Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reply to "Comment on 'Fermionic entanglement ambiguity in noninertial frames' "

We show that, contrarily to the claims in [K. Bradler, (2011), arXiv:1108.5553] (and arXiv:1201.1045), the reference [Phys. Rev. A 83, 062323 (2011)] is devoid of flaws or mistakes. We show that the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of part of our work. We also discuss the claims made in arXiv:1108.5553 about entanglement measures as a valid tool in relativistic quantum information.
MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS, E-GOVERNMENT DIGITAL PLATFORM AND JOB PERFORMANCE : THE MODERATING ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

An organization's Management Control System (MCS) is crucial. The environment, technology, organizational size, and business strategy are the factors that determine the Management Control System. The State Treasury and Budget System (SPAN) is one of Indonesia's digital e-government systems. This study aims to examine the impact of Management Control Systems and digital e-government platforms with transformational leadership as a moderator on the productivity of SPAN users in the Indonesian Directorate of Treasury. The successful implementation of the digital platform using the UTAUT model variable. The respondents of this study are 171 respondents as a user of the State Treasury and Budget System (SPAN) digital platform throughout Indonesia at the Ministry of Finance office of the State Treasury Directorate. This study finds that Facilitating Condition, Habit, and Feature-Level of Use have a positive effect on Job Performance, while management control systems and behavioral intentions do not affect Job Performance. Transformational leadership strengthens the influence of Feature-Level of Use on Job Performance. This research shows that in government organizations, the management control system is important in supporting the goals of organizations to provide understanding regarding vision, mission, and goals. In government organizations, there are other agency units like the Internal Compliance and Transformation ambassadors who participated in this area. These units are not usually the highest leadership who provide formal activities. Another implication to enhance employee work performance, a transformational leadership style is required.
Laying performance, immune response, serum biochemical parameters and egg quality traits of female turkeys fed diet incorporated with organic selenium

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of organic selenium (Se) supplementation on laying performance, immune response, serum biochemical parameters and egg quality traits of female turkeys. Female turkeys (96; 16 wks old) were randomly distributed into 4 treatment groups with 4 replicates and 6 birds each (4 × 4 × 6) for a period of 24 weeks. The basal diet (T1) contained 0 mg Se/kg diet and the three experimental diets were supplemented with 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 mg Se/kg diet (T2, T3 and T4 respectively). Age at sexual maturity, egg number and egg weight differed significantly in 0.4 mg Se/kg treated group (T3) than the other dietary treatment groups (T2 or T4). Humoral (29th weeks) and in vivo cell mediated immune response (30th weeks) were significantly improved in 0.4 or 0.6 mg Se treated group. Se supplemented groups, i.e. T3 and T4 decreased significantly in serum cholesterol and uric acid concentration whereas significant increase were recorded in total protein, albumin and alkaline phosphatase (ALP). No significant differences were observed in serum aspartate amino transferase (AST) and alanine amino transferase (ALT) concentration among the experimental groups. Egg quality traits, viz. shape, albumin and yolk index, shell thickness did not differ significantly among Se supplemented groups, whereas albumin and yolk weight and Haugh unit score were significantly higher in 0.4 mg Se/kg treated (T3) group. Thus, this study demonstrates that that dietary supplementation of 0.4 mg/Se kg diet has a beneficial effect on laying performance, immune responses, serum biochemical and egg quality traits in laying turkeys.
Does Fintech Development Reduce Corporate Earnings Management? Evidence from China

This paper takes A-share companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2011 to 2020 as the research object and empirically tests the impact of fintech development on corporate earnings management and its mechanism. It is found that fintech development significantly reduces corporate earnings management. This conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism test shows that fintech development reduces corporate earnings management by alleviating information asymmetry and easing corporate financing constraints. A heterogeneity test shows that fintech development has a greater effect on reducing earnings management in non-state-owned enterprises, small-scale enterprises and enterprises with low profitability, as well as enterprises in non-eastern China and regions with low marketization levels. This study clarifies the impact of fintech development on the field of micro corporate governance and provides rewarding policy implications for reducing corporate earnings management behavior, improving the level of corporate governance and facilitating the high-quality development of the capital market.
Collective memories serve similar functions to autobiographical memories

ABSTRACT People from the same country often hold shared, culturally-shaped memories about important events from that country’s history, known as collective memories. Although empirical research has started to shed light on the properties of these memories, none has systematically examined the functions these memories. To what extent do collective memories serve functions? We hypothesised that collective memories serve functions for a collective similar to those that autobiographical memories serve for individuals—directive, identity, and social functions. We conducted two experiments using adapted versions of the Thinking About Life Experiences questionnaire (TALE) in which we asked people to rate the functions of their collective memories. Across both experiments, we found evidence that collective memories serve directive, identity, and social functions for the collective. These results suggest collective memories perform important roles in their collectives.
Neurocognitive Dynamics of Prosodic Salience over Semantics during Explicit and Implicit Processing of Basic Emotions in Spoken Words

