Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
‘There is no right or wrong answer’: Swedish preschool teachers’ reflections on the didactics of death

This study is part of a larger project with the general aim of developing the ability of preschool teachers to reflect critically on questions, topics and theories related to different understandings of death(s). The article is based on three focus-group interviews with a focus on how preschool teachers reflect on what, how, why and when they teach about death and death-related issues. The results show that preschool teachers consider that it is important in early childhood education to teach about death because death is a fundamental aspect of life in daily reality, and they consider it to be their task to comfort a child in grief, as well as care for the well-being of the group. However, much of the time, they avoid teaching about biological death relative to concrete goals that the children are to achieve in understanding what death implies. Instead, they use child-responsive, improvisational teaching that is intended to calm and comfort the children. The content of the teaching arises at the intersection of expert knowledge in talking about death as an irreversible outcome of natural processes and the preschool teachers’ own beliefs and ideas about death, dying and an afterlife. As a consequence, the biological conceptions of death coexist with the teachers’ own beliefs in an afterlife, reflecting a dualistic thinking within which culturally constructed beliefs coexist with biological views.
Fluoro- and Chloroferrocene: From 2- to 3-Substituted Derivatives

The ferrocene halogen “dance” has been deemed hardly controllable. Here, we describe the first efficient examples of this reaction. Conversion of 1-fluoro-2-iodo (or 1-chloro-2-iodo) to 1-fluoro-3-iodo (or 1-chloro-3-iodo) ferrocenes was ensured by suitably protecting the free 5-position.
The Contribution of Aquatic Plants to the Trophic Ecology of a Sand Dune Lizard in Southern Brazil

Abstract. Trophic subsidy is an ecological process consisting in the transference of nutrients between adjacent habitats, allowing the occupancy of less productive habitats by several species. We tested for the existence of trophic subsidy provided by aquatic plants of temporary ponds in maintaining individuals of the sand dune lizard Liolaemus occipitalis in southern Brazil. This lizard is a sit-and-wait predator restricted to coastal sand dunes. As these sand dunes occur in a mosaic of temporary ponds, we hypothesized the existence of a nutritional/energetic dependence of lizards from adjacent aquatic habitats. Our evaluation was based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis in association with gut content analysis of lizards sampled along an entire inundation cycle. Stomach contents revealed no seasonal variation in consumed prey item composition. Nevertheless, we detected changes in prey group composition. The volumetric contribution of Diptera increased over inundation classes (increase = 5%; peak = 61%). Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios indicated that the L. occipitalis trophic web is mainly maintained by terrestrial sources. Isotope ratios also indicated the existence of aquatic contributions to tissue formation, but, despite its tendency to increase over the inundation process (10.7–13.3%), this trend lacks statistical support. We conclude that the studied population of L. occipitalis partially depends on trophic subsidy from aquatic sources and that any conservation plan for this endangered lizard species should take into account the preservation of non-habitats like temporary ponds.
Robustness of PET Radiomics Features: Impact of Co-Registration with MRI

Radiomics holds great promise in the field of cancer management. However, the clinical application of radiomics has been hampered by uncertainty about the robustness of the features extracted from the images. Previous studies have reported that radiomics features are sensitive to changes in voxel size resampling and interpolation, image perturbation, or slice thickness. This study aims to observe the variability of positron emission tomography (PET) radiomics features under the impact of co-registration with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using the difference percentage coefficient, and the Spearman’s correlation coefficient for three groups of images: (i) original PET, (ii) PET after co-registration with T1-weighted MRI and (iii) PET after co-registration with FLAIR MRI. Specifically, seventeen patients with brain cancers undergoing [11C]-Methionine PET were considered. Successively, PET images were co-registered with MRI sequences and 107 features were extracted for each mentioned group of images. The variability analysis revealed that shape features, first-order features and two subgroups of higher-order features possessed a good robustness, unlike the remaining groups of features, which showed large differences in the difference percentage coefficient. Furthermore, using the Spearman’s correlation coefficient, approximately 40% of the selected features differed from the three mentioned groups of images. This is an important consideration for users conducting radiomics studies with image co-registration constraints to avoid errors in cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical outcome prediction.
Investigation on the Hair Characteristics of Damascus and Kilis Goats

ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the coarse outer guard hair and the fine down hair (cashmere) characteristics of Kilis and Damascus goats and to evaluate their potential for industrial use. Yearling goats, goats at first birth, second birth, and third birth were used as animal materials from Gaziantep. From the shoulder, rump, and rib areas of each goat, 20–25 g of the guard hair and the fine down hair (cashmere) samples were collected. These samples were examined in terms of diameter, length, tenacity, and elasticity at the Fleece and Mohair Laboratory of the International Livestock Research and Training Center. In the study, the average fiber diameter values were determined as 15.0 ± 0.08 and 15.1 ± 0.07 microns, and the fiber length values were 23.4 ± 0.38 and 22.4 ± 0.34 mm for Kilis and Damascus goats, respectively. In the light of these results, it can be said that the cashmere fiber diameter for both breeds is suitable for the textile industry. On the other hand, the fiber length is not long enough for the textile industry but can be evaluated by hand weaving method.
The Role of STEM-Based Sustainability in Business and Management Curricula: Exploring Cognitive and Affective Outcomes in University Students

To address deficiencies in STEM and sustainability in business management and intra-university curricula, we developed and implemented an interdisciplinary STEM-based sustainability curriculum at a university in the Western United States. Six classes participated in curricular efforts including in-person and online sections of a business management course, in-person and online sections of a general elective STEM course, and a matched control course for each (n = 214). We systematically designed, developed, and implemented curricular interventions—multi-week STEM-based business sustainability modules—using the case teaching method. A comprehensive evaluation with pre- and post-tests was conducted to assess student sustainability cognition and affect. Significant results emerged for sustainability cognition including the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. Counterintuitively, student sustainability affect did not improve. However, sustainability cognition and affect were significantly correlated on the post-test for treatment students, an indication that cognitive and affective changes share the same directionality. Discussion, implications, limitations, and future research directions are provided.
Evaluation of the Impact of Innovation Management on Customer Satisfaction and the Innovative Behavior of Employees: Field Study in Commercial Banks in the State of Kuwait

: Purpose: This research paper aimed at identifying the impact of innovation management on customer satisfaction and the behavior of innovative employees in commercial banks in Kuwait. Design/Methodology/Approach: Based on the descriptive-analytical approach, the study used the questionnaire on a sample represented by (5) banks in Kuwait (28%). After collecting the study data, the Statistical Analysis Program (SPSS) and PLS were used, several results were reached. Findings: There is a moderate degree of innovation management practice in commercial banks in the State of Kuwait, there are an impact and correlation between innovation management and the innovative climate from one hand and the innovative climate and customer satisfaction, on the other hand. It also showed the impact and correlation between the innovative climate and innovative behavior in the study population. Furthermore, there are an impact and correlation between network theory, innovation management, innovative climate, customer satisfaction, and the behavior of innovative workers. Practical Implication: The study recommended attention to managing innovation and the innovative climate and strengthening network theory in commercial banks. It also recommended stimulating the work of the Training and Development Department in commercial banks in the State of Kuwait. Originality/Value: The value of the study comes to find solutions to weaknesses, if any, and to strengths by not losing any sight of management phenomena and variables that contribute to the development of innovation management in commercial banks.
An Analysis of Spinopelvic Sagittal Alignment After Lumbar Lordosis Reconstruction for Degenerative Spinal Diseases: How Much Balance Can Be Obtained?

