Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Glucocorticoids on Adult Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Objectives The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of glucocorticoids in adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by meta-analysis. Methods PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, CNKI, Wanfang Database, and Chinese Biomedical literature database were searched. A randomized controlled trial (RCTS) on glucocorticoid therapy in adult patients with ARDS was conducted from the time of database construction to December 2021. The content is about the randomized controlled trial (RCT) of glucocorticoid treatment for adult patients with ARDS, without limiting the dose and course of glucocorticoid treatment. The quality of the included RCTS was evaluated by using the bias risk assessment tool of the Cochrane Collaboration network, and the basic information, clinical features, and target outcomes of the literature were extracted. The effects of glucocorticoids on mortality and oxygenation index (PaO2/FiO2) in adult ARDS patients were evaluated by meta-analysis. Results A total of 1,441 ARDS patients in 10 RCTs were finally included, including 734 patients in the glucocorticoid treatment group (hormone group) and 707 patients in the conventional treatment group (control group). The 10 studies included have a good overall design and high quality. Compared with controls, glucocorticoid use was significantly associated with a decrease in mortality in adult ARDS patients (relative risk (RR) = 0.73, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = 0.59–0.90, P = 0.003). Analysis showed that glucocorticoids significantly reduced the mortality in ARDS patients treated with medium and low doses of steroids (RR = 0.73, 95% CI = 0.58–0.92, P = 0.007). In patients with early administration of steroids, intervention with glucocorticoids was significantly associated with the decreased mortality in adult ARDS patients compared with controls (RR = 0.74, 95% CI 0.56–0.99, P = 0.04). Among patients with more than 7 days of hormone therapy, treatment with glucocorticoids was significantly associated with decreased mortality in adult ARDS patients (RR = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.50–0.88, P = 0.005) compared with controls. Glucocorticoids tended to improve PaO2/FiO2 in adult ARDS patients compared with controls, but the difference was not statistically significant (weighted mean difference (WMD) = 11.60, 95% = CI = 15.02–38.22, P = 0.39). Conclusion Glucocorticoid therapy can reduce mortality in adult ARDS patients, and the benefit is more pronounced in patients with medium- and low-dose hormone therapy, early hormone administration, and hormone therapy for more than 7 days. However, no improvement in PaO2/FiO2 by glucocorticoid treatment was found, which needs to be confirmed by further studies.
Graphene oxide membranes for effective removal of humic acid

2-Dimensional materials-based membranes have been considered as promising candidates for water purification. Here, we report that graphene oxide (GO) membrane can reject aquatic humic acid (HA) up to 94.2% in a 2-bar pressurized filtration process. In-depth analysis indicated that the filtration performances such as water flux and rejection rate depend on the thickness and physical structure of the membranes. The experimental study reveals that the GO membrane with a mass loading of 0.58 mg/cm^2, which is approximately equivalent to 3 μm thickness, is required to reach the rejection rate of HA at 94% using 2 bar pressurized filtration method. We further confirmed the membranes’ integrity by over 98% rejection of methylene blue (MB). For practicality, we tested our membrane in tubular form by coating GO on PVDF hollow fibres, which presented similar rejection performances using vacuum filtration method while maintaining the water flux around 100 L m^−2 h^−1 bar^−1. Graphical abstract
Teaching Human Resource Development to Human Resource Management Students: Cultivating the Blending of Management Development Methods in the Online Learning Environment

Historically from the time of the Hawthorne Studies to 21st century, most managerial and business programs of study have focused on the management of employees. However, as businesses and industries have evolved over the years, the needs of employers, as well as the skills of employees have changed. Consequently, there has been a strong focus on employees in a marketplace today which is competing with a shrinking workforce, as predicted by the Hudson Institute [1]. It was predicted that the 21st workforce would have more minorities, people with disabilities, and more females. As more Baby Boomers have retired, American businesses have affected by the shrinking workforce, new employees with limited skills and experience, and changing technology which require a workforce with the ability to think more than physical work for the accomplishment of their organization’s goals. Since the inception of the newer field of Human Resource Development (HRD) founded by Dr. Leonard Nadler, more Human Resource Management (HRM)programs have been incorporating certification and program concentrations in the field of HRD. This paper will focus on the teaching of HRD within HRM programs in terms of blending management teaching methods with the use of the online learning environment.
Objective Class-Based Micro-Expression Recognition Under Partial Occlusion Via Region-Inspired Relation Reasoning Network

