Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Title: Stability and feasibility of measurement of lung-to-finger circulation time by simple breath holdings in heart failure patients Authors

Authors Tomoyuki Tobushi, Kasai Takatoshi, Masayuki Hirose, Kazuhiro Sakai, Manabu Akamatsu, Chizuru Ohsawa, Yasuko Yoshioka, Shoko Suda, Nanako Shiroshita, Ryo Nakamura, Toshiaki Kadokami, Takeshi Tohyama, Kouta Funakoshi, Kazuya Hosokawa, Shin-ichi Ando Affiliations 1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saiseikai Futsukaichi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan 2 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3 Cardiovascular Respiratory Sleep Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 4 Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 5 Imaging Device Development, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan 6 Sleep Apnea Center, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 7 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
Influences of Financial and Non-Financial Compensation on Employees’ Turnover Intention in the Energy Sector: The Case of Aramco IPO

The purpose of this research is to identify the effects of financial and non-financial compensation on employees’ turnover intention at Saudi Aramco after an initial public offering (IPO). A questionnaire was used for collecting data from 142 participants, and a simple linear regression model was used to analyse the survey results. This study revealed that the respondents agree that financial compensation is an important factor in their tendency to continue working at their company and that training is another important factor that motivates them to stay. Further, the results show that financial compensation affects employees’ turnover intentions, training positively affects their retention at their respective company, and promotion policies correlate with their turnover intentions. The study recommends that companies in the energy sector should give more attention to financial compensation, training, and promotion to motivate employees to remain in their companies. According to the research results, there are positive relationships between retention and continuing in a company based on the independent variables of financial compensation, training, and promotion.
THE EFFECTS OF PROPOLIS SUPPLEMENTATION ON WEIGHT GAIN, FEED CONVERSION AND SELECTED BIOCHEMICAL BLOOD PARAMETERS OF BROILERS

High growth rate and feed efficiency are the two main targets in poultry production. For several decades, antibiotics have been widely used in the chicken diet. However, the use of antibiotics in broilers feeding has resulted in numerous problems and therefore their usage as a growth promoter is no longer acceptable and is prohibited in the European Union countries. Propolis as a natural substance pose itself as a valuable alternative in that sense. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of propolis supplementation on weight gain, feed conversion and selected biochemical blood parameters of broilers. This experimental study was conducted on 180 Ross 308 chickens equally distributed by sex and divided into three groups: the control group of chickens (C) fed with a basal diet and two experimental groups of chickens (E) fed with the same diet supplemented with propolis (E1 2g/kg and E2 4g/kg). Blood sampling was performed by wing vein puncture with direct needle injection coupled with a test tube under vacuum on the 42th day of the study. The collected blood samples were analyzed for the following biochemical parameters (Fe, Ca, Na, P, Mg, K, Cl, cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglyceride, glucose, total proteins, globulins and albumins). The mentioned biochemical parameters were determined using Olympus AU 680 automatic analyzer (Olympus Life Science Research Europa GmbH, Germany). Laboratory analyses were performed at the Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Centre Osijek. The numerical variables were described as mean and standard deviation. The ANOVA and KruskalWallis test were used for the comparison of numerical variables among the groups. The level of statistical significance was set at p<0.05. The study revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in weight gain between C and E groups of chickens on 1st (p = 0.547), 2nd (p = 0.464), 3rd (p = 0.792), 4th (p = 0.426), 5th (p = 0.925) and 6th (p = 0.971) week of feeding. The study also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in feed conversion between C and E groups in any of the week of feeding (p = 0.368). Finally, the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences in Na levels (p = 0.039) and Ca levels (p = 0.045) while there were no statistically significant differences in HDL cholesterol (p = 0.719), LDL cholesterol (p = 0.382), cholesterol (p = 0.462), triglycerides (p = 0.481), proteins (p = 0.249), albumins (p = 0.661), globulins (p = 0.058), glucose (p = 0.179), Fe (p = 0.068), Mg (p = 0.557), K (p = 0.590), P (p = 0.397) and Cl (p = 0.128) levels between C and E groups. It can be concluded that applied doses of propolis did not affect the observed performance indicators and selected biochemical blood parameters of broilers thus it is important to evaluate the effects of such supplementation through some other indicators.
An in vitro intestinal model captures immunomodulatory properties of the microbiota in inflammation

