Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intercultural Communication Dialectics in English Language Teaching

Conceptualizations of intercultural communication in English language teaching have largely been constructed on westerncentric and essentialist representations of interculturality. The failure to take into account power imbalances among Anglophone and Southern spaces may perpetuate the inequalities that have long-existed. Questioning singularity of approaches in the intercultural language education is required to account for the complexity of intercultural interactions, especially in terms of power imbalances. The dialectic perspective, with its inclusiveness of varying discursive reasonings, can offer a discerning treatment of interculturality through reconciling the opposing dialectics in intercultural communication scholarship. This article (a) makes a case for the usefulness of incorporating multiple epistemological stances in order to develop more comprehensive insights about interculturality, (b) argues that, by developing pluriversal perspectives, we can simultaneously consider the multiplicity of individuals’ ontologies, identities, and cultures. This is realized by first advancing an inter-paradigmatic discussion of culturecommunication research dialectics and then considering its theoretical relevance and practical applications in English language teaching. © 2021 IJSCL. All rights reserved. 1 PhD Candidate, Email: hamzarboul4@gmail.com Tel: +21-260-4991069 a Public University of Navarre, Spain ARTICLE HISTORY: Received October 2020 Received in Revised form December 2020 Accepted January 2021 Available online February 2021
The Promising Ability of Humulus lupulus L. Iso-α-acids vs. Diabetes, Inflammation, and Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

For centuries, natural medicines have represented the only option for treating human diseases and, nowadays, plant phytochemicals are considered as promising compounds to treat or prevent chronic conditions. Among them, hop flowers (Humulus lupulus L.), typically used in brewing industries to give the typical aroma and flavor to beer, have attracted particular attention for their health promoting properties. Several in vivo/vitro studies and human interventional trials have demonstrated the beneficial effects of these molecules on weight gain, lipid metabolism, glucose homeostasis, insulin sensitivities, and inflammation by acting on different targets. All these activities suggest a possible role of bitter hop acid in preventing metabolic syndrome and its related diseases. A systematic quest on PubMed and Scopus databases was performed to identify pre-clinical and clinical studies focusing on this topic. This systematic review summarizes the results obtained by different cell lines, animal models, and human interventional trials to propose iso-α-acids as medical nutrition therapy to treat or prevent metabolic syndrome and its related disorders as diabetes, dislipidemia inflammation, etc.
STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL TESTS OF POLISH WHEAT VARIETIES FOR BREAD VOLUME PREDICTION

Summary Forty-two Polish wheat flour were used to establish correlation coefficients between protein content, Zeleny test, falling number value, amylograph viscosity, farinograph water absorption, bread volume and rheological properties of dough, as shown by use of a extrusion chamber and alveograph. The equations expressing the changes of bread volume and flour water absorption as a function of significantly correlated parameters were calculated. The correlations and their significance depended on wheat quality and the alveographic parameters were significantly correlated with the dough extrusion parameters. The dough extrusion parameters were significantly correlated only with the water absorption of soft wheats. The dough rheological tests were correlated to a greater extent with the values of the Zeleny test than to the protein content. The prediction of the bread volume as a function of flour quality parameters and dough rheological properties was best done by grouping wheat varieties into specific qualitative classes.
Hope: Conceptual and normative issues

Correspondence Catherine Rioux, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval, 2325 Allée des Bibliothèques, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Email: catherine.rioux@fp.ulaval. ca Abstract Hope is often seen as at once valuable and dangerous: it can fuel our motivation in the face of challenges, but can also distract us from reality and lead us to irrationality. How can we learn to “hope well,” and what does “hoping well” involve? Contemporary philosophers disagree on such normative questions about hope and also on how to define hope as a mental state. This article explores recent philosophical debates surrounding the concept of hope and the norms governing hope. It also underlies hope's significance for the philosophy of emotion and the ethics of interpersonal relations.
Money vs. Social Life: Why People Choose Not to Use Facebook Messenger Payment

