Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Habituation of Chinese Subculture amid Bangka Malay Domination: The Role-sharing Politics

Ethnic Chinese is an ethnic group that has long been part of the people of Bangka Island. The harmonious relationship between the ethnic Chinese and the indigenous population shows that the habituation process is going well so that their existence is accepted as a social reality. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods to collect data from interviews and observations in regencies/municipalities within Bangka Island. This research finds that the existence of the Chinese ethnicity has been processed by strengthening the four main capitals of the Chinese ethnicity (Bourdieu’s view): economic capital, social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. Capital control has encouraged good role-sharing politics because capital control is carried out transformatively. It is not surprising that the Chinese minority subculture, although in many ways it feels dominant, can still be accepted as a social reality that forms intercultural harmony on Bangka island.
Analysis of Water Environment Support for Marine Ecotourism Suitability Category Diving in Ataúro Island

Ataúro Island is one of the islands in Timor-Leste which has a fairly complete coastal and marine ecosystem, (coral reefs, seagrass and a few mangrove). Ataúro Island also has several long white sandy beaches where green sea turtle and Hawksbill Sea turtle are often found laying eggs in certain seasons. Coral reefs on Ataúro Island attract tourists to visit. This study aims to determine the suitability of the environmental carrying capacity of the diving category based on diving marine ecotourism suitability index. Data collection was carried out from September to November. The method used in this study is the intercept photo transects method, and water quality sampling. The results of the analysis of water quality on the island of Ataúro based on the Decree of the Minister of Environment 51 of 2004 concerning that sea water quality standards for marine ecotourism, it can be concluded that the average water quality on the island meets the quality standards. Live coral cover in all study sites had a cover of 54.80% in the 'good' category, analysis of the diving marine ecotourism suitability index for the diving category in Beloi village 75.93% in the appropriate category, Vila-Maumeta village 66.67% suitable, Biqueli 61.11% suitable.
Spatiotemporal coherence of non-equilibrium multimode photon condensates

We report on the observation of quantum coherence of Bose–Einstein condensed photons in an optically pumped, dye-filled microcavity. We find that coherence is long-range in space and time above condensation threshold, but short-range below threshold, compatible with thermal-equilibrium theory. Far above threshold, the condensate is no longer at thermal equilibrium and is fragmented over non-degenerate, spatially overlapping modes. A microscopic theory including cavity loss, molecular structure and relaxation shows that this multimode condensation is similar to multimode lasing induced by imperfect gain clamping.
Density functional theory: An introduction

Density functional theory(DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for ab initio calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often considered too lengthy to be included in various curricula. An alternative introduction to DFT is presented here, drawing on ideas which are well-known from thermodynamics, especially the idea of switching between different independent variables. The central theme of DFT, i.e., the notion that it is possible and beneficial to replace the dependence on the external potential v(r) by a dependence on the density distribution n(r), is presented as a straightforward generalization of the familiar Legendre transform from the chemical potential μ to the number of particles N. This approach is used here to introduce the Hohenberg–Kohn energy functional and to obtain the corresponding theorems, using classical nonuniform fluids as simple examples. The energy functional for electronic systems is considered next, and the Kohn–Sham equations are derived. The exchange-correlation part of this functional is discussed, including both the local density approximation to it, and its formally exact expression in terms of the exchange-correlation hole. A very brief survey of various applications and extensions is included.
A joint analysis of AMI and CARMA observations of the recently discovered SZ galaxy cluster system AMI-CL J0300+2613

We present CARMA observations of a massive galaxy cluster discovered in the AMI blind SZ survey. Without knowledge of the cluster redshift a Bayesian analysis of the AMI, CARMA and joint AMI & CARMA uv-data is used to quantify the detection significance and parameterise both the physical and observational properties of the cluster whilst accounting for the statistics of primary CMB anisotropies, receiver noise and radio sources. The joint analysis of the AMI & CARMA uv-data was performed with two parametric physical cluster models: the {\beta}-model; and the model described in Olamaie et al. 2012 with the pressure profile fixed according to Arnaud et al. 2010. The cluster mass derived from these different models is comparable but our Bayesian evidences indicate a preference for the {\beta}-profile which we, therefore, use throughout our analysis. From the CARMA data alone we obtain a Bayesian probability of detection ratio of 12.8:1 when assuming that a cluster exists within our search area; alternatively assuming that Jenkins et al. 2001 accurately predicts the number of clusters as a function of mass and redshift, the Bayesian probability of detection is 0.29:1. From the analysis of the AMI or AMI & CARMA data the probability of detection ratio exceeds 4.5x10^3:1. Performing a joint analysis of the AMI & CARMA data with a physical cluster model we derive the total mass internal to r200 as MT,200 = 4.1x10^14Msun. Using a phenomenological {\beta}-model to quantify the temperature decrement as a function of angular distance we find a central SZ temperature decrement of 170{\mu}K in the AMI & CARMA data. The SZ decrement in the CARMA data is weaker than expected and we speculate that this is a consequence of the cluster morphology. In a forthcoming study we will assess the impact of cluster morphology on the SZ decrements that are observed with interferometers such as AMI and CARMA.
An empirical examination of the jump and diffusion aspects of asset pricing: Japanese evidence