Study Design. A retrospective and radiological study of degenerative spinal diseases. Objective. To explore the changes in spinopelvic sagittal alignment after lumbar instrumentation and fusion of degenerative spinal diseases. Summary of Background Data. Efforts have been paid to clarify the ideal postoperative sagittal profile for degenerative spinal diseases. However, little has been published about the actual changes of sagittal alignment after lumbar lordosis reconstruction. Methods. Radiographical analysis of 83 patients with spinal degeneration was performed by measuring sagittal parameters before and after operations. Comparative studies of sagittal parameters between short (1 level) and long (≥2 level) instrumentation and fusion were performed. Different variances (&Dgr;) of these sagittal parameters before and after operations were calculated and compared. Correlative study and linear regression were performed to establish the relationship between variances. Results. No significant changes were shown in the short-fusion group postoperatively. In the long-fusion group, postoperative lumbar lordosis (LL) and sacral slope (SS) were significantly increased; pelvic tilt (PT), sagittal vertical axis (SVA), pelvic incidence minus lumbar lordosis, and PT/SS were significantly decreased. Different variances of &Dgr;LL, &Dgr;SS, &Dgr;PT, &Dgr;SVA, &Dgr;(pelvic incidence − LL), and &Dgr;PT/SS were significantly greater in the long-fusion group than the short-fusion group. Close correlations were mainly shown among &Dgr;LL, &Dgr;PT, and &Dgr;SVA. Linear regression equations could be developed (&Dgr;PT =−0.185 ×&Dgr;LL − 7.299 and &Dgr;SVA =−0.152&Dgr;LL − 1.145). Conclusion. In degenerative spinal diseases, long instrumentation and fusion (≥2 levels) provides more efficient LL reconstruction. PT, SS, and SVA improve corresponding to LL in a linear regression model. Linear regression equations could be developed and used to predict PT and SVA change after long instrumentation and fusion for LL reconstruction. Level of Evidence: 3
"Excess Free Sugar Intake: An Independent Culpable Correlate for the Risk of Hypertension Among Sedentary Occupation Workers"

Excess Free Sugar Intake: An Independent Culpable Correlate for the Risk of Hypertension Among Sedentary Occupation Workers. Background Excess free sugar intake (EFSI) is recently considered as a risk factor for hypertension, which is accidently diagnosed in many people. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of undiagnosed high blood pressure (HBP) among sedentary occupation workers in Kuwait; and to examine significant correlates for the risk of HBP, particularly EFSI. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 10/17 randomly selected ministries. A convenience sample of 2507 employees completed self-administered questionnaire. Moreover, participants’ weight, height, and BP were measured; and their eating habits -including sugar and salt intakes-, and physical activity were assessed. Results: Undiagnosed HBP was prevalent among 66.5% of participants. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that EFSI was an independent correlate to the risk of HBP and concealed excess salt intake’s role. Additionally, male gender, low educational attainment, low income, and physical inactivity were independent correlates for HBP; and were found to consume more EFSI than their counterparts. Conclusions:
Spatiotemporal Protein Expression Profiles of QSOX1 in the Murine Uterus, Placenta, and Embryo during Pregnancy

Quiescin Q6 sulfhydryl oxidase 1 (QSOX1) catalyzes the oxidation of the sulfhydryl group to disulfide bond and is widely expressed in various tissues. This study focuses on investigating QSOX1′s spatiotemporal and cellular protein expression profile of the pregnant uterus, placenta, and developing embryo during mouse pregnancy. Immunohistochemical staining was used to reveal the localization of QSOX1 protein, and HistoQuest was applied to quantify protein levels. The expression level of QSOX1 in the decidua and muscle cells of the pregnant uterus fluctuated dramatically during pregnancy. QSOX1 was ubiquitously expressed in the labyrinth, junction zone, and chorionic plate in the placenta. The quantitative analysis found that this protein was highly expressed in the spinal cord, lens, midbrain, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, and tooth of mouse embryos, followed by the heart, intercostal muscle, diaphragm, intermediate zone, extrinsic ocular muscle, spine, pons, epidermis, tongue, ganglion, vomeronasal organ, thoracic vertebrae, and thymus. Interestingly, QSOX1 was also markedly expressed in olfactory system tissues. This comprehensive spatiotemporal study of QSOX1 protein expression will provide a basis for further investigations of the QSOX1 physiological function in the pregnant uterus, placenta, and developing embryo.
The CSR Imperative: How CSR Influences Word-of-Mouth Considering the Roles of Authenticity and Alternative Attractiveness