As money and mobile P2P payment experiences have become an emerging research agenda in HCI, prior studies have focused on the factors that promote the use of P2P payment services as well as related design implications. Yet, few have investigated why people decide not to use such services (e.g., technology non-use) and how people perceive the increasing trend of integrating P2P payments with social media services. To explore these issues, we identified factors that hindered people from using Facebook Messenger payment and their perceptions of integrating of P2P payments with social media based on 158 social media posts and eight interviews. This study not only extends our existing understanding of technology non-use through the lens of Facebook payment but also helps HCI researchers and designers innovate emerging financial technologies and better understand the global phenomenon of all-in-one design.
Ik of Uganda cooperate in dictator games especially when need, supernatural punishment invoked

According to Turnbull’s 1972 ethnography The Mountain People, the Ik of Uganda had a culture of selfishness that made them uncooperative. His claims contrast with two widely accepted principles in evolutionary biology, that humans cooperate on larger scales than other species and that culture is an important facilitator of such cooperation. We use recently collected data to examine Ik culture and its influence on Ik behaviour. Turnbull’s observations of selfishness were not necessarily inaccurate but they occurred during a severe famine. Cooperation re-emerged when people once again had enough resources to share. Accordingly, Ik donations in unframed Dictator Games are on par with average donations in Dictator Games played by people around the world. Furthermore, Ik culture includes traits that encourage sharing with those in need and a belief in supernatural punishment of selfishness. When these traits are used to frame Dictator Games, the average amounts given by Ik players increase. Turnbull’s claim that the Ik have a culture of selfishness can be rejected. Cooperative norms are resilient, and the consensus among scholars that humans are remarkably cooperative and that human cooperation is supported by culture can remain intact. Social Media Summary New research corrects myth about “The Mountain People” (the Ik), infamous for their allegedly selfish and loveless culture.
MLKL inhibits intestinal tumorigenesis by suppressing STAT3 signaling pathway

Mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) plays an important role in necroptosis, but the role and mechanism of MLKL in intestinal tumorigenesis remain unclear. Here, we found that hematopoietic- and nonhematopoietic-derived MLKL affected intestinal inflammation, but nonhematopoietic-derived MLKL primarily inhibited intestinal tumorigenesis. Loss of MLKL enhanced intestinal regeneration and the susceptibility to intestinal tumorigenesis in Apcmin/+ mice by hyperactivating the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)/ signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) axis. Furthermore, MLKL deficiency increased interleukin-6 (IL-6) production in dendritic cells. Administration of anti-IL-6R antibody therapy reduced intestinal tumorigenesis in Apcmin/+Mlkl-/- mice. Notably, low MLKL expression in human colorectal tumors, which enhanced STAT3 activation, was associated with decreased overall survival. Together, our results reveal that MLKL exhibits a suppressive effect during intestinal tumorigenesis by suppressing the IL-6/JAK2/STAT3 signals.
Cheeses of Turkey: 3. Varieties containing herbs or spices

