Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
How University Entrepreneurship Support Affects College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Empirical Analysis from China

Given the major role of new enterprises founded by university alumni in creating employment and promoting economic development, it is well known that Chinese universities have implemented plenty of impressive initiatives to support students’ entrepreneurship. However, little is yet known about how students evaluate university entrepreneurship support and how it affects students’ entrepreneurial intentions. This study utilizes 13,954 recent college graduates from Chinese higher education institutions as a sample and aims to examine students’ perceptions of the support they received from universities and its influence on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The results illustrate that students are not very satisfied with various university entrepreneurship supports. Findings also indicate that university entrepreneurship support positively impacts students’ entrepreneurial intentions, although it is not a very strong relationship. Moreover, university entrepreneurship support positively affects entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, which in turn determine entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy play a mediating role between university entrepreneurship support and entrepreneurial intention. The study contributes to the entrepreneurial literature theoretically and provides practical recommendations for policymakers and university administrators in China to reconsider and improve their entrepreneurship supports to encourage more students to become entrepreneurs.
The Green Attitude in Art Conservation: Polyhydroxybutyrate–based Gels for the Cleaning of Oil Paintings

Fully biodegradable novel bio-based organogels were developed for removing aged protective films from the surfaces of paintings, aiming at providing effective cleaning tools, easily controllable by reducing the solvent permeation into underlying paint layers and not dangerous for human health and the environment. The gels were based on poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) as gelling agent, γ-valerolactone (GVL) as solvent and triethyl citrate (TEC) as plasticizer. PHB-gels were able to completely remove protective varnishes on real oil paintings, without affecting the pictorial layer and leaving negligible residues after the application. Moreover, the gels showed good mechanical and handling properties, they were fully composed by non-toxic ingredients and resulted readily biodegradable in water, therefore easily disposable after the use.
Rotating maize reduces the risk and rate of nitrate leaching

There is a strong link between nitrate (NO3-N) leaching from fertilized annual crops and the rate of nitrogen (N) fertilizer input. However, this leaching-fertilizer relationship is poorly understood and the degree to which soil type, weather, and cropping system influence it is largely unknown. We calibrated the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator process-based cropping system model using 56 site-years of data sourced from eight field studies across six states in the U.S. Midwest that monitored NO3-N leaching from artificial subsurface drainage in two cropping systems: continuous maize and two-year rotation of maize followed by unfertilized soybean (maize-soybean rotation). We then ran a factorial simulation experiment and fit statistical models to the leaching-fertilizer response. A bi-linear model provided the best fit to the relationship between N fertilizer rate (kg ha−1) and NO3-N leaching load (kg ha−1) (from one year of continuous maize or summed over the two-year maize-soybean rotation). We found that the cropping system dictated the slopes and breakpoint (the point at which the leaching rate changes) of the model, but the site and year determined the intercept i.e. the magnitude of the leaching. In both cropping systems, the rate of NO3-N leaching increased at an N fertilizer rate higher than the N rate needed to optimize the leaching load per kg grain produced. Above the model breakpoint, the rate of NO3-N leaching per kg N fertilizer input was 300% greater than the rate below the breakpoint in the two-year maize-soybean rotation and 650% greater in continuous maize. Moreover, the model breakpoint occurred at only 16% above the average agronomic optimum N rate (AONR) in continuous maize, but 66% above the AONR in the maize-soybean rotation. Rotating maize with soybean, therefore, allows for a greater environmental buffer than continuous maize with regard to the impact of overfertilization on NO3-N leaching.
Voter expectations of government formation in coalition systems: The importance of the information context

