band antenna was designed for broadband, low loss, and highly efficient operation. It was then fabricated to validate the design. The measured S11, showing broadband characteristics, was found to be in reasonable agreement with predictions from the numerical simulation. In addition, far‐field radiation patterns were investigated. For applications involving arrays, the coupling characteristics along the E‐ and H‐planes were also examined and compared with other antenna configurations.
On the topology of Sasakian manifolds

The notion of $q$-bisectional curvature of a Sasakian manifold $M$ is defined. It is proved that if $M$ has lower bounded $q$-bisectional curvature and contains a compact invariant submanifold tangent to the structure vector field then $M$ is compact. Myers and Frankel type theorems for Sasakian manifolds with lower bounded and positive $q$-bisectional curvature, respectively, are also given.
Issues in Education for Syrian Elementary Refugee Learners in Turkey: A Systematic Review

The provision of education for Syrian refugees is a major issue of concern for both the Turkish government and the population due to the immense number of refugees, the availability of resources and the complexity of the former’s educational needs. This review aims to synthesize the empirical quantitative and qualitative research, reports and literature related to the appropriateness of current educational practices catering for the educational needs of Syrian refugee children in Turkey, as well as the challenges facing these efforts. Related literature, previous studies and reports were systematically reviewed based on which a reflective analytical account of the actual educational practices and challenges were presented. Pertinent political, social & cultural aspects were further highlighted. By doing so, the researchers aim to determine which of the challenges are hindering the provision of education for refugee children based on the findings of related research. The results of the review indicated that most of the conducted research and reports have concluded that most of the educational practices dedicated to Syrian refugee children were far from being well constructed. The education provided was found to be remedial, spontaneous, reactional and of a tinkering nature. Therefore, a research gap was identified. It consists of the need to investigate other educational remedies to assist in tackling these challenges and to provide a more reliable and comprehensive education for emergencies to aid refugees in fighting back all forms of abuse and exploitation, as well as to facilitate the process of integration in host communities or repatriation to their motherland.
The Moderating Role of Institutional Climate on the Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Deviant Behavior

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between job satisfaction and deviant behavior in workplace. Along with this, a major motivation behind this research work is to assess the role of institutional climate on the beforementioned relationship. In line with this, four dimensions of institutional climate namely, academic, administrative, developmental, and financial climate have been taken into consideration. Primary data collected from 357 respondents via e-mail survey have been analyzed in this study. The target population of this study are faculties and academicians employed in the field of technical education. The data have been analyzed by measurement model assessment and structural model assessment. Multigroup analysis has been used for studying the moderating role of institutional climate. The results establish that job satisfaction strongly influences deviant behavior. These are inversely related, i.e., an increase in job satisfaction would result in less deviant behavior. The more satisfied an employee is with his/her job, deviant behavior would reduce in them. The study also finds that institutional climate moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and deviant behavior. Amongst the different dimensions of institutional climate, it is observed that individuals who think negative about their financial climate may turn deviant quicker and by a far greater magnitude. Thus, financial climate came out to be the most influencing moderators amongst its peers academic, administrative, and developmental climates.
Motivation and Demotivation of Hackers in Selecting a Hacking Task

ABSTRACT To build a solid foundation on which to understand and combat threats to information systems, researchers need to look past technical security issues and explore why hackers do what they do. Based on General Deterrence Theory and the Theory of Reasoned Action, a structural model is proposed and validated that examines attraction and detraction factors towards a hack. From a motivational perspective, individual characteristics (mastery and curiosity), peer influence and the nature of the task itself are shown to impact hacker’s attitudes. Specifically, we uncover an interesting non-linear relationship between hacking task complexity and a hacker’s attitude towards a hack. From a deterrence perspective, while hackers consider the likelihood of being caught, the severity of punishment/sanctions does not have a significant effect on hackers’ intention to engage in a hacking task. When we better understand what motivates and demotivates these highly skilled users, we gain insights to avoid becoming targets.
Relation between Wind and Wind Currents on the Synoptic Scale with Account of Wave Conditions