ABSTRACT Considerable effort has been put forth to understand mechanisms by which the microbiota modulates and responds to inflammation. Here, we explored whether oxidation metabolites produced by the host during inflammation, sodium nitrate and trimethylamine oxide, impact the composition of a human stool bacterial population in a gut simulator. We then assessed whether an immune-competent in vitro intestinal model responded differently to spent medium from bacteria exposed to these cues compared to spent medium from a control bacterial population. The host-derived oxidation products were found to decrease levels of Bacteroidaceae and overall microbiota metabolic potential, while increasing levels of proinflammatory Enterobacteriaceae and lipopolysaccharide in bacterial cultures, reflecting shifts that occur in vivo in inflammation. Spent microbiota media induced elevated intracellular mucin levels and reduced intestinal monolayer integrity as reflected in transepithelial electrical resistance relative to fresh medium controls. However, multiplexed cytokine analysis revealed markedly different cytokine signatures from intestinal cultures exposed to spent medium with added oxidation products relative to spent control medium, while cytokine signatures of cultures exposed to fresh media were similar regardless of addition of host-derived cues. Further, the presence of immune cells in the intestinal model was required for this differentiation of cytokine signatures. This study indicates that simple in vitro immune-competent intestinal models can capture bacterial-mammalian cross-talk in response to host-derived oxidation products and supports utility of these systems for mechanistic studies of interactions between the gut microbiome and host in inflammation.
Association between Residual Feed Intake and Some Biochemical Metabolites of Growing Hamari Lambs

BackgroundRecently the use of residual feed intake (RFI) trait for the identification of animal that are more efficient in feed utilization has received much attention from scientist. Since basal metabolic processes are responsible for a large proportion of energy requirements; blood metabolites that reflect the workload placed on them may give indication of differences in animal efficiency. The objectives of this study were to estimate the differences in growth performance, some blood metabolites indices in growing Hammari lambs selected for high, medium and low residual feed intake (RFI). Moreover, correlation between RFI, feed conversion ratio (FCR), gross feed efficiency (GFE) and some blood indices was carried out. ResultsThe results indicated there were no significant differences among RFI classes for initial BW (P = 0.69) final BW (P = 0.84) and ADG (P = 0.51). Significant differences among RFI classes were observed for DM intake, RFI (P = 0.001), FCR ratio (P = 0.01), and GFE (P = 0.03). Low RFI animals consumed, on average, 0.62 kg/d DM less than high RFI animals. Low and med RFI animals had lower serum total protein (P=0.01), globulin (P=0.01), urea (P=0.02), and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (P=0.01) levels than high RFI. A comparison of serum creatinine among RFI groups showed that the med and the low RFI groups had higher concentration than high RFI group. There were associations between RFI and the serum metabolites for total protein (rRFI = 0.44), globulin (rRFI = 0.31), urea (rRFI = 0.40), AST (rRFI = 0.76) and HDL (rRFI = 0.50). Also, associations between FCR and serum globulin (rFCR = 0.31) and AST (rFCR = 0.41) were detected. Results for serum mineral concentrations showed no significant (P>0.05) differences among RFI classes. The same trend was observed to results of correlation between mineral metabolites and RFI, except for phosphorus, which was positively correlated with RFI (rRFI = 0.32). ConclusionThe study concluded that the low RFI animals had less concentration of serum total protein, globulin, urea, AST and HDL. All these measures showed that low RFI animals were more efficient in feed utilization, than high RFI animals.
Economic Effects of the Spanish Flu

The Spanish flu reached Australia in 1919 and remains the country’s most severe pandemic in terms of health outcomes. At the peak of the pandemic, sickness due to influenza temporarily incapacitated 2 per cent of the labour force. However, despite the social distancing measures used by governments to contain the virus, few job losses in this period were due to a lack of available work. The labour market also recovered quickly, but it is not clear how relevant this experience is for the modern economy.
Reference equations for pulmonary diffusing capacity of CO and NO

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine reference equations for the combined measurement of carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) diffusing capacity (DL,CO,NO). In addition, we wanted to appeal for consensus regarding methodology of the measurement including calculation of diffusing capacity of the alveolo-capillary membrane (Dm) and pulmonary capillary volume (Vc). Methods: DL,CO,NO was measured in 282 healthy individuals aged 18-97 years using the single breath technique and a breath-hold time of 5 seconds (true apnoea period). The following values were used: 1) specific conductance of NO (θNO) = 4.5 mLNOmLblood-1min-1mmHg-1, 2) ratio of diffusing capacity of the membrane for NO and CO (DmNO/DmCO) = 1.97, and 3) 1/red cell CO conductance (1/θCO) = (1.30+0.0041mean capillary oxygen pressure)(14.6/Hb concentration in gdL-1). Results: Reference equations were established for the outcomes of DL,CO,NO including diffusing capacity of CO (DL,CO) and NO (DL,NO) and the calculated values Dm and Vc. Independent variables were age, sex, height and age squared. Conclusion: By providing new reference equations and by appealing for consensus regarding the methodology, we hope to provide a basis for future studies and clinical use of this novel and interesting method.
Association Between Waist Circumference Change and Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Chinese Adults: An 18-year Cohort Study