How language mediates emotional perception and experience is poorly understood. The present event-related potential (ERP) study examined the explicit and implicit processing of emotional speech to differentiate the relative influences of communication channel, emotion category and task type in the prosodic salience effect. Thirty participants (15 women) were presented with spoken words denoting happiness, sadness and neutrality in either the prosodic or semantic channel. They were asked to judge the emotional content (explicit task) and speakers’ gender (implicit task) of the stimuli. Results indicated that emotional prosody (relative to semantics) triggered larger N100, P200 and N400 amplitudes with greater delta, theta and alpha inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC) and event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) values in the corresponding early time windows, and continued to produce larger LPC amplitudes and faster responses during late stages of higher-order cognitive processing. The relative salience of prosodic and semantics was modulated by emotion and task, though such modulatory effects varied across different processing stages. The prosodic salience effect was reduced for sadness processing and in the implicit task during early auditory processing and decision-making but reduced for happiness processing in the explicit task during conscious emotion processing. Additionally, across-trial synchronization of delta, theta and alpha bands predicted the ERP components with higher ITPC and ERSP values significantly associated with stronger N100, P200, N400 and LPC enhancement. These findings reveal the neurocognitive dynamics of emotional speech processing with prosodic salience tied to stage-dependent emotion- and task-specific effects, which can reveal insights into understanding language and emotion processing from cross-linguistic/cultural and clinical perspectives.
Assessment and role of genetic diversity of component traits for improving grain yield and heat tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)

The present investigation was carried out in a randomized block design (RBD) with 20 diverse wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes grown under three environments i.e. 25th November, 2012 (Environment-I, timely sown), 24th December, 2012 (Environment-II, late sown) and 15th January 2013 (Environment-III, very late sown). The environment wise analysis of variance for grain yield and its contributing traits indicated highly significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits under study. High heritability along with high genetic advance and high coefficient of variation (PCV and GCV) for grain yield across three environments indicated substantial contribution of additive gene action in the expression of desirable traits and thus selection would be effective for genetic improvement of grain yield in wheat. On the basis of multivariate analysis, 20 genotypes were grouped into five clusters based on D2 value. The cluster V contained the maximum number of genotypes (6) in Environment-I,whereas cluster II included six genotypes in Environment-II, cluster IV included 07 genotypes in Environment-III and on pooled analysis basis cluster V had 07 genotypes. The highest inter cluster values were observed between cluster II and III (2690.75), followed by cluster I and II (2494.51), cluster II and V (1334.53), cluster III and V (730.74) in the first, second, third environments as well as pooled analysis basis, respectively, and thus genotypes included in these clusters showed wide genetic diversity and thus may be utilized in hybridization programme targeting wheat breeding for obtaining transgressive segregants to improve grain yield under varying environments. Based on the cluster mean analysis, genotype K 512 in E-I (timely sown) and E-II (late sown) while AAI 13 in E-II (late sown), E-III (vary late sown) and also in pooled analysis were rated better performing for multiple yield traits and these genotypes can be considered in breeding programme as well as for further study for developing superior wheat genotypes.
Drying of vegetable and root crops by solar, infrared, microwave, and radio frequency as energy efficient methods: A review

ABSTRACT Fruits, vegetable, and root (FVR) crops are vital to achieve food and nutrition security (FNS), especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, their perishable nature results in losses across the value chain. The review discusses the application of dehydration technologies: solar, infrared (IR), microwave (MW), and radiofrequency (RF) to produce shelf-stable dried agricultural produce. Drying technologies for example IR, MW, and RF use radiation for heat transfer and are more energy efficient compared to traditional hot air drying. Due to shorter processing times and lower thermal load, the nutritional quality and functional properties of dried materials from IR/MW/RF are often superior compared to hot air convection ovens or solar drying. Combination methods with hot air, vacuum and ultrasonication, and pre-treatments are of great interest for higher efficiency and quality. There are, however, limited studies available on the use of IR/MW/RF dehydration technologies for FVR crops in SSA, albeit these technologies have potential and further investigations are required for adoption.
Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein (I-FABP) as a Prognostic Marker in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in critically ill COVID-19 patients. There is currently no generally recognized method of assessing gastrointestinal injury in unconscious or sedated intensive care unit (ICU) patients. I-FABP (intestinal fatty acid binding protein) and citrulline have previously been studied as potential biomarkers of enterocyte damage in various gastrointestinal tract diseases, and changes in the levels of these markers may reflect intestinal wall damage in COVID-19. Patients with critical COVID-19, with diagnosed sepsis, or septic shock requiring ICU treatment were included in the study. Blood samples for citrulline and I-FABP were taken daily from day 1 to 5. I-FABP levels were significantly higher in patients who eventually died from COVID-19 than in survivors, and the optimal I-FABP cut-off point for predicting 28-day mortality was 668.57 pg/mL (sensitivity 0.739, specificity 0.765). Plasma levels of I-FABP, but not citrulline, were associated with significantly higher mortality and appeared to be a predictor of poor outcome in multivariate logistic regression analysis. In conclusion, I-FABP seems to be an effective prognostic marker in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Assessing mortality risk based on intestinal markers may be helpful in making clinical decisions regarding the management of intestinal injury, imaging diagnostics, and potential surgical interventions.
The Role of Organizational Factors in Nurses’ Perceived Preparedness to Screen, Intervene and Refer in Cases of Suspected Postpartum Depression

