Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder: The moderating role of sexual identity strength

ABSTRACT Although gay-related rejection sensitivity (RS) is associated with social anxiety among sexual minority men, little is known about the incremental validity of gay-related RS scores and about moderators of the association between gay-related RS and social anxiety. Study 1 (N = 114) showed that gay-related RS added to the prediction of social anxiety symptoms over and beyond personal RS. Study 2 (N = 254) showed that sexual identity strength moderated the associations between gay-related RS and the expected count of current social anxiety symptoms and the odds of social anxiety disorder diagnosis. Results lend support to the incremental validity of gay-related RS in predicting criterion variance and to the role of sexual identity strength in moderating sexual minority men’s vulnerability to the mental health correlates of gay-related RS.
The underlying hepatoprotective mechanism of PKC#963 in alcohol or carbon tetrachloride induced liver injury via inhibition of iNOS, COX‐2, and p‐STAT3 and enhancement of SOD and catalase

The aim of the present study is to explore the underlying hepatoprotective mechanism of PKC#963, consisting of Pinus koraiensis, Saururus chinensis, and Lycium barbarum in association with acute and chronic liver injury induced by alcohol or carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Here, PKC#963 significantly suppressed aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (p‐STAT3), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and cyclooxygenase (COX‐2) in CCl4‐treated HepG2 cells. Also, PKC#963 significantly suppressed reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in HepG2 cells. Consistently, PKC#963 suppressed the expression of AST, ALT, p‐STAT3, iNOS, COX‐2, interleukin 6 (IL‐6), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF‐α) and α‐smooth muscle actin (α‐SMA) and increased procaspase 3 in the liver tissues of CCl4 treated rats. In addition, PKC#963 enhanced alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) for alcohol metabolism, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and catalase as antioxidant enzymes and also suppressed AST and ALT in alcohol‐treated rats. Furthermore, PKC#963 reduced hepatic steatosis and necrosis in CCl4‐treated rats by H&E (Hematoxylin and Eosin) staining. Taken together, these findings highlight evidence that PKC#963 has hepatoprotective potential via inhibition of iNOS, COX‐2, and p‐STAT3 and enhancement of SOD and catalase.
Negotiation of psycho-social risks of remote working. An enterprise-level comparison in Italy and France

The article focuses on how the actors of industrial relations acted at firmlevel in multi-national company, Danone, in two different institutional contexts (Italy and France), in order to set rules and procedures aimed to mitigate the negative psycho-social consequences of remote working adopted during Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, it examines what was the role of firm-level industrial relations in setting specific oriented actions and what were the relations between these, global policies of the company and national level policies about health and safety and in general the institutional context. It emerges the importance of informality of relations between actors in helping to face an emergency together with the role of global policies of the company that seems to overcomes the different national institutional contexts.
The Relationship between the Empowerment of Women and Preferences Related to Fertility in Pakistan

This study examines the relationship between women's empowerment and reproductive choices among married Pakistani women aged 15 to 49. The study utilized the most recent Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 data. Four proxies were used to measure women's empowerment: spending on husbands' earnings, visits to family, major family purchases, and health care decisions. Health care choices and spending on the husband's salary are both greatly influenced by fertility. Binary logistic regression reveals a substantial and unfavorable link in connection with empowerment and the various education levels of children, males, and spouses. By focusing on this topic, this study can see beyond the constraints that currently exist in the relationship between women's empowerment and fertility preferences. The findings of this study suggest that female participation in the labor force is essential to preserving balanced reproduction and decision-making regarding the home.
Inversion-free, noiseless Raman echoes

Using double optical Raman rephasing, an inversion-free resonant Raman echo is studied in an inhomogeneously broadened spin ensemble of a solid medium, where the Raman optical field-excited spin coherence has a frozen propagation vector. Unlike photon echoes whose quantum memory application is strictly limited due to \pi rephasing pulse-induced population inversion causing quantum noises, the optical Raman field-excited spin echo is inherently silent owing to the frozen propagation vector. Thus, the doubly rephased Raman echo can be directly applied for quantum interface in a population inversion-free environment.
Substitution Patterns and Welfare Implications of Local Taxation: Empirical Analysis of a Soda Tax

We present a structural choice model that incorporates households’ geographic and product substitution for studying the effects of localized taxation policies. Using detailed retail and household data pertaining to Philadelphia’s soda tax, we estimate the choice model linking households’ demographic characteristics and proximity to the city border to their tax avoidance behavior—switching from taxed to untaxed products or from Philadelphia to nonPhiladelphia stores. We find that the inclusion of travel time is vital for modeling households’ heterogeneous responses, with an extra minute of travel time to reach the untaxed region equivalent to adding 47¢ to the product price. Taking into account travel costs and the switch to less preferred products, Philadelphia households on average incur a loss in consumer surplus more than twice the amount of tax paid, with low-income households bearing the largest burden. JEL: D04, D12, H23, H26, L66.
Application of Machine Learning in Ethical Design of Autonomous Driving Crash Algorithms

