Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Print Media Coverage of Environmental Issues in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

The coverage of environmental issues is of great importance to Moroccan newspapers, namely As-Sabah, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Massae. The present study explores the frequency of articles that covered environmental issues and investigated the newspapers’ professionalism in writing environmental reports on man’s environmental setting violations. The Research was accomplished through the framework of ecolinguistics to categorize and analyze all environmental stories that extended from March to July 2020. The sums of 308 issues of the three newspapers were manually checked to identify the issues reported about environmental problems. The findings revealed that environmental coverage by the three newspapers was feeble. Precisely, only 73 newspaper issues pertaining to the three newspapers contained at least one environmental title. Practically, identified environmental articles were manually searched and treated based on a keyword selection such as environment, forest, animals, water, pollution, air, irrigation, deforestation, and overgrazing, among other words. In total, the final sum of environmental articles published by the three newspapers during the COVID-19 period were 92 articles (1.8%) over 4922 total articles published by 73 issues. The role of print media is determinant in covering environmental topics to maintain the public informed about the protection of environmental resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, this role is far from being achieved given the feeble interest devoted to environmental issues and the way through which the newspapers have produced environmentally based stories. To remedy this situation, some recommendations are afforded to improve the writing of environmental reports in line with ecolinguistics principles and environmental journalism ethics.
Manipulation of Rumen Fermentation and Microbial Diversity for Live-Weight Gains of Sheep as Influenced by Ginger Powder and Lime Peel

The study was conducted to determine the influence of ginger powder and lime peel on manipulation of rumen function for live-weight gains of sheep. Twenty four West African dwarf sheep of about 8 – 9 months old with average weight of 7.00 ± 0.95kg were randomly assigned to four treatment diets in a completely randomized design. The prepared diets contained; ED1 (0% ginger powder and 0% lime peel powder that served as control group), ED2 (0% ginger powder and 3% lime peel), ED3 (1.5% ginger powder and 1.5% lime peel) and ED4 (3% ginger powder and 0% lime peel). In all the diets examined, ED1 showed higher significant (p 0.05) difference in Fibrobacter succinogens, iso-butyrate, valerate, iso-valerate and initial weight among diets. It can be concluded that using 1.5% ginger powder and 1.5% lime peel in the diets enhanced rumen fermentation and ecology for growth performance of sheep.
Analyzing the factors affecting engineering change implementation performance in the engineer-to-order production environment: case studies from a Norwegian shipbuilding group

Abstract Engineering changes (ECs) are unavoidable in the engineer-to-order (ETO) environment. ECs improve products and bring additional profit to ETO companies if effectively negotiated and implemented. Despite the abundant relevant literature on EC management, ETO companies still report cost overruns owing to ECs. Here, a multiple case study conducted in a Norwegian shipbuilding group was used to investigate the factors affecting EC implementation performance in complex ETO environments. The factors were examined by a cross-case analysis of six ECs occurring in the shipbuilding projects. Eleven factors were identified and analyzed; their impact on EC cost was assessed by experts. The factors were ranked; the ranking shows three factors having the highest impact: time of EC occurrence, competence and experience of engineering and production staff, and degree of vertical integration in a supply chain. Finally, the study recommends EC management practices and tools to reduce the negative impacts of the identified factors.
Hydrothermal synthesis of layered α-zirconium phosphate disks: control of aspect ratio and polydispersity for nano-architecture

The crystals of layered compounds are normally in the shape of disks or plates. Systematic experiments revealed that regular-shaped α-zirconium phosphate crystalline disks with a size-to-thickness ratio from 1 to 50 and size polydispersity as low as 0.2 can be obtained through hydrothermal treatment in 3 M to 15 M phosphoric acid solutions. Transmission and scanning electron micrographs revealed that the growth of the disks is mediated by oriented attachment, which happened continuously throughout the hydrothermal treatment between various sized disks. Ostwald ripening is effective in improving the regularity of the shape of the disks, especially under prolonged hydrothermal treatment. Preferred attachment among the flat surfaces of the disks leads to the diverse developments of their size and thickness polydispersities.
Study of chemical forms of heavy metals collected from the sediments of tin mining catchment