Using an extension of the standard CAPM beta we decompose the beta of Japanese banking stocks into diffusion and jump components using high frequency data from 2001 to 2012. We find that jump betas on average are larger than diffusion betas, indicating that Japanese banking stocks respond differently to information associated with continuous and discontinuous market movements. Larger banks are more sensitive to discontinuities than their counterparts; high leveraged banks are more exposed to unexpected market-wide news whereas profitable banks are equally sensitive to both continuous and jump market moves. By allowing for asymmetric preferences of investors for losses versus gains we show that diffusion and jump betas both carry large premia in both up and down markets, but that these premia differ substantially during periods of economic stress from those present during normal conditions.
Rapid Increase in Serum Iron Level After Oral Iron Intake as an Indicator of Duodenal Iron Absorption and Inverse Regulation of Iron Absorption by Hepcidin Expression

Objective: Hepcidin is a hepatocyte-derived peptide that is thought to be involved in the regulation of intestinal iron absorption. Ferric citrate is a phosphate binder with additional effects on iron absorption. Better understanding of iron absorption under various levels of hepcidin may improve ferric citrate supplementation in individuals with renal anemia. We provide a new method to predict the individual iron absorption ability of the duodenum. Methods: Rats on an ordinary diet were given 10 mg of ferric citrate, and the serum concentrations of hepcidin and iron were monitored for 24 hours. Rats with hepcidin levels induced by using alternative methods such as bloodletting or intravenous iron loading were also given ferric citrate, and serum iron level was measured at 2 hours after oral iron intake (2-hour oral iron absorption test). Results: Serum iron level increased constantly within 2 hours after oral iron intake, and serum hepcidin level peaked 4 hours after the iron level peaked. In the oral iron absorption test, the hepcidin levels inversely correlated with increased serum iron levels, and hepcidin expression levels of >80 ng/ml completely inhibited the increase in iron absorption. Conclusion: This study suggests that hepcidin expression may be a strong mediator to regulate iron absorption and that performing an oral iron absorption test with hepcidin may help improve oral iron dosing schedules in patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Comparative Analysis of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Content in Mother’s Milk of Term and Preterm Mothers

Objectives and Study: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) plays an essential role in infants’ development. Maternal diet and breastmilk are the primary DHA sources for newborns. This single-center observational study aimed to compare the DHA content in mother’s milk of preterm mothers with that of term ones, and to investigate the changes in mother’s milk DHA content according to the week of the gestational age. Methods: A food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was submitted to each mother to estimate the DHA intake during the last trimester of pregnancy, and the mother’s milk was collected between 24 and 96 h post-partum. Results: Women who gave birth prematurely showed a lower content of mother’s milk DHA than the term ones (0.51; IQR 0.38–0.6% FA vs. 0.71; IQR 0.52–0.95% FA; p = 0.001). In the multivariate linear regression analyses, for each additional week of gestational age, there was an increase in DHA content in the mother’s milk (0.046% FA; CI 95% 0.018–0.074; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Our results suggest that breast milk may not be sufficient to fully satisfy the recommended DHA intake in preterm infants. This study may represent a starting point to investigate new possible DHA supplementation strategies, especially for the late and moderate preterm infants.
Production of High-Quality Red Fruit Juices by Athermal Membrane Processes

