Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adolescents' Use of Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Sexual Uncertainty: The Role of Involvement and Gender

Research has shown that adolescents' use of sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM) is positively associated with an important characteristic of the developing sexual self, sexual uncertainty. However, the causal relation between SEIM use and sexual uncertainty is unclear. Moreover, we do not know which processes underlie this relation and whether gender moderates these processes. Based on a three-wave panel survey among 956 Dutch adolescents, structural equation modeling revealed that more frequent SEIM use increased adolescents' sexual uncertainty. This influence was mediated by adolescents' involvement in SEIM. The impact of SEIM use on involvement was stronger for female than for male adolescents. Future research on the effects of SEIM may benefit from greater attention to experiential states during SEIM use.
Examining Mediating Impact of Self-efficacy Between Organizational Culture and Employee Performance: Empirical Findings From Banking Industry of Pakistan

This research aims to identify the mediating impact of self-efficacy between organizational culture and performance of employees particularly in banking sector of Pakistan. This study is empirical and deductive in nature. Total respondents were 184 which was analysed by software SPSS version 24.0. Four hypotheses have been deduced for this study and all four hypotheses were supported and the results suggest that all the independent variables have detrimental impact on performance of employees in Banking Sector. Also, Finally, the analysis of the likely mediating effect shows that adoptions of self-efficacy has a significant impact in case of individual analysis of cultural variables and partial mediation indirect impact on employee performance. In other words, findings suggest that organizational culture and self-efficacy is a key tool in determining the performance of employees at workplace. Generalizability of the results is one of the limitations, moreover study was conducted with limited set of variables that would have been undertaken in future with more diverse variables to have more comprehensive understanding of how the various cultural trends impacts performance and competency of employees. Data was collected through an anticipated sample size of 184 which is comparatively small to draw the inclusive conclusions due to cost, time and respondent’s willingness and availability constraints. In sum, the main contribution of this study is, first it went into the “blind-box” organizational culture and employee performance and inspects whether self-efficacy mediates the relationship of the former variables. Secondly, this study provides an empirical support that self-efficacy has mediating effect. Thirdly, it also provides the evidence of relationship at least partially, between organizational cultures and self-efficacy which has yet not been reported so far especially in particular to bureaucratic, supportive and innovative culture
The relation between specific baryon angular momentum and mass for a sample of nearby low-mass galaxies with resolved H I kinematics

This paper investigates the relationship between specific baryon angular momentum $j_\mathrm{b}$ and baryon mass $M_\mathrm{b}$ for a sample of nearby late-type galaxies with resolved HI kinematics. This work roughly doubles the number of galaxies with $M_\mathrm{b} \lesssim 10^{10}$ $M_{\odot}$ used to study the $j_\mathrm{b} - M_\mathrm{b}$ relation. Most of the galaxies in the sample have their baryon mass dominated by their gas content, thereby offering $j_\mathrm{b}$ and Mb measures that are relatively unaffected by uncertainties arising from the stellar mass-to-light ratio. Measured HI surface density radial profiles together with optical and rotation curve data from the literature are used to derive a best-fit relation given by $j_\mathrm{b}=qM_\mathrm{b}^{\alpha}$, with $\alpha=0.62\pm 0.02$ and $\log_{10}q=-3.35\pm 0.25$. This result is consistent with the $j_\mathrm{b}\propto M_\mathrm{b}^{2/3}$ relation that is theoretically expected and also measured by Obreschkow & Glazebrook (2014) for their full sample of THINGS spiral galaxies, yet differs to their steeper relation found for subsets with fixed bulge fraction. The 30 arcsec spatial resolution of the HI imaging used in this study is significantly lower than that of the THINGS imaging used by Obreschkow & Glazebrook (2014), yet the results presented in this work are clearly shown to contain no significant systematic errors due to the low-resolution imaging.
Retina Cone Structure Imaged With Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy in Eyes With Nonneovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Citation: Zayit-Soudry S, Duncan JL, Syed R, Menghini M, Roorda AJ. Cone structure imaged with adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in eyes with nonneovascular age-related macular degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013;54:7498–7509. DOI:10.1167/iovs.13-12433 PURPOSE. To evaluate cone spacing using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) in eyes with nonneovascular AMD, and to correlate progression of AOSLO-derived cone measures with standard measures of macular structure.
EFFECT OF DIETARY LEVELS OF LIPID AND CARBOHYDRATE ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE , CHEMICAL CONTENTS AND DIGESTIBILITY IN RAINBOW TROUT , ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS WALBAUM

