Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Individualism and Privatistic Housing Consumption in Eastern and Western Homeowner Societies

The traditional approach to understanding the socio-economic, political and ideological impact of mass home ownership, predominantly grounded in the experiences of European and English speaking societies, has focused on ‘property owning democracies’, social class relations and welfare systems. However, the transformation of East-Asian societies into homeowner societies illustrates greater diversity in social, political and cultural practices surrounding housing consumption. Central social characteristics of many of the new East-Asian homeowner societies are; the assertion of a paternalistic state, ‘groupism’, ‘Confucianism’, familialism and collectivistic values. This contrasts with Anglo-Saxon homeowner societies, where home ownership has been associated with the commodification of the public sphere, social fragmentation, privatism and the ethos of individualism. This paper considers the relationship home ownership and privatism, collectivism and individualism in context of socio-economic, political and cultural differences between societies. We shall draw substantively on research from Britain and Japan as two societies that strongly conform to a model of ‘homeowner society’, but which contrast strongly in terms of individualist and collectivist social values, the salience of citizenship and housing traditions and practices. Most significantly, we seek to address how home ownership is related to housing consumption and privatistic values and practices in divergent hegemonic frameworks. Richard Ronald Ph.D. Department of Environment, Faculty of Human Science Kobe University, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Ronald@kobe-u.ac. jp
Colored five‐vertex models and Lascoux polynomials and atoms

We construct an integrable colored five‐vertex model whose partition function is a Lascoux atom based on the five‐vertex model of Motegi and Sakai and the colored five‐vertex model of Brubaker, the first author, Bump and Gustafsson. We then modify this model in two different ways to construct a Lascoux polynomial, yielding the first proven combinatorial interpretation of a Lascoux polynomial and atom. Using this, we prove a conjectured combinatorial interpretation in terms of set‐valued tableaux of a Lascoux polynomial and atom due to Pechenik and the second author. We also prove the Monical's conjectured combinatorial interpretation of the Lascoux atom using set‐valued skyline tableaux.
Acute Myocardial Infarction Plasma Concentrations of Myeloperoxidase Predict Mortality After Myocardial Infarction

Results Plasma MPO and protein carbonyl concentrations were higher in MI patients 24 h to 96 h after admission than in control subjects (medians: MPO 55 ng/ml vs. 39 ng/ml, and protein carbonyls 48 pmol/mg vs. 17 pmol/mg protein, p 0.001 for each). Both markers were significantly correlated with each other and with cardiovascular hormone levels. Chlorotyrosine was not elevated in patients with high MPO or carbonyl levels. Above-median levels of MPO but not protein carbonyls were independently predictive of mortality (odds ratio 1.8, 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 3.0, p 0.034). Patients with above-median MPO levels in combination with abovemedian plasma amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) or below-median left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) had significantly greater mortality compared with other patients.
Aldosterone-mediated regulation of ENaC a , b , and g subunit proteins in rat kidney

Aldosterone stimulates sodium transport in the renal collecting duct by activating the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). To investigate the basis of this effect, we have developed a novel set of rabbit polyclonal antibodies to the 3 subunits of ENaC and have determined the abundance and distribution of ENaC subunits in the principal cells of the rat renal collecting duct. Elevated circulating aldosterone (due to either dietary NaCl restriction or aldosterone infusion) markedly increased the abundance of aENaC protein without increasing the abundance of the b and g subunits. Thus, aENaC is selectively induced by aldosterone. In addition, immunofluorescence immunolocalization showed a striking redistribution in ENaC labeling to the apical region of the collecting duct principal cells. Finally, aldosterone induced a shift in molecular weight of gENaC from 85 kDa to 70 kDa, consistent with physiological proteolytic clipping of the extracellular loop as postulated previously. Thus, at the protein level, the response of ENaC to aldosterone stimulation is heterogenous, with both quantitative and qualitative changes that can explain observed increases in ENaC-mediated sodium transport. Rapid Publication
Knowledge and practices about hemodialysis among dialysis technicians in western part of India