Can voters in multi-party systems predict which coalition will form the government with any degree of accuracy? To date, studies which explore voter expectations of coalition formation have emphasized individual level attributes, such as education, but the complexity of the environment at the time the coalitions are forming should also be consequential in enabling (or handicapping) voters in forming expectations. We examine the relative effects of individual level attributes (e.g., education, cognitive mobilization) versus contextual factors (e.g., information availability) in 19 German state elections and 3 German general elections between 2009 and 2017. We ﬁnd that the ease of identiﬁability of alternative future governments varies signiﬁcantly across multi-party systems. We ﬁnd that respondents are more likely to predict governments that they would like to see in ofﬁce, that have a higher probability of receiving a majority of seats, and that consist of ideologically proximate parties. Combining survey data with a novel indicator of coalition signals, measured through a quantitative text analysis of newspaper coverage, we also ﬁnd that voters consider positive pre-election coalition signals when predicting the government. Finally, we ﬁnd that the information environment is much more relevant for correct coalition predictions than individual-level characteristics of respondents. Although individual attributes do inﬂuence predictive ability, these factors are strongly dominated by the context in which the prediction is taking place. The information environment has by far the largest effect on predicting coalition outcomes. Our results have implications for the literature on strategic voting in multi-party settings, as well as the literature on accountability.
Impacts of Historical Land Use/Cover Change (1980–2015) on Summer Climate in the Aral Sea Region

In the Aral Sea region, significant land use/cover change (LUCC) occurred in the past 50 years, especially the shrinking of Aral Sea due to unreasonable usage of water resources under intensified agricultural activities. However, to date, regional climatic feedbacks on fine‐scale exerted by such LUCC in Central Asia have not been studied clearly. In this study, ALARO‐SURFEX regional climate model was used to perform climate simulations under different underlying surface scenarios with 4 km spatial resolution to explore the impacts of historical LUCC on summer climate during 1980–2015. Our results show that compared to default land surface conditions, the modified ones improved the model's ability in simulating temperature, precipitation, and surface energy fluxes. During the period 1980–2015, LUCC accelerated the warming trend, reduced the summer precipitation and altered allocation of surface energy fluxes. Exposed dry bottom of Aral Sea has undergone the most conspicuous warming, which caused increase of the 2 m maximum temperature, average temperature, and diurnal temperature range by 2.56 ± 0.88°C, 1.04 ± 0.53°C, and 3.42 ± 1.10°C, respectively, while minimum temperature decrease by 1.14 ± 0.56°C. The summer precipitation (mainly convective precipitation) decreased by about 2.33 mm overlay the exposed dry bottom of Aral Sea and approximately 400 km “buffer” region in its eastern side. Additionally, the energy balance changed as follows: −47.9, 50.19, −78.67, and −23.72 W m−2 for net radiation, sensible heat, latent heat, and soil heat, respectively. Quantified contribution of LUCC on regional climate provides useful information for developing mitigation and adaption strategies under the global warming threat.
Abbreviated title: Neural signatures of speech learning success Emerging native-similar neural representations underlie non-native speech category learning success

1. Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. , Hong Kong SAR, China. 2. Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. , Hong Kong SAR, China. 3. Applied Psychology Programme, Beijing Normal University Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. 4. Imaging Center for Integrated Body, Mind and Culture Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. 5. Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. 6. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Feng, G. , Li, Y. , Hsu, S. , Wong, P.C. M. , Chou, T. , Chandrasekaran, B. , Zatorre, R. (2021). Emerging native-similar neural representations underlie non-native speech category learning success. Neurobiology of Language. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00035.
Resonant enhancement of magnetic damping driven by coherent acoustic phonons in thin Co2FeAl film epitaxied on GaAs

