Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Is Dietary Macronutrient Distribution Related to Serum Lipid Profiles in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes?

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the dietary macronutrient distribution affects on serum lipid profiles in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study included 82 children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 18 years with a diabetes age of ≥1 year. Dietary intake was evaluated by 3-day food diaries, including three consecutive days (two weekdays and one weekend day). Results: The mean age of the 82 patients with diabetes was 11.6±4.3 years (range: 2-18 years) (45.1% female), the median diabetes duration was 3.4 (2.9) years, the mean HbA1c level was 7.0±1.4%, and mean body mass index standard deviation score was 0.2±1.1. The median distribution of energy from carbohydrates, protein and fat in the total energy intake was 50.0% (6.2), 17.4% (2.7) and 32.5% (5.1), respectively. Dietary fiber intake was inadequate in 64 (77.9%) participants, while for 77 participants (93.9%), saturated fatty acid intake was above the recommended intake. For children and adolescents with T1D, mean serum cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein, and high-density lipoprotein levels were 162.9±33.4 mg/dL, 86.2±49 mg/dL, 87.9±29.2 mg/dL, and 60.7±17.9 mg/dL, respectively. Conclusion: To maintain healthy eating, consuming foods high in saturated fat should be limited, and children and adolescents with T1D should be supported by their family and healthcare professionals in the consumption of diets high in fiber.
Effects of Financial, Social, and Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley

Nepal’s energy sector comprises both successful and subsistence entrepreneurs. In this connection, the enduring question arises of how successful entrepreneurs have something special in the context of the solar companies in Nepal. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of financial capital, social capital, and human capital on entrepreneurial success in this sector of Nepal. The study adopts a causal-comparative research design to determine the effect of initial investment, access to finance, network ties, trust, shared vision, education, and experience on entrepreneurial success. This study is based on primary data that were collected from a sample of 102 owners/managers of 45 solar companies using a structured questionnaire. The factors affecting entrepreneurial success were determined by estimating the econometric models and correlation analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics 20. The results show that access to finance, network ties, trust, education, and experience appeared to be the major factors affecting entrepreneurial success. Factors like initial investment and shared vision did not appear to be the important factors affecting entrepreneurial success. Policy implications and future avenues were also discussed.
Epidemiology of human papillomavirus-associated anogenital cancers in Granada: a three-decade population-based study

Introduction HPV infection is a common risk factor for all anogenital cancers. However, there are important differences in the epidemiology of anogenital cancers and these have not been compared considering diverse epidemiological indicators over a long period of time. To fill this gap, we investigated incidence, mortality, and survival trends of anogenital cancers over a period of three decades. Methods We conducted an observational registry-based study using data from the population-based cancer registry of Granada in southern Spain. We collected data on all incident cases of anogenital cancer (cervical, anal, penile, vulvar, and vaginal cancer) diagnosed between 1985 and 2017. We calculated crude and age-standardized incidence and mortality rates, and 1, 3, and 5-year overall and net survival. We further conducted time-trend analysis calculating annual percent changes (APC) for each cancer site. Results The incidence of anogenital cancers decreased slightly during the past 30 years, with the exception of vulvar cancer, where a slight increase was observed. Mortality decreased significantly for cervical cancer over the study period but increased non-significantly for the remaining cancer sites. Survival rates were similar to those reported in comparable countries and increased for cervical and vulvar cancer. Discussion Cervical cancer was the greatest contributor to the burden of anogenital cancers and showed a marked improvement in all indicators in comparison to the remaining cancer sites.
Forecasting the implied volatility surface using dynamic factor models with GARCH disturbances

The implied volatility surface (IVS) explains the dynamics between different option contracts by representing the total set of implied volatilities across moneyness and maturity dimensions. In this thesis, we implement dynamic factor models to study the dynamics of the IVS. In particular, we examine whether we can improve the fit of the IVS estimated by dynamic factor models by integrating additional volatility disturbances onto their residuals. In general, we provide four key findings. First, including GARCH disturbances appears to at least mitigate the problem of poorly fitting corner IVS groups by correcting for heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation in the error terms. Second, although our extended setups have a better in-sample fit, they are outperformed by the general dynamic factor model in terms of statistical and economical forecasting performances. Third, all our dynamic factor models for the IVS only have economic value when excluding transaction costs. Fourth, we hardly report significant differences between our dynamic factor models including GARCH disturbances.
SFPFusion: An Improved Vision Transformer Combining Super Feature Attention and Wavelet-Guided Pooling for Infrared and Visible Images Fusion

