Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Albedos of Centaurs, Jovian Trojans, and Hildas

We present optical V band albedo distributions for middle solar system minor bodies including Centaurs, Jovian Trojans, and Hildas. Diameters come mostly from the NEOWISE catalog. Optical photometry (H values) for about two-thirds of the ∼2700 objects studied are from Pan-STARRS, supplemented by H values from JPL Horizons (corrected to the Pan-STARRS photometric system). Optical data for Centaurs are from our previously published work. The albedos presented here should be superior to previous work because of the use of the Pan-STARRS optical data, which is a homogeneous data set that has been transformed to standard V magnitudes. We compare the albedo distributions of pairs of samples using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test. We strengthen our previous findings that gray Centaurs have lower albedos than red Centaurs. The gray Centaurs have albedos that are not significantly different from those of the Trojans, suggesting a common origin for Trojans and gray Centaurs. The Trojan L4 and L5 clouds have median albedos that differ by ∼10% at a very high level of statistical significance, but the modes of their albedo distributions differ by only ∼1%. We suggest the presence of a common “true background” in the two clouds, with an additional more reflective component in the L4 cloud. We find, in agreement with Grav et al. that the Hildas are darker than the Trojans by 15%–25%. Perhaps the Hildas are darker because of their passage near perihelion through zone III of the main asteroid belt, which might result in significant darkening by gardening.
Lifetimes, direct and indirect radiative forcing, and global warming potentials of ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), and butane (C4H10)

The atmospheric abundance of the non‐methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) ethane, propane, and butane increased during the industrial era. In addition to weak absorption and emission of longwave radiation, these gases influence the atmospheric radiative balance indirectly, mainly as precursors for ozone (O3), and through reaction with the hydroxyl radical (OH), which leads to less OH and thereby longer atmospheric lifetime of methane (CH4). In this study, we have calculated lifetimes, direct and indirect radiative forcing (RF), and global warming potentials (GWPs) for the three compounds, using a self‐consistent methodology. Results show net RF per unit emission of 1.0, 0.9, and 0.6 mW m−2 (Tg year−1)−1 for ethane, propane, and butane, respectively. For all compounds, the direct effect is considerably smaller than the indirect effects (6% or less of the total). The indirect O3 and CH4 effects are approximately of the same magnitude. Net GWPs for a 100‐year time horizon are 10 for ethane and propane, and 7 for butane, whereof the direct GWPs are <1 for all compounds. The net GWPs are generally higher than previous estimates, mainly because our calculations include emissions for a full year rather than one season. For the compounds studied here, 100‐year GWP values do not differ substantially between each compound, considering the large uncertainties involved, and this may indicate that using values representative for a lump of NMVOCs may be sufficient. However, the climate effects may differ more between NMVOC compounds other than alkanes, such as alkenes and aromatics.
The Effect of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles on Organizational Readiness for Change Among Health Professionals

Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on organizational readiness for change among health professionals in the case of selected public hospitals in the North Showa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Methods The institutional-based cross-sectional study design was employed for one month in April 2021. The data were collected from a sample of 212 subordinate health professional staffs. Multi-factor leadership surveys and organizational readiness for change questionnaires were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis, run on the SPSS 23 version. Pearson correlation and multiple regressions were used. Multiple regression results were expressed using the statistical values R2 and β-coefficient. Statistical significance was declared at a P-value of <. 05. Result The Pearson product correlation of organizational readiness for change was found to be low positive and statistically significant for both transformational leadership behavior (r = .49, P < .01) and transactional leadership behavior (r = .39, P < .01). Both transformational leadership behavior (t = 5.32, P = .00) and transactional leadership behavior (t = 2.08, P = .034) were found to be significant contributors to the variance of organizational readiness for change among health professionals, according to the findings. However, transformational leadership behavior style appears to make a more significant contribution (β = 0.39) than transactional leadership style (β = 0.15) in predicting organizational readiness for change among health professionals. Conclusion The study revealed that whenever transformational and/or transactional leadership behaviors are exhibited by the administrative staff, readiness for organizational change (commitment and efficacy) increases among health professionals. The study also concluded that a quarter of the readiness for organizational change can be affected by the two leadership styles.
Have you been falling in love?: An analysis of coffee shop brand love in Thailand

ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between brand love and brand happiness, and further examines the relationships between brand happiness, willingness-to-pay premium price, switching behavior, brand evangelism, and brand forgiveness. The proposed conceptual model and the accompanying hypothesized relationships were put to the test using structural equation modeling (SEM) in accordance with the two-step modeling approach. A self-administered online survey was employed to collect data from 564 customers who had experience with the Starbucks brand in Thailand. The findings of this study showed that brand love positively influences customers’ brand happiness. Moreover, brand happiness positively influences customers’ willingness-to-pay premium prices, brand evangelism, and brand forgiveness. However, the relationship between brand happiness and switching behavior was not significant. The research has implications regarding the consequences of brand love and recommends implications for coffee shop branding strategy.
Automatic building footprint extraction from high-resolution satellite image using mathematical morphology

ABSTRACT Automatic building extraction from High-Resolution Satellite (HRS) image has been an important field of research in the area of remote sensing. Different techniques related to radiometric, geometric, edge detection and object based have already been discussed and used by various researchers for building extraction. However, faithfulness of extraction is highly dependent on user intervention. This study proposes a novel morphological based automatic approach for extraction of buildings using HRS image. Moreover, using such an automatic approach, buildings can be detected having different size and shape. The proposed technique integrates morphological Top-hat filter, and K-means algorithm to extract buildings having bright and dark rooftops. Further, extracted bright and dark rooftop building segments have been combined together to obtain the final output that contains final extracted building segments. In order to eliminate false-detected buildings, different parameters like area, eccentricity, and axis ratio (major/minor axis) have been used. The suitability of the technique has been judged using different indicators such as completeness, correctness and quality.
Audiovisual n-Back Training Alters the Neural Processes of Working Memory and Audiovisual Integration: Evidence of Changes in ERPs

(1) Background: This study investigates whether audiovisual n-back training leads to training effects on working memory and transfer effects on perceptual processing. (2) Methods: Before and after training, the participants were tested using the audiovisual n-back task (1-, 2-, or 3-back), to detect training effects, and the audiovisual discrimination task, to detect transfer effects. (3) Results: For the training effect, the behavioral results show that training leads to greater accuracy and faster response times. Stronger training gains in accuracy and response time using 3- and 2-back tasks, compared to 1-back, were observed in the training group. Event-related potentials (ERPs) data revealed an enhancement of P300 in the frontal and central regions across all working memory levels after training. Training also led to the enhancement of N200 in the central region in the 3-back condition. For the transfer effect, greater audiovisual integration in the frontal and central regions during the post-test rather than pre-test was observed at an early stage (80–120 ms) in the training group. (4) Conclusion: Our findings provide evidence that audiovisual n-back training enhances neural processes underlying a working memory and demonstrate a positive influence of higher cognitive functions on lower cognitive functions.
Study of Symptom Severity and Adherence to Therapy of Myelofibrosis Patients Treated with Ruxolitinib

We aimed to explore symptom severity and adherence to therapy for patients with myelofibrosis treated with ruxolitinib in Bulgaria. It is a prospective, non-interventional study performed at the specialized hospital for active treatment of hematological diseases in Sofia during 2022–2023. Date of diagnosis, demographic characteristics, clinical indicators, ruxolitinib dose, and other data points were collected. Clinical indicators were assessed at baseline, in the middle, and at the end of observation. Severity of symptoms was measured with MPN-SAF TSS and adherence to therapy with the Morisky 4 questionnaire six times during the observation. The mean age of diagnosis was 58.5 years, with the average duration of disease of 3 years. Patients’ laboratory results were within physiological ranges, with spleen size experiencing a constant decrease. The average value for the severity of the symptoms per MPN-SAF TSS results decreased significantly, indicating better disease control. The average adherence to therapy did not change and remained high at around 9 points, except for one patient. In conclusion the treatment of myelofibrosis patients with ruxolitinib decreased symptom severity and spleen size. Patients were adherent to the therapy over the observed period, but as treatment duration increases, the risk of adherence decreases.
Affecting drag in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

Turbulent flows are omnipresent in nature and technology. The majority of flows encountered in daily life and in industrial applications deal with rough walls and transient effects. Furthermore, many flows can be regarded as multiphase flows, i.e. the flow consisting of multiple phases of liquids, gasses and solids. Surprisingly maybe, the understanding of these flows is still limited, and many studies focus on idealised situations, which do not take the aforementioned phenomena into account. To study these types of flow, we used a Taylor-Couette system, i.e. the flow between 2 con- centric independently rotating cylinders. This system is one of the canonical flow setups in which the physics of fluids is studied, and it has been used to study a.o. pattern formation, instabilities, viscosity measurements, turbulence and multiphase flows. Taylor-Couette flow is known to be mathematically similar to Rayleigh-B´enard convection. That is, written in the correct dimensionless form, the relevant scaling laws are identical for both systems. In that sense, one can learn about Rayleigh- Benard convection by studying Taylor-Couette flow, and vice versa. In this thesis, we chose to specifically study transient effects, rough walls and air lubrication in turbulent flows, not only to increase our fundamental understanding of these of ubiquitous flows, but also to address highly relevant questions in collaboration with industrial partners. In maritime industry, the use of air lubrication is seen as a promising method to reduce the overall friction between a ship and the surrounding water, and thus the fuel consumption. However, the relevant parameters optimizing air lubrication are not yet well understood. Wall roughness is known to increase the drag, but given the enormous variety of roughness types, many open questions remain to be unanswered. The thesis is divided in three parts, i.e. Part 1: Transient turbulence, Part 2: Roughness in turbulence, and Part 3: Air lubrication in turbulent flows.
Resolving Zero-Shot and Fact-Based Visual Question Answering via Enhanced Fact Retrieval

