Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of chitosan‐based coating in improving shelf‐life of eggs

Despite eggs having a natural packaging—shell—they are perishable and can lose their quality during storage. Chitosan-based coatings were applied to shell eggs to examine potential effects on egg quality properties (weight loss, Haugh unit, yolk index) during 4 weeks of storage. Mineral amounts in yolks were also evaluated after 4 weeks of storage. Three chitosan-based coatings produced with organic acids (acetic-(C-AA), lactic-(C-LA), and propionic (C-PA)) were evaluated on shelf-life enhancements of fresh egg quality. All chitosan-coated eggs showed greater interior quality than the non-coated eggs. The coatings significantly maintained weight loss compared to the control specimen (4.96%). Lower weight loss (3.45% for C-PA, 3.53% for C-LA) was observed in the coated eggs. Eggshell chitosan coat containing lactic and propionic acids maintained higher Haugh unit and yolk index than eggs coated with acetic acid. Uncoated (UC) eggs changed from grade ‘A’ to ‘B’ after 1 week of storage. Chitosan-based coating containing lactic and propionic acids maintained eggs in grade ‘A’ for 4 weeks. Haugh unit showed that C-LA and C-PA effectively maintained eggs at grade ‘A’ quality for at least 3 weeks more than control and 1 week more than C-AA. Results also indicated that the chitosan coating maintained mineral amounts at nutritional values (especially calcium, iron and magnesium concentration) in yolks after 4 weeks storage. Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry
Mattering and life satisfaction among the quarantined adults in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study aims to investigate the mental health stability among adults who reside in Malaysia during the quarantine period amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in March-June 2020, specifically the perception of life satisfaction, related to the sense of mattering, trait extraversion and perceived social inclusion. Studies have established the robustness of mattering in predicting life satisfaction even after controlling perceived social inclusion and any personality traits in a non-pandemic environment; however, the fact that most adults had their face-to-face social interaction significantly reduced by the quarantine led us to hypothesize that individuals with higher sense of mattering and extraversion would be more likely to believe that they are socially included, and this belief would eventually predict their levels of life satisfaction. Data was collected at two points of the quarantine period, the first two weeks (N=240) and the last two weeks (N=109) from different participants. Bootstrap analysis results suggested that in the first two weeks, perceived social inclusion significantly mediated the link between mattering and life satisfaction among participants with higher extraversion; in the last two weeks, mediation occurred to participants with all levels of extraversions. Scope, limitations, implications and suggestions are discussed at the end of this paper.
Neutron Laue diffraction study of the complex low-temperature magnetic behaviour of brownmillerite-type Ca2Fe2O5

The atomic and magnetic structure of brownmillerite Ca2Fe2O5 has been refined against single-crystal neutron Laue diffraction data collected at 300, 100 and 10 K under zero-field and low-magnetic field (35 Oe = 35 × 103/4π A m−1) conditions. Ca2Fe2O5 is a canted G-type antiferromagnet with Pcm′n′ symmetry, the magnetic moments on Fe being directed approximately along the crystallographic c axis at room temperature. The refinement results show clearly that this magnetic structure persists down to T = 10 K, despite a previous suggestion that an anomalous magnetic susceptibility enhancement observed in Ca2Fe2O5 single crystals between 40 and 140 K might signify a reorientation of the antiferromagnetic easy axis from c to a below 40 K. Alternative explanations for this susceptibility anomaly are considered in terms of the evidence for partial or short-range loss of order in the anomalous regime, possibly due to the presence of multiple competing sublattice interactions.
Undiagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia in an overweight or obese population: implications for cardiovascular disease risk screening programme.

Introduction Establishing the burden of undiagnosed CVD risk factors is critical to monitoring public health efforts related to screening and diagnosis. Objective To assess the proportion and determinants of undiagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia, among overweight or obese adults. Methods A sample of 1200 participants aged 35-64 years with a BMI ≥25 kg/m2 was selected from the Colombo district. Data were collected through a questionnaire, anthropometry, blood pressure measurement, and blood sampling for fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, and lipid profile. Undiagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia were defined as fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL or HbA1c ≥6.5%; systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg; total cholesterol ≥240 mg/dl respectively, in a person without a previous diagnosis. Multiple logistic regression analyses were carried out to identify determinants. Results The prevalence (95%CI) of diabetes was 28% (25.5, 30.5), hypertension, 33.4% (30.7, 36.1) and hypercholesterolaemia, 31.9% (29.2, 34.5). The proportion of undiagnosed diabetes was 13.8% (11.9, 15.8), undiagnosed hypertension 11.3% (9.5, 13.1), and undiagnosed hypercholesterolaemia 17.8% (15.6, 19.9). Undiagnosed cases accounted for almost half of all diabetes cases, one-third of all hypertension cases, and more than half (56%) of all high cholesterol cases. The key determinants for undiagnosed CVD risk were: male sex, low or middle income, rural residence, and relatively younger age. Conclusion CVD screening programmes should be tailored to target populations based on these determinants and provide basic diagnostic facilities in all health centres. The 'proportion undiagnosed' in the population may be a useful indicator to evaluate their effectiveness.
The Syntactic Distribution of Object Experiencer Psych Verbs in Heritage Spanish

