Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB): Influence of Alkali and Acid Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)

Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB) are abundance residues from palm oil plantation was recognised as a potential material for manufacture such as particleboard and medium density fibreboard (MDF). The objective of this study is to identify and assess the potential effects of chemical treatment and concentration on the mechanical and bonding properties of MDF from EFB oil palm fibres. The EFB fibres were treated at 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8% of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and acetic acid (CH? COOH), and the fibres were used in the MDF production. Mechanical test included modulus of rupture (MOR), modulus of elasticity (MOE) and internal bonding (IB) were conducted. Between the chemical treatment and the concentration, the chemical types used had a more prominent effect compared to the concentration. This study also shows that both treatments resulted in different MDF performance, where acid acetic fibre produced better bending and bonding properties. The optimum condition was 0.4% for NaOH and 0.6% for CH? COOH to produced panels with good strength and better dimensional stability. Such sample for 0.4% NaOH had 17.9 MPa, 1297 MPa and 0.48 MPa, and for 0.6% CH? COOH had 22.1 MPa, 1641 MPa and 0.56 MPa, for MOR, MOE and IB, respectively.
Optimization of Crude Papaya (Carica papaya) Protease in Soft-Unripened Cheese Preparation

The use of plant protease instead of animal rennet for producing cheese is mainly targeted to the Lacto-vegetarian consumers and religion based ecological markets. In this context, the present investigation was carried out in order to utilize the milk clotting enzyme from papaya (Carica papaya). A numerical optimization study revealed that maximum milk clotting activity was achieved at pH 6.5, temperature 70°C and enzyme concentration 1 g/1000 ml milk using papaya protease as a coagulant. Protein and calcium content showed non-significant (p>0.05) difference among the cheeses made using rennet and papaya protease. However, significantly (p<0.05) higher level of ash and lower level of fat and acidity were observed in the cheese prepared by papaya protease compared to rennet cheese. The papaya protease cheese had significantly better spreadability, while other sensory properties were similar to the rennet cheese except for the slightly bitter taste. The results revealed that the papaya latex as a source of crude papaya protease may have potential application to manufacture soft-unripened cheese and further could be utilized as a milk coagulant in cheese making.
Phylogeography of the widespread fern Lemmaphyllum in East Asia: species differentiation and population dynamics in response to change in climate and geography

Past climatic oscillations and complex geodynamic processes had tremendous effects on the current distributions of species in East Asia. Previous studies have revealed that spermatophytes experienced different demographic histories and survived in multiple refuges. However, very few studies involving ferns have been conducted over a large geographical area like East Asia. The monophyletic epiphytic fern genus Lemmaphyllum, which is composed of four species, is widespread in East Asia and offers a good model for exploring how geoclimatic oscillations influence the diversification and demographic history of fern species. We studied the phylogeography of Lemmaphyllum based on 115 populations using plastid sequences and ecological niche modeling. A total of 91 haplotypes were found in Lemmaphyllum. Molecular clock estimation revealed that speciation coincided with the three phases of the Qingzang Movement at beginning of the third uplift of Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau. The “Tanaka‐Kaiyong Line” demarcated lineages within L. carnosum. The split of the mainland and island lineages of L. rostratum and L. carnosum var. microphyllum may have resulted from ancestral isolation whereby land‐bridges acted as a “barrier” rather than as a “corridor” between mainland and island lineages. Multiple glacial refuges such as Sichuan Basin, Jinggangshan region, YGG region, HDM region, and the islands of the China East Sea during the LGM were revealed. The entities of Lemmaphyllum experienced species‐specific demographic histories in response to the Pleistocene climate change. The case study of epiphytic ferns may provide evidences for understanding the migration of evergreen broad‐leaf forest under climate oscillation.
PPPs Policy Entity Network Change and Policy Learning in Mainland China