Practical applications with visual question answering (VQA) systems are challenging, and recent research has aimed at investigating this important field. Many issues related to real-world VQA applications must be considered. Although existing methods have focused on adding external knowledge and other descriptive information to assist in reasoning, they are limited by the impact of information retrieval errors on downstream tasks and the misalignment of the aggregated information. Thus, the overall performance of these models must be improved. To address these challenges, we propose a novel VQA model that utilizes a differentiated pretrained model to represent the input information and connects the input data with three external knowledge components through a common feature space. To combine the information in the three feature spaces, we propose an information aggregation strategy that employs a weighted score to aggregate the information in the relation and entity spaces in the answer prediction process. The experimental results show that our method achieves good performance in fact-based and zero-shot VQA tasks and achieves state-of-the-art performance with the ZS-F-VQA dataset.
PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF Β-GALACTOSIDASE ENZYME IN THE PLANT EXTRACT FROM (ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI) AND ITS APPLICATION IN MILK

In the development of a medicinal plant, β-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) is essential (Ziziphus spina-christi). The enzyme activity was measured by its ability to hydrolyze the substrate 2-nitrophenyl β-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG). The maximum enzyme activity was at 50 ° C and at pH 5.5. The enzyme's Km and Vmax values were 3.65 mM and 0.18 μmol / min, respectively. HgCl2 and KCN completely inhibit the activities of β-galactosidase (Ziziphus spina-christi). Lactose in milk was reduced by 38.5 and 70 percent by β-galactosidase from (Ziziphus spina-christi), respectively, after 4h incubation. This result showed that the β-galactosidase enzyme in the extract of leaves (Ziziphus spina-christi) can be used for industrial and medical applications.
Species Entropies in the Kinetic Range of Collisionless Plasma Turbulence: Particle-in-cell Simulations

Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the forward cascade of decaying turbulence in the relatively short-wavelength kinetic range have been carried out as initial-value problems on collisionless, homogeneous, magnetized electron-ion plasma models. The simulations have addressed both whistler turbulence at βi = βe = 0.25 and kinetic Alfvén turbulence at βi = βe = 0.50, computing the species energy dissipation rates as well as the increase of the Boltzmann entropies for both ions and electrons as functions of the initial dimensionless fluctuating magnetic field energy density εo in the range 0 ≤ εo ≤ 0.50. This study shows that electron and ion entropies display similar rates of increase and that all four entropy rates increase approximately as εo, consistent with the assumption that the quasilinear premise is valid for the initial conditions assumed for these simulations. The simulations further predict that the time rates of ion entropy increase should be substantially greater for kinetic Alfvén turbulence than for whistler turbulence.
Young Single Chinese Adults’ Financial Literacy in Sibu, Sarawak

The prominence of financial literacy among young adults is essential in determining their prospective standard of living, particularly as the shift to digital financial services has increased the complexity of performing transactions. In this research, financial literacy is defined as having three components, namely financial skills, financial knowledge, and financial attitude. Financial literacy is the integration of financial, credit and debt management, and the knowledge that is used to comprehend and negotiate financial matters, in order to reduce financial risks exposure, as well as minimise chances of facing financial hurdles. This study intends to investigate the level of financial literacy among young adults in Sibu, Sarawak. This study employed quantitative method using the convenience sampling technique. A total of 110 questionnaires were received through online surveys via Google Forms and face-to-face distribution. A performance assessment was adapted from United States National Financial Capability Study in 2009 to assist the respondents in determining their competency level of financial knowledge and skills. Statistical analysis such as descriptive analysis, correlation, and ordinary least square were employed in order to answer the research questions. The results revealed that young adults have low financial literacy, particularly in solving basic mathematical computations such as compounding effect on savings and debt management. Financial skills is the most significant variable in affecting one’s financial literacy. The data obtained could be applied to formulate appropriate policies and education programmes for the government, regulators (e.g., Bank Negara Malaysia, Securities Commission Malaysia), and other agencies (e.g., Malaysian Financial Planning Council) to strengthen the knowledge and skills of young adults.
White dwarf stars: cosmic chronometers and dark matter probes

