Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regional Scale Distribution of Tick is Associated with Wildlife Distribution on the Boso Peninsula, Central Japan

Abstract. Ticks are vectors that transmit zoonotic pathogens via wildlife hosts. Although the distribution of ticks varies with the expansion of wildlife populations, few studies in Japan have tracked changes in the distribution of hosts, ticks, and infectious diseases on a regional scale. We conducted a follow-up investigation of a previous study conducted from 1988 to 1993 on the distribution of ticks as potential vectors of spotted fever group rickettsiae on Boso Peninsula, Japan, a Japanese spotted fever (JSF)-endemic area. Haemaphysalis cornigera, H. kitaokai, and H. megaspinosa ticks expanded their distribution to the west of Futtsu City following the expansion of sika deer (Cervus nippon) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations. The distributions of H. flava and H. longicornis remained almost unchanged from 1988 to 1993. None of the tick species showed a distribution that completely coincided with the area of JSF occurrence at any time point. Rickettsia species, the causative agent of JSF, might have been transmitted by multiple tick species in this region. Abstract in Japanese（要旨）． 千葉県房総半島におけるマダニ類と野生動物の分布の関連性．マダニ類は， 野生動物を介して様々な人獣共通感染症の病原体を媒介する公衆衛生上重要な生物であり，その分布は宿主 である野生動物の個体数増加や分布拡大によって変化している可能性がある。 しかし，マダニと宿主動物の 分布変化および感染被害の拡大との関係を広域スケールで追跡した研究事例は日本ではほとんどない。 本研 究では，マダニ媒介性感染症「日本紅斑熱」の流行地域である千葉県房総半島において，紅斑熱群リケッチ アを媒介するマダニ類の分布を 2013 年から 2020 年に調査し，1988–1993 年時の調査結果と比較するととも に，日本紅斑熱の感染拡大状況との対応を調べた。 その結果，ニホンジカ（Cervus nippon）やイノシシ（Sus scrofa）の拡大方向と同じように西側の富津市へ分布を拡大したツノチマダニ（Haemaphysalis cornigera）， ヒゲナガチマダニ（H. kitaokai），オオトゲチマダニ（H. megaspinosa）が確認された。 一方，1988–1993 年時 とほとんど分布域が変わらなかったキチマダニ（H. flava）やフタトゲチマダニ（H. longicornis）も確認され た。 どのマダニ種の分布域も，単独では，どの時点においても日本紅斑熱患者発生地域と完全に一致しなかっ た。 房総半島では病原体リケッチアは複数のマダニ類によって媒介されている可能性がある。
Careful least squares active noise control with no prior secondary path model

In feedforward active noise and vibration control (ANVC) or active noise control (ANC), with online secondary path modeling, fast converging overall modeling algorithms may give high modeling errors. These errors are due to the highly correlated inputs, namely the reference and antinoise signals. These high modeling errors can result in poor performance if ignored. However, it is possible to consider these modeling errors in the control filter design, resulting in a careful controller and good performance, as proposed in this work. Careful control is a dual controller feature, which is the solution to the optimal control problem, but this has not been proposed before in the context of ANC. The modeling error covariance matrix (Sigma(n)) is available in the Kalman filter. However, this requires the knowledge of the time‐varying measurement noise power q(n) and state noise. Instead, this work uses a different approach in which the corresponding linear system is solved in a non‐recursive manner. The resulting maximum error is used for a worst‐case estimate of q(n), and, as it turns out, this can be used to get a worst‐case estimate of Sigma(n). A lower control filter update frequency and other optimizations keep computational complexity similar to other approaches. The resulting algorithm has very few easily selected parameters, good performance, does not require any prior secondary path estimate, and adapts to slow and sudden changes in the physical paths without loss of performance or noise overshoots. However, performance can be impaired by large background noise levels.
Students Readiness in Online Lectures During the Pandemic: What is the Ideal Lecture Model?