This paper contributes to our understanding of the grammatical architecture of heritage languages and, specifically, the role of lexical semantics, by examining the syntactic distribution of Spanish psych verbs. Object experiencer psych verbs in Spanish fall into two classes: Class II (e.g., molestar “to bother”) and Class III (e.g., encantar “to love”). Class II verbs allow numerous syntactic alternations, while Class III verbs are more restricted syntactically. The asymmetry under investigation here is attributed to a lexical semantic featural difference—Class II verbs can be [±change of state], while Class III verbs are always [−change of state]. Two groups of HSs, (intermediate (n = 21) and advanced (n = 18)), and a group of Spanish dominant bilinguals (n = 19) completed two judgment tasks, a standard proficiency measure, a vocabulary task, and a biographical questionnaire. Results reveal that the responses of both HS groups are consistent with the Spanish dominant bilinguals in nearly all conditions, indicating that HSs are highly sensitive to this syntactic distribution. These results also highlight the importance of considering the results of individual verbs in studies that focus on lexical semantics, as they not only help us understand aggregate trends, but also reveal, in this case, that even in cases of deviant underlying semantic representations, licensing restrictions at the syntax-lexical semantic interface remain intact, suggesting that this is an area of resilience in the Heritage Spanish grammar.
When career success enhances employees' life satisfaction: different effects of two types of goal orientations

PurposeDrawing on goal orientation theory, the authors propose a moderated mediation model, wherein objective career success is positively related to employees' life satisfaction through subjective career success moderated by learning and performance goal orientations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 188 employees in South Korea. The hypotheses were tested with the moderated mediation regression analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that salary and promotion, as indicators of objective career success, were positively related to subjective career success. However, subjective career success mediated only the influence of salary, not promotion, on life satisfaction. Furthermore, the authors found that the indirect relationship between salary and life satisfaction via subjective career success was not significant for employees with high learning goal orientation but was significant for those with high performance goal orientation.Practical implicationsOrganizations need to understand that a higher salary and frequent promotions may not always be positively related to employees' satisfaction with career and personal life and should consider the types of goal orientations.Originality/valueThe authors’ consideration of goal orientation as a dispositional characteristic contributes to the comprehensive understanding of how employees' learning and performance goal orientations interact with objective career success in influencing their subjective career and life satisfaction.
Clinical and economic impact of COVID-19 on people with obesity in a Spanish cohort during the first pandemic peak

Introduction COVID-19 and obesity relationship has been extensively studied since the COVID-19 outbreak, proving obesity is a risk factor. This study aims to broaden the available information about this association and to evaluate the economic impact of obesity and the COVID-19 disease combination. Methods This retrospectivestudy analyzed a sample of 3,402 patients admitted to a Spanish hospital with available body mass index (BMI) data. Results The prevalence of obesity was 33.4%. Patients with obesity showed a higher risk of hospitalization (OR 95% ConfidenceInterval [CI]=1.46; [1.24-1.73]; p < 0.001), which increased with the obesity degree (I: OR [95% CI]=1.28 [1.06-1.55], p =0.010; II: OR [95% CI]=1.58 [1.16-2.15], p =0.004; III: OR [95% CI] =2.09 [1.31-3.34], p =0.002). Patients with type III obesity had a significantly higher risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (OR [95% CI]= 3.30 [1.67-6.53]; p = 0.001) and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) need (OR [95% CI]= 3.98 [2.00-7.94]; p<0.001). The average cost per patient was remarkably higher in patients with obesity (p = 0.007), reaching an excess cost of 28.41% in the study cohort and rising to 56.5% in patients < 70 years. The average cost per patient increased significantly with the degree of obesity (p = 0.007). Discussion Inconclusion, our results suggest a strong association between obesity and adverse COVID-19 outcomes and higher expenditures in patients with both conditions.
Auditory perception of Mexican children with profound bilateral hearing loss receiving auditory verbal therapy

