Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transcriptional Activity of Neurotrophins Genes and Their Receptors in the Peripheral Blood in Patients with Thyroid Diseases in Bukovinian Population of Ukraine

Objective. Thyroid hormone has an especially strong impact on central nervous system development, and thyroid hormone deﬁciency has been shown to result in severe mental retardation. It is crucial to identify compensatory mechanisms that can be involved in improving cognitive function and the quality of life of patients with hypothyroidism. Methods: We used the pathway-specific PCR array (Neurotrophins and Receptors RT2 Profiler PCR Array, QIAGEN, Germany) to identify and validate neurotrophins genes and their receptor expression in patients with thyroid pathology and control group. Results: The analysis of gene expression of neurotrophins and their receptors showed that CRHBP, FRS2, FRS3, GFRA1, GFRA2, GMFB, NGF, NRG2, NRG4, NTF4, TRO, and VGF significantly decreased their expression in Group 3, which includes the patients with postoperative hypothyroidism. The patients with primary hypothyroidism stemming from AIT had significantly reduced expression of CRHBP, GFRA1, GFRA2, GMFB, NGF, PTGER2, and VGF, while the expression of NRG4 and TRO increased. In Group 3, which includes the patients with AIT and elevated serum anti-Tg and anti-TPO autoantibodies, the mRNA levels of GFRA2, NGF, NRG2, NTF4, NGF, PTGER were reduced, and the expression of CRHBP, FRS2, FRS3 GFRA1, GMFB, NRG4, TRO, and VGF significantly increased. Conclusion: These results indicate significant variability in the transcriptional activity of the genes of encoding neurotrophins and their receptors in the peripheral blood in people with thyroid diseases.
Heterogeneous Effects of Macroprudential Policies on Firm Leverage and Value

We empirically investigate the effect of financial institution-targeted macroprudential policies on firms, using a comprehensive macroprudential policy dataset and corporate panel data across 29 countries. We find that the tightening of macroprudential measures persistently curbs the leverage growth of firms, while there is no indication that the loosening of the measures is related to the increase in leverage growth. We also find that this effect on leverage is heterogeneous across firms, as net macroprudential policy actions reduce the procyclicality of leverage more significantly for small firms and firms with high leverage. Also, we estimate the effect of macroprudential policies on firm value to evaluate potential policy trade-offs as the policies restrict the firms' access to credit during economic booms while protecting them from future financial crises. The effect of macroprudential policies on firm value is generally positive despite the policies' restrictive nature. Further, the effect on firm value is heterogeneous depending on firm characteristics: the positive effect becomes stronger as firms are less leveraged; but this positive effect is weaker for firms that grow faster, suggesting potential costs of macroprudential policies for these firms.
Sociological Perspective and Legal Protection of Customary Land: Solution to Determination of Traditional Forest in Indonesia

: This study is motivated by the perspective of government officials and the mechanism for determining customary forests which is often the cause of conflict between indigenous peoples and plantation entrepreneurs who accept concessions from the government. The aims of this study are to evaluate the legal positivism perspective that continued domein verklaring during the Dutch colonialism saw customary forests as state forests as long as they had not been determined by the government so that they could be concessioned to plantation entrepreneurs. The results showed that in order to prevent conflicts and to simplify and speed up the mechanism for determining customary forests, an idea is offered to apply the legal processing ( rechtsverwerking ) analogy in customary law that has been accepted by the national land law. The physical control of customary forests by customary communities by collecting products, utilizing and conserving the forest, regulated in customary law and not denied by indigenous peoples, who border, is sufficient as a sign that the customary forest is under the control of the customary community concerned. Likewise, for the stipulation mechanism, it is necessary to give authority to the local government to be able to determine customary forests.
Graphene oxide and graphene based catalysts in photochemical ractions