The age of algorithms is here, and it is really changing people's lives. More and more ethical problems related to algorithms have attracted people's attention, but the related ethical research is still far behind the research of algorithms. As more intelligent algorithms emerge in an endless stream, there will also be a lot of algorithmic ethical issues. On the other hand, with the continuous improvement of the development level of the automobile industry, people have a stronger demand for the safety and stability of modern transportation, and more and more autonomous driving technology has been promoted and applied in the market. At present, most of the studies on the longitudinal collision avoidance system of vehicles use collision warning or emergency braking to avoid collision. However, when the vehicle is in a special situation such as high speed and slippery road, emergency steering is more effective. In order to further improve the vehicle safety and ethical algorithm design points, this article revolves around vehicle lateral active collision avoidance control method research, the collision avoidance decision-making, and path planning and collision avoidance transverse vehicle longitudinal motion control is analyzed, and based on automated driving simulation experiment, the tests carried out to verify the designed control strategy. The experimental results show that the proposed method not only has a good effect of preventing automatic driving collision but also can meet the requirements of algorithm ethics. This research can effectively guide the research of algorithmic ethics in the field of autonomous driving and effectively reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents.
Extracting the Common Component of Biofuel Commodities and Assessing its Dynamic Relationship with Dubai Fatech Index and Philippines Consumer Price Indexes

This study calculates the common component of biofuel commodities from January 1994 to May 2022. It then uses the vector autoregression model to analyze the relationship between the common component, Dubai Fateh crude oil price, and Philippines food and transportation consumer price indexes. The impulse response function shows that a one-time shock on the LP common component creates a positive effect on crude oil prices, while a one–time shock in crude oil prices generates the same positive effect on the LP common component. From the decomposition of the LP common component, crude oil explains 0.066345 per cent of changes in the said variable, whereas food and transportation indexes describe 0.133670 per cent and 0.023652 per cent variability in the LP common component, respectively.
Primary characteristics of the extreme heavy rainfall event over Henan in July 2021

During mid‐July 2021, an extreme heavy rainfall event (HRE) occurred in Henan Province (hereafter “21.7” HRE), with extreme hourly precipitation of 201.9 mm appearing at Zhengzhou station. Our preliminary analyses of the “21.7” HRE using the observations and ECMWF (European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts) ERA5 reanalysis data, reached the following conclusions. Favorable configurations of various synoptic weather systems (e.g., strong upper‐level high‐pressure ridge, intense middle‐level low‐pressure trough) acted as crucial background conditions for the occurrence of the “21.7” HRE. A 21‐h long‐lived mesoscale convective vortex (MCV), mainly located in the middle and lower troposphere west of Zhengzhou city, was a key system that produced the extreme hourly rainfall of 201.9 mm·h−1. The MCV's development/sustainment was dominated by the vertical transport of cyclonic vorticity and tilting, as well as the horizontal import of cyclonic vorticity to the vortex's key region. In contrast, the divergence‐related vertical shrinking was the most detrimental factor. Lagrangian moisture transport analysis showed that moisture for the extreme heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou on July 20 mainly came from levels below 2200 m, driven by airflows on the peripheries of tropical cyclones IN‐FA and CEMPAKA. To enhance the understanding of “21.7” HRE, we suggest more in‐depth investigations in the future.
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE, HEAT-SHOCK AND GENETIC COMBINATIONS ON THE rosy LOCUS IN DROSOPHILA