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has attracted the attention of many researchers in the past decade. However, occlusion occurs for MER in real-world scenarios. In this paper, a challenging issue in MER that is interesting but unexplored, i.e., occlusion MER, is deeply investigated. First, to research MER under real-world occlusion conditions, synthetic occluded microexpression databases are created by using various community masks. Second, to suppress the influence of occlusion, a Region-inspired Relation Reasoning Network (RRRN) is proposed to model the relations between various facial regions. The RRRN consists of a backbone network, a region-inspired (RI) module and a relation reasoning (RR) module. More specifically, the backbone network aims to extract feature representations from different facial regions, the RI module is designed to compute the adaptive weight from the facial region itself based on the unobstructedness and importance of the region for suppressing the influence of occlusion using an attention mechanism, and the RR module exploits the progressive interactions among these regions by performing graph convolutions. Experiments are conducted on two tasks of MEGC 2018: the holdout-database evaluation task and the composite database evaluation task. Experimental results show that RRRN can be utilized to significantly explore the importance of facial regions and capture the cooperative complementary relationship of facial regions for MER. The results also demonstrate that RRRN outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches, especially with respect to occlusion, where RRRN is more robust.
Criterion of Offshore Jacket Launching Analysis

In the large offshore structure installation, a lunching process is considered one of the most critical operations. As the size of structure increases, it limits the availability of offshore crane facilities. So often large jackets are installed by launching method. This method is also utilized to other type of large structures offshore. As the structure approaches to the tilt beam in the launching barge, it reaches a critical load and there are parameters affecting on launching procedure. The major influential parameters are trim, draft of barge, center of gravity, center of buoyancy and reserved buoyancy of jacket. As increasing of trim and draft, structural loads tend to decrease. The trim is found to be more contributing than draft on structural load, therefore the trim should be increased so as to decrease structural loads and to avoid stalling of structure and submergence of stern. During the launching process, the distance between jacket and seabed should be investigated which differs from the amount of reserved buoyancy and launching condition of barge. In this paper, the effects of parameters on launching process are intensively examined by numerical modeling.
Reef fishes weaken dietary preferences after coral mortality, altering resource overlap

Abstract The direct and indirect effects of climate change can affect, and are mediated by, changes in animal behaviour. However, we often lack sufficient empirical data to assess how large‐scale disturbances affect the behaviour of individuals, which scales up to influence communities. Here, we investigate these patterns by focusing on the foraging behaviour of butterflyfishes, prominent coral‐feeding fishes on coral reefs, before and after a mass coral bleaching event in Iriomote, Japan. In response to 65% coral mortality, coral‐feeding fishes broadened their diets, showing a significant weakening of dietary preferences across species. Multiple species reduced their consumption of bleaching‐sensitive Acropora corals, while expanding their diets to consume a variety of other coral genera. This resulted in decreased dietary overlap among butterflyfishes. Behavioural changes in response to bleaching may increase resilience of coral reef fishes in the short term. However, coral mortality has reduced populations of coral‐feeders world‐wide, indicating the changes in feeding behaviour we document here may not be sufficient to ensure long‐term resilience of butterflyfishes on coral reefs.
Thermopower and electrical conductivity of sodium-doped V2O5 thin films