Abstract. This study identifies the readiness, perceptions and preferences of students in facing online learning. This study will also propose an effective online learning model design. Data obtained from 362 students through a questionnaire using a likert scale. The results shows that in general the students are ready to carry out the process of online learning. Besides using a live conference media, students prefer the use of teaching videos made by lecturers himself as an alternative method when quota and internet signals are the main problems. The distribution of learning materials should be carried out at least one day before the learning schedule. Meanwhile, the allocation of lecture time is not too much in the attendance process. Furthermore, the evaluation process is also carried out for each material topic. Thus, the focus of the on learning model should consider teaching media, material distribution, time allocation and learning evaluation process. Keywords: readiness, preferences, on line learning; effective
Role of Sulfur Compounds in Vegetable and Mushroom Aroma

At the base of the food pyramid is vegetables, which should be consumed most often of all food products, especially in raw and unprocessed form. Vegetables and mushrooms are rich sources of bioactive compounds that can fulfill various functions in plants, starting from protection against herbivores and being natural insecticides to pro-health functions in human nutrition. Many of these compounds contain sulfur in their structure. From the point of view of food producers, it is extremely important to know that some of them have flavor properties. Volatile sulfur compounds are often potent odorants, and in many vegetables, belonging mainly to Brassicaeae and Allium (Amaryllidaceae), sulfur compounds determine their specific flavor. Interestingly, some of the pathways that form volatile sulfur compounds in vegetables are also found in selected edible mushrooms. The most important odor-active organosulfur compounds can be divided into isothiocyanates, nitriles, epithionitriles, thiols, sulfides, and polysulfides, as well as others, such as sulfur containing carbonyl compounds and esters, R-L-cysteine sulfoxides, and finally heterocyclic sulfur compounds found in shiitake mushrooms or truffles. This review paper summarizes their precursors and biosynthesis, as well as their sensory properties and changes in selected technological processes.
Through Plane Networked Graphene Oxide/Polyester Hybrid Thermal Interface Material for Heat Management Applications

ABSTRACT The role of electronic devices in our lives is increasing rapidly, with more research focusing on miniaturization, creating more demand for thermal interface materials (TIM). Grease-based TIM presently available have good thermal conductivity values, but issues such as contamination, pump-out, and an additional curing step are observed. Fibrous textile substrates are soft and flexible, making them suitable for occupying the asperities between the heat sink and heat-producing devices. However, they are insulating in nature and can be made conductive using conductive fillers such as graphene oxide (GO). In this article, a networked through-plane thermally conductive TIM using the cutting waste of polyester and GO was fabricated. The methodology involved functionalizing the PET substrate and studying its interaction with GO. A networked GO/PET, (N-GOPET) hybrid TIM was fabricated from waste PET with good through-plane heat conduction performance, softness, and cuttability as a promising replacement for grease-based TIM.
Influence Factors on Consumers’ Instant Cross-buying under Supermarkets’ Cross-border Integration: From the Perspective of the Elaboration Likelihood Model

Supermarkets’ cross-border integration, as an innovative format for the transformation and upgrading of traditional supermarkets, has been increasingly favored by enterprises recently. However, whether the cross-border integration of supermarkets encourages consumers to cross-buy is still a largely unexplored field. This study introduces the central and peripheral paths of the elaboration likelihood model and two mediating variables of consumers’ attitudes and herd mentality to explore the potential mechanism of consumers’ instant cross-buying intentions against the background of supermarkets’ cross-border integration. It takes consumers who purchase in cross-border integrated supermarkets as the research object. The empirical findings show that on the central path, perceived product quality and perceived fit have positive impacts on consumers’ attitudes, which then enhances their instant cross-buying intentions. Further, on the peripheral path, store image, and social interaction have positive impacts on consumers’ herd mentality, which then raises their instant cross-buying intentions.
Effects of Anthropogenic Forcings on Multidecadal Variability of the Sea Level Around the Japanese Coast Simulated by MRI‐ESM2.0 for CMIP6

