Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regulation of Self-love Regulation of Self-love

While the concept of self-love is well-known in today’s society, it remains unknown how self-love can be increased. Increasing self-love may help individuals decrease stress and promote well-being. The current study tested how self-love and pleasantness can be increased and whether anxiety levels and personality traits such as neuroticism and conscientiousness are associated with self-love increase. In this study, participants ( N = 108; 86 women, 20 men, 1 gender queer, 1 other (not specified)) completed questionnaires related to self-compassion, self-efficacy, anxiety, and personality. Then, participants completed an online self-love regulation task in which they read prompts that encouraged them to increase self-compassion (e.g., it's okay to make mistakes), increase self-efficacy (e.g., you can do anything you are determined to do), and positively reappraise themselves (e.g., think about a recent accomplishment). Self-reported self-love and pleasantness were assessed. Results indicated that participants felt increased self-love and pleasantness after reading the statements in all three conditions compared to baseline self-love and pleasantness. Also, the higher the anxiety levels, the more self-love increased. Finally, the higher the neuroticism levels, the less participants self-love increased. Conscientiousness was not associated with self-love increase. Overall, increasing self-love may allow individuals to come to terms with past and present situations and prepare for future situations.
The Impact of Big Data Analytics on Investment Efficiency and Financial Performance: Evidence from Saudi Stock Market

: The paper investigates the determinants of adopting big data analytics (BDA) in the Saudi environment according to vision 2030, in addition to the impact of BDA on both investment efficiency and financial performance, we analyzed the academic accounting literature and provide a theoretical framework for each variable. Furthermore, to achieve our research objectives we developed three hypotheses and tested them through an empirical study based on three statistical models; our sample consisted of the largest 50 companies operating in the Saudi stock market for five years (2017-2021). Going further, our findings illustrated that (1) Firm Size, Cash Flows, Growth Opportunities
Protistology 15 (4) 284–293 (2021)

Heterotrophy appears to be a common and widely adopted strategy among dinoflagellates, even in predominantly photosynthetic species. To elucidate the mechanisms of switching between various trophic modes in primarily mixotrophic protists, we need the information about molecular machinery providing the uptake of nutrients of different nature. Here, we analyzed transcriptomic data available for two marine mixotrophic dinoflagellates belonging to the phylogenetically distant groups – Prorocentrum cordatum and Amphidinium carterae. This study uncovered homologs of proteins involved in endocytosis and phagosome formation, including epsin, coronin, clathrin light and heavy chains, adaptor protein complex 2 and dynamin. The enzymes, acting in the lysosomal degradation, and small GTPases regulating vesicle transport, maturation and recycling were also detected in these organisms. We provide a generalized scheme of endocytosis pathways, which includes proteins revealed in the course of this study and identified by other authors.
The Ethics of the Apostle Da'wah in the Qur'an and its Application in Social Media

The Qur'an is very concerned about the ethics of Da'wah -the act of converting people to Islam-in every verse. Although the Qur'an is very concerned about the ethics of da'wah, there is still rejection on this important aspect from some people. No matter how rational and actual the Qur'anic verse is delivered, if the preacher is deficient and still needs to understand the material and psychology of the people, it is inevitable that the message will be rejected. The purpose of this study is to explain how the ethics of da'wah can be understood from the verses of al-balâgh al-mubîn. In addition, what is the relevance of the ethics of da'wah contained in the verses when it comes to social media usage. This researchers used literature methodology with a tafsir (exegesis), approach. The authors analyzed the verses of the Qur'an that contain the equivalent word al-balâgh al-mubîn. The method used is the tafsir al-mawdhû'i method by 'Abd al-Hayy al-Farmâwî. To sharpen the analysis used in the interpretation books, academic papers, and journals were used. The data analysis technique was through data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results showed that from the verses of al-balâgh al-mubîn it can be concluded that the ethics of Da'wah apply to three aspects: verses must follow the rules of logic, morals, truth, and be socialized first. The preacher must have the capability to convey and explain the verse/s, and thereforemust be able to master the environment and conditions in which the people exist or their life context. People who can accept the verse are obliged to obey it, and there is no more denial of the notions required to e considered. The ethics mentioned in the verses of al-balâgh al-mubîn are relevant and must also be applied in social media so that the messages conveyed can be appropriately be received and the community can be effectively and ethicaly enlightened.
Development Strategy of Bali Cattle Business Towards Sustainable Rural Economy

