Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
What is related to the choice of coping strategies? - functional relationship between a sense of self-efficacy, self-regulation and strategies for coping with stress

Self-efficacy can affect an individual’s thoughts and emotions. It can be related to self-regulation processes and coping strategies. The aim of the study was to try to answer the question of whether there are correlations between the mentioned variables. To test this, an online survey was designed on the Google Forms platform, which included sociodemographic questions and three questionnaires: General Self-Efficacy Scale, COPE Inventory, Self Regulation Formative Questionnaire. The survey was prepared in English. The survey included 470 participants from Poland and Spain. The study was conducted during increased stress, which is the exam session. The result of the statistical analysis confirmed the accepted hypothesis. Strategies used in coping with stress are related to the level of selfregulation and self-efficacy. The higher the sense of self-efficacy, the more frequent the selection of favorable coping strategies, as well as the higher the level of self-regulation, the more frequent the selection of adaptive strategies and the rarer the selection of adaptive coping strategies. The results obtained are discussed in relation to the literature on the topic and previous studies, and it is suggested that further studies be conducted in a different context, taking into account that the results of self-efficacy or self-regulation could be different during intensified stress, for instance before or after an exam.
Alternative management of intractable chylous ascites following robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy of Viscum album sclerotherapy: a case report

A patient showed signs of fever and Hemovac insertion site discharge 8 days after surgery and was admitted. Abdominal paracentesis found milky ascites with triglyceride levels of the peritoneal fluid as high as 1,603 g/mL. Diagnosed as chylous ascites, symptomatic therapy such as empirical antibodies and diuretics was administered with paracentesis before being discharged. The ascites volume increased again, and the patient was re-admitted. The patient was treated with orlistat, octreotide, total parenteral nutrition administration, ascites drainage, and diuretics. Ascites levels increased further and intraperitoneal Viscum was administered. Clear ascites was observed, and the patient was discharged. We reported a case where conventional treatment for chylous ascites that occurred after pancreaticoduodenectomy was shown to be ineffective while Viscum extracted from mistletoe was able to manage chylous ascites.
Spatial Distribution of Anemophilous Pollen and Its Correlation with the Asian Summer Monsoon on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

ABSTRACT Previous studies have discovered arboreal pollen in non-forested areas on the Tibetan Plateau, which are mostly anemophilous type and regarded as a result of the Asian summer monsoon. However, the relationship between the spatial distribution of wind-pollinated pollen and monsoon has seldom been illustrated quantitatively. Here, we used 676 surface samples (647 compiled, 29 new samples) to examine the characteristics of the spatial distribution patterns of 13 anemophilous pollen taxa on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, by employing the spatial interpolation technique. Then, we quantified the correlation between the distributions of these taxa and monsoon wind via Mantel test. The results show that the anemophilous pollen represents at least half percentage of the total pollen assemblages in most areas of the study region. Anemophilous tree pollen mainly distributes in the south and southeastern part, while anemophilous non-tree pollen does in the opposite and perpendicular direction. The distributional pattern of non-anemophilous pollen reflects that their corresponding plants most likely constitute the understory components of different forests or the minorities of non-forests communities. Mantel tests indicate that the anemophilous tree pollen has a highest correlation with the Asian summer monsoon. Anemophilous pollen, overall pollen assemblages and anemophilous pollen with air sacs have higher correlations with summer monsoon. Contrarily, non-anemophilous pollen has relatively weak correlation. Furthermore, we found that the relationships between various pollen groups or separate taxa and the Asian summer monsoon are dependent on sample types. The lake sediment surface samples had the strongest signal of the Asian summer monsoon among the different sample types. Our findings provide the strong evidence of the Asian summer monsoon influencing the pollen distribution patterns. More importantly, the quantification of this correlation between anemophilous tree pollen and the Asian summer monsoon offers the fundamentally theoretical basis of reconstructing paleo-monsoon by the proxy of windborne pollen taxa.
Digital in-line holography of dusty plasmas

A digital in-line holography (DIH) approach for the instantaneous measurement of the three-dimensional positions of micrometer sized particles in a radio frequency gas discharge is presented. The applicability of this method to a strongly coupled dusty plasma is demonstrated. The performance of DIH is benchmarked and special attention is paid to its spatial and temporal resolution.
Antigen Quantitation in Experimental Immune Complex Glomerulonephritis