Background The aim of our study was to investigate waist circumference (WC) change and the risk of incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among Chinese adults.Methods A total of 8,164 participants aged 20-35 years were recruited who attended health examination with the repeat measurements of WC and lung function (forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)) from 2001 to 2019. The data of same measurements were collected at their age of 38-53 years. Participants were categorized by WC change as ≤-2.5%, -2.5% to 2.5%, 2.5% to 5% and ＞5% according to gender. The modified Poisson regression models were used to assess the association of WC gain and the risk of COPD.Results During 18-year follow-up, a total of 917 COPD cases were identified. From baseline to follow-up, the mean of FEV1 decreased from 3.20 L to 2.79 L among male participants and 2.28 L to 1.95 L among female participants. Comparing with participants who were not abdominal obesity at both baseline and follow-up, participants with abdominal obesity among both genders after the follow-up were associated to the greater risk of COPD regardless of abdominal obesity at baseline. The risk of incident COPD increased 19% among male participants (RR=1.19, 95%CI=1.04-1.48) and 14% among female participants (RR=1.14, 95%CI=1.01-1.40) when WC gain increased ＞5% during the 18-year follow-up. The COPD risk decreased 28% among male participants with WC change ≤-2.5% (RR=0.82, 95%CI=0.67-0.99). Conclusions The risk of incident COPD was positively associated with increasing WC for both genders among Chinese adults.
Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Sugar Industrial Workers in Relation to Demographic Factors: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh

The primary objective of this study is to observe the impact of demographic factors on the job satisfaction of workers of the sugar industry in Bangladesh. Current research determines whether the age, level of education, marital status, and years of experience play a role in the job satisfaction of respondents and whether job satisfaction level differs among respondents in terms of age, level of education, marital status, and years of experience. A total of 300 respondents who are permanent production workers have been selected from state-owned sugar mills in Bangladesh on a random basis. A pre-structured questionnaire and for the information required face-to-face interview was conducted by the researcher. In analyzing data different statistical tools like Chi-square tests, ANOVA, Correlation were applied and data processed by using SPSS. The results of the present study revealed that a higher percentage of the high age workers was more satisfied with their present job than that of low age but statistically not significant. Other factors such as education, experience, and marital status, do not affect overall work satisfaction. The findings of this study suggest that the government and the concerned authority should draft proper policies and special programs to improve the level of satisfaction of sugar industrial workers.
Testing the effect of a rainproof protection net on the apple production regarding disease and pest damages

In a field trial within the CORE Organic project DOMINO, the effect of a rain protection combined with lateral insect nets (“Keep in touch – Antiacqua”) was tested for organic apple production. The rain-proof roof should protect the trees from rainwater, reducing the emergence of fungal infections such as scab and rotting diseases including post-harvest diseases, while the lateral nets should markedly decrease the damages caused by pests. The Keep in touch system without any spray from the blooming on was compared to an uncovered and unsprayed treatment (control) as well as an uncovered and organically sprayed treatment. The trial was carried out from 2019 to 2021 on ‘Gala’ in South Tyrol and ‘Topaz’ and ‘Ariwa’ in Switzerland. Diseases and pests on the trees resp. on the fruits were assessed during the season resp. at harvest. Furthermore, fruit quality and post-storage diseases on fruits were rated.
STUDENT WELL-BEING: IDENTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF OPTIMISM AND LOCUS OF CONTROL

Studies have shown that personality characteristics play a significant role in explaining the differences in well-being. To better understand the effect of personality traits, the study explored the role of locus of control and optimism for student college-related wellbeing. In a sample of 187 university students in Croatia, who responded to a set of personality questionnaires, it was found that both locus of control and optimism correlated with wellbeing. Moreover, results also revealed that optimism moderated the relationship between external locus of control and well-being. Our findings suggest that positive thinking may buffer the adverse effects of external locus of control on student well-being.
CH3SH and H2S Sensing Properties of V2O5/WO3/TiO2 Gas Sensor

Resistive-type semiconductor-based gas sensors were fabricated for the detection of methyl mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide. To fabricate these sensors, V2O5/WO3/TiO2 (VWT) particles were deposited on interdigitated Pt electrodes. The vanadium oxide content of the utilized VWT was 1.5, 3, or 10 wt. %. The structural properties of the VWT particles were investigated by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses. The resistance of the VWT gas sensor decreased with increasing methyl mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide gas concentrations in the range of 50 to 500 ppb. The VWT gas sensor with 3 wt. % vanadium oxide showed high methyl mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide responses and good gas selectivity against hydrogen at 300 °C.
Alone vs In-a-group: A Multi-modal Framework for Automatic Affect Recognition