Rural livestock businesses with their characteristics require appropriate and adaptive strategies towards a sustainable rural economy. This study aims to analyze the development strategy of Bali cattle farming towards a sustainable rural economy in Rendang District from internal and external factors. The research was conducted in Rendang District, Karangasem Regency from September to December 2020 using a survey method. The research location was determined by purposive sampling method, used 85 respondents consisting of 80 Bali cattle farmers and 5 experts. The results of the IFE-EFE analysis show that the interna l factor’s value is 3.09 and the external factor’s value is 2.85 which indicates the position of the Bali cattle farm in Rendang District is in quadrant IV in the IE matrix, namely growth and development division. The result showed that ten strategies were found as the development strategy of the Bali cattle business. The strategy of expanding the business development of Bali cattle as beef cattle was the priority towards a sustainable rural economy in the Rendang District.
Method of producing tapered optical fiber

A novel method for fabricating a subwavelength-diameter optical fiber that can be coupled with optical microresonators is proposed. This method is characterized by the ability to produce a fiber with the specified characteristics required for reliable coupling owing to the possibility of correction of the fiber pulling parameters during fiber production by using sensors to monitor the tension and heating temperature. The main characteristics of the obtained samples of the subwavelength-diameter optical fiber are determined.
HVeV Run 2 Data Release

This document accompanies the public release of data from the second run of the SuperCDMS quantization-sensitive detector known as HVeV Run 2. This release includes all experimental data necessary to reproduce the dark matter (DM) search results in https://journals.aps. org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD. 102.091101 [1]. The provided data and information allows the community to use these data for their own analyses or for reproducing the HVeV Run 2 results. Questions about this release should be directed to supercdms publications@lists.astro. caltech.edu. The provided experimental and supplemental data
1Tbit/s per Lambda High order Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (128-256QAM) Coherent Optical Transmission System Design to Support (5G+)

Developing optical networks with low latency and high bandwidth is necessary for the next generation of high-speed cellular technologies. It is anticipated that coherent wavelength division multiplexing passive optical networks, also known as WDM-PONs, will play a significant part in these applications. We demonstrate a coherent optical system transmission 1 Tbit/s/λ with high performance using high order modulation (128-256-QAM) data transmission over 200 km single mode fiber-optic will be utilized either in mobile front haul (MFH) or mobile back haul (MBH) in the process of constructing the transport infrastructure of 5G and beyond cellular networks. In this paper, a general structure for 5G cellular network is proposed According to the findings, the strategy that was suggested provides a potentially valuable solution for the development of future 5G transportation systems.
Matrix correspondences and the enumeration of plane partitions.

This thesis examines the properties and interconnections of certain correspondences between nonnegative integer matrices and plane partitions, as well as explores various operations on column-strict plane partitions to which the correspondences give rise. The work develops the correspondences of Burge and Knuth from matrices to pairs of column-strict plane partitions of the same shape via the correspondence of Robinson. These correspondences are extended to plane partitions, and are completely characterized by a Greene-type theorem dealing with certain sets of paths in the matrix. A related operation on column-strict plane partitions due to Schitzenberger is shown to be equal to another operation conceived by Bender and Knuth. This operation is used to determine the effect of matrix rotations under the correspondences. The Hillman-Grassl correspondence on reverse plane partitions is also considered, and is shown to be equivalent to the Burge correspondence in the case of rectangular shapes. This leads to a nonalgorithmic characterization of the former correspondence, from which most of its properties can be deduced. The above results are used to obtain a variety of new generating functions for plane partitions. In particular, a generating function for shifted reverse plane partitions in terms of a new type of hook length is derived, and a method is given for computing the generating functions for plane partitions and symmetric plane partitions of a fixed shape. Thesis Supervisor: Richard P. Stanley Title: Associate Professor
Are Robust Standard Errors the Best Approach for Interval Estimation With Nonnormal Data in Structural Equation Modeling?

When the multivariate normality assumption is violated in structural equation modeling, a leading remedy involves estimation via normal theory maximum likelihood with robust corrections to standard errors. We propose that this approach might not be best for forming confidence intervals for quantities with sampling distributions that are slow to approach normality, or for functions of model parameters. We implement and study a robust analog to likelihood-based confidence intervals based on inverting the robust chi-square difference test of Satorra (2000). We compare robust standard errors and the robust likelihood-based approach versus resampling methods in confirmatory factor analysis (Studies 1 & 2) and mediation analysis models (Study 3) for both single parameters and functions of model parameters, and under a variety of nonnormal data generation conditions. The percentile bootstrap emerged as the method with the best calibrated coverage rates and should be preferred if resampling is possible, followed by the robust likelihood-based approach.
Urban economics in the Global South: A study of
The Economist

