Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rethinking Yuanlongpo : The Case for Technological Links between the Lingnan (PRC) and Central Thailand in the Bronze Age

The aim of this article is to highlight, on the basis of the material evidence, both the coherence and the eventual weak points of the hypothesis that links early metallurgy in continental Southeast Asia to the 'long shadow' (Higham 2002: 116) cast by the sophisticated bronze industry of northern China related to its socially complex Erlitou-Shang-Zhou cultural sequence of the 2nd-lst millennia B.C.E. The artefacts which we discuss below, in fact, although dated between the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. and the first quarter of the 1st millennium B.C.E. , somehow have been seen as evidence supporting '[. ] the possibility that the Southeast Asian tradition of copper-based metallurgy was initially stimulated by the spread of ideas and goods down the very rivers which introduced the rice farming groups a millennium or so earlier [. ]' (i.e. late 3rd millennium B.C.E.) (Higham 1996:338) Following Higham s hypothesis of a southwards spread of ideas and goods from the Yangzi valley (1996: 337; 2002: 83-85), Rispoli demonstrated (2007) the role played by the network of river systems radiating out and into the Yangzi catchment in the expansion of agricultural communities towards the river plains of continental Southeast Asia, including Thailand. At the same time, scholars generally agree on the hypothesis that the same network favoured the filtering southward of the copper alloy technology, which is attested in the archaeological record as a full blown metallurgical tradition (2) in
Variability in zonal location of winter East Asian jet stream

This study reveals that the winter East Asian jet stream (EAJS) shows a strong variability in its zonal location; this topic has received less attention compared with the EAJS intensity and meridional location variability in previous studies. We show that the mid‐to‐high latitude climate system is mainly responsible for the EAJS eastward shift and the tropical system is closely related with the EAJS westward shift. In the EAJS east‐located years, North Pacific Oscillation undergoes a positive phase, which can enhance the eastern part of the EAJS over the North Pacific, favouring the eastward shift of the EAJS. In the west‐located years, the tropical convection over the Indian Ocean is strong, which can strengthen the zonal angular momentum transport from the Tropics to subtropical westerly belt. Consequently, the western part of the EAJS enhances and the EAJS shifts westward. In addition, the east‐located EAJS is related to the intensified Aleutian Low and East Asian trough, and thus, Northeast China, Korean Peninsula, and Japan experience low temperatures. On the other hand, the west‐located EAJS is associated with the weakened mid‐Asian ridge and cold‐temperature advection over southern East Asia, and thus, regions from mid‐Asia southeastward to southern China experience cold temperatures. Therefore, the zonal location of the EAJS is a potentially good index of the northern or southern East Asian anomalous temperature pattern.
Verification of the four-week intervention program "life in balance" in a selected group of seniors in the online environment during the covid-19 pandemic

The study was realised within the project GAČR 17–25710S „Basic research of changes in the balance of seniors“. The main goal of the study was to verify the four-week intervention program "Life in Balance" in a selected group of senior females in an online environment during the Covid-19 pandemic. The partial goal was to determine the effects of relaxation after exercise at the bio-psycho-social level based on selected methods. The research was carried out in accordance with the above project. According the intervention method “Life in Balance” focused on elderly persons 65+ (origin of the project GAČR 17–25710S 4) four educational videos of 35 to 40 minutes were develop. The research survey was attended by 7 females aged 65 -79 years. The common feature of the monitored group was the age over 65 years, residence in Prague and no or minimal experience with yoga practice. The following diagnostic methods were used: scenario, educational videos and two standardized questionnaires (POMS and SF-36), which were applied before and after the intervention. Results proved positive changes in all monitored dimensions of POMS. There was a significant increase in the vitality score of the monitored subjects. Positive significant changes in the subjective assessment SF-36 were found in physical, mental and social balance scores in monitored subjects. It may be to recommend the intervention program "Life in Balance" for the work of wellness specialists and other experts which work professionally with elderly 65+, and for the next research observation.
The RAPID-score: Risk Assessment and PredIction of Delirium in acute stroke patients based on very early clinical parameters

