Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enterococcus faecium HDRsEf1 Promotes Systemic Th1 Responses and Enhances Resistance to Salmonella Typhimurium Infection

The gut microbiota is known to regulate the immune system and thereby influence susceptibility to infection. In this study, we observed that the administration of Enterococcus faecium HDRsEf1 (HDRsEf1) led to an improvement in the development of the immune system. This was evidenced by an increase in both the spleen index and the area of spleen white pulp. Specifically, the proportion of T helper (Th) 1 cells and the production of IFN-γ and IL-12 were significantly increased in the spleens of mice treated with HDRsEf1. In agreement with the in vivo results, we found that Th1-related cytokines, including IFN-γ and IL-12p70, were strongly induced in splenocytes treated with HDRsEf1. In addition, Th1 cell activation and high-level secretion of IL-12p70 were also confirmed by coculture of CD4+ T cells with bone marrow-derived dendritic cells treated with HDRsEf1. Moreover, the employment of HDRsEf1 was identified to augment resilience against systemic infection provoked by S. Typhimurium and stimulate the expression of the genes for TNFα and iNOS in the initial stage of infection, signifying that reinforced Th1 cells and IL-12 might activate macrophages for antibacterial safeguards. In summary, our study suggests that HDRsEf1 could act as an effective immunobiotic functional agent, promoting systemic Th1 immunological responses and priming defenses against infection.
Development of Essential Oil Delivery Systems by ‘Click Chemistry’ Methods: Possible Ways to Manage Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Recently, rare diseases have received attention due to the need for improvement in diagnosed patients’ and their families’ lives. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare, severe, progressive, muscle-wasting disease. Today, the therapeutic standard for treating DMD is corticosteroids, which cause serious adverse side effects. Nutraceuticals, e.g., herbal extracts or essential oils (EOs), are possible active substances to develop new drug delivery systems to improve DMD patients’ lives. New drug delivery systems lead to new drug effects, improved safety and accuracy, and new therapies for rare diseases. Herbal extracts and EOs combined with click chemistry can lead to the development of safer treatments for DMD. In this review, we focus on the need for novel drug delivery systems using EOs as the therapy for DMD and the potential use of click chemistry for drug delivery systems. New EO complex drug delivery systems may offer a new approach for improving muscle conditions and mental health issues associated with DMD. However, further research should identify the potential of these systems in the context of DMD. In this review, we discuss possibilities for applying EOs to DMD before implementing expensive research in a theoretical way.
Relating soil electrical conductivity to remote sensing and other soil properties for assessing soil salinity in northeast Thailand

Mapping and monitoring of soil salinity is required to establish its areal extent and also to keep track of changes in salinity in order to formulate appropriate and timely management strategies for reclamation and rehabilitation of such soils. Remote sensing data have been increasingly used in soil‐salinity studies as they are not only quicker but are also useful for making realistic predictions. A study was conducted in northeast Thailand to understand the relationship of spectral reflectance and physico‐chemical soil properties to electrical conductivity (EC) by using remote sensing data (Landsat® ETM+) and laboratory analysis of soil sample data. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between EC and spectral/soil properties and to generate several models. In the case of spectral properties, mid‐infrared band (Landsat® band 7) and near‐infrared (band 4) were found to be most correlated with the observed EC values of the surface layer of the soil. For the soil properties, chloride (Cl), sodium (Na), phosphorus (P), and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) were found to be most correlated with observed EC values. Similarly, for the subsurface layer, Cl and P were found to be significant predictors of observed EC values. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Mediating effect of social interaction anxiety between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction in physical education students: post-COVID-19 study

The aim of this research is to analyze the effect of social interaction anxiety on satisfaction with life mediated by emotional intelligence. The research design was descriptive, cross-sectional, and non-randomized. In total, 1,164 Mexican physical education students participated (Mage = 21.21; SD = 3.26; 30.0% female; 69.6% male; 0.4% other). The scales used were the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, Trait Meta-Mood Scale and Satisfaction with Life and a structural equation analysis with latent variables was conducted. The results highlight that it can be asserted that emotional clarity and repair had a mediating effect between social interaction anxiety and satisfaction with life, as they did decrease the negative effects of social interaction anxiety on satisfaction with life. In addition, social interaction anxiety had a direct and positive effect on emotional attention and a negative effect on emotional clarity and repair.
PERCEIVED ACCESS TO FINANCE, SELF-EFFICACY, AND ATTITUDE ON STUDENT’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ABILITY AND INTENTION