The present study was carried out to determine the effects of four rations on growth, chemical composition and digestibility of the Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum, 1792). Four test diets were formulated to have the same levels of protein (40%) and energy (gross energy: around 4800 cal/g), however, these test diets were composed of basic diet with different carbohydrate (0, 3, 12 and 18%) to lipid (0, 6, 15 and 18%) ratios (Diet 1: 0/18; Diet 2: 3/15; Diet 3: 12/6 and Diet 4: 18/0). Fifty fish weighing 99.0 ± 0.65g were placed in each of the four experimental tanks and were fed with one of the experimental diets for 13 weeks consisting of two trial periods (Periods I and II). Growth parameters and chemical composition of fish flesh were monitored. Effects of the diets on apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) were also determined. At the end of the study, the fish growth was affected significantly (P<0.05) with carbohydrate and lipid levels in the diets. Higher growth, better feed conversion ratio and protein efficiency ratio were observed in experimental groups fed with Diets 1 and 3. There were no significant (P>0.05) changes in specific growth rate, although higher values were observed in fish fed with Diets 1 and 3. The experimental group fed with Diet 4 showed a lower (P<0.05) growth and feed conversion ratio. The hepatosomatic index (HSI) showed no significant (P>0.05) changes in experimental groups fed with the diets. The percentage of water, protein and ash of fish flesh did not show any (P>0.05) change. However, the muscle lipid content of fish significantly (P<0.05) decreased as carbohydrate level increased. The ADC values were also affected (P<0.05) with carbohydrate and lipid levels in the diets. The ADC of lipid was lowest in the experimental group fed with Diet 1. The ADC values for dry matter, proteins and energy were lowest for fish fed on Diet 4, while for ash it was lowest for Diet 2. These results indicate that the best balance between the dietary lipid and carbohydrate levels was obtained on Diet 3, without lower growth.
The Self-Controlled Case Series Design : A Simulation Study by c ⃝ Kaida

The self-controlled case series (SCCS) design is an outcome dependent sampling design developed to investigate the association between time-varying exposures and outcome events. This design automatically adjusts for all fixed covariates acting multiplicatively on the intensity function of a subject. It is based only on cases, and ignores controls. Since only cases are included, it is economically and computationally efficient compared with a cohort design. This property of the SCCS design also helps protecting data privacy. Because of these reasons, the SCCS design is an important alternative to the cohort design especially when the outcome of interest is a rare event, and has been used in many studies in medicine, epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to investigate the SCCS design through simulations. We considered parametric, semiparametric and weakly parametric SCCS models, and compared them with well-known models based on the classical cohort design. We also illustarted the methods with a real life data set from medicine.
THE EFFECT OF ROLE DUALITY ON CORPORATE PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA

The Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (MCCG) recommends a separation between the position of CEO and Chairman to ensure a balance of power and authority, such that no individual has unfettered powers of making decision. It was hoped that the code would lead to more independent boards so as to provide the essential checks and balances over man-agement’s performance. Thus, the current study seeks to explore the extent CEO duality influence corporate performance in Malaysia. The findings indicate that companies with CEOs role duality seemed not to perform as well as their counterparts with separate board leadership based on accounting performance measurements, ROE and ROA. This implies that the recommendation by the MCCG to have the two roles separated is deemed very important and must be implemented fully.
A Dark Asteroid Family in the Phocaea Region

We report the discovery of a new asteroid family among the dark asteroids residing in the Phocaea region the Tamara family. We make use of available physical data to separate asteroids in the region according to their surface reflectance properties, and establish the membership of the family. We determine the slope of the cumulative magnitude distribution of the family, and find it to be significantly steeper than the corresponding slope of all the asteroids in the Phocaea region. This implies that subkilometer dark Phocaeas are comparable in number to bright S-type objects, shedding light on an entirely new aspect of the composition of small Phocaea asteroids. We then use the Yarkovsky V-shape based method and estimate the age of the family to be 264 ± 43 Myr. Finally, we carry out numerical simulations of the dynamical evolution of the Tamara family. The results suggest that up to 50 Tamara members with absolute magnitude may currently be found in the near-Earth region. Despite their relatively small number in the near-Earth space, the rate of Earth impacts by small, dark Phocaeas is non-negligible.
Leadership Evolution for Planetary Health: A Genomics Perspective

We are living in the Anthropocene period, where human activity has become the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Addressing the question of how nature and societies will evolve in the Anthropocene is one of the grand challenges of our time. This challenge requires a new form of leadership, one capable of transmuting the eroding relationship between business, society and nature. Yet at this critical time, leadership theory is at a crossroads, with many arguing that leadership, as a field of study, should be abandoned. Operating in parallel to this Anthropocene challenge is an increasing understanding of the complexity of the genome, including the inherent plasticity of our genomic hierarchies, and the influence of the genome on health, disease and evolution. This has demanded a change in thinking to view the genome from an evolutionary systems perspective. To address the imbalance presented by the Anthropocene, we propose using a genomic lens as the basis for thinking about leadership evolution. In arguing this, we aim to provide the pathway for an improved synergistic relationship between business, society and nature, one that can guide the future of humanity in the unstable world we have created.
Scaling of the puffing Strouhal number for buoyant jets and plumes