The magnetic dynamics of a thin Co2FeAl film epitaxially grown on GaAs substrate was investigated using the time- resolved magneto-optical Kerr measurement under an out-of-plane external field. The intrinsic magnetic damping constant, which should do not vary with the external magnetic field, exhibits an abnormal huge increase when the precession frequency is tuned to be resonant with that of the coherent longitudinal acoustic phonon in the Co2FeAl/GaAs heterostructure. The experimental finding is suggested to result from the strong coherent energy transfer from spins to acoustic phonons via magnetoelastic effect under a resonant coupling condition, which leads to a huge energy dissipation of spins and a greatly enhanced magnetic damping in Co2FeAl. Our experimental findings provide an experimental evidence of spin pumping-like effect driven by propagating acoustic phonons via magnetoelastic effect, suggesting an alternative approach to the possible long-range spin manipulation via coherent acoustic waves.
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE The Role of Meltwater Advection in the Formulation of Conservative Boundary Conditions at an Ice-Ocean Interface

Upper boundary conditions for numerical models of the ocean are conventionally formulated under the premise that the boundary is a material surface. In the presence of an ice cover, such an assumption can lead to nonconservative equations for temperature, salinity, and other tracers. The problem arises because conditions at the ice‐ocean interface differ from those in the water beneath. Advection of water with interfacial properties into the interior of the ocean therefore constitutes a tracer flux, neglect of which induces a drift in concentration that is most rapid for those tracers having the lowest diffusivities. If tracers are to be correctly conserved, either the kinematic boundary condition must explicitly allow advection across the interface, or the flux boundary condition must parameterize the effects of both vertical advection and diffusion in the boundary layer. In practice, the latter alternative is often implemented, although this is rarely done for all tracers.
Biochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass from Date Palm of Phoenix dactylifera L. into Ethanol Production

Cellulosic fibers from date palm are among the most promising lignocellulose feedstock for biorefinery purposes. The world production is between 1.9 and 2.4 million t/year. Initially, a pretreatment with dilute-sulphuric acid of these fibers was performed using a response surface methodology, with temperature and process time as factors. The aim is to produce bioethanol from young and old fibers from date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. Optimal thermochemical pretreatment conditions for both fibers palms were 220 °C in hydrothermal conditions (without acid); in these conditions pretreated young fibers presented a maximum content in holocelluloses of 45.18% and old fibers 61.97%. Subsequently, during the enzymatic hydrolysis a maximum yield of total reducing sugars (TRS) was reached, 46.32 g/100 g for pretreated dry young fibers and 48.54 g/100 g for pretreated dry old fibers. After enzymatic saccharification, hydrolysates were fermented by Pachysolen tannophilus (ATCC 32691) to ethanol, reaching yields (YE/TRS) of 37.94 g ethanol/100 g of TRS for young fibers and 35.84 g ethanol/100 g of TRS for old fibers. Globally, considering the full process, in the fermentation of the hydrolysates, a yield (YE) of 10.64 g ethanol/100 g of dry young fibers and 10.88 g ethanol/100 g of dry old fibers was reached.
Evaluation of Cost-Effective Modified Binder Thin Chip and Cape Seal Surfacings on an Anionic Nano-Modified Emulsion (NME)-Stabilised Base Layer Using Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT)

Emulsion stabilisation of base layers surfaced with chip seals often proves problematic, with chips punching into the base and early distress. This can be aggravated by the use of modified binders that restricts the evaporation of moisture from pavement layers. The introduction of new-age (nano)-modified emulsion (NME) stabilisation has the advantage that water is chemically repelled from the stabilised layer, resulting in an accelerated development of strength. A need was identified to evaluate the early-life performance of selected chip and Cape seals, together with identified modified binders on anionic NME-stabilised base layers constructed with materials traditionally classified as unsuitable, using archaic empirically derived tests. Three different chip seal surfacings with unconventional modified binders were constructed and evaluated using accelerated pavement testing (APT) with the Model Mobile Load Simulator—3rd model (MMLS3). The objectives of the experimental design and testing were to evaluate the binder performance, chip seal performance in terms of early loss of chips before chip orientation, punching of the chips into the anionic NME-stabilised base and deformation characteristics of a Cape seal that was hand-laid using an anionic NME slurry without any cement filler. It was shown that that chip seal surfacings can be used at low risk, on a base layer containing materials with fines exceeding 22%. The selection of specific modified binders can reduce risks associated with chip seal surfacings, which can impact construction limitations. The recommended use of elastomer-modified binders on newly constructed or rehabilitated layers, resulting in moisture entrapment, needs to be reconsidered.
From risks to catastrophes: How Chinese Newspapers framed the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its early stage