The infrared and visible image fusion task aims to generate a single image that preserves complementary features and reduces redundant information from different modalities. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can effectively extract local features and obtain better fusion performance, the size of the receptive field limits its feature extraction ability. Thus, the Transformer architecture has gradually become mainstream to extract global features. However, current Transformer-based fusion methods ignore the enhancement of details, which is important to image fusion tasks and other downstream vision tasks. To this end, a new super feature attention mechanism and the wavelet-guided pooling operation are applied to the fusion network to form a novel fusion network, termed SFPFusion. Specifically, super feature attention is able to establish long-range dependencies of images and to fully extract global features. The extracted global features are processed by wavelet-guided pooling to fully extract multi-scale base information and to enhance the detail features. With the powerful representation ability, only simple fusion strategies are utilized to achieve better fusion performance. The superiority of our method compared with other state-of-the-art methods is demonstrated in qualitative and quantitative experiments on multiple image fusion benchmarks.
Variability of GHG emissions from emergent aquatic macrophytes in mixed boreal and Equisetum dominated communities

Plants (macrophytes) growing in lake and wetland sediments are known mediators of greenhouse gases (GHG), specifically methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O). Current studies have emphasized the potential risk of underestimation regarding emissions of plant-mediated GHGs from terrestrial systems including lakes, streams and other freshwater bodies. In order to differentiate the possible sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon and nitrogen in aquatic environments, this study aims to investigate the spatial variability of GHG fluxes in stands of common wetland macrophytes. Field samplings were carried out in the summer of 2012 where 24-hour diel measurements were conducted with the static chamber method in a boreal lake in south western Sweden. Two macrophyte communities were studied; one mixed-species stand and one species-specific stand of water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile). Spatial variability was confirmed at several stages, both between and within stands. The species-specific stand emitted more CH4 than the mixed stand, from 0.17 to 8.99 mmol m-2 h-1, compared to 0.63 – 1.95 mmol m-2 h-1 maximum measured. Within stand variability was confirmed as variable CH4 flux per strand of E. fluviatile was established. No significant differences were observed regarding CO2 and N2O, other than weak correlation in diel patterns, e.g. daytime uptake and night time respiration/emission for both gases.
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents

ABSTRACT Relying on an extended functionalist perspective, in the present study we investigated how motives underlying social media use (i.e., conformity, social/the need for social relationships), coping (the need for mood regulation), and defensive motives (anti-mattering, i.e., the feeling of not mattering to others) are linked to early adolescents’ psychological distress. We also evaluated the potential mediating role of social media addiction in the relationship between social media use motives and psychological distress in vulnerable social media users, i.e., early adolescents. Our sample consisted of 480 middle-school Romanian students (M = 12.03, SD = .78, 52.3% females). The results suggested that social relationships, mood regulation, and anti-mattering motives were positively associated with social media addiction, and that social media addiction was positively related to psychological distress. Anti-mattering and mood regulation were positively associated with psychological distress. Furthermore, social media addiction mediated the relations between the motives for social media use and psychological distress. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the findings for knowledge, prevention, and interventions regarding social media addiction among early adolescents. IMPACT SUMMARY Prior State of Knowledge The functionalist theoretical perspective states that social media addiction might be explained by underlying motives. Previous studies also highlight the necessity to explore the relation between these motives, social media addiction, and psychological distress among youth. Novel Contributions We tested an extended functionalist perspective of social media addiction and explored the potential mediating role of social media addiction on the relationship between social media use motives (conformity, social relationships, mood regulation, anti-mattering) and adolescents’ psychological distress. Practical Implications Our results are helpful for interventions concerning social media addiction among adolescents. Knowing the motives that are related to social media addiction might help in the design of effective, targeted, parental and educational interventions to prevent adolescents’ social media addiction and psychological distress.
The Zn-Pb-rich belt of NW Iberia. Syn-tectonic stratabound mineralization?