Thermopower and electrical conductivity of sodium-doped vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) thin films synthesized by a solution technique were investigated. An aqueous solution based V2O5 thin film is a good candidate for thin film devices using ink-jet deposition and screen printing techniques. To improve its thermoelectric properties for practical applications, Na was systematically introduced into V2O5 as a dopant to study how it influences the thermoelectric properties. A melt-quench technique was implemented to dope various concentrations of sodium ions into sol-gel solutions, and thin films were fabricated from these. X-ray diffraction showed that the Na doped V2O5 samples dominantly form the crystalline phase β-NaxV2O5. It was shown that by increasing the Na concentration, the electrical conductivity could be increased by a factor of up to ∼104, whereas the Seebeck coefficient decreased only by a half. Direct measurement of the thermoelectric power output verified that the power factor was improved up to 35.
Nonequilibrium dynamics of condensates in a lattice with the two-particle-irreducible effective action in the 1/N expansion

The dynamical evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional lattice potential is investigated theoretically in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. The emphasis is set on the far-from-equilibrium evolution in a case where the gas is strongly interacting. This is realized by an appropriate choice of the parameters in the Hamiltonian, and by starting with an initial state, where one lattice well contains a Bose-Einstein condensate while all other wells are empty. Oscillations of the condensate as well as noncondensate fractions of the gas between the different sites of the lattice are found to be damped as a consequence of the collisional interactions between the atoms. Functional integral techniques involving self-consistently determined mean fields as well as two-point correlation functions are used to derive the two-particle-irreducible (2PI) effective action. The action is expanded in inverse powers of the number of field components N, and the dynamic equations are derived from it to next-to-leading order in this expansion. This approach reaches considerably beyond the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field theory, and its results are compared to the exact quantum dynamics obtained by Rey et al. [Phys. Rev. A 69, 033610 (2004)] for small atom numbers.
Convective Updraft and Downdraft Characteristics of Continental Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Model Gray Zone

The “gray zone” of convective modeling is defined as the range of horizontal grid spacings (Δx) at which turbulent transport processes are only partially resolved by the dynamics of the numerical model. This zone typically covers Δx from a few kilometers to several hundred meters, wherein the realistic representation of convective cloud processes can be challenging. This study characterizes the convective draft behaviors at multiple Δx across the gray zone and determines the appropriate Δx that can reliably capture these salient convective properties. We perform an ensemble of idealized simulations of mesoscale convective systems (MCS) using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at various Δx from 4 km to 250 m over the central U.S. An evaluation of key MCS kinematic properties is constrained using unique, long‐term vertical velocity estimates obtained by radar wind profilers deployed by the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility. MCS simulations for all Δx tested overestimate (underestimate) the probabilities of convective updrafts (downdrafts) compared to the observations. In terms of the convective draft intensity, finer‐Δx models overestimate the updraft intensity, while the opposite is found for downdrafts. Moving from Δx = 4 km to 250 m, downdrafts become stronger and more frequent especially at middle and upper levels, attributed to additional drag from an increasing graupel frequency and compensation of enhanced updraft velocity. Simulated draft characteristics, including core size, intensity, and probability of occurrence, exhibit pronounced changes at Δx greater than 500 m, but suggest less sensitivity when Δx is reduced below 500 m.
Concurrent management of nasal bone expansion from nasal polyposis (Woakes' disease)

Woakes' disease is the eponymous name for severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) leading to thinning and expansion of the nasal pyramid. The endoscopic treatment of the sinus disease, while extensive, is standard practice for the rhinologist. Management of their external nasal deformities, for many, is not. Simultaneous closed rhinoplasty in these patients is straightforward, easy to perform and achieves an excellent esthetic outcome.
Solid‐State Optoelectronic Synapse Transistor Using a LaF3 Gate Dielectric

