Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Foreign Investment and Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence From the Shanghai (Shenzhen)–Hong Kong Stock Connect

This article investigates the impact of heterogeneous foreign investment on home market stock price informativeness. Evidence from China’s nascent A-share market shows non-segmented foreign investment reduces firms’ stock return synchronicity, while segmented foreign investment does not. Using the Shanghai (Shenzhen)–Hong Kong Stock Connect program as a natural experiment that exogenously increases non-segmented foreign ownership, we find that synchronicity drops significantly for program stocks relative to the control stocks. Our results are most consistent with an “informed trading” explanation, rather than a “learning” or “governance” explanation. These results have policy implications for stock market liberalization programs.
Drivers of neutral and adaptive differentiation in pike (Esox lucius) populations from contrasting environments

Understanding how eco‐evolutionary processes and environmental factors drive population differentiation and adaptation are key challenges in evolutionary biology of relevance for biodiversity protection. Differentiation requires at least partial reproductive separation, which may result from different modes of isolation such as geographic isolation (allopatry) or isolation by distance (IBD), resistance (IBR), and environment (IBE). Despite that multiple modes might jointly influence differentiation, studies that compare the relative contributions are scarce. Using RADseq, we analyse neutral and adaptive genetic diversity and structure in 11 pike (Esox lucius) populations from contrasting environments along a latitudinal gradient (54.9–63.6°N), to investigate the relative effects of IBD, IBE and IBR, and to assess whether the effects differ between neutral and adaptive variation, or across structural levels. Patterns of neutral and adaptive variation differed, probably reflecting that they have been differently affected by stochastic and deterministic processes. The importance of the different modes of isolation differed between neutral and adaptive diversity, yet were consistent across structural levels. Neutral variation was influenced by interactions among all three modes of isolation, with IBR (seascape features) playing a central role, wheares adaptive variation was mainly influenced by IBE (environmental conditions). Taken together, this and previous studies suggest that it is common that multiple modes of isolation interactively shape patterns of genetic variation, and that their relative contributions differ among systems. To enable identification of general patterns and understand how various factors influence the relative contributions, it is important that several modes are simultaneously investigated in additional populations, species and environmental settings.
Impact of Distillery Effluent on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Vertisol of Central India

ABSTRACT Distilleries produce a huge quantity of effluents, popularly known as spent wash (SW), which when bio-methanated produce post-methanation effluents (PME). A field experiment on soybean–wheat system was conducted for five consecutive years in a Vertisol of central India to evaluate the effect of distillery effluent (DE) on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics. Ten treatment combinations consisting of control, 100% NPK + Farmyard Manure (FYM), and graded level of SW and PME were applied. Total carbon content of soil increased significantly with applications of FYM and DE. SW was found superior in enhancing carbon content of soil in comparison to PME. Farmyard Manure contributed more carbon toward the recalcitrant pool, whereas DE contributed more carbon toward the active and slow pool. Nitrogen (N) availability was significantly improved with the application of DE. Balanced application of DE may act as amendment for increasing C and N stocks in Vertisol.
Simulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasma Under High-Power Microwave Illumination

This letter focuses on the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic wave in the plasma under high-power microwave (HPM) illumination. A multiphysical method coupling the electromagnetic field and plasma fluid field is proposed as the dynamic Drude model. The differences between the method based on dynamic Drude model and traditional static Drude model are discussed theoretically for the first time. Unlike the static Drude model, the dynamic Drude model fully considers the motion of electrons in plasma driven by electromagnetic field. Numerical examples demonstrate that both the dynamic Drude model-based and static Drude model-based method are consistent with each other under low power microwave illumination, where the plasma can be considered as a static media. While under HPM illumination, electrons gradually gather together to hinder the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Hence, the proposed dynamic Drude model is more logical to analyze the characteristics of electromagnetic wave in plasma than the traditional static Drude model under HPM illumination.
‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience