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health burden with a high economic cost to health systems. Objectives: To determine the knowledge and practices regarding end-stage renal disease and hemodialysis (HD) among dialysis technicians. Patients and Methods: Total of 157 technicians participated in a study carried out at Ahmedabad city of Gujrat state. A validated written questionnaire was distributed among dialysis technicians who gave their consent to participate in the study and responded questionnaires were analyzed. Data entry was made in Excel software in codes and analysis was conducted by SPSS software version 17.0 Results: Out of 157, 113 participants were routinely using online clearance monitoring. Around, 19.1% carried out disinfection of water loop once per week, while 23.6% and 28% were doing it once in 15 days and 30 days respectively. Reverse osmosis (RO) plant parameters like pH, hardness of water, chlorine content were checked once daily by 46.5% of technicians while 17.8% and 24.2% technicians were doing it once a week and once a month respectively. About 87.3% of technicians said that dialyzer was reused at their center. Accordingly, 33.8% and 51.6% of technicians were using formalin and per-acetic based disinfectants for dialyzer reprocessing. Additionally 7.6% of technicians were using hypochlorite as disinfectant at their center. Around 63.7% of technicians said they were not reprocessing dialyzers of HCV positive patients. They preferred to use single dialyzers in these subsets of patients at their center. Around, 79.6% of technicians said that endotoxin filter was installed in their dialysis unit. Likewise, 45.9% knew correctly the permissible level of endotoxin in RO water used for HD. Only 15.3% of technicians had correct knowledge of permissible level of bacteria in treated RO water as per association for the advancement of medical instrumentation (AAMI) standards. Conclusion: Better knowledge and awareness about dialysis standards among dialysis technicians will help in better patient’s care. Effective dialysis education campaign needs to be driven at regular intervals with relevant information among dialysis technicians to address the knowledge gap.
Semi-supervised wildfire smoke detection based on smoke-aware consistency

The semi-transparency property of smoke integrates it highly with the background contextual information in the image, which results in great visual differences in different areas. In addition, the limited annotation of smoke images from real forest scenarios brings more challenges for model training. In this paper, we design a semi-supervised learning strategy, named smoke-aware consistency (SAC), to maintain pixel and context perceptual consistency in different backgrounds. Furthermore, we propose a smoke detection strategy with triple classification assistance for smoke and smoke-like object discrimination. Finally, we simplified the LFNet fire-smoke detection network to LFNet-v2, due to the proposed SAC and triple classification assistance that can perform the functions of some specific module. The extensive experiments validate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art object detection algorithms on wildfire smoke datasets and achieves satisfactory performance under challenging weather conditions.
Radio loudness along the quasar main sequence

Context. When can an active galactic nucleus (AGN) be considered radio loud (RL)? Following the established view of the AGNs inner workings, an AGN is RL if associated with relativistic ejections emitting a radio synchrotron spectrum (i.e., it is a “jetted” AGN). In this paper we exploit the AGN main sequence that offers a powerful tool to contextualize radio properties. Aims. If large samples of optically-selected quasars are considered, AGNs are identified as RL if their Kellermann’s radio loudness ratio RK > 10. Our aims are to characterize the optical properties of different classes based on radio loudness within the main sequence and to test whether the condition RK > 10 is sufficient for the identification of RL AGNs, since the origin of relatively strong radio emission may not be necessarily due to relativistic ejection. Methods. A sample of 355 quasars was selected by cross-correlating the Very Large Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters survey (FIRST) with the twelfth release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog published in 2017. We classified the optical spectra according to their spectral types along the main sequence of quasars. For each spectral type, we distinguished compact and extended morphology (providing a FIRST-based atlas of radio maps in the latter case), and three classes of radio loudness: detected ( specific flux ratio in the g band and at 1.4 GHz, R′K < 10), intermediate (10 ≤ R′K < 70), and RL (R′K ≥ 70). Results. The analysis revealed systematic differences between radio-detected (i.e., radio-quiet), radio-intermediate, and RL classes in each spectral type along the main sequence. We show that spectral bins that contain the extreme Population A sources have radio power compatible with emission by mechanisms ultimately due to star formation processes. RL sources of Population B are characteristically jetted. Their broad Hβ profiles can be interpreted as due to a binary broad-line region. We suggest that RL Population B sources should be preferential targets for the search of black hole binaries, and present a sample of binary black hole AGN candidates. Conclusions. The validity of the Kellermann’s criterion may be dependent on the source location along the quasar main sequence. The consideration of the main sequence trends allowed us to distinguish between sources whose radio emission mechanisms is jetted from the ones where the mechanism is likely to be fundamentally different.
Critical Fluctuations for the Spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model in an External Field

We prove the existence of a critical regime of fluctuation of the ground-state energy of the spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in an external field. Such regime was conjectured in [2,12], and occurs with external field strength $h=O(N^{-1/6})$. Additional results are proven for $\beta$-analogues of the spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, and models with a Curie-Weiss term. In particular, we introduce a three-parameter family $TW_{\beta,w}^h$ (generalizing the two-parameter family of [3]) characterizing these fluctuations.
Effect of planting density on morpho-productive traits of Jatropha curcas intercropped with food crops

