Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Accessibility and Healthcare Quality of Maternal and Child Health Services in Health Facilities of Kasai Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is among the five countries with the highest global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and the highest under-five mortality rate (U5MR) worldwide. One of the 14 provinces in the DRC that have high U5MR and MMR is Kasai. Despite this overriding concern, assessment of the maternal and child situation in this province remains poorly reported. Objectives: this study aimed to assess the accessibility, availability, and quality of maternal and child health services in Kasai province. Methods: A total of 49 health facilities (HFs) in 18 health zones in Kasai province participated in our cross-sectional survey. To collect quantitative and qualitative data, we conducted documentary review, interviews, and direct observation of HFs. Furthermore, the relationship between variables was analyzed by Pearson’s chi-squared test. Results: Nearly 54% of the population in surveyed HFs had geographical access to maternal and child health services, and most of the medical services were unaffordable. Only 11.8% and 7.6% of the HFs offered basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC), with no high-quality level of care. The low availability and quality of EmOC were caused by the insufficiency of necessary inputs and personnel for maternal and child health services in the majority of HFs. Conclusions: The situation of maternal and child health services is extremely precarious in Kasai province in the DRC. Rehabilitation of infrastructure, dotation of equipment, regular supply of medicines, and strengthening of human resource capacity are required to improve the EmOC coverage.
Pengaruh Advertising Credibility dan Word of Mouth terhadap Trust dan Purchase IntentionLayanan Coffee on The Bus PO. Tirto Agung

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti pengaruh advertising credibility dan word of mouth yang dapat membentuk trust dan purchase intention pada layanan coffee on the bus perusahaan otobus Tirto Agung. Objek penelitian ini adalah layanan baru dari PO Tirto Agung yaitu coffee on the bus. Layanan coffee on the bus ini merupakan bentuk inovasi yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan otobus untuk merespon dampak dari bencana pandemi covid-19 yang mengakibatkan perusahaan persewaan bus pariwisata tidak bisa melayani masyarakat untuk berwisata. Sehingga mengharuskan perusahaan untuk tetap bertahan agar tetap dapat melayani konsumen untuk melakukan perjalanan wisata di masa pandemi. Perusahaan otobus bekerja sama dengan coffee shop yang ada di Indonesia, karena coffee shop di Indonesia merupakan bisnis yang sedang tren saat ini. Selain itu negara Indonesia merupakan peringkat 6 konsumsi kopi terbesar di dunia. Penelitian ini menggunakan uji PLS SEM dengan jumlah responden sebanyak 248 responden. Pada penelitian ini dibuktikan bahwa advertising credibility dan word of mouth berpengaruh positif terhadap trust, trust berpengaruh positif terhadap purchase intention. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Sampel pada penelitian ini adalah masyarakat yang belum pernah menggunakan layanan coffee on the bus PO Tirto Agung namun mengetahui layanan coffee on the bus.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa adanya pengaruh informasi layanan coffee on the bus dari perusahaan melalui iklan yang kredibel dan informasi yang didapatkan dari luar perusahaan yakni word of mouth dapat mempengaruhi kepercayaan konsumen sehingga mendorong untuk memiliki niat pembelian pada layanan coffee on the bus.
Probing the role of the galactic environment in the formation of stellar clusters, using M83 as a test bench

We present a study of the M83 cluster population, covering the disc of the galaxy between radii of 0.45 and 4.5 kpc. We aim to probe the properties of the cluster population as a function of distance from the galactic centre. We observe a net decline in cluster formation efficiency (Gamma, i.e. amount of star formation happening in bound clusters) from about 26 per cent in the inner region to 8 per cent in the outer part of the galaxy. The recovered Gamma values within different regions of M83 follow the same Gamma versus star formation rate density relation observed for entire galaxies. We also probe the initial cluster mass function (ICMF) as a function of galactocentric distance. We observe a significant steepening of the ICMF in the outer regions (from -1.90 +/- 0.11 to -2.70 +/- 0.14) and for the whole galactic cluster population (slope of -2.18 +/- 0.07) of M83. We show that this change of slope reflects a more fundamental change of the 'truncation mass' at the high-mass end of the distribution. This can be modelled as a Schechter function of slope -2 with an exponential cutoff mass (M-c) that decreases significantly from the inner to the outer regions (from 4.00 to 0.25 x 10(5) M-circle dot) while the galactic M-c is approximate to 1.60 x 10(5) M-circle dot. The trends in Gamma and ICMF are consistent with the observed radial decrease of the Sigma (H-2), hence in gas pressure. As gas pressure declines, cluster formation becomes less efficient. We conclude that the host galaxy environment appears to regulate (1) the fraction of stars locked in clusters and (2) the upper mass limit of the ICMF, consistently described by a near-universal slope -2 truncated at the high-mass end.
Assessment of Professional Quality of Life Among Critical Care Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