White dwarfs (WD) are the endpoint of the evolution of the large majority of stars formed in our galaxy. In the last two decades observations and theory have improved to a level that makes it possible to employ WD for determining ages of the stellar populations in the disk of the Milky Way and in the nearest star clusters, and constrain the existence and properties of dark matter (DM) candidates. This review is centred on WD models, age-dating, and DM identification methods, recent results and future developments of the field.
High utility of Ultraconserved Elements (UCE) for disentangling the elusive relationships of tarantulas

Although tarantulas are a widespread, highly diversified, and charismatic spider group, our understanding of their evolution remains limited. A recent transcriptome‐based approach, including 16% of the nominal tarantula genera (25), provided the first robust phylogenetic hypothesis of deep tarantula relationships. However, transcriptomics has practical downsides, making it less than ideal for phylogenomic analyses. Ultraconserved Elements (UCE) sequencing, a cost‐effective alternative, allows for the simultaneous reading of hundreds of loci and utilizing samples with degraded DNA, including museum material, but its utility for resolving deep tarantula relationships remains to be tested. In this study, I recovered up to ~850 unique UCE loci from publicly available individual tarantula transcriptomes. Phylogenetic estimation using these loci resulted in topologies identical to those obtained from the published complete transcriptomic datasets, with limited phylogenetic uncertainty restricted to two branches in the tarantula tree of life. I conclude that UCE information has great potential for resolving at least moderate to deep tarantula relationships and that numerous UCE loci can be harvested from tarantula transcriptomic data. Finally, I provide databases of transcripts and UCE loci for the 27 currently available tarantula genera, facilitating their inclusion in future phylogenomic studies with deeper taxon coverage.
Organizational Culture with Transformational Leadership Style on Production Supervision at PT Diamondfit Garment Indonesia

The success of an organization is largely determined by the quality of the people who work in it. In developing an organization, a leader is needed who is able to become a driving force in encouraging employees to have high motivation to be able to increase employee performance productivity. With the transformational leadership style, it can inspire and motivate employees to improve their performance optimally so that organizational goals can be achieved as much as possible without any pressure or coercion from the leader. The concept of transformational leadership integrates ideas developed in a character, style and contingency approach. This research was conducted with the aim of knowing the relationship between organizational culture and transformational leadership style in all production supervisors at PT. Diamondfit Garment Indonesia. In this study using quantitative research methods with a sample of 30 employees with production supervisor positions at PT. Diamondfit Garment Indonesia, then data analysis was performed using Pearson Momemt Product from SPSS Statistics version 21.0 for Windows. From the research that has been done, it shows the results (r = 0.461) and the correlation significantly shows the value of sig. p=0.005 (p<0.05) with a positive correlation coefficient, it can be concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational culture and transformational leadership style.
Pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib in advanced endometrial cancer: case report and systematic review of lung toxicity

Background The optimal strategy for the treatment of recurrent and/or advanced endometrial cancer is still undefined. Recently, despite the lack of any predictive biomarker, the combination of pembrolizumab with lenvatinib has improved survival outcomes. We here report the long-term management of lung toxicity in a patient with endometrial cancer, and we critically review the current therapeutic options for this disease. Results A patient with heavily pretreated endometrial cancer took pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for 1 year, achieving a persistent partial response with a time to treatment failure of 18 months, despite relevant lung toxicity that did not affect the remarkable overall clinical benefit. A systematic review of this combination underlines the efficacy outcome despite toxicity. Interestingly, the literature review on lung toxicity suggested the role of anti-angiogenetic agents in the pathogenesis of lung cavitation, probably related to direct treatment activity, and disclosed a potential radiological sign predictive of the activity of anti-angiogenetic agents. Conclusion We underline the efficacy of pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib in the current treatment landscape of endometrial cancer, underscoring the relevance of a correct management of toxicity.
Polish Container Ports, New Baltic Hubs?

: Over the last decade, the Baltic ports have welcomed a remarkable growth, especially oil transportation and containerised flows. The regional container network is mainly made up of feeders services. Consequently, Baltic ports as nodes of a regional maritime network are integrated into a larger system. Indeed, the port development and the evolution of maritime traffic are symptomatic of economic and territorial mutations. In this