The aim of the present investigation was to study the developmental genetic effects of temperature, heat-shock and genetic combinations on rosy (ry) locus in Drosophila . rosy proved to be one of the most important genes in Drosophila because rosy eye-coloured flies, from the homozygous viable rosy 506 /rosy 506 , were the background M cytotype strain used in genetic transformation via P-element mediated method. So, the research was focused on determining the suitable developmental time of gene expression. The approach of temperature sensitivity as well as the gene-dose dependent interaction technique were applied in this respect. As it revealed from the results, the lethal phase analysis for [ ry506/Df(3)ry81 ], [ oho-31/+;ry 506 /+ ], [ oho-31/+;Df(3)ry81/+ ], [  / r y / a r m 506 k 2 ] and [  / a r m 2 k ; Df(3)ry81/+ ] genetic combinations were shown to take place during larval stage of Drosophila . Temperature sensitivity studies also showed that the most effective and proper time of gene expression starts as early in the development as in fertilized eggs and lasts up to the end of the third larval instar. Heat-shock experiments and data about the formation of white puparium indicated that the products of the rosy gene expression are mostly needed during the first 40  100 hrs of the development of the insect. Results about the (oho-3,ry) and (arm,ry) genetic interactions suggested that the products of these three genes have to be supplied in sufficient concentrations to maintain the normal phenotype of the animal. Overall, the rosy locus, as a factor on the third chromosome, seemed to have an effect on the level of both arm and oho-31 gene expression in Drosophila . These findings have relevance to possible future applications of these methods in very important genetic loci in insects and mammalian.
Alpha-resonance structure in $^{11}$C studied via resonant scattering of $^{7}$Be+$\alpha$ and $^{7}$Be($\alpha$, $p$) reaction

The resonance structure in $^{11}$C is particularly of interest with regard to the astrophysical $^{7}$Be($α$, $γ$) reaction, relevant at high temperature, and to the $α$-cluster structure in $^{11}$C. The measurement was to determine unknown resonance parameters for the high excited states of $^{11}$C. In particular, the $α$ decay width can be useful information to discuss $α$ cluster structure in $^{11}$C. New measurements of the $^{7}$Be+$α$ resonant scattering and the $^{7}$Be($α$, $p$)$^{10}$B reaction in inverse kinematics were performed for center-of-mass energy up to 5.5 MeV, and the resonances at excitation energies of 8.9--12.7 MeV in the compound $^{11}$C nucleus were studied. Inelastic scattering of $^{7}$Be+$α$ and the $^{7}$Be($α$, $p_1$)$^{10}$B$^*$ reaction were also studied with a simultaneous $γ$-ray measurement. The measurements were performed at the low-energy RI beam facility CRIB (CNS Radioactive Ion Beam separator) of the Center for Nuclear Study (CNS), the University of Tokyo. We obtained excitation functions of $^{7}$Be($α$, $α_0$)$^{7}$Be (elastic scattering), $^{7}$Be($α$, $α_1$)$^{7}$Be$^*$ (inelastic scattering), $^{7}$Be($α$, $p_0$)$^{10}$B, and $^{7}$Be($α$, $p_1$)$^{10}$B$^*$. Many resonances including a new one were observed and their parameters were determined by an R-matrix analysis. The resonances we observed possibly enhance the $^{7}$Be($α$, $γ$) reaction rate but in a smaller magnitude than the lower-lying resonances. A new negative-parity cluster band, similar to the one previously suggested in the mirror nucleus $^{11}$B, is proposed.
Finding shortest s-t paths with a restricted number of orientations

Finding the path between two points in a polygon which minimizes the Euclidean distance of the path has been studied extensively. In this thesis this problem is modified so that the path contains only a fixed number of orientations, and we wish to find the orientations which minimize the Euclidean length of the path between the two points. A method of finding such a set of orientations is given, and for the case where only two orientation are allowed an algorithm is presented which runs in O(n2logn) time where n is the number of vertices in the polygon. Finally, previous results concerning the existence of smallest paths paths which are minimum in both Euclidean distance and link distance are generalized and it is shown that when the path between two points in a polygon is restricted to only include two orientations, such a path which is smallest always exists.
Differentiation of vaginal cells from epidermal cells using morphological and autofluorescence properties: Implications for sexual assault casework involving digital penetration

Analysis of DNA mixtures from sexual assault evidence is an ongoing challenge for DNA casework laboratories. There is a significant need for new techniques that can provide information as to the source of DNA, particularly for sexual assault samples that do not involve semen. The goal of this study was to develop a new biological signature system that provides additional probative value to samples comprised of mixtures of epidermal and vaginal cells, as may be observed in cases involving digital penetration. Signatures were based on morphological and autofluorescence properties of individual cells collected through Imaging Flow Cytometry (IFC). Comparisons to reference cell populations from vaginal tissue and epidermal cells collected from hands showed strong multivariate differences across >80 cellular measurements. These differences were used to build a predictive framework for classifying unknown cell populations as originating from epithelial cells associated with digital penetration or epidermal tissue. As part of the classification scheme, posterior probabilities of specific tissue group membership were calculated for each cell, along with multivariate similarity to that tissue type. We tested this approach on cell populations from reference tissue as well as mock casework samples involving digital penetration. Many more cells classifying as non-epidermal tissue were detected in digital penetration samples than control hand swabbings. Minimum interpretation thresholds were developed to minimize false positives; these thresholds were also effective when screening licked hands, indicating the potential utility of this method for a variety of biological mixture types and depositional events relevant to forensic casework. Results showed that samples collected subsequent to digital penetration possessed markedly higher numbers of cells classifying as vaginal tissue as well as higher posterior probabilities for vaginal tissue (≥ 0.90) compared to cell populations collected from hands without prior contact with vaginal tissue. Additionally, digital penetration cell populations may be resolved from saliva cell populations and other non-target tissue types.
The primordial helium abundance and the number of neutrino families