Profound hearing loss can have serious and irreversible consequences for oral language development in children, affecting spoken and written language acquisition. Auditory-verbal therapy has been widely applied to children with hearing loss with promising results, mainly in developed countries where cochlear implants are available. An evaluation was done of auditory perception in 25 children 5 to 8 years of age, with profound hearing loss, users of 4- or 5-channel hearing aids, and enrolled in a personalized auditory-verbal therapy program. Regarding initial auditory perception skills, children performed better on the Noises and Sounds block than on the Language block. By subscales, top performance was observed for auditory analysis (Noises and Sounds) and auditory recognition (Language). A series of t-tests showed that significant improvement after Auditory-verbal therapy occurred in global scores for Noises and Sounds and for Language blocks, regardless of sex, urban or rural community origin, nuclear or extended family. The study provides evidence of deficiencies in auditory in children with profound bilateral hearing loss and how this might improve after receiving Auditory-verbal therapy. Nevertheless, the descriptive study design prevents conclusions regarding the effectiveness of the therapy. Subsequent research must take into account intrinsic and environmental factors that might play a mediating role in the benefits of Auditory-verbal therapy for auditory perception.
Cosmological constraints from CODEX galaxy clusters spectroscopically confirmed by SDSS-IV/SPIDERS DR16

This paper presents a cosmological analysis based on the properties of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies from the CODEX survey which have been spectroscopically followed up within the SPIDERS programme as part of the sixteenth data release (DR16) of SDSS-IV. The cosmological sub-sample contains a total of 691 clusters over an area of 5350 deg2 with newly measured optical properties provided by a reanalysis of the CODEX source catalogue using redMaPPer and the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DR8). Optical richness is used as a proxy for the cluster mass, and the combination of X-ray, optical, and spectroscopic information ensures that only confirmed virialized systems are considered. Clusters are binned in observed redshift, $\tilde{z} \in \left[0.1, 0.6 \right)$ and optical richness, $\tilde{\lambda } \in \left[25, 148 \right)$ and the number of clusters in each bin is modelled as a function of cosmological and richness–mass scaling relation parameters. A high-purity sub-sample of 691 clusters is used in the analysis and best-fitting cosmological parameters are found to be $\Omega _{m_{0}}=0.34^{+0.09}_{-0.05}$ and $\sigma _8=0.73^{+0.03}_{-0.03}$. The redshift evolution of the self-calibrated richness–mass relation is poorly constrained due to the systematic uncertainties associated with the X-ray component of the selection function (which assumes a fixed X-ray luminosity–mass relation with h = 0.7 and $\Omega _{m_{0}}=0.30$). Repeating the analysis with the assumption of no redshift evolution is found to improve the consistency between both cosmological and scaling relation parameters with respect to recent galaxy cluster analyses in the literature.
Green supply chain management practices and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Indian manufacturers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of five dimensions of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices (i.e. internal environmental management, green purchasing, cooperation with customers, eco-design, and investment recovery) on three dimensions of organizational performance (i.e. environmental, economic and operational performance). Design/methodology/approachData were collected based on a cross-sectional survey of managers of 160 manufacturing firms in India. Structural equation modelling was used to test the influence of GSCM practices on each of the organizational performance outcomes.FindingsExcept for internal environmental management and green purchasing, all other GSCM dimensions are found to significantly impact at least one of the performance dimensions, either directly or indirectly. The results highlight that investment recovery practice is a key predictor of environmental performance, whereas eco-design is a key predictor of operational performance. The structural equation modeling result also suggests that GSCM do not directly affect economic performance, but can improve it indirectly.Research limitations/implicationsSince data was collected from managers of manufacturing firms on the basis of their subjective evaluations, future research studies should employ objective performance indicators for analysis. Also, the study did not consider some dimensions of GSCM practices, which can be included in future studies.Practical implicationsManufacturing firms should implement GSCM practices not just because of the pressure from regulatory bodies but also to elevate their environmental, operational and economic performance. The proposed model in this paper suggests practitioners which GSCM factors are driving these performance changes and supports the building of a roadmap for GSCM implementation in their organization.Originality/valueManufacturing firms from four different operating sectors, namely automotive, electrical and electronics, process and machinery sectors are the respondents. The originality of the paper lies in testing the influence of GSCM practices on organizational performance in a novel context, where most GSCM initiatives fail for one reason or another. Furthermore, the assessment of the interaction between five constructs of GSCM practices and three constructs of organizational performance in the Indian manufacturing context offers unique conceptual contribution to the researches in the GSCM field.
User Familiarity and Satisfaction With Food Delivery Mobile Apps

