Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Heavy Metal Contamination in Vegetables from Industrial Waste Water Polluted Soils

It has been summarized from the findings of the numerous articles that vegetables seed germination directly affected by toxicity of industrial effluent. But the toxicity effect of effluent could be varied from one effluent to another effluent. The different heavy metal (Pb, Cd, Ni, Co and Cr) concentrations in vegetables increased with increasing the age of the plant while the increasing trend was not linear. Heavy metal content gradually increased in vegetables at the early growing stage and declined at the matured stages of growth. The significant differences (P < 0.01) were observed between the mean heavy metal concentrations and the tested vegetables species. The Pb and Co concentrations in amaranth were found higher as compared to spinach and red amaranth. Spinach showed higher levels of Cd and Cr than those of other leafy vegetables. For all the leafy vegetables, the degree of heavy metal contamination was followed the order as Cd<Co<Pb<Ni<Cr. On the other hand, the contamination was varied from one heavy metal to another heavy metal in different vegetables other than leafy vegetables. The Pb contamination intensity order: eggplant>tomato>bottle gourd>pumpkin>cauliflower>cabbage. While Cd contamination order: tomato> eggplant>bottle gourd>pumpkin>cabbage>cauliflower and nickel (Ni) contamination trend was bottle gourd>cauliflower>cabbage> pumpkin>tomato>eggplant. Untreated industrial irrigation water is the primary source of metal accumulation in food crops, which might be provided the food crop contamination and future health risk.
Brain, Body, Habit and the Performative Quality of Aesthetics. In I. Testa & F. Caurana (editors), Habits: Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, in press.

If cognitive neuroscience is meant to investigate what makes us human, cultural artifacts and artistic expressions should be at the top of the list of its explananda. Cognitive neuroscience, in tight cooperation and dialogue with the humanities, can shed new light on several theoretical issues related to aesthetics, traditionally dealt with exclusively within the camp of the humanities. A succinct description ofembodied simulation theory in relation to aesthetic experience is proposed, and some accomplishments of this bottom-up approach to the experience of visual art and film are illustrated. The notion of ‘habit’ is introduced, it is connected to its potential underlying neural mechanisms, and to the production and reception of human cultural artifacts. Capitalizing upon Pragmatism, Pierre Bourdieu and practice theory, the relationship between body, habit, practice, rituals and its bearing on the creation of symbolic objects and cultural artifacts is analyzed from a neuro-pragmatist approach, which emphasizes the procedural and implicit forms of human cognition. The suggested gradual transition from tool-making to symbol-making,grants the following: 1) It shows that utilitarian and symbolic behavior are both chapters of the same cognitive technology trajectory; 2) It doesn’t require one to assume that symbol-making is the late externalization of a previously existing inner symbolic thought, because symbolic thought and symbolmaking are the co constructive outcome of the development of shared performative practices and habits; 3) It is fully compatible with the neurobiological characterization of human relational potentialities as instantiated by embodied simulation. It is proposed that through the repetition, combination and memorization of particular shared behaviors and actions, and their mimetic ritualization, the social group infuses new cultural meanings into reused bodily performances.
Genetic Structure and Diversity among Radish Varieties as Inferred from AFLP and ISSR Analyses

Twelve amplifi ed fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) primer combinations and 10 inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) primers were applied to estimate genetic diversity among 68 varieties of cultivated radish (Raphanus sativus L.). The material consisted of open-pollinated varieties, inbred lines, diploid and a few tetraploid hybrid vari- eties of garden radish (R. sativus var. sativus DC. convar. radicula (DC.) Alef. ) and black radish (R. sativus var. niger (Mill.) Pers. ). Two accessions of uncultivated relatives of radish that as weeds cause serious contamination during the process of hybrid radish production were added to the analyses. Polymorphic fragments were scored for calculation of Jaccardʼs coeffi cient of genetic similarity (GS). Substantial level of genetic variability (average AFLP-based GS = 0.70; average ISSR-based GS = 0.61) was detected in the available germplasm of cultivated radish. Cluster analyses separated two weedy species from the cultivated germplasm. Within cultivated material, black radish and french breakfast radish types formed separate clusters. Based on AFLP data, a principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) and model-based approach revealed the genetic structure within cultivated radish germplasm and indicated the existence of divergent pools. Although the model-based approach did not separate black radish from french breakfast radish varieties, it offered a clear sub-division within garden radish germplasm. The results of this study may be relevant for hybrid radish breeding.
Effects of Topical Application of Clay and Honey on Cutaneous Wound Healing in Rabbits. World's Vet. J. 4(2): 15-19.;