Graphene has impressible absorbing ability and its electron transmission capacity makes it a great prosperity in many science horizons. In this study graphene or graphite nitride has been employed as a carrier in order to modify TiO2, ZnO and Ta2O5 photocatalysts. Graphene modified TiO2 particles were obtained by a sol-gel method from titanium isoproproxide (or P25) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO). The X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), UV-vis diffuse reflectance (UV-vis DRS) and thermo gravimetric differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) were investigated over the samples. The diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) studies indicate that G-TiO2 has a significant light absorption increasing and red shift of absorption peak. G-TiO2 photocatalyst could decompose methylene blue under visible light (> 430 nm). G-TiO2 synthesised from titanium isoproproxide presented better activity than G-TiO2 (P25). The catalysts could also produce ● OH and [O2] radicals via electron scavengers (peroxymonosulphate, peroxydisulphate and hydrogen peroxide) to enhance degradation process with visible illumination. ZnO loaded RGO photocatalysts were synthesized through Zn powder and graphite oxide. The structural, morphological, and physicochemical properties of the samples were thoroughly investigated by XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM, UV-visible DRS, TG-DTA, and Raman spectroscopy. Zn powder could successfully reduce GO and ZnO was obtained simultaneously by one-step hydrothermal method. RGO-ZnO photocatalysts could bleach MB under UV-vis illumination. Three different compounds: ammonia, graphene and C3N4 were utilized to dope tantalum pentoxide photocatalyst. Catalysts were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectra and FTIR spectroscopy. The photocatalytic behavior was thorough investigated in bleaching methylene blue under UV-visible illuminations; the modified catalysts could decompose methylene blue, showing better activity than undoped Ta2O5. However, only N-doped Ta2O5 will show activity under visible light. Publications by author Referred journal publications S. Liu, H. Sun, S. Liu, S. Wang, Graphene facilitated visible light photodegradation of methylene blue over titanium dioxide photocatalysts, Chemical Engineering Journal, 214
Branching Pattern Variations of the Celiac Trunk and Superior Mesenteric Arteries in a 94‐Year‐Old White Female Cadaver

Recognizing the presence of abdominal vascular anatomical variations in patients is imperative for surgeons who perform major abdominal surgeries, vascular interventionalists performing ablations or embolizations, and oncologists administering targeted chemotherapies. Neglecting to identify such variations can lead to significant patient morbidity and mortality. It is similarly important to anatomical instructors in the education of future medical providers. During cadaveric dissection of fifty‐six cadavers, we observed several unique anatomical variations occurring within the major enteric vessels of the abdomen of a 94‐year‐old white female cadaver. These variations included a celiac trunk that gave rise to bilateral inferior phrenic arteries, the splenic artery, and a gastrohepatic artery that gave off the left gastric artery, an accessory left hepatic artery, and then continued as a common hepatic artery. Shortly from its origin, the common hepatic artery then trifurcated into a large gastroduodenal artery, the right hepatic artery, and the left hepatic artery. There was no definitive proper hepatic artery present. The accessory left hepatic artery gave off an accessory left gastric artery. The cystic artery derived directly from the superior mesenteric artery, and the middle colic artery arose from the gastroduodenal artery. The middle colic artery also had an accessory aberrant left colic artery branching from it. These anatomical variations described herein are of both clinical significance and academic consequence. While single anatomic variations are well described, the presence of multiple, complex variations in a single patient, such as those described here, is less common in the literature. To our knowledge, there are no other reports of this combination of variations in the literature to date. Operating surgeons and vascular interventionalists should be aware of these variants as they occur both individually and in combination while treating diverse patient populations. Accordingly, the developmental and clinical significance of these anomalous vessels is discussed here.
Polyamorphism and polymorphism of a confined water monolayer: liquid-liquid critical point, liquid-crystal and crystal-crystal phase transitions

Water is an anomalous liquid because its properties are different from those of the majority of liquids. Here, we first review what is anomalous about water. Then we study a many-body model for a water monolayer confined between hydrophobic plates in order to answer fundamental questions related to the origin of its anomalies and to predict new testable futures. In particular, we study by Monte Carlo simulations the low temperature phase diagram of the model. By finite size scaling, we find a liquid-liquid first order phase transition ending in a critical point (LLCP) in the region in which bulk water would be supercooled. We show that the LLCP belongs to the universality class of the two-dimensional (2D) Ising model in the limit of infinite walls. Next, we study the limit of stability of the liquid phase with respect to the crystal phases. To this goal we modify the model in order to characterize the crystal formation and find that the model has a crystal-crystal phase transition and that the LLCP is stable with respect to the liquid-crystal phase transition depending on the relative strength of the three-body interaction with respect to the rest of many-body interactions.
Using Gradient Boosting Regression to Improve Ambient Solar Wind Model Predictions

Studying the ambient solar wind, a continuous pressure‐driven plasma flow emanating from our Sun, is an important component of space weather research. The ambient solar wind flows in interplanetary space determine how solar storms evolve through the heliosphere before reaching Earth, and especially during solar minimum are themselves a driver of activity in the Earth's magnetic field. Accurately forecasting the ambient solar wind flow is therefore imperative to space weather awareness. Here, we present a machine learning approach in which solutions from magnetic models of the solar corona are used to output the solar wind conditions near the Earth. The results are compared to observations and existing models in a comprehensive validation analysis, and the new model outperforms existing models in almost all measures. In addition, this approach offers a new perspective to discuss the role of different input data to ambient solar wind modeling, and what this tells us about the underlying physical processes. The final model discussed here represents an extremely fast, well‐validated and open‐source approach to the forecasting of ambient solar wind at Earth.
Investigating Electronic Defamation Using The Internet

