Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Updating Pinkerton export parameters and evaluation of new and upgraded avocado postharvest applications

During the last two seasons, an in-depth study was conducted aimed at improving the storage potential of the Pinkerton cultivar. After the 1999 season a set of recommendations was formulated and these were implemented during the 2000 season. The most important of these dealt with harvest maturity, storage temperature, storage atmosphere and the calcium content of the fruit. Of these, maturity proved to be the most important. The most significant research finding made during the last season concerns the nitrogen content of the fruit. It would appear that the nitrogen content of fruit that stores well remains below 1% during the last four months before harvest, while that of fruit that stores poorly, varies between 1% and 1.4%. As a result of this observation, a project was launched to determine the nitrogen content of fruit to be exported during the coming season. A study aimed at regulating the nitrogen content of avocado fruit in both high and low risk areas was also initiated. With regard to calcium content, the recommendation of >1000 ppm in fruit within the 50-100 g range still applies. However, the Ca:N ratio of the fruit seems to be more important than the Ca content on its own. It is recommended that the Ca(ppm):N(%) ratio be above 500 during March. From then on, the ratio should not drop by more than 100 points per month. The recommendations regarding fruit maturity were also updated. It is recommended that during an off-season such as the coming one, the mean minimum moisture content of high risk fruit should be increased from 75% to 77% while the maximum moisture content be increased from 79% to 80%. In the case of low risk orchards it will be advisable to increase the lower limit from 72% to 75 %. With regard to storage temperature, it is recommended that the 7 o C setting be retained. It is also recommended that all Pinkerton be exported under controlled atmosphere. A range of new and updated postharvest applications were also evaluated. In the first of these, a modified atmosphere bag developed in Israel was evaluated with ‘Pinkerton’, ‘Fuerte’ and ‘Hass’. In the second, the efficacy of an ethylene inhibitor, 1-methylcyclopropene (1 MCP), was determined using all commercial export cultivars. Both products gave good results that justify semi-commercial evaluation. The use of 1-MCP in combination with controlled atmosphere storage at non black cold-inducing temperatures also warrants further research.
PENGARUH PENGELOLAAN KEUANGAN DAN KESEJAHTERAAN TERHADAP KINERJA GURU HONORER SEKOLAH DASAR DI KECAMATAN PUSPAHIANG KABUPATEN TASIKMALAYA

Metode penelitian yang penulis gunakan adalah metode deskriptif, metode deskriptif yaitu metode yang digunakan untuk mencari unsur-unsur, ciri-ciri, sifat-sifat suatu fenomena. Metode ini dimulai dengan mengumpulkan data, menganalisis data, dan menginterprestasikannya. Dalam pelaksanaanya dilakukan melalui: teknik survey, studi kasus, studi komparatif, analisis tingkah laku dan analisis dokumenter.Penelitian ini mencoba menggambarkan realita dan fakta-fakta dari permasalahan yang diteliti secara mendalam dengan cara mencari data yang faktual dari variabel-variabel yang diteliti, sehingga hubungan antarvariabel dapat dianalisis dengan analisis kuantitatif melalui uji statistik. Adapun hasil penelitian yang diperoleh memberikan kesimpulan : 1) Ada pengaruh pengelolaan keuangan sekolah terhadap kinerja guru honorer dengan persentase pengaruh 21,99%. Artinya semakin baik manajemen keuangan sekolah maka akan semakin baik kinerja guru honorer. 2) Ada pengaruh kesejahteraan terhadap kinerja guru honorer dengan persentase pengaruh 22,8%. Artinya semakin baik kesejahteraan maka akan semakin baik kinerja guru honorer, 3) Pengelolaan keuangan sekolah dan kesejahteraan berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru dengan persentase pengaruh 72,7%. Artinya semakin baik pengelolaan keuangan sekolah dan kesejahteraan maka akan semakin baik kinerja guru honorer. Kata kunci: Pengelolaan Keuangan, Kesejahteraan, Kinerja Guru Honorer
A gridded data set of upper-ocean hydrographic properties in the Weddell Gyre obtained by objective mapping of Argo float measurements

Abstract. The Weddell Gyre plays a crucial role in the modification of climate by advecting heat poleward to the Antarctic ice shelves and by regulating the density of water masses that feed the lowest limb of the global ocean overturning circulation. However, our understanding of Weddell Gyre water mass properties is limited to regions of data availability, primarily along the Prime Meridian. The aim of this paper is to provide a data set of the upper water column properties of the entire Weddell Gyre. Objective mapping was applied to Argo float data in order to produce spatially gridded, time-composite maps of temperature and salinity for fixed pressure levels ranging from 50 to 2000 dbar, as well as temperature, salinity and pressure at the level of the sub-surface temperature maximum. While the data are currently too limited to incorporate time into the gridded structure, the data are extensive enough to produce maps of the entire region across three time-composite periods (2001–2005, 2006–2009 and 2010–2013), which can be used to determine how representative conclusions drawn from data collected along general RV transect lines are on a gyre scale perspective. The work presented here represents the technical prerequisite for addressing climatological research questions in forthcoming studies. The data sets are available in netCDF format at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.842876 .
The Relationship between the Teachers' Levels of Use and Their Demographic Characteristics in the Adoption of the Student-Active Learning Approach in EFL Classrooms in Oman: A Quantitative and Exploratory Relational Study