Acute serum sickness glomerulonephritis was induced in rabbits with radiolabeled bovine serum albumin (I*BSA) 250 mg/kg. The kidneys of these rabbits contained 1 to 35 µg of I*BSA following >;99% elimination of I*BSA from the circulation. The I*BSA disappeared from the kidneys with a half time of about 10 days. The severity of glomerulonephritis in these rabbits was related to the rapidity of of immune elimination and the amount of I*BSA deposited. As little as 0.25 µg/g of kidney of I*BSA could be detected by immunofluorescence. During the 8-day period following immune elimination the BSA detectable by immunofluorescence decreased rapidly while host immunoglobulin and complement increased. The continued presence of I*BSA in these kidneys shown by isotopic studies suggested that this BSA was being covered by host anti-BSA antibody and complement from the circulation. These immunofluorescence findings occurred during the time of resolution of the glomerulonephritis by histologic and functional criteria. This suggested that the immune complexes formed initially in antigen excess were nephritogenic while immune complexes deposited in an extravascular site were less phlogogenic in spite of continued interaction with antibody and complement.
Emission of electrons from rare gas clusters after irradiation with intense VUV pulses of wavelength 100 nm and 32 nm

Kinetic Boltzmann equations are used to describe electron emission spectra obtained after irradiation of noble-gas clusters with intense vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation from a free-electron-laser (FEL). The experimental photoelectron spectra give a complementary and more detailed view of nonlinear processes within atoms and clusters in an intense laser field compared to mass spectroscopy data. Results from our model obtained in this study confirm the experimental and theoretical findings on the differing ionization scenarios at longer (100 nm) and shorter (32 nm) VUV radiation wavelengths. At the wavelength of 100 nm the thermoelectronic electron emission dominates the emission spectra. This indicates the plasma formation and the inverse bremsstrahlung (IB) heating of electrons inside the plasma. This effect is clearly visible for xenon (with the fitted temperature of 6–7 eV), and less visible for argon (with the fitted temperature of 2–3 eV). The two-photon-ionization rate for argon that initiates the cluster ionization, is much lower than the single-photoionization rate for xenon. Also, more of the photoelectrons created within an argon cluster are able to leave it, as they are more energetic than those released from a xenon cluster. Therefore, the IB heating of plasma electrons in argon is less efficient than in xenon, as the density of the electrons remaining within the cluster is lower. At a wavelength of 32 nm the dominant ionization mechanism identified from the electron spectra of argon clusters is the direct multistep ionization. The signature of the thermalization of electrons is also observed. However, as the heating of electrons due to the inverse bremsstrahlung process is weak at these radiation wavelengths and pulse fluences, the increase of the electron temperature with the pulse intensity is mainly due to the increasing photoionization rate within the irradiated sample.
Detection of curvilinear objects in biological noisy image using feature-adapted fast slant stack

This paper presents a new method for computing the Feature-adapted Radon and Beamlet transforms [1] in a fast and accurate way. These two transforms can be used for detecting features running along lines or piecewise constant curves. The main contribution of this paper is to unify the Fast Slant Stack method, introduced in [2], with linear filtering technique in order to define what we call the Feature-adapted Fast Slant Stack. If the desired feature detector is chosen to belong to the class of steerable filters, our method can be achieved in O(N log(N)), where N = n2 is the number of pixels. This new method leads to an efficient implementation of both Feature-adapted Radon and Beamlet transforms, that outperforms our previous works [1] both in terms of accuracy and speed. Our method has been developed in the context of biological imaging to detect DNA filaments in fluorescent microscopy.
A frequency domain based rigid motion artifact reduction algorithm

During a CT scan, patients' conscious or unconscious motions would result in motion artifacts which undermine the image quality and hamper doctors' accurate diagnosis and therapy. It is desirable to develop a precise motion estimation and artifact reduction method in order to produce high-resolution images. Rigid motion can be decomposed into two components: translational motion and rotational motion. Since considering the rotation and translation simultaneously is very difficult, most former studies on motion artifact reduction ignore rotation. The extended HLCC based method considering the rotation and translation simultaneously relies on a searching algorithm which leads to expensive computing cost. Therefore, a novel method which does not rely on searching is desirable. In this paper, we focus on parallel-beam CT. We first propose a frequency domain based method to estimate rotational motion, which is not affected by translational motion. It realizes the separation of rotation estimation and translation estimation. Then we combine this method with the HLCC based method to construct a new method for general rigid motion called separative estimation and collective correction method. Furthermore, we present numerical simulation results to show the accuracy and robustness of our approach.
Sea floor classification with satellite data and airborne lidar bathymetry