Beck identified delocalisation, uncalculability and non-compensability as three characteristics of modern risk, the recognition of which lies at the core of transforming insubstantial risks into urgent catastrophes. This study aimed to empirically test and enrich Beck’s theory by examining how the Chinese media framed COVID-19 during the first month of the pandemic’s outbreak, a critical period for the media’s staging of risk. We observed that the usage of the consequences and treatment responsibility frames lies at the core of transforming COVID-19 from a risk to a catastrophe. Initially, journalists framed the virus as conquerable at a local level, with calculable consequences and compensable solutions. In the second phase, after the central government and national health experts stepped in, journalists admitted that COVID-19 was uncontrollable at a local level, starting to transform the risk into a national catastrophe, and called for enhanced solutions to controlling the spread of the virus. In the third phase, journalists started to transform the local catastrophe into a global crisis, referring to the global community as an information source. By building a bridge between risk theory and framing theory, we found that, in the case of COVID-19, delocalisation, incalculability, and non-compensability were crucial factors in risk virtualisation. We argue that the different usage of the consequences and treatment responsibility frames can either prevent the transformation of a risk into a catastrophe or facilitate this transformation process.
The time and place of social mixing: Everyday rhythms of long-term residents and newcomers in a Dutch neighborhood

Despite research questioning the beneficial effects of social mixing interventions, urban governments continue to strive for a social mix. In this paper we examine the effects of social mixing through the concept of rhythm. We paint an ethnographic portrait of a disadvantaged area in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands, which was targeted by a social mixing intervention. We analyze everyday rhythms of newcomers and long-term low-income residents in order to shed light on the effects of the mixing intervention on perceptions of social division and disadvantage. By introducing ‘exemplary’ newcomers, the social mixing intervention improves the area in terms of e.g. livability scores and socio-economic indicators. However, looking through the lens of rhythm, we found how social divisions between advantaged and disadvantaged groups become exacerbated as a result of ‘arrhythmias’ occurring. We argue that institutional actors fail to align the social mixing intervention with long-term residents’ daily rhythms, which impinges upon that group’s right to the social production of their neighborhood. On a wider scale, we assert the social mixing intervention renders the problem of socio-economic disadvantage spatially insignificant under the guise of improved livability. Therefore, we implore future urban policy to explicitly imagine the ways in which socio-spatial interventions might affect daily rhythms of inequality within neighborhoods.
Exploring the challenges encountered in managing diversity and inclusion in the telecommunications industry by selected multinationals in Ghana

Abstract This study investigated the challenges encountered as well as examined the elements influencing the management of diversity and inclusion by multinationals in the telecommunications industry in Ghana. A qualitative (case study approach) approach was employed to answer the research questions and realise the objectives. There were three in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions conducted in the selected organisations, being the two market leaders in the telecommunication industry (MTN—Ghana and Vodafone—Ghana) in Ghana. Coding and thematic analysis were employed to identify the challenges and elements influencing the management of diversity and inclusion in the selected organisations. In practice, the findings of the study point to the fact that corporate policies or strategies are not adequately aligned to the societal context. A proposed framework was created out of the findings of the study, aiming at mitigating the identified challenges. Arising from the findings of the study, it was recommended that further studies are needed to make the socio-cultural dynamics more explicit and align it to corporate strategies. Additionally, the study needs to be broadened by employing mixed-method and include the entire number of organisations in the industry to obtain a conclusive result.
Bioproducts and Homeopathy in Lasiodiplodia Rot (Lasiodiplodia sp.) Control and Development of Passion Fruit Seedlings

