Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Influence of ripening conditions on Scamorza cheese quality.

Scamorza is a pasta filata cheese produced in Southern Italy and eaten after a short ripening. The ripening phase is critical in defining the main qualitative features of the Scamorza cheese. The success of this operation is conditioned not only by the process parameters, but also by the characteristics of the ripening room in which different microclimates originate. This work intended to evaluate the influence of the different positions of cheeses within the ripening room on the evolution of their qualitative characteristics during the process of drying/ripening. For this purpose, samples of Scamorza cheese, produced in the Molise Region (Italy), were divided into two batches (C and L) and subjected to ripening for seven days in a thermo thermo-regulated room. The two batches were placed in different points of the room: the batch C in the central area and the batch L in the lateral area. During the ripening, temperature, humidity and air flow were monitored and the Scamorza cheeses were analysed to assess some qualitative characteristics. In a ripening room, the created microclimates are able to influence the quality of the product, as demonstrated by data related to temperature, humidity and air flow. In fact, from the results obtained, some appreciable differences among products from batches C and L were observed for the weight loss, the water activity and the colorimetric indexes. Differences in the behaviour of mesophilic lactic acid bacteria, pH and acidity were also found. The more rapid loss of water, characterizing the batch C, resulted in an evolution of physicochemical, physical and microbiological features, which resulted different from those observed in the samples from the batch L. Therefore, the results obtained in this study point out that, within the ripening room, the formation of different micro-environments is able to strongly influence the definition of the qualitative characteristics of the products placed in it.
The effect of 12 weeks concentric and eccentric resistance training on neuromuscular adaptation of quadriceps muscle

Background: Manipulating resistance training program variables has been commonly used as a tool to optimize maximum muscle strength in rehabilitation and/or exercise training program. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 12 weeks resistance eccentric training versus concentric training on muscle strength and neuromuscular function of quadriceps muscle. Methods: 26 male subjects recruited for this controlled laboratory study. Subjects were randomly divided into two groups, eccentric training group (No= 13), and concentric training group (No=13). Maximal isometric voluntary contraction (MVIC) of quadriceps muscle, vertical jumping and surface electromyography (EMG) signals were recorded before and after 12 weeks resistance concentric and eccentric training. Results: Maximal isometric voluntary contraction of quadriceps muscle, and vertical jumping significantly increased after eccentric and concentric training (p <0.05). Eccentric exercise resulted in a greater increase in maximal isometric voluntary contraction of quadriceps muscle and vertical jumping as compared to concentric training (p <0.05). The amplitude of surface EMG signals was also significantly increased after eccentric and concentric training (p <0.05), with a greater increase observed for the eccentric as compared to concentric training group (p <0.05). Conclusion: The result of this study showed a higher increase in muscle force output and EMG activity after eccentric training. This may indicate that stretch combined with overloading is the most effective stimulus for enhancing neuromuscular activity during dynamic resistance exercise. The knowledge gained from this study may be relevant for designing exercise and or/ rehabilitation training to improve muscle output.
Exploring Strategies to Enhance Zakat Role to Support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The purpose of this study is to find out what are key elements of constraint, strategies and stakeholders and to construct some strategies that may help enhance the role of zakat in achieving SDGs. This study uses a mix method, combining Delphi method and Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) by conducting literature studies and In-depth interviews with experts, practitioners and academicians. In realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it requires the greater role of Zakat as a financing instrument. Experts, practitioners and academicians agreed that Strategy to Enhance Zakat Role to Support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires synergy between stakeholders. This is in line with 17th goal of SDGs, partnerships for the goals. In managing zakat, innovation is needed by utilizing fintech in zakat information system. The process of strengthening and monitoring zakat management must go through structured strategic steps to realize the acceleration of zakat management development. Researchers provided an analysis that BAZNAS and LAZ should collaborate with related parties to collect zakat such as fintech companies and coordinate with other institutions to distribute social funds to reduce overlapping distribution and to link programs or activities with SDGs.
Customer acceptance of ride-hailing in Indonesia

