Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Altitude and Maturity Stages on Quality Attributes of Mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco)

Mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) is a premier fruit crop which ranks in first position of the total fruit industry in Nepal. Studies were conducted to assess the maturity indices and quality parameters of mandarin at three altitudes i.e. 1300 m·asl, 1000 m·asl, and 700 m·asl with six maturity stages i.e. 11 Oct, 21 Oct, 31 Oct, 10 Nov, 20 Nov, and 30 Nov. The most important and reliable judging criteria of fruit maturity in mandarin i.e. fruit weight, external fruit colour, firmness, TSS, acidity, and TSS/Acid ratio, and vitamin C were experimented. The experiment results revealed that 1000 m·asl location was showed the highest fruit weight (104.9 g) and juice percentage (55.23) followed by 1300 m·asl altitude (99.5 g and 53.75% respectively) at 20th of November. The maturity advanced at lower altitude with 50 percent yellow orange rind colour, 10.98 TSS/acid ratio and 4 kg/cm2 firmness from 10th November at lower altitudes whereas it was appeared in 20th November at higher altitudes. The TSS/acid ratio was significantly higher (10.98) in the fruits of 700 m·asl as compared to 1300 m·asl (9.76) on 10th November, however, on 20th November 1300 m·asl showed the highest ratio (17.76). The fruit weight, juice content, TSS was found in increasing trends up to 20 November and then showed constant and decreasing trend. However, TA, firmness and vitamin C were showed in decreasing trends with time. The 1000 - 1300 m·asl was the best location for the mandarin production and 10-20 November was the best period for the mandarin harvesting for optimum maturity.
Calcium channel blockers for hypertension: old, but still useful

Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) constitute a heterogeneous class of drugs that can be divided into dihydropyridines (DHPs) and non-DHPs. DHP-CCBs are subcategorized into four generations based on the duration of activity and pharmacokinetics, while non-DHP-CCBs are subcategorized into phenylethylamine and benzodiazepine derivatives. DHP-CCBs are vascular-selective and function as potent vasodilators, whereas non-DHP-CCBs are cardiac-selective and are useful for treating tachyarrhythmia, but reduce cardiac contractility and heart rate. Traditional DHP-CCBs (nifedipine) mainly block L-type calcium channels, whereas novel CCBs block N-type (amlodipine) and/or T-type channels (efonidipine) in addition to L-type channels, leading to organ-protective effects. DHP-CCBs have a potent blood pressure–lowering effect and suppress atherosclerosis and coronary vasospasm. Diltiazem, a non-DHP-CCB, is highly effective for vasospasm control. CCBs reduce left ventricular hypertrophy and arterial stiffness. Amlodipine, a DHP-CCB, reduces blood pressure variability. L/N- and L/T-type CCBs combined with renin-angiotensin system blockers reduce proteinuria and improve kidney function compared with L-type CCBs. According to large-scale trials, DHP-CCBs reduce cardiovascular events in patients with isolated systolic hypertension, as well as in elderly and high-risk patients. Accordingly, CCBs are indicated for hypertension in elderly patients, isolated systolic hypertension, angina pectoris, and coronary vasospasm. Non-DHP-CCBs are contraindicated in high-grade heart block, bradycardia (<60 beats per minute [bpm]), and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). DHP-CCBs should be used with caution in patients with tachyarrhythmia, HFrEF, and severe leg edema, and non-DHP-CCBs should be used carefully in those with constipation. Each CCB has distinct pharmacokinetics and side effects, underscoring the need for meticulous consideration in clinical practice.
ULDM self-interactions, tidal effects and tunnelling out of satellite galaxies