The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary protein levels and citric acid on the growth performance, carcass yield, abdominal fat, chemical composition of meat, intestinal morphology, and blood parameters of broiler chickens. A total of 160 Cobb 500 unsexed one-day-old broilers were assigned to 4 dietary treatments, 4 replicates of 10 chickens each. A factorial design arrangement 2×2 was used, including two protein levels, 100% (optimal level) and 90% (low level) of recommended dietary crude protein for cobb 500 broiler chickens, each protein level supplemented with or without 20-gram citric acid /kg. The results showed that chickens fed the diet containing 100% required Crude Protein (CP) supplemented with citric acid which could significantly improve body weight gain, feed conversion ratio, carcass yield, abdominal fat, fat content in meat, intestinal morphology, cecal microbial content, and blood parameters (Albumin, haemoglobin Ac1, fructosamine, and cholesterol). Chickens fed the low CP diet supplemented with citric acid could compensate for the growth performance equivalent to those fed the optimal CP diet. Both required protein level and citric acid were significantly improved blood albumin and reduced haemoglobin Ac1 and fructosamine, which could serve as indicators of the blood protein glycation. In conclusion, citric acid addition could alleviate the negative effect of feeding broiler chickens on low CP diets through its beneficial impact on intestinal morphology, cecal bacterial counts, blood cholesterol reduction, and glycated proteins.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHORT PSYCHOPATHY RATING SCALE

In the present work we describe the further development of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS), a 9 item inventory for measuring three psychopathy traits: Deceitfulness, Emotional coldness and Recklessness. We administered this inventory on a sample of 210 students (76% females, Mage=21.21; SD=2.10) who rated their parents on psychopathic traits. Analyses were conducted on 373 participants (54% females, Mage=51.47; SD=5.91). We calculated Cronbach's α coefficient as a reliability estimate, tested the latent structure of the construct using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and explored the validity of the SPRS scales by examining their relations with Triarchic Psychopathy Measure. Psychopathy scales showed acceptable reliabilities, having in mind that all scales consisted of 3 items (αs in range from .60 to .68). CFA showed good fit for the SPRS model: χ2(24)=85.57; p<. 01; NFI=. 88; CFI=. 91; RMSEA=. 078. Predictable sex differences were found males had significantly higher scores on all three psychopathy traits. Finally, the validity of the SPRS scales was determined by establishing relations with psychopathy traits of
VISUAL VS. AUDITORY PERCEPTION OF BULGARIAN STIMULI BY RUSSIAN NATIVE SPEAKERS

This study contributes to a better understanding of receptive multilingualism by determining similarities and differences in successful processing of written and spoken cognate words in an unknown but (closely) related language. We investigate two Slavic languages with regard to their mutual intelligibility. The current focus is on the recognition of isolated Bulgarian words by Russian native speakers in a cognate guessing task, considering both written and audio stimuli. The experimentally obtained intercomprehension scores show a generally high degree of intelligibility of Bulgarian cognates to Russian subjects, as well as processing difficulties in case of visual vs. auditory perception. In search of an explanation, we examine the linguistic factors that can contribute to various degrees of written and spoken word intelligibility. The intercomprehension scores obtained in the online word translation experiments are correlated with (i) the identical and mismatched correspondences on the orthographic and phonetic level, (ii) the word length of the stimuli, and (iii) the frequency of Russian cognates. Additionally we validate two measuring methods: the Levenshtein distance and the word adaptation surprisal as potential predictors of the word intelligibility in reading and oral intercomprehension.
Collaborative Facilitation and Collaborative Inhibition in Virtual Environments

Worldwide, organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises have already disruptively changed in many ways their physiological inner mechanisms, because of information and communication technologies (ICT) revolution. Nevertheless, the still ongoing COVID-19 worldwide emergency definitely promoted a wide adoption of teleworking modalities for many people around the world, making it more relevant than before to understand the real impact of virtual environments (VEs) on teamwork dynamics. From a psychological point of view, a critical question about teleworking modalities is how the social and cognitive dynamics of collaborative facilitation and collaborative inhibition would affect teamwork within VEs. This study analyzed the impact of a virtual environment (VE) on the recall of individuals and members of nominal and collaborative groups. The research assessed costs and benefits for collaborative retrieval by testing the effect of experimental conditions, stimulus materials, group size, experimental conditions order, anxiety state, personality traits, gender group composition and social interactions. A total of 144 participants were engaged in a virtual Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) classical paradigm, which involved remembering word lists across two successive sessions, in one of four protocols: I-individual/nominal, I I -nominal/individual, I I I -nominal/collaborative, I V -collaborative/nominal. Results suggested, in general, a reduced collaborative inhibition effect in the collaborative condition than the nominal and individual condition. A combined effect between experimental condition and difficulty of the task appears to explain the presence of collaborative inhibition or facilitation. Nominal groups appeared to enhance the collaborative groups’ performance when virtual nominal groups come before collaborative groups. Variables such as personality traits, gender and social interactions may have a contribution to collaborative retrieval. In conclusion, this study indicated how VEs could maintain those peculiar social dynamics characterizing the participants’ engagement in a task, both working together and individually, and could affect their intrinsic motivation as well as performances. These results could be exploited in order to design brand new and evidenced-based practices, to improve teleworking procedures and workers well-being, as well as teleworking teamwork effectiveness.
Work Ability and Social Inclusion project -enhancing collective knowledge through leadership and stress management