Routine screening for postpartum depression (PPD) is widespread, yet little attention has been given to the perceived preparedness of health providers to perform screening procedures, or to the role of organizational factors in their preparedness, although these are crucial elements for optimal implementation. The aim of this study was to examine organizational factors associated with public health nurses’ (PHNs) perceived preparedness to screen women for PPD, intervene, and refer them in cases of suspected PPD. Two hundred and nineteen PHNs completed a self-report survey regarding their perceived preparedness to carry out a screening program (including screening, intervening, and referring women), and their perceived organizational support, supervisor’s support, colleagues’ support, and colleagues’ preparedness. A path analysis model was used to analyze the data. The results showed that perceived colleagues’ preparedness was significantly associated with the three perceived preparedness constructs (screen, intervene, and refer). Perceived supervisor’s support was positively associated with perceived preparedness to screen, and perceived organizational support was positively associated with perceived preparedness to intervene. This paper highlights the manner in which formal and informal organizational factors play an important role in the perceived preparedness of PHNs to carry out a PPD screening program, and how these factors impact the three different aspects of the screening program. Organizations implementing PPD screening should support PHNs in all aspects of the implementation process, provide guidance, and enhance peer-group continued learning through which PHNs could share knowledge, discuss barriers, and foster professional development.
Developmental Changes of Immunity and Different Responses to Weaning Stress of Chinese Indigenous Piglets and Duroc Piglets during Suckling and Weaning Periods

To investigate developmental changes in immunity and different responses to weaning stress of piglets from different breeds during suckling and weaning periods, a total of 30 litters of Taoyuan black (TB) piglets, Xiangcun black (XB) piglets, and Duroc (DR) piglets (ten litters per breed) were selected at 1, 10, 21, and 24 days of age, respectively. The results showed that the liver index of TB piglets was higher at 10 days of age than that of the other days of age and breeds. Regardless of the days of age, TB and XB piglets had a higher plasma IgA level and lower ileal IgM level than in the DR piglets, and XB piglets had a lower plasma IgG level than the other breeds. TB and XB piglets had a higher IL-6 level and lower IL-17 level in plasma at 24 days of age than DR piglets, regardless of the days of age. The ileal levels of IL-2, IL-10, IFN-γ, and TNF-α were lower in the TB and XB piglets at 24 days of age than in the DR piglets. The ileal expression levels of IRAK1, CD14, MyD88, and NF-κB were down-regulated in the TB and XB piglets at 24 days of age compared to those in the DR piglets. These findings suggest that there were differences in the development of immune function among different pig breeds. Moreover, TB and XB piglets presented stronger resistance to weaning stress than the DR piglets, which may be related to the immune regulation mediated by the MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway.
GRP78 PROMOTES THE OSTEOGENIC AND ANGIOGENIC RESPONSE IN PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT STEM CELLS