Abstract The chemical speciation of heavy metals (arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, zinc and tin) in the sediments of the former tin mining catchment Bestari Jaya, Peninsular Malaysia was determined using the latest version of the Community Bureau of Reference, the BCR 3-step, sequential extraction procedure. A fourth step was introduced for the digestion and analysis of the residue. The analysis of total metal content was carried out using microwave-assisted acid digestion. The percentage of each metal obtained from the four steps extraction (acid-soluble + reducible + oxidisable + residual) is in good agreement with the percentage of total metal content obtained from microwave digestion, which implies that the accuracy of the procedure. The degree of pollution in catchment sediments was assessed using geoaccumulation index Igeo and pollution intensity IPOLL. The results indicates that: (1) the sediments have been polluted with arsenic (8.8%), chromium (12.9%), copper (17.4%), lead (19.5%), zinc (14.9%) and tin (33.8%) and have high anthropogenic influences; (2) the calculation of geo-accumulation index suggests that catchment sediments have background concentrations of all the studied metals (Igeo < 0); (3) high I POLL, showed that all of these heavy metals pose a high environmental risk; and (4) the mobility order of metals in sediments at S1 and S2 was Sn>Pb>Zn>Cr >Cu >As, whereas at S3, S4 and S5 it was Cu>Pb>Zn>Cr>Sn>As. In conclusion, acidic pH, total organic carbon, scavenging ability and co-precipitation (inclusion, occlusion and adsorption) of studied metals with non-metals could account for changes in the geochemistry of the catchment sediments.
Comparison of Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes during the Spring Freeze–Thaw Period and the Growing Season in a Temperate Broadleaved Korean Pine Forest, Changbai Mountains, China

Soils in mid-high latitudes are under the great impact of freeze–thaw cycling. However, insufficient research on soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes during the spring freeze–thaw (SFT) period has led to great uncertainties in estimating soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes. The present study was conducted in a temperate broad-leaved Korean pine mixed forest in Northeastern China, where soils experience an apparent freeze–thaw effect in spring. The temporal variations and impact factors of soil GHG fluxes were measured during the SFT period and growing season (GS) using the static-chamber method. The results show that the soil acted as a source of atmospheric CO2 and N2O and a sink of atmospheric CH4 during the whole observation period. Soil CO2 emission and CH4 uptake were lower during the SFT period than those during the GS, whereas N2O emissions were more than six times higher during the SFT period than that during the GS. The responses of soil GHG fluxes to soil temperature (Ts) and soil moisture during the SFT and GS periods differed. During the SFT period, soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes were mainly affected by the volumetric water content (VWC) and Ts, respectively, whereas soil N2O flux was influenced jointly by Ts and VWC. The dominant controlling factor for CO2 was Ts during the GS, whereas CH4 and N2O were mainly regulated by VWC. Soil CO2 and N2O fluxes accounted for 97.3% and 3.1% of the total 100-year global warming potential (GWP100) respectively, with CH4 flux offsetting 0.4% of the total GWP100. The results highlight the importance of environmental variations to soil N2O pulse during the SFT period and the difference of soil GHG fluxes between the SFT and GS periods, which contribute to predicting the forest soil GHG fluxes and their global warming potential under global climate change.
The conformations of furanosides. A 13C nuclear magnetic resonance study

A study of the conformations of 15 methyl aldohexo- and pentofuranosides in aqueous solution has been carried out, based primarily on measurements of coupling by 13C-1 and 13C-2 with protons of the five-membered ring. From these stereochemically-dependent data, and their correspondence with vicinal 1H–1H couplings, the conformation favored by each glycoside has been deduced. Although, in general, the coupling patterns exhibited by homologous pairs of hexoses and pentoses are closely similar, the α-gluco and α-xylo pair provide an exception: their data indicate that the latter favors the 2E conformation, whereas the glucoside is characterized by interconverting E4 and 3E conformers. It appears that a quasi-equatorial exocyclic side chain and a quasi-axial C-1,O-1 bond (anomeric effect) are equally important stabilizing factors in furanosides. In a number of instances, the current findings differ from those obtained in earlier studies for configurationally-related furanose derivatives in organic media.
Attractiveness, Motivation, Image, and Quality on Loyalty

The loyalty model on this study proposed to explore the relationship of Attractiveness, motivation, destination image, destination quality, positive attitude, intention to revisit, intention to recommend, and word of mouth communication. This study uses a survey of 250 respondents of domestic tourists and international tourists who visit heritage tourism in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data analysis techniques use Structural Equation Modeling. The results of this study indicate that the initial model proposed has not been accepted because the model fit test was not fulfilled. Furthermore, the model is modified by adding a path from the motivation to revisit intention and eliminating the two paths that are not significant. The result is that the model is acceptable. So that the modified loyalty model can be accepted, the modification model is showing by the relationship between motivation, destination quality, attitude, revisit intention, intention to recommend, and word of mouth.
Islamic Financial Technology Usage: An Investing Perspectives On Generation Z

