Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multireference configuration interaction and coupled cluster study of Gold monosulfide (AuS) including spin–orbit coupling

A multireference configuration interaction with the Davidson correction (MRCI + Q) method, including spin–orbit coupling (SOC), was used to calculate the full potential energy curves of the various Ω states of AuS. The spectroscopic constants of the Ω states of AuS were also calculated and compared with the available experimental results. In general, the MRCI + Q+SOC gives qualitatively correct results but does not provide quantitatively accurate results. The unrestricted coupled cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples (UCCSD(T)) with SOC describe well the molecular properties (bond lengths, vibrational frequencies, and Te values) of the Ω states. In particular, the bond length of the ground state (Ω = 3/2(2Π3/2(1)) (2.158 Å) calculated using the UCCSD(T)+SOC is in excellent agreement with the experimental values (2.156 ± 0.002 Å). Both the dynamic electron correlation effect and SOC are crucial to obtain accurate results. We correctly assigned the atomic asymptotes that are correlated with the Ω states and calculated the bond dissociation energies of various Ω states of AuS. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Effect of Anthropomorphizing Food Animals on Intentions to Eat Meat

ABSTRACT Awareness that others have human qualities (humanizing) generally results in a more favorable treatment of those others. Recent research has found that nonhuman entities (e.g., animals, the planet) also benefit when people view them as having human qualities (anthropomorphizing). Do those benefits of humanizing also extend to the animals we consume? Two studies were conducted to address that question. In both studies, participants were given a short writing task designed to elicit an anthropomorphized view of the target followed by measures of their diet plans and decisions regarding dilemmas that pitted human interests against animal and environmental interests. In study 1 (n = 58) the target animal was a cow and in study 2 (n = 146) the target animals were a cow and a pig. The key finding, consistent across both studies, was that gender moderated the effect of the anthropomorphism manipulation. Females expressed less interest in eating beef (Study 1) and more willingness to try a meat-free diet (Study 2) after anthropomorphizing the food animals compared with the control condition. In contrast, males expressed more interest in eating beef and less willingness to try a meat-free diet after anthropomorphizing food animals. The gender differences can be understood as resulting from differences in the way men and women view animals and meat consumption. The pattern found with meat-eating plans did not extend to decisions on the animal-related dilemmas. Thus, anthropomorphizing food animals is not uniformly beneficial or harmful to the animals, but depends on the gender of those asked to humanize.
Effect of feeding fermented and non-fermented palm kernel cake on the performance of broiler chickens: a review

SUMMARY Palm kernel cake (PKC) is a by-product of oil extraction from palm fruits and has been included in poultry diets as an alternative to soybean meal and yellow corn. Due to its high content of fibre, coarse texture and gritty appearance, the use of PKC in poultry nutrition is limited. In order to increase the nutritive value of PKC, there is a tendency nowadays to create solid state fermentation (SSF) by using cellulolytic microbes. This paper reviews the impact of feeding fermented and non-fermented PKC on the performance of broiler chickens. Recent studies have reported that SSF by cellulolytic microorganisms improved the nutritive value of PKC. The nutrient digestibility has been increased significantly in PKC fermented using Paenibacillus polymyxya ATCC 842 or Weisella confusa SR-17b. The availability of valine, histidine, methionine and arginine was 70.42%, 71.50%, 71.92% and 81.15%, respectively, in PKC fermented using P. polymyxa ATCC 842. The digestibility of crude protein (CP) increased by 61.83% and 59.90% in PKC fermented using P. polymyxya ATCC 842 or W. confusa SR-17b, respectively. In addition, body weight gain (BWG) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) improved significantly in broilers fed 15% fermented PKC compared to those fed 15% non-fermented PKC (2000.43 g versus 1823.23 g and 1.75 versus 1.91, respectively). The intestinal Enterobacteriaceae decreased (4.03 CFU/g) and lactic acid bacteria increased (5.56 CFU/g) in birds fed 15% PKC fermented by P. polymyxa ATCC 842. Therefore, fermented PKC can be included in a broiler diet up to 15%, replacing part of soybean and yellow corn in the diet, leading to a decrease in the overall cost of poultry feeding.
Progress through the Early Stages of Assimilation in Play Therapy with a Traumatized Six-Year-Old Girl

