Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unique band structure enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of phosphorus-doped BiOI hierarchical microspheres

In this article, phosphorus (P)-doped BiOI hierarchical microspheres were prepared via a facile hydrolytic method at room temperature. The morphology and structure of the samples were characterized by using X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nitrogen sorption diffraction, photoluminescence spectroscopy and UV-visible diffuse spectroscopy. Based on these results, it was concluded that the P doping was beneficial to forming uniform hierarchical microspheres, which consisted of numerous two-dimensional nanosheets with a thickness in the range of 30–40 nm. It is believed that the phosphorus species had been doped into the lattice of BiOI and formed Bi–O–P bonds. Based on this fascinating characterization, the photocatalytic activity of P-doped BiOI was evidently improved, and the photocatalytic activity of the 4% P-BiOI sample for degradation of RhB is almost 2.6 times as high as pure BiOI in the case of visible light irradiation. Furthermore, the P doping could not only increase the width of the valence band but also raise the conduction band minimum, which led to the more efficient separation capacity of photogenerated carriers, the higher mobility of the resulting holes and the greater concentration of superoxide ions. In addition, the possible photocatalytic mechanism of P-doped BiOI microspheres for degrading Rhodamine B dye was proposed.
Effect of seed treatments, spacing and season of sowing on yield and quality of coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) under rain shelter

Coriander is an important herb & seed spice. The yield of coriander is influenced by the agronomic practices adopted during cultivation. This study was carried out in the Department of Plantation Crops and Spices, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, Kerala Agricultural University from July 2019 to March 2020 to analyse the effect of seed treatments, spacing and growing season on yield and quality of coriander leaves under rain shelter. The experiment was laid out in factorial completely randomized design (FCRD) with three replications. The study revealed that, presowing seed treatments improved the growth and yield of coriander than untreated seeds. The impact of seed treatments was conspicuous at the time of harvest on growth, yield and quality parameters. Hydropriming for 24 h was found to be the best presowing seed treatment followed by seed treatment with GA3 50 ppm for 8 h. A closer spacing of 10 x 10 cm which accommodated more plants per unit area recorded the highest biomass and herbage yield plot-1. October – December season was found to be the best for obtaining better growth and yield in leaf coriander. Hence, the study concluded that, hydropriming for 24 h or seed treatment with GA3 50 ppm for 8 h, a closer spacing of 10 x 10 cm and October – December season are the ideal combination for the best performance of variety CO-4 for leaf purpose under rain shelter in the tropical moist humid climate.
Quality by design approach for formulation development and evaluation of carboplatin loaded ethylcellulose nanosponges

Abstract Nanosponges, porous nanocarriers were explored for encapsulation of carboplatin by employing a quality by design approach. Nanosponges were prepared by double emulsion solvent evaporation using the central composite design. Ethylcellulose, 450 mg, polyvinyl alcohol, 2.3% (w/v) and phase evaporation rate, 760 rpm yielded the optimized spherical particles of size 272.92 ± 12.31 nm, PDI 0.390, with zeta charge of −22.3 mV. The entrapment efficiency of carboplatin-loaded nanosponges was 56.27 ± 2.52%. A sustained carboplatin release of 79.03% and 95.94% within 12 h at pH 4.5 and 6.8, respectively suggested that nanosponges could be promising carriers for sustained release of hydrophilic therapeutic candidates. Graphical Abstract
In the Case of Union Dissolution of Couples with Children. Who Decides to Avoid the Courts and Why?

Thoroughgoing changes in western countries over the last decades have led to increased self-regulation of intimacy, thus avoiding judicialization of union formation or dissolution. However, when children were born to a couple, legal proceedings would seem to be crucial in reaching or formalizing agreements between parents regarding custody and alimony, among other aspects. Despite these benefits, almost 20% of couples with children avoid resorting to legal proceedings, according to the results of a survey conducted in six Spanish Autonomous Communities. The article analyses this data with the aim of addressing a gap in the literature on the determinants of reaching out-of-court agreements. The results indicate that upper-class individuals, immigrants in cohabiting relationships, and couples with just one child and currently not in a relationship are more likely to reach out-of-court agreements. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Women as Victims of Court Rulings: Consequences of Workplace Harassment in the Hospitality Industry in Spain (2000–2016)