Periodontitis is a progressive disease that ultimately leads to bone and tooth loss. A major consequence of periodontal disease is the inability to regain lost bone in the periodontium. The importance was demonstrated of glucose-regulated protein-78 (GRP78) in the osteogenic differentiation of periodontal ligament stem cells and their potential use for regeneration of the periodontium. Previous studies have shown the relationship between GRP78 and dentine matrix protein-1 (DMP1). The importance of this receptor-ligand complex in supporting the process of osteogenesis and angiogenesis was confirmed in this study. To show the function of GRP78 in mineralised tissues, transgenic periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) were generated in which GRP78 was either overexpressed or silenced. Gene expression analysis of the cells cultured under osteogenic conditions showed an increase in key osteogenic genes with the overexpression of GRP78. RNA-Seq analysis was also performed to understand the transcriptome profile associated with genotype changes. Using the database for annotation, visualisation, and integration discovery (DAVID) for the functional enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes, the upregulation of genes promoting osteogenesis and angiogenesis with GRP78 overexpression was demonstrated. Alizarin red staining and scanning electron microscopy analysis revealed matrix mineralisation with increased calcium deposition in GRP78 overexpressing cells. The in vivo osteogenic and angiogenic function of GRP78 was shown using a subcutaneous implantation rodent model. The results suggested that GRP78 in PDLSCs can regulate the expression of both osteogenesis and angiogenesis. Therefore, GRP78 could be considered as a therapeutic target for repair of diseased periodontium.
Experimental and theoretical radiative lifetimes, branching fractions and oscillator strengths in Lu ii

By a combination of radiative lifetimes measured using the fast-beam-laser method and experimental branching ratios deduced from Fourier transform spectrometer spectra, it has been possible to derive experimental f-values for Lu ii lines observed in the visible and near-ultraviolet regions. These data are compared with relativistic Hartree–Fock calculations, taking core polarization effects into account, and a set of additional oscillator strengths of astrophysical interest is presented.
Genome Sequence Resource of Fusarium graminearum TaB10 and Fusarium avenaceum KA13, Causal Agents of Stored Apple Rot

The filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum is a well-known cereal pathogen and F. avenaceum is a pathogen with a wide host range. Recently, both species were reported as causal agents of apple rot, raising concerns about postharvest yield losses and mycotoxin contamination. Here, we report genome assemblies of F. avenaceum KA13 and F. graminearum TaB10, both isolated from fruits with symptoms of apple rot. The final F. avenaceum KA13 genome sequence assembly of 41.7 Mb consists of 34 scaffolds, with an N50 value of 2.2 Mb and 15,886 predicted genes. The total size of the final F. graminearum TaB10 assembly is 36.76 Mb, consisting of 54 scaffolds with an N50 value of 1.7 Mb, and it consists of 14,132 predicted genes. These new genomes provide valuable resources to better understand plant-microbe interaction in stored apple rot disease.
Incidence and Risk Factors for Superficial and Deep Vein Thrombosis in Post-Craniotomy/Craniectomy Neurosurgical Patients

Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is quite common among post-operative neurosurgical patients. This study aims to identify the incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and superficial vein thrombosis (SVT) among post-craniotomy/craniectomy patients and further evaluate established hypercoagulability risk factors such as trauma, tumors, and surgery. Methodology This single-center retrospective study investigated 197 patients who underwent a craniotomy/craniectomy. The incidences of DVT and SVT were compared, along with laterality and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line involvement. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify risk factors for post-craniotomy/craniectomy VTE. This model included variables such as age, post-operative days before anticoagulant administration, female sex, indications for surgery such as tumor and trauma, presence of a PICC line, and anticoagulant administration. Results Among the 197 post-craniotomy/craniectomy patients (39.6% female; mean age 53.8±15.7 years), the incidences of DVT, SVT, and VTE were 4.6%, 9.6%, and 12.2%, respectively. The multivariate logistic regression analysis found that increasing the number of days between surgery and administration of anticoagulants significantly increased the risk of VTE incidence (odds ratio 1.183, 95% CI 1.068-1.311, p = 0.001). Conclusions Contrary to existing evidence, this study did not find trauma or the presence of tumors to be risk factors for VTE. Future prospective studies should assess VTE risk assessment models such as “3 Bucket” or “Caprini” to develop universal guidelines for administering anticoagulant therapy to post-craniotomy/craniectomy patients that consider the timing of post-operative therapy initiation.
Probing Red Blood Cell Membrane Microviscosity Using Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay Curves of the Lipophilic Dye PKH26

Red blood cell (RBC) aggregation and deformation are governed by the molecular processes occurring on the membrane. Since several social important diseases are accompanied by alterations in RBC aggregation and deformability, it is important to develop a diagnostic parameter of RBC membrane structural integrity and stability. In this work, we propose membrane microviscosity assessed by time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of the lipophilic PKH26 fluorescent probe as a diagnostic parameter. We measured the fluorescence decay curves of the PKH26 probe in the RBC membrane to establish the optimal parameters of the developed fluorescence assay. We observed a complex biphasic profile of the fluorescence anisotropy decay characterized by two correlation times corresponding to the rotational diffusion of free PKH26, and membrane-bounded molecules of the probe. The developed assay allowed us to estimate membrane microviscosity ηm in the range of 100–500 cP depending on the temperature, which paves the way for assessing RBC membrane properties in clinical applications as predictors of blood microrheological abnormalities.