Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Fast and Effective Irregular Stripe Removal Method for Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) is one of the emerging tools to explore the physical properties and chemical composition of the lunar surface. Moon mineralogy mapper (M3) is the most widely used lunar HSI data set with the widest coverage and the excellent resolution; however, dense and nonperiodic stripes distributed across all bands in M3 images hinder visual interpretation as well as their use in subsequent applications. In this article, a fast destriping approach for M3 is proposed using the Hodrick–Prescott decomposition embedded in the low-rank framework (LRHP) to overcome this limitation. The integration of a statistical filter and variational model tackles the problem stemming from a lack of the correct residual information when certain pixels are corrupted in every band, thereby restoring severely degraded hyperspectral images (HSIs). Simulated and real experiments conducted on typical regions on the Moon with various levels of corruption demonstrate that the proposed LRHP rapidly achieves favorable performance against state-of-the-art approaches. Also, expanding tests on interference imaging spectrometer (IIM) data of Chang’E-1 and commonly used terrestrial remote sensing images show that LRHP has good generalization capability. Moreover, the integrated band depth (IBD) maps further verify the necessity of destriping and the high spectral fidelity of LRHP that benefits further applications.
Key Improvements in Interfacial Adhesion and Dispersion of Fibers/Fillers in Polymer Matrix Composites; Focus on PLA Matrix Composites

ABSTRACT No doubt, composite technology is fast growing with an increase in research efforts around the world and with many academic interests consisting of breath-taking innovations in polymer science. Herein, the primary determinants of fiber/filler-matrix/composite properties are discussed viz-a-viz dispersion of reinforcing fibers, interfacial adhesion between matrix/fibers, and surface treatment methods for fibers in composite fabrication. Both thermoplastic and thermoset composites are discussed with much-focused discussion on the biodegradable and environmentally friendly PLA polymer matrix adhesion with filler/fibers. Since achieving enhanced mechanical properties of both thermoset and thermoplastic matrices involves reinforcement with both micro and nanofiller and, in many cases, with natural fibers, addressing the major issue of compatibilising the hydrophilic fiber with the hydrophobic polymer becomes more imperative. Beginning the discussion with a brief on adhesion and its mechanisms with polymer/matrix interaction, it further looked at key surface modification techniques with organic acids to promote dispersion in organic solvents and hydrophobic polymers to enhance interfacial adhesion. The last section offered recommendations with regards to 100% green composite system, with the possibility of achieving fiber/matrix compatibility with zero chemical consumption and fabrication of new materials whose properties are compatible without coupling and surface treatment of reinforcing fibers. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
The Mediating Role of Strategy Execution on the Relationship Between TMT Characteristics and Organizational Performance in a Regulatory Setting in Kenya

There is consensus among strategic management scholars and practitioners that strategic management as a practice has a vital role in organizational performance. It has also been argued that the strategic management process can be divided into four broad stages namely, strategy formulation, strategy execution, strategy monitoring and strategy evaluation. Some strategic management scholars have asserted that the strategy execution process can make a sound strategic decision ineffective or a debatable strategic choice successful. The specific objective of the study was to establish the mediating effect of strategy execution on the relationship between top management team characteristics and organizational performance of independent regulatory agencies in Kenya. The study embraced descriptive cross-sectional research design. The target population of the study was all the twenty-three independent regulatory agencies currently existing in Kenya. The study adopted a census survey of all the top management team members in all the twenty-three independent regulatory agencies in order to capture the required information due to the uniqueness of each independent regulatory agency and the distinct roles played by each top management team member in their organizations. Structured questionnaire administered through drop and pick later method was used to gather primary data from the respondents. Descriptive statistics of the respondents was summarized into percentages, frequencies, means and standard deviations for interpretation. The mediation effect was tested using the Baron and Kenny model. The findings of the study showed that strategy execution partially mediates the relationship between TMT characteristics and Organizational Performance of the independent regulatory agencies in Kenya. The study recommends that independent regulatory agencies need to develop a reward system for their TMTs who excel in executing their organizational strategies so that they can be motivated, and to provide an opportunity for the managers to compete amongst themselves in order to achieve superior organizational performance. Lastly, the study recommends that the independent regulatory agencies should have stable funding mechanism to enable them execute their identified strategies in order to achieve and sustain superior organizational performance.
Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) are Winners to Survive in Oxygen-limited Habitat Compared to Ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria (AOB)

