Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rheological and tribological characterization of different commercial hazelnut and cocoa-based spreads.

Five commercial hazelnut/cocoa spreads with different compositions were tested by rheology/tribology. The impact of each formulation on the structural/lubricant performances was investigated. Rotational/oscillatory rheology was chosen to assess material behavior during flow. Viscosity variation as a function of temperature and chamber geometry was evaluated. Oscillatory mode tests were carried out to obtain information on product viscoelasticity. Tribological analysis was performed at different temperatures aiming at simulating the chewing/swallowing process. All samples were categorized as pseudo-plastic and viscoelastic materials, with the elastic component prevailing over the viscous one. Major differences were detected in terms of consistency index, depending on the total lipid content. Temperature increase enhanced spread fluidity with a decreasing viscosity according to the Arrhenius model (R2 > 0.942) and greater values of activation energy reflecting higher sensitivity to microstructural changes. An inverse relationship between Casson viscosity η c and sugar/fat ratio highlighted additional correlations between structural parameters and spread formulation. Tribological measurements at 25°C highlighted that, at the initial eating stage, the friction factor (0.112 - 0.262 at sliding velocity of 8∙10-6 m/s) was strongly affected by either the amounts of solid fat or hazelnut percentage. Tribological data corroborated the theory for which tribology and rheology cover different domains. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Bayesian Joint Modelling of Survival of HIV/AIDS Patients Using Accelerated Failure Time Data and Longitudinal CD4 Cell Counts

Objective: This paper aims to compare various Bayesian joint models based on the accelerated failure time distributions in analyzing longitudinal observations on CD4 cell counts as growth measurements and time-to-death events of HIV/AIDS patients. Three accelerated failure time distributions, namely, Weibull, lognormal and loglogistic distributions are considered. set obtained by similar setting is also further analyzed using same models. Results: Both data sets reveal hump-shaped hazard rate functions. The findings from all the Bayesian joint models are consistent. The association parameter in each Bayesian joint model is significant for Weibull and lognormal cases in the second data set. This implies that there is dependence between the two processes: longitudinal CD4 cell counts and the time-to-death event under Weibull and lognormal models. With investigation of the empirical hazard function and the DIC criteria, the Bayesian loglogistic and Bayesian lognormal are selected for the first and second data sets, respectively. Conclusions: The joint models provide consistent results with higher precision as compared to their respective separate models. We recommend Bayesian joint AFT models for such data with careful consideration of shape of hazard rate functions that the data reveal.
Expansion of a subset within C2 clade of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) is driving the increasing rates of Aminoglycoside resistance: a molecular epidemiology report from Iran

The most important lineage of Escherichia coli, named sequence type 131 (ST131) is a pandemic clone which drives the increasing rates of antibiotic resistance. While the pervasiveness of ST131 clade C, especially subclades C2 and C1-M27 has been demonstrated in numerous global surveys, no report about the ST131 clades and its virotypes has been published from Iran, so far. So, in this study we investigated and compared the virotypes, antibiotic susceptibility patterns, resistance/virulence determinants and clonality of ST131 clades collected during one-year surveillance study. Most of isolates belonged to clade C2 (34/76 [44.7%]), with the highest virulence factor (VF) scores and resistance rates. The distinctive profiles of clade C2 virulence genes were revealed by “principle coordinates analysis” (PcoA) test. The distribution of hlyA/cnf1virulence genes among clade C2 was not uniform, so that positive strains showed significantly higher rates of resistance markers (blaCTX-M-15, blaOXA-1, aac6Ib/Ib-cr and aac3IIa) and ampicillin- sulbactam/gentamicin/tobramycin resistance. Virotype C as the most common virotype (48.7%) was predominant among clade C1 population, while almost all of virotypes E and F [(22/23), 95.6%] strains belonged to clade C2, with the highest VF scores and aminoglycoside resistance rates. “Multi locus variable Number tandem repeats analysis” (MLVA) clustered clades C1 and C2 together, while clades A and B strains were mostly identified as singletons. Appearance of virotypes E and F among clade C2 strains with higher rates of aminoglycoside resistance/virulence genes content demonstrate the shifting dynamics of this pandemic clone in response to antibiotic selection pressure by establishing the newly-emerged subsets.
Waiting to vote: the effect of administrative irregularities at polling locations and voter confidence