This study aims to analyze the influence of perceived access to finance, self-efficacy, and attitude toward entrepreneurship directly on the entrepreneurial intention and indirectly through entrepreneurial ability. The subjects of this study are 190 respondents who are undergraduate students from various majors who had studied for at least one year at Pelita Harapan University. The study uses quantitative research by taking samples using a purposive sampling technique. Data analysis was performed by Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) using the software SmartPLS 3.2. 9. The results of this study indicate that perceived access to finance, self-efficacy, and attitude toward entrepreneurship has a positive on entrepreneurial ability. Meanwhile perceived access to finance is not significant to entrepreneurial intention, however self-efficacy and attitude toward entrepreneurship have a positive influence on entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, the study found that entrepreneurial ability mediates those influences towards entrepreneurial intention. The study showcases the important mediating effect of entrepreneurial ability towards entrepreneurial intention. This supports universities to build on more practical business capabilities of their students to encourage them to start businesses.
Numerical modelling of shallow flows with horizontal density variation

﻿ A numerical model is presented of vertically homogeneous shallow flows with variable horizontal density. The governing equations represent mass and momentum conservation of a liquid-species mixture, and mass conservation of the species within a control volume. Here, the term species refers to material transported with the liquid flow. For example, when the species is taken to be suspended sediment, the model provides an idealised simulation of hyper-concentrated sediment-laden flows. The volumetric species concentration acts as an active scalar, allowing the species dynamics to influence the flow structure. The model can simulate flows driven by depth and density differences in the horizontal. The governing equations are written in a deviatoric, hyperbolic form to facilitate their solution by means of a Godunov-type finite volume scheme appropriate for flows containing sharp fronts. The deviatoric governing equations ensure that flux gradient and source terms are balanced (and there is no need for further numerical balancing). The numerical model is first verified for constant density cases, for which the governing equations reduce to the conventional coupled shallow water and species transport equations. Close agreement between numerical predictions and benchmark test solutions illustrate the model's ability to capture rapidly-varying flow features over uniform and non-uniform bathymetries. For variable-density cases, analytical steady-state solutions are derived for two simple cases, one with uniform bathymetry and the other with sinusoidal bathymetry. Detailed parameter studies are then undertaken to examine the effects of varying the initial density and depth in different regions. The shock-capturing scheme resolves all sharp features in the flow such as bore, shear waves, shock diamond like features, contact discontinuities and locally intense vortices. These interesting and novel nonlinear features are unique to variable density flows. The validated numerical model is applied to an idealised case of a hyperconcentrated sediment-laden debris-type flow along a tributary entering a river. The predicted evolution of the free surface flow field is qualitatively similar to observations of an actual debris flows into a river connected to the Upper Yangtze.
Selection, Design And Dissemination OfFuerteventura’s Projected Tourism Image(Canary Isles)

Tourism constitutes an important factor among those influencing sociocultural change in populations, particularly when these inhabit tourist destinations. Among the multiple components of the tourism system, the processes of selection, design and implementation of the ‘constructed image’ are highly valuable with regard to studying the significance and resignificance of the territory. The present study analyses these processes through images presented in brochures and websites relating to the tourism offer of the island of Fuerteventura (Canary Isles). It can currently be observed that the local administrations of this island are attempting to project Fuerteventura’s image through its re-adaptation and differentiation as a tourist destination. The process gives rise to contradictions in the selection strategies and significance of the tourism resources between the different administrations and the other actors responsible for ‘generating an image’.
Hydroclimatic influences on seasonal and spatial cholera transmission cycles: Implications for public health intervention in the Bengal Delta

Cholera remains a major public health threat in many developing countries around the world. The striking seasonality and annual recurrence of this infectious disease in endemic areas remain of considerable interest to scientists and public health workers. Despite major advances in the ecological and microbiological understanding of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the disease, the role of underlying large‐scale hydroclimatic processes in propagating the disease for different seasons and spatial locations is not well understood. Here we show that the cholera outbreaks in the Bengal Delta region are propagated from the coastal to the inland areas and from spring to fall by two distinctly different transmission cycles, premonsoon and postmonsoon, influenced by coastal and terrestrial hydroclimatic processes, respectively. A coupled analysis of the regional hydroclimate and cholera incidence reveals a strong association of the space‐time variability of incidence peaks with seasonal processes and extreme climatic events. We explain how the asymmetric seasonal hydroclimatology affects regional cholera dynamics by providing a coastal growth environment for bacteria in spring, while propagating the disease to fall by monsoon flooding. Our findings may serve as the basis for “climate‐informed” early warnings and for prompting effective means for intervention and preempting epidemic cholera outbreaks in vulnerable regions.
Ethical leadership, psychological capital, work engagement and job satisfaction: the moderating role of moral identity in the Malawi government sector

