Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Programmed Cell Death of Endothelial Cells in Myocardial Infarction and Its Potential Therapeutic Strategy

Cardiovascular disease, especially coronary artery disease and stroke, kills around one-third of the world's population, and myocardial infarction, a primary symptom of coronary heart disease, is a major worldwide health problem. Cardiovascular disease research has historically focused on promoting angiogenesis following myocardial damage. Myocardial vascular repair is crucial for improving myocardial infarction prognosis. Endothelial cells, the largest population of nonmyocytes within myocardial tissue, play an important role in angiogenesis. In recent years, different types of programmed cell death such as apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis, ferroptosis, and autophagy have been described and found to be linked with cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, and myocarditis. This will have important implications for reforming the treatment strategy of cardiovascular diseases. Different types of cell death of endothelial cells in myocardial infarction have been proposed, the roles and mechanisms of endothelial cell death in myocardial infarction are summarized in this review, and endothelial cell death inhibition as a therapeutic technique for treating myocardial infarction might be advantageous to human health.
Prevalence and extension of the anterior loop of the mental nerve in different populations and CBCT imaging settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Purpose This study aimed to identify the prevalence and extension of the anterior loop (AL) of the mental nerve in different populations and according to different cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging settings. Materials and Methods Medline/PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest were searched. The main inclusion criterion was ALs evaluated in CBCT images. The quality of studies was assessed with the Joanna Briggs Institute risk of bias checklist. Subgroup analyses were conducted for sex, side, continent, voxel size, field of view, and type of CBCT-reconstruction images with a random-effects model. Results Sixty-three studies with 13,743 participants (27,075 hemimandibles) were included. An AL was found in 40.6% (95% CI: 32.8%-48.9%, P<0.05) of participants and 36.0% (95% CI: 27.5%-45.5%, P<0.05) of hemimandibles, in 34.9% (95% CI: 25.1%-46.2%, P<0.05) of males and 34.5% (95% CI: 23.5%-47.4%, P<0.05) of females. The average length of ALs was 2.39 mm (95% CI: 2.07-2.70 mm, P<0.05). Their extension was 2.13 mm (95% CI: 1.54-2.73 mm, P<0.05) in males and 1.85 mm (95% CI: 1.35-2.36 mm, P<0.05) in females. Significant differences were observed regarding the prevalence and length of ALs among continents and for its measured length on different CBCT-reconstruction images, but not between other subgroups. Conclusion AL was a relatively common finding. The voxel size and fields of view of CBCT devices were adequate for assessing AL; however, a 2-mm safety margin from anatomical structures (such as the AL) could be recommended to be considered when using CBCT imaging.
Modernising the EU-Chile Association Agreement: strengthening an alliance for social inclusion and environmental sustainability

This research paper analyzes the results of the Association Agreement (AA) between the European Union and Chile, which entered into force in 2003, up to the present time when its modernization is being negotiated. After 19 years of the agreement, the international context has changed both in its political and economic dimensions, so it is important to analyze what role these agreements can have in the face of the challenges of the post-pandemic recovery and the objectives of both regions in terms of strategic autonomy, in the geopolitical field, and in the transition towards new development models that respond to shared challenges such as climate change, ecological transition, digitalization, social inclusion or the revitalization of multilateralism.
Ocean Ventilation Controls the Contrasting Anthropogenic CO2 Uptake Rates Between the Western and Eastern South Atlantic Ocean Basins

The South Atlantic Ocean is an important region for anthropogenic CO2 (Canth) uptake and storage in the world ocean, yet is less studied. Here, after an extensive sensitivity test and method comparison, we applied an extended multiple linear regression method with six characteristic water masses to estimate Canth change or increase (ΔCanth) between 1980s and 2010s in the South Atlantic Ocean using two meridional transects (A16S and A13.5) and one zonal transect (A10). Over a period of about 25 years, the basin‐wide ΔCanth was 3.86 ± 0.14 Pg C decade−1. The two basins flanking the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge had different meridional patterns of ΔCanth, yielding an average depth‐integrated ΔCanth in the top 2000 m of 0.91 ± 0.25 mol m−2 yr−1 along A16S on the west and 0.57 ± 0.22 mol m−2 yr−1 along A13.5 on the east. The west‐east basin ΔCanth contrasts were most prominent in the tropical region (0–20°S) in the Surface Water (SW), approximately from equator to 35°S in the Subantarctic Mode Water (Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW)), and all latitudes in the Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW). Less ΔCanth in the eastern basin than the western basin was caused by weaker ventilation driven by SAMW and AAIW formation and subduction and stronger Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation in the former than the latter. In addition to the spatial heterogeneity, Canth increase rates accelerated from the 1990s to the 2000s, consistent with the overall increase in air‐sea CO2 exchange in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Intermittent Sinusoidal Modulation of Bidirectional Series Resonant Converter With Zero Current Switching, Linear Current Controllability, and Load-Independent Efficiency