In order to determine the effect of planting density on the morpho-productive traits of Jatropha curcas intercropped with crops under rotation, the following treatments-systems (S) were studied in a completely randomized design: S1 (control): J. curcas at 2,5 x 2,0 m (2 000 plants/ha), S2: 50 % of the area with J. curcas at 2,5 x 2,0 m and 50 % of the area with crops under rotation (2 000 plants/ha), S3: J. curcas intercropped with crops at 5,0 x 2,0 m (1 000 plants/ha), S4 (control): crops under rotation. To interpret the results of plant height (H), number of primary branches (PB), stem diameter and primary branch diameter, quantity of racemes (NR) and fruit production (FP), a simple classification ANOVA was used and H, PB and NR were correlated; while descriptive statistics was used for the number of fruits per raceme (FR), weight and size of the seeds and crop yield. H and PB were higher for S1 and S2; nevertheless, higher NR was obtained with S3, and this last one did not differ regarding FP (p < 0,05) from the control (S1). There was high and positive correlation (r = 0,84) between H and PB, but they were not correlated with NR. In S3, the yield of the associated crops was 1,023; 4,281 and 0,320 t/ha for beans, sweet potato and sesame, respectively. It is concluded that when using 1 000 plants/ha in association systems, adequate yields and diversity of plant species can be obtained.
A Proposal for User-Level Failure Mitigation in the MPI-3 Standard

This chapter describes a flexible approach, providing process fault tolerance by allowing the application to react to failures, while maintaining a minimal execution path in failure-free executions. The focus is on returning control to the application by avoiding deadlocks due to failures within the MPI library. No implicit, asynchronous error notification is required. Instead, functions are provided to allow processes to invalidate any communication object, thus preventing any process from waiting indefinitely on calls involving the invalidated objects. We consider the proposed set of functions to constitute a minimal basis, which allows libraries and applications to increase the fault tolerance capabilities by supporting additional types of failures, and build other desired strategies and consistency models to tolerate faults.
Women ' s entrepreneurship in Pomerania in light of available research

Background. Despite the fact that research on women's entrepreneurship has been conducted for many years, still many clear answers to questions about the differences between entrepreneurs of both genders are missing. Research aim. The differences in the methods of enterprise management are one of the rarely studied areas (Jennings and Brush, 2013). This fact, combined with the small number of studies dealing with female entrepreneurs in Poland, has been the main reason for writing the present text. Methods. The article reports the state of art in the women entrepreneurship research as well as the research conducted in Pomerania province in Poland. Key findings. The results of the research revealed small differences between women and men activities in the firms. The conclusions for the research and policy makers end the paper.
Sustainable leadership: A literature review and prospects for future research

The various social issues that accompany economic development pose new challenges for leaders to integrate economic benefits, social responsibility, and environmental protection. In this context, various new leadership styles have emerged. Among them, sustainable leadership reveals the key role of leaders in balancing the triple goals of economy, society and environment, and has become an important part of leadership theory research in recent years. We searched the literature related to sustainable leadership in databases such as Web of Science, EBSCO and CNKI. Based on the existing literature, we systematically review the origins, connotations, analytical perspectives, measurement methods, and conceptual comparisons of sustainable leadership. And we also construct an integrated analytical framework of sustainable leadership on the premise of sorting out and summarizing the antecedents and consequences of sustainable leadership. Finally, we provide an outlook on the future research areas of sustainable leadership in order to further promote research of sustainable leadership.
Manufacturing agility : Construct and instrument development

Manufacturing agility is emerging as an essential competency for organisations to deal with uncertainties in today’s fast-changing environment. Despite that the beneficial impact of manufacturing agility is widely recognised, little empirical research exists to explain its construct.The manufacturing agility metric is difficult to develop due to its multidimensional and fuzzy nature. This paper aims to develop a research instrument to access manufacturing agility. Through a comprehensive literature review, the agility components are identified and are used to perform an exploratory analysis in order to provide a research-ready instrument. The instrument is tested for both construct validity and reliability based on a large scale survey using an online-based methodology. The data was collected from 263 Thai automotive manufacturers with a response rate of 12%. The results show four distinctive agility components, namely responsiveness, flexibility, competency, and quickness/speed. These capabilities are proved to be the key elements to promote manufacturing agility. The development of instrument provides a validated tool for organisations to measure its manufacturing agility. It helps to transform a philosophy into concrete actions and create a better understanding how manufacturing agility can be measured. Keywords—Manufacturing Agility, Dynamic Capability, Resource-Based View, Instrument.
Title Time and Streak Surfaces for Flow Visualization in Large Time-Varying Data Sets Permalink