Recognition and analysis of human affect has been researched extensively within the field of computer science in the last two decades. However, most of the past research in automatic analysis of human affect has focused on the recognition of affect displayed by people in individual settings and little attention has been paid to the analysis of the affect expressed in group settings. In this paper, we first analyze the affect expressed by each individual in terms of arousal and valence dimensions in both individual and group videos and then propose methods to recognize the contextual information, i.e., whether a person is alone or in-a-group by analyzing their face and body behavioral cues. For affect analysis, we first devise affect recognition models separately in individual and group videos and then introduce a cross-condition affect recognition model that is trained by combining the two different types of data. We conduct a set of experiments on two datasets that contain both individual and group videos. Our experiments show that (1) the proposed Volume Quantized Local Zernike Moments Fisher Vector (vQLZM-FV) outperforms other unimodal features in affect analysis; (2) the temporal learning model, Long-Short Term Memory Networks (LSTM), works better than the static learning model, Support Vector Machine (SVM); (3) decision fusion helps to improve the affect recognition, indicating that body behaviors carry emotional information that is complementary rather than redundant to the emotion content in facial behaviors; and (4) it is possible to predict the context, i.e., whether a person is alone or in-a-group, using their non-verbal behavioral cues.
The Impact of Executive Pay Gap on Audit Pricing in China

This study aims to test the economic consequences of the tournament incentive. First, we investigate the impact of the pay gap among top executives and the pay gap between executives and employees on audit pricing using a large sample of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2019. Then, we test the moderating role of ownership property, technological complexity and corporate governance in the association between the executive pay gap and audit fees. Findings indicate that the executive pay gap is positively associated with audit fees. The positive association between the executive pay gap and audit fees is more pronounced in private firms, firms with fewer R&D expenditures, and firms with smaller proportion of independent directors. Further studies suggest that large executive pay gap motivates managerial opportunistic behaviors, resulting in more accrual-based earnings management and real activities manipulation. Our results, consistent with managerial power theory, show that auditors assess firms with large executive pay gap as high risk and incorporate the audit risk and audit business risk associated with the executive pay gap into audit pricing. The results provide further evidence for regulators to strengthen supervision on the executive compensation, especially the executive compensation of state-owned enterprises and firms with weak corporate governance.
Knowledge, Self-Image, and Attitude on Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Empirical Study in Indonesia

This study aimed to analyze pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in students affected by environmental knowledge, green self-image (SI), and ecological attitude (EA). This survey research involving 249 respondents, with data obtained through the distribution of questionnaires. Relationships between variables were analyzed using PLS-SEM. The results show that environmental attitude and green SI positively affect ecological attitude and pro-environmental behavior. The results of subsequent studies indicate that ecological attitude has a positive impact on pro-environmental behavior. This study also shows that the direct effect of SI and EK is relatively small on pro-environment behavior. PEB can be enhanced by increasing green SI and consumer knowledge about environmental protection. It would be better if attitudes toward environmental protection are also considered because the results of this study indicate that attitudes have the most substantial influence in shaping PEB. This research was conducted in Indonesia, which geographically differs from other countries because Indonesia is a tropical and agricultural country with a large land area with thousands of plants as natural protectors. This condition is different from countries on other continents so that the pro-environment behavior also becomes different. These study results strengthen earlier findings of the positive relationship between green SI, EK, EA, and PEB.
The Effect of Strategic Leadership and Organization Culture on Business Performance: An Empirical Study in Indonesia

Competitive Strategy is defined as the long-term plan of a particular company to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors in the industry. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of strategic leadership on competitive strategy, motivation on competitive strategy, organization culture on competitive strategy, strategic leadership on business performance, motivation on business performance, organization culture on business performance, and competitive strategy on business performance. The analytical method used in this research is structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the causal relationship between latent variables contained in structural equations. The analysis tool used is with the help of Smart PLS. The method used in this research is quantitative, and the data collection method is by distributing questionnaires to manufacturing industry employees electronically using a simple random sampling technique. The results of the questionnaire returned were 150 respondents. Based on the data analysis, it was concluded that strategic leadership had no significant effect on competitive strategy. strategic leadership has a significant effect on business performance, organizational culture has a significant effect on business performance, organizational culture has a significant effect on competitive strategy. Motivation has a significant effect on competitive strategy, motivation has no significant effect on business performance. The competitive strategy has no significant effect on business performance.