NW Iberia has regionally extensive zones of carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization within the early-Middle Cambrian carbonate dominant Vegadeo Formation which hosts three major deposits as well as tens of small mines and prospects. The most common style occurs as stratabound bodies directly related with widespread silicification developed along the upper contact of the Vegadeo Formation with overlying shales. Laterally, silicified zones grade into carbonate-chlorite breccias with fragments of the host-rock supported by calcite, chlorite and sulphides. Replacive and breccia zones of mineralization are interpreted as being related to large syn-D3 Variscan structures that probably remobilized earlier, disseminated early diagenetic Zn-Pb stratiform sulphides within oolitic lenses at the base of the Vegadeo Formation. Stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry and K-Ar geochronology confirm that economic mineralization is Variscan in age and was related to regionally extensive flow of fluids equilibrated with the underlying siliciclastic-carbonate sedimentary rocks. The key control for mineralization was the existence of an extensive aquifer within highly permeable limestones below an overlying impermeable shale that allowed extensive lateral fluid flow and the likely mixing of metal-rich fluids with confined water rich in biogenically-reduced sulphur. This mineralization event appears to be unrelated to a regionally extensive, barren dolomitization event. The Zn-Pb deposits of NW Iberia are fundamentally distinct from Irish-type mineralizing systems in that they are not associated with syn-sedimentary faulting, involve significant and extensive silicification, and appear to be clearly epigenetic. Like the Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits they appear to have resulted from fluid mixing between metal-rich and reduced sulphur-rich fluids, though the evidence for fluid mixing is more muted in the Iberian deposits.
New ostracod species from the non-marine Cretaceous of Mongolia

Within the non-marine Cretaceous formations of Mongolia ostracods are one of the most important groups in stratigraphical terms. The following new species of the superfamily Cypridoidea are described: Trapezoidella hornei n. sp. from the Shinekhudag Formation (Hauterivian-Barremian), Ilyocyprimorpha gobiensis n. sp. from the Khukhteeg Formation (Aptian-Albian), Talicypridea neustruevae n. sp. from the Bayanzag/Djadokhta Formation (Coniacian to Santonian) and Clinocypris solongiinensis n. sp. from the Baruungoyot Formation (Campanian).
A New Model-Free Trajectory Tracking Control for Robot Manipulators

In this paper, we propose a novel model-free trajectory tracking control for robot manipulators under complex disturbances. The proposed method utilizes time delay control (TDC) as its control framework to ensure a model-free scheme and uses adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode (ANTSM) to obtain high control accuracy and fast dynamic response under lumped disturbance. Thanks to the application of adaptive law, the proposed method can ensure high tracking accuracy and effective suppression of noise effect simultaneously. Stability of the closed-loop control system is proved using Lyapunov method. Finally, the effectiveness and advantages of the newly proposed TDC scheme with ANTSM dynamics are verified through several comparative simulations.
IMTCN: An Interpretable Flight Safety Analysis and Prediction Model Based on Multi-Scale Temporal Convolutional Networks

Flight safety is a key issue in the aviation industry. Recently, with the prevalence of flight data recording systems, some deep learning-based studies have been devoted to predicting safety incidents based on flight data. However, these studies, although they exhibit higher prediction accuracy, have largely neglected the interpretability analysis of safety incidents which is of great concern to airlines and pilots. To address this issue, we define flight safety prediction as a multiscale time series classification problem and propose an interpretable model named IMTCN to provide both accurate predictions and high interpretability of flight safety. First, multiple temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) are utilized to capture local representations and long effective histories from multivariate flight data. Because different flight parameters are collected with diverse sampling frequencies, multiple TCNs are used to handle these parameters separately. Then, we creatively adapt the class activation mapping (CAM) method, which has been used for interpretation in image classification, and combine it with the TCN to provide flight data interpretability. The established model can pinpoint key flight parameters and corresponding moments that contribute most to safety incidents. Experimental results on a real-world dataset with 37,943 Airbus A320 aircraft flights show that our model outperforms the baselines on the task of exceedance classification and prediction 2 seconds and 4 seconds in advance, and case studies demonstrate its superb interpretability for flight safety analysis.
Which Households Use Banks? Evidence from the Transition Economies (Replaced by CentER DP 2011-089)