Workplace harassment is a psychosocial risk factor that increasingly affects workers in the hospitality industry. Although this risk factor is recognised by legal regulations in Spain, in many cases the scope of these regulations and their interpretation by the courts remains unclear. The aim of this research is to conduct a qualitative, documentary, and descriptive study of the content of 61 rulings obtained from a search of 2335 rulings in the database of the Judicial Documentation Centre (CENDOJ) for the years 2000 to 2016. The main results show a steady increase in complaints over sixteen years; that women are predominantly the victims of work-related and sexual harassment; and that most harassment is carried out by men, is vertical in nature, and is frequently perpetrated by employers or bosses. Approximately half of the cases resulted in the awarding of some form of financial compensation, and although the amounts were small, over half of these cases involved workplace harassment, with the rest relating to sexual harassment at work. Most cases resulted in the termination of the victim’s contract, either through dismissal or employee abandonment. Based on the results found, we develop proposals that may facilitate future lines of action designed to enhance the defence and legal protection of workers and thus contribute to the promotion and sustainability of wellbeing in the workplace.
Drivers of marine fishery dependence: Micro-level evidence from the coastal lowlands of Kenya

Abstract Poverty and inequality remain a development challenge for most fishery-dependent households. This has prompted the current interest in the ocean-based economic model as Kenya became the first to host a global conference on the sustainable blue economy which was held in Nairobi in November 2018. To provide a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges surrounding the blue economy approach, we used a fractional response model to analyze drivers of marine fishery dependence. Our case study, involving 384 randomly selected households from Coastal lowlands of Kenya, specifically Kilifi County, revealed that marine fishery is the highest livelihood option exhibiting gender differences. The livelihood participation rates were approximately 68%, 36%, 31%, 25%, and 9% for marine fishery and related activities, agriculture, self-employment (excluding agriculture and marine fishery), wage employment, and remittances respectively. Many livelihood options were pursued independently implying a low level of diversified livelihood strategies in the region. The analysis of the determinants of the marine fishery dependence indicated that education level, agricultural productive assets, access to credit, group membership, security of tenure, flood shock, and fish price shock significantly influenced marine fishery dependence. The study therefore recommends government intervention in marine governance and development programs such as infrastructural development, capital availability and extension services. This will enable the dependent households to diversify to alternative livelihood options and contributes to sustainable marine fishery dependence.
The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation

Previous research has led to the hypothesis that poor-pitch singing is the result of a weakness in the auditory/vocal loop. The present study evaluated this hypothesis in a training paradigm that used visual feedback to augment potentially faulty auditory-vocal associations. Following pretest with the Seattle Singing Accuracy Protocol (SSAP), participants were randomly assigned to one of three 20-min training conditions: (1) visual feedback training with auditory doubling, in which participants could both see and hear real-time feedback showing the relationship between their sung pitch and the target, (2) auditory feedback training, where participants relied only on airborne auditory feedback from their own voice, and (3) control training which involved imitation of speech from a foreign language instruction recording. After training, the SSAP was administered again as a posttest measure. There was a general improvement from pretest to posttest across all groups. However, the effect of training was only significant for participants who received visual feedback training, with greater gains in visual training than either of the other conditions. This pattern of results was particularly pronounced for performance on 4-note melodies in the SSAP, in contrast to single pitch matching. Visual feedback may facilitate accuracy by substituting for inaccurate auditory-motor associations. The fact that training, even over a very short time-span, can have significant effects on singing underlines the importance of practice, and supports the hypothesis that singing is a learned skill that can benefit from experience and may not simply reflect an inherited talent.
Television News Coverage of COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria: Missed Opportunities to Promote Health Due to Ownership and Politics

This study examined Television news coverage of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria from February 2020 to July 2020. The focus was on African Independent Television (AIT), a privately owned TV, and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), a government-owned TV. We also interviewed (n = 30) participants to understand their view on media coverage of the pandemic. We found that the TV stations paid adequate attention to the issues of COVID-19. However, the private media allocated more prominence to the coverage of COVID-19. By implication, the private media had more COVID-19 stories telecasted on its headline which also appeared as the first headline in many cases. Furthermore, they had more stories that were aired 61 seconds and above. The findings also showed that the government media outlet cited more of government officials while the private media dueled more on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The private media had more negative tone stories, and most of its stories used visual and motion footages. Overall, our findings suggest that media ownership and politics play a large role in the coverage of COVID-19 in Nigeria. This has affected the attitude of the public as many of them no longer see the pandemic as something serious, but rather politically motivated virus to highlight the failings of the political party in power.
Exploring factors contributing to care-seekers’ level of discomfort discussing a transgender identity in a health care setting

Abstract Concealment or hiding a transgender (trans) identity from a medical professional can negatively affect the care one receives. Reluctancy to disclose may be further exasperated when interacting with an unfamiliar physician or health provider. Using the Virginia Transgender Health Initiative Study (THIS) data containing (n = 344) self-identified trans individuals, a two-step logistical regression was used to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics, experiences with discrimination, interpersonal supports, and levels of discomfort discussing a trans-identity and health needs with an unknown physician. Findings offer insight into the effects of stigma-based rejection sensitivity among trans individuals and point to the importance of establishing culturally sensitive health practices in the medical field. More broadly, I illuminate practical implications for trans care as well as highlight promising future research directions in this area.
Asynchrony Drives Plant and Animal Community Stability in Mediterranean Coastal Dunes