ABSTRACT Based on social learning theory , this study investigates whether psychological capital mediates the ethical leadership- work engagement link and the ethical leadership-job satisfaction link. Again, it tests whether moral identity moderates the relationship between ethical leadership and psychological capital. With data collected from 177 public servants in Malawi, this study’s findings reveal that psychological capital fully mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and work engagement while it partially mediates the ethical leadership-job satisfaction link. Furthermore, the results reveal that moral identity moderates the relationship between ethical leadership and psychological capital. The study has important implications for practice especially in human resource management in developing and adopting practices that promote work engagement and job satisfaction among employees.
Nubia Formation of Central Eastern Desert, Egypt--Major Subdivisions and Depositional Setting

The Nubia Formation of the central Eastern Desert is a record of predominantly nonmarine sedimentation in response to local and regional structural movements during the Late Cretaceous. The Nubia section of the Eastern Desert can be divided into five major lithologic units, in ascending order: (1) basal unit of fluvial trough-cross-bedded conglomeratic sandstone (absent near Safaga); (2) coastal and marginal-marine gray and red shale and thin sandstone (restricted to Aswan area); (3) fluvial tabular-cross-bedded sandstone; (4) coastal fluvial-plain and delta-plain ripple-laminated siltstone and lenticular fine-grained sandstone; and (5) coastal and marginal-marine clay-shale and siltstone. Facies relations and cross-bed directions in the lower Nubia suggest that, during the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian? ), fluvial sediments were transported westward from highlands in the area of the present Red Sea and southward from uplifted areas north of Aswan and near Safaga. The Cenomanian transgression from the northwest reached the vicinity of Aswan, where marginal-marine sediments interfingered with fluvial deposits from the east. Later, uplift in the area south of the Eastern Desert and subsidence of the northern margin of the African shield caused the streams to flow northward, spreading a blanket of sandy fluvial sediment over the entire area now between the Red Sea and the Nile Valley. As the supply of sediment from the south continued, progressively finer terrigenous materi l reached the region that is now the Eastern Desert. During the Campanian, fine-grained coastal fluvial-plain and delta-plain sediment interfingered to the north with coastal muds. Continued subsidence of the northern flank of the Egyptian shield and the Late Cretaceous eustatic rise in sea level brought deposition of coastal mud progressively farther south.
Preceding, coseismic, and postseismic slips of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan

[1] We estimated the spatial and temporal evolution of the preceding aseismic slip from January 2003 to January 2011, the coseismic slip of the Tohoku earthquake, and the postseismic slip after the earthquake based on global positioning system (GPS) data. Time-dependent analysis indicates aseismic slip offshore of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures from 2004 associated with a series of subduction earthquakes that overlap the aseismic slip area. These preceding aseismic and coseismic slip areas are centered between the centers of the coseismic and afterslip areas of the Tohoku earthquake offshore of Miyagi prefecture, while they overlap the coseismic and afterslip areas of the Tohoku earthquake off Fukushima prefecture. The timing of moment magnitude nine (Mw9) -class earthquakes appears to be controlled by multiple preceding slip events, smaller earthquakes and their afterslip. The preceding aseismic and coseismic slip decreased the coupling rate off the Tohoku coast, suggesting the possibility that the preceding slip represented a precursive stage of the Tohoku earthquake. The afterslip of the Tohoku earthquake occurred in an area where the coseismic slip was not large, complementing the large coseismic slip zone. The afterslip along Iwate-Miyagi extends up to 80 km in depth and is currently the sole mechanism of strain release in this depth range. The source region of the anticipated Miyagi-Oki earthquake shows small postseismic slip after the Tohoku earthquake, reflecting the energy release at the time of the earthquake. Aftershock activity is roughly governed by an afterslip process.
Predominant modes of winter surface wind variability over the Gulf of Alaska