ABSTRACT When citizens experience an irregularity while voting, their confidence in elections is diminished, and they are more likely to perceive the results of the election as illegitimate. Although there are many irregularities that a voter may experience, this article evaluates the consequence of extensive wait times to vote on citizen confidence in the United States. Utilizing the 2008–2016 Survey on the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) the analysis finds that wait times have a negative effect on confidence as do challenges with the voting equipment and voter registration. The effect of negative experiences extends beyond lowered confidence that a voter’s ballot is counted as intended to lower confidence that ballots at the local, state, and national level are counted as intended by voters as well. While extended wait times have a limited effect, negatively effecting the confidence in a voter’s personal ballot and ballots across the local jurisdiction, negative experiences with registration or ballots and voting equipment affect evaluations of confidence at the personal level and across the local jurisdiction, state, and nation.
PEMANFAATAN GOOGLE CLASSROOM SEBAGAI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN ONLINE DI UNIVERSITAS DIAN NUSWANTORO

Saat ini, literasi internet menjadi peran yang sangat penting untuk dikembangkan dalam kehidupan dasar kita. Oleh karena itu, sektor pendidikan perlu menggunakan teknologi informasi dalam proses pembelajaran di kampus. Google Classroom, adalah salahsatu akses gratis yang memudahkan dosen dalam proses e-learning. Lebih jauh, platform ini menawarkan banyak sekali keuntungan bagi penggunanya. Selain itu, platform ini dikenal sebagai alat yang mudah digunakan oleh pengguna smartphone atau laptop, serta mampu menciptakan peluang yang sama bagi semua siswa dan mendorong siswa untuk belajar lebih banyak tentang literasi internet. Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma interpretif, dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan metode studi kasus untuk menemukan pemanfaatan Google Classroom oleh dosen Universitas Dian Nuswantoro khususnya di departemen Ilmu Komunikasi, pada kelas Pengolahan Konten Digital. Peran media baru di sektor pendidikan ini menghasilkan proses yang begitu mudah untuk dilakukan dan menunjukan bahwa hasil penyelesaiannya membutuhkan program pembelajaran campuran atau blended Learning dalam berkomunikasi yang baik di era digital.
Assessment of blood glucose levels in diabetic patients with periodontitis: A three-way method using gingival crevicular, capillary, and venous blood

Background: To test the feasibility of using gingival crevice blood collected during routine periodontal examination and to estimate the blood glucose levels using glucometer (Accu-Chek Active). Materials and Methods: A total of 50 patients with a history diabetes mellitus and with chronic periodontitis were selected. From all, the patients fasting venous blood glucose was estimated. Blood oozing from gingival tissues during periodontal examination was collected on the strip of the glucose self-monitoring device (Accu-Chek). Then, the fi nger stick capillary blood was collected, and glucose levels were estimated using glucometer. Results: The comparison between venous capillary and gingival crevicular showed a strong correlation with a P < 0.001. Conclusion: The data from this study have shown that gingival crevicular blood collected during the periodontal examination may be used to analyse blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.
LEARNING VOCABULARY THROUGH SONGS: A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN TEACHING VERBS

Purpose of the study: This study aims to investigate how the use of songs in English language classrooms could aid tertiary students to increase their verb vocabulary repertoire. Methodology: This quantitative study was carried out among diploma students from a local university in Malaysia. The students were exposed to various English songs during their English lessons. Pre-test and post-test were conducted in this study. Main Findings: The use of songs can increase vocabulary acquisition among English language learners at tertiary level. The use of songs is able to provide a fun way of picking up new words. Applications of this study: The findings of this research indicate that English language teachers of tertiary students should use English songs as classroom activities to facilitate their students’ language learning and motivate them in acquiring new English vocabulary. The findings of this research are useful for university policymakers, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the use of English songs from contemporary genres, such as Western or Islamic songs can be an effective way to promote language learning.
Failing a Course : A Diary Case Study of an Iranian EFL Student