Membrane-based processes are increasingly used to clarify and concentrate thermo-sensitive fruit juices and plant extracts as alternatives to conventional processes. This work aimed to evaluate the quality of red fruit juices clarified and concentrated by an integrated membrane process with special regard to the preservation of valuable compounds. A red fruit juice obtained from a blend of pomegranate, cactus pear, and red orange juices of Sicilian origin was clarified by microfiltration (MF) and then pre-concentrated up to 33 °Brix by nanofiltration (NF). The pre-concentrated juice was finally concentrated by osmotic distillation (OD) up to 50 and 60 °Brix. Samples of clarified, pre-concentrated, and concentrated juice were analyzed for their physico-chemical composition and in terms of the antioxidant activity and inhibitory activity against α-amylase and lipase. The results clearly confirmed the assumption of a mild fruit juice processing method, allowing us to preserve the original nutritional and functional properties of the fresh juice. In particular, the OD retentate at 60 °Brix resulted the most active sample against pancreatic lipase and α-amylase inhibitory activity with IC50 values of 44.36 and 214.65 μg/mL, respectively.
Multidrug Cancer Therapy in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: An Evolution-Based Strategy

Purpose: Integration of evolutionary dynamics into systemic therapy for metastatic cancers can prolong tumor control compared with standard maximum tolerated dose (MTD) strategies. Prior investigations have focused on monotherapy, but many clinical cancer treatments combine two or more drugs. Optimizing the evolutionary dynamics in multidrug therapy is challenging because of the complex cellular interactions and the large parameter space of potential variations in drugs, doses, and treatment schedules. However, multidrug therapy also represents an opportunity to further improve outcomes using evolution-based strategies. Experimental Design: We examine evolution-based strategies for two-drug therapy and identify an approach that divides the treatment drugs into primary and secondary roles. The primary drug has the greatest efficacy and/or lowest toxicity. The secondary drug is applied solely to reduce the resistant population to the primary drug. Results: Simulations from the mathematical model demonstrate that the primary–secondary approach increases time to progression (TTP) compared with conventional strategies in which drugs are administered without regard to evolutionary dynamics. We apply our model to an ongoing adaptive therapy clinical trial of evolution-based administration of abiraterone to treat metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Model simulations, parameterized with data from individual patients who progressed, demonstrate that strategic application of docetaxel during abiraterone therapy would have significantly increased their TTP. Conclusions: Mathematical models can integrate evolutionary dynamics into multidrug cancer clinical trials. This has the potential to improve outcomes and to develop clinical trials in which these mathematical models are also used to estimate the mechanism(s) of treatment failure and explore alternative strategies to improve outcomes in future trials.
Time Flies When You are Having Fun: The Mediating Effects of Project Opportunity Management in the Relationship Between Project Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Multidimensional Project Success

Numerous studies have linked various leadership styles with project success; however, the role of project leaders’ self-efficacy and project opportunity management has been rarely studied. The present study examines the effects of project leaders’ self-efficacy on multidimensional project success through project opportunity management. Drawing on data of 386 project professionals, the hypothesized relationships were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) via MPlus. Empirical findings support that project opportunity management helps to explain and predict the relationship between project leaders’ self-efficacy and project success. The study extends project management literature by presenting a new model of multidimensional project success.
A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES AROUND KEPLER M-DWARFS

Because of their large numbers, low-mass stars may be the most abundant planet hosts in our Galaxy. Furthermore, terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) around M-dwarfs can potentially be characterized in the near future and hence may be the first such planets to be studied. Recently, Dressing & Charbonneau used Kepler data and calculated the frequency of terrestrial planets in the HZ of cool stars to be per star for Earth-size planets (0.5–1.4 R⊕). However, this estimate was derived using the Kasting et al. HZ limits, which were not valid for stars with effective temperatures lower than 3700 K. Here we update their result using new HZ limits from Kopparapu et al. for stars with effective temperatures between 2600 K and 7200 K, which includes the cool M stars in the Kepler target list. The new HZ boundaries increase the number of planet candidates in the HZ. Assuming Earth-size planets as 0.5–1.4 R⊕, when we reanalyze their results, we obtain a terrestrial planet frequency of and planets per M-dwarf star for conservative and optimistic limits of the HZ boundaries, respectively. Assuming Earth-size planets as 0.5–2 R⊕, the frequency increases to per star for the conservative estimate and to per star for the optimistic estimate. Within uncertainties, our optimistic estimates are in agreement with a similar optimistic estimate from the radial velocity survey of M-dwarfs (). So, the potential for finding Earth-like planets around M stars may be higher than previously reported.
Environmental dependence of the H i mass function in the ALFALFA 70% catalogue