The market for food delivery mobile applications (FDMAs) in South Korea has massively expanded due to the increase in both smartphone penetration rate and single-person households, thus marking a phase of severe competition. A deeper understanding among FDMA practitioners of users’ acceptance of FDMAs is required to become more competitive. The technology acceptance model (TAM) is a dominant theory to help illuminate users’ acceptance of new technology. However, users’ familiarity (FAM) and satisfaction (SAT) with new technology has been less studied in the context of FDMA. Based on this background, this study aims to examine the relationships between users’ FAM, perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived usefulness (PU), SAT, and intention to reuse (IR) in the context of FDMAs. With the use of an online-based questionnaire, data were obtained from consumers who have experienced with one of the top-three mobile apps for food delivery in South Korea. Partial least squares structural equation modeling is employed to examine the extended TAM in the Korean FDMA setting. The findings demonstrate that (a) FAM has a positive influence on both PEU and PU; (b) PEU is positively associated with PU; (c) both FAM and PU positively affect SAT, but PEU does not; and (d) FAM, PU, and SAT are the significant antecedents of IR. This study then discusses the findings in terms of academic contributions and suggests practical implications, focusing on marketing strategies that can be usefully adopted by FDMA developers.
Effects of Email Performance Feedback on Teachers’ Use of Play Expansions

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of email-delivered performance feedback to teachers working in inclusive early childhood classrooms. A concurrent multiple probe across-participants design was used to examine the relation between performance feedback delivered via email and teachers’ use of play expansions. Results indicated that email was an effective method for delivering performance feedback, subsequently increasing teachers’ use of play expansions when individualized to meet the needs of teachers; however, the complexity of children’s play behaviors did not increase.
An Auxetic Filter: A Tuneable Filter Displaying Enhanced Size Selectivity or Defouling Properties

Micromachined polymeric honeycomb membranes having conventional and re-entrant cell geometries have been fabricated using femtosecond laser ablation. Mechanical properties characterization confirms that the re-entrant membrane is auxetic (possesses negative Poisson's ratios: νxy = −1.82 ± 0.05 and νyx = −0.51 ± 0.01) whereas the conventional membrane possesses positive Poisson's ratios (νxy = +0.86 ± 0.06 and νyx = +0.6 ± 0.1). Comparison with honeycomb theory confirms that the dominant deformation mechanism is flexure of the honeycomb ribs. The auxetic membrane has been challenged with single-sized glass chromatography beads such that the beads were initially resting on the re-entrant cells. Subsequent tensile loading of the membrane showed the auxetic cells opening during deformation, enabling the beads to pass through the membrane. We have modeled the pore-opening properties of both types of membranes, and the observed behavior for the auxetic membrane is consistent with the model. This is a clear pro.
Safety and Hospital Costs Averted Using a Rapid Outpatient Management Strategy for Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Strokes: The RAVEN Clinic

Study Objective: Patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with transient ischemic attack and minor strokes (TIAMS) are often admitted for evaluation, though experience in other countries have suggested that an expedited outpatient care models may be a safe alternative. We hypothesized that a rapid access clinic for select TIAMS was feasible and would avert hospitalization costs. Methods: This retrospective analysis included patients presenting to our institution’s ED with TIAMS and NIHSS ≤5 in calendar year 2017. We referred low-risk patients with TIAMS to a Rapid Access Vascular Evaluation-Neurology (RAVEN) clinic within 24 hours of ED discharge. We identified admitted patients who met RAVEN criteria at ED presentation. Rates of follow-up to the RAVEN clinic were recorded. Financial data collected included total hospital costs and time spent in the ED, as well hospital length of stay for admitted patients with low-risk TIAMS. Results: In 2017, 149 patients were referred to RAVEN clinic and 50 patients were admitted. Of the RAVEN patients 99 (94%) appeared as scheduled. None had clinical changes between ED discharge and clinical evaluation. One patient required hospitalization at the RAVEN evaluation. When compared to RAVEN patients, admitted patients had significantly higher $7,719 (SD 354) total hospital costs and were hospitalized for 2 days on average. Overall, the RAVEN strategy averted approximately $764,000 in hospitalization costs and 208 hospital bed-days in accounting year 2017. Conclusions: For select patients presenting with TIAMS without disabling deficits, a rapid outpatient evaluation may be feasible while averting significant total hospital costs and preserving inpatient hospital beds.
The Implementation of a Collaborative Pediatric Telesimulation Intervention in Rural Critical Access Hospitals

Over 5.8 million pediatric visits to rural emergency department (EDs) occur each year in the United States. Most rural EDs care for less than five pediatric patients per day and are not well prepared for pediatrics. Simulation has been associated with improvements in pediatric preparedness. The implementation of pediatric simulation in rural settings is challenging due to limited access to equipment and pediatric specialists. Telesimulation involves a remote facilitator interacting with onsite learners. This article aims to describe the implementation experiences and participant feedback of a 1‐year remotely facilitated pediatric emergency telesimulation program in three critical‐access hospitals.