This paper describes a project aimed at the development of leadership and the reduction of occupational stress through the application of the Metal Age method. With a view to providing effective and practical solutions for ICT organisations, the project approach targets Intellectual Capital development through the increase of work ability, stress management, enhancing leadership and thereby social inclusion in the work force in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Sweden. The primary goals are to improve leadership through increased cooperation and disscussion between leaders and employees, decreasing stress and improving communication within organizations. Consequently, human capital, leadership, stress management and work-ability are the areas of interest in this paper. Intellectual Capital, Leadership and Well-Being in ICT companies – theoretical and practical aspects In this paper we consider Intellectual capital as collective knowledge of the individuals in an organization or society. It’s widely accepted that knowledge and the organisational ability to effectively utilize its knowledge resources constitue the basis of economic growth and welfare (Martin-de –Castro, 2010). The proficiency in knowledge exploitation refers/ to an integration of individual knowledge into collective knowledge through the process of of combining potentially complementary components of knowledge that reside in various individuals and parts of organisation (Prahalad Hamel, 1990). The integration of various compelementary competencies possessed by individuals or organisational units creates learning efficiencies due to resulting specialization in accumulation of different kinds of complementary knowledge (Leiponen 2006). However, as Kogut and Zandler (1992) are noticing, it is still the management challenge to enable sharing and integration of knowledge by establishing organizational linkages and communication channels. In this paper we propose that this challenge can be addressed by introduction of innovative leadership and enhanced well-being of individuals.
Collusive Supervision and Organization Design in a Three-tier Agency Model with a Continuum of Types

We apply the Monotone Comparative Statics method and the First Order (Mirrlees) Approach to the continuous-type, three-tier agency model with hidden information and collusion a la Tirole (1986,1992), thereby providing a framework that can address the issues treated in the existing literature (e.g. Kofman and Lawarree 1993) in a much simpler fashion. We characterize the nature of equilibrium contract that can be implemented under the possibility of collusion between the supervisor and the agent, and then obtain a general comparison result on the two-tier vs. three-tier organization structures. Next, we introduce the recent behavioral contract theory idea, “shading” (Hart and Moore (2008)) into the model. By combining the two ideas, i.e., collusion and shading, we can not only enrich the existing collusion model, including a new result on the choice of Collusion-proof vs. Equilibrium Collusion regimes, but also give a micro foundation to ex-post haggling costs, addressed by Transaction Cost Economics (e.g. Coase (1937) and Williamson (1975)). This will contribute to a deep understanding of resource allocation and decision process in inside hierarchical organization.
IN-SITU MONITORING OF COMPOSITE FAILURE BY COMPUTING TOMOGRAPHY AND ACOUSTIC EMISSION

After the initiation of failure in fibre reinforced composites, the evolution of damaged areas pose a major challenge to present failure theories. Therefore experimental methods such as in-situ computing tomography are highly valuable tools to detect the occurrence of first failure and to improve the understanding of failure progression. As recently been demonstrated by the use of synchrotron radiation sources, this approach leads to exciting new insights on the failure behaviour of fibre reinforced materials. In this study we present results of in-situ monitoring experiments using a carbonfibre / epoxy system making use of a commercial computing tomography device achieving resolution down to 1.7 μm. The load frame is fully software controlled and has been optimized to yield a direct propagation path ready to detect acoustic emission signals as generated by the specimen under test. The signal detection uses flat with frequency sensors and a broad bandwidth of the acquisition equipment. The experiments are carried out as load-hold experiments with sufficient time intervals of hold to allow for specimen relaxation prior to scanning. The relevant time to stop the experiment and perform an imaging step is determined from simultaneous acoustic emission monitoring. Within this study, results of miniaturized samples subject to tensile testing transverse to the fibre axis are presented. The respective type of failure comprises one of the fundamental failure modes on the microscopic scale and is used to exemplify the experimental capabilities of the presented configuration in terms of resolution, contrast and defect detectability. Comparison is made between the detected acoustic emission signals and respective acoustic emission signal modelling using finite elements in the experimentally chosen 3D geometry. For the latter the crack surface is extracted from the computing tomography images and is directly used as source geometry for the numerical computation of the acoustic emission signal.
Factors that affect the perception of safety in 40 high crime areas in Gauteng province