Substantial evidence now suggests that a positive diversity–stability relationship exists. Yet few studies examine the facets of biodiversity that contribute to this relationship, and empirical research is predominantly conducted on grassland communities under controlled conditions. We investigate the roles of species richness, environmental condition (vegetation cover), asynchrony, and weighted population stability in driving community stability across multiple taxa. We used data from a Long-term Ecological Research project to investigate temporal stability of annual plants, beetles, reptiles, and rodents in Nizzanim Coastal Sand Dune Nature Reserve in Israel. All four taxa had a strong positive relationship between asynchrony and community stability. Only rodents showed a positive richness–stability relationship. Perennial plant cover had a significant relationship with community stability for three taxa, but the direction of the correlation varied. Asynchrony had a stronger relationship with perennial plant cover than it did with richness for both plants and beetles. We suggest that community stability is driven by asynchrony for flora as well as fauna. Stability appears to be determined by species’ interactions and their responses to the environment, and not always by diversity. This has important consequences for understanding the effects of environmental degradation on ecosystem stability and productivity, which have destabilizing consequences beyond biodiversity loss.
How do big markets react to investors’ sentiments on firm tweets?

ABSTRACT Social media actors can disseminate their views about a firm, creating potential consequences for the firm. This study thus aims to explore the reaction of a firm stock market in response to the sentiments of investors on a firm's financial tweets. It focuses on the investors’ sentiments of the world's largest 100 firms’ tweets. The Naïve Bayesian classification method is used to classify sentiments of tweets into their positive and negative tones. The cumulative abnormal return and the buy-and-hold return are used as proxies for the market reactions. The study finds that positive (negative) Twitter sentiments are likely to affect positively (negatively) the market cumulative abnormal return and its buy-and-hold return. This effect is likely to hold for a shorter period and diminishes over a longer time. Besides, this effect is more associated with negative sentiments than positive ones. Further, the analysis indicates that the effect of positive (negative) sentiments is more observable in common (coded) law countries. The results suggest that Twitter sentiments carry information contents indicative of the stock market, asserting the substantial role of information on social media. The results call for establishing a direct link between social network platforms and stock markets to mitigate the panic diffusion in the market that may arise from sentiments of investors.
Characteristics and controls on the distribution of sublittoral microbial bioherms in Great Salt Lake, Utah: Implications for understanding microbialite development

Side‐scan sonar and Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse mapping of Great Salt Lake, Utah, linked to reprocessing of acoustic data from bathymetric surveys, has enabled the distribution of microbial bioherms to be assessed. Bioherms occupy an estimated area >700 km2 in the south arm and >300 km2 in the north arm. Distributions vary from statistically dispersed to clustered, and in this latter case, are predominantly located on metre‐scale, fault‐controlled topographic highs, with sediment infilling intervening lows between adjacent offsets. Individual bioherms are circular to oblate and range from centimetres to over 2 m in diameter. In some areas, bioherm heights were measured at more than 1.5 m above adjacent substrate. Sublittoral bioherms are made of aragonite, calcite and minor dolomite precipitated due to physico‐chemical, biologically induced and influenced carbonate mineralization processes in association with microbial mats. Bioherm fabrics vary at the millimetre to centimetre‐scale and consist of leiolitic and clotted peloidal micrite‐grade carbonate, sinuous threads of spherulitic fibrous aragonite crystals, laminated micrite boundstone and internal carbonate mud sediment with peloids and ooids. The identification of factors that influence microbial bioherm occurrence and spatial distribution in Great Salt Lake is limited to a set of collinear physical, chemical and biological variables that are confined to a localised closed system, such as salinity, water depth, wave energy, stable substrate and sediment accumulation. Anthropogenic modifications to Great Salt Lake resulting in increased salinity have exceeded the salinity range in which bioherm‐mediating microbial communities can survive, effectively defining an upper limit of salinity for bioherm microbial community viability. The better understanding of the distribution of microbial bioherms has significant implications for managing and protecting the lake ecosystem and may provide insights into the physical and chemical controls that existed during the formation of fossil microbialites in deep time.
The Influence of Work Motivation and Religiosity on Teacher Performance through Commitment as Mediation at SMP NU Gresik District