Prior research has shown that buoyant jets and plumes ‘puff’ at a frequency that depends on the balance of momentum and buoyancy fluxes at the inlet, as parametrized by the Richardson number. Experiments have revealed the existence of scaling relations between the Strouhal number of the puffing and the inlet Richardson number, but geometry-specific relations are required when the characteristic length is taken to be the diameter (for round inlets) or width (for planar inlets). Similar to earlier studies of rectangular buoyant jets and plumes, in the present study we use the hydraulic radius of the inlet as the characteristic length to obtain a single Strouhal–Richardson scaling relation for a variety of inlet geometries over Richardson numbers that span three orders of magnitude. In particular, we use adaptive mesh numerical simulations to compute puffing Strouhal numbers for circular, rectangular (with three different aspect ratios), triangular and annular high-temperature buoyant jets and plumes over a range of Richardson numbers. We then combine these results with prior experimental data for round, planar and rectangular buoyant jets and plumes to propose a new scaling relation that describes puffing Strouhal numbers for various inlet shapes and for hydraulic Richardson numbers spanning over four orders of magnitude. This empirically motivated scaling relation is also shown to be in good agreement with prior results from global linear stability analyses.
Investigation of nutritional status in Chinese patients with common cancer

The negative influence of malnutrition on patients with malignant tumors runs through the whole course of a disease. To the best of our knowledge, the nutritional status of cancer patients has not yet been reported in a large sample size. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the status of malnutrition and nutritional support therapy in a large sample of patients with common malignant tumors in China. In this observational multicenter study, 80 tertiary hospitals in 22 major provinces and cities were selected using a two-stage random sampling method. A total of 47,488 hospitalized patients with 16 kinds of common malignant tumors were enrolled in this study. The nutritional status of the patients was assessed by the scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA). The severity of malnutrition was identified by a quantitative assessment where 0–1 was labelled as no malnutrition and 2–3, 4–8, and ≥9 were defined as suspected/mild, moderate and severe malnutrition. The PG-SGA scores of patients with different tumor characteristics were compared by a variance analysis. The incidence rate of moderate and severe malnutrition was 58.2%, of which 32.1% and 26.1% fell under the category of moderate and severe malnutrition, 22.2% were suspected/mild and only 19.6% of the sample were not malnourished. The incidence of malnutrition varied in respect to tumor species, age, gender, tumor stage, treatment and region: The PG-SGA score of pancreatic cancer patients was the highest (9.58±5.74), and that of breast cancer patients was the lowest (3.51±3.49); The PG-SGA score of vs. 5.60, P = 0.006) and gastric cancer (8.36 vs. 7.81, P
EFFECT OF SOME FERTILIZATION TREATMENTS AND SPRAYING GARLIC EXTRACT ON GROWTH AND FLOWERING OF HEDYCHIUM CORONRIUM PLANTS

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of three rates of krestalon compound fertilizer NPK (19:19:19) as 2, 4 and 6g/pot, garlic extract at 25, 50 and 100% and their combinations on growth, flowering and chemical constituents of Hedychium plants. Results showed that, NPK fertilizer at either 4 or 6g/pot with 50% garlic extract enhanced vegetative growth parameters in terms of plant height, shoot number/clump, number of leaves/main shoot and leaf area in both seasons. Besides, the highest values of fresh and dry weights of root and main shoot as well as the highest carbohydrate, N, P and K % were recorded in plant leaves fertilized with 4 or 6g/pot and sprayed with 50% garlic extract in both seasons. In addition, the highest flowering parameters such as main stalk length, main stalk diameter, inflorescence number/clump, rachis length, florets number/inflorescence, flowering spike fresh and dry weight were obtained from plants treated with 4 or 6g/pot NPK and sprayed with 50 or 100% garlic extract in both seasons. Also, the treatment of 4 or 6g/pot NPK and spraying with 50 or 100% gave the best vase life (days) and showed to be the superior one to induce earlier flowering as compared to control and other treatments. Therefore, it could be recommended that fertilizing Hedychium plants with compound fertilizer of NPK (19:19:19) at 4g/pot and spraying with garlic extract at 50% is considered the best and economic treatment used for enhancing growth, flowering and improving the nutritional status of the plant.
ZH: A Complete Graphical Calculus for Quantum Computations Involving Classical Non-linearity