As a new generation of core components for neuromorphic computing, optoelectronic synaptic devices have the advantages of high bandwidth and less energy consumption. They can combine the functions of visual sensing, signal processing, and memory in one device. Herein, an all‐solid‐state optoelectronic synaptic transistor using indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) as the channel and lanthanum fluoride (LaF3) as the gate dielectric is designed and fabricated. Its synaptic plasticity induced by electric and optical stimuli is investigated. LaF3 is a solid superionic conductor with plenty of mobile fluoride ions, which can be used to achieve a high on/off ratio of more than 105 and a low subthreshold swing less than 150 mV dec−1 in this novel synaptic transistor. Due to the ion‐trapping effect at the interface, synaptic plasticity can be achieved upon electrical stimulation. Synaptic plasticity by light pulse stimuli can also be accomplished with the assistance of the persistent photoconductivity effect in IGZO channel. Furthermore, it is found that the synaptic plasticity induced by light stimuli can be modulated by gate voltage. These results provide a new way to control synaptic function and extend the function of optoelectronic synaptic devices.
Fall Prediction Based on Instrumented Measures of Gait and Turning in Daily Life in People with Multiple Sclerosis

This study investigates the potential of passive monitoring of gait and turning in daily life in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) to identify those at future risk of falls. Seven days of passive monitoring of gait and turning were carried out in a pilot study of 26 PwMS in home settings using wearable inertial sensors. The retrospective fall history was collected at the baseline. After gait and turning data collection in daily life, PwMS were followed biweekly for a year and were classified as fallers if they experienced >1 fall. The ability of short-term passive monitoring of gait and turning, as well as retrospective fall history to predict future falls were compared using receiver operator curves and regression analysis. The history of retrospective falls was not identified as a significant predictor of future falls in this cohort (AUC = 0.62, p = 0.32). Among quantitative monitoring measures of gait and turning, the pitch at toe-off was the best predictor of falls (AUC = 0.86, p < 0.01). Fallers had a smaller pitch of their feet at toe-off, reflecting less plantarflexion during the push-off phase of walking, which can impact forward propulsion and swing initiation and can result in poor foot clearance and an increased metabolic cost of walking. In conclusion, our cohort of PwMS showed that objective monitoring of gait and turning in daily life can identify those at future risk of falls, and the pitch at toe-off was the single most influential predictor of future falls. Therefore, interventions aimed at improving the strength of plantarflexion muscles, range of motion, and increased proprioceptive input may benefit PwMS at future fall risk.
The Inhibitor Activity Test of Green Okra Fruit Fraction (Abelmoschus Esculentus) Against Candida Albicans

This study was done to analyze the inhibitory activity of green Okra Fruit fraction against Candida albicans. The green Okra fruit is originated from Cepiring, Kendal. Green Okra fruit is a vegetable that contains compounds including flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, steroid, triterpenoids stapling that are able to provide antifungal activity. The green Okra fruit was remacerated with ethanol 80 % followed fractination with n-hexane, diethyl ether, and ethyl acetate . The n-hexane, diethyl eter and ethyl acetate Okra fruit can inhibitory activity against Candida albicans. The test method for inhibitory activity was the disc method using DMSO as a negative blank and Nystatin as a positive blank. The results obtained Okra Fruit fraction can be used as an antifungi Candida albicans and diameter zona of fraction n-hexane, diethyl eter and ethyl acetate were 15,09; 17.11, and 20,28 mm The conclusion of this study is the concentration of the fraction were directly proportional to its inhibitory power, and there weredifferences in and there were differences in antifungal activity. The active campounds contained in the diethyl eter and ethyl acetate fractions of okra fruit was positive for flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins, terpenoids and tannnis, while the n-hexane fraction contained saponins, terpenoids and tannins.
Identification of Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG) from Green Tea Using Mass Spectrometry

In an era where humanity is reinstating its lost hope and expectation on natural products, green tea occupies quite a position for what it has proven to be, in its endeavors for human welfare and health. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is the key to the vast biological activities of green tea. Green tea is no longer in the backdrop; it has emerged as the most viral, trending bioactive molecule when it comes to health benefits for human beings. This review focuses on the use of various analytical techniques for the analysis of EGCG. That which has been achieved so far, in terms of in vitro, pure component analysis, as well as those spikes in biological fluids and those in vivo in animal and human samples, was surveyed and presented. The use of MS-based techniques for the analysis of EGCG is elaborately reviewed and the need for improvising the applications is explained. The review emphasizes that there is plenty of room to explore matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) applications in this subject area.
Coupled channels calculation of a piLAMBDAN quasibound state

