Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bringing Work Back In Islamic Perspectives

Religion and work are seldom discussed. The two have caused scholars to question the religion’s role with work. This paper reviews research on the integrate between religion and work by examining issues of concept, definition, measurement, and reviewing research that examines the relationship of work and religion with respect to: different times, types of people, organize human interactions and sources of knowledge. We then discuss the methodological requirement for reintegrating work studies into social institutional theory and indicate what the conceptual payoffs of such integration might be. These payoffs include breaking new conceptual ground, resolving theoretical puzzles and envisioning the nature of new social institutions.
Syddansk Universitet Assessment of biopsy-proven liver fibrosis by two-dimensional shear wave elastography An individual patient data based meta-analysis

Herrmann, Eva; de Lédinghen, Victor; Cassinotto, Christophe; Chu, Winnie C-W; Leung, Vivian Y-F; Ferraioli, Giovanna; Filice, Carlo; Castera, Laurent; Vilgrain, Valérie; Ronot, Maxime; Dumortier, Jérôme; Guibal, Aymeric; Pol, Stanislas; Trebicka, Jonel; Jansen, Christian; Strassburg, Christian P; Zheng, Rongqin; Zheng, Jian; Francque, Sven; Vanwolleghem, Thomas; Vonghia, Luisa; Manesis, Emanuel K; Zoumpoulis, Pavlos; Sporea, Ioan; Thiele, Maja; Krag, Aleksander; Cohen-Bacrie, Claude; Criton, Aline; Gay, Joel; Deffieux, Thomas; Friedrich-Rust, Mireen
COMPETÊNCIAS DE ESTUDO E ESTRATÉGIAS DE APRENDIZAGEM NO ENSINO SUPERIOR

Para que o aluno seja considerado competente em seus estudos e necessario que possua comportamentos autorregulatorios e faca uso das estrategias de aprendizagem. Considerando essas habilidades como essenciais para o bom desempenho do aluno de nivel superior, este estudo teve como objetivo principal verificar se existe relacao entre as competencias de estudo e as estrategias de aprendizagem. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de campo, da qual participaram 284 estudantes de dois cursos de uma universidade particular do Sul de Minas Gerais. Foi utilizada a Escala de Avaliacao de Competencias de Estudos – ACE e a Escala de Avaliacao de Estrategias de Aprendizagem EEA-U. Os resultados apontaram para uma amostra com nivel bom nas competencias de estudos, porem com menos uso de estrategias de aprendizagem. Entre todos os fatores da ACE e da EEA-U e seus totais houve correlacoes positivas e estatisticamente significativas, com magnitudes que variaram de fracas a moderadas. As implicacoes psicoeducacionais das variaveis investigadas sao discutidas.
Multi-Level Contact Oxidation Process Performance When Treating Automobile Painting Wastewater: Pollutant Removal Efficiency and Microbial Community Structures

This study applied a multi-level contact oxidation process system in a pilot-scale experiment to treat automobile painting wastewater. The experimental wastewater had been pre-treated through a series of physicochemical methods, but the water still contained a high concentration of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and had poor biodegradability. After the biological treatment, the COD concentration of effluent could stay below 300 mg/L. The study analyzed the effects of hydraulic residence time (HRT) on COD, ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N), and total nitrogen (TN). The optimal HRT was 8 h; at that time, removal efficiencies of COD, ammonia nitrogen, and total nitrogen were 83.8%, 86.3%, and 65%, respectively. The system also greatly reduced excess sludge production; the removal efficiency was 82.8% with a HRT of 8 h. The study applied high-throughput pyrosequencing technology to evaluate the microbial diversity and community structures in distinct stages of the biological reactor. The relevance between process performance and microbial community structure was analyzed at the phylum and class level. The abundant Firmicutes made a large contribution to improving the biodegradability of painting wastewater through hydrolysis acidification and reducing sludge production through fermentation in the biological reactor.
Enhancing Competencies for the Future Career of the Practicing Quantity Surveyor Research Paper: May 2020