Today, in Sharia Finance Sector, there was some a new model of sharia finance based on Financial Technology, it is called Islamic Financial Technology (I-Fintech). In other side, A Generation Z comes up as consumer of I-Fintech in the future. There is a big question like “do Generation Z accept I-Fintech in the future? ”. Using Technology Acceptance Model with 3 proxy, it is Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and Attitude Toward Using. The result of this research show that Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use affect on Attitude Toward Using I-Fintech. The conclusion is Generation Z’s perceived on I-Fintech are depend on its usefulness and ease of use. This result implied on the development focus of I-Fintech in the future.
Effects of Zinc Supplementation on the Anthropometric Measurements, Leptin, Ghrelin and C-reactive protein in the Obese Adults with Increased Appetite and Baseline Zinc Deficiency: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This paper should be cited as: Zare N, Eftekhari MH, Ghaem H, Dashtabi A. Effects of Zinc Supplementation on the Anthropometric Measurements, Leptin, Ghrelin and C-reactive protein in the Obese Adults with Increased Appetite and Baseline Zinc Deficiency: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Nutrition and Food Security (JNFS), 2020; 5(4): 377-387. Effects of Zinc Supplementation on the Anthropometric Measurements, Leptin, Ghrelin and C-reactive protein in the Obese Adults with Increased Appetite and Baseline Zinc Deficiency: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Evolutionary psychology as the crystalizing core of a unified modern social science.

Natural selection is the only process that pushes species uphill antientropically toward greater levels of functional organization. Consequently, all evolved functional organization found in the human architecture was constructed by selection, as a response to and a reﬂection of the functional demands of ancestrally recurring adaptive problems. The adaptive problems our ancestors faced selected for programs that can recognize mates, cooperation, ﬁghts, offspring, alliances, and so forth, and guide behavior appropriately for each. To achieve this, these programs necessarily evolved with native content built in, out of which meaningful but abstract situation representations are constructed by the mind in response to evolutionarily meaningful cues (e.g., my child is hungry, our rivals are trying to subordinate us). These programs evolved to guide us in social interactions according to their internal programming logics. These program logics, once reverse-engineered, can be used to construct a uniﬁed, theoretically principled social science that can model and explain cultural dynamics, economics, social organization, and even historically particular social phenomena, such as moralities, mobs, and revolutions. Unfortunately, modern humans live in a vastly expanded arena of interacting billions, while our systems of situation representation are designed for the ancestral world of foraging bands involving hundreds. Worse, these systems are informed by cues that no longer reliably mean what they once signaled, effectively causing hallucinations. So, we are ignorant armies clashing by night, lost among hallucinated misinterpretations that no longer correspond to the actual world. An awakening clarity might emerge from progress toward an evolutionarily informed, fully integrated social science.
Teachers’ gaze over space and time in a real-world classroom

Reading students’ faces and their body language, checking their worksheets, and keeping eye contact is a key trait of teacher competence. The new technology of mobile eye-tracking provides researchers with possibilities to explore teaching from the viewpoint of teacher gaze, but also introduces many new method questions. This study had the primary aim to investigate teachers´ attention distribution over space: the number and durations of several types of their gazes, and how their gaze depends on the factors of students´ gender, achievement, and position in the classroom. Results show that teacher gaze was distributed unevenly across both space and time. Teachers looked at the most-watched students 3-8 times more often than at the least-watched ones. Students sitting in the first row and the middle section received significantly more gaze than those sitting outside this zone. All three teachers made more single gaze visits - looking at the students but making no eye contact - than mutual gazes or student material gazes. The three teachers’ gaze distribution also varied substantially from lesson to lesson. Our results are important for understanding teacher behavior in real classrooms, but also point to the relevance of appropriate method design in future classroom studies with eye-tracking.
The Process of Microbiological Remediation of the Polluted Słoneczko Reservoir in Poland: For Reduction of Water Pollution and Nutrients Management

The article discusses the impact of nutrients from sewage on the state of the sewage receiver. Bioremediation was carried out through the use of effective microorganisms. The potential recovery of valuable mineral and organic substances in the form of fertilizers was also examined. The Słoneczko Reservoir is a bathing area and serves many people in the summertime as a place of water recreation. Water quality deteriorated intensively from 2006 as a result of illegal wastewater discharge and the impact of fecal pollution from bathers. The high concentration of nutrients in the water was the cause of the eutrophication process and blooms of cyanobacteria, which pose a threat to human health in the bathing area. The bathing area was also closed many times by sanitary services as a result of exceeding the number of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis in the water. At the bottom of the reservoir, there was a layer of sediments with a thickness of 30–70 cm. Thus, the processes of anaerobic decomposition generated odor, causing nuisance in the reservoir area. Water transparency varied from 30 to 50 cm, due to the accumulation of suspensions and biomass of planktonic algae. The reservoir was subjected to microbiological bioremediation in 2017 and 2018 to polluted water treatment and to reduce the organic content of bottom sediments. Already after the first application of biopreparations putrefactive odors and the eutrophication process disappeared at the end of the 2017 summer season. Bioremediation reduced the value of E. coli and E. feacalis to the acceptable level. After the second application in 2018, the organic fraction of the bottom sediments was reduced to a very low level and the water transparency reached the bottom (maximum depth was 2.2 m) throughout the entire bathing area. The effect of the water remediation was maintained until 2019, and the surface water quality remained at a very good level. An important aspect in this case is also the exploitation of bottom sediments, because they are rich in nutrients and organic matter, and therefore it may have some potential as a fertilizer. The recovery of nutrients can be used in plant or pot production. However, they contain compounds that degrade quickly, causing unpleasant odors and threatening the environment. Thus, they should be managed and handled in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
Self-Centering Steel Frame Systems for Seismic-Resistant Structures