Purpose: Both ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) perform the ammonia oxidation together. These two kinds of microbes present a convenient model for studying niche specialization. To date, few surveys concentrated on the influence of oxygen concentration on niche specialization of AOA and AOB in intertidal zones. Methods: Here, high-throughput sequencing by Illumina MiSeq and qPCR were applied to detect the change of abundance, diversity as well as community structure of both AOA and AOB with 0-60 cm sediments depth in the intertidal zone in Qingdao.Results and Conclusion: The AOA/AOB amoA gene copy numbers and AOA/AOB OTU numbers were all increased as sediment depth went deeper, which indicated that AOA were more adaptive to oxygen-limited niches compared to AOB and oxygen indeed led to the niche specialization of AOA and AOB in intertidal sediments. The dominant AOA and AOB were the Nitrosopumilus and Nitrosospira clusters, respectively, which indicated an ecological success in intertidal zone. Oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) was significantly positively correlated with AOB abundance and AOB OTU numbers (P < 0.01). In addition, both TN (P < 0.01) and pH (P < 0.05) were significantly and negatively correlated with AOB abundance. TN was also significantly and negatively correlated with AOB OTU numbers (P < 0.05).
Curvilinear data format working group for MBMW era

Multi-beam mask writers (MBMW) offer the potential to enable the use of ideal curvilinear shapes for ILT masks, but current layout formats are not sufficient to represent complex ILT designs efficiently from OPC through mask making. In the 2019 BACUS conference, we proposed the formation of a data format working group to address the need for curvilinear data representation for MBMW. The Curvilinear data format working group was first initiated in October 2019 with participation from EDA companies and advanced mask makers. In this paper, the necessity of a new curvilinear data format and our working group will be introduced. We will discuss the progress and the plan of the working group.
Influence of rs6667202 SNP on Interleukin-10 levels in the gingival fluid of patients with periodontitis grade C

Grade C periodontitis in youngers is characterized by a severe form of periodontitis, and IL10 rs6667202 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been described as an important feature in this disease etiology. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate, in vivo, the functionality of IL10 rs6667202 SNP on IL-10 gingival fluid levels. Methods: Thirty patients with Perio4C were selected, 15 with the IL10 AA genotype (rs6667202) and 15 with AC/CC genotypes. The gingival fluid was collected from two sites with probing depth ≥ 7 mm and bleeding on probing, and two healthy sites. The IL-10 concentration was determined by Luminex/MAGpix platform. Results: In deep pockets, the IL10 AA genotype presented a lower concentration of IL-10 when compared with AC or CC genotypes (p 0.05). Conclusion: IL10 rs6667202 SNP decreases the production of IL-10 in crevicular fluid, potentially affecting this disease progression.
Heterogeneity in the Development of Executive Function: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data

ABSTRACT Research Findings: The present study examined patterns of executive function (EF) development among socio-demographically diverse children in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort: 2011, we estimated children’s growth in working memory and cognitive flexibility across four socio-demographic profiles of children, which we identified using cluster analysis. We then explored the extent to which child, family, and classroom characteristics explained heterogeneity in EF development across the child profiles. Results indicate that low-SES and Hispanic dual-language learning children with immigrant parents entered kindergarten with the lowest average EF skills but then made remarkable EF gains. This catch-up was largely explained by a negative association between initial EF skills and subsequent EF gains. However, low-SES, non-DLL Black and Hispanic children had similarly low initial EF skills, but did not exhibit the same pattern of catch-up, in part due to their reduced likelihood of enjoying positive relationships with their teachers. Practice or Policy: The findings add to the growing literature on heterogeneity in EF development and demonstrate the need to assist teachers in forming positive relationships with all children in socio-demographically diverse classrooms.
Seeds of change? Seed transfer governance in British Columbia: insights from history

Tree seed transfer is critical to effective reforestation programs, and exploring its policy roots provides insights to understand future, and potentially controversial, actions like assisted migration. We offer a historical overview of seed transfer governance in British Columbia, Canada, by applying analytics from the policy change and knowledge co-production literatures. Based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews with key informants, we trace governance attributes to examine how and why policies have changed (or not) over time. We reveal a paradigmatic shift in seed transfer governance, culminating in a climate-based seed transfer system — informed largely by genetic knowledge — that emerged through a policy window opening. In contrast, governance processes remained relatively unchanged in practice, including the disproportionately influential role of the forest industry in policy-making. These insights shed light on the legacies of a government–industry policy coalition that influence underlying seed transfer objectives (i.e., forest productivity), and help to explain the ongoing dominance of particular knowledge forms used to inform policy. We highlight the need for increased contributions from a wider range of expertise, stakeholders, and rights holders in developing seed transfer policies for future forests.
Improved Pain Control with Combination Spinal Cord Stimulator Therapy Utilizing Sub-perception and Traditional Paresthesia Based Waveforms: A Pilot Study