It is well-known that Dark Matter (DM) inside a satellite galaxy orbiting a host halo experiences a tidal potential. If DM is ultra-light, given its wave-like nature, one expects it to tunnel out of the satellite — if this happens sufficiently quickly, then the satellite will not survive over cosmological timescales, severely constraining this dark matter model. In this paper, we study the effects of the inevitable quartic self-interaction of scalar Ultra-Light Dark Matter (ULDM) on the lifetimes of satellite galaxies by looking for quasi-stationary solutions with outgoing wave boundary conditions. For a satellite with some known core mass and orbital period, we find that, attractive (repulsive) self-interactions decrease (increase) the rate of tunnelling of DM out of it. In particular, for satellite galaxies with core mass ∼𝒪(107–108) M⊙ and orbital period ∼𝒪(1) Gyr, one can impose constraints on the strength of self-interactions as small as λ∼𝒪(10-92). For instance, for ULDM mass m = 10-22 eV, the existence of the Fornax dwarf galaxy necessitates attractive self-interactions with λ≲ -2.12 × 10-91.
Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45;th000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama–Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22°–24°S)

Plant macrofossils, percentage abundance of grass taxa, fecal-pellet d13 C, and plant-cuticle contents from 49 fossil rodent middens dated by 14 C record changes in local vegetation and precipitation since 45 ka (calibrated or measured to thousands of calendar years before present) in the central Atacama Desert (lat 228‐248S) of northern Chile. The midden sites are along the hyperarid upper margin (2400‐3100 m) of the ‘‘absolute desert,’’ in an extreme environment sparsely vegetated by annual herbs and halophytic shrubs. Conditions between 40 and 22 ka may have been at least intermittently dry, and possibly cooler, as implied by four middens with low species richness. We infer a large increase in summer rainfall between 16.2 and 10.5 ka on the basis of the lowering of steppe grasses by as much as 1000 m, prominence of C4 grasses and summer annuals, high species richness, and displacement of northern species at least 50 km south of their modern ranges. The precipitation increase was greatest for a cluster of middens between 11.8 and 10.5 ka. Abrupt drying, evident in a dramatic decrease in grass abundance, occurred after 10.5 ka at all four midden localities. Increased percentages of
On the Smith-Thom deficiency of Hilbert squares

We give an expression for the Smith-Thom deficiency of the Hilbert square $X^{[2]}$ of a smooth real algebraic variety $X$ in terms of the rank of a suitable Mayer-Vietoris mapping in several situations. As a consequence, we establish a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the maximality of $X^{[2]}$ in the case of projective complete intersections, and show that with a few exceptions no real nonsingular projective complete intersection of even dimension has maximal Hilbert square. We also provide new examples of smooth real algebraic varieties with maximal Hilbert square.
SparseByteNN: A Novel Mobile Inference Acceleration Framework Based on Fine-Grained Group Sparsity

To address the challenge of increasing network size, researchers have developed sparse models through network pruning. However, maintaining model accuracy while achieving significant speedups on general computing devices remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel mobile inference acceleration framework SparseByteNN, which leverages fine-grained kernel sparsity to achieve real-time execution as well as high accuracy. Our framework consists of two parts: (a) A fine-grained kernel sparsity schema with a sparsity granularity between structured pruning and unstructured pruning. It designs multiple sparse patterns for different operators. Combined with our proposed whole network rearrangement strategy, the schema achieves a high compression rate and high precision at the same time. (b) Inference engine co-optimized with the sparse pattern. The conventional wisdom is that this reduction in theoretical FLOPs does not translate into real-world efficiency gains. We aim to correct this misconception by introducing a family of efficient sparse kernels for ARM and WebAssembly. Equipped with our efficient implementation of sparse primitives, we show that sparse versions of MobileNet-v1 outperform strong dense baselines on the efficiency-accuracy curve. Experimental results on Qualcomm 855 show that for 30% sparse MobileNet-v1, SparseByteNN achieves 1.27x speedup over the dense version and 1.29x speedup over the state-of-the-art sparse inference engine MNN with a slight accuracy drop of 0.224%. The source code of SparseByteNN will be available at https://github.com/lswzjuer/SparseByteNN
On the Hankel Transform of Bessel Functions on Complex Numbers and Explicit Spectral Formulae over the Gaussian Field

In this paper, on the complex field $\mathbb{C}$, we prove two integral formulae for the Hankel-Mellin transform and the double Fourier-Mellin transform of Bessel functions, both resulting the hypergeometric function. As two applications, we use the former integral formula to make explicit the spectral formula of Bruggeman and Motohashi for the fourth moment of Dedekind zeta function over the Gaussian number field $\mathbb{Q}(i)$ and to establish a spectral formula for the Hecke-eigenvalue twisted second moment of central $L$-values for the Picard group $\mathrm{PGL}_2 (\mathbb{Z}[i])$. Moreover, we develop the theory of distributional Hankel transform on $\mathbb{C} \smallsetminus \{0\}$.
Coexistence of Paradigms? Residential Segregation in Spain After Mass Migration