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the enabling factors and the customers’ acceptance of ride-hailing in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt some constructs from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) 2 as the framework for the study to derive factors that influence the acceptance of ride-hailing in Indonesia. Samples through a convenience sampling method were collected from an online survey and were transformed into data through coding and subsequently processed using SPSS for descriptive analysis, reliability test, correlation and multiple regression analysis for hypothesis testing. Findings Ride-hailing started in 2015 in Indonesia. Five enabling factors make digital ride-hailing possible, the internet, smartphone, broadband wireless network, digital map and global positioning system. The authors found that performance expectancy, social influence and habit positively influence customers to accept ride-hailing in Indonesia. Research limitations/implications Although this research has a small sample, it is still relevant to understand people’s acceptance to the ride-hailing platform. As a ride-hailing platform is now transformed to a multisided markets platform, adoption studies or other studies on each market to cover the whole picture of the platform influence to the society, and its contribution to the national economy will be very interesting. The authors’ future research will cover various services covered by ride-hailing companies. Originality/value This study proposes and argues that four main enabling factors make digital ride-hailing a viable business. The study contributes to three significant factors that influence the acceptance of ride-hailing in Indonesia.
Negotiating the family order and the initiation of methamphetamine use in Japan

This article uses the concept of the “negotiated order” as developed by McAra and McVie to focus on the role and nature of the “family order” in shaping the initiation of methamphetamine use in Japan. Presenting empirical qualitative data from multiple life-story interviews with 11 men with a history of methamphetamine use, the findings demonstrate that while there were variegated paths that led to initiation of use, a common factor was family breakdown and exclusion. Given the “group-oriented” nature of social organization and relations in Japan and the risks emanating from marginalization from “insider” groups, understanding the importance of the ways in which the ascription and negotiation of identities within and around the family can lead to initiation in a severely stigmatized and criminalized activity in this cultural context provides useful lessons for thinking about formal and informal responses to illegal drugs.
Moral Reasoning and Political Leader Preference of Senior High School Students of a Private School

Kohlberg’s moral development theory focuses on the thinking process that occurs when one makes a moral decision. Kohlberg had identified three stages of moral development: Pre-conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional. Moral reasoning, as perceived to be a factor in the decision-making, is a rational act guided by moral principles. It is a subjective evaluation related to practical reasoning, where one justifies the idea based on how a person views various thing. Moreover, decisions rely on reasoning; moral reasoning is related to making a congruent decision when a person creates preference takes more courage in deciding whom to elect during elections. Voting preferences can be affected by certain factors such as peer influence, media influence, family influence, and church/religious community. Political leader preference is described as a judgment based on evaluations and observations through interaction with political content. It may also refer to a political or philosophical opinion on an individual pertained to be a candidate for leadership. Like the Senior High School (SHS) students, some new voters are easily swayed by some politicians. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of moral reasoning and the degree of preference for a political leader of SHS students when grouped according to sex, family monthly income, age, and church ministry involvement. Specifically, it also compares the degree of preference for political leaders when grouped according to variables and correlates moral reasoning and preference for political leaders. Likewise, it explores other factors that influence the political leaders’ preference.
Inducing Stress Early and Reducing Stress Late to Increase Soybean (Glycine max) Yield

OF THESIS Inducing Stress Early and Reducing Stress late to Increase Soybean (Glycine max) Yield Relatively little change in national soybean (Glycine max) yield over the previous years have led many farmers to creating management regimes focused on plant stress. Field experiments consisting of two different relative maturity (2.8RM and 4.5 RM) soybean cultivars were established at three locations across Kentucky in 2013 and 2014. Each maturity group received a single application, sequential applications, or a combination of the following treatments: N’N-diformyl urea, lactofen, lambdacyhalothrin with thiamethoxam, and azoxystrobin with propiconazole. Relative maturity and yield environment*treatment interactions were observed to be significant (p 0≤.05). 4.5 RM soybean cultivars yielded significantly greater (800 kg ha) than 2.8 RM cultivars. Compared to the untreated check, no treatment in the yield environment*treatment interaction significantly increased yield. Significant yield decrease varied across yield environment, but was observed for treatments containing a combination of lactofen and N’N-diformyl urea. Application of stress management practices was not a consistent approach to improving soybean yield.
Catalytic Ozonation of Gasoline Compounds in Model and Natural Water in the Presence of Perfluorinated Alumina Bonded Phases

