Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh

We use matched employer-employee data representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive skills and personality traits in this part of the labour market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage effect. Personality traits do not affect hiring channels, but they do enjoy a positive wage effect. This wage effect differs by hiring channel: those hired through formal channels benefit from higher wage associations with openness to experience, but lower effects of hostile attribution bias. Those hired through networks enjoy higher wages for higher levels of emotional stability, but they are also punished for higher hostile attribution bias—in line with different occupational levels being hired predominantly through one channel or the other. We provide suggestive evidence that employers might use hiring channels differently, depending on what skill they deem important: employers valuing communication skills, arguably observed during selection interviews, are associated with a larger within-firm wage gap between formal and network hires, while the importance of teamwork is associated with a smaller wage gap.
Innate Immunity, Inflammation, and Intervention in HBV Infection

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still one of the most dangerous viral illnesses. HBV infects around 257 million individuals worldwide. Hepatitis B in many individuals ultimately develops hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the sixth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The innate immunity acts as the first line of defense against HBV infection through activating antiviral genes. Along with the immune responses, pro-inflammatory cytokines are triggered to enhance the antiviral responses, but this may result in acute or chronic liver inflammation, especially when the clearance of virus is unsuccessful. To a degree, the host innate immune and inflammatory responses dominate the HBV infection and liver pathogenesis. Thus, it is crucial to figure out the signaling pathways involved in the activation of antiviral factors and inflammatory cytokines. Here, we review the interplay between HBV and the signal pathways that mediates innate immune responses and inflammation. In addition, we summarize current therapeutic strategies for HBV infection via modulating innate immunity or inflammation. Characterizing the mechanisms that underlie these HBV-host interplays might provide new approaches for the cure of chronic HBV infection.
On the Origin of the Solar Cycle Modulation of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation

Using data from recent 64 years, we found that the zonal wind signal associated with the winter‐mean North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) tends to extend into the upper stratosphere when solar activity is high, but the vertical extension is limited when solar activity is low. To examine the physical source of this phenomenon, the momentum and wave‐energy budget are analyzed using the 63‐winter record of the Japanese Reanalysis data set from 1958 to 2021. These analyses show that (a) the zonal‐mean momentum acceleration is driven by eddies throughout the entire depth of the atmosphere around 60°N, (b) the barotropic energy conversion from eddies to zonal‐mean flow is centered in the middle stratosphere around 55°N, and (c) the baroclinic energy conversion from zonal‐mean flow to eddies from the surface to the middle stratosphere around 60°N tends to be enhanced from December to February associated with the positive winter‐mean NAO index in High Solar (HS) activity years. These energy transfers are closely related to enhanced zonal wind. These analyses suggest that the structural modulation of the NAO due to the solar cycle comes from the enhanced sensitivity of the wave‐mean flow interaction in the stratosphere in HS years, which is broadly shared with the solar cycle modulation of the late‐winter Southern Annular Mode (SAM).
Assessment of the z∼ Time‐Filtered Arbitrary Lagrangian‐Eulerian Coordinate in a Global Eddy‐Permitting Ocean Model

A recognized deficiency of ocean models with a constant‐depth vertical coordinate is for truncation errors in the vertical advection scheme to result in spurious numerical mixing of tracers, which can be substantially stronger than that prescribed by the model's mixing scheme. The z∼ vertical coordinate allows vertical levels to displace in a Lagrangian fashion on time scales shorter than a few days, but reverts to fixed levels on longer timescales, and is intended to reduce numerical mixing from transient vertical motions such as internal waves and tides. An assessment of z∼ in a 1/4° global implementation of the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean model is presented. It is shown that, in the presence of near‐inertial gravity waves in the North Atlantic, z∼ significantly reduces Eulerian vertical velocities with respect to those in a simulation with the default z* vertical coordinate; that the vertical coordinate approaches an isopycnal, or adiabatic, surface on short timescales; and that both tendencies are enhanced when the z∼ timescale parameters are lengthened with respect to the default settings. Analysis based on density transformation rates shows that numerical mixing is consistently reduced by of order 10% as the z∼ timescales are lengthened. The realism of the model simulation with different timescale parameters is assessed in the global domain, and it is shown that drifts in temperature and salinity, and the spindown in z* of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, are reduced with z∼, without incurring significant drawbacks in other metrics such as the strength of the overturning circulation or sea ice cover.
Interoception in Old Age