Since 1995, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) mode has been applied in mainland China accompanied by the issuance of a series of PPPs policies. Taking 201 policy documents promulgated from 1995 till 2019 as a research sample, this paper explores PPPs policy entity network change and policy learning behind it in China. Research results show the following: (1) China’s PPPs policy entity network has mainly gone through three stages: partial-focus network with bad stability, loose-multiactor network with general stability, and balanced-multiactor network with good stability; (2) the key players are NPC in the first stage, MOF and NDRC in the second stage, and MOF and 8 other government entities in the third stage; (3) policy learning behind PPPs policy entity network change is government learning in the first stage and lesson-drawing in the second and third stages.
Motion Adaptation Based on Learning the Manifold of Task and Dynamic Movement Primitive Parameters

SUMMARY Dynamic movement primitives (DMP) are motion building blocks suitable for real-world tasks. We suggest a methodology for learning the manifold of task and DMP parameters, which facilitates runtime adaptation to changes in task requirements while ensuring predictable and robust performance. For efficient learning, the parameter space is analyzed using principal component analysis and locally linear embedding. Two manifold learning methods: kernel estimation and deep neural networks, are investigated for a ball throwing task in simulation and in a physical environment. Low runtime estimation errors are obtained for both learning methods, with an advantage to kernel estimation when data sets are small.
Sostenibilidad, stakeholders y crisis de empresa: un análisis estructurado de percepciones

Orlando E. Contreras-Pacheco1, Leonardo H. Talero-Sarmiento2 y Laura Y. Escobar-Rodríguez3 1 Ph.D.(c). Ingeniería Industrial, Profesor Asociado Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia (autor de correspondencia). Correo electrónico: ocontrer@uis.edu.co, ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-7063. 2 M.Sc. Ingeniería Industrial, Profesor Asistente Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Correo electrónico: leonardo.talero@correo.uis.edu.co, ORCID: 0000-0002-4129-9163. 3 Estudiante de Maestría en Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Correo electrónico: laura.escobar@correo.uis.edu.co, ORCID: 0000-0003-3350-9113. Recibido el 11 de Julio de 2019 Aceptado el 12 de Agosto de 2019 Online el 30 de agosto de 2019
Preventive Role of Thymoquinone against Certain Chronic Health Issues: A Review

The seed of Nigella sativa commonly called ‘black seed’ has been used in different civilizations for centuries to treat various animal and human diseases. Thymoquinone is chemically 2-methyl-5-isopropyl-1, 4-benzoquinone monoterpene molecule and it is the main constituent in black seeds responsible for most of the pharmacological characteristics. The current review aims to discuss the effect of thymoquinone based on experimental evidence in reducing the risk of certain chronic issues such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy, hepatopathy, hypertension, and obesity in the shadow of available literature. However, clinical trials are recommended to prove the studied effects of thymoquinone in humans.
Comparing Thirty30 Tennis with Traditional Tennis

Thirty30 is a shorter format of tennis where games start at 30-30. This means that a greater proportion of points are game points or break points than would be the case in traditional tennis. The purpose of the current paper is to compare the probability of players of different abilities winning games, sets and matches between Thirty30 tennis and traditional tennis. This is done using probabilistic models of each format of tennis. The results show that there is reduced dominance of the serve and a greater probability of upsets in Thirty30 tennis than in traditional tennis. The models are also experimented with, adjusting the probability of winning points where the point is a game point or a break point. The paper shows that such scoreline effects have a greater impact in Thirty30 tennis than they do in traditional tennis. This has implications for player preparation for Thirty30 tennis.
Análise de Consumo Energético e Identificação de Ataques de Negação de Serviço em Computação em Névoa