The observed sea level (SL) around the Japanese coast shows a peculiar multidecadal variation with the peak in the 1950s followed by the gradual fall until the 1970s and the rebound continuing to the present, making the recent SL rise less remarkable in the historical record. The multidecadal SL variability of an ensemble mean of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 historical simulations using the Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0 (MRI‐ESM2.0) compares well with the observation and is greater than the piControl one, implying the observed variability could be a forced one. The MRI‐ESM2.0 simulations for the Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project suggest the increase in anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse gases caused the fall and rise of the SL, respectively. Additional sensitivity runs indicate the surface heat loss in the North Pacific due to anthropogenic aerosols plays a dominant role in the SL fall.
Developing a framework for a global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity

ABSTRACT Between and within different world regions today religious diversity remains a significant challenge and researchers have identified a wide variety of church-state relations as well as of legal, institutional, and political arrangements related to state-religion connections. These variations in type and degree owe something to distinctive political, institutional, theological, and historical inheritances and have led to different normative conceptions of secularism and of state-religion relations and connections. This first contribution begins by mapping the ground of existing conceptions of secularism and state-religion connections. Our discussion first assesses normative approaches that emanate from ‘the West’ as well as from perspectives outside of ‘the West’ (such as India), and which might directly challenge the former. It then turns to outline a new framework of five modes of governance of religious diversity, presenting each in relation to a series of constitutive features or norms that characterise it and which distinguish it from other modes. This typology of modes forms the basis of the intra- and inter-regional comparative analyses presented in the regionally focused contributions to this collection. We finally provide an overview of these contributions and their application of the typology.
Diversity and Genetic Structure of Dicksonia navarrensis (Dicksoniaceae) Populations in the Mexican Sierra Madre Oriental

Background and Research Aims Dicksonia navarrensis is a species of tree fern at risk of extinction, distributed in the montane cloud forest (MCF) of the Americas from the central region of Mexico to Ecuador. In Mexico, populations of this species grow in primary vegetation of the MCF, in a matrix with a high degree of fragmentation and under threat of disappearance. Methods In the present study, the diversity and genetic structure of seven populations of D. navarrensis that are distributed in the cloud forest of the Sierra Madre Oriental were evaluated, with both standard laboratory and statistical analysis techniques, using 11 microsatellites developed for the genus Dicksonia. Results A total of 33 alleles were found. Genetic diversity differed between populations, and some presented low heterozygosity. Using assignment tests, three genetic groups were identified, associated with the geographical distribution of the populations; those from the north maintain connectivity with each other but diverge highly from the populations in the south, probably due to processes of isolation by distance (local environment), genetic drift, and natural selection. Conclusion The northernmost population, which is more isolated from the rest, has a broader genetic reservoir, which can be useful for maintaining the genetic diversity of the species. In the other populations, with less genetic diversity, the introduction of individuals and/or the dispersion of spores is important, to maintain and increase the genetic variability that they still possess, but which could disappear in a short time if their habitat continues to deteriorate at a high degree. Implications for Conservation The results obtained provide basic information that can be used in management and conservation plans, because the populations with the greatest genetic diversity and the possible processes that are influencing the genetic structure of the species were identified.
Impact of Investor Sentiment on Portfolio

ABSTRACT This study integrated investor sentiment into the binary system of the mean-variance portfolio model, to clarify the method affecting asset pricing through investor sentiment. The theoretical deduction and empirical research demonstrated that, investor sentiment can promote the vertical movement of the minimum variance set. This can lead to effective portfolio drift and subsequent changes in the investor recognized required rate of return. These findings, verified through theoretical conclusions and empirical evidence, explain investors’ extrapolated expectations and their behavior in positive feedback trading.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis Among Young Israeli Adults