This paper uses survey data for 29,000 households from 29 transition economies to explore how the use of banking services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and education in most countries and also find evidence for an urban-rural gap, as well as for a role of religion and social integration. Our results show that foreign bank ownership is associated with more bank accounts among high-wealth, high-income, and educated households. State ownership, on the other hand, does not induce financial inclusion of rural and poorer households. We find that higher deposit insurance coverage, better payment systems and creditor protection encourage the holding of bank accounts in particular by high-income and high-wealth households. All in all, our findings shed doubt on the ability of policy levers to broaden the financial system to disadvantaged groups.
Pockels Effect at the Interface between Water and Ti Electrode

The Pockels coefficient of interfacial water between bulk water and a Ti electrode was estimated from the electroreflectance spectra (ΔR/R) to be r13≈−150 pm/V as the maximum value of magnitude, which is comparable in magnitude to the largest coefficient for electrode interfacial water, i.e., 200 pm/V for interfacial water on a transparent oxide electrode. This Pockels signal increased by a factor of about ±3 by applying a DC bias voltage of ±1 V. The reflectance (R) of the Ti electrode had a dip structure in the UV region (3.5–4.5 eV) due to the interference of a 14 nm thick surface oxide film, and the ΔR/R spectra in aqueous electrolyte solution showed a large reflectance change in the UV region with a dispersive shape due to the contribution of the TiO2 film. The reproducibility of the electroreflectance experiment was high, suggesting that the surface oxide film contributes to the large Pockels effect of interfacial water and the robustness of the electrode.
The Role of Love of Money on Employees’ Organizational Commitment: Do Ethics and Pay Satisfaction Matter?

This research investigated the role of Love of Money (LOM) in influencing employees’ organisational commitment, which is mediated by ethics and pay satisfaction. The research applied a cross-sectional survey method to collect 680 participants among university employees in Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to examine the research hypotheses. The result showed that Love of Money plays an important role in employees’ commitment to organisations. Additionally, this study confirmed that employees’ ethics and pay satisfaction significantly mediated the relationship between Love of Money and organisational commitment. The t study provides insight into theoretical and managerial implications to help academicians and regulators improve organisations’ operation systems through the triangular Theory of Love. The current study was limited to Indonesian government employees; there is a future need to study employees’ attitudes and behaviours across cultures and regions.
The Financial Impacts of Lease Capitalisation on an Airline’s Financial Reporting: A Case Study of AirAsia Group Berhad

Effective 1 January 2019, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) introduced IFRS 16 Leases to replace IAS 17 Leases. The aviation industry would be affected by the change in leases standard as IFRS 16 Leases will result in larger assets and liabilities being recorded in the balance sheet. In light of this, this study aimed to examine the financial impacts of lease capitalisation and IFRS 16 Leases on an airline through the constructive lease capitalisation method and financial ratio analysis. AirAsia Group Berhad (AirAsia) was selected because its aircraft are predominantly leased and it was predicted to be affected by IFRS 16 Leases. The financial data of AirAsia was analysed before and after the adoption of IFRS 16 Leases from 2017 to 2019. The results showed that the adoption of IFRS 16 Leases had led to an increase in the amount of AirAsia’s assets and liabilities and caused adverse changes in AirAsia’s D/E ratio, D/A ratio, ROE ratio and ROA ratio with the exception to its asset turnover ratio. This study contributes to literature and practice by addressing the concerns raised by the IASB on the impacts of lease capitalisation on financial reporting following the implementation of IFRS 16 Leases .
We've had the Redfern Park speech and The Apology: What's next?

What really changed for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people between Paul Keating’s Redfern Park Speech (Keating 1992) and Kevin Rudd’s Apology to the stolen generations (Rudd 2008)? What will change between the Apology and the next speech of an Australian Prime Minister? The two speeches were intricately linked, and they were both personal and political. But do they really signify change at the political level? This paper reflects my attempt to turn the gaze away from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and back to where the speeches originated: the Australian Labor Party (ALP). I question whether the changes foreshadowed in the two speeches – including changes by the Australian public and within Australian society – are evident in the internal mechanisms of the ALP. I also seek to understand why non-Indigenous women seem to have given in to the existing ways of the ALP instead of challenging the status quo which keeps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples marginalised. I believe that, without a thorough examination and a change in the ALP’s practices, the domination and subjugation of Indigenous peoples will continue – within the Party, through the Australian political process and, therefore, through governments.