Ripened cheese varieties containing herbs are traditional in Turkey and have been manufactured for more than 200 years in the east and southeast of the country. They are manufactured from raw milk, semi-hard in texture and salty in taste and have the aroma of garlic or thyme due to added herbs. Twenty-five types of herb, including Allium, Thymus, Silene and Ferula species which are most popular, are used individually or as appropriate mixtures. The most popular of these cheeses is Otlu which is produced mainly in the Van province of Turkey in small dairies and villages, but now is produced in other cities of the eastern region of Turkey and its popularity increases continuously throughout Turkey. The manufacturing technology, chemical, biochemical and microbiological status of Otlu cheese and the most common herbs used in its manufacture are reviewed. The possible effect of herbs used on the biochemical and microbiological characteristics of the cheeses are discussed also. In addition, some varieties of Otlu cheese and cheeses flavoured with spices (chilli pepper, black pepper, cinnamon, allspice, mint, thyme, cumin, etc.), including Carra, Surk and related cheeses, are discussed briefly.Abstract200 (Otlu), Van Carra SurkRésuméLes variétés de fromages contenant des herbes sont traditionnelles en Turquie et sont produites depuis plus de 200 ans dans l’est et le sud-est du pays. Elles sont produites à partir de lait cru, ont une texture semi-dure et un goût salé et des arômes d’ail ou de thym apportés par les herbes ajoutées. Vingt-cinq sortes d’herbes, incluant les espèces Allium, Thymus, Silene et Ferula qui sont les plus populaires, sont utilisées individuellement ou en mélange. Le plus populaire de ces fromages est l’Otlu qui est produit principalement dans la province de Van en Turquie dans des petites laiteries et des villages, mais actuellement aussi dans d’autres villes de la région Est de la Turquie et sa popularité grandit continuellement dans tout le pays. La technologie de fabrication, le statut chimique, biochimique et microbiologique du fromage Otlu et les herbes les plus courantes utilisées dans sa fabrication sont présentés dans cette revue. L’effet possible des herbes utilisées sur les caractéristiques biochimiques et microbiologiques des fromages est aussi discuté. De plus, quelques variétés d’Otlu et de fromages aromatisés avec des épices (piment, poivre noir, cannelle, poivre de la Jamaïque, menthe, thym, cumin, etc.) incluant les fromages Carra, Surk et apparentés sont brièvement présentées.
Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: Report of a Case with Progression to Lupus Nephritis

Patient: Female, 28-year-old Final Diagnosis: Kikuchi-Fujimoto Lymphadenitis • lupus nephritis Symptoms: Agitation • anxiety • arthralgia • diarhea • fatigue • fever • headache • lymfadenopathy • sweating • weigh loss Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Rheumatology Objective: Rare co-existance of disease or pathology Background: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is an enigmatic disease, with a distinctive histopathology and a benign and self-limited course. It is more frequent in young Asian women. Autoimmune diseases are identified as one of its triggers; primarily SLE, which may precede, be concomitant with, or develop after the diagnosis of KFD. Patients with KFD should receive periodic follow-up for several years to detect possible evolution of SLE. The main feature of KFD is lymphadenopathy, and cervical lymph nodes are involved in 50% to 98% of cases. Other symptoms such as fever, fatigue, weight loss, and arthralgias are also reported. Differential diagnosis between KFD and SLE is a challenge. When KFD and SLE coexist, a lymph node biopsy may be diagnostic. Treatment should be symptomatic with analgesics and anti-inflammatories, with complete resolution in 3 to 4 months. Corticosteroids and immunosuppressive therapy are justified only in cases concomitant with SLE. Case Report: We report a case of KFD in a 28-year-old woman who was initially negative for anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) and anti-double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid antibodies (anti-dsDNA), but who became antibody-positive and presented with lupus nephritis 2 months later. Conclusions: We present a case of a patient with KFD who developed SLE 2 months later; highlighting the importance of recognizing its association and its possible progression to monitor for future development of SLE and provide timely treatment to avoid complications. We also compared the clinical, laboratory, and histological similarities between the 2 entities.
Removing CO2 from Biogas - the Optimisation of a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Unit Using Breakthrough Curves

Currently when fossil fuel resources are decreasing and environmental protection is increasing, renewable energy sources are exploited more. Biogas (typically a raw mixture composed of methane, carbon dioxide and other minor components) can be one of the options how to replace some fossil fuel consumption. Specifically, upgraded biogas has the same utilization and advantages as natural gas. Upgrading biogas to biomethane is commonly utilized. In this process the most crucial operation is the separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) from biogas, which is carried out by technology based on unit operations like adsorption, absorption or membrane separation. The pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is the most widely used method for the separation of gases. It is a periodic batch process where adsorption is performed at a relatively higher pressure than atmospheric pressure and desorption (regeneration) at lower pressure than atmospheric pressure. 1. Biogas The nature of the raw materials and the operational conditions used during anaerobic digestion determine the chemical composition of the biogas. Raw biogas consists mainly of methane (40 - 75 %) and carbon dioxide (15 - 60 %). A trace amount of other components such as water (5 -10%), hydrogen sulphide (0.005-2 %), ammonia (< 1 %), oxygen (0 - 1 %), carbon monoxide (< 0.6 %) and nitrogen (0 - 2 %) can be present and might be inconvenient when not removed (Persson, 2006).
Sunitinib-induced cardiac hypertrophy and the endothelin axis

