Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Halal Awareness and Halal Certification on Interest in Buying Halal Products During Covid-19 Pandemic

This study aims to determine the effect of halal awareness and halal certification on interest in buying halal products during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study used quantitative methods to collect data as many as 138 respondents. The results of this study were analyzed through validity, reliability, R square, T test and F test using SPSS version 22 as an analytical tool. Based on the test results, the results showed: halal awareness had a significant positive effect on buying interest in halal products. Halal certification has a significant positive effect on interest in buying halal products. The implications of this research are expected as a reference in order to measure the extent to which the object of this research is to increase awareness about halal products and knowledge of the use of halal certification in the products to be purchased
Drivers of management accounting adaptability: The agility lens

Purpose - Management accounting practices are expected to adapt and evolve with changing information requirements. The purpose of this study is to determine factors that drive management accounting adaptability in organisations using the agility lens. Design/Method - This study identifies three factors that drive management accounting adaptability through their support of agility. Specifically, the impact of top management team knowledge, team-based structures, and information system flexibility on management accounting adaptability is examined. The hypotheses are tested using data collected from an online survey of Australian and New Zealand companies. Findings - The results support the proposed relations and explain a significant variance in management accounting adaptability. Also, consistent with previous findings, a positive association between management accounting adaptability and management accounting effectiveness was found. Research Implications - This study illustrates the value of using the agility lens in the context of management accounting change, which is underexplored in the accounting literature relative to other disciplines such as production economics. Practical Implications - This study recommends management to refrain from behaviour that encourages and maintains the status quo. Influencing the factors identified in this study can encourage more innovation in management accounting and improve adaptability when changes to organisational contingencies occur. Originality/Value - This paper explores and adopts the concept of agility to complement dominant theories in the management accounting change literature. The concept of agility is unpacked and applied to review existing literature to explain how management accounting may become more adaptable and open to evolving. The resulting model identifies factors that support sense-making and responding as constituents of agility. This study also extends a recent study by Yigitbasioglu (2016) on the link between IT and MAA by building a more powerful model in terms of scope and explanatory power to explain the ability of management accounting to change over time.
Concurrent Planning: Understanding the Placement Experiences of Resource Families

Abstract Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assessed at 2 months and 1 year after placement. At Time 1, resource parents who had more birth parent visits, more concerns about legal issues, and more concerns about their interactions with the child welfare system had more negative perceptions of the placement. Although concerns decreased over time, specific concurrent planning concerns (i.e., legal issues, child welfare agency issues, birth parent visits) at Time 2 were associated with greater concerns among resource parents about the placement in general as well as about child development and behavior, perceived attachment, and their own parenting. Additionally, those with infants placed older held more concerns about their attachment to the child, the child’s attachment to them, and the child’s behavior. While concurrent planning is positive for infants in foster care, the process creates stressors for resource parents.
The Integrative Effects of Biochar and ZnO Nanoparticles for Enhancing Rice Productivity and Water Use Efficiency under Irrigation Deficit Conditions

Water stress is considered one of the most environmental hazards that threaten agricultural productivity. Therefore, two field experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of biochar (6 t ha−1 as soil amendment), ZnO NPs (50 mg L−1 as foliar application), and their combination on growth, yield, and water use efficiency (WUE) of rice grown under four irrigation deficit treatments (i.e., irrigation every 3, 6, 9 and 12 d). The irrigation every 3 d was considered as the control in the current study. For this purpose, biochar was prepared through the pyrolysis of corn stalk and rice husk at 350 °C for 3 h, while sonochemical combined with the precipitation method was used to prepare zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) from zinc acetate. The morphological structures of the produced biochar and ZnO NPs were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 gas adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results exhibited that the combination of biochar alongside ZnO NPs resulted in a positive significant effect on the physiological traits such as chlorophyll content, relative water content, plant height, and leaf area index as well as yield-associated components (i.e., number of panicles m−2, number of filled grain per panicle, 1000-grain weight), and biological and grain yield ha−1 when rice plants were irrigated every 9 days without a significant difference with those obtained from the control treatment (irrigation every 3 d). In conclusion, the combination of biochar and ZnO NPs could be recommended as an optimal approach to maximize both grain yield ha−1 and WUE of rice.
The Birth Parents’ Representation by Prospective Adoptive Parents Couples