Two distinct modes extracted from winter (Dec.–Mar.) monthly mean surface wind variability over the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and part of the northeast Pacific Ocean have been identified along with their associations with sea surface temperature (SST), coastal downwelling, surface air temperature (SAT) and sea level pressure (SLP). The leading mode of surface wind variability, accounting for 45% of the variance, is characterized by two distinct and alternating modes or their linear combination, and shows strong interannual and interdecadal variations with the transition years in the mid‐1970s and the beginning and late of 1990s. One mode (M1) features a coherent cyclonic or anticyclonic surface wind anomaly in the GOA and part of the northeast Pacific Ocean, and reflects wind field variability related to the intensity of large scale atmosphere‐ocean interactions associated with the Aleutian Low, the Pacific/North American (PNA) pattern, the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), and the South Oscillation (SO). This mode significantly influences SAT over the GOA and the entire northeast Pacific and influences downwelling along the eastern and southeastern GOA. It does not significantly influence SST in the northern GOA. The other (M2) characterizes dominant southerly or northerly anomalies, and significantly influences coastal downwelling in the northern and southeastern GOA. It is also correlated with SAT over the GOA, the Bering Sea shelf, and much of Alaska. The impact of M2 on SST is greater than that of M1 in the GOA and the Bering Sea. M1 and M2, respectively, correspond to the PNA pattern and a dipole pattern, and the later is characterized by the third mode of the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of winter SLP variability over the domain 20° –70°N and 160°E–100°W, accounting for 13% of the variance. The dipole pattern is a new mode of winter atmospheric variability, with opposite anomalous centres over the southern Bering Sea and the west coast of the USA and part of the northeast Pacific Ocean. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society
Design and Evaluation of Memristor-Based Piccolo- 80 Lightweight Encryption Algorithm for Future IoT Applications

Piccolo is an ultra-lightweight encryption algorithm optimized for very resource-constrained platforms. However, lightweight algorithms are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, specifically Differential Power Analysis (DPA). In this study, we first demonstrate the vulnerability of this algorithm against DPA. Then, a new masking scheme to protect the algorithm against DPA is proposed. In addition, the same implementation in a hybrid CMOS-Nano system is presented and the results are compared in terms of attack tolerance, area, and energy consumption. Power analysis mounted on unmasked Piccolo was successful while the attack on the masked version of both CMOS and CMOS-Nano implementations of the algorithm led to unsuccessful results and no key was recovered. More importantly, while maintaining reliable performance, the hybrid CMOS-Nano circuit was more efficient than the pure CMOS circuit in terms of energy consumption and area. This is a very important issue for future IoT devices and applications where energy consumption and security are the primary concerns.
Effect of Adding Different Commercial Propylene Glycol Alginates on the Properties of Mealworm-Flour-Formulated Bread and Steamed Bread

Mealworm-flour-formulated flour-based products have gained increasing attention; however, their textural properties need to be improved. Propylene glycol alginate (PGA) is a commercial food additive with excellent emulsifying and stabilizing capabilities. We evaluated the effects of adding three commercially available PGAs (0.3% w/w, as food additive) on the properties of 10% concentration of mealworm-flour-formulated bread and steamed bread. The results showed that, compared with the control (2.17 mL/g), three PGA brands (Q, M, and Y) significantly increased the specific volume of the bread to 3.34, 3.40, and 3.36 mL/g, respectively. Only PGA from brand Q significantly improved the specific volumes of bread and steamed bread. The color of the bread was affected by the Maillard reaction. The addition of PGAs also augmented the moisture content of the fresh bread crumbs and steamed bread crumbs. All three PGAs improved the textural properties of bread and steamed bread. During storage, PGA addition delayed the staling of bread and steamed bread. In summary, our study showed that the addition of 0.3% PGA from three different producers improved bread properties, with PGA from brand Q having the most substantial effect. PGA had a more substantial effect on bread than steamed bread. Our results provide a theoretical basis to guide the development of insect-formulated flour-based products.
PTFD-Net: A Sliding Detection Algorithm Combining Point Cloud Sequences and Tactile Sequences Information

Sliding detection can effectively enhance the stability of robot grasping operations. Methods relying solely on 2-D vision or tactile information for sliding detection often exhibit limited applicability across diverse scenarios. Furthermore, 2-D visual sensitivity to the changes in light intensity leads to inadequate performance in overexposure scenarios. In this article, we propose a novel deep neural network called point cloud sequences and tactile sequences fusion detection network (PTFD-Net), which serves the purpose of detecting the sliding state when robots grasp objects. Specifically, we utilize an improved PointRNN algorithm and 3-D convolution to extract features from the point cloud sequences and tactile sequences to construct a multimodal sequence information prediction model. In addition, we construct a dataset that integrates point cloud sequences with tactile sequences. The impact of different point cloud sequence lengths and tactile image sizes on the performance of PTFD-Net is discussed to determine the optimal parameters. The model can attain a sliding state detection accuracy of 95.49% on the dataset. Moreover, we conduct performance comparisons with baseline algorithms under overexposure scenarios, demonstrating PTFD-Net’s superiority over baseline algorithms and achieving a sliding detection accuracy of 92.71%. Finally, we conduct robustness experiments on unknown objects under different grasping poses and occlusion scenarios, resulting in sliding detection accuracies of 86.02% and 89.43%, respectively, both surpassing single-modal models. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of PTFD-Net in extracting multimodal features, enabling it to perform better robot grasping tasks in complex environments.