Anti-angiogenics drugs in clinical use for cancer treatment induce cardiotoxic side effects. The endothelin axis is involved in hypertension and cardiac remodelling, and addition of an endothelin receptor antagonist to the anti-angiogenic sunitinib was shown to reduce cardiotoxicity of sunitinib in mice. Here, we explored further the antidote effect of the endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan in sunitinib-treated animals on cardiac remodeling. Methods: Tumor-bearing mice treated per os daily by sunitinib or vehicle were imaged before and after 1, 3 and 6 weeks of treatment by positron emission tomography using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose and by echocardiography. Non-tumor-bearing animals were randomly assigned to be treated per os daily by vehicle or sunitinib or macitentan or sunitinib+macitentan, and imaged by echocardiography after 5 weeks. Hearts were harvested for histology and molecular analysis at the end of in vivo exploration. Results: Sunitinib treatment increases left ventricular mass and ejection fraction and induces cardiac fibrosis. Sunitinib also induces an early increase in cardiac uptake of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose, which is significantly correlated with increased left ventricular mass at the end of treatment. Co-administration of macitentan prevents sunitinib-induced hypertension, increase in ejection fraction and cardiac fibrosis, but fails to prevent increase of the left ventricular mass. Conclusion: Early metabolic changes predict sunitinib-induced cardiac remodeling. Endothelin blockade can prevent some but not all cardiotoxic side-effects of sunitinib, in particular left ventricle hypertrophy that appears to be induced by sunitinib through an endothelin-independent mechanism.
L EARNING R OBUST S TATE A BSTRACTIONS

Many control tasks exhibit similar dynamics that can be modeled as having common latent structure. Hidden-Parameter Markov Decision Processes (HiP-MDPs) explicitly model this structure to improve sample efficiency in multi-task settings. However, this setting makes strong assumptions on the observability of the state that limit its application in real-world scenarios with rich observation spaces. In this work, we leverage ideas of common structure from the HiP-MDP setting, and extend it to enable robust state abstractions inspired by Block MDPs. We derive instantiations of this new framework for both multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) and meta-reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) settings. Further, we provide transfer and generalization bounds based on task and state similarity, along with sample complexity bounds that depend on the aggregate number of samples across tasks, rather than the number of tasks, a significant improvement over prior work that use the same environment assumptions. To further demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method, we empirically compare and show improvement over multi-task and meta-reinforcement learning baselines.
2‐Bromo‐5‐methoxy‐N′‐[(E)‐(4‐nitrophenyl)methylene]benzohydrazide

The geometric parameters of the title molecule, C15H12BrN3O4, are in the usual ranges. The dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 49.69 (10)degrees. In the crystal structure, molecules are connected by intermolecular N-H center dot center dot center dot O O hydrogen bonds to form a one-dimensional chain in the c-axis direction.
Highly Regioselective Oxybromination in an Aqueous System Using SBA-15 Supported Sulfated Zirconia Catalyst

SBA-15 supported sulfated zirconia (SZ) catalysts were employed in many acid-catalysis of reactions under mild condition because it is a strong solid acid with various Lewis and Bronsted acid sites. An oxybromination of aromatic substrates using hydrogen peroxide and ammonium bromide in the aqueous phase under mild temperature and near-neutral pH condition over SZ was achieved. A good to excellent para-selectivity was observed. The mesoporous silica SBA-15 supported SZ possessed higher catalytic activity than self-supported SZ because of larger surface area and pore size. The effect of the calcinations temperature was also investigated. The good catalytic performance of the SZ/SBA-15 materials was attributed to high degree of dispersion of sulfate groups to give sulfated silica-zirconia of (1) very good redox property and (2) high strength and high density of acid sites. The SZ/SBA-15 catalyst may be re-used several times without substantial loss of activity.
Towards the Optimal Design and FPGA Implementation of Spiking Neural Networks