Shifting from the traditional teacher-centered to the innovative student-centered educational philosophy in English as a Foreign language (EFL) classrooms represented in the adoption of the student-active learning (SAL) approach has been quite extensively implemented as a valuable approach towards effective students' language learning. An exploratory study was carried out to investigate the teachers' actual Levels of Use (LoU) in the adoption of the SAL approach in their classrooms and its relationship with their demographic variables including gender, age, teaching experience, educational qualifications, and nationalities. The research design was quantitative and exploratory relational. A number of 505 English language teachers participated in this study. Data was collected through a questionnaire including two parts: demographic data and the Levels of Use Self-Assessment (LoU-SA) questionnaire. This was to obtain a holistic picture of the teachers’ LoU pertaining to the SAL approach adoption and their demography. The descriptive statistical analyses as well as the symmetric measure of association of Cramer’s V were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the majority of the teachers were at the Refinement Level (IVB), and equally at the Preparation Level (II), the Mechanical Use Level (III), and the Routine Level (IVA). It was also found that there were positive relationships between the teachers' LoU and their demographic characteristics. Based on these research findings, it was recommended, among others, that different interventions including training, support, and sufficient teaching materials should be offered. More collaborative opportunities between teachers from different demographic groups should be encouraged, too. Keywords : Relationship, Levels of Use (LoU), Demographic Characteristics, Adoption, Student-Active Learning (SAL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Innovation
Does Excess Energy Assist Photogeneration in an Organic Low‐Bandgap Solar Cell?

The field dependence of the photocurrent in a bilayer assembly is measured with the aim to clarify the role of excess photon energy in an organic solar cell comprising a polymeric donor and an acceptor. Upon optical excitation of the donor an electron is transferred to the acceptor forming a Coulomb‐bound electron–hole pair. Since the subsequent escape is a field assisted process it follows that photogeneration saturates at higher electric fields, the saturation field being a measure of the separation of the electron–hole pair. Using the low bandgap polymers, PCDTBT and PCPDTBT, as donors and C60 as acceptor in a bilayer assembly it is found that the saturation field decreases when the photon energy is roughly 0.5 eV above the S1–S0 0–0 transition of the donor. This translates into an increase of the size of the electron‐hole‐pair up to about 13 nm which is close to the Coulomb capture radius. This increase correlates with the onset of higher electronic states that have a highly delocalized character, as confirmed by quantum‐chemical calculations. This demonstrates that accessing higher electronic states does favor photogeneration yet excess vibrational energy plays no role. Experiments on intrinsic photogeneration in donor photodiodes without acceptors support this reasoning.
Symbolic product meaning and commitmentsas predictors of product emotions.

The aim of this study was to explore the possibility of predicting product emotions based on knowledge of people’s commitments and the symbolic meaning of products. Product emotions are formed by a process wherein people evaluate the product in the light of their concerns, to determine if the product is useful or harmful for their well-being. When a product is evaluated as useful for their well-being, pleasant emotions will arise and when the product is evaluated as harmful, unpleasant emotions will arise. This usefulness can be determined by analysing the symbolic meaning of a product design, which can be communicated by different product characteristics, for example the product form. Several theories imply that congruence between concerns and the symbolic meaning of a product will lead to a positive response. This article reports an empirical study that investigated the relationship between commitments, a type of concern, and the emotional product experience. The expectation was that a high degree of congruence between commitments and the symbolic meaning of a product design would lead to more pleasant emotions and a low degree of congruence would lead to more unpleasant emotions. An online experiment containing two non-verbal selfreport measurement tools was performed to measure the commitments that people find important in life and their emotional response towards six floor lamp designs. The results show that the degree of congruence can be seen as an indicator for predicting product emotions, but the direction of predictions found was not consistent.
Satellite-derived sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption (Iceland)

