Does education improve employee benefits in Vietnam? The first evidence from matched employer–employee data

Olfaction in the Multisensory Processing of Faces: A Narrative Review of the Influence of Human Body Odors

“…Similar findings were recently reported using fear-todisgust morphed faces, with "disgust" faces being perceived as more "fearful" by female participants after sniffing fear axillary sweat (de Groot et al, 2021). Fear axillary odor was also found to shorten the time interval that fear faces, but not disgust or neutral faces, took to reach visual awareness using a breaking Continuous Flash Suppression technique (i.e., b-CFS, the dichoptic presentation of dynamic noise to the dominant eye and a target stimulus to the other, which momentarily suppresses the target stimulus from visual awareness), again in a sample of female participants (Silvia et al, 2020). The influence of axillary fear sweat on the perception of emotional faces extends to male participants, biasing ratings of a continuum of neutralto-happy morphed faces as less happy (Zernecke et al, 2011), and biasing ratings of neutral-to-fearful morphed faces as more fearful (Wudarczyk et al, 2016), in the context of a fear odor compared to an exercise odor.…”

“…Such heightened vigilance effect seems restricted to fear/anxiety odor, as axillary sweat collected after other emotionrelated challenges (happiness or disgust) have not been found to generate such an overall increase in vigilance (e.g., de Groot et al, 2018;Silvia et al, 2020). More generally, there is a paucity of data examining olfactory-visual interactions apart from fear/anxiety odors, among which results are mixed.…”

“…For instance, fear-related odor cues from the axillae have been found to boost the classification speed of emotional faces, regardless of the emotion depicted (i.e., fear, disgust, happy, and neutral faces: de Groot et al, 2015b), and to slightly increase the classification accuracy of dynamic facial expressions of both angry and happy faces (Rocha et al, 2018). Fear axillary odor also increased the readiness to detect both happy and fear faces using b-CFS (de Groot et al, 2018, but see Silvia et al, 2020). In a psychophysical task akin to that used in Zhou and Chen's (2009), stress odors (i.e., collected from the axillae during skydiving) were found to sharpen visual discrimination of angry faces (Mujica-Parodi et al, 2009), refining the judgments of whether or not morphed faces (neutral-to-angry) were more neutral or more threatening.…”

Changes in brown adipose tissue lipid mediator signatures with aging, obesity, and DHA supplementation in female mice

“…In this context, a recent study in human adipose tissue has revealed that the presence of active BAT is positively associated with an anti-inflammatory oxylipins/eicosanoids profile. 70 Similarly, EPA and DHA have been recently associated with the levels of BAT activity in humans. 71 A lipidomic analysis of BAT in young mice showed that phospholipids and free fatty acids were more abundant in BAT than in WAT, and that phospholipids in BAT were mostly composed of PUFAs, especially DHA.…”

Exploring Key Competencies of Mid-Level Academic Managers in Higher Education in Vietnam

“…The higher education sector around the world has undergone profound changes in their missions and functions, fueled by accelerating globalization, technological advances [1][2][3][4][5], and public demands for accountability. To respond effectively to new demands and create a sustainable educational environment, management at all levels at higher education institutions (HEI) has begun to gain a greater awareness of their roles and missions than in the past [6], when the focus on leadership and management at higher education institutions has mostly been on top executives.…”