Aim Nurses play a major role in critical care units (CCUs), providing care to critically ill patients while also facing numerous health challenges that impair their quality of life. This was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to assess the professional quality of life (ProQOL) and establish the prevalence of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among CCU nurses in Saudi Arabia. Methods A cross-sectional survey of CCU nurses was conducted using the ProQOL Scale, consisting of three subscales: 1) compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, 2) burnout, and 3) secondary traumatic stress. The data were analyzed to obtain descriptive and inferential statistics. Results A total of 238 ICU nurses, who were predominantly female (83%) and had a bachelor’s degree (80%), participated in this study. The ProQOL subscales exhibited varied mean scores across demographic variables. Statistically significant differences were observed in the compassion satisfaction (p=0.014) of CCU nurses working in public hospitals, and in the secondary traumatic stress (p=0.006) among nurses working in night shifts. The percentage distribution of CCU nurses’ individual levels for all the ProQOL subscales were within the average to high levels. Conclusion The ProQOL was significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, varied ProQOL mean scores across demographic characteristics suggest that interpersonal differences should be considered when developing improvement initiatives.
The impact of vitamin D(3) on bone remodeling in different types of experimental pathology

Osteoporosis is a progressive systemic skeletal disease characterized by a decrease in bone density, impairment of its microarchitectonics, and an increased risk of fractures that occur under minimal or no mechanical stress. One of the main causes of osteoporosis is vitamin D deficiency, which leads to disruption of normal bone remodeling. The aim of our study was to analyze the features of the process of bone tissue remodeling by measuring the key biochemical markers of bone formation/resorption in primary and secondary osteoporosis, as well as to investigate the potential corrective effect of vitamin D3 supplementation. The work was conducted on rats with different osteoporosis models: alimentary, dysfunctional and secondary osteoporosis associated with diabetes mellitus. We used ELISA to measure 25(OH)D content in blood serum. Blood serum and bone tissue calcium, and alkaline phosphatase activity were determined with bioassay kits. The content of inorganic phosphate in blood serum and ash was assayed by the Dyce method. It was shown that all the studied pathological conditions were accompanied by vitamin D deficiency, which led to impaired absorption of calcium in the intestine and reabsorption of inorganic phosphates by the kidneys, reducing, as a result, their concentration in the blood serum. Hypocalcemia and hypophosphatemia contributed to the disruption of normal bone remodeling, excessive activation of alkaline phosphatase, and a decrease in the content of calcium and phosphate in bone tissue. Thus, sufficient vitamin D bioavailability was confirmed to be critical for effective bone remodeling in primary and secondary osteoporosis. Keywords: bone remodelin, osteoporosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, vitamin D
Residual Skill Policies: Learning an Adaptable Skill-based Action Space for Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Skill-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strategy to leverage prior knowledge for accelerated robot learning. Skills are typically extracted from expert demonstrations and are embedded into a latent space from which they can be sampled as actions by a high-level RL agent. However, this skill space is expansive, and not all skills are relevant for a given robot state, making exploration difficult. Furthermore, the downstream RL agent is limited to learning structurally similar tasks to those used to construct the skill space. We firstly propose accelerating exploration in the skill space using state-conditioned generative models to directly bias the high-level agent towards only sampling skills relevant to a given state based on prior experience. Next, we propose a low-level residual policy for fine-grained skill adaptation enabling downstream RL agents to adapt to unseen task variations. Finally, we validate our approach across four challenging manipulation tasks that differ from those used to build the skill space, demonstrating our ability to learn across task variations while significantly accelerating exploration, outperforming prior works. Code and videos are available on our project website: https://krishanrana.github. io/reskill.
Reach of threshold-corrected dark QCD

We consider a recently-proposed model which posits the existence of composite dark matter, wherein dark "quarks" transforming as fundamentals under an $SU(3)_d$ gauge group undergo a confining phase and form dark baryons. The model attempts to explain both the $\mathcal{O}(1)$ relic density ratio, $\Omega_{\mathrm{dark}}/\Omega_{\mathrm{baryon}}\sim 5.4$, as well as the asymmetric production of both dark and baryonic matter via leptogenesis. Though the solution of $\beta$ functions for $SU(3)_c$ and $SU(3)_d$ constitutes the main drive of the model, no threshold corrections were taken into account as the renormalization scale crosses the mass threshold of the heavy new fields in the model. We extend this work by explicitly calculating the threshold-corrected renormalization-group flow for the theory using an effective-field matching technique. We find that the theory has a much wider range of applicability than previously thought, and that a significant fraction of models (defined by the number of fields contained therein) is able to account for the observed relic density.
Understanding controls on interfacial wetting at epitaxial graphene: Experiment and Theory