Background and objective Post-stroke delirium (PSD) is a common complication in acute stroke patients, and guidelines recommend routine screening and various preventive and treatment measures. However, there is a substantial lack of standardized approaches in diagnostic and therapeutic management of PSD. Here, we aimed to develop a new pragmatic and easily assessable screening tool to predict PSD based on early parameters, which are already integral to acute stroke diagnostics. Methods We enrolled acute stroke patients admitted to our stroke unit or intensive care unit and developed the scoring system using retrospective single-center patient data. The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit was used for prospective score validation. Logistic regression models were employed to analyze the association of early clinical and paraclinical parameters with PSD development. Results N = 525 patients (median age: 76 years; 45.7% female) were enrolled, with 29.7% developing PSD during hospitalization. The resulting score comprises 6 items, including medical history, clinical examination findings, and non-contrast computed tomography results at admission. Scores range from −15 to +15 points, with higher values indicating a higher likelihood of PSD, ranging from 4% to 79%. The accuracy was 0.85, and the area under the curve was 0.89. Conclusion The new RAPID (Risk Assessment and PredIction of Delirium in acute stroke patients)-score shows high accuracy in predicting PSD among acute stroke patients and offers precise odds of PSD for each corresponding score value, utilizing routine early clinical and paraclinical parameters. It can identify high-risk populations for clinical study interventions and may be suitable to guide prophylactic PSD measures.
In Vitro Study of the Effect of Vanillin Derivatives on Aryl Esterase, Troponine and Lipid Profile in Atherosclerosis Patients as Compared to Normal Subjects

The study describes the effect of vanillin derivative on the activity of aryl esterase in vitro. After that, the Estimated effectiveness of the enzyme aryl esterase, troponin T, and lipids. The research included the collection of 120 blood samples distributed to 60 blood samples of healthy people as a control group and 60 blood samples of patients with atherosclerosis who were diagnosed under the supervision of specialized doctors at Salah Eddin General Hospital / Catheterization Unit. Results showed that the vanillin derivative has an invigorating effect on the activity of aryl esterase, and that the degree of enzyme activation increases with the increase in the concentration of the derivative, while there was lower with a probability level (P≤ 0.0006) in the activity of aryl esterase from the serum of patients with atherosclerosis in addition, a significant increase at the probability level ( P ≤ 0.001) in the level of total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-C and VLDL-C, while there was decrease at the probability level (P ≤ 0.0004) in the level of HDL-C. Keywords: Aryl esterase, Vanillin derivative, Lipids, Atherosclerosis.
Empowering Healthcare through Precision Medicine: Unveiling the Nexus of Social Factors and Trust

This study investigated the impact of social factors on the acceptance of precision medicine (PM) using a quantitative survey grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework. The findings revealed that social influence has a significantly positive effect on PM acceptance, while the influence of social media is found to be insignificant. Performance expectancy emerged as the most influential factor, demonstrating a significant relationship with PM acceptance. Trust plays a crucial moderating role, mitigating the impact of social factors on PM acceptance. While exploring the mediating effects of trust, we identified a significant mediation effect for social influence and performance expectancy on PM acceptance. However, the mediation effect of social media influence is insignificant. These findings highlight the importance of trust in shaping decisions regarding PM acceptance. These findings have significant implications for healthcare practitioners and policymakers aiming to promote the adoption of precision medicine in clinical practice.
International charitable connections: Variation in the countries of operation of overseas charities

Charities are long-established and increasingly prominent non-state actors in social policy. However, these organisations remain understudied within social policy research, particularly their presence in the delivery of global social policy. This paper provides new cross-national evidence about charities operating internationally. It makes use of a comprehensive administrative dataset covering the country of operation of every overseas charity registered in England and Wales, Australia, and Canada. The international connections of charities are extensive, and these organisations are much more likely to work in countries with shared colonial and linguistic ties, and less likely to work in those with poor governance or high levels of corruption. This paper goes beyond a binary focus on either “developing” or “developed” country contexts, and provides insight into the international connections of “non-elite” as well as “elite” social policy actors.
Fusion of SoftLexicon and RoBERTa for Purpose-Driven Electronic Medical Record Named Entity Recognition