Emotion regulation in old age was found to be more efficient; seniors seem to focus less on the negative aspects of experiences. Here, we ask, do older individuals regulate their emotions more efficiently or are they numb to the physiological changes that modulate these emotions? Interoception, the perception of physical feelings, influences a person’s mood, emotions, and sense of well-being, and was hardly tested among older adults. We examined the awareness of physiological changes (physiological arousal—blood pressure and heart rate) of 47 older adults, compared to 18 young adults, and their subjective reports of emotional experiences while viewing emotional stimuli. Interoception was decreased in old age. Blood pressure medications had a partial role in this reduction. Moreover, interoception mediated emotional experience, such that low interoception led to lower experiences of changes in physiological arousal. These findings may account for the emotional changes in old age, suggesting a decline in sensitivity with age, which leads to a positive interpretation of information.
Artificial intelligence in pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest disease, with a five-year overall survival rate of just 11%. The pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed with early screening have a median overall survival of nearly ten years, compared with 1.5 years for those not diagnosed with early screening. Therefore, early diagnosis and early treatment of pancreatic cancer are particularly critical. However, as a rare disease, the general screening cost of pancreatic cancer is high, the accuracy of existing tumor markers is not enough, and the efficacy of treatment methods is not exact. In terms of early diagnosis, artificial intelligence technology can quickly locate high-risk groups through medical images, pathological examination, biomarkers, and other aspects, then screening pancreatic cancer lesions early. At the same time, the artificial intelligence algorithm can also be used to predict the survival time, recurrence risk, metastasis, and therapy response which could affect the prognosis. In addition, artificial intelligence is widely used in pancreatic cancer health records, estimating medical imaging parameters, developing computer-aided diagnosis systems, etc. Advances in AI applications for pancreatic cancer will require a concerted effort among clinicians, basic scientists, statisticians, and engineers. Although it has some limitations, it will play an essential role in overcoming pancreatic cancer in the foreseeable future due to its mighty computing power.
Detection of branon dark matter with gamma ray telescopes

Branons are new degrees of freedom that appear in flexible brane-world models corresponding to brane fluctuations. These new fields can behave as standard weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a significant associated thermal relic density. We analyze the present constraints from their spontaneous annihilations into photons for Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes, and the prospects for detection in future Cherenkov telescopes. In particular, we focus on possible signals coming from the Galactic center and different dwarf spheroidals, such as Draco, Sagittarius, Canis Major and SEGUE 1. We conclude that for those targets, present observations are below the sensitivity limits for branon detection by assuming standard dark matter distributions and no additional boost factors. However, future experiments such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) could be able to detect gamma-ray photons coming from the annihilation of branons with masses higher than 150 GeV.
Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) Leaf-Fermentation Supernatant Inhibits Adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes and Suppresses Obesity in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats

The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) leaf is a typical homologous ingredient of medicine and food with lipid-lowering and weight-loss effects. In the present study, lotus leaves were fermented by two probiotics, Enterococcus faecium WEFA23 and Enterococcus hirae WEHI01, and the anti-adipogenic effect of Enterococcus fermented lotus leaf supernatant (FLLS) was evaluated in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes with the aim of exploring whether its anti-obesity ability will be enhanced after fermentation with Enterococcus and to dig out the potential corresponding mechanism. The FLLS fermented by E. hirae WEHI01 (FLLS-WEHI01) was selected and further investigated for its ability to inhibit obesity in vivo in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese rats (male, 110 ± 5 g, 4 weeks old) due to its superior inhibitory effect on adipogenesis and lipid accumulation (inhibition rate of up to 56.17%) in 3T3-L1 cells (p = 0.008 for WEHI01-L, p < 0.001 for WEHI01-H). We found that the oral administration of both the low and high doses of FLLS-WEHI01 could achieve some effects, namely decreasing body weight (p < 0.001), epididymal fat mass, adipocyte cell size, LDL-C levels (p = 0.89, 0.02, respectively), liver TC levels (p < 0.001, p = 0.01, respectively), and TG levels (p = 0.2137, p = 0.0464, respectively), fasting blood glucose (p = 0.1585, p = 0.0009), and improved insulin resistance (p = 0.33, 0.01, respectively) in rats of the model group. Moreover, the administration of both high and low doses of FLLS-WEHI01 decreased the transcription levels of adipogenic transcription factors and corresponding genes such as Pparγ (p < 0.001), Cebpα (p < 0.001), Acc (p < 0.001), and Fas (p < 0.001) by at least three times. These results indicate that FLLS-WEHI01 can potentially be developed as an healthy, anti-obesity foodstuff.
Recent Advances in 18F-Labeled Amino Acids Synthesis and Application