The interaction of interfacial water with graphitic carbon at the atomic scale is studied as a function of the hydrophobicity of epitaxial graphene. High resolution x-ray reflectivity shows that the graphene-water contact angle is controlled by the average graphene thickness, due to the fraction of the film surface expressed as the epitaxial buffer layer whose contact angle (contact angle {Theta}{sub c} = 73{sup o}) is substantially smaller than that of multilayer graphene ({Theta}{sub c} = 93{sup o}). Classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations show that the reduced contact angle of the buffer layer is due to both its epitaxy with the SiC substrate and the presence of interfacial defects. This insight clarifies the relationship between interfacial water structure and hydrophobicity, in general, and suggests new routes to control interface properties of epitaxial graphene.
Axion searches with the EDELWEISS-II experiment

We present new constraints on the couplings of axions and more generic axion-like particles using data from the EDELWEISS-II experiment. The EDELWEISS experiment, located at the Underground Laboratory of Modane, primarily aims at the direct detection of WIMPs using germanium bolometers. It is also sensitive to the low-energy electron recoils that would be induced by solar or dark matter axions. Using a total exposure of up to 448 kg.d, we searched for axion-induced electron recoils down to 2.5 keV within four scenarios involving different hypotheses on the origin and couplings of axions. We set a 95% CL limit on the coupling to photons $g_{A\gamma}<2.13\times 10^{-9}$ GeV$^{-1}$ in a mass range not fully covered by axion helioscopes. We also constrain the coupling to electrons, $g_{Ae} < 2.56\times 10^{-11}$, similar to the more indirect solar neutrino bound. Finally we place a limit on $g_{Ae}\times g_{AN}^{\rm eff}<4.70 \times 10^{-17}$, where $g_{AN}^{\rm eff}$ is the effective axion-nucleon coupling for $^{57}$Fe. Combining these results we fully exclude the mass range $0.91\,{\rm eV}
La0.95Sr0.05CoO3: An efficient room-temperature thermoelectric oxide

We present measurements of electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, and thermopower of polycrystalline Sr-doped LaCoO3 with composition La0.95Sr0. 05CoO3. Our data show that the investigated compound exhibits a very respectable room-temperature thermoelectric figure of merit value of 0.18. Our results not only show that oxides are promising candidates for thermoelectric cooling applications, but also point toward the need for careful theoretical calculations that will serve as a guide in producing the next generation of thermoelectric materials.
Phenomenology of dark energy: exploring the space of theories with future redshift surveys

We use the effective field theory of dark energy to explore the space of modified gravity models which are capable of driving the present cosmic acceleration. We identify five universal functions of cosmic time that are enough to describe a wide range of theories containing a single scalar degree of freedom in addition to the metric. The first function (the effective equation of state) uniquely controls the expansion history of the universe. The remaining four functions appear in the linear cosmological perturbation equations, but only three of them regulate the growth history of large scale structures. We propose a specific parameterization of such functions in terms of characteristic coefficients that serve as coordinates in the space of modified gravity theories and can be effectively constrained by the next generation of cosmological experiments. We address in full generality the problem of the soundness of the theory against ghost-like and gradient instabilities and show how the space of non-pathological models shrinks when a more negative equation of state parameter is considered. This analysis allows us to locate a large class of stable theories that violate the null energy condition (i.e. super-acceleration models) and to recover, as particular subsets, various models considered so far. Finally, under the assumption that the true underlying cosmological model is the Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) scenario, and relying on the figure of merit of EUCLID-like observations, we demonstrate that the theoretical requirement of stability significantly narrows the empirical likelihood, increasing the discriminatory power of data. We also find that the vast majority of these non-pathological theories generating the same expansion history as the ΛCDM model predict a different, lower, growth rate of cosmic structures.
Soft singularity crossing and transformation of matter properties

We investigate particular cosmological models, based either on tachyon fields or on perfect fluids, for which soft future singularities arise in a natural way. Our main result is the description of a smooth crossing of the soft singularity in models with an anti-Chaplygin gas or with a particular tachyon field in the presence of dust. Such a crossing is made possible by certain transformations of matter properties. Some of these cosmological evolutions involving tachyons are compatible with SNIa data. We compute numerically their dynamics involving a first soft singularity crossing, a turning point and a second soft singulatity crossing during recollapse, ending in a Big Crunch singularity.
Magnetoelectric response of the time-reversal invariant helical metal

We derive compact analytical expressions for the coupled spin-charge susceptibility of a clean helical metal at the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI). These expressions lead to unconventional noncollinear Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida interactions between two impurity magnetic moments placed on the surface of a TI and predict the generation of electric currents by time-dependent magnetic moments. We determine the influence of gate and bias voltages on the interlayer exchange coupling between two single-domain ferromagnetic monolayers deposited on top of a TI.
Design of a Novel Balanced-to-Balanced Dual-Band Diplexing Power Divider

