Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The multifaceted influence of age on employee work engagement: Examining the interactive effects of chronological age, relational age, and perceived age-related treatment

Building upon and extending prior research, this study examines the interplay between chronological age, relational age, and perceived age-related treatment in predicting work engagement. While previous studies have often examined these three facets of age in isolation from one another, this article develops an integrative framework that combines life span theories with relational demography and age-related treatment studies. Findings from a sample of 434 school teachers from 16 schools in Italy supported the hypothesis that the three-way interaction between relational age, chronological age and age-related treatment generates asymmetrical effects on work engagement. Specifically, at high levels of perceived positive age-related treatment, relational age was positively associated with older workers’ engagement, while greater relational age was associated with reduced work engagement when older workers perceived that they were treated unfairly based on their age. In contrast, among younger workers, work engagement was positively related to perceived positive age-related treatment whatever the level of relational age.
Comparative Study of AutoML Approach, Conventional Ensemble Learning Method, and KNearest Oracle-AutoML Model for Predicting Student Dropouts in Sub-Saharan African Countries

ABSTRACT Student dropout in secondary schools is a major issue in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan African countries had the highest dropout rate (37.5%), followed by South Asia (15.5%), the Middle East (11%), East Asia (9.5%), Latin America (7%), and Central Asia (3.5%). Various initiatives such as the big results now initiatives, no child left behind, and secondary education development programme as well as machine learning prediction models have been used to reduce the severity of the problem in Sub-Saharan countries. The ongoing dropout problem, particularly in secondary schools is ascribed to improper root cause identification and the absence of formal procedures that can be used to estimate the severity of the issue. This study has compared the AutoML model, ensemble learning approach, and KNORA-AutoML to predict student dropout problems. The KNORA-AutoML model scored 97% of accuracy, precision = 71%, and AUC = 87% when compared to the conventional ensemble of optimized ML models with accuracy = 96%, precision = 70%, and AUC = 78%. KNORA-AutoML model performance increased by 0.6% accuracy, 0.8% precision, and 8.7% AUC. An optimized model draws a lot of attention to the findings related to student dropout rates in developing countries.
Effects of the Fear of COVID-19 on Professional Perception among Nursing Students: A Cross-sectional Study

Objective: The impact of a pandemic on psychological health is an essential factor in determining professional perception. This study aims to evaluate the fear of COVID-19 and the perception of the nursing profession and examine the relationship between them. Material and Methods: This study was conducted as a cross-sectional design using self-report questionnaires distributed to 976 nursing students in Turkey. Results: The findings showed that students’ COVID-19 fear levels in the present study were moderate, and their perceptions of the nursing profession were positive. There was a weak and positive correlation between the students' COVID-19 fear and the total score averages of the Nursing Profession Perception Scale. Conclusion: There was a two-way relationship between professional perception and fear of COVID-19. The education programs need to be ready to prepare future nurses to deal with future novel pandemics and increase the perception of the profession.
Division algebras, (pseudo)orthogonal groups and spinors

The groups SO( nu -1), SO( nu ), SO( nu +1), SO( nu +1, 1) and SO( nu +2, 2) ( nu =1, 2, 4, 8) and their spin representations are described in terms of the division algebras R, C, H and O.
Andreev bound states versus Majorana bound states in quantum dot-nanowire-superconductor hybrid structures: Trivial versus topological zero-bias conductance peaks

Motivated by an important recent experiment [Deng , Science 354, 1557 (2016)SCIEAS0036-807510.1126/science.aaf3961], we theoretically consider the interplay between Andreev and Majorana bound states in disorder-free quantum dot-nanowire semiconductor systems with proximity-induced superconductivity in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman spin splitting (induced by an external magnetic field). The quantum dot induces Andreev bound states in the superconducting nanowire, which show complex behavior as a function of magnetic field and chemical potential, and the specific question is whether two such Andreev bound states can come together forming a robust zero-energy topological Majorana bound state. We find generically that the Andreev bound states indeed have a high probability of coalescing together producing near-zero-energy midgap states as Zeeman splitting and/or chemical potential are increased, but this mostly happens in the nontopological regime below the topological quantum phase transition, although there are situations where the Andreev bound states could indeed come together to form a zero-energy topological Majorana bound state. The two scenarios (two Andreev bound states coming together to form a nontopological almost-zero-energy Andreev bound state or to form a topological zero-energy Majorana bound state) are difficult to distinguish just by tunneling conductance spectroscopy, since they produce essentially the same tunneling transport signatures. We find that the “sticking together” propensity of Andreev bound states to produce an apparent stable zero-energy midgap state is generic in class D systems in the presence of superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and magnetic field, even in the absence of any disorder. We also find that the conductance associated with the coalesced zero-energy nontopological Andreev bound state is nonuniversal and could easily be 2e2/h, mimicking the quantized topological Majorana zero-bias conductance value. We suggest experimental techniques for distinguishing between trivial and topological zero-bias conductance peaks arising from the coalescence of Andreev bound states.
Preferred alignments of angular momentum vectors of galaxies in six dynamically unstable Abell clusters