Based on observations of HII regions and the new computations of the recombination coefficients of the He I lines by Porter et al. (2013) we obtain a primordial helium abundance by mass of $Y_P = 0.2446\pm0.0029$. We consider thirteen sources of error for the $Y_P$ determination, some of them are mainly due to systematic effects, while the rest are mainly due to statistical effects. We compare our results with other determinations of $Y_P$ present in the literature. Combining our $Y_P$ value with computations of primordial nucleosynthesis we find a number of neutrino species $N_{eff} = 2.90\pm0.22$, and a neutron mean life $\tau_{\nu} = 872\pm14(s)$.
The Open Extinction Delay and Reinstated Fear Generalization

: Background: After classical conditioning and extinction of fear, presentation of an unconditioned stimulus can produce a re-emergence of the extinguished fear response, a reinstatement effect. Previous research has reported that reinstatement of fear of contextual cues after a post-extinction delay could generalize over time to similar contexts. Objective: Two experiments were designed to investigate reinstated fear to a discrete stimulus with either a post-reinstatement delay (Experiment 1) or a postextinction delay (Experiment 2). Methods: In Experiment 1 rat subjects were randomly assigned to four groups which received fear conditioning and extinction with a 3000 Hz tone CS. Reinstatement conditioning was then conducted with either the same or different CS, and testing for reinstated fear with the original CS was conducted after either a short or long delay following reinstatement. In Experiment 2 all procedures were the same except the long or short delay employed was between extinction and reinstatement instead of after reinstatement. Results: Reinstated fear increased with time to the same CS, and an increase in generalization of reinstated fear over time was observed with a different reinstatement CS (Experiment 1). When the delay employed was between extinction and reinstatement no increase in fear generalization was observed (Experiment 2). Conclusion: The results indicated support for the notion that reinstated fear to a discrete stimulus may generalize over time, but that generalization only takes place when reinstatement is administered a short interval after extinction. The results have implications for clinical behavior therapy treatments of anxiety disorders.
Weak convergence of spectral shift functions for one‐dimensional Schrödinger operators

We study the manner in which spectral shift functions associated with self‐adjoint one‐dimensional Schrödinger operators on the finite interval (0, R) converge in the infinite volume limit R → ∞ to the half‐line spectral shift function. Relying on a Fredholm determinant approach combined with certain measure theoretic facts, we show that prior vague convergence results in the literature in the special case of Dirichlet boundary conditions extend to the notion of weak convergence and arbitrary separated self‐adjoint boundary conditions at x = 0 and x = R.
The role of blockchain technology in improving the efficiency of fuel & energy companies

This article discusses the impact of new technologies, such as blockchain systems for the functioning of enterprises in the fuel and energy sector. Authors give the definition of blockchain system and split it into types. The article depicts how the blockchain technology affects the fuel and energy complex. Existing cases of technology in the economy has been analyzed in this work. Authors highlighted barriers and prospects of the technology development. The work combines the theoretical aspects of blockchain technology and analysis of practical applications, high operational problems and predicting the potential beneficial effect of a new technology introduction. The aim of this work is to give an economic definition of efficiency of blockchain implementation in modern world. In this article the author used following methods: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, thought experiment method, hypotheticaldeductive method and retrospective analysis. In the process of research, the author came to conclusion that the evolution of blockchain has been explored. Main sectors of economics for blockchain use have been emphasized and economic effectiveness of technology has been substantiated.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MISSION PLANNING FUNCTIONS FOR THE KOMPSAT-2 MISSION CONTROL ELEMENT

Spacecraft mission planning functions including event prediction, mission scheduling, command planning, and ground track display have been developed for the KOMPSAT-2 mission operations. Integrated event prediction functions including satellite orbital events, user requested imaging events, and satellite operational events have been implemented. Mission scheduling functions have been realized to detect the mission conflicts considering the user specified constraints and resources, A conflict free mission scheduling result is mapped into the spacecraft command sequences in the command planning functions. The command sequences are directly linked to the spacecraft operations using eXtensible Markup Language(XML) for command transmission. Ground track display shows the satellite ground trace and mission activities on a digitized world map with zoom capability.