supported by Thomson (1968). The practicing QS, a view is to apply the outcome of many analyses in solving problems specific to each project (Badu and Amoah, 2004) must key into the concept of regular advancement of his competencies or become irrelevant in an ever-evolving industry. From being a trade-based vocation, the quantity surveying profession has evolved into a full-fledged profession that is widely accepted in the construction industry. Although the range of services the QS renders are Abstract: The construction industry recognizes quantity surveyors as construction economists with comprehensive and varied duties that support cost-effective construction and property development projects. The core competencies of the quantity surveyor include the determination of project budgets, measurement of project quantities, preparation of contract documents, contract administration and preparation of Final Accounts. Notwithstanding his immense contributions, some disciplines in the built environment have been critical of the works and services provided by the quantity surveyor (QS). Some even question the significance of appointing him/her as a project consultant. They criticize that quantity surveying services could be distributed. As per them the amalgamation of a set of competency standards into professional quantity surveyor's training or continuous professional development (CPD). Even clients have become increasingly interested in the competency levels of the services professionals provide, especially in the wake of and quest for ‘value for money’. Interestingly, competence can take place in any domain. It is related to professional occupations where roles can be complex. Consequent upon this, the profession must regroup, take stock of what this challenge portends, and embark on self-validation of the scope and relevance of its services to avoid becoming extinct in the future. The research identified five new competency standards for quantity surveyors, and its findings revealed that three of these new competencies (advance financial management, leadership &general management skills, and marketing) are among the top ten competencies practicing quantity surveyors need to enhance their proficiency level in service delivery.
Rotor Position and Speed Estimation Method for Magnetically Suspended PMSM Based on Modified Sliding Mode Observer

This paper proposes a method of rotor position and speed estimation for magnetically suspended permanent magnetic synchronous motor (PMSM) based on modified sliding mode observer(SMO). In order to weaken the chatting phenomenon, the estimated back-EMF is brought in the current model and a hyperbolic tangent function is used. In order eliminate the high-order harmonic components in the estimated back-EMF, an adaptive low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency varies with the motor electrical frequency is adopted. The stability of the algorithm is proved by the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the validity of the method is verified by simulation and experiment. Keywords-magnetic flywheel energy storage system; permanent magnetic synchronous motor; sliding mode observer; lyapunov; adaptive low-pass filter
Title Plasticity in foraging behaviour as a possible response toclimate change

Climate change is regarded as one of the major concerns of the 21st Century, with mean temperatures expected to increase by about 3 °C over the next 100 years. Species responses to climate change are not consistent, with some species apparently able to respond more quickly than others, thus producing changes in community structure. One increasingly common observation is that species at lower trophic levels respond more quickly to change in climate than species at higher levels. This can result in, for example, the timing of a predator's peak food requirements being separated in time from the point at which their prey is most available. It has been suggested that this creates an additional risk for the persistence of species at high trophic levels as the climate alters; there is an alternative possibility — that predators may change their diets in response to changing prey availability. Models of diet choice make several predictions, for example they suggest that whether a predator includes a secondary prey into its diet depends on the availability of the primary prey and not on characteristics of the secondary prey. By switching between one prey type and another, a predator population may be able to persist in a particular location longer than they would otherwise. Using a simple demonstration model we show that this idea is theoretically plausible.
Gratitude across the life span: Age differences and links to subjective well-being

Abstract Gratitude has been described as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism that is relevant to healthy psychological and interpersonal outcomes. Questions remain as to whether the presence and benefits of gratitude are consistent from young adulthood to old age; prior research has yielded mixed evidence. We examined the magnitude and direction of age differences in gratitude in three samples (combined N = 31,206). We also examined whether gratitude was associated with greater/lesser well-being at different periods in the life course. We found that the experience of gratitude was greatest in older adults and least in middle aged and younger adults. Further, we found that the associations between gratitude and subjective well-being remained relatively constant across the lifespan. Findings are discussed from a developmental perspective.
Institutions and intellectual property: the case of software industry in Brazil

This study contributes to the analysis of institutional change, considering the conditions in an organizational field and the position held by institutional entrepreneurs. We studied the case of the change in intellectual property rights in Brazil in the 80’s and 90’s decades of the last century. Data sources were interviews and document research that were analysed on their content. The examination of the process of institutional change on intellectual property of software revealed a complex interaction between two organizational fields, one local and another global. Initially protected from external threats by a market reserve policy, the local organizational field legitimated practices that have been condemned in the global organizational field. We concluded that multiple and contradictory institutions favoured the emergence of the institutional change as well as agency of powerful actors at the centre of the global organizational field.
Topological Convolutional Neural Networks

There is considerable interest in making convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that learn on less data, are better at generalizing, and are more easily interpreted. This work introduces the Topological CNN (TCNN), which encompasses several topologically deﬁned convolutional methods. Manifolds with important relationships to the natural image space are used to parameterize image ﬁlters which are used as convolutional weights in a TCNN. These manifolds also parameterize slices in layers of a TCNN across which the weights are localized. We show evidence that TCNNs learn faster, on less data, with fewer learned parameters, and with greater generalizability and interpretability than conventional CNNs.
When to Leave Your Office ? A Schedule-Driven Approach to Demand Shifting