Customers are increasingly talking positively about brands that are socially responsible and authentic. However, little empirical research has related corporate social responsibility (CSR) to brand authenticity and brand authenticity to customers’ positive word-of-mouth. Moreover, although highly attractive alternative brands are increasingly appearing in the marketplace, there is a lack of research examining the role of alternative attractiveness in the relationship between CSR and brand authenticity. We address these shortcomings in the literature drawing on data from 1,101 customers of insurance services brands and analyze them using structural equation modeling. The findings show that CSR is positively related to customers’ positive word-of-mouth, both directly and indirectly, through brand authenticity. Moreover, alternative attractiveness positively moderates the effect of CSR on brand authenticity. This implies that CSR can act as a differentiation mechanism to further enhance the focal brand’s authenticity, when an alternative brand is perceived as highly attractive.
An Improved Model for Analyzing Textual Sentiment Based on a Deep Neural Network Using Multi-Head Attention Mechanism

Due to the increasing growth of social media content on websites such as Twitter and Facebook, analyzing textual sentiment has become a challenging task. Therefore, many studies have focused on textual sentiment analysis. Recently, deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory, have achieved promising performance in sentiment analysis. These models have proven their ability to cope with the arbitrary length of sequences. However, when they are used in the feature extraction layer, the feature distance is highly dimensional, the text data are sparse, and they assign equal importance to various features. To address these issues, we propose a hybrid model that combines a deep neural network with a multi-head attention mechanism (DNN–MHAT). In the DNN–MHAT model, we first design an improved deep neural network to capture the text's actual context and extract the local features of position invariants by combining recurrent bidirectional long short-term memory units (Bi-LSTM) with a convolutional neural network (CNN). Second, we present a multi-head attention mechanism to capture the words in the text that are significantly related to long space and encoding dependencies, which adds a different focus to the information outputted from the hidden layers of BiLSTM. Finally, a global average pooling is applied for transforming the vector into a high-level sentiment representation to avoid model overfitting, and a sigmoid classifier is applied to carry out the sentiment polarity classification of texts. The DNN–MHAT model is tested on four reviews and two Twitter datasets. The results of the experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the DNN–MHAT model, which achieved excellent performance compared to the state-of-the-art baseline methods based on short tweets and long reviews.
Effects of Sous-vide Cooking on the Initial Yield, Peak Force, and Elastic Modulus of Cooked Beef Semitendinosus

The objective of this study was to compare the traditional cooking method with sous-vide cooking at various cooking temperatures and times on the initial yield, peak force, and elastic modulus of semitendinosus (ST) beef. This study also examined the colour properties, cooking loss, and water retention of ST beef. Sous-vide samples were cooked inside vacuumized pouches at temperatures 60, 70, and 80 ℃ for 3 and 6 h. Meanwhile, the traditional cooking method was treated at 90℃ for 30 min. Reduced the initial yield, peak force, and elastic modulus of ST beef could be attained in 6 h at 60 ℃. Higher temperature and prolonged cooking time seem to cause meat to be tougher, likely due to the longitudinal myofibrils shrank. In terms of water retention and cooking loss, sous-vide cooked at 60 °C (regardless of cooking time) significantly exhibited better water retention and lower cook loss. This mild cooking temperature also best preserved the colour properties of lightness (L*) and redness (a*) than the other treatments.
Reduced graphene oxide / epoxy nanocomposites with enhanced dielectric, mechanical, thermomechanical and thermal properties