We search for environmental dependence of the H I mass function in the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey (ALFALFA) 70 per cent catalogue. The catalogue is split into quartiles of environment density based on the projected neighbour density of neighbours found in both Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) volume-limited reference catalogues. We find the Schechter function 'knee' mass to be dependent on environment, with the value of log(M-*/M-circle dot) shifting from 9.81 +/- 0.02 to 10.00 +/- 0.03 between the lowest and highest density quartiles. However, this dependence was only observed when defining environment based on the SDSS reference catalogue, not 2MRS. We interpret these results as meaning that the local environment is the dominant cause of the shift in M-*, and that the larger scales that 2MRS probes (compared to SDSS) are almost irrelevant. In addition, we also use a fixed aperture method to probe environment, and find tentative evidence that H I-deficiency depresses the value of M-* in the highest density regions. We find no significant dependence of the low-mass slope on environment in any test, using either method. Tensions between these results and those from the literature, are discussed and alternative explanations are explored.
Endothelial progenitor cell-derived small extracellular vesicles for myocardial angiogenesis and revascularization

ABSTRACT Background: Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have been well-studied for their differentiation potential and paracrine activity in vitro and in experimental animal studies. EPCs are the precursors of endothelial cells (ECs) and a rich source of pro-angiogenic factors, and hence, possess enormous potential to treat ischemic heart through myocardial angiogenesis. Their proven safety and efficacy observed during the pre-clinical and clinical studies have portrayed them as a near ideal cell type for cell-based therapy of ischemic heart disease.In response to the chemical cues from the ischemic heart, EPCs from the bone marrow and peripheral circulation home-in to the ischemic myocardium and participate in the intrinsic repair process at the molecular and cellular levels through paracrine activity and EC differentiation. EPCs also release small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) loaded with bioactive molecules as part of their paracrine activity for intercellular communication to participate in the reparative process in the heart. Aim: This literature review is based on the published data regarding the characteristic features of EPC-derived sEVs and their proteomic and genomic payload, besides facilitating safe and effective repair of the ischemic myocardium. In light of the encouraging published data, translational and clinical assessment of EPC-derived sEVs is warranted. We report the recent experimental animal studies and their findings using EPC-derived sEVs on cardiac angiogenesis and preservation of cardiac function. Relevance for Patients: With the promising results from pre-clinical studies, clinical trials should be conducted to assess the clinical utility of EPC-derived sEVs in the treatment of the ischemic myocardium.
Deciding on fitness‐for‐purpose‐of models and of natural flood management

This article has taken a distributed modelling approach to examine the potential for hillslope storage bunds as a natural flood management (NFM) strategy to mitigate the effects of downstream flooding if deployed extensively in the 209 km2 River Kent catchment in Cumbria (UK). To do so, a novel invalidation approach has been taken to calibrate an ensemble of Dynamic Topmodel parameter sets considered as fit‐for‐purpose for the prediction of flood peaks. Only 67 realizations out of 100 000 survived evaluation at the peaks of ranked flood hydrographs including the notable 2005, 2009 and 2015 events, together with a process constraint on the minimum area contributing saturation overland flow in the largest storm of record. These 67 events were used as the baseline (before intervention results) to simulate the effect of introducing 1549 storage bunds to temporarily retain saturation overland flows in optimal hillslope locations. The analysis is extended to simulating the reduction of inundation and damage estimates by running the ensemble of Dyanmic Topmodel simulations as inputs to the distributed hydraulic model JFlow for the 2015 Storm Desmond event. Even given such a large number of interventions the effects on the flood peaks and damages in this case were relatively small. The results of the study emphasize the large amounts of storage required in any NFM scheme, with individual features large enough that they are not too quickly overwhelmed, in order to have a significant impact on flood hydrographs and consequent flood damages.
Constraining the dark matter content of NGC 1291 using hydrodynamic gas response simulations

We present a pilot study on the nearby massive barred galaxy NGC 1291, in which we use dynamical modelling to constrain the disc mass-to-light ratio (M/L), thus breaking the degeneracy between the baryonic and dark matter in its central regions. We use the gas, specifically the morphology of the dust lanes on the leading side of the bar, as a tracer of the underlying gravitational potential. We run a large number of hydrodynamic gas response simulations, in potentials obtained directly from near-infrared images of the galaxy, which have three free parameters: the M/L, the bar pattern speed and the height function. We explore the three-dimensional parameter space, by comparing the morphology of the shocks created in the gas response simulations with those of the observed dust lanes, and find the best-fitting models; these suggest that the M/L of NGC 1291 agrees with that predicted by stellar population synthesis models in the near-infrared (≈0.6 M_⊙/L_⊙), which leads to a borderline maximum disc for this galaxy. Furthermore, we find that the bar rotates fast, with a corotation radius that is ≤1.4 times the bar length.