—The performance of a biologically plausible spiking neural network (SNN) largely depends on the model parameters and neural dynamics. This paper proposes a parameter optimization scheme for improving the performance of a biologically plausible SNN and a parallel on-FPGA online learning neuromorphic platform for the digital implementation based on two numerical methods, namely Euler and the 3rd-order Runge-Kutta (RK3) methods. The optimization scheme explores the impact of biological time constants on information transmission in the SNN and improves the convergence rate of the SNN on digit recognition with a suitable choice of the time constants. The parallel digital implementation leads to a signiﬁcant speedup over software simulation on a general-purpose CPU. The parallel implementation with Euler method enables around 180 × (20 × ) training (inference) speedup over a Pytorch-based SNN simulation on CPU. Moreover, compared with previous work, our parallel implementation shows more than 300 × (240 × ) improvement on speed and 180 × (250 × ) reduction on energy consumption for training (inference). In addition, due to the high-order accuracy, RK3 method is demonstrated to gain 2 × training speedup over Euler method, which makes it suitable for online training in real-time applications.
Novel PtCo alloy nanoparticle decorated 2D g-C3N4 nanosheets with enhanced photocatalytic activity for H2 evolution under visible light irradiation

Novel two-dimensional (2D) graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) photocatalysts decorated with PtCo bimetallic alloy nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared via an in situ chemical deposition method. The physical and chemical properties of the as-prepared PtCo/g-C3N4 samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and surface photovoltage spectroscopy (SPV). The photocatalytic H2 evolution experiments indicate that the PtCo alloy co-catalyst can effectively promote the separation efficiency of photo-generated charge carriers in g-C3N4, and consequently enhance the H2 evolution activity. The 1.0 wt% PtCo/g-C3N4 nanosheet catalyst shows the highest catalytic activity, and the corresponding H2 evolution rate is 960 μmol h−1 g−1, which is enhanced 2.9 times compared to that of pristine bulk Pt/g-C3N4 (330 μmol h−1 g−1) under visible light irradiation. The photocatalyst can keep stable and maintain catalytic activity after irradiation for 28 h. A possible photocatalytic mechanism of PtCo NPs on the enhancement of visible light performance is proposed to guide further improvement of other desirable functional materials.
SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a University Community: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Student Return to Campus on Infection Risk Among Community Members

Background Returning university students represent large-scale, transient demographic shifts and a potential source of transmission to adjacent communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this prospective longitudinal cohort study, we tested for IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in a non-random cohort of residents living in Centre County prior to the Fall 2020 term at the Pennsylvania State University and following the conclusion of the Fall 2020 term. We also report the seroprevalence in a non-random cohort of students collected at the end of the Fall 2020 term. Findings Of 345 community participants, 19 (5.5%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies at their first visit between 7 August and 2 October. Of 625 student participants who returned to campus for fall instruction, 195 (31.2%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies between 26 October and 23 November. Twenty-eight (8.1%) community participants returned a positive IgG antibody result by 9 December. Only contact with known SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals and attendance at small gatherings (20-50 individuals) were significant predictors of detecting IgG antibodies among returning students (aOR, 95% CI: 3.24, 2.14-4.91; 1.62, 1.08-2.44; respectively). Interpretation Despite high seroprevalence observed within the student population, seroprevalence in a longitudinal cohort of community residents was low and stable from before student arrival for the Fall 2020 term to after student departure. The study implies that heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 transmission can occur in geographically coincident populations. Funding The Pennsylvania State University Office of the Provost, Social Science Research Institute, Huck Institute for the Life Sciences, and Clinical and Translational Science Institute; National Institutes of Health.