O constante aumento na utilização de dispositivos de Internet das Coisas (IoT), fez crescer também a preocupação com segurança. Profissionais do ecossistema de IoT devem atentar-se à possibilidade de ataques cibernéticos, dentre eles o Ataque de Negação de Serviço Distribuído (DDoS). Esta modalidade de ataque pode representar não só um pequeno atraso nas comunicações, como também a interrupção total do serviço, seja pela inundação de pacotes na rede ou pela drenagem de recursos dos equipamentos. Tratando-se de dispositivos restritos, como os de IoT, qualquer pequena elevação em seu padrão de consumo energético pode representar uma alteração significativa em seu funcionamento. Através do uso da lógica Fuzzy, este trabalho propõe inferir o grau de pertinência de um ataque DDoS em um dispositivo central da computação em névoa por meio da análise do seu padrão de consumo energético.
Pemerolehan Bahasa Pada Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus

Children's language acquisition is not only influenced by stimulation factors, but also by responding to a set of tools. This study aims to describe the language acquisition of children with special needs in SDIT Idrisiyyah Tamansari, Tasikmalaya City, West Java. Data were collected using observation, interviews, and documentation. The validity test was carried out by expert judgment and triangulation. The results showed that the acquisition of syntactic language through several components, namely: sentences, clauses, phrases, and words. The syntactic acquisition is in the form of being able to say, but there is still an incorrect pronunciation. Pemerolehan bahasa anak bukan hanya dipengaruhi faktor rangsangan, tetapi juga dengan mengadakan respon pada seperangkat peralatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pemerolehan bahasa anak berkebutuhan khusus di SDIT Idrisiyyah Tamansari, Kota Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat. Data dikumpulkan dengan metode observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Uji validitas dilakukan dengan expert judgment dan triangulasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemerolehan bahasa sintaksis melalui beberapa komponen, yaitu: kalimat, klausa, frasa, dan kata. Pemerolehan sintaksis berupa mampu mengatakan, tetapi masih ada pengucapan yang tidak tepat.
Framing of COVID-19 in German and Indonesian News

News discourse concerning COVID-19 is currently a trending topic in the world since it has affected world economic sector. Moreover this pandemic that has taken place since March 2020 has become a lively headline for discussion because of the massive transmission of the virus with an increasing number of infected people every day. This outbreak caused. The mass media from each country has a various way of producing news about COVID-19. It will be differently interpreted based on the diverse perspectives. News media plays an active role on framing COVID-19 issues. Since the news production is cultural and political based, it will be interested to compare the news framing of 2 countries with different cultural and political background. Therefore this research aims to compare how the German and Indonesian online media on framing news themed COVID-19. The data are related news from selected by related keywords through search engine. The framing theory from Pan and Kosicki (1993) is adopted to analyse the data. The findings reveal that German media frames COVID-19 as a new health problem that must be solved scientifically. Meanwhile Indonesian media frames this virus as a new financial problem.
Forskolin enhances the antitumor effect of oncolytic measles virus by promoting Rab27a dependent vesicular transport system in the lung cancer A549 cells in vitro

Background: Measles vaccine strain viruses (MV-Edm) are an ideal platform for developing safe and effective oncolytic vectors. However, despite the promising pre-clinical data, understanding of determinants of efficacy and, thus, the interplay of the oncolytic virus with particular agents remains limited.Methods: We investigated the potency of forskolin enhancing the antitumor effect of oncolytic measles virus by promoting Rab27a dependent vesicular transport system. Cells were infected with MV-Edm and the vesicles were observed by TEM. The oncolytic effects of MV-Edm/Forskolin were investigated in vitro. Results: Here we demonstrate that the MV-Edm infection and spread in tumor, which are indispensable processes for the viral oncolysis, depend on the vesicular transport system of tumor cells. On the contrary, the tumor cells display a responsive mechanism to restrain the MV-Edm spread by down-regulating the expression of Rab27a, which is a key member of the vesicle transport system. Over-expression of Rab27a promotes the oncolytic efficacy of MV-Edm towards A549 tumor cells. Finally, we find a Rab27a agonist Forskolin, is capable of promoting the oncolytic effect of MV-Edm in vitro. Conclusions: Our study reveals the important role of vesicle transporter Rab27a in the whole program of MV-Edm mediated oncolysis. We also provide a combined strategy of Forskolin and MV-Edm, which may exert a synergistic anti-tumor effect, for clinical treatment for patients with tumor.
Delivery Event and Its Variants: A Cognitive-Functional Perceptive