Sinusoidal modulation can keep the resonant current in phase with the terminal voltage, and, thus, it is feasible to achieve both zero current switching (ZCS) on/off and eliminate backflow power in a series resonant converter. However, it makes the transfer characteristics inherently dependent on the resonant tank and, thus, challenges power regulation. In this article, a novel intermittent sinusoidal modulation is proposed for a bidirectional series resonant converter (BSRC). Each switching cycle incorporates a sinusoidally modulated resonant period and an intermittent period for the current controllability, while fully ZCS as well as null backflow power can be maintained for high efficiency regardless of load conditions. The BSRC operates as a current source, with the normalized voltage gain being either stepped up or down, to achieve a wide range of output power. Moreover, the output power together with the power loss is proportional to the switching frequency, making the high power efficiency independent of the load. Therefore, fully ZCS, linear current controllability, and load-independent high efficiency can be simultaneously realized throughout a wide load range. A 1-kVA BSRC prototype that interfaces a high-voltage bus ranging from 240 to 480 V and a low-voltage bus of 48 V validates the proposed modulation scheme.
Internet Addiction as a Moderator of the Relationship between Cyberhate Severity and Decisional Forgiveness

(1) Background: Cyberhate is becoming increasingly prevalent, just as Internet addiction. One way to deal with hate speech may be to make a decision to forgive the offence. However, addiction to the Internet, due to cognitive changes caused, can play a role in the making of this decision. (2) Methods: A total of N = 246 participants completed the Online Cognitive Scale (OCS), Decision to Forgive Scale (DTFS), and a single-item scale to assess cyberhate severity. In our cross-sectional study, we tested the moderating role of Internet addiction in the relationship between the severity of cyberhate and decisional forgiveness. (3) Results: The results of our study show an inverse correlation between cyberhate severity and decisional forgiveness. We found that Internet addiction moderated the relationship between the perceived severity of cyberhate and forgiveness. In case of a high level of Internet addiction, the transgression severity–forgiveness link is not significant. (4) Conclusions: These results are in accordance with the studies that showed the negative effects of Internet addiction on cognitive processes.
Effectiveness of electrical muscle stimulation in controlling blood glucose level

The aim is to critically review the relevant evidence on the interrelationships between electrical muscle stimulation and metabolic outcomes. From this review appear that the effects of electrical muscle stimulation resulted in reductions in HbA1c, and other outcome measures of diabetes mellitus type 2. Considering the available evidence, it appears that electrical muscle stimulation could be an effective intervention to help glycemic control, especially considering that the effects of this form of intervention are comparable with what reported with physical exercise. Less studies have investigated regarding electrical muscle stimulation (its duration, type of current, form of impulses, sites to be stimulated etc) offers a synergistic and incremental effect on glycemic control; however, from the available evidences appear that electrical muscle stimulation seems to determine additional change in HbA1c that can be seen significant if compared with other forms of blood sugar control methods.
Evaluation of chewing ability in cerebrovascular accident and Parkinson’s disease

Purpose: Chewing problems are a major and prevalent issue in populations with neurological pathologies including cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). We measured habitual solid chewing performance in patients with CVA or PD and compared it to that of normal older adults to identify differences in chewing ability between groups.Methods: Measures of habitual solid chewing in 32 patients with CVA, in 35 patients with PD, and in 217 normal older adults were compared. Data on the chewing duration, frequency, and rate were collected using a solid chewing task (SCT). We also analyzed the relationships between dentures, number of teeth, and SCT outcomes.Results: The chewing duration in the PD group was significantly longer than the normal group (p<0.05). Chewing frequency and rate were not significantly different among the three groups. Results can be explained by rigidity and bradykinesia in orofacial structures in the PD group. No significant differences between the PD and CVA groups may be partly explained by the diverse location and size of the CVA lesion compared to the PD. Dentures and the number of teeth were not significantly correlated with SCT outcomes.Conclusions: Chewing impairment remains the area of development for research and rehabilitation, and SCT may help to assess oropharyngeal dysphagia and to identify therapeutic interventions.
Carbon footprint of American lifestyles: a geodemographic segmentation approach