We present a new graphical calculus that is sound and complete for a universal family of quantum circuits, which can be seen as the natural string-diagrammatic extension of the approximately (real-valued) universal family of Hadamard+CCZ circuits. The diagrammatic language is generated by two kinds of nodes: the so-called `spider' associated with the computational basis, as well as a new arity-$N$ generalisation of the Hadamard gate, which satisfies a variation of the spider fusion law. Unlike previous graphical calculi, this admits compact encodings of non-linear classical functions. For example, the AND gate can be depicted as a diagram of just 2 generators, compared to $\sim25$ in the ZX-calculus. Consequently, $N$-controlled gates, hypergraph states, Hadamard+Toffoli circuits, and diagonal circuits at arbitrary levels of the Clifford hierarchy also enjoy encodings with low constant overhead. This suggests that this calculus will be significantly more convenient for reasoning about the interplay between classical non-linear behaviour (e.g. in an oracle) and purely quantum operations. After presenting the calculus, we will prove it is sound and complete for universal quantum computation by demonstrating the reduction of any diagram to an easily describable normal form.
Image Matching Based on Improved SIFT Algorithm

To improve the resolution of different scales in different image matching accuracy and efficiency, this paper introduces an improved method based on scale invariant feature transform ( SIFT) algorithm for image matching. The quasi Euclidean distance instead of Euclidean distance is as the similarity measure of feature descriptors to improve the SIFT feature matching efficiency. Experimental results show that under the condition of keeping the image matching rate and algorithm robust, the method can not only improve the matching accuracy but also shorten the matching time. The algorithm is possible and valid.
Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth, Productivity and Economics of Hybrid Maize in Odisha State

According to a United Nations report, India’s population is expected to surpass that of china by 2024 and the demographic pressure is projected to reach 1.5 billion by 2030 (Anonymous, 2017). India needs to produce about 300 million tons of food grains by 2025 to feed its ever-expanding population (Chaudhury and Suresh, 2013). Maize is the third largest cereal crop grown in India and an important cereal crop Worldwide for its diversified use as feed and fodder (Khadtare et al., 2006; Wailer and Kesarwani, 2017). Maize may be defined as the queen of cereals because of its potential in productivity as compared to other cereals. In
A Comparative Study of Primary Repair Vs Stoma in Emergency Surgeries: An Institutional Experience

: Decision making regarding repair or stoma has been a controversial theme in emergency surgery. We therefore reviewed our institutional experience with regard to decision regarding surgery and morbidity. A prospective study was conducted on hundred patients taken up for emergency laparotomy for various indications, in JA group of hospitals, GRMC, Gwalior, from September 2013 -August 2014. Half the patients selected had undergone primary repair (PR) whereas the other half had stoma formation (SF). Patients were assessed for pertinent clinical information and individuals requiring either of the two surgeries were compared. Non-traumatic perforation constituted 61% of indication for PR and SF. An adverse set of preoperative and intraoperative parameters were found in patients who underwent SF compared to PR group. Wound infection was the most common complication (28%) in both the groups. Surgical outcome, with reference to complications, was 52% in PR group and 64% in SF. Overall mortality was 8%. Morbidity, in either groups, is significantly influenced by an advanced age, a low Hb, hypoalbuminemia, an advanced lag period (>72 hours) and poor hemodynamic stability at the time of operation. The mean duration of hospital stay following either PR or SF is 10±3 days. PR is a safe procedure in emergency surgeries as long as patient is stable preoperatively and peritoneal cavity is non-compromised. SF seems to be a better option in adverse patient conditions. Patient outcome is influenced by poor clinical parameters and patient demographic in either surgery.
Insights into the O : C-dependent mechanisms controlling the evaporation of α -pinene secondary organic aerosol particles

Abstract. The volatility of oxidation products of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere is a key factor to determine if they partition into the particle phase contributing to secondary organic aerosol (SOA) mass. Thus, linking volatility and measured particle composition will provide insights into SOA formation and its fate in the atmosphere. We produced α -pinene SOA with three different oxidation levels (characterized by average oxygen-to-carbon ratio; O : C ‾ = 0.53 , 0.69, and 0.96) in an oxidation flow reactor. We investigated the particle volatility by isothermal evaporation in clean air as a function of relative humidity (RH %, 40 %, and 80 %) and used a filter-based thermal desorption method to gain volatility and chemical composition information. We observed reduced particle evaporation for particles with increasing O : C ‾ ratio, indicating that particles become more resilient to evaporation with oxidative aging. Particle evaporation was increased in the presence of water vapour and presumably particulate water; at the same time the resistance of the residual particles to thermal desorption was increased as well. For SOA with O : C ‾ = 0.96 , the unexpectedly large increase in mean thermal desorption temperature and changes in the thermogram shapes under wet conditions (80 % RH) were an indication of aqueous phase chemistry. For the lower O : C ‾ cases, some water-induced composition changes were observed. However, the enhanced evaporation under wet conditions could be explained by the reduction in particle viscosity from the semi-solid to liquid-like range, and the observed higher desorption temperature of the residual particles is a direct consequence of the increased removal of high-volatility and the continued presence of low-volatility compounds.