Abstract. The six-month-long 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption was the largest in Iceland for 200 years, emitting huge quantities of sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) into the troposphere, at times overwhelming European anthropogenic emissions. Weather, terrain and latitude, made continuous ground-based or UV satellite sensor measurements challenging. Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) data, is used to derive the first time-series of daily SO 2 mass and vertical distribution over the eruption period. A new optimal estimation scheme is used to calculate daily SO 2 fluxes and average e-folding time every twelve hours. The algorithm is used to estimate SO 2 fluxes of up to 200 kt per day and a minimum total SO 2 erupted mass of 4.4 ± 0.8 Tg. The average SO 2 e-folding time was 2.4 ± 0.6 days. Where comparisons are possible, these results broadly agree with ground-based near-source measurements, independent remote-sensing data and model simulations of the eruption. The results highlight the importance of high-resolution time-series data to accurately estimate volcanic SO 2 emissions.
Evaluation of Indoor Air Quality and Health Related Parameters in Office Buildings with or without Indoor Plants

A case study was conducted to evaluate the quality of indoor air and the health-related parameters of indoor occupants with the consideration of indoor-plant placement in the office buildings in Seoul, Korea from October, 2006 to July, 2007. The office buildings with more than seven floors were categorized into two groups. One group was composed of six newly-built buildings established in 2005 to 2006 and the other group was composed of six aged buildings established in 1990 to 1992. An office room on the 3rd floor was chosen as the place with indoor plants and on the 4th floor as the place without indoor plants. The quality of indoor air was estimated using the concentrations of air-borne fine particles including formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—benzene, toluene, ethylene, and xylene (BTEX). The physical condition of indoor occupants was evaluated based on certain health-related parameters such as the symptom degree of sick building syndrome (SBS) and the scale of symptom checklist (90) revised (SCL-90-R). The concentration of formaldehyde was decreased not by the individual application of ventilation or indoor-plant placement but by the combined application of the two factors as evidenced by reductions from 80.8 to 66.4 μg·m−3 in the newly-built building and from 23.3 to 18.6 μg·m−3 in the aged building. The concentrations of BTEX varied with indoor conditions. In office rooms with high concentrations of BTEX, these concentrations were obviously reduced by the individual application of ventilation but hardly reduced by the individual application of indoor-plant placement. The indoor occupants of the newly-built buildings perceived little improvement in the symptom degree of SBS by the individual application of ventilation (changing from 19 to 15 points) or indoor-plant placement (changing from 26 to 25). In contrast, the indoor occupants of the aged buildings felt a good improvement in the symptom degree of SBS by the combined application of ventilation and indoor-plant placement, reducing from 23 to 14 points. Observing the mental health of indoor occupants using SCL-90-R, the various results did not show a clear tendency. It could be tentatively postulated that the individual application of ventilation or indoor-plant placement in the office room failed to make sufficient improvement in the mental health of indoor occupants.
Origin of FDI and Domestic Productivity Spillovers: Does European FDI Have a ‘Productivity Advantage’ in the ENP Countries?

The process of approximation between the EU and its ‘eastern neighbourhood’ has created conditions for deepening economic interactions and market integration, giving to the EU – and to EU businesses– an elevated role in the process of economic modernisation and transition in the neighbourhood countries. This raises the question as to whether European business activity in these countries produces indeed measureable economic advantages both in absolute and in relative terms (e.g., compared to business activity from other parts of the world). Similarly, a question arises as to whether European business activity reduces or amplifies spatial imbalances within the partner countries. This paper examines these issues for the case of capital flows (foreign ownership) and the related productivity spillovers, using firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS)covering 28 transition countries over the period 2002-2009. We estimate the direct and intraindustry productivity effects of foreign ownership and examine how these differ across regional blocks (CEE, SEE and ENP), according to the origin of the foreign investor (EU versus non-EU), across geographical scales (pure industry versus regional spillovers) and for different types of locations (capital-city regions versus the rest). Our results suggest that FDI of EU origin plays a distinctive role in the countries concerned helping raise domestic productivity significantly more than investments from outside the EU. However, this process appears to operate in a spatially selective manner, thus enhancing regional disparities and spatial imbalances. This, then, assigns a particular responsibility for EU policy, as it continues to promote economic integration (and FDI flows) to its eastern neighbourhood, to devise interventions that will help redress these problems.
How Entrepreneurs Identify and Acquire Venture Capital Financing in Moroccan and French New Ventures

This paper underlines the new venture’s ability to access to Venture Capital (i.e., VC) financing for understanding entrepreneurs who operate in a higher-technology industry; the principal background premise is that the three crucial capital affecting the entrepreneur when he is creating a new venture are his prior entrepreneurial and functional diversity experience (cultural capital), his reputation accumulated (strategic capital) and his stronger ties to the Venture Capitalists (social capital). Previous works on social capital have failed to study the interrelationships between new venture’s other specific capitals or have proposed models with direct relationships with external (financial) resources acquisition. The core objective of this paper is to specify, therefore, a conceptual proposal, based on entrepreneurial networks model, evidencing that signaling intangible resources as social capital and cultural entrepreneurial capital are the critical levers for the new venture’s ability in accessing VC financing in the Moroccan and French contexts. A variance-based structural equation modeling (Partial Least Squares) has been applied to a sample made up of 100 investment propositions. Moreover, mediation hypotheses posit how the social capital and strategic capital play a critical mediating role in the cultural capital – economic capital (VC funding) relationship. Our findings provide a useful example of how these critical capitals of entrepreneurs affect directly and indirectly the venture finance decisions. These findings have notable theoretical and practical implications, and provide directions for future research. Keywords: Venture Capitalists decision; Cultural/human capital; Social capital; Strategic capital.
Physical dormancy in a changing climate