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of homeopathic medicine Calcarea carbonica 12CH and bioproducts: filtrates of saprobic fungi from Amazon, green propolis nosode 06CH, filtrate of Pichia sp. , green propolis extract, Bacillus subtilis; to control Lasiodiplodia (Lasiodiplodia sp.) and development of passion fruit seedlings (Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa Degener). The experiment was carried out in a completely randomized design with 10 treatments in a parcel divided in time. Each plot consisted of 5 plants for analysis. Data were subjected to analysis of variance and when significant compared by Scott-Knott test (p> 0.05). Variables related to plant growth and the area under Journal of Agricultural Studies ISSN 2166-0379 2021, Vol. 9, No. 2 http://jas.macrothink. org 206 the disease progress curve (AUDPC) were evaluated. Assessments were performed at 67, 74 and 82 days after transplantation. There was no reduction in AUDPC for treatments compared to control. As for plant height (cm), the best treatments were Pichia sp. and Gonytrichum sp. with an increase in relation to control of 29.70% and 18.24%, respectively, and increased leaf area (cm) by 27.42% and 19.85%, respectively. B. subtilis, Pichia sp. and Gonytrichum sp. , increased total biomass by 42.31%, 32.82% and 21.44%, respectively. The filtrates application from Pichia sp. , Filtrate from Gonytrichum sp. , C. carbonica 12CH and B. subtilis provided better performance in the development of passion fruit plants with an increase in the main morphological attributes. The results show that the use of bio products improves the development of seedlings, especially the use of yeast and saprophytic fungi by controlling the biochemical and physiological processes of plants during development.
Sosyal Medya Kullanım Motivasyonlarının Kişilik Özellikleri ve Yaşam Doyumu Açısından İncelenmesi

Teknolojinin gelismesiyle birlikte sosyal medya populer hale gelmis ve gunluk hayatta yaygin olarak kullanilmaya baslanmistir. Ozellikle akilli telefon kullaniminin artmasi ve internet baglantisinin iyilestirilmesi, sosyal medya kullanimini her gecen gun daha da arttirmistir. Sosyal medya kullanicilarinin kisilik ozellikleri ve yasamdan elde ettikleri doyumlar ile sosyal medya araclarinin secimi, kullanim bicimleri ve sikligi arasinda iliski vardir. Bu nedenle bu calisma sosyal medya kullanim motivasyonlarinin kisilik ozellikleri ve yasam doyumu acisindan incelenmesi amaciyla yapilmistir. Calisma kapsaminda 385 kisiden cevrimici anket teknigiyle elde edilen veriler analiz edilmistir. Arastirma sonucunda sosyal medya kullanicilarinin ozellikle nevrotik kisilik ozelliginin sosyal medya kullanim motivasyonlari ve yasam doyumu uzerinde anlamli etkisinin oldugu sonucuna ulasilmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Sosyal Medya, Sosyal Medya Motivasyonlari, Kisilik, Yasam Doyumu JEL Siniflandirmasi: M30, M31
BEYOND LINGUISTIC FEATURES

Abstract Comprehensibility, or ease of understanding, has emerged as an important construct in second language (L2) speech research. Many studies have examined the linguistic features that underlie this construct, but there has been limited work on behavioral and affective predictors. The goal of this study was therefore to examine the extent to which anxiety and collaborativeness predict interlocutors’ perception of one another’s comprehensibility. Twenty dyads of L2 English speakers completed three interactive tasks. Throughout their 17-minute interaction, they were periodically asked to evaluate their own and each other’s anxiety and collaborativeness and to rate their partner’s comprehensibility using 100-point scales. Mixed-effects models showed that partner anxiety and collaborativeness predicted comprehensibility, but the relative importance of each predictor depended on the nature of the task. Self-collaborativeness was also related to comprehensibility. These findings suggest that comprehensibility is sensitive to a range of linguistic, behavioral, and affective influences.