Failing a course at the tertiary level can be considered as one of the major problems threatening students’ future academic success. It “not only leads to the waste of current expenditure and time but also generates mental-psychological, social and family problems for the university students” (Najimi, Sharifirad, Amini, & Meftagh, 2013, p. 1). However, students’ failure in an academic course is usually considered as a common phenomenon in the eyes of instructors. Luckily, in recent years some scholars have attempted to reconsider the issue trying to investigate students experience and perceptions on their academic success and failure. Taking attribution theory as their theoretical framework, these scholars have tried to shed light on this neglected aspect of education. Attribution theory (Weiner, 1992) deals with the reasons that individuals attribute to their perceived successes and failures. The theory deals with how the social perceiver uses information to arrive at causal explanations for events. It is a kind of forming a causal judgment. (Fiske & Taylor, 1991). In other words, the theory focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures. Attribution theory has been described in terms of four explanations for success and/or failure in achieving a personal objective: ability-, effort, perceived difficulty of a task, and luck. Two of those four factors are internal to the Learner: ability and effort; and two are attributable to external circumstances outside of the learner: task difficulty and luck (Weiner, 1992). Applying the theory to a language classroom setting “failure to get a high grade on a final exam in a language class might for some be judged to be a consequence of their poor ability or effort, and by others to difficulty of exam. and perhaps others to just plain old bad luck” (Brown, 2007, p. 156). Thus, students with a high degree of self-efficacy tend to attribute success to internal factors and conversely those with a low degree of selfefficacy tend to attribute their failure to external factors (Brown, 2007). Based on attribution theory some scholars have attempted to explore students’ perceptions on their failure and success in language learning employing either perception questionnaires or diaries as research tools.
Fishers' Ecological Knowledge about Marine Pollution: What Can FEK Contribute to Ecological and Conservation Studies of a Southwestern Atlantic Estuary?

Abstract. The growth of human populations and industrial activities in the last decades have been the major cause of ecosystem decline, especially due to the inputs of several pollutants in the environment. Estuaries are one of the main concerns in marine governance because they receive potentially toxic substances from many sources that end up in the sea. Despite this, marine policies that aim to protect marine areas have dismissed local fishers' knowledge, although fishers have ecological knowledge that endorses and complements scientific research. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify sources and indicators of pollution in the Bahía Blanca Estuary (BBE) according to the fishers and to contrast this knowledge with scientific studies. We conducted 20 interviews with the fishers of the BBE, and the results showed that all of them think the estuary is polluted and that there have been changes in the biomass of catches in the past. Most of them think that industries of the petrochemical complex are the major cause of pollution (57%), while marine organisms were the most mentioned items as indicators of pollution (59%), especially the commercial species (41%). We found interesting parallels between fishers' ecological knowledge (FEK) and scientific data. Thus, we conclude that FEK is an invaluable tool that provides data that could help to co-protect and co-manage this estuary and the services it provides.
THE EFFECT OF CORE STABILIZATION TRAINING PROGRAM ON ELDERLY POSTURAL CONTROL

As hygienic principles are increasingly considered, longevity and elderly population augments in consequence. Sixty females recruited from a total of 200 and aged more than 60 years (70.6 ± 6.0 yrs, 55.8 ± 5.8 kg of weight and 157.8 ± 7.8 cm of height) were classified as low falling risk and high falling risk. Then, these subjects were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. A week prior to starting the training program, their balance status were measured with the Berg balance test (BBT) and compared with independent and dependent t-tests. The experimental group followed a core stabilization program of three days per week, for eight weeks. At the end of this period, they performed better (p<0.05) than the controls. The training program had also better effects on the high risk group. Significant differences were observed for balance following the training program, in both the anteroposterior and mediolateral planes (p<0.05). In conclusion, significant differences were shown in improving balance and postural control after a related training program in elderly women.
Spatio‐temporal stability analysis applied to monsoon anticyclone flow

Flow on a beta‐plane driven by a steady localised anticyclonic forcing of potential vorticity (or equivalently a mass source) is considered as a simple model of the Asian monsoon flow in the upper troposphere. Previous authors have noted that the response may be steady, or unsteady, according to the magnitude of the forcing, with the unsteadiness manifested as westward eddy shedding. A detailed study of the transition between steady and eddy‐shedding regimes reveals a third regime ('break up'), for intermediate forcing magnitude, where the flow is steady in the neighbourhood of the forcing, but the westward extending plume of low potential vorticity breaks up into isolated anticyclonic vortices some distance away from the forcing region. A related spatio‐temporal instability problem for flow on a beta plane is specified and analysed. The flow can be stable, convectively unstable or absolutely unstable. It is argued that these three stability regimes correspond to the steady, break‐up and eddy‐shedding regimes for the forced flow and good quantitative correspondence between the regimes is demonstrated by explicit solution of the spatio‐temporal stability problem.
Real-world Outcomes With Rituximab-based Therapy for Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Arising After Solid Organ Transplant