A spatial orientation of angular momentum vectors of galaxies in six dynamically unstable Abell clusters (S1171, S0001, A1035, A1373, A1474 and A4053) is studied. For this, two-dimensional observed parameters (e.g., positions, diameters and position angles) are converted into three-dimensional (3D) rotation axes of the galaxy using the ‘position angle - inclination’ method. The expected isotropic distribution curves for angular momentum vectors are obtained by performing random simulations. The observed and expected distributions are compared using several statistical tests. No preferred alignments of angular momentum vectors of galaxies are noticed in all six dynamically unstable clusters, supporting the hierarchy model of galaxy formation. These clusters have a larger value of velocity dispersion. However, local effects are noticed in the clusters that have substructures in the 1D-3D number density maps.
Self-similar exponential approximants

An approach is suggested for defining effective sums of divergent series in the form of self-similar exponential approximants. The procedure of constructing these approximants from divergent series with arbitrary noninteger powers is developed. The basis of this construction is the self-similar approximation theory. Control functions governing the convergence of exponentially renormalized series are defined from stability and fixed-point conditions and from additional asymptotic conditions when the latter are available. The stability of the calculational procedure is checked by analyzing cascade multipliers. A number of physical examples for different statistical systems illustrate the generality and high accuracy of the approach.
In vitro cytotoxicity, cellular uptake, reactive oxygen species and cell cycle arrest studies of novel ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes towards A549 lung cancer cell line

Abstract Ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes have displayed some promising biological responses against a variety of cancers and have emerged as a potential candidate that can show significant antitumor activity. Three ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes were biologically evaluated in vitro against the A549 cancer cell line. The complexes were selected based on initial DNA intercalation studies and MTT viability screening and were selected based on the most promising candidates, the [Ru(bpy)2 o-CPIP]. 2PF6 (complex 1), [Ru(phen)2 o-CPIP]. 2PF6 (complex 2) and [Ru(biq)2 o-CPIP]. 2PF6 (complex 3). Confocal cellular uptake studies confirmed the intracellular transport of complexes into A549. Cytoplasmic and the nucleic accumulation of the complex 1 and 2 was seen while no fluorescent microscopy was performed for complex 3 due to instrumental limitations. Cellular cytotoxicity was investigated with the aid of the Alamar blue assay. The complexes displayed concentration and time dependent inhibitory effects yielding IC50 values from 5.00 to 32.75 µM. Complex 1 exhibit highest cytotoxicity with IC50 value of 5.00 ± 1.24 µM. All of the complexes have shown a significant effect in the reduction of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. Finally, the complexes have shown a transient effect on the cell cycle by arresting it at G0/G1 phase except for complex 2 [Ru(phen)2 o-CPIP]. 2PF6 which has shown the significant G0/G1 arrest.
Comparison of Risk Factors, Clinico-Radiological Profile and Outcome in Patients with Acute, Subacute and Chronic Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis

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A cosmological model in Weyl–Cartan spacetime: I. Field equations and solutions

In this first paper of a series on alternative cosmological models we present an extended version of a cosmological model in Weyl–Cartan spacetime. The new model can be viewed as a generalization of a model developed earlier jointly with Tresguerres. Within this model the non-Riemannian quantities, i.e. torsion Tα and nonmetricity Qαβ, are proportional to the Weyl 1-form. The hypermomentum Δαβ depends on our ansatz for the nonmetricity and vice versa. We derive the explicit form of the field equations for different cases and provide solutions for a broad class of parameters. We demonstrate that it is possible to construct models in which the non-Riemannian quantities die out with time. We show how our model fits into the more general framework of metric-affine gravity (MAG).
Multi-Color Polarimetry of the Twilight Sky. The Role of Multiple Scattering as the Function of Wavelength