This paper introduces a review of self-centering steel frame systems for seismic-resistant structures. The components and basic mechanisms of the developing posttensioned connections and self-centering braces are briefly introduced. The structural details and seismic behaviors of the self-centering systems proposed in recent years, including connections, energy dissipating braces, and steel frames, are condensed in categories. The theoretical and experimental results indicated that self-centering action could minimize residual deformation and structural damage. The energy dissipating capability of the self-centering systems is greatly enhanced by the application of energy dissipating device. The shape memory alloys (SMAs) and prepressed springs which exhibited great potential in energy dissipation and recentering capability have been studied increasingly in recent years. Abundant numerical models were propounded to investigate the cyclic response of these self-centering systems. The current research challenges and the critical issues which need further study are discussed at the end of this paper.
Ameliorative Effect of Azolla Pinnata Ethanolic Extract on Ranitidine-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats

Intoxication with ranitidine is considered as one of the major causes of hepatotoxicity. The current study aimed to investigate the protective effect of an ethanolic extract from Azolla pinnate (APE) against ranitidine -induced hepatotoxicity in rats. The present study was carried out on 40 male Wister albino rats, which were randomly divided into four groups (n=10). The 1st group, control group; orally administered saline. The second group, was given ranitidine (150 mg/kg body weight (BW) orally for 30 days); The third group, orally administered APE (10 mg/kg BW), daily for 30 days;The fourth group, was orally administrated ranitidine (as group 2), and APE (as group 3) together for 30 days. At the end of the experiment samples from blood and liver were obtained. Ranitidine increased serum activities of alanine and aspartate aminotransferases and serum levels of urea, creatinine, tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-1β and hepatic tissue malondialdehyde contents. However, it decreased serum levels of interleukin-10 and GSH contents and catalase and superoxide dismutase activities in hepatic tissue. On the contrast, administration of rats with APE ameliorated ranitidine-induced alterations in liver function and structure stating the benefits of Azolla’s phytochemical contents. Therefore, A. pinnate extract is a potential protective against ranitidine-induced hepatotoxicity via its antioxidant (presence of tamarixetin, rutin and quercetin) anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic activities.
Speciation of copper(II) in natural waters in the presence of ligands of high and intermediate strength

Abstract A new procedure is presented for the determination of the ligands of copper(II) in natural waters, based on titration with the metal ion, monitored by measuring the concentration of copper(II) sorbed on the carboxylic resin Amberlite CG 50. The data are treated by the Ruzic linearization method to obtain the concentration of the ligands and the conditional stability constant of the complexes. Ligands with reaction coefficient αM higher than 0.1 K*w/V are detected, where K* is the ratio of the concentration of sorbed metal to the concentration of free metal in solution, which can be evaluated from the sorption equilibria of copper(II) on Amberlite CG 50, w is the amount of water in the resin phase, and V the volume of the solution phase. Some natural waters at high and low salinity were examined. The ligand concentration determined in these samples ranged from around 50 to 2000 nM, while the original copper concentrations from 11 to 130 nM. The ligand concentration was always much higher than that of copper(II). The conditional stability constants were very high, particularly in low salinity waters, where values as high as K’= 1015.7 were obtained. In high salinity waters values around 109 were found for the complex formation constant of the ligands titrated with copper(II). The investigation was also extended to a model solution, containing EDTA, obtaining K’ = 1015.5, in acceptable agreement with that evaluated from the literature values.
Minimum Quench Energy Evaluation of ITER Toroidal Field Conductor Using an Inductive Heater

To keep a stable operation of the ITER Toroidal Field (TF) coil without quenching, it is necessary to know the threshold of allowable external heating energy, which is called minimum quench energy (MQE), of the TF conductor during the operation in ITER. To evaluate the MQE, a series of conductor heating tests has been performed during the TF Insert (TFI) test campaign. TFI is a single layer about 9-turn solenoid wound from ITER TF conductor. The coil diameter is 1.44 m and the conductor length is around 40 m. TFI is force-cooled by supercritical helium inside the TF conductor. For the TFI, 68 kA current had been applied under 10.8 T background field as rated operation condition. During its operation, the conductor was inductively heated by an inductive heating coil. Through the test, MQE of the TFI has been obtained.