In order to deliver substantial reductions of U.S. residential emissions, cost-effective responses to climate change will need to recognize changes in consumer behavior and lifestyles as important mechanisms to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. Marketing experts have long recognized the usefulness of developing composite variables to target specific consumer lifestyles and have subsequently developed market segmentation approaches to express relationships between geodemographics and consumer behavior. This paper represents the first use of detailed segmentation data to look at US footprint at high spatial resolution. We employ market segmentation data to delineate lifestyles for approximately 70 000 census tracts in the US and develop a spatial framework to better conceptualize lifestyles as location specific typologies of emission drivers. We find that lifestyles are not only very useful in explaining variations in emissions but in fact are as important as income, typically recognized as the major determinant of consumption emissions. Results from our analysis link the differences between suburban and urban footprints directly to lifestyle patterns and illustrate the geographic distribution of emissions resulting from households’ consumption. We find that statistical clustering and consumer classification methods provide a unique perspective for understanding how various CO2 drivers interact and impact household emissions. Our proposed framework suggests that carbon mitigation strategies should move beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach centered on income and account for community specific lifestyle impacts related to consumer preferences and demographic characteristics at fine spatial scale.
2004 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium The Power of Information Age Concepts and Technologies Topic: C2 Experimentation Avoiding Lessons Re-Learned In Collaboration Experimentation

Abstract Collaboration experimentation in the Department of Defense (DoD) has rapidly grown over the past few decades. This fact has been highlighted by the emergence of several collaboration systems and tool suites used among various communities within the DoD. Some of the collaboration products available today include the Defense Collaboration Tool Suite (DCTS), InfoWorkSpace (IWS), and Groove. Over the last five to ten years, the authors at one Navy laboratory have had the opportunity to work together, either independently or in small 2 to 3-person teams, on various stages of the research process for several Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint projects exploring collaboration. These projects often conducted experiments on problem sets framed in a variety of Command and Control scenarios with real warfighters using different collaboration systems and tool suites. From the authors’ experiences they have discerned several re-occurring themes (suitable for lessons learned) that have evolved a practical set of guidelines for making collaboration in experiments a more rewarding and humanizing experience for the participants. The sharing of these observations and practices with other researchers and organizations in their exploration of collaboration may help them to avoid the relearning of collaboration lessons learned.
Sudan’s December revolution of 2018: the ecology of Youth Connective and Collective Activism

ABSTRACT Sudan experienced a nationwide nonviolent revolution between December 2018 and July 2019, which has remained underrepresented in communication studies literature. This study employs empirical data from personal interviews with Sudanese activists as well as a theoretical framework of social movements based on media ecologies. The study’s theoretical framework considers social movements in terms of their historical contexts and as a whole consisting of communication networks and interaction between various forms of communication and actors, particularly the entanglement of online and offline elements of activism. The research contributes to the body of knowledge on social movements and communication, particularly in Sudan. The findings of the study show that the media ecology approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of the interplay and intertwinement of human actors in social revolution, collective agency, and technologies than the one-medium biased approach used in previous studies on social movements, particularly in the Arab world.
The effect of uncertainty and structure on software project performance: theory testing and development

The effect of uncertainty and structure on the performance of software development projects was studied using a structural contingency perspective. According to the prevalent research viewpoint, the interaction of structure and uncertainty has a significant effect on project performance. Six dimensions of project structure were identified from the literature and corresponding interaction hypotheses derived. The hypotheses were tested on a sample of sixty four software development projects, information for which was collected through a questionnaire survey. None of the hypotheses was supported by the data. An alternative approach to studying the performance effects of uncertainty and structure was then developed, based on field interviews with project managers and a review of recent Information Systems research. This approach, labeled the risk management perspective, emphasizes the role of structure in controlling the economic risks in a project. The hypotheses derived from this perspective received considerable support from the survey data. The perspective provides an understanding of the process of software development because it helps clarify management's ability to reduce risks over the course of the project. Overall, the risk management perspective opens up a promising area of research concerning project management.
Knowledge and Practice of Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Practices among Different Socio-Economic Mothers from Ghazipur Region in East Delhi

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continued for two years or more protects the infant from infectious and chronic degenerative diseases in the future. The knowledge, attitude, and practice of breastfeeding and infant feeding practices among mothers are important to prevent these comorbidities. Research aim(s)/question(s): The present study aimed -to assess the knowledge and practice of breastfeeding and infant feeding practices among mothers of different socio-economic status in a region of Delhi. Methods: The study was a cross sectional study conducted among postpartum mothers having children below 1.5 years. Results: Around 52% of the mothers were exclusively breastfeeding, 62% experienced skin-to-skin & breastfeeding within an hour after delivery. The majority of the mothers knew the importance of colostrum for their babies and were aware that no prelacteal feed was needed for the initial 6 months. There was an association between exclusive breastfeeding and mother’s age, baby age, breastfeeding support group, and family income (p<0.05). Low family income has a positive effect on breastfeeding duration. Conclusion(s): It was found that the breastfeeding rate is still less in the present study therefore different information, education and communication activities need to be planned to target all the strata to fill the gaps in knowledge and practice of breastfeeding among mothers. Key words: breastfeeding; cross-sectional; infant feeding; postpartum; colostrum; prelacteals.
Single-shot phase retrieval for aspheric surface testing based on the transport of intensity equation and a prism-mirror module