The study was aimed at identifying the most important methods that help in developing criminal investigation skills to confront cyber-crimes. The study was based on more than one approach. It was based on the inductive method, which is based on the deductive approach. The most important findings were: Electronic evidence has a specific scientific value in referring to the facts it contains, but it is indispensable that it be legitimate, both in terms of existence, to be among the legally accepted evidence as a means of proof. 1. The reasons for the difficulty of detecting cybercrime can be explained by the fact that this crime does not leave any visible external impact that the offender can commit this crime in other countries and continents because cybercrime is a transnational crime. 2. The lack of technical and technical expertise in the police, prosecutors, and the judiciary. This is a major obstacle to proving cybercrime. This type of crime requires training and qualification in information technology, evidence collection, research, and trial in the computer and Internet environment. 3. Cybercrime may be part of traditional crime, in the sense that there is a traditional crime involving an electronic aspect.
Evaluation of the effect of some chemicals used in the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) culture

Fish has long been providing food or animal protein for millions of people to meet the increasing domestic and foreign demand for fish and fishery product, aquaculture has expanded and now become a booming industry around the world and it is expected to remain one of the most important rising animal food-producing sectors in terms of food nutrition, jobs, and foreign exchange earnings in any country economy (FAO, 2012). Global aquaculture production has doubled over the past decades, now accounting for 50% of fishery products for human consumption according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2014). China produces 41.1 million tonnes of farmed aquaculture products in 2012, contributing to approximately 61.7% of total world output, as the main ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: May 3, 2021 Accepted: June 5, 2021 Online: June 9, 2021 _______________
Emotional content analysis among psychopathic individuals during emotional induction by IAPS pictures

Background Emotional processes among psychopathic individuals have been consistently investigated. Although content analysis is interesting for evaluating emotional characteristics, few data exist concerning Psychopath’s speech content following affective and neutral images. Method Population included male forensic inpatients (n=47) from Security Hospital. The inpatients were divided into: “Psychopaths” (n=24, PCL-R total score >25), “Intermediates” (n=12, score from 15 to 24.9) and “Non-psychopaths” (n=11, score <14.9). TROPES analyses and EMOTAIX scenario tools examined the narrative’s emotional characteristics. We tested the hypothesis that psychopaths report fewer emotional words on all images, particularly on negative-valence images. Results Our results on the whole do not support this hypothesis but suggested rather a specific discordance in the verbal emotional treatment (exclusively PCL-R interpersonal factor) but not in terms of the subjective evaluation. Moreover, this factor was positively correlated with the number of the self-referring pronouns (“I”, me) setting whereas PCL-R Social Deviance factor was positively correlated with action verbs. Conclusion Speech outputs of psychopaths present specificities in terms of emotional content and verbal setting. The results are congruent with the notion that psychopathy combines both functionality and subtle impairment.
Theoretical Band and Confinement Interpretation of 1D Electrons: Impact on Plasmons and Exchange-Correlation Functionals

Theoretical band and confinement interpretation of electron gas in lowest energy sub-band of quasi- 1D metallic wire have been done. Counter effects have been investigated on electrostatic oscillations (plasmons) determined by the electron density response function. Carrier correlations are treated by incorporating the local exchange-correlation (XC) effects within mean- field approximation. Results obtained are in quantitative agreement with experiments data of Nagao et al. (2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 116802). Variation in both degeneracy and confinement potential cause a clear energy- shift in the electrostatic oscillations accomplished by asymmetry in band effective mass. Resultant massasymmetry is attributed to the greater strength of XC- effects. These contributions turns out to be quite logical in describing the splitting of 1D-bands over ad-hoc spin-orbital splitting idea of Nagao et al. Calculated XC-functionals agreed well with the lattice regularized diffusion Monte Carlo (LRDMC) simulation data (2006 Phys. Rev. B 74, 245427, 2009 J. Phys. A:Math.Theor.42 214021). Competition among XC-functionals and kinetic energy tendencies decides a criterion by satisfying which a metallic quasi-1D wire may undergo an instability at certain critical temperature (Tc).
Feeding by Florivorous Flies (Tephritidae and Agromyzidae) in Flower Heads of Neotropical Asteraceae (Asterales) from Central Brazil