Abstract The research presented is a qualitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a multi-methodological structure. The sample is composed by 25 prospective adoptive parents couples (n = 50 subjects) who show an initial interest in adoption. The research results indicate that the representation by the prospective adoptive parents is a crucial one, in many cases characterized by a significant negativity or ambivalence as well as the child’s and his pre-adoptive history representation. So, it is important to deepen not only the topic of family of origin, but also its associated topics like child history and child history representation during the assessment and training of prospective adoptive couples.
Correlation between autoantibodies and internal organs involvement in Iranian systemic sclerosis patients

Introduction: Scleroderma is a rare connective tissue disease that leads to fibrosis of the skin and different internal organ. Several autoantibodies can predict disease course and differences among various races. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the correlation between autoantibodies and scleroderma organ involvement among the population living in the central region of Iran. Patients and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in which we reviewed the medical records of patients in the Al-Zahra hospital systemic sclerosis (SSc) clinic in Isfahan. We used the EUROLINE Systemic Sclerosis panel test kit to detect antibody profiles of patients in blood samples. The pertinent physical findings and laboratory data showing organ involvement were extracted from the hospital medical records. Results: Forty-six patients were enrolled in our study (40 patients were women). We found a significant correlation between Scl-70 and diffuse scleroderma, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and cardiac involvement. Anti-centromere antibodies CENP-A correlated with limited scleroderma and digital ulcers. PM/Scl75, PM/Scl100, Ku, and Ro52 autoantibodies correlated with the presence of tendon friction rub. Anti-Th/To is associated with a higher prevalence of myopathy. Cardiomyopathy was more common among patients with higher levels of NOR-90, anti-Th/To, PM/Scl100, Ku, and Ro52 autoantibodies. The remained autoantibodies showed no significant correlation with the clinical features of SSc. Conclusion: Some autoantibodies in this study predict organ damage in Iranian scleroderma patients.
Comparative study of advanced computational techniques for estimating the compressive strength of UHPC

The effect of raw materials on the compressive strength of concrete is a complex process, especially in the case of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), where a higher number of inter-dependent parameters are involved in the strength development. In this era of digitalization, advanced machine learning methods are used to predict the material's mechanical characteristics because of their superior performance compared to conventional and nonlinear statistical regression models. Thus, the goal of the current study is to estimate the compressive strength of UHPC from the designed raw materials using advanced machine learning techniques. The compressive strength of UHPC is predicted from the 14 input parameters, i.e., cement, fly ash, slag, silica fume, nano-silica, limestone powder, sand, coarse aggregate, quartz powder, water, superplasticizer, PE fiber, steel fiber, and curing time. A total of eight machine learning models were compared that include multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLPNN), MLPNN Bootstrap aggregating (MLPNN-BA), MLPNN adaptive boosting (MLPNN-AB), Gradient boosting (GB), Decision tree (DT), DT Bootstrap aggregating (DT-BA), DT adaptive boosting (DT-AB) and Random Forest (RNF). The validation and performance evaluation of the above models were checked by using K-fold cross-validation, mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RSME), coefficient of determination (R2), relative root mean square error (RRMSE), performance index (PI), and Nash Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE). The optimal model was selected based on the results of all statistical checks. It was found the ensembled machine learning models especially decision tree-based models outperform the neural network-based models with higher accuracy and low error. Thus, the recommended machine learning model is random forest having superior prediction capacity followed by DT Bootstrap aggregating and DT adaptive boosting.
forceX and forceR: A mobile setup and r package to measure and analyse a wide range of animal closing forces

Animal closing forces such as bite and pinch forces may determine access to food and mates and are therefore important performance metrics related to fitness. Previous measurement setups to obtain in vivo closing force data were often custom‐made for each study, hampering comparisons among different studies. Additionally, most setups were limited in the size range of taxa they can measure, especially towards smaller species. We introduce forceX, a closing force measurement setup that allows the measurement of a large range of taxa with a great size variety, and forceR, an accompanying software package to analyse the data. forceX is mostly based on off‐the‐shelf components and 3D‐printed or metal‐turned parts. Gape distance can be modified during measurements, and replaceable tip elements of varying thickness allow a minimal gape distance of ~0.3 mm. Thus, forceX allows closing force measurements of smaller species, while still being able to measure medium‐sized animals as well. Animals are not harmed during the measurements, and the whole setup can be assembled within minutes, is battery‐powered, light‐weight and transportable. The forceX system is able to accurately (linear regression of measured forces vs. control forces: p < 0.001; R2 > 0.999; n = 1,609) and reproducibly (mean of absolute relative errors = 0.93%; SD = 1.42%; n = 1,609) measure forces across three orders of magnitude (0.01–10 N). Importantly, whole force curves, instead of just maximum force values are stored, and forceR allows extracting individual peak shapes from these curves to facilitate the statistical analysis of both maximum force values and peak curve shapes. forceX and forceR facilitate rapid and minimally invasive in vivo measurements and analyses of closing forces in animals across a wider range of taxa than previously possible, including, for example, many small species of the megadiverse insects. The system allows studying the characteristics, predictors, and evolution of both maximum closing forces and force curve shapes.
What’s your image of the child? Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum

ABSTRACT Research literature acknowledges the influential role of teachers’ beliefs on their interpretations, decision-making and pedagogical practices. It also suggests that initial teacher education (ITE) plays a relevant role in explicitly addressing beliefs that students hold. This study aims to examine beliefs about the child of prospective early childhood education (ECE) teachers at two stages of their ITE, before and after completing field-based practicum. Thirty-four students attending a professional Master in ECE participated in the study. Students’ written narratives on the image of the child were collected in both stages, with data analysis allowing for the emergence of eight categories. Changes in the image of the child were identified, with a tendency towards a more agentic, non-universalistic, rights-based perspective about the child at the end of the practicum, but also the persistence of beliefs less responsive to children’s rights. Implications are drawn on the relevance of recursive praxeological dialogues among beliefs, practices and theories in ECE teacher education programmes.
Time to Treatment Intensification in Patients Receiving DPP4 Inhibitors Versus Sulfonylureas as the First Add-On to Metformin Monotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: To verify whether, in patients on metformin (MET) monotherapy for type 2 diabetes (T2D), the add-on of a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor (DPP4i) compared to a sulfonylurea (SU) can delay the time to the subsequent treatment intensification (TI). Methods: Population-based administrative data banks from four Italian geographic areas were used. Patients aged ≥18 years on MET monotherapy receiving first DPP4i or SU dispensing between 2008 and 2015 (cohort entry) were followed up to the occurrence of TI (insulin dispensing or add-on of a third non-insulin hypoglicemic >180 days after cohort entry), treatment discontinuation, switch, cancer, death, TI occurrence within, end of data availability, end of study period (31 December 2016), whichever came first. Patients on MET + DPP4i were matched 1:1 with those on MET + SU by sex, age, year of cohort entry, and data bank. Hazard Ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated using multivariable Cox regression model including matching variables and potential confounders measured at baseline. Different sensitivity analyses were performed: i) matching at 180 days after cohort entry, ii) intent to treat (ITT) analysis, iii) matching by duration of MET monotherapy, iv) matching by propensity score. Results: The matched study cohort included 10,600 patients. Overall, 763 TI were observed (4.5/100 person-years; mean follow-up = 1.6 years). The primary analysis showed no difference in time to TI between the two groups (HR = 1.02; 95% CI = 0.88–1.19). Sensitivity analyses confirmed this result, except from the ITT analysis (HR = 1.27; 1.13–1.43). Conclusion: The use of a DPP4i rather than a SU as add-on to MET monotherapy was not associated with a delay in treatment intensification.
Multimodal Feedback Workshop for English Teachers in Designing Questions Based on Higher Order Thinking Skill

This study aimed to determine whether or not there is quality improvement of HOTS-based questions through multimodal feedback made by English teachers. Besides, this study intended to find out the forms of feedback given during the implementation of multimodal feedback and English teachers' perception of multimodal feedback in designing HOTS-based English questions workshops. This study used a mixed-method involving 30 English teachers willing to participate in the training. Furthermore, research data collection was done through the provision of tests, interviews, and observations. Several experts have validated the instruments used in this study. The data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS, while qualitative data in interviews and observation sheets were analyzed using several stages, including data reduction, data display, and concluding. The results of this study indicated a quality improvement of HOTS-based English questions that have been made by English teachers, which was evidenced by an increase in the results from pretest to posttest. The next finding is that three types of feedback helped teachers make HOTS-based English questions through multimodal feedback: peer feedback, oral conference, and written feedback. Another finding was that English teachers gave a positive perception towards designing HOTS-based English questions through multimodal feedback because these activities provided positive input on their ability to make HOTS-based English questions. In conclusion, the findings of this study benefit English teachers in designing HOTS-based questions, so that teachers can implement the result of the workshop in the teaching and learning process.
Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Does Optimism about Women’s Representation in Elected Office Matter?