Using a data-driven method, the present study comparatively analyzed Chinese and English delivery verbs and their variants by theoretically formulating the conceptual content of delivery event, which is shared by all the delivery variants, and the conceptual meanings of specific Chinese and English delivery variants. Delivery events in Chinese and English share the same conceptual content and the corresponding variants in the two languages share the same conceptual meanings; from the major differences between the Chinese and the English delivery variants, i.e., the quantity of variants and the forms of grammatical expressions in the two languages, we could observe the basic difference between the two languages, that is, Chinese pays more attention to the meaning relative to the grammatical form and English emphasizes the grammatical form of the language.
Roteamento na Origem como Facilitador do Encadeamento Multi-nuvem de Funções de Rede: Proposta e Implementação

Network providers need to offer a wide range of services to their customers. Virtualization of network functions and software-defined networks make it easy to implement these services by virtualizing and chaining network functions. However, there are cases when these functions are in geographically distant data centers or in clouds in different domains. On the other hand, there are few works in the literature that focus on the mechanisms for the implementation of multiple cloud network function chaining. In this context, this work presents a solution for chaining network functions in multiple clouds. The article highlights KeySFC-based source routing as a facilitator of the proposed solution and has several advantages in managing flows and maintaining states on network devices. A prototype is implemented and evaluated in order to perform a functional evaluation of the proposal in multiple cloud chaining scenarios. Resumo. Provedores de rede precisam oferecer uma grande variedade de serviços a seus clientes. A virtualização de funções de rede e redes definidas por software facilitam a implementação desses serviços por meio da virtualização e do encadeamento de funções de rede. Entretanto, há casos em que essas funções encontram-se em data centers distantes geograficamente ou em nuvens em domı́nios diferentes. Por outro lado há poucos trabalhos na literatura que focam nos mecanismos para implementação do encadeamento de funções de rede em múltiplas nuvens. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta uma solução para o encadeamento de funções de rede em múltiplas nuvens. O artigo destaca o roteamento na origem, baseado no KeySFC, como facilitador da solução proposta e apresentando diversas vantagens quanto ao gerenciamento dos fluxos e à manutenção dos estados nos dispositivos de rede. Um protótipo é implementado e avaliado, com o objetivo de se realizar uma avaliação funcional da proposta em cenários de encadeamento em múltiplas nuvens.
Normal Distribution and Plasticity of Serotonin Receptors after Spinal Cord Injury and Their Impacts on Motor Outputs

Following spinal cord injury (SCI) a series of anatomical and functional plastic changes occur in the spinal cord, including reorganization of the spinal neuronal network, alteration of properties of interneurons and motoneurons as well as up- or down-regulation of different neurotransmitter receptors. In mammalian spinal cord, one of the important neurotransmitters, serotonin (5-HT), plays an essential role in modulating sensory, motor and autonomic functions. Following SCI, especially complete spinal cord lesion, the descending supply of 5-HT is lost. As a consequence different 5-HT receptors undergo variant degrees of plastic changes.In this chapter I have systematically reviewed the distribution of different 5-HT receptors in the spinal cord and their plastic changes following SCI where applicable. In addition, the plastic changes of 5-HT supplying system in reaction to SCI have also been reviewed. These results indicate that 5-HT receptors are important factors not only for modulation of normal motor function, their plastic changes are also critical for motor functional recovery and, quite often, for the development of certain pathological states after SCI. Pharmacological and/or genetic intervention of selected 5-HT receptors and/or intrinsic 5-HT producing system in the spinal cord may pave new ways for the restoration of motor functions after SCI.
Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the potato ZIP gene family under Zn-deficiency