In this brief, a balanced-to-balanced (BTB) dual-band diplexing power divider (DBDPD) implemented on a new asymmetric series T-junction MS transition is proposed. Firstly, a four-way BTB power divider (PD) as feed network was designed. The T-junction microstrip-slotline (MS) transitions are employed to realize phase shift and power division within a wide bandwidth. The balanced U-type MS transitions are adopted at each balanced port, which can realize superior common-mode (CM) suppression intrinsically while the differential-mode (DM) responses are independent. Then, the BTB DBDPD is realized by adding four pairs of step impedance resonators (SIRs) asymmetrically to the series T-junction. As a result, an asymmetric series T-junction MS transition with diplexing function is formed, which can flexibly adjust the operating passbands and adapt to the balanced port. Meanwhile, SIRs are employed to realize four sharp passbands. So as to verify the feasibility of the theoretical design, the proposed designs are manufactured. A good agreement can be observed between the simulation and measurement.
UNITARY TRANSFORMATION IN PROBABILISTIC TELEPORTATION

We proposed a general transformation in probabilistic teleportation, which is based on different entanglement matching coefficients K corresponding to different unitary evolution which provides one with more flexible evolution method experimentally. Through analysis based on the Bell basis and generalized Bell basis measurement for two probabilistic teleportation, we suggested a general probability of successful teleportation, which is not only determined by the entanglement degree of transmission channels and measurement methods, but also related to the unitary transformation in the teleportation process.
A possible relation between flare activity in super-luminous supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

Significant undulations appear in the light curve of a recently discovered super-luminous supernova (SLSN) SN 2015bn after the first peak, while the underlying profile of the light curve can be explained well by a continuous energy supply from a central engine, possibly the spin-down of a millisecond magnetar. We propose that these undulations are caused by an intermittent pulsed energy supply, indicating the energetic flare activity of the central engine of the SLSN. Many post-burst flares were discovered during X-ray afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We find that the SLSN flares described here approximately obey the empirical correlation between the luminosity and time-scale of GRB flares, extrapolated to the relevant longer time-scales of SLSN flares. This somewhat confirms the possible connection between these two different phenomena, as recently suggested by Yu et al.
ENERGY CONSERVATION AND GRAVITY WAVES IN SOUND-PROOF TREATMENTS OF STELLAR INTERIORS. II. LAGRANGIAN CONSTRAINED ANALYSIS

The speed of sound greatly exceeds typical flow velocities in many stellar and planetary interiors. To follow the slow evolution of subsonic motions, various sound-proof models attempt to remove fast acoustic waves while retaining stratified convection and buoyancy dynamics. In astrophysics, anelastic models typically receive the most attention in the class of sound-filtered stratified models. Generally, anelastic models remain valid in nearly adiabatically stratified regions like stellar convection zones, but may break down in strongly sub-adiabatic, stably stratified layers common in stellar radiative zones. However, studying stellar rotation, circulation, and dynamos requires understanding the complex coupling between convection and radiative zones, and this requires robust equations valid in both regimes. Here we extend the analysis of equation sets begun in Brown et al., which studied anelastic models, to two types of pseudo-incompressible models. This class of models has received attention in atmospheric applications, and more recently in studies of white-dwarf supernova progenitors. We demonstrate that one model conserves energy but the other does not. We use Lagrangian variational methods to extend the energy conserving model to a general equation of state, and dub the resulting equation set the generalized pseudo-incompressible (GPI) model. We show that the GPI equations suitably capture low-frequency phenomena in both convection and radiative zones in stars and other stratified systems, and we provide recommendations for converting low-Mach number codes to this equation set.
Triaxial orbit based galaxy models with an application to the (apparent) decoupled core galaxy NGC 4365

We present a flexible and efficient method to construct triaxial dynamical models of galaxies with a central black hole, using Schwarzschild's orbital superposition approach. Our method is general and can deal with realistic luminosity distributions, which project to surface brightness distributions that may show position angle twists and ellipticity variations. The models are fit to measurements of the full line-of-sight velocity distribution (wherever available). We verify that our method is able to reproduce theoretical predictions of a three-integral triaxial Abel model. In a companion paper by Ven, de Zeeuw & van den Bosch, we demonstrate that the method recovers the phase-space distribution function. We apply our method to two-dimensional observations of the E3 galaxy NGC 4365, obtained with the integral-field spectrograph SAURON, and study its internal structure, showing that the observed kinematically decoupled core is not physically distinct from the main body and the inner region is close to oblate axisymmetric.
A correlation between the amount of dark matter in elliptical galaxies and their shape

We discuss the correlation between the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies and their ellipticities. We then explore a mechanism for which the correlation would emerge naturally. Such mechanism leads to identifying the dark matter particles to gravitons. A similar mechanism is known in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and is essential to our understanding of the mass and structure of baryonic matter.