Time and streak surfaces are ideal tools to illustrate time-varying vector fields since they directly appeal to the intuition about coherently moving particles. However, efficient generation of high-quality time and streak surfaces for complex, large and time-varying vector field data has been elusive due to the computational effort involved. In this work, we propose a novel algorithm for computing such surfaces. Our approach is based on a decoupling of surface advection and surface adaptation and yields improved efficiency over other surface tracking methods, and allows us to leverage inherent parallelization opportunities in the surface advection, resulting in more rapid parallel computation. Moreover, we obtain as a result of our algorithm the entire evolution of a time or streak surface in a compact representation, allowing for interactive, high-quality rendering, visualization and exploration of the evolving surface. Finally, we discuss a number of ways to improve surface depiction through advanced rendering and texturing, while preserving interactivity, and provide a number of examples for real-world datasets and analyze the behavior of our algorithm on them.
Genomic approaches for improving grain zinc and iron content in wheat

More than three billion people worldwide suffer from iron deficiency associated anemia and an equal number people suffer from zinc deficiency. These conditions are more prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In developing countries, children under the age of five with stunted growth and pregnant or lactating women were found to be at high risk of zinc and iron deficiencies. Biofortification, defined as breeding to develop varieties of staple food crops whose grain contains higher levels of micronutrients such as iron and zinc, are one of the most promising, cost-effective and sustainable ways to improve the health in resource-poor households, particularly in rural areas where families consume some part of what they grow. Biofortification through conventional breeding in wheat, particularly for grain zinc and iron, have made significant contributions, transferring important genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) from wild and related species into cultivated wheat. Nonetheless, the quantitative, genetically complex nature of iron and zinc levels in wheat grain limits progress through conventional breeding, making it difficult to attain genetic gain both for yield and grain mineral concentrations. Wheat biofortification can be achieved by enhancing mineral uptake, source-to-sink translocation of minerals and their deposition into grains, and the bioavailability of the minerals. A number of QTLs with major and minor effects for those traits have been detected in wheat; introducing the most effective into breeding lines will increase grain zinc and iron concentrations. New approaches to achieve this include maker assisted selection and genomic selection. Faster breeding approaches need to be combined to simultaneously increase grain mineral content and yield in wheat breeding lines.
Immune mechanisms associated with cardiovascular disease in systemic lupus erythematosus: A path to potential biomarkers

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients display an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). With the improved clinical management of other classical severe manifestation of the disease, CVD is becoming one of the most relevant complications of SLE, and it is an important factor causing morbidity and mortality. Several immune constituents have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and endothelial damage in SLE patients, including specific circulating cell populations, autoantibodies, and inflammatory mediators. In this review, we summarize the presentation of CVD in SLE and the role of the autoimmune responses present in SLE patients in the induction of atherogenesis, endothelial impairment and cardiac disease. Additionally, we discuss the utility of these immune mediators as early CVD biomarkers and targets for clinical intervention in SLE patients.
Provisioning Energy-Efficiency and QoS for Multi-Carrier CoMP with Limited Feedback

We consider resource allocation (RA) in multi-carrier coordinated multi-point (CoMP) systems with limited feedback, in which a cluster of base stations (BSs), each equipped with multiple antennas, are connect to each other and/or a central processor via backhauls/fronthauls. The main objective of coordinated RA is to select user equipments (UEs) on each subcarrier, dynamically decide upon the cluster size for each subcarrier, and finally partition the feedback resources, provisioned for acquisition of channel direction information (CDI) across all subcarriers, active cells, and selected UEs, in order to maximize the weighted sum utility (WSU). We show how to recast the WSU maximization problem to achieve spectral efficiency, quality-of-service (QoS), and energyefficiency (EE). Specifically, we investigate four instances of WSU to maximize practical system objectives: (i) weighted sum capacity, (ii) weighted sum effective capacity, (iii) weighted sum energy-efficiency (EE), and (iv) weighted sum effective EE. The unified composition of these problems through WSU allows us to use the same set of developed algorithms for all cases. The algorithms have a greedy structure achieving fast convergence, and successfully cope with the huge computational complexity of RA problems, mostly rooted in their combinatorial compositions. Our simulation results shed lights on the network optimization by discovering insights on appropriate cluster-size, distribution of BSs in the cluster, and the number of subcarriers. The proposed UE scheduling and subcarrier assignment are shown to improve the system performance by several orders-of-magnitude.