This study aims to determine 1) the influence of work motivation on teacher performance 2) the influence of religiosity on teacher performance 3) the influence of work motivation on commitment 4) the influence of religiosity on commitment 5) the influence of commitment on teacher performance 6) the influence of work motivation on teacher performance by mediation commitment 7) the influence of religiosity on teacher performance by mediating commitment.This type of research is qualitative research using a saturated sample of 65 respondents. The analysis used is PLS 3.0, with endogenous variables of teacher performance, exogenous variables of motivation and religiosity, and variable as mediating commitment. The method used in collecting data is a questionnaire.Based on the results of this study, it proves that all hypotheses can be accepted (motivation, religiosity, commitment have direct and indirect influences on teacher performance). The results of the study showed significant results. Religiosity variables which have an important influence on commitment and performance are emphasized because high religiosity in a teacher will result in good performance and have an impact on high commitment. A teacher who has religiosity, he will work as well as possible because they have the belief that work is worship that expects Ridho from Allah, has a strong opinion that knowledge must be practiced and tries to make their students better because they feel that their students are entrusted which must be accountable to both parents and the organization, especially to the Almighty. The function of a teacher who is embedded in a teacher who has high religiosity assumes that the teacher must always preach, the center of knowledge and must always transfer his knowledge for the benefit of many people.Which in previous studies produced a positive but insignificant influence.It is hoped that the results of this study can add insight for the principal in improving teacher performance.
FRACTIONATION OF HEVEA BRASILIENSIS LATEX BY CENTRIFUGATION: (i) A COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE BIOCHEMICALCOMPOSITION OF THE 4 CENTRIFUGATION FRACTIONS

B i o c hemical components naturally occurring in Hevea latex are known to impact both superior and inferior properties of natural rubber (NR) but the mechanisms are still not well elucidated up to now. Thus, we established a systematic study to identify and locate the main biochemical components of latex that might drive NR quality inconsistency and dynamic structuration. Fresh latex from RRIM600 and PB235 clones were fractionated into 4 fractions, including cream, skim, C-serum and lutoids, through successive centrifugation steps performed at various accelerations (g). The fractions were further analyzed to provide a comprehensive description of the biochemical composition in comparison with original whole latex. Comparison on a dry weight basis showed that skim was twice more concentrated in lipids and proteins than cream. For non-rubber fractions, lutoid was the richest in lipids, protein and minerals (mainly K and Mg). Similarly, serum also contained high protein and mineral content but no lipids. Nevertheless, when considering the mass balance of each fraction in order to identify the main location of each analyte, the obtained picture was different. Qualitatively, it was noticed that the profiles of biochemical component of fractions were not uniform and dissimilar to that of the original latex. This information is essential to further study the quantitative impact of each component on NR structure and properties . Keywords: b i o c h e mical components , f r a c t i o nation , h e ve a latex , n o n-isoprene component
Estimation of digestible sulphur amino acids requirements for growth performance and immune responses to Newcastle disease and avian influenza vaccination in broilers

Abstract This study was conducted to determine the effects of grower diet (d11-24) digestible sulphur amino acids (SAAs) levels on performance traits, blood metabolites, and immune responses to Newcastle disease (ND) and avian influenza (AI) vaccination in the broiler chickens. Additionally, digestible SAAs requirements were determined based on nutrient dose-response data. A total of 360, 11‐day‐old male Ross-308 broiler chicks were randomly allocated to six dietary treatments, graded levels of supplementary DL-methionine (+0.7 g/kg), but cystine (0.29%) was equal across groups, lead to levels of 0.59, 0.66, 0.73, 0.8, 0.87, and 0.94% dietary digestible SAAs, with six replicates and ten birds each. All birds were vaccinated with inactivated H9N2/ND and live-ND on days 5 and 11, respectively. Increasing dietary digestible SAAs level improved live body weight (LBW), weight gain (WG), feed efficiency (FE) with linear trends, and improved carcass yield, relative breast weight (RBW), and immune responses with quadratic trends. On day 24, a quadratic increase in blood serum albumin concentration was concomitant with decreasing triglyceride, whole cholesterol, low‐density-lipoprotein cholesterol, creatinine, and alkaline phosphatase concentration with increasing dietary digestible SAAs levels. Based on broken‐line regression models, the LBW, WG, FE, RBW, and immunity against ND and AI vaccination were optimised when dietary digestible SAAs levels were 0.73, 0.69, 0.78, 0.86, 0.73, and 0.72%, respectively. It is concluded, the digestible SAAs requirements of broilers vary according to what production parameter is taken considered for optimisation. The best grower diet digestible SAAs concentration achieved 0.86% for support performance, breast yield, and immune function. Highlights The present data highlight that a better breast meat yield could be obtained by supplementing DL-Met, which raised dietary digestible sulphur amino acids level to 0.86%.