Gasoline compounds are one of the most widespread causes of soil and groundwater contamination. Their degradation in model and natural waters due to catalytic ozonation in the presence of perfluorooctylalumina (PFOA) is presented and discussed in this paper. The results obtained clearly indicate that the PFOA/O3 system is effective mainly for ether (MTBE and ETBE) removal from both model and natural water. The catalytic activity of PFOA is not so significant in the case of BTEX ozonation. An investigation into by-product formation has shown that the concentration of both carboxylic acids (mainly oxalic acid) and carbonyl compounds (mainly acetone) increases after catalytic ozonation when compared with ozonation alone. A decrease of formic acid and formaldehyde takes place after the PFOA/O3 system as opposed to the usage of ozonation alone.
Combustion analysis and cycle-by-cycle variations in spark ignition engine combustion Part 2: A new parameter for completeness of combustion and its use in modelling cycle-by-cycle variations in combustion

Abstract This paper investigates a technique of calculating the completeness of combustion on a cycle- by-cycle basis. The technique introduces the normalized pressure rise due to the combustion parameter, ψ to describe the completeness of combustion. This parameter is based on the Rassweiler-Withrow method of calculating the mass fraction burned and is derived from the pressure-crank angle record of the engine. Experimental data were obtained from a Rover K4 optical access engine and analysed with a combustion analysis package. A computer simulation was then used to model the data on a cycle-by-cycle basis, both with and without the completeness of combustion parameter. The paper discusses the conditions under which it is suitable to model mean engine cycles, compared with the need to model cycle-by-cycle variability, and comments on the situations in which each type of modelling would be most appropriate. The engine simulation model is also used to investigate cycle-by-cycle variability of NO emissions that have recently been obtained experimentally. The successful aspects of this investigation are that the cycle-by-cycle variability in the completeness of combustion can be determined by use of the parameter ψ, that the inclusion of the completeness of combustion parameter improves the simulation's ability to model the experimental data both in a statistical sense (the coefficient of variation of the indicated mean effective pressure) and on a cycle-by-cycle basis and that cycle-by-cycle NO modelling results are found to compare well with experiment.
Mind the gap: acute bilateral vocal cord palsy in CIDP after extending the IVIG treatment interval?

Cranial nerve involvement is rarely seen in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). We present a patient diagnosed with CIDP who was in a stable medical condition under long-term treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) every five weeks for more than seven years. Following a 12-day delay in the patient’s regular IVIG therapy, he developed acute bilateral vocal cord palsy. The patient had to be intubated and tracheostomized because of acute respiratory distress. Weaning from mechanical ventilation was complicated due to pneumonia. After antibiotic treatment and restarting IVIG therapy vocal cord palsy rapidly improved allowing for subsequent decannulation. Although coincidence between treatment delay and symptom development does not prove definitive causality this case report may serve as a reminder how time critical IVIG therapy can be for sufficient symptom control. Moreover, it provides evidence that IVIG therapy may be effective for the treatment of cranial nerve symptoms in CIDP.
A 3.4-Å cryo-electron microscopy structure of the human coronavirus spike trimer computationally derived from vitrified NL63 virus particles

Abstract Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) is an enveloped pathogen of the family Coronaviridae that spreads worldwide and causes up to 10% of all annual respiratory diseases. HCoV-NL63 is typically associated with mild upper respiratory symptoms in children, elderly and immunocompromised individuals. It has also been shown to cause severe lower respiratory illness. NL63 shares ACE2 as a receptor for viral entry with SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Here, we present the in situ structure of HCoV-NL63 spike (S) trimer at 3.4-Å resolution by single-particle cryo-EM imaging of vitrified virions without chemical fixative. It is structurally homologous to that obtained previously from the biochemically purified ectodomain of HCoV-NL63 S trimer, which displays a three-fold symmetric trimer in a single conformation. In addition to previously proposed and observed glycosylation sites, our map shows density at other sites, as well as different glycan structures. The domain arrangement within a protomer is strikingly different from that of the SARS-CoV-2 S and may explain their different requirements for activating binding to the receptor. This structure provides the basis for future studies of spike proteins with receptors, antibodies or drugs, in the native state of the coronavirus particles.
Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?