This study investigates how music is represented in musical-themed manga by visual components referred to as ‘visualized music’, and how embodied mechanisms of musical experience conceive these visual manifestations. Using Šorm and Steen’s (2018) Visual Metaphor Identification Procedure (VISMIP), the authors discovered four metaphors, and seven metonymies and ‘manpu’ (i.e. iconic signs used in manga) that are widely applied in visualizing music. In addition, they incorporated Juslin and Västfjäll’s (2008) framework and further proposed five major embodied mechanisms of musical experience: (1) brain stem reflex, (2) emotional contagion, (3) visual imagery, (4) emotional memory related to music, and (5) musical expectancy. Their results showed that these embodied mechanisms are the foundations of visualized music. The brain stem reflex, the underlying structure of most metonymies and manpu, triggers us to represent some acoustic characteristics by using sound symbolic components. These include emotional contagion-inducing metaphors representing emotional responses, such as ‘MUSIC/EMOTION IS WEATHER’, which further entails their acoustic characteristics and visual imagery, the most important mechanism, basing our overall comprehension of music and metaphorical mapping between music and image-schemata. Readers also use emotional simulations to understand the visual imagery that further constructs their impressions toward music, emotional memory grounding manifestations related to music used to build background stories and intensify reader empathy, and lastly, musical expectancy, involving the ability of prediction and consciousness, usually associated with ‘MUSIC IS LIGHT’. In this way, this study sheds light on our overall understanding of audio-visual cross-modality, musical experience, metaphor and embodied experience.
Risk factors associated with mortality in hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a meta-analysis

ABSTRACT Background Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) related deaths have increased substantially in recent years. It is important to identify the risk factors of HP significantly associated with mortality to ensure close patient monitoring and assess disease progression. Research design and methods Extensive literature search was conducted in accordance with the PRISMA checklist. Literature search of PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library database between January 2009 and April 2021 using the terms ‘hypersensitivity pneumonitis’, ‘hazard ratio’, and ‘mortality’ identified 325 articles. A total of 22 independent original studies focusing on mortality of HP patients were assessed. Results This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that increased age, male sex, honeycombing, and traction bronchiectasis patterns on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images are the major mortality-related risk factors of patients with HP. In case of chronic HP, antigen exposure appeared to be an additional risk factor. Conclusions The clinico-radiological risk factors of mortality identified for HP will enable effective and close monitoring of patients, prognostication, and guide toward appropriate management decisions. However, association between the type of antigen and mortality remains to be explored.
Functional assessment of canine lung transplants by radioisotope lung scanning procedures.

Thirty-four dogs with left lung allografts, 21 of which were fresh and 13 preserved, and 14 dogs with autografts were studied sequentially by radioisotope inhalation and perfusion lung scanning procedures. Allografts and autografts were found to function well immediately after operation. In autografts, both ventilation and perfusion were well maintained during the period of study. In allografts, ventilation deteriorated sooner and more markedly than perfusion. The ventilation-perfusion index decreased more rapidly and to a greater degree in the preserved transplants than in the fresh allografts. Partial bronchial obstruction at the bronchial anastomotic site was indicated on the aerosol inhalation scan as an area of excessive radioactive deposition. Such findings occurred transiently in allografts and autografts in the immediate postoperative period as a result of edema, at the time of rejection (7 to 30 days) in allografts, and many months postoperatively in autografts as a result of bronchostenosis by s.
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This document analyzes the link between teenagers at the end of the sixties and the cultural expression specifically of rock music in the following two decades, understanding this genre through the exchange of cultural goods, the social discourses that were able to generate from various categories, social practices, propagation of the sound itself and the influence of other musical genres. To this end, I will address a selection of texts that I believe have contributed to shaping them through the emphases and silences outlined in the study of this culture in Colombia, which imply a way of reading and interpreting based on historical data; the dynamics in which it will be studied proposes to draw new lines
Combination Effect of Temperature and Light Intensity on Lipid Productivity of Tetradesmus obliquus

Lipid enhancement is important to reduce production cost thus increasing the commercial values of microalgal biofuel production. Physical stress such as temperature and light intensity are known to increase lipid productivity because these factors might affect the phase transition of lipid, macromolecule formation and physiochemical reactions of microalgae. In this study, the effect of light intensity and temperature on lipid productivity of Tetradesmus obliquus was studied. T.obliquus UPSI-JRM02 was cultured in BG11 media at different temperature range (25–40°C) and light intensity (4000–30000 lux), respectively, within 14 days of growth period. The highest lipid productivity was obtained at temperature and light intensity of 36°C and 23500 lux. At this condition, 27 mg/L/day of lipid productivity and 23% of total lipid was successfully produced. The result shows the possibility of increasing T.obliquus lipid productivity by giving physical stress to the cell.
Relative Contribution of ULF Waves and Whistler‐Mode Chorus to the Radiation Belt Variation During the May 2017 Storm