A version of model is proposed, which is aimed for getting parameters of the atmospheric layer and upper water layer with account of the wind-wave state. The dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer is realized in version of papers [1, 2], and the dynamics of the upper layer is realized in the framework of Ekman layers in the atmosphere and the sea [3]. In the latter case, the Kitaigorodskii [4, 5] approach was used for describing the dynamics of the air-water interface. The key parameters of the atmospheric layer and upper water layer (the friction velocity and the speed of drift currents) are calculated for typical wind-wave situations. Satisfactory quantitative agreement between calculated and traditionally observed values is shown.
High Iron Exposure from the Fetal Stage to Adulthood in Mice Alters Lipid Metabolism

Iron supplementation is recommended during pregnancy and fetal growth. However, excess iron exposure may increase the risk of abnormal fetal development. We investigated the potential side effects of high iron levels in fetuses and through their adult life. C57BL/6J pregnant mice from 2 weeks of gestation and their offspring until 30 weeks were fed a control (CTRL, FeSO4 0 g/1 kg) or high iron (HFe, FeSO4 9.9 g/1 kg) diets. HFe group showed higher iron accumulation in the liver with increased hepcidin, reduced TfR1/2 mRNAs, and lowered ferritin heavy chain (FTH) proteins in both liver and adipose tissues despite iron loading. HFe decreased body weight, fat weight, adipocyte size, and triglyceride levels in the blood and fat, along with downregulation of lipogenesis genes, including PPARγ, C/EBPα, SREBP1c, FASN, and SCD1, and fatty acid uptake and oxidation genes, such as CD36 and PPARα. UCP2, adiponectin, and mRNA levels of antioxidant genes such as GPX4, HO-1, and NQO1 were increased in the HFe group, while total glutathione was reduced. We conclude that prolonged exposure to high iron from the fetal stage to adulthood may decrease fat accumulation by altering ferritin expression, adipocyte differentiation, and triglyceride metabolism, resulting in an alteration in normal growth.
Fighting inequalities in times of pandemic: The role of politicized identities and interdependent self‐construal in coping with economic threat

Abstract During the COVID‐19 pandemic, institutions encouraged social isolation and non‐interaction with other people to prevent contagion. Still, the response to an impending economic crisis must be through the collective organization. In this set of pre‐registered studies, we analyse two possible mechanisms of coping with collective economic threats: shared social identity and interdependent self‐construction. We conducted three correlational studies during the pandemic in May–October 2020 (Study 1, N = 363; Study 2, N = 250; Study 3, N = 416). Results show that shared identity at two levels of politicization (i.e., working‐class and 99% identities) and interdependent self‐construal mediated the relationship between collective economic threat, intolerance towards economic inequality and collective actions to reduce it. The results highlight that the collective economic threat can reinforce the sense of community—either through the activation of a politicized collective identity, such as the working class or the 99% or through the activation of an interdependent self—which in turn can trigger greater involvement in the fight against economic inequality. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.
Expression of Apoptosis-Related Biomarkers in Inflamed Nasal Sinus Epithelium of Patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP)—Evaluation at mRNA and miRNA Levels

In chronic upper respiratory tract diseases, increased cell proliferative activity is observed, which is coordinated by BCL-2 proteins and small non-coding RNAs. This study aimed to determine the expression of critical apoptosis markers at the mRNA and miRNA levels in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CSRwNP). The study group consisted of ten patients with CSRwNP and ten healthy subjects. To detect in situ apoptosis in the maxillary sinus mucosa, TUNEL staining was performed. The expression of transcripts was determined by RT-qPCR and included the detection of markers associated with cell survival and apoptosis, i.e., BAX, p53, p21, CASP3, CASP9, c-MYC, CCND1, BRIC5, and APAF1. Levels of miR-17-5p, miR-145-5p, miR-146a-5p, and miR-203a-3p were also measured by RT-qPCR. The obtained results indicated increased apoptosis determined by a TUNEL assay in CSRwNP patients and accompanied by an increased expression of BAX, P21, P53, CASP3, CASP9, c-MYC, and APAF-1 transcripts and decreased mRNA levels of BCL-2 and BIRC5. Furthermore, the nasal sinus epithelium of patients with CSRwNP showed increased levels of miR-203a-3p while also showing a decreased expression of miR-17-5p and miR-145-5p. Our results showed that pro-apoptotic transcripts detected at mRNA and miRNA levels might be involved in the pathogenesis of chronic sinusitis with polyps. The identification of those key molecular mediators may be applicable for the specific diagnostic and/or development of targeted therapies for chronic sinusitis with polyps.
Belonging and Not Belonging: The Case of Newcomers in Diverse US Schools