Increasing (decreasing) investment in an actively managed mutual fund when fund volatility has recently been low (high) leads to a significant improvement in investment performance. Specifically, volatility-scaled fund returns exhibit significantly higher alphas and Sharpe ratios than the original (unscaled) fund returns. Scaling by past downside volatility leads to even greater performance improvement than scaling by total volatility. The superior performance of volatility-managed mutual fund trading strategies is attributable to both volatility timing and return timing. Fund flows are negatively related to past fund volatility, suggesting that fund investors are aware of the benefit of volatility management. Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest. Editor’s Note Submitted 3 March 2020 Accepted 7 September 2020 by Stephen J. Brown This article was externally reviewed using our double-blind peer-review process. When the article was accepted for publication, the authors thanked the reviewers in their acknowledgments. Claude B. Erb, CFA, and one anonymous reviewer were the reviewers for this article.
Seismic geomorphology anomalies within a Pliocene deepwater channel complex in the Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand

The Taranaki Basin, located offshore New Zealand, is a Cretaceous rift basin that has well defined yet complex Miocene deepwater sedimentary systems. We analyze a pronounced anomalous seismic response in a Late Miocene to Early Pliocene deepwater channel within the 2005 Hector 3D survey located in the southern Taranaki Basin. Several seismic attributes were calculated to interpret the extent of these anomalous features. Analogues within both the Iron River reservoir in Albania, Canada and the East Breaks Basin Four, offshore Gulf of Mexico suggest that these anomalous seismic features are most likely channel-body basal scours. Another interpretation suggests that these scours were formed and later filled by mass transport deposits (MTDs) with sediment ponding as suggested from some studies within the Molasse Basin in southern Germany. Alternatively, these scours could also be interpreted as pockmarks resulting from channel abandonment and fluid escape due to compaction. Others describe this process within submarine canyon systems, offshore Equatorial Guinea. However, there is compelling evidence to suggest that these features are most likely channel-body basal scours rather than being related to MTDs or pockmarks. Within all of the interpretations, there is evidence of differential compaction, which is further supported by the reflectors displaying a slight doming immediately above where the scours are located. Geological feature: Seismic geomorphology anomalies within a Pliocene deepwater channel complex in the Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand Seismic appearance: Asymmetric bowl-shaped geometry with high-amplitude reflectors that are incised into underlying sediment Alternative interpretations: Pockmarks resulting from channel abandonment and fluid escape due to compaction Features with similar appearance: Channel scours or pockmarks Formation: Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin Age: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Location: Southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Available data: Hector 3D data set, Kiwa-1, and Hector-1 wells Analysis tools: 3D seismic data, well logs, and seismic attributes
Relationship between Personality and Academic Motivation in Education Degrees Students

The present study aims to understand the relationship between the big five factors of personality and academic motivation. In addition, the following variables are taken into consideration; sex, age and type of educational studies. A quantitative methodology is used, in base to a not experimental, correlational study. The sample is composed of 514 students of the Faculty of Education of Leon’s University, between the three education degrees. To gather the information, participants were asked to complete the Learning and Motivation Strategies Questionnaire (CEAM) and the Personality Questionnaire Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). The results show the significant relationship between personality facets and motivation variables. It should be noted that female results were higher in the values of intrinsic motivation, motivation towards teamwork, neuroticism, and kindness, and the male results were higher in self-efficacy. Additionally, it was observed that intrinsic motivation decreases progressively from the first to the fourth year of the degree, the need for recognition decreases in the two last study years, and the openness to experiences is higher in the last year of the degree. Finally, Social Education students are those that show a higher intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, total motivation, openness to experiences, and neuroticism, while Primary Education students’ results were higher in the need for recognition.
Use of a Mixed-Methods Approach to Evaluate the Implementation of Violence and Bullying Prevention Programs in Schools

School violence and bullying are considered a serious concern worldwide. Evidence shows that applying the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework could be effective in reducing school bullying. While there have been significant efforts to evaluate school-based anti-bullying interventions in the world, the implementation process and the effectiveness of this framework in reducing bullying in schools have not been previously evaluated in Iran. This mixed methods study was carried out using simultaneously a cross-sectional (900 students, 104, teachers/school executive staff, and 563 parents) and qualitative study (24 policy makers and teachers/school executive staff) to examine the implementation and effect of counseling and mental health services component of the Iranian Health Promoting School (IHPS) in 2017–2018. Results revealed that there were weaknesses in the implementation of all six elements of anti-bullying programs. A lack of any clean policy toward school violence and bullying, lack of priority set by local decision makers and principals of schools, logistical problems with providing training and supplying counseling resources, limited funding, and presence of competing issues and problems facing the schools were identified as barriers to implement violence and bullying prevention programs in schools. Results also showed that there were no significant differences between non-IHPS and IHPS in students’ bullying behaviors (p = .228) and scores of leadership, the school environment, capacity, partnership, services and support, and evidence (p > .05). It is essential to revise the content and how to implement anti-bullying programs in schools.