We extend the study of a J{sup P}=2{sup +},I=3/2, piLAMBDAN quasibound state [Phys. Rev. D 78, 014013 (2008)] by solving nonrelativistic Faddeev equations, using {sup 3}S{sub 1}-{sup 3}D{sub 1}, LAMBDAN-SIGMAN coupled channels chiral quark model local interactions, and piN and coupled piLAMBDA-piSIGMA separable interactions fitted to the position and decay parameters of the DELTA(1232) and SIGMA(1385) resonances, respectively. The results exhibit a strong sensitivity to the p-wave pion-hyperon interaction, with a piLAMBDAN quasibound state persisting over a wide range of acceptable parametrizations.
Analysis of Sleep Quality and TCM Constitution Characteristics in 258 Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on Outpatient Cases

Objective To explore the correlation between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitutions and insomnia by studying the distribution characteristics of different TCM constitutions in an outpatient insomnia population. Methods From November 2020 to March 2021, 258 patients in the outpatient department of the Traditional Medicine Department of Tongren Hospital were interviewed using some questionnaires (Athens Insomnia Scale and constitution of traditional Chinese medicine), and correlation analysis was conducted. Results The participants consisted of 152 (58.91%) insomniacs and 106 (41.09%) noninsomniacs. The top four biased constitutions of the insomniac population (the same patient may have two or more constitutions simultaneously), as determined from the proportions of constitutions in ascending order, are as follows: Qi deficiency constitution, 95 cases (62.50%); Yang deficiency constitution, 85 cases (45.95%); blood stasis, 70 cases (37.84%); and qi stagnation, 65 cases (35.14%). The results of the Spearman correlation analysis showed that the standard scores of qi deficiency, Yang deficiency, blood stasis, and Qi stagnation were positively correlated with the total score of AIS (P < 0.05). Conclusion Insomnia is correlated and the TCM constitution bias, Qi deficiency, Yang deficiency, blood stasis, and Qi stagnation exhibiting the highest correlation.
Interfacial coupling and its size dependence in PbTiO3 and PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 multilayers

Multilayers of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O-3 (PMN)-PbTiO3 (PT) were deposited through pulsed laser ablation deposition with different periodicities (d=10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 nm) for a constant total thickness of the film. The presence of superlattice reflections in the x-ray diffraction pattern clearly showed the superlattice behavior of the fabricated structures over a periodicity range of 20-50 nm. Polarization hysteresis and the capacitance-voltage characteristics of these films show clear size dependent ferroelectric and antiferroelectric (AFE) characteristics. Presence of long-range coupling and strain in multilayers with lower periodicity (similar to 10 nm) exhibited a clear ferroelectric behavior similar to a solid solution of PMN and PT. Multilayers with higher periodicities (20-50 nm) exhibited antiferroelectric behavior, which could be understood from the energy arguments. On further increase of periodicity, they again exhibit ferroelectric behavior. The polarization studies were carried out beyond the Curie temperature T-c of PMN to understand the interlayer interaction. The interaction is changed to a ferroelectric-paraelectric interlayer and tends to lose its antiferroelectric behavior. The behavior of remnant polarization P-r and dP(r)/dT with temperature clearly proves that the AFE coupling of these superlattices is due to the extrinsic interfacial coupling and not an intrinsic interaction as in a homogeneous conventional AFE material. The evidence of an averaged behavior at a periodicity of similar to 10 nm, and the behavior of individual materials at larger periodicities were further confirmed through dielectric phase transition studies. The presence of AFE interfacial coupling was insignificant over the dielectric phase transition of the multilayers.