The four following Diptera families are peculiar because they are predominantly phytophagous: Cecidomyiidae, Agromyzidae, Lonchaeidae and Tephritidae; which is uncommon for dipterans. Tephritine’s larvae, depending on the species, consumes leaves, stems, flowers or roots of their host plants. Some tephritines feeds on flower heads of weed Asteraceae and can act in population suppression of invasive species in cultivated areas. In Mid-West of Brazil, we investigate Tephritinae and Agromyzinae flies in flower heads of Asteraceae species in three different phytophisiognomies in Dourados region, state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Here, 12 florivore fly species (9 Tephritinae, and 3 Melanagromyza spp., Agromizinae, Agromyzidae) are reported for the first time in Mid-West Brazil. We stablish the species of Asteraceae host for Tephritinae (Tephritidae) and for some species of Melanagromyza (Agromyzinae) in environments of Cerrado, Semideciduous Forest, and agroecosystem at Dourados-MS region. The inflorescences of Asteraceae species (± 500 capitula/species) were kept in containers to the emergence of the florivorous flies or their parasitoids. The adult insects after 48 hours were fixed in 80% ethanol for later identification. A total 36 species of Asteraceae were evaluated in the three regions of Dourados-MS, Brazil. Were obtained 120,031 flower heads of Astereceae, emerging 2,698 adults of insects: 833 Tephritinae (Tephritidae), belonging to 7 genera and 9 species; 1,089 Melanagromyza spp. (Agromyzidae) and 776 parasitoids (Hymenoptera) from the tephritines and agromyzines. We found that some florivore fly species needs to be better studied to employ in suppression programs of invasive Asteraceae population in the Neotropical Region.
Heritage language maintenance of Chinese immigrant families: Perceptions, practices, and challenges

ABSTRACT Drawing on sociocultural theories of language and literacy practice and Curdt-Christiansen’s theoretical framework of family language policy (FLP), this multiple case study investigates the perceptions, practices, and challenges regarding heritage language maintenance (HLM) of Chinese immigrant families in a mid-sized Midwestern American city. The findings demonstrate that both parents and children valued HLM primarily for family communication and bilingual education for Chinese and English. The families established explicit and implicit FLPs and employed various resources for HLM, but had limited external resources except for a community Chinese heritage school. The families faced challenges, including limited time and energy, along with their children’s difficulty maintaining motivation for learning Chinese.
Performance analysis of a low-complexity nonorthogonal multiple access scheme in visible light communication downlinks using pulse modulations

Although Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) decoding is widely adopted in Nonorthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) schemes for the recovery of user data at acceptable complexity, the imperfect SIC would cause Error Propagation (EP), which can severely degrade system performance. In this work, we propose an SIC-free NOMA scheme in pulse modulation based Visible Light Communication (VLC) downlinks, including two types of users with different data rate requirements. Low bit-rate users adopt on-off keying, where as high bit-rate ones use Multiple Pulse Position Modulation (MPPM). The soft decision decoding scheme is exploited by high bit-rate users to decode MPPM signals, which could fundamentally eliminate the detrimental effect of EP; the scheme is also easier and faster to execute compared with the conventional SIC decoding scheme. Expressions of the symbol error rate and achievable data rate for two types of users are derived. Results of the Monte Carlo simulation are provided to confirm the correctness of theoretical results.
Ship-based observations of atmospheric potential oxygen and regional air–sea O2 flux in the northern North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean

Simultaneous observations of atmospheric potential oxygen (APO=O2+1.1×CO2) and air–sea O2 flux, derived from dissolved oxygen in surface seawater, were carried out onboard the research vessel MIRAI in the northern North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean in the autumns of 2012–2014. A simulation of the APO was also carried out using a three-dimensional atmospheric transport model that incorporated a monthly air–sea O2 flux climatology. By comparing the observed and simulated APO, as well as the observed and climatological air–sea O2 fluxes, it was found that the large day-to-day variation in the observed APO can be attributed to the day-to-day variation in the local air–sea O2 fluxes around the observation sites. It was also found that the average value of the observed air–sea O2 fluxes was systematically higher than that of the climatological O2 flux. This could explain the discrepancy between the observed and simulated seasonal APO cycles widely seen at various northern hemispheric observational sites in the fall season.
A COMPARISON PRE-TRAINED MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC INDONESIAN LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION

Automatic License Plate Recognition is related to the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) that supports the road's e-law enforcement system. In the case of the Indonesian license plate, with various colour rules for font and background, and sometimes vehicle owners modify their license plate font format, this is a challenge in the image processing approach. This research utilizes pre-trained of AlexNet, VGGNet, and ResNet to determine the optimum model of Indonesian character license plate recognition. Three pre-trained approaches in CNN-based detection for reducing time for a build if model from scratch. The experiment shows that using the pre-trained ResNet model gives a better result than another two approaches. The optimum results were obtained at epoch 50 with an accuracy of 99.9% and computation time of 26 minutes. This experiment results fulfil the goal of this research. Keywords : ALPR; ITS; CNN; AlexNet; VGGNet; ResNet