Introduction: Although the replication of sequences from clustering to dispersal by immigrant groups has become apparent in Spain, we argue that the current picture of immigrants’ settlement patterns is more complex than the projected by the traditional assimilationist perspective. Aim: We investigate the co-existence of assimilation, pluralism and heterolocal tendencies in Spain after a decade of mass international migration. Data: We use annual population data between 2000 and 2010 derived from Municipal Registers across the smallest census geographies for all municipalities in Spain. Method: We analyze three separate aspects of the residential patterns of immigrant groups: evenness, exposure and encapsulation. Results: The findings allow us to confirm that whilst some immigrant groups replicate the assimilation path of outward spatial movement gradually, some purse the pluralist path by huddling together in spatial enclaves and others become heterolocal by virtue of immediate dispersal after arrival.
On the Interpretation of Antarctic Temperature Trends.

Abstract Determining the rate of atmospheric warming in Antarctica is hampered by the brevity of the temperature records (<50 years), which still contain signals of decadal circulation variability in the Southern Hemisphere. In this note it is demonstrated that Antarctic warming trends have been regionally modified by slow circulation changes and associated changes in sea-ice cover: decadal weakening of the semiannual oscillation since the mid-1970s has limited the meridional heat exchange between Antarctica and its surroundings, so that warming trends have leveled out since then. In contrast, northerly circulation anomalies in combination with decreased sea-ice cover have regionally enhanced low-level warming, for instance in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula. Based on this knowledge, the authors propose a background Antarctic warming trend of 1.30 ± 0.38°C (century)−1, representative of the period 1957–95.
LATE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS CONODONTS FROM EASTERN IRAN

Conodont data from acid-leaching 110 samples from two Late Devonian-Carboniferous areas in the Shotori Range (Tabas region) of eastern Iran are presented. At Howz-e-Dorah, a section (88 samples) commencing high in the Bahram Formation (Givetian-early Frasnian) extended through the Shishtu Formation (Frasnian, Early hassi Zone or older, to latest Tournaisian, anchoralis-latus Zone) and the Sardar Formation (earliest Visean, texanus Zone, to late Namurian, sinuatus-corrugatus - sulcatus Zone) and into the Jamal Formation (Permian). Four less exhaustively sampled sections (22 samples) show the Kale Sardar area to be tectonically more complicated than the Howz-e-Dorah area. Useful marker horizons in the Howz-e-Dorah section, well constrained by conodont data, are: the early Frasnian (no older than Early hassi Zone) biostromal beds of the Shishtu Formation, an early Famennian (Late triangularis to Early crepida ) interval of oolitic limestone, a cyclothem sequence straddling the Early Carboniferous-Late Carboniferous boundary, and an Early Permian interval of siliceous sand ("the white quartzite" of previous authors). Additionally, several iron-rich horizons, readily traceable from locality to locality, are well constrained by conodont ages. Eighty-five conodont species/subspecies are documented representing 24 genera. Two new species, Polygnathus capollocki and Polygnathus ratebi and one new subspecies, Icriodus alternatus mawsonae are described.
Atractylone in the Atractylodes macrocephala Rhizoma Essential Oil and Its Anti-Inflammatory Activity