ABSTRACT We applied the assimilation of problematic experiences sequence (APES) to a six-year-old girl’s processing of traumatic experiences involving violence and death in play therapy. We analyzed the post-session notes from the first 34 sessions of a much longer treatment, during which the girl repeatedly enacted a drama we called the cottage play, involving characters assumed by the child and characters assigned to the therapist. We distinguished four phases based on changes in play themes. In phase 1, the girl expressed her need for safety in response to an overwhelming internal threat (APES stage 0, warded off/dissociated). In phase 2, she worked to escape and avoid the threat, referenced in the play as monsters and bad memories (APES 1, unwanted thoughts/avoidance). Phase 3 was a brief period of consolidation. In phase 4, she actively faced the trauma, referenced as murderers, soldiers, and death (APES 2, awareness/emergence). Our observations underlined the child–therapist collaboration and dyadic processing. The expressions of the problematic experiences suggested increasing but limited assimilation (stages 0 to 2 out of eight stages). The assimilation model usefully described symbolic processing in play therapy, and the results pointed to tentative elaborations in APES stage descriptions.
Application of Herbal Essential Oil Extract Mixture for Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) Against Nosema ceranae and Nosema apis

Abstract In recent years, interest in herbal essential oil extracts for the treatment of nosemosis has steadily increased. The great importance of this study is in evaluating and validating the synergistic effect caused by the mixture of different herbal extracts. The aim of the study was to investigate through cage experiments and field studies the effect of mixed herbal essential oil extracts and to determine the most suitable application methods and doses of the product in the treatment of nosemosis. The duration of the experiments was three weeks. Results show that the herbal essential oil extract mixture (HEOEM) is effective on both Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae, and on the two together (mixed infection). With respect to application methods, the results revealed that the most suitable method is spraying HEOEM with sterilized distilled water on adult bees and on both sides of frames; 500 µL per cage and 2,000 µL per frame were found to be effective doses of HEOEM in the experimental cages and hives. HEOEM can be a viable alternative to synthetic products in the immediate future as the contents are natural and have no toxic effect on honey bees.
First Evidence of Presence of Varroa underwoodi Mites on Native Apis cerana Colonies in Primorsky Territory of Russia Based on COX1 Gene

Abstract The species of genus Varroa mites parasitize on the honey bees of genus Apis. Unlike the well-studied V. destructor and V. jacobsoni mites, V. underwoodi remain less known. According to English language publications, the proven V. underwoodi distribution area of A. cerana colonies covers Nepal, South Korea, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and China, but not Russia even though it had been described morphometrically in Russian language publications in Russia's Primorsky Territory. According to Vavilov's law (1920) of a homologous series, all the species of V. underwoodi, V. destructor and V. jacobsoni have the ability to spill over onto new hosts. Thus, V. underwoodi is a potential parasite of A. mellifera that should be carefully studied. In this study, V. underwoodi mites in colonies of honey bee subspecies A. c. ussuriensis native to Russia's Primorsky Territory are first proven using both morphometry and mitochondrial COX1 gene sequencing. The genetic divergence and p-distances between V. underwoodi and other Varroa species ranged from 7 to 10% and from 0.072 to 0.099, respectively, which matched the intraspecific level of differences. Two identical northernmost V. underwoodi samples from Russia's Primorsky Territory and China's Jilin province with GenBank accession number MH205176 were assigned as COX1 haplotype China 1 MH205176. The first discovery of V. underwoodi in the Primorsky Territory in northern Asia outlined the northern border of its range.
How Do Investors Value Firms’ Decisions on Obtaining an Eco-label? Evidence from the Fishing Industry

In a context of a pressing need for more sustainable practices, the fishing industry still has doubts about whether the benefits resulting from adopting them outweigh the associated costs. With the aim of providing insights to answer that question, this study presents an analysis of the “it pays to be green” hypothesis by measuring the stock market reaction to the public announcements of compliance with voluntary environmental standards. To this end, an event study has been carried out to investigate whether the announcement that a seafood company has been certificated by the Marine Stewardship Council Chain of Custody Standard influences its shareholders’ decisions and, therefore, the company’s market value. Results show positive average abnormal returns following that event; these returns are greater in the case of those companies with larger size or lower profitability.
Chemical modification of cashew gum with acrylamide using an ultrasound-assisted method

A flocculant based on cashew gum (CG) grafted with polyacrylamide (PAM) was synthesized using potassium persulfate as the chemical initiator and ultrasound energy. The intrinsic viscosity, hydrodynamic radius, and grafting efficiency of the grafted copolymers (CG-g-PAM) were investigated at different monomer and initiator concentrations. The CG-g-PAM copolymers were evaluated in kaolin suspension and river water by using jar test procedure comparatively to a commercial flocculant (Flonex-9045). Ultrasonication resulted in reduced reaction time and high grafting efficiency. The reaction gel point was reached within 10 min and the grafting efficiency was dependent on the acrylamide concentration. The grafted copolymer CG-g-PAM-15285 obtained with 0.285 mmol of initiator showed higher hydrodynamic radius, with flocculation efficacy of 96% comparable with the flocculant Flonex-9045. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016, 133, 43634.
Reflective Data Storytelling for Youth: The CODAP Story Builder