Abstract Background No updated data currently exist regarding Neisseria meningitidis carriage and genomic epidemiology among young Israeli adults. Methods Oropharyngeal swabs were collected from 1801 military recruits on the day of recruitment during 2019. Neisseria meningitidis was detected and identified by culture and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Confirmed isolates were serotyped by qPCR, and encapsulated strains underwent whole-genome sequencing. Risk factors for carriage were determined by analyzing focused questionnaires using uni- and multivariate models. Genomic typing was performed by means of core genome multilocus sequence typing. Results Carriage rates overall and of encapsulated strains were 20.1% and 6.7%, respectively. Genogroups B (49.2%) and Y (26.7%) were the most commonly encapsulated strains. Genogroups C, W, and X were scarce, and genogroup A was absent. The most notable clonal complexes (CCs) were CC23 (n = 30), CC32 (n = 16), and CC44/41 (n = 9). Carriage was significantly associated with smoking (odds ratio [OR], 1.82; 95% CI, 1.43–2.33) and boarding school attendance before recruitment (OR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.14–1.96). Conclusions The prevalence of meningococcal carriage among young Israeli adults is high, compared with similar studies in other developed countries. This might be due to sociocultural characteristics including smoking and boarding school attendance during and after high school. The dominant genogroups and CCs found were compatible with those implicated in invasive disease in Israel.
Single and Multiplex Immunohistochemistry to Detect Platelets and Neutrophils in Rat and Porcine Tissues

Platelet–neutrophil complexes (PNCs) occur during the inflammatory response to trauma and infections, and their interactions enable cell activation that can lead to tissue destruction. The ability to identify the accumulation and tissue localisation of PNCs is necessary to further understand their role in the organs associated with blast-induced shock wave trauma. Relevant experimental lung injury models often utilise pigs and rats, species for which immunohistochemistry protocols to detect platelets and neutrophils have yet to be established. Therefore, monoplex and multiplex immunohistochemistry protocols were established to evaluate the application of 22 commercially available antibodies to detect platelet (nine rat and five pig) and/or neutrophil (four rat and six pig) antigens identified as having potential selectivity for porcine or rat tissue, using lung and liver sections taken from models of polytrauma, including blast lung injury. Of the antibodies evaluated, one antibody was able to detect rat neutrophil elastase (on frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) sections), and one antibody was successful in detecting rat CD61 (frozen sections only); whilst one antibody was able to detect porcine MPO (frozen and FFPE sections) and antibodies, targeting CD42b or CD49b antigens, were able to detect porcine platelets (frozen and FFPE and frozen, respectively). Staining procedures for platelet and neutrophil antigens were also successful in detecting the presence of PNCs in both rat and porcine tissue. We have, therefore, established protocols to allow for the detection of PNCs in lung and liver sections from porcine and rat models of trauma, which we anticipate should be of value to others interested in investigating these cell types in these species.
Resilient Consensus for Networked Lagrangian Systems With Disturbances and DoS Attacks

In this article, we consider the resilient consensus control problem of multiple Euler–Lagrange systems in the presence of external disturbances and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which have bounded duration and frequency. Unlike the most existing methods for linear multiagent systems, the strong nonlinearity, and unknown disturbances of multiple Euler–Lagrange systems make the resilient control problem under DoS attacks be more challenging and still not well explored. To this end, an adaptive control scheme is first proposed with a robust sliding mode-like term to handle the unknown bounded external disturbances. In addition, an auxiliary system is designed by using the sampled neighboring information to achieve resilience to DoS attacks. Sufficient conditions are presented by using Lyapunov and small-gain approaches. Finally, simulation results are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed resilient consensus control approach.
Colonoscopic Screening and Risk of All-Cause and Colorectal Cancer Mortality in Young and Older Individuals