This work is devoted to the study of solar light that experiences single and multiple scattering in the atmosphere at the twilight time. The work is based on polarimetric observations of the twilight sky that were conducted in 1997 and 2000 for different color bands. Basing on the results of observations, the contribution of single-scattered light depending on the wavelength for the light stage of twilight is obtained. The correlation of color and polarization properties of the twilight sky is investigated with an account of multiple scattering.
Teleportation in a non-inertial frame

In this work, we describe the process of teleportation between Alice in an inertial frame, and Rob who is in uniform acceleration with respect to Alice. The fidelity of the teleportation is reduced due to Davies-Unruh radiation in Rob's frame. In so far as teleportation is a measure of entanglement, our results suggest that quantum entanglement is degraded in non-inertial frames. We discuss this reduction in fidelity for both bosonic and fermionic resources.
Numerical study of thermoacoustic waves in an enclosure

The behavior of thermoacoustic waves in a nitrogen-filled two-dimensional cavity is numerically studied in order to investigate how these waves may be used as an effective heat removal mechanism. The compressible, unsteady Navier–Stokes equations were solved for a series of initial conditions by combining a flux-corrected transport algorithm for convection with models for temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conduction. By considering a one-dimensional test problem and comparing the results to existing data, the accuracy of the present numerical method is verified. In the problems considered, the vertical walls of a cavity were heated or cooled to generate the thermoacoustic waves. Both impulsive and gradual changes of the wall temperatures were considered. When the vertical wall was heated impulsively and nonuniformly, the waves induced two-dimensional flows within the enclosure. The observed thermoacoustic waves oscillate and eventually decay due to viscous and heat dissipation.
The History of the Mysterious Eclipses of KH 15D. II. Asiago, Kiso, Kitt Peak, Mount Wilson, Palomar, Tautenburg, and Rozhen Observatories, 1954-1997

The unusual pre–main-sequence binary star KH 15D undergoes remarkably deep and long-lasting periodic eclipses. Some clues about the reason for these eclipses have come from the observed evolution of the system's light curve over the last century. Here we present UBVRI photometry of KH 15D from 1954 to 1997 based on photographic plates from various observatories. The system has been variable at the ≈1 mag level since at least 1965. There is no evidence of color variations, with a typical limit of Δ(B - V) < 0.2 mag. We confirm some previously published results that were based on a smaller sample of plates: from approximately 1965 to 1990, the total flux was modulated with the 48 day orbital period of the binary, but the maximum flux was larger, the fractional variations were smaller, and the phase of minimum flux was shifted by almost a half-cycle relative to the modern light curve. All these results are consistent with the recently proposed theory that KH 15D is being occulted by an inclined, precessing, circumbinary ring.
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Lensing Cluster Abell 2218

We present a striking new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observation of the rich cluster Abell 2218 taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. HST's restored image quality reveals a sizable number of gravitationally lensed features in this cluster, significantly more than had been identified by using ground-based telescopes. The brightest arcs are resolved by HST and show internal features that enable us to identify multiply imaged examples, confirming and improving the mass models of the cluster determined from ground-based observations. Although weak lensing has been detected statistically in this and other clusters from ground-based data, the superlative resolution of HST enables us to individually identify weakly distorted images more reliably than hitherto, with important consequences for their redshift determination. Using an improved mass model for the cluster calibrated with available spectroscopy for the brightest arcs, we demonstrate how inversion of the lensing model can be used to yield the redshift distribution of ~ 80 faint arclets to R ≃ 25. We present a new formalism for estimating the uncertainties in this inversion method and review prospects for interpreting our results and verifying the predicted redshifts.
Overview of 
Λc
 decays

The decays of the ground-state charmed baryon $\Lambda_c$ are now close to being completely mapped out. In this paper we discuss some remaining open questions, whose answers can help shed light on weak processes contributing to those decays, on calculations of such quantities as transition form factors in lattice QCD, and on missing decay modes such as $\Lambda_c \to \Lambda^* \ell^+ \nu_\ell$, where $\Lambda^*$ is an excited resonance. The discussion is in part a counterpart to a previous analysis of inclusive $D_s$ decays.
Relative Intensity Noise Characteristics of Injection-Locked Semiconductor Lasers