Recently, researchers have extensively explored various methods for electronic medical record named entity recognition, including character-based, word-based, and hybrid methods. Nonetheless, these methods frequently disregard the semantic context of entities within electronic medical records, leading to the creation of subpar-quality clinical knowledge bases and obstructing the discovery of clinical knowledge. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel purpose-driven SoftLexicon-RoBERTa-BiLSTM-CRF (SLRBC) model for electronic medical records named entity recognition. SLRBC leverages the fusion of SoftLexicon and RoBERTa to incorporate the word lexicon information from electronic medical records into the character representations, enhancing the model’s semantic embedding representations. This purpose-driven approach helps achieve a more comprehensive representation and avoid common segmentation errors, consequently boosting the accuracy of entity recognition. Furthermore, we employ the classical BiLSTM-CRF framework to capture contextual information of entities more effectively. In order to assess the performance of SLRBC, a series of experiments on the public datasets of CCKS2018 and CCKS2019 were conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that SLRBC can efficiently extract entities from Chinese electronic medical records. The model attains F1 scores of 94.97% and 85.40% on CCKS2018 and CCKS2019, respectively, exhibiting outstanding performance in the extraction and utilization efficiency of clinical information.
Does debt moderate the impact of family commissioner boards on company performance in Indonesia?

This study aims to investigate the influence of family commissioner boards (FCBs) on the operational efficiency of companies in Indonesia that use debt as a control tool, which includes bank and non-bank debt. Using the two-step GMM-First Difference estimation method, the research sample consists of 121 family-owned companies using unbalanced panel data from 2009 to 2018. This investigation produces several significant findings. Firstly, the results of the analysis show that the presence of family representatives on the board of commissioners has a negative impact on overall company performance. These observations suggest that FCBs may prioritize the interests of family shareholders over minority shareholders, which indicates entrenchment behavior. Second, the analytical results reveal that debt plays a moderating role in the influence of FCB on company performance. Debt acts as a deterrent to entrenchment behavior, thereby improving firm performance. Third, the results of the analysis did not find significant differences in FCB entrenchment behavior between companies that have bank debt and companies that have non-bank debt. These findings have significant policy implications for regulatory bodies in Indonesia regarding the governance of family-owned companies. It is vital to establish a mechanism for appointing family members to the board of commissioners that protects the interests of all shareholders and promotes a fairer corporate landscape.
Pavement Analysis with the Consideration of Unbound Granular Material Nonlinearity

Accurate pavement design and evaluation requires the execution of response analysis. Pavement materials’ behavior does not necessarily conform to the assumptions of the multi-linear elastic theory usually adopted during pavement analysis. In particular, the unbound granular materials located in the base and sub-base layers behave in a nonlinear elastic manner, which can be captured through advanced constitutive modeling of their resilient modulus. The finite element method enables us to code constitutive models and quantify potential variations in pavement responses because of different mechanistic assumptions. In this study, variations in response are investigated for a typical structure of a flexible pavement considering the nonlinear anisotropic behavior of the unbound materials together with their initial stress–strain state. To demonstrate the impact of their behavior on the outcome of pavement analysis, variable asphalt concrete layer thicknesses and moduli are assumed, such that they cover a large spectrum of roadways. It was found that pavement responses can be calculated up to 3.5 times higher than those retrieved from the conventional linear analysis. This comparison means that the alterative mechanistic modeling of the unbound granular materials can be proved to be more conservative (i.e., leading to higher strains) in terms of pavement design and analysis. From a practical perspective, this study alerts pavement scientists and engineers engaged in pavement design to a more reliable performance prediction, which is needed to bridge the gap between advanced modeling and routine analysis.
Gender Construction in the Chinese Fandom of Korean Pop Culture: A Case Study of BTS and BLACKPINK Fans

This research delves into the influence exerted by BTS and BLACKPINK, prominent K-pop idol groups, on Chinese K-pop fans’ perceptions of gender, gender equality, and inclusivity. Employing data collected through a comprehensive survey distributed among a diverse cohort of fans (35 young Chinese K- pop fans), the study examines the impact of these musical phenomena’s image and temperament on their Chinese followers’ conceptualization of gender constructs and roles. A transformation from traditional binary notions of gender is revealed, that is, most respondents ascribe gender to a complex interplay of biological sex and social constructs. Besides, Fans’ enthusiasm for gender temperaments, in particular, exhibits subtle patterns that resonate with K-pop’s acceptance of a variety of gender presentations. Overall, this study substantiates the pivotal role of popular music acts in shaping Chinese K-pop fans’ contemporary conceptions of gender and fostering a climate of inclusivity, as well as underscoring the vital importance of taking cultural context into account when interpreting gender representations in K-pop.
Climate and land use changes: similarity in range and abundance changes of birds in Finland and Great Britain