Purpose The incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) and associated mortality have been increasing. However, the potential benefits of CRC screening are largely unknown in young individuals. We aimed to evaluate the effect of CRC screening with colonoscopy on all-cause and CRC mortality among young (aged < 45 years) and older (aged ≥ 45 years) individuals. Materials and Methods This cohort study included 528,046 Korean adults free of cancer at baseline who underwent a comprehensive health examination. The colonoscopic screening group was defined as those who reported undergoing colonoscopy for CRC screening. Mortality follow-up until December 31, 2019 was ascertained based on nationwide death certificate data from the Korea National Statistical Office. Results Colonoscopic screening was associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality in both young and older individuals. Multivariable-adjusted time-dependent hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for all-cause mortality comparing ever-to never-screening were 0.86 (0.75–0.99) for young individuals and 0.71 (0.65–0.78) for older individuals. Colonoscopic screenings were also associated with a reduced risk of CRC mortality without significant interaction by age, although this association was significant only among participants aged ≥ 45 years, with corresponding time-dependent hazard ratios of 0.47 (0.15–1.44) for young individuals and 0.52 (0.31–0.87) for those aged ≥ 45 years. Conclusion Colonoscopic CRC screening decreased all-cause mortality among both young and older individuals, while significantly decreased CRC mortality was observed only in those aged ≥ 45 years. Screening initiation at an earlier age warrants more rigorous confirmatory studies.
The Influence of Technostress on Cyberslacking of College Students in Technology-Enhanced Learning: Mediating Effects of Deficient Self-Control and Burnout

College students frequently experience technostress and engage in cyberslacking whilst participating in technology-enhanced learning (TEL). This research aimed to investigate the influence mechanism of technostress on college students’ cyberslacking. This research recruited 634 students from two Chinese colleges to complete a web-based questionnaire adapted from previous research. Structural equation modelling was adopted and the research results showed that: in TEL (1) college students’ technostress significantly and positively affected cyberslacking; (2) deficient self-control partially mediated college students’ technostress and cyberslacking; (3) burnout partially mediated college students’ technostress and cyberslacking; and (4) deficient self-control and burnout played a chain mediating role between college students’ technostress and cyberslacking. These findings improve our understanding of the influence college students’ technostress has on cyberslacking in TEL, and several suggestions to reduce college students’ cyberslacking in TEL are proposed.
A strong uniform boundedness principle in Banach spaces

We discuss the term "thick" set. With the help of this term we deduce a strong Uniform Boundedness Principle valid for all Banach spaces. As an application we give a new proof of Seever's theorem. 1. DEFINITIONS AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS In this paper X is a Banach space. In [3] the notion of a "thin" set was introduced. It turns out that if a bounded set A C X is not thin, then for any Banach space Y, any T E L(Y, X) onto A has to be onto X. Further, "not thin" is the weakest general condition such that "onto A" implies "onto X". It is natural to ask for the weakest general condition to be put on a bounded set A to assure that pointwise boundedness of a family of operators in L(X, Y) implies uniform boundedness. The Banach-Steinhaus theorem tells us that "second category" is a sufficient condition, but the Nikodrm boundedness theorem shows that a uniform boundedness principle is true under weaker conditions, in particular spaces at least. Our main result in this paper is that "not thin" is the condition sought for this problem as well. Since, for our purposes at least, "not thin" seems to be more important than "thin", we prefer to use the terms "thin" and "thick" instead of "thin" and "not thin". Definition 1.1. A bounded set B C X is called non-norming for X* if inf sup If(x) I 0. fCSx* xCzB A bounded set C C X is called thin if it is the countable union of an increasing family of sets which are non-norming for X*. If a bounded set C is not thin, we will call it thick. In [3] Kadets and Fonf showed that there is an "open mapping principle" associated to thickness: Theorem 1.1. Suppose B C X is bounded. Then the following are equivalent statements: 1) For all Banach spaces Y and all T E L2(Y, X) with TY D B, we have TY = X. Received by the editors October 9, 1997 and, in revised form, May 13, 1998 and June 1, 1999. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 46B20; Secondary 28A33.