ABSTRACT Recent years have seen an unprecedented number of women candidates running for public office. Does the resulting potential for greater gender equality in political representation have downstream effects on individual-level political attitudes, particularly among women voters? Given the partisan imbalance in women’s candidacies, do Republican and Democratic voters experience the growing gender parity in political representation differently? We explore these questions by employing a survey experiment in the 2018 Cooperative Election Study (CES) that manipulates the perceived trajectory of women’s representation in politics. Our results suggest that priming future optimism as compared to pessimism in women’s representation has little overall effect on the gender gap in political efficacy and interest, but that party affiliation can be a moderator in this context. We discuss the broader implications of our findings for women’s engagement in politics.
Evidence for Dopamine Abnormalities Following Acute Methamphetamine Exposure Assessed by Neuromelanin-Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Background Neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging (NM-MRI) is a newly developed MRI technique that provides a non-invasive way to indirectly measure of dopamine (DA) function. This study aimed to determine NM concentrations in brain regions following acute methamphetamine (MA) administration using NM-MRI and to explore whether NM-MRI can be used as a biomarker of DA function in non-neurodegenerative diseases. Methods Baseline NM-MRI, T1-weighted and T2-weighted images were acquired from 27 rats before drug/placebo injection. The control group (n = 11) received acute placebo (Normal saline), while the experimental group (n = 16) received acute MA. NM-MRI scans were performed 5, 30, 60 and 90 min after injection. Regions of interest (ROIs), including the caudate putamen (CP), nucleus accumbens (NAc), hippocampus (HIP), substantia nigra (SN) and crus cerebri (CC), were manually drawn by an experienced radiologist. NM-MRI signal intensity in five brain regions at different time points (baseline and 5, 30, 60, and 90 min) were analyzed. Results In both the control and experimental groups, at each time point (baseline and 5, 30, 60, and 90 min), the SN exhibited significantly higher NM-MRI signal intensity than the other brain regions (P < 0.05). In addition, acute MA administration resulted in a continuous upward trend in NM-MRI signal intensity in each brain region over time. However, there was no such trend over time in the control group. The NM-MRI signal intensity of SN in the experimental group was significantly higher at the 60 and 90 min compared with that in the control group (P values were 0.042 and 0.042 respectively). Within experimental group, the NM-MRI signal intensity of SN was significantly higher at the 60 and 90 min compared with that before MA administration (P values were 0.023 and 0.011 respectively). Increased amplitudes and rates of NM-MRI signal intensity were higher in the SN than in other brain regions after MA administration. Conclusion Our results indicated that NM was mainly deposited in the SN, and the conversion of DA to NM was most significant in the SN after acute MA exposure. Increased DA release induced by acute MA exposure may lead to increased accumulation of NM in multiple brain regions that can be revealed by NM-MRI. NM-MRI may serve as a powerful imaging tool that could have diverse research and clinical applications for detecting pathological changes in drug addiction and related non-neurodegenerative diseases.
The process of burnout among high-performance sport coaches

Being subject to a great range of demands is believed to increase burnout propensity in highperformance coaches. This study is the first to explore whether the four step selfdetermination theory process model is a valuable framework to better understand the process influencing burnout and well-being in high-performance coaches (N = 343, M = 40.33 years) throughout a competitive season. Findings indicated that coaches on average increased in burnout and decreased in well-being. Hypotheses were to a large extent supported: change in perceived environment → change in psychological need satisfaction → change in autonomous motivation → change in burnout and well-being.
Use of protected methionine in diets for finishing pigs

Objective: To evaluate the substitution of regular DL-methionine (RM) by protected DL-methionine (PM) in the productive performance of finishing pigs. Design/Methodology/Approach: 50 pigs (56.85 ± 2.02 kg of live weight) distributed in a completely randomized experimental design were used. The treatments consisted of the substitution of MR by MP (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%) in diets for finishing I and II pigs. Results: As the MP in the diet increased, the gain of final live weight (LWF) and backfat thickness (BFT) in finishing I increased linearly (p ≤ 0.05), while feed:gain ratio (FGR) decreased linearly (p = 0.07). PM at finishing II phase linearly (p ≤ 0.10) improved feed intake, FGR, and longissimus muscle area. Study Limitations/Implications: Feeding pigs by including protected amino acids improves their productive response. Findings/Conclusions: The use of protected methionine in diets for finishing I pigs improves some productive response variables.