Climate change and human land use are causing changes to species ranges and abundances. However, factors influencing the species-specific speed and direction of changes are not well understood. In addition, intra-specific variation in the responses has rarely been investigated and thus it is not known if the same species show similar population changes in different areas. We compared the rate of changes in range size (since the 1970s) and population abundance (since the 1980s) as well as shifts in mean weighted latitude of range (since the 1970s) and density (since the 1990s) among the same bird species in Finland and Great Britain, two countries that share similar north– south climatic gradients. Similar responses between countries could indicate that climate change is causing parallel changes in species’ ranges and abundances in the countries. Furthermore, we tested whether the responses differed between habitat types, which could indicate that local habitat availability and land use may be more important than climate change. Wetland species showed parallel range size change in the wo countries, but no such connection was found in open and forested habitats. Population abundance trends were also parallel in both countries and northern species showed more negative population trends than southern species. The speed of change in species’ average latitudes was positively correlated between the two countries when using occurrence data, but negatively correlated when using species density. Species that show similar changes in population sizes in Finland and Great Britain, that are likely caused by large scale population drivers, such as climate change. However, speed of latitudinal shifts in species’ densities were not connected between the two countries. These potential differences are likely driven by spatial variation in land use changes and habitat availability.
Genetic Diversity of Kırklareli Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Populations in Thrace Region of Turkey: Identification of Mitochondrial COI and ND5 Gene Regions

The main goal of genetic resource conservation is to keep as much genetic diversity as possible within each species. In this respect, some difficulties in the protection of honey bee gene resources make it necessary to reveal the genetic structures of the subspecies and the genetic relationships between the subspecies. In this study, Kırklareli honey bee populations which were officially registered as an ecotype of Turkey’s honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) gene resources by the Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, were examined in the COI and ND5 genes of mitochondrial DNA. The restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) together with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to define Apis mellifera populations. A total of 117 worker bee samples were used which were collected from mostly the Kırklareli province. A newly found single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), G→A transition in the COI gene region formed a novel NcoI restriction site resulting in a new haplotype. This new haplotype has been abbreviated as haplotype C. As a result of the COI/SspI digestion, the previously reported C haplotype was determined. No restriction was found with the treatment of COI/StyI enzyme. On the other hand, as a result of ND5/AluI restriction, 2 restriction site and previously reported haplotype C was obtained in all of the studied samples. No restriction was screened with ND5/FokI and ND5/HincII enzymes in the whole samples, only a reported uncut B haplotype was observed. Within this study, novel genetic information has been revealed for the Kırklareli honey bee ecotype registered as the Thrace honey bee of Turkey’s honey bee gene resources. Moreover, detailed studies with larger sample sizes should be conducted to characterize the origin and the subspecies of Kırklareli honey bees in detail. It is thought that this study will be useful in the identification and registration of the Kırklareli honey bees to be carried out in the future, and also in the creation of a database.
An Explainable Evaluation Model for Building Thermal Comfort in China

The concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases is being amplified by human activity. Building energy consumption, particularly for heating and cooling purposes, constitutes a significant proportion of overall energy demand. This research aims to establish a smart evaluation model to understand the thermal requirements of building occupants based on an open-access dataset. This model is beneficial for making reasonable adjustments to building thermal management, based on factors such as different regions and building user characteristics. Employing Bayesian-optimized LightGBM and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) methods, an explainable machine learning model was developed to evaluate the thermal comfort design of buildings in different areas and with different purpose. Our developed LightGBM model exhibited superior evaluation performance on the test set, outperforming other machine learning models, such as XGBoost and SVR (Support Vector Regression). The SHAP method further helps us to understand the interior evaluation mechanism of the model and the interactive effect among input features. An accurate thermal comfort design for buildings based on the evaluation model can benefit the carbon-neutral strategy.