Epoxy/conducting filler nanocomposites with high dielectric performance have emanated as a promising material in electronic and electrical industry. In this work, a facile and low-cost method, that is, thermal reduction at 400°C was adopted for the preparation of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) from graphene oxide (GO). The rGO was characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Field emission scanning electron microscopy and Transmission electron microscopy. Epoxy nanocomposite presented a dielectric permittivity of 35 at 1.8 vol.% loading of rGO (Ep/G-1.8) at 103 Hz, which was 5 times higher than neat epoxy and with a low dielectric loss. With the addition of 0.3 vol.% of rGO (Ep/G-0.3), the mechanical properties such as tensile strength, Young’s modulus and impact strength were enhanced by 34%, 56% and 54%, respectively. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) revealed that in comparison to epoxy, there was a tremendous enhancement of storage modulus (55%) and the glass transition temperature (Tg) exhibited a remarkable shift of 39°C towards higher temperature for Ep/G-0.3. Cross-link density and coefficient of effectiveness (C-factor) estimated from the storage modulus improved significantlyfor Ep/G-0.3. Theoretical modelling was done on the viscoelastic properties of the composites. SEM studies indicated the uniform dispersion of rGO throughout in the epoxy matrix. Thermogravimetric analysis revealed that inclusion of rGO improved the thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites.
SPATIAL PROCESSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT 1 INTEGRATION, NAVIGATION, AND ORGANIZATION: AN EXPLORATION OF TWO SPATIAL PROCESSING LOOPS USING ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT IN ADOLESCENT RATS

Spatial cognition and memory help to build understanding of an organism’s environment. Understanding how one comes to perceive and navigate an environment can give insight into the order and disorder of environmental processing. In this thesis, c-FOS was used as a measure of neural activation in eight regions within two neural circuits involved with spatial processing. One neural circuit is thought to be involved with the processing of overall spatial scene, while the other is thought to be involved in processing object-location information. The two neural circuits of interest are begun with efferents from superficial medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and superficial lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), with MEC leading the loop processing overall spatial scene and LEC leading the loop processing object-location information. The MEC-led loop also involves proximal cornu ammonis 1 (CA1), distal subiculum, and deep MEC. The LEC-led loop involves distal CA1, proximal subiculum, and deep LEC. Environmental enrichment (EE) was used to study these loops, as EE is thought to cause activation in these regions. EE is the provision of stimulation using an environment containing toys, ramps, and platforms. Neural activation in the neural regions was manipulated through periodic EE /or a final EE session organized as a 2x2 factorial design, with four groups: No+No, EE+No, EE+EE, and No+EE (No/EE before + references periodic EE, No/EE after + references final EE). Four hypotheses were posed, with predictions of higher activation of just the No+EE group in superficial MEC, proximal CA1, distal subiculum, distal CA1, and proximal subiculum when compared to all other groups, and predictions of higher activation of the No+EE and EE+EE groups in superficial LEC, deep MEC, and deep LEC when compared to control groups (No+No and EE+No). Significantly higher neural activation was observed in the No+EE group in comparison to all other groups in superficial MEC, proximal CA1, and distal CA1 (p = .042, p = .003, and p < SPATIAL PROCESSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT 4 .001, respectively). In superficial LEC, distal subiculum, proximal subiculum, deep MEC, and deep LEC, No+EE and EE+EE groups showed significantly higher activation than control groups (No+No and EE+EE) (p= .017, p = .007, p < .001, p = .002, and p = .006, respectively), with no significant difference between No+EE and EE+EE groups. The findings suggest neural processing in superficial MEC and LEC and proximal and distal CA1 that is in accordance with current research in the field. These results also suggest a more involved role of the subiculum in spatial processing and add to the growing body of evidence investigating the role of deep entorhinal cortex (EC) in providing contextual feedback to superficial layers.