In this paper, we propose an approach that alleviates rush hour congestion through scheduling vehicles’ access to the bottleneck road segments. We consider a setting in which each participating driver has a window of feasible departure time, and has to access several bottleneck road segments (e.g., tunnels or bridges) during the driver’s itinerary. Our goal is to produce a timetable, which provides a specific departure time for each driver so that the peak traffic through the considered bottlenecks can be minimized. We formulate this as an optimization problem with a set of constraints, each representing a temporal range in which a participating driver can start to commute. Our objective is to minimize the combined peak volumes of all bottleneck road segments. We provide a precise definition to this problem and propose an integer linear programming (ILP) approach to solve this problem. The ILP formulation proposed here uses two types of constraints to direct the optimization: (1) the window constraint, which corresponds to each driver’s temporal flexibility, and (2) the capacity constraint, which caps each bottleneck’s peak usage. This approach is analyzed through simulations on real-world map data of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Compared to a baseline case where each vehicle departs at its earliest time and a randomized approach using a random departure time, our scheduling approach is found to reduce the mean travel time by 15 to 20%. We also explored the impact of different penetration rates, i.e., percentages of vehicles participating in the scheduling service, and found that the improvement is still substantial even with just 40% of adoption.
Stochastic Evolution of Distributions - Applications to CDS indices

We use mixture of percentile functions to model credit spread evolution, which allows to obtain a flexible description of credit indices and their components at the same time. We show regularity results in order to extend mixture percentile to the dynamic case. We characterise the stochastic differential equation of the flow of cumulative distribution function and we link it with the ordered list of the components of the credit index. The main application is to introduce a functional version of Bollinger bands. The crossing of bands by the spread is associated with a trading signal. Finally, we show the richness of the signals produced by functional Bollinger bands compared with standard one with a pratical example.
Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Macroalgae : Detailed Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms

Hydrothermal process has been identified as a promising technology for pretreatment of wet biomass, particularly marine macroalgae. The key advantage of this technology is that it does not require any chemical solvent but only water as its reaction medium. Hence, drying of macroalgae prior to the hydrothermal process is certainly unnecessary. In fact, the potential of macrolagae as renewable resources has been extensively discussed in numerous studies. Most of the researchers highlighted the importance of pretreatment process of macroalgae in order to enhance the following processes. The remarkable point of macrolagae is that this biomass contains substantial amount of valuable carbohydrates. Thus, recovery and utilization of these carbohydrates are essentially desired. Owing to that, this research was initiated with the main idea is to study the behavior of carbohydrates in macroalgae, specifically kelp prior to its effective utilization. The research methodology involved in this study consists of two main sections, which are (i) hydrolysis of alginic acid for recovery of its uronic acids, and (ii) hydrothermal treatment process for kinetics study. In the first section, mild concentration of hydrochloric acid (HCl) was employed for the hydrolysis process, which was conducted for about 2.5 h in total, at round 90 °C. The desired uronic acids, mannuronic acid (MA) and guluronic acid (GA) were recovered separately via pH adjustment at 2.85. The undesired impurities were removed through additional
SHORT VERSUS LONG AND COLLAPSARS VERSUS NON-COLLAPSARS: A QUANTITATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are traditionally divided into long and short according to their durations (≶2 s). It was generally believed that this reflects a different physical origin: collapsars (long) and non-collapsars (short). We have recently shown that the duration distribution of collapsars is flat, namely, independent of the duration, at short durations. Using this model for the distribution of Collapsars we determine the duration distribution of non-Collapsars and estimate the probability that a burst with a given duration (and hardness) is a Collapsar or not. We find that this probability depends strongly on the spectral window of the observing detector. While the commonly used limit of 2 s is conservative and suitable for BATSE bursts, 40% of Swift's bursts shorter than 2 s are Collapsars and the division ≶0.8 s is more suitable for Swift. We find that the duration overlap of the two populations is very large. On the one hand there is a non-negligible fraction of non-Collapsars longer than 10 s, while on the other hand even bursts shorter than 0.5 s in the Swift sample have a non-negligible probability to be Collapsars. Our results enable the construction of non-Collapsar samples while controlling the Collapsar contamination. They also highlight that no firm conclusions can be drawn based on a single burst and they have numerous implications concerning previous studies of non-Collapsar properties that were based on the current significantly contaminated Swift samples of localized short GRBs. Specifically (1) all known short bursts with z > 1 are most likely Collapsars; (2) the only short burst with a clear jet break is most likely a Collapsar, indicating our lack of knowledge concerning non-Collapsar beaming; and (3) the existence of non-Collapsars with durations up to 10 s imposes new challenges to non-Collapsar models.
Non chiral ” primary superfields in the AdSd + 1 / CFTd correspondence 1