We investigate the time and location where ULF waves and whistler‐mode chorus contributed to the net flux enhancement of relativistic electrons during the magnetic storm of May 2017. During the early recovery phase, both ULF and chorus waves contribute to the enhancement of relativistic electron fluxes, but ULF waves play roles of the inward diffusion. During the late recovery phase, both Van Allen Probe‐B and Arase show that whistler‐mode chorus contributes to the flux enhancement confined in the L‐value. The CRCM coupled with BATS‐R‐US simulation qualitatively reproduces the global evolution of ULF waves. Although the electron flux is underestimated by the simulation, this study reveals a large anisotropy of hot electrons in the region where whistler‐mode chorus waves were actually observed by satellites. In addition, the estimated magnetic field curvature on the dayside is small during the recovery phase. Furthermore, we investigate the control of wave evolution. Both observations and the simulation suggest that the observed ULF waves in the frequency range of ∼2–5 mHz are excited by the enhancement of the solar wind dynamic pressure. Observations also indicate that whistler‐mode chorus on the nightside is predominantly excited by hot electrons with temperature anisotropy, whereas the dayside chorus is enhanced by the change of the magnetic field line configuration. The estimated spatial distributions of electron anisotropy and magnetic field curvature provide an explanation for the presence of enhanced whistler‐mode chorus in the dusk sector, which is far from the usual location of wave generation.
Alterations in Effective Connectivity of the Hippocampus in Migraine without Aura

Purpose Neuroimaging studies on migraine have revealed structural and functional alterations in the hippocampus, a region involved in pain processing and stress response. This study was designed to investigate whether effective connectivity of this region is disrupted in migraine and relates to chronicity of this disease. Patients and Methods In 39 episodic migraine (EM) patients, 17 chronic migraine (CM) patients, and 35 healthy controls, we investigated differences in the directional influences between the hippocampus and the rest of the brain by combining resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and Granger causality analysis (GCA), with bilateral hippocampus as seed regions. The associations between directional influences and the clinical variables were also examined. Results Comparing each patient group to the control group, we found increased and decreased negative influence on the hippocampus exerted by the bilateral visual areas and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), respectively. The hippocampus showed increased positive influence on the right posterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), as well as increased negative influence on the left cerebellum in CM patients relative to EM patients and healthy controls. Furthermore, across all patients, the migraine frequency exhibited a positive and negative association with causal influence from the hippocampus to mPFC and left cerebellum, respectively. Conclusion Migraine patients have abnormal effective connectivity between the hippocampus and multiple brain regions involved in the sensory and cognitive processing of pain. Disrupted directional influences to the hippocampus exerted by dlPFC and bilateral visual areas were common features of EM and CM patients. Directional influences from the hippocampus to mPFC and left cerebellum may be useful imaging biomarkers for assessing migraine frequency.
Effect of dietary iron on copper metabolism in sheep

A series of experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of dietary iron (Fe), sulphur (S) and breed on copper (Cu) metabolism and performance of growing lambs. In the first study (present ed in C hapter 3) , a basal diet containing 487.6 mg/kg DM Fe and 4 g/kg DM S, supplement ed with 0, 250, 500, and 750 mg/kg DM Fe were given to weaned Texel lambs to investigate effect s on Cu status, performance and nutrient balance . There was no effects of dietary treatments on lamb performance. Dietary supplemental Fe significantly reduced liver Cu storage but increased liver Fe storage of lambs with the greatest effect observed at 750 mg Fe/kg DM. Dietary supplemental Fe in this study had no effect on other Cu parameters measured. It was also observed that Fe suppl ementation significantly increased plasma Fe concentration but had no effect on other minerals concentration . Supplemental Fe significantly increased urinary Mo output in all lambs receiving Fe but had no effect on the urinary output of other minerals. In t he study present ed in C hapter 4, t hree levels of supplemental S (0, 1.5 and 3 g/kg DM ; basal S = 2.89 g/kg DM ) and two levels of supplemental Fe (0 and 800 mg/kg DM ; basal Fe = 302.3 mg/kg DM ) w ere given to weaned lambs to investigated the effect of diffe rent levels of S with or without Fe on Cu metabolism . Dietary Fe significantly reduced the plasma and liver Cu concentration of lambs after 12 weeks of supplementation . Liver and plasma Fe concentration increased significantly in groups given Fe supplement ed diets. Plasma Mo increased significantly in lambs fed supplemental Fe. Dietary S had no significant effect on liver, plasma or the biliary Cu, Fe, and Mn concentration, but significantly increased biliary Mo concentration in lambs. Ceruloplasmin activit y (Cp) and Cp:Pl - Cu ratio increased in Fe supplemented lambs but Cp activity decreased in group s given S supplemented diets . In the last series of studies ( present ed in C hapter 5) , the effect of dietary Fe and breed of sheep on Cu metabolism was investigat ed. Weaned Scottish Blackface and Texel lambs were fed a basal or Fe supplemented diets (800 mg Fe/kg DM ; basal Fe= 257.5 mg/kg DM ). Dietary Fe reduced plasma Cu but increased plasma Fe and Mo concentration. Scottish Blackface had higher plasma Cu concentr ation than Texel lambs, but Texel lambs had higher plasma Mo concentration than Scottish Blackface lambs. In the second part of this study (experiment 2) , w eaned Swaledale and Texel lambs were fed basal or Fe supplemented diet (368.7 mg/kg DM ; basal Fe= 53 2.4 mg/kg DM ) . Supplemental Fe significantly decreased liver Mo but had no effects on other the liver minerals concentration . Texel lambs retained significantly more Cu in their livers than Swaledale lambs after ten weeks feeding . Plasma Cu and Zn concentr ation decreased significantly in the lambs fed Fe supplements. These studies confirm that Fe is a potent Cu antagonist in sheep and highlights the differences between sheep breeds in their Cu metabolism and responses to antagonists.
Optimization and Single-Stage Centrifugal Contactor Experiments with the Novel Hydrophilic Complexant PyTri-Diol for the i-SANEX Process