Abstract Species with physically dormant (PY) seeds make up over 25% of plant species in a number of ecologically important ecosystems around the globe, such as savannah and Mediterranean shrublands. Many of these ecosystems are subject to temporally stochastic events, such as fire and drought; but are in areas projected to experience some of the most extreme climatic changes in the future. Given the importance of PY in controlling germination timing for successful recruitment, we ask how plastic the PY trait is, and if changes to the maternal environment from climate change could alter recruitment. This review focuses on: (1) the evidence for inter- and intraspecific variation in PY; (2) the genetic, maternal and environmental controls involved; and (3) the ecological consequences of (1) and (2) above. Evidence for (within-community) interspecific variation in conditions required to break PY is strong, but for intraspecific variation evidence is contradictory and limited by a paucity of studies. Identifying controllers of variation in PY is complex, there is some suggestion that conditions of the maternal environment may be important, but no consensus on the nature of effects. The implications of PY plasticity for the persistence of seed banks, species and communities under climate change are discussed. We highlight a number of key knowledge gaps, such as a lack of research estimating the components of variation in non-agricultural species, and identify a suite of seed attributes relevant to understanding the potential impacts of climate change on the population dynamics of PY species in the future.
An Estimate of the Temperature of Semitransparent Oxide Particles in Thermal Spraying

A considerable temperature difference in semitransparent oxide particles due to intensive heating in plasma spraying makes it difficult to interpret the optical measurements of their temperature. The problem of determining the bulk temperature of such particles from the experimental data on the color temperature is analyzed by using a recently proposed approximate model for the radiation transfer inside a nonisothermal refracting spherical particle. The same approximation is also employed for developing an improved model of particle heating, taking into account the radiation-conduction interaction inside the particle. Calculations for Al 2 O 3 and ZrO 2 particles in a typical plasma jet show that the color temperature of oxide particles may be less than or greater than their bulk temperature, depending on the spectral absorption coefficient of particle substance. This temperature difference during the melting of particles may reach the value of 200-300 K. A procedure for in situ evaluation of the absorption coefficient by comparison of color and brightness temperatures of molten particles is proposed.
Performance, Mental effort and Efficiency Of Multimedia-Based Discovery Learning in Mathematics Learning

Design of learning development now is much more motivated by the importance of studentcentered learning, in other words, students must be active in learning. Learning activity according to Mayer (2009) consists of two parts: active cognitively and active behaviorally. The combination of both will affect the emergence of meaningful learning. According to Mayer, the meaningful learning process will emerge when students have high activity in the cognitive, especially if supported by higher activity in the behavior. Thus, the first focus that should be the concern of teachers is how to bring the cognitive activity of the students. Whereas the importance of the cognitive activity, the curriculum of 2013 recommended models based on the student’s activity, such as Problem Based Learning, Discovery Learning and Project Based Learning. However, the activity of students in the class necessarily considers its efficiency. Efficiency is based on two things, mental effort and performance. Two learners may get a same performance score but with a very different mental effort. The combination of mental effort and performance measurements can provide an estimate on the relative efficiency condition of learning. It is for that this study attempts to examine how the relative efficiency in the discovery learning model through multimedia.
A Fast Hysteresis Current–Controlled Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive Based on Field Orientation

Abstract A fast hysteresis current-controlled (HCC) permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive based on field orientation is presented. The objectives of this research are to develop and utilize HCC algorithm for field orientation control (FOC) of a complete closed loop speed-controlled PMSM drive system, optimize the HCC algorithm to obtain fast speed response with step and ramp speed inputs to examine the effectiveness of current and torque tracking, identify the optimal control variables of the HCC on the PMSM, examine the performance with ramp and step reference speed inputs. The response of the developed model is compared with the speed response of the standard AC6 of MATLAB Simpower systems in terms of rise time, settling time and effectiveness of current and torque tracking. Compared to the standard AC6 of MATLAB Simpower systems, the developed model achieved rise time and settling time of 0.0108 seconds and 0.0143 seconds respectively while the corresponding values for AC6 model are 0.1944 seconds and 0.1984 seconds respectively. The developed model, therefore, offered superior performance over the AC6 model in terms of rise time, settling time and tracking capability.