Much focus is given on crime rates in communities and ways to reduce crime. However, how crime is dealt with by the police also has an impact on citizens perception of safety. Therefore, an important aspectnot be ignored is perceptions of safety within a community. Theseperceptions play a large rolebecause citizen feel unsafe and crime can affect the local economy. If individuals within a community do not feel safe, they will withdraw from society which has the opportunity of increasing crime and fear of crime. This paper examines the factors that can affect the perception of safety in the 40 high crime areas in Gauteng province. The results of the findings in those areas suggest that there are numerous factors that can improve the feeling of safety within a community and inspire confidence in the communities about the police. These include both personal factors (alarm systems, electric fences and private security) and organizational factors (police patrols, lighting in communities, community patrols).
Social Penetration of Egyptian Youth on Social Networking Sites between Conscious and Unconscious

It is known that Facebook and Instagram users can set their privacy settings to determine their levels of disclosure. That means that the users are the ones who decide the penetration level for themselves on those social networking sites (SNS). This study seeks to test whether those SNS can penetrate their users unconsciously and with their agreement at the same time or not. Through a qualitative study of highly engaged Facebook and Instagram users, this paper defines a new concept of SNS penetration, and claim that it happens forcefully and in an unconscious way. Focus groups will be conducted to answer the major research questions and a thematic analysis will be conducted on the focus groups to determine the topics discussed by the participants. The data will be analyzed within the frameworks of Social Penetration theory and Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory. Four main challenges will be tested as the study samples which are 10 Year Challenge, Kiki Challenge, The Ice Bucket Challenge and the Face App Age.
The Individual “Costs” of Workaholism

We conducted two studies on workaholism to address three identified gaps in the literature, namely, the job-related affective experiences of workaholics, the relationship between workaholism and job demands, and the long-term mental health effects of workaholism. We also examined gender as a moderator of the relationship between workaholism and its outcomes. In Study 1 (N = 311), focused on a heterogeneous sample of workers, we found that workaholism was positively related to the experience of observer-reported, as well as self-reported, jobrelated negative affect and that this relationship was stronger among female workers. Furthermore, in a subsample of participants (n = 189) for whom we had available blood pressure data, we found that workaholism was positively related to systolic blood pressure. In Study 2 (N = 235), based on a sample of health-sector employees in which we adopted a full, two-wave panel design including workaholism, job demands, and mental distress, we found that the baseline levels of job demands impacted the follow-up levels of workaholism, while the reverse was not the case. We also found that the baseline levels of workaholism positively affected the levels of mental distress reported after 1 year. These results add to the existing literature on the jobrelated affective correlates and psychophysical costs of workaholism and shed further light on work environmental factors that may contribute to its genesis.
Insights for planning an effective stocking program in anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a salmonid species with a high socio-economic value related with recreational fishing. Because of that, stocking programs have been developed in many populations, although they have focused on resident populations. To explore which factors promote migratory behaviour when implementing stocking actions, 28 brown trout artificial crosses were carried out in a noncommercial hatchery, and the returning success of their offspring was further evaluated. Return rate was examined according to male phenotype (anadromous versus resident), mean egg size, parents’ similarity at major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II β-gene, and stocking procedure. At the end of the experiment, 35 of the captured returning adults (9.4%) belonged to 14 of those crosses. Return success shows a significant effect (p = 0.0016) by parental MHC similarities, stocking procedure, and male phenotype. Our results indicate that planting fertilized eggs in nursery areas of the river, together with the select.
Dinámica poblacional de la palma Euterpe oleracea (Arecaceae) en bosques inundables del Chocó, Pacífico colombiano

Population dynamics of the palm Euterpe oleracea (Arecaceae) from flooded forests in Choco, Colombian Pacific. The palm Euterpe oleracea is a dominant and promising species in flood plains of the Atrato river, Choco region of Colombia. We assessed the population dynamics of this species through growth rates, mortality and recruitment patterns for a period of two and a half years. Dynamic rates were compared among mixed and pure flood plain palm forests. These forests types were associated to different flooding regimes. Trees and palms were thinned in a portion for each forest type, the rest was left undisturbed. We used projection matrices to follow population trends. Thinning increased the transition probability of smaller indi- viduals, but decreased it for larger individuals, as is typical of light demanding species. Thinning also increased mortality rates in almost all size classes, but did not affect recruitment rates. Under natural conditions, the E. oleracea populations are in equilibrium in pure and mixed forests. Thinning increased population growth in both forest types, suggesting the role played by density-dependent processes on the population size of this species. Rev. Biol. Trop. 58 (1): 465-481. Epub 2010 March 01.