Purpose: Schools play an important role in the incorporation of newcomer students and for determining who belongs and does not belong to the nation-state. In this article, we analyze students’ experiences of belonging and exclusion in diverse high schools. Research Methods/Approach: We use survey and interview data from a mixed-methods study conducted in four high schools in Arizona and New York. We ask, What individual, school, and social contextual factors explain students’ sense of school belonging? How do students from diverse backgrounds understand and experience belonging in school? Findings: We find that students understand belonging as emerging from their own individual characteristics (including newcomer status and identifying as Latinx), the school environment (participation in clubs and class discussion), and their perceptions and experiences of the social context, including incidents of discrimination. Implications: Findings from our study have important implications for the role of diverse schools not only in fostering belonging but also in countering broader experiences of discrimination and exclusion.
Supraglacial streamflow and meteorological drivers from southwest Greenland

Abstract. Greenland ice sheet surface runoff is drained through supraglacial stream networks. This evacuation influences surface mass balance as well as ice dynamics. However, in situ observations of meltwater discharge through these stream networks are rare. In this study, we present 46 discrete discharge measurements and continuous water level measurements for 62 d spanning the majority of of the melt season (13 June to 13 August) in 2016 for a 0.6 km2 supraglacial stream catchment in southwest Greenland. The result is an unprecedentedly long record of supraglacial discharge that captures both diurnal variability and changes over the melt season. A comparison of surface energy fluxes to stream discharge reveals shortwave radiation as the primary driver of melting. However, during high-melt episodes, the contribution of shortwave radiation to melt energy is reduced by ∼40 % (from 1.13 to 0.73 proportion). Instead, the relative contribution of longwave radiation, sensible heat fluxes, and latent heat fluxes to overall melt increases by ∼24 %, 6 %, and 10 % (proportion increased from −0.32 to −0.08, 0.28 to 0.34, and −0.04 to 0.06) respectively. Our data also identify that the timing of daily maximum discharge during clear-sky days shifts from 16:00 local time (i.e., 2 h 45 min after solar noon) in late June to 14:00 in late July and then rapidly returns to 16:00 in early August. The change in the timing of daily maximum discharge could be attributed to the expansion and contraction of the stream network, caused by skin temperatures that likely fell below freezing at night. The abrupt shift, in early August, in the timing of daily maximum discharge coincides with a drop in air temperature, a drop in the amount of water temporarily stored in weathering crust, and a decreasing covariance between stream velocity and discharge. Further work is needed to investigate if these results can be transferable to larger catchments and uncover if rapid shifts in the timing of peak discharge are widespread across Greenland supraglacial streams and thus have an impact on meltwater delivery to the subglacial system and ice dynamics.
A multiresolution network architecture for deferred neural lighting

We present a novel multiresolution network architecture for deferred neural lighting. The key idea is to explicitly separate the processing of appearance at different spatial resolutions, leading to considerably improved high‐frequency details as well as temporal stability in animation sequences with varying view conditions. Moreover, our network is only half the size of the original one, and requires less training data to converge to satisfactory results. The network is tested over five captured datasets from deferred neural lighting and may be extended to other neural appearance techniques, such as NeRF or neural textures.
Upstream SOEs in the mixed-ownership reform

Abstract This article explores possible options of the upstream mixed-ownership reform with imperfect substitute products in a vertically related market composed of one upstream SOE and two downstream profit-maximising retailers. Its focus is not only on incorporating the issue of privatisation into a vertical market structure, but also on extending the traditional upstream–downstream competition model by allowing the active contribution of retailers to enhance values at different costs. It finds that in a vertically related market where retailers’ effort matters, the socially optimal policy towards the upstream SOE is partial privatisation regardless what product differentiation is involved, but the specific degree of privatisation is negatively correlated to the level of effort costs. By contrast, in a vertically related market without retailers’ effort, the government tends to choose full nationalisation of the firm.