While land maps of vegetation cover and substrate types exist, similar underwater maps are rare or almost non-existing. We developed the use of airborne bathymetric lidar mapping and high resolution satellite data to a combined method for shallow sea floor classification. A classification accuracy of about 80% is possible for six classes of substrate and vegetation, when validated against field data taken from underwater video recordings. The method utilizes lidar data directly (topography, slopes) and as means for correction of image data for water depth and turbidity. In this paper we present results using WorldView-2 imagery and data from the HawkEye II lidar system in a Swedish archipelago area.
Convergence properties of iterative maximum-entropy spectral estimation

In this paper we provide the results of an empirical investigation of iterative maximum entropy spectrum estimation in two dimensions. The Lim-Malik algorithm is compared to the classical periodogram algorithm on a number of analytic as well as practical two-dimensional signals. We study the convergence of the Lim-Malik algorithm and suggest some criterion to assure convergence in the two-dimensional case.
Billion Tree Tsunami Forests Classification Using Image Fusion Technique and Random Forest Classifier Applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Images: A Case Study of Garhi Chandan Pakistan

In order to address the challenges of global warming, the Billion Tree plantation drive was initiated by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in 2014. The land cover changes as a result of Billion Tree Tsunami project are relatively unexplored. In particular, the utilization of remote sensing techniques and satellite image classification has not yet been done. Recently, the Sentinel-2 (S2) satellite has found much utilization in remote sensing and land cover classification. Sentinel-2 (S2) sensors provide freely available images with a spatial resolution of 10, 20 and 60 m. The higher classification accuracy is directly dependent on the higher spatial resolution of the images. This research aims to classify the land cover changes as a result of the Billion Tree plantation drive in the areas of our interest using Random Forest Classifier (RFA) and image fusion techniques applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 satellite images. A state-of-the-art, model-based image-sharpening technique was used to sharpen the lower resolution Sentinel-2 bands to 10 m. Then the RFA classifier was used to classify the sharpened images and an accuracy assessment was performed for the classified images of the years 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022. Finally, ground data samples were collected using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone and the classified image samples were compared with the real data collected for the year 2022. The real data ground samples were matched by more than 90% with the classified image samples. The overall classification accuracies [%] for the classified images were recorded as 92.87%, 90.79%, 90.27% and 93.02% for the sample data of the years 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, respectively. Similarly, an overall Kappa hat classification was calculated as 0.87, 0.86, 0.83 and 0.84 for the sample data of the years 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, respectively.
The Kinematics of Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Fields of the Large Magellanic Cloud

We present echelle observations of 16 planetary nebulae (PNs) in the [O III] λ5007 emission line, originally detected in a UK-Schmidt objective prism survey of the outer fields of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Of these 16 objects, 11 have had no velocity information published previously. Expansion and radial velocities have been derived by a simple Gaussian fitting technique
Does Forest Soil Fungal Community Respond to Short-Term Simulated Nitrogen Deposition in Different Forests in Eastern China?

Nitrogen (N) deposition has changed plants and soil microbes remarkably, which deeply alters the structures and functions of terrestrial ecosystems. However, how forest fungal diversity, community compositions, and their potential functions respond to N deposition is still lacking in exploration at a large scale. In this study, we conducted a short-term (4–5 years) experiment of artificial N addition to simulated N deposition in five typical forest ecosystems across eastern China, which includes tropical montane rainforest, subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest, temperate deciduous broadleaved forest, temperate broadleaved and conifer mixed forest, and boreal forest along a latitudinal gradient from tropical to cold temperature zones. Fungal compositions were identified using high-throughput sequencing at the topsoil layer. The results showed that fungal diversity and fungal community compositions among forests varied apparently for both unfertilized and fertilized soils. Generally, soil fungal diversity, communities, and their potential functions responded sluggishly to short-term N addition, whereas the fungal Shannon index was increased in the tropical forest. In addition, environmental heterogeneity explained most of the variation among fungal communities along the latitudinal gradient. Specifically, soil C: N ratio and soil water content were the most important factors driving fungal diversity, whereas mean annual temperature and microbial nutrient limitation mainly shaped fungal community structure and functional compositions. Topsoil fungal communities in eastern forest ecosystems in China were more sensitive to environmental heterogeneity rather than short-term N addition. Our study further emphasized the importance of simultaneously evaluating soil fungal communities in different forest types in response to atmospheric N deposition.
Electromagnetic wave scattering by a two layered piecewise homogeneous confocal elliptic cylinder