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background. Optimal upfront therapy for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) arising after solid organ transplant remains contentious. Rituximab monotherapy (R-Mono) in unselected patients has shown a lack of durable remissions. Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone (CHOP)-based chemotherapy confers improved response rates, although concerns exist about toxicity. Methods. This multicenter retrospective study reports outcomes for adults with biopsy-proven B-cell PTLD treated initially with R-Mono or Rituximab plus CHOP (R-CHOP). Selection of therapy was made according to physician preference. Results. Among 101 patients, 41 received R-Mono and 60 had R-CHOP. Most (93%) had undergone renal or liver transplantation. R-CHOP showed a trend toward improved complete (53% versus 71%; P = 0.066) and overall (75% versus 90%; P = 0.054) response rates. In the R-Mono group, 13 of 41 (32%) subsequently received chemotherapy, while 25 of 41 (61%) remained progression-free without further therapy. With median follow-up of 47 months, overall survival (OS) was similar for R-Mono and R-CHOP, with 3-year OS of 71% and 63%, respectively (P = 0.722). Non-PTLD mortality was 3 of 41 (7%) and 4 of 60 (7%) within 12 months of R-Mono or R-CHOP, respectively. The International Prognostic Index was statistically significant, with low- (0–2 points) and high-risk (≥3 points) groups exhibiting 3-year OS of 78% and 54%, respectively (P = 0.0003). In low-risk PTLD, outcomes were similar between therapies. However, in high-risk disease R-Mono conferred an inferior complete response rate (21% versus 68%; P = 0.006), albeit with no impact on survival. Conclusions. Our data support R-Mono as initial therapy for PTLD arising after renal or liver transplantation. However, upfront R-CHOP may benefit selected high-risk cases in whom rapid attainment of response is desirable.
Inside the black box: A micro-sociological analysis of sport for development

Sport for development research increasingly seeks to move beyond a focus on evidence of sport for development outcomes to better understand the mechanisms and contexts that underpin these outcomes. Building on recent innovations in micro-sociology, which highlight the role of emotions and bodily entrainment in face-to-face interactions, this paper critically examines, and aims to progress, efforts to open the ‘black box’ of sport for development outcomes and impacts. The authors argue that the theoretical and methodological merits of radical micro-sociology, and interaction ritual theory in particular, enable important advances in the field of sport for development. The paper proposes micro-sociological questions and practical directions for sport for development research but also outlines the limitations of this approach.
Light mediates the relationship between community diversity and trait plasticity in functionally and phylogenetically diverse tree mixtures

Trait values affect how plants function, with consequences that propagate through scales of ecological organization to affect ecosystem function. However, the pathway connecting trait expression to ecosystem function is complicated by feedbacks: trait expression may vary within species in response to community diversity, and trait expression also determines a community's functional diversity. The predictability and consequences of interactions between trait expression and community diversity are poorly understood, particularly in forest ecosystems. Here we quantify the extent to which light access—which past studies suggest affects trait expression and differs as a result of interactions among plants—differs consistently with community diversity and explains intraspecific trait variation in trees. In a common garden, trees of five angiosperm and seven gymnosperm species were planted to form 37 communities ranging widely in species and functional diversity whereby confounding environmental variation was minimized. We sampled leaves of each species to characterize intraspecific variation within and among communities in three traits—leaf size, specific leaf area and nitrogen concentration—and estimated each leaf's access to light. We found that light access explained a substantial portion of trait variation within all species, species tended to receive less light in more diverse communities and effects of community diversity on trait expression tended to be mediated by light. Synthesis. This study shows that community diversity affects leaf trait plasticity in young trees through its effects on light availability. Moreover, trait responses across angiosperms and gymnosperms were remarkably similar, showing that shared biophysical constraints overwhelm divergent evolutionary histories. Together, these results illustrate how leaf trait expression responds to, and may subsequently shape, diversity in young tree communities in largely predictable ways via resource‐based interactions, with consequences that may scale from individuals to ecosystems.