ABSTRACT The applicability of 2,6-bis[1-(propan-1-ol)-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)]pyridine (PyTri-Diol) in the innovative Selective ActiNide EXtraction (i-SANEX) process as water-soluble complexing agent was studied. Preliminary batch experiments were aimed at identifying the optimal formulation of the PyTri-Diol solution and at preparing the ground for single-stage centrifugal contactor experiments. A N,N,N′,N′ tetraoctyl diglycolamide (TODGA)-based solvent loaded using a spiked synthetic Plutonium and Uranium Reduction EXtraction raffinate and the optimized PyTri-Diol aqueous phase were contacted in a single-stage annular centrifugal contactor setup with three different flow-rate conditions. No hydrodynamic problems were encountered, and promising minor actinide separation from other cations was achieved with satisfactory kinetics and stage efficiency. The flow sheet of a TODGA–PyTri-Diol-based i-SANEX process was designed exploiting batch and single-stage data, promoting the CHON compliant PyTri-Diol as excellent alternative to the formerly used SO3–Ph–BTP.
Hypertension, vasoactive peptides and coagulation factors.

Circulatory homoeostasis depends on the equilibrium between vasoconstricting and vasodilating forces regulating blood pressure, as well as the equilibrium between procoagulant and fibrinolytic factors regulating blood rheology. Several lines of evidence suggest an interplay of these two functions, so that changes tipping the balance towards increased vasoconstriction and elevation of blood pressure result also in a hypercoagulable state with elevated risk of atherothrombotic cardiovascular events.
Synergistic Action of Antimicrobial Lung Proteins against Klebsiella pneumoniae

As key components of innate immunity, lung antimicrobial proteins play a critical role in warding off invading respiratory pathogens. Lung surfactant protein A (SP-A) exerts synergistic antimicrobial activity with the N-terminal segment of the SP-B proprotein (SP-BN) against Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 in vivo. However, the factors that govern SP-A/SP-BN antimicrobial activity are still unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the mechanisms by which SP-A and SP-BN act synergistically against K. pneumoniae, which is resistant to either protein alone. The effect of these proteins on K. pneumoniae was studied by membrane permeabilization and depolarization assays and transmission electron microscopy. Their effects on model membranes of the outer and inner bacterial membranes were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry and membrane leakage assays. Our results indicate that the SP-A/SP-BN complex alters the ultrastructure of K. pneumoniae by binding to lipopolysaccharide molecules present in the outer membrane, forming packing defects in the membrane that may favor the translocation of both proteins to the periplasmic space. The SP-A/SP-BN complex depolarized and permeabilized the inner membrane, perhaps through the induction of toroidal pores. We conclude that the synergistic antimicrobial activity of SP-A/SP-BN is based on the capability of this complex, but not either protein alone, to alter the integrity of bacterial membranes.
Monitoring of polypeptide content in the solid‐state fermentation process of rapeseed meal using NIRS and chemometrics

School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China ILSI-UG FSNTC, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt Correspondence Ronghai He, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China. Email: heronghai1971@126.com Funding information Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Grant/Award Numbers: BE2016355, BE2016352; Government of Jiangsu Province; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Jiangsu University Abstract This study combined Fourier transform-near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometrics, to monitor changes in peptide content during the solid-state fermentation of rapeseed meal. A NIR calibration model was established by performing spectral scanning on 81 samples and using interval partial least squares. The results showed that coefficient of determination (R) and root mean square error of cross-validation could achieve 0.9441 and 0.654 g/L for polypeptide content. Furthermore, the predicted and experimental values of the two parameters in an external validation set showed similar changes throughout the fermentation.