We consider some long multiplets describing bulk massive excitations of M-theory two-branes and IIB string three-branes which correspond to “non chiral” primary operators of the boundary OSp(8/4) and SU(2, 2/4) superconformal field theories. Examples of such multiplets are the “radial” modes on the branes, including up to spin 4 excitations, which may be then considered as prototypes of states which are not described by the K-K spectrum of the corresponding supergravity theories on AdS4 × S7 and AdS5 × S5 respectively. Work supported in part by EEC under TMR contract ERBFMRX-CT96-0045 (LNF Frascati and Politecnico di Torino), Angelo Della Riccia fellowship and by DOE grant DE-FG03-91ER40662
P o S ( L H C P 2 0 1 8 ) 0 3 2 LUCID : the ATLAS Luminosity Detector

A precise measurement of the LHC luminosity is a key component of the ATLAS program: its uncertainty is a systematic error in all cross-section measurements, from the Standard Model processes to new discoveries, and for some precise measurements it can be the dominant error. To be predictive a precision compatible with PDF uncertainty ( 1-2%) is desired. LUCID (LUminosity Cherenkov Integrating Detector) is a luminometer sensitive to charged particles produced at the interaction point. It is the only ATLAS detector totally dedicated to this purpose and the main one during LHC RUN 2. After the RUN 1 shutdown, LUCID had to be redesigned in order to cope with the data taking conditions foreseen for RUN 2. The new detector, calibration system and electronics will be described, together with a preliminary result of the systematic uncertainty on the 2017 luminosity measurement.
Epstein-Barr Virus Large Tegument Protein BPLF 1 Contributes to Innate Immune Evasion through Interference with Toll-Like Receptor Signaling

Viral infection triggers an early host response through activation of pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLR). TLR signaling cascades induce production of type I interferons and proinflammatory cytokines involved in establishing an anti-viral state as well as in orchestrating ensuing adaptive immunity. To allow infection, replication, and persistence, (herpes)viruses employ ingenious strategies to evade host immunity. The human gamma-herpesvirus EpsteinBarr virus (EBV) is a large, enveloped DNA virus persistently carried by more than 90% of adults worldwide. It is the causative agent of infectious mononucleosis and is associated with several malignant tumors. EBV activates TLRs, including TLR2, TLR3, and TLR9. Interestingly, both the expression of and signaling by TLRs is attenuated during productive EBV infection. Ubiquitination plays an important role in regulating TLR signaling and is controlled by ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinases (DUBs). The EBV genome encodes three proteins reported to exert in vitro deubiquitinase activity. Using active site-directed probes, we show that one of these putative DUBs, the conserved herpesvirus large tegument protein BPLF1, acts as a functional DUB in EBV-producing B cells. The BPLF1 enzyme is expressed during the late phase of lytic EBV infection and is incorporated into viral particles. The N-terminal part of the large BPLF1 protein contains the catalytic site for DUB activity and suppresses TLR-mediated activation of NF-kB at, or downstream of, the TRAF6 signaling intermediate. A catalytically inactive mutant of this EBV protein did not reduce NF-kB activation, indicating that DUB activity is essential for attenuating TLR signal transduction. Our combined results show that EBV employs deubiquitination of signaling intermediates in the TLR cascade as a mechanism to counteract innate anti-viral immunity of infected hosts. Citation: van Gent M, Braem SGE, de Jong A, Delagic N, Peeters JGC, et al. (2014) Epstein-Barr Virus Large Tegument Protein BPLF1 Contributes to Innate Immune Evasion through Interference with Toll-Like Receptor Signaling. PLoS Pathog 10(2): e1003960. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat. 1003960 Editor: Laurent Coscoy, University of California Berkeley, United States of America Received July 5, 2013; Accepted January 14, 2014; Published February 20, 2014 Copyright: 2014 van Gent et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This study was financially supported by the Netherlands Scientific Organization (NWO Vidi 917.76.330 to MER). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: M.E. Ressing@lumc.nl