The scattering properties of a homogeneous elliptic cylinder with a confocal dielectric or magnetic coating are investigated analytically. The method of separation of variables is used to determine, exactly, the field distributions in each region for both transverse electric and transverse magnetic excitations. The technique can be easily extended to handle any number of layers. The behavior of the scattered field in the far zone is illustrated with numerical results for different core and coating material types, axial ratios, and electrical sizes.
Highly homogeneous MgB2 films prepared by a new post-annealing process

Nanocrystalline MgB2 thin films were prepared on r-cut Al2O3 substrates by annealing of multilayer B/Mg precursors in a flow of Mg vapour. The films are highly homogeneous and show a smooth morphology at both the mesoscale and the microscale. The films exhibit a superconducting transition at Tc∼ 35 K with a transition width of ∼1.2 K and a critical current density at 10 K in the self-field of Jc∼1 × 107 A cm−2.
Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency Tables, with an Application to the FDA Spontaneous Reporting System

Abstract A common data mining task is the search for associations in large databases. Here we consider the search for “interestingly large” counts in a large frequency table, having millions of cells, most of which have an observed frequency of 0 or 1. We first construct a baseline or null hypothesis expected frequency for each cell, and then suggest and compare screening criteria for ranking the cell deviations of observed from expected count. A criterion based on the results of fitting an empirical Bayes model to the cell counts is recommended. An example compares these criteria for searching the FDA Spontaneous Reporting System database maintained by the Division of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology. In the example, each cell count is the number of reports combining one of 1,398 drugs with one of 952 adverse events (total of cell counts = 4.9 million), and the problem is to screen the drug-event combinations for possible further investigation.
Research of Spectrum Decomposition Method Based on Physical Wavelet Transform and Its Application

High frequency information of seismic signal in seismic spectrum decomposition can be described finely by wavelet decomposition which uses basic wavelet functions of matched wavelets. According to seismic signal characteristic, basic wavelets are constructed by four kinds of parameters such as amplitude, energy attenuation ratio, energy lag time and wavelet tuning frequency. This paper presents the core-function selection method in transform with physical wavelet, and the spectrum imaging method based on physical wavelets is proposed. We used this method to describe marine fluvial facies reservoirs. Compared with the spectrum imaging method based on conventional wavelet transform, the results show that our method in this paper can describe geological phenomenon more sophisticatedly.
Can Expanding Cultural Consumption Improve Urban Air Quality? An Analysis Based on China’s Cultural Consumption Pilot Policy

As an important reform exploration to promote economic transformation and upgrading in China, can the national cultural consumption pilot policy improve urban air quality? What are the impact paths? Based on a theoretical analysis of the intrinsic mechanism of expanding cultural consumption affecting urban air quality, this paper constructs the DID model with a quasi-natural experiment, namely the national cultural consumption pilot, to assess the impact of expanding cultural consumption on urban air quality. The results show that: expanding cultural consumption has a significant improvement effect on urban air quality, and the emission reduction effect is also increasing year by year; the heterogeneity analysis shows that expanding cultural consumption has a stronger pollution reduction effect in cities north of the Qinling–Huaihe line, and the effect on air quality is more significant in non-resource cities; the mechanism test indicates that government intervention and public participation have a significant moderating role in the emission reduction effect of cultural consumption. In other words, the higher the level of government intervention and the greater the degree of public participation in the cultural consumption pilot, the stronger the pollution reduction effect of expanding cultural consumption. In addition, cultural consumption has an impact on urban air quality mainly through the industrial structure effect and innovation effect. The findings of this study provide policy insights to further promote the emission reduction effect of cultural consumption and promote urban air quality.
4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet Gravity Coupled to Modified Logarithmic Nonlinear Electrodynamics

Spherically symmetric solution in 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity coupled to modified logarithmic nonlinear electrodynamics (ModLogNED) is found. This solution at infinity possesses the charged black hole Reissner–Nordström behavior. We study the black hole thermodynamics, entropy, shadow, energy emission rate and quasinormal modes. It was shown that black holes can possess the phase transitions and at some range of event horizon radii black holes are stable. The entropy has the logarithmic correction to the area law. The shadow radii were calculated for variety of parameters. We found that there is a peak of the black hole energy emission rate. The real and imaginary parts of the quasinormal modes frequencies were calculated. The energy conditions of ModLogNED are investigated.
Changes in relative peripheral refraction in children who switched from single‐vision lenses to Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments lenses

To investigate changes in relative peripheral refraction (RPR) associated with myopia progression in children who wore single‐vision (SV) lenses for 2 years and switched to Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments (DIMS) lenses in the third year versus children who wore DIMS lenses for 3 years.