The aim of this study was to conduct a screening of potential therapeutic compounds found in the Atractylodes macrocephala rhizoma essential oil (AO) and explore its mechanism of action in the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). An inflammation cell model was employed in conjunction with phospho-antibody array technology to explore potential therapeutic compounds of AO and their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Furthermore, we assessed their efficacy and mechanisms of action in treating dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis in mice. Via the screening process, we identified atractylone (ATR) as the primary active compound in AO. It has been demonstrated that ATR can both decrease the levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and reactive oxygen species (ROS) and increase the expression of adhesion proteins such as claudin, ZO-1, and occludin in vitro. Moreover, ATR has been shown to improve UC symptoms in vivo. Via a non-targeted metabolomics analysis of colon tissue, we identified 57 distinct metabolites that responded to ATR treatment. Subsequent analysis of the metabolic pathways revealed that the action of ATR was primarily focused on the amino acid metabolism pathway. In summary, ATR may alleviate the symptoms of UC by regulating multiple signaling pathways. Additionally, ATR has a comprehensive function in anti-inflammation, antioxidative stress, and intestinal injury reduction.
Effects of Post Traumatic Growth on Successful Aging in Breast Cancer Survivors in South Korea: The Mediating Effect of Resilience and Intolerance of Uncertainty

This study aimed to identify post-traumatic growth and successful aging and the mediating effects of resilience and intolerance of uncertainty in breast cancer survivors. This study employed a descriptive survey approach. Data were collected from 143 breast cancer survivors between 27 January and 10 December 2021, at a cancer center in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. SPSS/WIN 25.0 and PROCESS Macro version 3.5 were used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics were analyzed with SPSS. PROCESS was used to conduct a mediation analysis and the significance of the mediating effect was evaluated using 95% confidence intervals. Successful aging was significantly associated with post-traumatic growth, resilience, and the intolerance of uncertainty. The impact of post-traumatic growth on successful aging was mediated by resilience in breast cancer survivors. Resilience should be considered when developing nursing interventions to enhance post-traumatic growth and promote successful aging in breast cancer survivors.
Vers une structuration auto-stabilisante des réseaux ad hoc : cas des réseaux de capteurs sans fil. (Towards a self-stabilizing structuring of ad hoc networks: the case of wireless sensor networks)

Nous proposons un algorithme original de structuration des reseaux ad hoc nomme SDEAC dans le but d'optimiser les communications et de tolerer les pannes transitoires. SDEAC est auto-stabilisant, distribue et deterministe. Il utilise un modele asynchrone a passage de messages et se fonde sur un voisinage a distance 1 pour construire des clusters non-recouvrants a $k$ sauts. Nous montrons que partant d'une configuration quelconque et sans occurrence de pannes transitoires, SDEAC structure le reseau dans le pire des cas en $n+2$ transitions. En outre, son execution necessite une occupation memoire de $(\Delta_u+1) \times \log(2n+k+3)$ bits pour chaque n\oe ud $u$, avec $\Delta_u$ etant le degre de $u$, $k$ le rayon maximal des clusters et $n$ la taille du reseau. Par le biais de simulation sous OMNeT++, nous observons pour un reseau quelconque un temps de stabilisation tres inferieur a celui du pire des cas d'une part. D'autre part, suite a l'occurrence de pannes transitoires apres la stabilisation, nous constatons un temps de stabilisation inferieur a celui du clustering. Dans le contexte des RCSF, nous etudions la consommation energetique de SDEAC suivant trois criteres d'election des cluster-heads (identite, degre et energie residuelle des n\oe uds) puis nous la comparons avec celle de la solution de Mitton et al. operant dans le meme modele. Les resultats montrent que SDEAC permet le passage a l'echelle et reduit la consommation energetique de $42\%$ a $49\%$. Enfin, pour l'utilisation de SDEAC dans l'acheminement de l'information, nous proposons deux approches efficaces: (i) un routage sans agregation qui minimise les delais de bout en bout et (ii) un routage avec agregation partielle qui reduit la consommation energetique totale offrant ainsi une meilleure duree de vie du reseau.
Gelsolin, an Actin-Binding Protein: Bioinformatic Analysis and Functional Significance in Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma

The involvement of the actin-regulatory protein, gelsolin (GSN), in neoplastic transformation has been reported in different cancers including bladder cancer. However, the exact mechanism by which GSN influences bladder cancer development is not well understood. Here, we sought to reveal the functional significance of GSN in bladder cancer by undertaking a comprehensive bioinformatic analysis of TCGA datasets and through the assessment of multiple biological functions. GSN expression was knocked down in bladder cancer cell lines with two siRNA isoforms targeting GSN. Proliferation, migration, cell cycle and apoptosis assays were carried out. GSN expression, enrichment analysis, protein–protein interaction and immune infiltration analysis were verified through online TCGA tools. The data indicated that GSN expression is associated with bladder cancer proliferation, migration and enhanced cell apoptosis through regulation of NF-κB expression. GSN expression correlated with various inflammatory cells and may influence the immunity of the tumor microenvironment. Computational analysis identified several interacting partners which are associated with cancer progression and patient outcome. The present results demonstrate that GSN plays an important role in bladder cancer pathogenesis and may serve as a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for cancer therapy.
Utilization of Pith Plant Aeschynomene aspera (Leguminosae:Papilionoideae) by Traditional Florists Cum Craftsmen in Jaj pur District, Odisha, India

Pith plant ( Aeschynomene aspera L ., Leguminosae:Papilionoideae) is found abundantly in the wetlands of Jajpur district, Odisha. The traditional florists and many craftsmen attached to various temples make good use of this plant for decoration purposes. The soft stem of the plant are used in many religious and socio-cultural functions in the district and has been instrumental in providing livelihood to this section of people. But with rapidly shrinking water bodies and loss of its natural habitat, the availability of this species is getting scarce. The fate of this traditional craft and of the craftsmen in the changing scenario is analysed.
Diachronous Quaternary Development of the Jiayuguan Fault and Implications for Strain Compartmentalization and Modern Earthquake Hazards in the NW Hexi Corridor, China

The NNW‐trending Jiayuguan Fault (JYGF) is an actively developing thrust fault that delimits the SW margin of Jiayuguan, a major industrial city in the northwestern Hexi Corridor, China. In this study, we document the geometry, kinematics, and slip rates of the JYGF based on analysis of satellite imagery, low‐altitude photogrammetry, field observations, paleo‐seismic trenching, and Quaternary dating. The JYGF hanging‐wall contains a NE‐vergent asymmetric anticline of Cretaceous redbeds unconformably overlain by faulted, tilted and folded alluvial fan and fluvial terrace surfaces. Subsidiary fault scarps are associated with anticlinal flexure and contractional strain. The vertical uplift and crustal shortening rates are both ∼0.1 mm/a since ∼420 ka and geomorphic markers and dated landforms indicate southeastward fault propagation and hanging‐wall uplift from the Heishan toward the modern Beida River channel. The NW end of the fault appears to connect with the Altyn‐Tagh‐Heishan‐Jinta'Nanshan sinistral strike‐slip fault array suggesting that the JYGF is one of several parallel, splay faults that transfer strike‐slip motion to active folding and thrusting in the region. We relocate the 1992 Ms 5.4 earthquake epicenter using the NonLinLoc method and suggest that the JYGF may link southeastward with Quaternary‐active faults and folds in the Wenshushan. A seismic rupture along the total fault length of 25–40 km for the JYGF‐Wenshushan deforming belt corresponds to a potential earthquake magnitude in the 6.6–7.0 range. Compartmentalized faulting and folding in the NW–most Hexi Corridor defines a triangular block of active deformation where NE‐directed contractional deformation of the Qilian Shan foreland interacts with E‐W left‐lateral displacement along the Altyn‐Tagh‐Heishan‐Jinta'Nanshan sinistral strike‐slip system.
Reaction Theory

Background: Exact numerical treatments of nuclear reactions are not feasible, except for the simplest systems. Few-Body models are justified when the reactions are dominated by a small number of scattering channels. Purpose: To discuss a method for constructing few-body models from a given Hamiltonian where all of the scattering is into a chosen set of important channels and corrections due to eliminated channels can be systematically computed. Method:The method uses cluster decompositions and spectral expansions of proper subsystems to control the absolutely continuous spectrum of the many-body Hamiltonian. Results: The result is a decomposition of the exact Hamiltonian into two parts, one that satisfies an optical theorem in a chosen set of important channels and one that satisfies an optical theorem in the complementary channels. When the reaction has a small number of dominant channels, the dominant channel part of the Hamiltonian is an effective few-body Hamiltonian. The decomposition has the property that the scattering wave functions from the dominant channel Hamiltonian agree with the exact scattering wave functions up to, but not including, $N$-body correlations.