Urban economic analysis receives little attention in the Global South. The COVID-19 pandemic and its highly urbanized impacts made urban economics more relevant, but how it was applied warrants investigation. One way to address this issue is to examine how African economies – the focus of much attention during the peak of the COV-ID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) – were discussed among economists. Did they pay attention to the urban economy in Africa? How well did they do so? Do the resulting proposed economic policies for recovery reflect urban economic realities in Africa? With no answers from any economist, this article draws on data comprising more than five hundred articles about COVID-19 published in The Economist and their content analysis. Three results must be emphasized. First, most economic analyses were national or regional, with limited attention to Africa’s urban economies. Second, where they considered the urban economy of Africa, The Economist ’s articles, often steeped in mainstream urban economics, were quite misleading. Third, and finally, these results raise fundamental questions about The Economist ’s proposed economic policies to drive (urban) economic recovery. This study suggests that some special features of mainstream urban economics limit its potential.
Gait Event Timeseries Assessment through Spectral Biomarkers and Machine Learning

The study of motor disorders due to neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) is assuming a central role in healthcare systems, this is certainly due to the needs of early recognition systems that can allow a better management of the patients daily-life. Many studies in the literature faced the problem of finding digital biomarkers from data collected through gait experiments to discriminate between control (CN) and NDD groups without systematically face the problem of which gait time-series were more appropriate to extract opportune descriptors for characterizing the NDD considered. In this work, such problem was modeled through a machine learning approach. Thus, 6 time-dependent spectral features (PSDTD) were extracted from 4 gait time-series, i.e., stride (SR), stance (SA), swing (SW) and double support (DS) duration intervals. A publicly available data set containing data of CN, Parkinson's (PD), Huntington's (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diseases was employed to the purpose. Low error rates using leave one out validation scheme were obtained using PSDTD features computed over DS and SA for CN-PD and CN-HD classification, i.e., error rate < 0.1 for DS and < 0.15 for SA. Regarding CN-ALS classification, best results were obtained using SA features, i.e. error rate <0.07. This supports the research line that dynamic equilibrium phases of the gait can hide important biomarkers for the characterization of different NDD.
ENERGIES OF HIGHER ORDER IN ADVANCED DYNAMICS OF SYSTEMS

The dynamical study of the current and sudden motions of the rigid body and multibody systems (MBS), as example the mechanical robot structure, and in accordance with differential principles typical to analytical dynamics of systems, is based, among others, on the advanced notions, such as momentum and angular momentum, kinetic energy, acceleration energies of different orders and their absolute time derivatives of higher order. Advanced notions are developed in the direct connection with the generalized variables, also named independent parameters corresponding to holonomic mechanical systems. But, the expressions of definition of the advanced notions contain on the one hand kinematical parameters and their differential transformations, corresponding to absolute motions, on the other hand the mass properties. By means of the especially researches of the author, in this paper will be presented reformulations and formulations concerning the classical notions and theorems from dynamics. In the following the study will be extended on the energies of higher order. So, the expressions of definition in explicit form will be presented for the acceleration energy of first, second and third order. They are corresponding to the current and sudden motions of rigid body and multi body systems. These formulations will also contain the absolute time derivatives of higher order of the advanced notions, according to differential equations of higher order, typically to analytical dynamics of systems.
Active aging prediction from muscle electrical activity using HD-sEMG signals and machine learning

In this study, using High-Density Surface Electromyography (HD-sEMG) signals and extracted features, we propose a Machine Learning (ML) architecture for predicting active aging through motor functional age (MFA) estimation, a new concept introduced by Prof. S. Boudaoud and Prof. K. Kinugawa in EIT-Health CHRONOS project. In fact, MFA should be equal to Chronological Age (CA) for active subjects. For this purpose, several time and frequency features have been tested, coupled to classical ML classifiers, to predict active aging through MFA estimation. The classifiers have been trained on the CHRONOS database composed by 79 active subjects (International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ): 2–3, from 25 to 74 yrs) and we tested, as a preliminary study, 4 sedentary subjects (IPAQ: 1, 45–54 yrs). The results show that the best classifier gave promising results (Accuracy = 71.6% ± 3.86) for confirming active aging (MFA=CA) for active tested subjects and predicting sedentary aging (MFA>CA) for some sedentary subjects. This preliminary results have to be confirmed in future studies on larger cohort.
Gut Microbiome and Microbiome-Derived Metabolites in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease

The composition of the gut microbiome is altered in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Dysbiosis leads to decreased levels of stool organic acids (OAs) and systemic inflammation, followed by accumulation of uremic toxins (UTs) and the development of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). We assessed the relationship between the microbiome and UT levels or the development of ESKD by comparing patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) and those with normal renal function (NRF). This cross-sectional study recruited 41 patients undergoing HD and 38 sex- and age-matched patients with NRF, and gut microbiome, levels of plasma UTs, inflammatory markers, and stool OAs were compared. The indices of beta-diversity differed significantly between patients with NRF and those undergoing HD, and between patients undergoing HD with and without type 2 diabetes. The levels of stool total OA, inflammatory markers, and UTs differed significantly between the patients with NRF and those undergoing HD. The combined main effects of type 2 diabetes and kidney function status were accumulation of indoxyl sulfate and p-cresyl sulfate. The relative abundances of Negativicutes and Megamonas were associated with development of ESKD and with the levels of UTs, even after adjustment for factors associated with the progression of ESKD. The present study indicates that the gut environment differs between patients with NRF and those undergoing HD and between patients undergoing HD with and without type 2 diabetes. Moreover, ESKD patients with diabetes accumulate more UTs derived from the gut microbiome, which might be associated with cardio-renal diseases and poor prognosis.
Anatomical Distribution Patterns of Peripheral Arterial Disease According to Patient Characteristics: A Unicentral Cohort Study

Purpose Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common disease with multiple risk factors and affects patients worldwide. Several international studies have established correlations between anatomical topography/distribution of atherosclerosis and comorbidities in patients with PAD. In this cohort study, we aimed to analyze the patterns of atherosclerosis (site, distribution, and degree) in patients who underwent lower limb computed tomography angiography and arterial angiography by identifying the atherosclerotic plaque(s) that were possibly responsible for thrombi. Additionally, we aimed to determine any relationship between comorbidities and identified patterns. Patients and Methods Between January 2015 and January 2021, we retrospectively recruited 140 patients at King Fahd Hospital of the University of Saudi Arabia. Data collected included patient characteristics, risk factors, and metabolic disorders, such as hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemia, and chronic kidney disease. Patients with incomplete records or unavailable radiological images were excluded. Results The infrapopliteal territory was the most common segment that was affected. HTN, DM, and dyslipidemia were found in 81.4%, 77.9%, and 62.9% of patients, respectively. Correlation analyses revealed that DM was the only independent metabolic disorder associated with a PAD distribution pattern in the femoropopliteal segment (p=0.039), thus denoting distal involvement. No significant association was found between PAD distribution and the severity of stenosis. Conclusion Segmental involvement in PAD varies with the risk factors and metabolic comorbidities present in patients. DM is an independent predictor of the anatomical distribution of PAD. The identification of such an anatomical distribution is paramount for screening procedures, early detection of disease, and prevention of complications, particularly limb amputation.
A Comparison of Dry Period Outcomes after Selective Dry Cow Therapy Carried Out by Farm Staff versus Veterinary Students in a Low-Cell-Count Dairy Herd

Simple Summary Selective dry cow therapy involves giving local antibiotic treatment into the udder only to those cows which are likely to be infected with a mastitis-causing organism, while uninfected cows receive an internal teat sealant only, a physical barrier inserted into the teat to prevent infections entering the udder via the teat canal. The application of teat sealant only without antibiotics can induce infections into the udder if not done hygienically, and veterinarians should be training farmers in hygienic application. Therefore, veterinary students have to be trained in the technique themselves, and farmers may be concerned about allowing students to practice on their cows. This study follows up cows dried off by farm staff and students on a single dairy farm and compares several parameters indicative of mastitis and also looks into the survival of cows in the herd. There is no indication that cows perform worse when dried off by students under close supervision, and the risk of culling within twelve months was lower in cows dried off by students. Abstract (1) Background: Selective dry cow therapy is widely promoted in many countries worldwide, however, concerns have been raised about the consequences of the unhygienic application of preparations by untrained operators, especially if no antimicrobials are being used, risking deteriorating mastitis outcomes. (2) Method: This study follows up on cows being dried off by farm staff and those dried off by final-year veterinary students and first-year graduate interns in a supervised training session. Subsequent mastitis parameters and culling data in a single herd with a low somatic cell count were evaluated. (3) Results: A total of 316 dry periods were enrolled in the study. There was no significant difference in the percentage of cows showing at least one high SCC reading within 90 days of the following lactation or cows with at least one case of clinical mastitis within the same period, neither in the total nor in the subset of cows dried off without an antimicrobial. Dry period cure rates and dry period new infection rates were similar too, as was the percentage of cows surviving in the herd after six months. The risk of culling within twelve months post-drying off was lower in cows dried off by students, the difference in survival manifesting itself from 150 days post-drying off, which is an unexplained finding. (4) Conclusion: Well-supervised practical training sessions on drying off routine can be responsibly implemented on well-managed commercial dairy herds.