Abstract. Transport of intensity equation (TIE) relates the longitudinal intensity derivative of propagating light wave to the transverse phase gradient. The phase is retrieved by measuring the intensity of propagating light wave at two or more longitudinally displaced planes by moving the detector and then solving the TIE. We present a single-shot transport of intensity equation-based phase retrieval using a prism-mirror based module to capture the two defocused intensity images simultaneously. The results obtained by single-shot transport of intensity equation-based phase retrieval have been compared with interferometry and profilometer-based measurements. We highlight an important aspect of the TIE-based approach that this formulation decouples the intensity and the unwrapped phase of the unknown field. Intensity and phase are individually low-bandwidth functions when compared to the complex field associated with the unknown wavefront. When compared to interferometry, the TIE-based approach therefore inherently has many reduced sampling requirements. For a given array sensor, TIE can therefore measure large phase deviations for which an interferometer would produce very high density fringes that are impossible to sample as per the Nyquist criterion. The prism-mirror module shown in this work is easy to fabricate, align, and can be easily integrated with an experimental setup. The applications of the proposed method for the wavefront measurement of spherical and aspheric lenses are demonstrated.
Experimental And Computational Comparisons of the OC3-HYWIND And Tension-Leg-Buoy (TLB) Floating Wind Turbine Conceptual Designs

This paper describes Tension-Leg-Buoy (TLB) wind turbine floaters, in comparison with the OC3-HYWIND Spar-Buoy (SB). Wave tank experiments with TLB and SB conducted in a student project at the NTNU/MARINTEK MCLab are supplemented with computations with the models 3Dfloat and ANSYS. Although the small model scale of 1:100 and the scope of the test make quantitative comparisons between experiment and models difficult, the experiment and models agree reasonably well qualitatively. The main differences between TLB and SB in both experiments and computations are the smaller motions and the higher anchor loads of the TLB.
Impacts of Energy Structure on Carbon Emissions in China, 1997–2019

To mitigate climate change, reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is of paramount importance. China, the largest global CO2 emitter, proposes to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060; transforming the energy structure represents one of the primary means of addressing carbon emissions; thus, it is essential to investigate the impacts of alternate energy sources throughout the country. Based on energy consumption and carbon emissions data from 30 provincial-level administrative regions in China (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau, due to the lack of data), the study here investigated the shares of coal, petroleum, natural gas, and non-fossil energy sources (i.e., hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, solar power, and biomass power), as they relate to total, per capita, and per unit GDP CO2 emissions via spatial regression. The results showed that: (1) The epicenters of coal and carbon emissions have shifted from the east to the central and western regions; (2) There is a significant correlation between energy structure and carbon emissions: coal has a positive effect, petroleum’s effects are positive at first, and negative subsequently; while both natural gas and non-fossil energy sources have a negative impact; (3) Provincial-level carbon emissions are affected by energy structure, carbon emissions in neighboring regions, and other factors.
A new species of the Spirobranchuskraussii complex, S.akitsushima (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae), from the rocky intertidal zone of Japan

﻿Abstract A new species of Spirobranchus (Annelida: Serpulidae) is described based on specimens collected at the coastal Shonan area of Sagami Bay and the adjacent areas of Honshu, Japan. Spirobranchusakitsushimasp. nov. forms large aggregations in the intertidal rocky zone of warm-temperate Japanese shores. This species was referred to as Pomatoleioskraussii (Baird, 1864) until the monotypic genus Pomatoleios was synonymized with Spirobranchus. This new species is formally described based on morphologically distinct Japanese specimens with supporting DNA sequence data. The calcareous opercular endplate of Spirobranchusakitsushimasp. nov. lacks a distinct talon, but some specimens have a slight rounded swelling on the endplate underside, while in other species of the S.kraussii complex a talon is present, usually extended, and with bulges. We examined sub-fossil tube aggregations of the new species and suggest that such aggregation stranded ashore is a good indicator of vertical land movements (uplift and subsidence) resulting from past events, such as earthquakes, in Honshu, Japan.