Radiolabeled amino acids are an important class of agents for positron emission tomography imaging that target amino acid transporters in many tumor types. Traditional 18F-labeled amino acid synthesis strategies are always based on nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions with multistep radiosynthesis and low radiochemical yields. In recent years, new 18F-labeling methodologies such as metal-catalyzed radiofluorination and heteroatom (B, P, S, Si, etc.)-18F bond formation are being effectively used to synthesize radiopharmaceuticals. This review focuses on recent advances in the synthesis, radiolabeling, and application of a series of 18F-labeled amino acid analogs using new 18F-labeling strategies.
Global inequality: a multidimensional perspective

This paper investigates the evolution of global well-being inequality between 1980 and 2010 based on three dimensions: income, health and education. The inequality of each of these dimensions shows a different pattern over time. To make an overall assessment of the evolution of well-being inequality, I make use of a recently developed multidimensional inequality index which reflects the implicit value judgments of the revised Human Development Index. Multidimensional well-being inequality has decreased over the considered period. However, this result is shown to depend crucially on the weighting scheme selected, the aggregation procedure and the transformation of the income dimension.
Some new monotonicity theorems with applications to free boundary problems

The monotonicity theorem of Alt, Caffarelli, and Friedman [ACF, Lemma 5.1] plays a central role in the existence and regularity theory of two-phase free boundary problems. It has been extended, for example, to variable coefficient operators [C3, Lemma 1] and to eigenvalue problems [FL]. In this paper we reformulate the theorem so that it applies to inhomogeneous equations in which the right-hand side of the equation need not vanish at the free boundary. Of particular interest is the case in which Au takes two different constant values on the set where u > 0 and on the set where u < 0. The Prandtl-Batchelor
Non-conservative Lagrangian method for half-dark solitons in spinor non-equilibrium Polariton condensates

In this work I introduce a powerful analytical method to analyze states of non-equilibrium polariton Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). It is shown that the condensate wave functions carrying dark solitons and half-dark solitons can be expressed in terms of the natural parameters of the non-equilibrium system, i.e. the growth and decay rates and the interaction parameters. The derivation is based on a non-conservative Lagrangian formalism, which provides ordinary differential equations for the parameters of the dark soliton solutions in their dynamic environment. Explicit expressions for the stationary solution are stated, which significantly differ from those observed in atomic BEC. Subsequently the method is extended to spinor condensates, which yields ordinary differential equations for the parameters of half-dark solitons. Finally a stationary case with explicit expressions for half-dark solitons is presented as well.
Synthesis, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity of Lanthanide Metal Complexes with Schiff Base Ligand Produced from Reaction of 4,4-Methylene Diantipyrine with Ethylenediamine

An environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of Schiff bases was described by combining 4,4-methylenediantipyrine with ethylenediamine. The complex was prepared in a classical way, the usual condensation reaction method. A series of metal complexes were prepared from reactions of lanthanide nitrate salts [Nd+3, La+3, Er+3, Gd+3, and Dy+3] with a Schiff base ligand. The structures of the complexes were confirmed by analytical studies, spectral measurements, and thermal studies, and the prepared ligand was characterized using microanalysis technique, UV-Visible, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR, mass spectrometry, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and the addition of conductivity measurement and magnetic moment of complexes. The results showed that these complexes have a consistency of 10 in which the elements are bonded with the ligand through the two nitrogen atoms at C=N and that the bonding ratio between the metal:ligand is in 1:2 ratio. By using agar disc-spreading, we tested several in vitro compounds for their antibacterial activity against four pathogenic bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. The majority of the complexes demonstrated antibacterial activity.
The mass temperature relation for clusters of galaxies