We describe the design of Story Builder, a tool to support adolescents in building interactive multimedia stories that integrate data analysis and visualization with text, images, and other multimodal resources. Story Builder is a plug in for the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP), a free, online, open-source drag-and-drop interactive data analysis system. Based on early prototyping conducted with several 7th grade classrooms, we sought to design a tool that would allow students to (a) integrate their data investigations with relevant personal and contextual information; (b) record the step-by-step process and rationale of their data analysis; and (c) reflect on and share these contextual and process-oriented elements of data analysis work with others. A major goal of Story Builder is to encourage students to consider and incorporate personal, social, and scientific considerations during data analysis.
Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning

In this paper, we investigate the opportunities and limitations that emerge when we engage youth and their families in creating and sharing stories with a computational construction kit, specifically the ScratchJr programming environment. We examine the participation of children and their families in the Family Creative Learning program, a culturally responsive computing context that engages families to create and share stories with computing. Our findings highlight the ways that families discovered new possibilities for their storytelling using the computational construction kit, but they also experienced challenges in representing their stories and themselves. We discuss the opportunities in storytelling with construction kits and possible limitations when designing to support expression, especially among groups historically marginalized from computing spaces.
From Sustainable Mobility to Good Deeds: Supporting School Participation during COVID-19 Emergency through a Playful Education Platform

The COVID-19 emergency has posed many challenges to the worldwide school system leading to school closures and massive adoption of distance education. These events affected not only the way education is delivered but also the overall school community’s wellbeing and cohesion. In this paper, we present a playful education platform originally designed to promote sustainable mobility in schools that has been adapted to support distance learning and community engagement during the health emergency. In the original version of the platform, the home-school distances traveled by students with sustainable means contributed to the advancement of the whole class in a collective virtual trip associated with playful learning material. Conversely, in a revised version of the platform adapted to the new context, students could advance in the virtual trip by reporting the good deeds performed at home. Findings from 161 questionnaires completed by teachers, families, and students, as well as results from online workshops with students, and the analysis of log files at the end of the school year revealed the opportunities and limitations of converting a playful activity conceived for being experienced in class into an online activity to be completed at home. The results show that the adapted version contributed to the school community cohesion and provided a positive experience to all its members, even though it was not able to completely overcome the generalized feeling of isolation. This paper contributes to understanding the social value of collaborative and playful digital activities that involve the entire school community, showing how technology can impact education and support communities in times of crisis.
Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics with Fermi Operator Expansion:Application to Vacancy Defects in Silicon

By using tight-binding molecular dynamics with Fermi operator expansion, we study vacancy defects in Silicon. The code has been developed for checking silicon crystal, point defect formation energies, etc. The crystal conﬁguration for checking varies among the systems of 64, 216, 512, and 1000 atoms. We have also checked the expansion condition of Fermi operator; the smearing width (∆ ε ) , the maximum order of expansion polynomials. The testing shows the good results, compared with the ab initio results. The dynamical behaviors of defects both in the liquid state and the non-self-diﬀusion state, are still being investigated. In order to support the data analysis, a visualization of multi-vacancy is also constructed.
Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families

Accessible introductory programming environments are scarce, and their study within ecological settings (e.g., at home) is almost non-existent. We present ACCembly, an accessible block-based environment that enables children with visual impairments to perform spatial programming activities. ACCembly allows children to assemble tangible blocks to program a multimodal robot. We evaluated this approach with seven families that used the system autonomously at home. Results showed that both the children and family members learned from what was an inclusive and engaging experience. Children leveraged fundamental computational thinking concepts to solve spatial programming challenges; parents took different roles as mediators, some actively teaching and scaffolding, others learning together with their child. We contribute with an environment that enables children with visual impairments to engage in spatial programming activities, an analysis of parent-child interactions, and reflections on inclusive programming environments within a shared family experience.
A Systematic Review of Empowerment in Child-Computer Interaction Research

Based on a systematic review we explore how empowerment has been articulated in 188 papers in Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) literature since 2003. Using an existing framework outlining functional, educational, democratic, mainstream, and critical empowerment, our analysis shows that while empowerment is rarely defined in CCI papers, a wide range of different articulations coexists. We explore the prevalence of different articulations in the literature and how this has shifted over time. We show that although empowerment has been part of the CCI discourse since the early days, a shift can be noticed in terms of how empowerment is articulated from an emphasis on empowerment in its functional meaning towards a more even distribution and the advent of critical articulations of empowerment. We conclude the paper by looking ahead into a new decade of CCI research and posing three questions to assist CCI researchers in more clearly articulating the nature and understanding of empowerment.
SNOW-Vi: an extreme performance variant of SNOW-V for lower grade CPUs