An experimental and theoretical study of relative intensity noise (RIN) spectra of side-mode injection-locked Fabry–Perot semiconductor lasers is reported. It is shown that the injection-locking technique effectively increases the relaxation oscillation frequency from 4.5 GHz (free-running mode) to 12 GHz (injection-locked mode) and enhances relaxation peaks of the slave laser RIN spectra. Results from our theoretical model, which include the key parameters for semiconductor quantum-well lasers, such as the linewidth enhancement factor, the nonlinear gain saturation coefficients, and optical confinement factor, show good agreement with our experimental results.
Multipartite Entanglement: Transformations, Quantum Secret Sharing, Quantum Error Correction

Most applications in quantum information processing make either explicit or implicit use of entanglement. It is thus important to have a good understanding of entanglement and the role it plays in these protocols. However, especially when it comes to multipartite entanglement, there still remain a lot of mysteries. This thesis is devoted to getting a better understanding of multipartite entanglement, and its role in various quantum information protocols. First, we investigate transformations between multipartite entangled states that only use local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We mostly focus on three qubit states in the GHZ class, and derive upper and lower bounds for the successful transformation probability between two states. We then focus on absolutely maximally entangled (AME) states, which are highly entangled multipartite states that have the property that they are maximally entangled for any bipartition. With them as a resource, we develop new parallel teleportation protocols, which can then be used to implement quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes. We further prove the existence of AME states for any number of parties, if the dimension of the involved quantum systems is chosen appropriately. An equivalence between threshold QSS schemes and AME states shared between an even number of parties is established, and further protocols are designed, such as constructing ramp QSS schemes and open-destination teleportation protocols with AME states as a resource. As a framework to work with AME states, graph states are explored. They allow for efficient bipartite entanglement verification, which makes them a promising candidate for the description of AME states. We show that for all currently known AME states, absolutely maximally entangled graph states can be found, and we were even able to use graph states to find a new AME state for seven three-dimensional systems (qutrits). In addition, the implementation of QSS schemes from AME states can be conveniently described within the graph state formalism. Finally, we use the insight gained from entanglement in QSS schemes to derive necessary and sufficient conditions for quantum erasure channel and quantum error correction codes that satisfy the quantum Singleton bound, as these codes are closely related to ramp QSS schemes. This provides us with a very intuitive approach to codes for the quantum erasure channel, purely based on the entanglement required to protect information against losses by use of the parallel teleportation protocol.
Testing the Isotropic Universe Using the Gamma-Ray Burst Data of Fermi/GBM

The sky distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been intensively studied by various groups for more than two decades. Most of these studies test the isotropy of GRBs based on their sky number density distribution. In this work, we propose an approach to test the isotropy of the universe through inspecting the isotropy of the properties of GRBs such as their duration, fluences, and peak fluxes at various energy bands and different timescales. We apply this method on the Fermi/Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data sample containing 1591 GRBs. The most noticeable feature we found is near the Galactic coordinates , , and radius . The inferred probability for the occurrence of such an anisotropic signal (in a random isotropic sample) is derived to be less than a percent in some of the tests while the other tests give results consistent with isotropy. These are based on the comparison of the results from the real data with the randomly shuffled data samples. Considering the large number of statistics we used in this work (some of which are correlated with each other), we can anticipate that the detected feature could be a result of statistical fluctuations. Moreover, we noticed a considerably low number of GRBs in this particular patch, which might be due to some instrumentation or observational effects that can consequently affect our statistics through some systematics. Further investigation is highly desirable in order to clarify this result, e.g., utilizing a larger future Fermi/GBM data sample as well as data samples of other GRB missions and also looking for possible systematics.
Optical and Near-infrared Study of Nova V2676 Oph 2012

We present optical spectrophotometric and near-infrared (NIR) photometric observations of the nova V2676 Oph covering the period from 2012 March 29 through 2015 May 8. The optical spectra and photometry of the nova have been taken from SMARTS and Asiago; the NIR photometry was obtained from SMARTS and Mt. Abu. The spectra were dominated by strong H i lines from the Balmer series, Fe ii, N i, and [O i] lines in the initial days, typical of an Fe ii type nova. The measured FWHM for the Hβ and Hα lines was 800–1200 km s−1. There was pronounced dust formation starting 90 days after the outburst. The J − K color was the largest among recent dust-forming novae.