Background Chronic back and neck pain affects 20% of Americans. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an effective therapy for otherwise refractory chronic pain. Traditional SCS relies on low-frequency stimulus in the 40 - 60 Hz range causing robust paresthesia in regions overlapping with painful dermatomes. Objectives This study aims to determine the effect of superimposing sub-perception stimulation in patients who previously had good long-term relief with paresthesia. Methods This is a prospective observational trial examining patients who had previously been implanted with paresthesia based SCS for failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) or complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). These patients presented for implantable pulse generator (IPG) replacement based on battery depletion with an IPG capable of combined sub-perception and paresthesia based SCS therapy. Patients were assessed immediately following the exchange and four weeks later using a telephone survey. Their pain was assessed on each follow up using a Numerical Rating scale (NRS); the primary outcome was the change in NRS after four weeks from the exchange day. Secondary outcomes included paresthesia changes, which included the subjective quality of sensation generated, the overall subjective coverage of the painful region, subjective variation of coverage with positional changes, and global perception of the percentage improvement in pain. Results Based on our clinic registry, 30 patients were eligible for IPG exchange, 16 were consented for follow up and underwent an exchange, and 15 were available for follow up four weeks following. The average NRS decreased from 7.47 with traditional SCS to 4.5 with combination therapy. 80% of patients reported an improvement in the quality of paresthesia over traditional SCS therapy, and in most patients, this translated to significantly improved pain control. Conclusions Our findings suggest improved pain relief in patients who had previously had good results with paresthesia based therapy and subsequently underwent IPG exchange to a device capable of delivering combined sub-perception stimulation. The mechanism of action is unclear though there may be an additive and/or synergistic effect of the two waveforms delivered. Larger studies with long-term follow-up are needed to elucidate the durability of pain relief and the precise mechanism by which combined subperception and paresthesia based SCS may improve overall patient outcomes.
Potential Impacts of Supersonic Aircraft Emissions on Ozone and Resulting Forcing on Climate: An Update on Historical Analysis

Commercial aircraft flying at supersonic speeds in the lower stratosphere are being discussed once again after a hiatus of almost 20 years. Potential environmental effects from fleets of such aircraft need to be understood for their possible impacts on stratospheric ozone; levels of stratospheric ozone determine the amount of biologically harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun reaching the Earth's surface. Changes in the distribution and concentrations of ozone also have implications on climate. This study evaluates the potential impact on stratospheric ozone and on climate forcing from different levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and water vapor (H2O) emissions from supersonic transport. Toward establishing a baseline relative to prior studies, we also compare these new analyses with results from the 1999 aviation assessments, using the same aviation emissions. Despite the understanding of atmospheric processes used in studying chemistry‐climate interactions have been greatly enhanced over the last 20 years, this study finds that, for the baseline scenario, the resulting effects on stratospheric ozone are similar to those from many of the models in the prior assessment, although with a stronger ozone sensitivity to NOx emissions. We show that the resulting ozone effects largely depend on the NOx and H2O emission levels and the net changes in stratospheric ozone are determined by the chemical interactions between different ozone production and depletion cycles. We also calculate the radiative forcing impact for the resulting changes in the distributions of ozone and H2O, and confirm that stratospheric H2O emissions are an important factor in potential climate impacts from supersonic aircraft emissions.
TIME-SERIES AND CROSS-SECTIONAL MOMENTUM IN INDIAN STOCK MARKET

Present study documents the significant time-series and cross-sectional momentum profits in Indian stock market. These profits remain significant even after adjusting market, size and value factors. Further time-series momentum effect remains significant when we hold securities for longer period signalling that time-series momentum do not reverse in the long run. When we compare the performances of time series and cross-sectional momentum payoffs, we find that time-series momentum strategies generate superior returns than cross-sectional momentum strategies and net long investments in time-series momentum strategies is the main source of difference between the performances of these two approaches.
Contrasting chemical environments in summertime for atmospheric
ozone across major Chinese industrial regions: the effectiveness of
emission control strategies