I derive the mass-temperature relation and its time evolution for clusters of galaxies in different cosmologies by means of two different models. The first one is a modification and improvement of a model by Del Popolo & Gambera, namely based upon a modification of the top-hat model in order to take account of angular momentum acquisition by protostructures and of an external pressure term in the virial theorem. The second one is based on the merging-halo formalism of Lacey & Cole, accounting for the fact that massive clusters accrete matter quasi-continuously, and is an improvement of a model proposed by Voit, again to take account of angular momentum acquisition by protostructures. The final result is that, in both models, the M-T relation shows a break at T ∼3-4 keV. The behaviour of the M-T relation is as usual, M T 3 / 2 , at the high-mass end, and M T γ , with a value of y > 3/2 depending on the chosen cosmology. Larger values of y are related to open cosmologies, while A-cold dark matter (ACDM) cosmologies give results of the slope intermediate between the flat case and the open case. The evolution of the M-T relation, for a given M v i r , is more modest both in flat and open universes in comparison with previous estimates found in the literature, even more modest than what found by Voit. Moreover, the time evolution is more rapid in models with L = 0 than in models in which the angular momentum acquisition by protostructures is taken into account (L ≠ 0). The effect of a non-zero cosmological constant is that of slightly increasing the evolution of the M-T relation with respect to open models with L ≠ 0. The evolution is more rapid for larger values (in absolute value) of the spectral index, n. The mass-temperature relation, obtained using the quoted models, is also compared with the data by Finoguenov, Reiprich & Boeringer. The comparison shows that these data are able to rule out very low-Ω 0 models ( 0.3.
Manifestations of polyculturalism in Indonesia: A study of indigenous psychology.

Polyculturalism is an ideology that emphasizes the interaction between certain cultures. Polyculturalism is considered to minimize prejudice and potential conflicts, while studies on polyculturalism in Indonesia are still limited. The purpose of this study is to find out the aspects of polyculturalism in Indonesia and what conditions make individuals open to establish relationships with other individuals so that it has the potential to become the nation's glue. This research uses indigenous psychology approach with mix method design. Subjects selected with the criteria of Indonesian Citizens (Citizens), aged 18 years and over, and have migrated more than 2 years (between cities / provinces in Indonesia). Data analysis was carried out in two ways, firstly a qualitative analysis that is making a categorization system through the bottom up indigenization model. Second, conduct quantitative analysis using descriptive analysis and chi-square test. The results of this study reveal aspects of cultural equality as national identity including, tolerance, citizenship, culture and race. While aspects that distinguish cultures in Indonesia consist of cultural, racial, geographical and religious rituals. Furthermore, aspects that make individuals establish inter-group relations include curiosity about other cultures, social relations, tolerance, geography, environment, openness, individual values, and emotional conditions. The psychological implications of these results also form part of the research in this study.
Challenges in the Management of the Patient with a Failing Kidney Graft: A Narrative Review

Patients with a failed kidney allograft have steadily increase in recent years and returning to dialysis after graft loss is one of the most difficult transitions for chronic kidney disease patients and their assistant physicians. The management of these patients is complex and encompasses the treatment of chronic kidney disease complications, dialysis restart and access planning, immunosuppression withdrawal, graft nephrectomy, and evaluation for a potential retransplant. In recent years, several groups have focused on the management of the patient with a failing renal graft and expert recommendations are arising. A review of Pubmed, ScienceDirect and the Cochrane Library was performed focusing on the specific care of these patients, from the management of low clearance complications to concerns with a subsequent kidney transplant. Conclusion: There is a growing interest in the failing renal graft and new approaches to improve these patients’ outcomes are being defined including specific multidisciplinary programs, individualized immunosuppression withdrawal schemes, and strategies to prevent HLA sensitization and increase retransplant rates.
Principles for a unified picture of fermions

It is shown that a chiral SU(2) model can break Lorentz symmetry spontaneously at the Lagrangian level when gauge bosons become massive. This model seems to propose the principles and conceptual foundations leading to a unified picture of fermions, and may reduce the standard theory to a far simpler form. The model suggests describing leptons and quarks as quasi-excitations, while electromagnetic and strong interactions as secondary interactions mediated by Nambu-Goldstone bosons originating from spontaneous violations of global SU(2) and rotational symmetries. Both the possibility of observing Lorentz-violating phenomena and their magnitudes are discussed. The model also provides an alternative scenario for baryon and lepton asymmetries of the Universe.
Isotropic polarization of compressible flows

The helical absolute equilibrium of a compressible adiabatic flow presents not only polarization between two purely helical modes of opposite chiralities but also that between vortical and acoustic modes, deviating from the equipartition predicted by Kraichnan (J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 27, 1955, pp. 438–441). Owing to the existence of the acoustic mode, even if all the Fourier modes of one chiral sector in the sharpened Helmholtz decomposition (Moses, SIAM J. Appl. Maths, vol. 21, 1971, pp. 114–130) are thoroughly truncated, leaving the system with positive-definite helicity and energy, negative temperature and the corresponding large-scale concentration of vortical modes are not allowed, unlike in the incompressible case.