SNOW 3G is a stream cipher used as one of the standard algorithms for data confidentiality and integrity protection over the air interface in the 3G and 4G mobile communication systems. SNOW-V is a recent new version that was proposed as a candidate for inclusion in the 5G standard. In this paper, we propose a faster variant of SNOW-V, called SNOW-Vi, that can reach the targeted speeds for 5G in a software implementation on a larger variety of CPU architectures. SNOW-Vi differs in the way how the LFSR is updated and also introduces a new location of the tap T2 for stronger security, while everything else is kept the same as in SNOW-V. The throughput in a software environment is increased by around 50% in average, up to 92 Gbps. This makes the applicability of the cipher much wider and more use cases are covered. The security analyses previously done for SNOW-V are not affected in most aspects, and SNOW-Vi provides the same 256-bit security level as SNOW-V.
Mapping lignification dynamics with a combination of chemistry, data segmentation and ratiometric analysis

This article describes a new methodology for detailed mapping of the lignification capacity of plant cell walls that we have called “REPRISAL” for REPorter Ratiometrics Integrating Segmentation for Analyzing Lignification. REPRISAL consists of the combination of three separate approaches. In the first approach, H*, G* and S* monolignol chemical reporters, corresponding to p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol and sinapyl alcohol, are used to label the growing lignin polymer in a fluorescent triple labelling strategy based on the sequential use of 3 main bioorthogonal chemical reactions. In the second step, an automatic parametric and/or artificial intelligence (AI) segmentation algorithm is developed that assigns fluorescent image pixels to 3 distinct cell wall zones corresponding to cell corners (CC), compound middle lamella (CML) and secondary cell walls (SCW). The last step corresponds to the exploitation of a ratiometric approach enabling statistical analyses of differences in monolignol reporter distribution (ratiometric method 1) and proportions (ratiometric method 2) within the different cell wall zones. In order to demonstrate the potential of REPRISAL for investigating lignin formation we firstly describe its use to map developmentally-related changes in the lignification capacity of WT Arabidopsis interfascicular fiber cells. We then show how it can be used to reveal subtle phenotypical differences in lignification by analyzing the Arabidopsis prx64 peroxidase mutant and provide further evidence for the implication of the AtPRX64 protein in floral stem lignification. Finally, we demonstrate the general applicability of REPRISAL by using it to map lignification capacity in poplar, flax and maize.
Effects of Probiotic Bacteria Lactobacillaceae on the Gut Microbiota in Children With Celiac Disease Autoimmunity: A Placebo-Controlled and Randomized Clinical Trial

Disturbances of the gut microbiota may influence the development of various autoimmune diseases. This study investigated the effects of supplementations with the probiotic bacteria, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum HEAL9 and Lacticaseibacillus paracasei 8700:2, on the microbial community in children with celiac disease autoimmunity (CDA). The study included 78 genetically predisposed children for celiac disease with elevated levels of tissue transglutaminase autoantibodies (tTGA) signaling for ongoing CDA. Among those children, 38 received a placebo and 40 received the probiotic supplement daily for 6 months. Fecal and plasma samples were collected at baseline and after 3 and 6 months, respectively. The bacterial community was investigated with 16S rRNA gene sequencing and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP), and tTGA levels were measured in radiobinding assays. In children that received probiotic supplementation, the relative abundance of Lactobacillaceae increased over time, while it remained unchanged in the placebo group. There was no overall correlation between tTGA levels and bacterial genus except for a positive correlation between Dialister and IgG-tTG in the probiotic group. The abundance of specific bacterial amplicon sequence variant (ASV:s) changed during the study in both groups, indicating that specific bacterial strains might be affected by probiotic supplementation.
A Possible Next Covid-19 Pandemic: The Violence Against Women and Its Psychiatric Consequences

Citation: De Berardis D, Gianfelice G, Fornaro M, Vellante F, Ventriglio A, Marini G, Pettorruso M, Martinotti G, Fraticelli S and Di Giannantonio M (2021) A Possible Next Covid-19 Pandemic: The Violence Against Women and Its Psychiatric Consequences. Front. Psychiatry 12:650671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021. 650671 A Possible Next Covid-19 Pandemic: The Violence Against Women and Its Psychiatric Consequences