Zinc deficiency is a worldwide problem for crops including potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), the fourth most important crop worldwide. The zinc/iron-regulated transporter-like protein (ZIP) transporter family is thought to play key roles in Zn uptake and transport. However, little is known about the potato ZIP family. In this study, 12 genes encoding members of the ZIP family were identified in the potato genome. The 12 StZIP genes were predicted to encode proteins of 220 407 amino acids harboring 5 9 putative transmembrane domains (TMDs), and 11 of these proteins had a variable region rich in histidine residues between TMDIII and TMDIV. A phylogenetic analysis divided the StZIPs into four groups on the basis of gene structure and conserved motifs. Furthermore, the StZIP expression profiles were determined under Zndeficiency in both high and low Zn-content genotypes. Four differentially expressed genes, StZIP6, -9, -11, and -12, were identified in tubers of the two genotypes under Zn-deficiency, and StZIP11 and StZIP12 may have a more prominent function in Zn uptake and accumulation in potato tubers owing to their higher expressions. Thus, the results provide useful information for further studying the functions of StZIP genes. Additional key words: Solanum tuberosum, transmembrane domains, Zn uptake and transport. Submitted 13 May 2020, last revision 6 August 2020, accepted 3 September 2020. Abbreviations: GSDS gene structure display server tool; PGSC Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium; RH Solanum tuberosum group Tuberosum RH89-039-16; DM Solanum tuberosum group Phureja DM1-3 516 R44; TMD transmembrane domain; ZIP zinc/ iron-regulated transporter-like protein. Acknowledgements: The authors thank Lesley Benyon, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Youth Fund (31701486), Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2020B020219002), Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program (2017B020232002), and The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD020080902). The first two authors contributed equally to this work. * Corresponding author; e-mail: liuwei@scau.edu. cn This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Licence
How social media marketing influences consumers purchase decision? A mediation analysis of brand awareness

The important usage of social media as highly interactive platforms of communications is bound to change the way companies approach marketing. Many previous studies conclude that social media has proven to be a key factor in creating brand awareness. Thus, a higher level of awareness will affect consumers' decisions positively. However, few studies focus on the role of brand awareness as a mediation construct in affecting purchase decisions. Therefore, this study aims to explore the mediation role of brand awareness on the relationship between social media marketing and purchase decisions. The study conducted is quantitative research based on a survey approach. Purposive sampling and ordinary least square regression were used as sampling techniques and data analysis. The study revealed that social media marketing has a positive and significant influence on both brand awareness and purchase decisions. Unfortunately, this study failed to prove the direct and indirect effect of brand awareness on purchase decisions. The nature of wetsuit (sportswear) that can be categorized as a high involvement product was considered as the main reason for the insignificancy effect of brand awareness on purchase decision and the mediation role of brand awareness. In the case of high involvement products, consumers tend to be rational so that they were required more time and effort to evaluate specific product performances and characteristics.
InnoChain: распределенный реестр для индустриального применения с формальной верификацией на всех уровнях реализации

The extent of formal verification methods applied to industrial projects has always been limited. The proliferation of distributed ledger systems (DLS), also known as blockchain, is rapidly changing the situation. Since the main area of DLSs' application is the automation of financial transactions, the properties of predictability and reliability are critical for implementing such systems. The actual behavior of the DLS is determined by the chosen consensus protocol, which properties require strict specification and formal verification. Formal specification and verification of the consensus protocol is necessary but not sufficient. It is required to ensure that the software implementation of the DLS nodes complies with this protocol. The verified software implementation of the protocol must run on a fairly reliable operating system. The so-called “smart contracts”, which are an important part of the applied implementations of specific business processes based on DLSs, must be verifiable as well. In this paper, we describe an ongoing industrial project that will result in a DLS verified at least at the four technological levels described above. We then share our experience with the formal specification and verification of HotStuff, a leader-based fault-tolerant protocol that ensures reaching distributed consensus in the presence of Byzantine processes.