Abstract. The UKCA chemistry-climate model is used to quantify the differences in chemical environment for surface O3 for six major industrial regions across China in summer 2016. We first enhance the UKCA gas-phase chemistry scheme by incorporating reactive VOC tracers that are necessary to represent urban and regional-scale O3 photochemistry. We demonstrate that the model with the improved chemistry scheme captures the observed magnitudes and diurnal patterns of surface O3 concentrations across these regions well. Simulated O3 concentrations are highest in Beijing and Shijiazhuang on the North China Plain and in Chongqing, lower in Shanghai and Nanjing in the Yangtze River Delta, and lowest in Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta despite the highest daytime O3 production rates in Guangzhou. NOx / VOC and H2O2 / HNO3 ratios indicate that O3 production across all regions except Chongqing is VOC limited. We confirm this by constructing O3 response surfaces for each region changing NOx and VOC emissions and further contrast the effectiveness of measures to reduce surface O3 concentrations. In VOC limited regions, reducing NOx emissions by 20 % leads to a substantial O3 increase (11 %) in Shanghai. We find that reductions in NOx emissions alone of more than 70 % are required to decrease O3 concentrations across all regions. Reductions in VOC emissions alone of 20 % produce the largest decrease (−11 %) in O3 levels in Shanghai and Guangzhou and the smallest decrease (−1 %) in Chongqing. These responses are substantially different from those currently found in highly populated regions in other parts of the world, likely due to higher NOx emission levels in these Chinese regions. Our work provides an assessment of the effectiveness of emission control strategies to mitigate surface O3 pollution in these major industrial regions, and emphasizes that combined NOx and VOC emission controls play a pivotal role in effectively offsetting high O3 levels. It also demonstrates new capabilities in capturing regional air pollution that will permit this model to be used for future studies of regional air quality-climate interactions.
Public service motivation, job satisfaction, and the moderating effect of employment sector: a meta-analysis

ABSTRACT Public service motivation (PSM) literature suggests that PSM has a positive effect on employees’ job satisfaction. Using meta-analysis, this study examines the aggregate effect of PSM on job satisfaction. In addition, this study investigates whether sector affiliation moderates the relationship between PSM and employee job satisfaction. Based on reported correlations between PSM and job satisfaction from 46 studies, this study finds compelling evidence for a positive relationship between PSM and job satisfaction. Furthermore, a subsequent analysis reveals that this relationship is stronger for individuals who work in the government sector.
Salinity Resistant of Introduced Woody-Shrub Species in Saline Soil of Absheron Peninsula

The aim of the scientific work is to identify the degree of salt tolerance of new tree-shrub species brought from various soil and climatic regions of the world, introduced and widely used in landscape arrangements on the Absheron peninsula of Azerbaijan. In connection with the expansion and development of urban development, greening arrangements are also expanded, the appearance of large cities changed, the number of new parks, boulevards and green spaces increased, especially in the coastal zones of the Caspian Sea embankments. The structure of the soil of the Absheron Peninsula is sandy, sandy-loamy, with low water retention capacity. The Absheron peninsula of Azerbaijan is characterized by a characteristic sign of arid zones. However, the soil composition remains unchanged, which is characterized by chloride-sulfate, sulfate-chloride and chloride-carbonate salinization. In the coastal zones, chloride-carbonate salinization predominates, mainly 1500–2000 m from the sea, mainly chloride – sulfate, and sulfate – chloride in the central part of the peninsula. Due to the degree of salinity, the degree of salt tolerance is different for different species of woody-shrub plants. In the natural flora of the peninsula tree species are completely absent, the species composition of shrubs is small, mainly are found ephemeral and ephemerid species of herbaceous plants. The objects of study were Magnolia grandiflora L. , Cupressus macrocarpa L. , Sophora japonica L. , among shrubs Nandina domestica Thunb. , Ligustrum japonicum Thunb. , Jasminum nudiflorum L. , Lisium chinensis Mill, Euonymus japonica L. , Nerium oleander, new types of cypress trees, various types of palm trees, etc. It was revealed that, in saline soil of the Absheron peninsula, the degree of influence of salinizing ions (Cl−, SO42−, and CO32−) on the accumulation of chlorophylls in the leaves of new introduced species has a direct correlative relationship. Toxic ions affect the protein-chlorophyll bond, the destruction of chloroplasts, and a decrease in photosynthesis, resulting in the formation of chlorophyllide and phytic acid, which promotes the formation of burns on a leaf blade and reduced the photosynthetic productivity.
Why students use social networks for education: Extension of UTAUT2

Social networks sites have a considerable impact on all our life aspects, especially the educational sector. This study aims at identifying the factors affecting students’ actual usage of social networks sites for educational purposes in Jordanian universities. The proposed model consists factors of UTAUT2 theory (Effort expectancy, Performance expectancy, Social influence, Facilitating condition, Habit, Hedonic motivation). In addition to two added factors (lecturer support, and student-related factors) as an extension. The study was conducted in (6) Jordanian universities, where (381) questionnaires were returned from the study sample with a response rate of (95%) from the total questionnaires that were distributed online. The results showed that (Performance expectancy, Social influence, Effort expectancy, Habit, lecturer support, and student-related factors) have a positive impact on the actual usage of social networks sites for educational purposes in Jordanian universities, while the factors (Facilitating condition and Hedonic motivation) don’t support their hypotheses).