Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Activated Carbon from Spent Coffee Grounds: A Good Competitor of Commercial Carbons for Water Decontamination

In the framework of the circular economy, spent coffee grounds were converted into powdered activated carbon by means of pyrolysis, using potassium hydroxide as the activating agent. Its adsorption capacity on a panel of phenolic compounds was compared with those of two commercial powdered activated carbons, after preliminary studies on organic dyes with different ionic properties, to assess the affinity between adsorbates and adsorbents. Pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models were carried out, together with Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms. They were useful to calculate the breakthrough at 5%, 10%, and 50% of adsorption and the partition coefficients for the comparison of performance between different sorbent systems in a less biased manner (e.g., reducing bias associated with operational settings like sorbate concentration and sorbents dosage). The results showed that the removal efficiency for SCGs-AC was comparable with that of the commercial activated carbons with the highest partition coefficients for methylene blue (12,455 mg/g/μM, adsorption capacity = 179 mg/g) and 3-chlorophenol (81.53 mg/g/μM, adsorption capacity = 3765 mg/g). The lower efficiency in bromothymol blue and bisphenol-A adsorption was due to its different morphology and surface properties.
Most Common Psychiatric Disorders as Migraine Comorbidities

: Last studies have found that migraine is common with other diseases. These cases are called "comorbidities", which means that they occur in parallel and are likely to affect a migraine. There are studies showing a link between migraine and major depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders. The general aim of the study is to identify psychiatric comorbidities of migraine and its clinical pattern.
A-10 Grit Predicts Depression, Anxiety, and Subjective Cognitive Complaints Despite Normal Cognitive Performance in College Athletes

Grit is defined as a non-cognitive variable that assesses perseverance and passion for long-term goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007). Current literature demonstrates a relationship between grit and self-control, self-regulation, depression, and anxiety in collegiate students (Muenks, Wigfield, Yang, & O’Neal, 2017; Akos & Kretchmar, 2017; Salles, et. Al. 2016; Masika Musumar, et al. 2018). However, the relationship between grit and relevant sports neuropsychology variables in college athletes has yet to be explored. Division II collegiate athletes (n = 453, ages 18–23, mean age = 19.79) underwent annual pre-participation baseline evaluation, which included the 12-item grit scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder–7 (GAD-7), Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 5th edition (SCAT-5), and Immediate Post Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT). Lower levels of grit significantly predicted higher scores on the PHQ-9 (R2 = .053, p < .001), GAD-7 (R2 = .026, p = .002), SCAT-5 total symptoms (R2 = .038, p < .001), and ImPACT symptom score (R2 = .016, p = .015). Interestingly, Grit significantly predicted the ImPACT cognitive symptom cluster (R2 = .029, p = .001), but none of the other symptom clusters or cognitive domains. Similarly, Grit significantly predicted the SCAT-5 cognitive (R2 = .04, p < .001) and sleep clusters (R2 = .016, p = .015). Consistent with literature in non-athletes, grit is related to mood difficulties. Uniquely, athletes with lower levels of grit are consistently reporting more cognitive problems, but these perceived cognitive problems are not substantiated by objective neuropsychological testing.
EFFECT OF TYROSINE , TRYPTOPHAN AND CANTHANTHIN EITHER ALONE OR IN COMBINATION ON PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF EGYPTIAN DEVELOPED LAYING HENS IN POST-PEAK EGG PRODUCTION PERIOD , IN PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SODIUM SULPHATE

This study examines the hypothesis that tyrosine and tryptophan and canthanthin either alone or in combination in absence or presence of sulphate ion, can improve the performance of local laying hens in post-peak period (39-58 weeks). A total number of 360 hens plus 36 cocks 39 weeks old from Inshas strain were equally divided into 12 group with 3 replicates (10 hens+ 1 cocks each) and housed in wire cages . The experimental hens fed from 39 to 58 week of age the control diet without or with 6 ppm Canthaxanthin (CAN) , 0.05% tyrosine(TYR) , 0.05% tryptophan(TRY) , 6 ppm CAN + 0.05% TYR, 6 ppm CAN + 0.05% TRY . The rest of treatments from were fed the same previous treatments plus 0.5 % anhydrous sodium sulphate (SS). The most important results obtained were as follow: 1-All dietary feed additives used in this study increased egg number, egg mass and shell thickness . 2-The addition of SS increased the beneficial effect of CAN, TYR and TRY. 3The carotenoids like CAN with TYR or TRY in presence or absence of SS can improve the egg production, fertility and hatchability of developed laying hens in post-peak period. In conclusion, the mixture of CAN+TYR+SS was the most successful additive on productive performance.
Epigenetic effect of folic acid (FA) on the gene proximal promoter area and mRNA expression of chicken B cell as antigen presenting cells

ABSTRACT 1. This study evaluated and characterised the effect of folic acid (FA) on chromosomal DNA methylation and the epigenetic result on gene expression control mechanisms in chicken B cells as a model of antigen presenting cells. 2. After FA supplementation, the methylation pattern on the proximal promoter area and mRNA expression of toll-like receptor (TLR) 2b, TLR4, B cell receptor (BCR) immunoglobulin (Ig) β and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) II β chain genes in chicken B cells was observed 3. Chicken B cell line (DT40) cultures were incubated with 0, 1.72 or 3.96 mM of FA for 4 and 8 h and samples were taken at specific time points. After 4 h of incubation, cells were challenged with 0, 1 or 10 µg/ml of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and samples were collected 4 h post-challenge. 4. FA supplementation modified the methylation patterns of the proximal promoter regions of TLR4, Igß, and MHCII ß chain at 4 and 8 hours of incubation; however, the single CpG dinucleotide of TLR2b remained methylated regardless of the treatment. 5. A positive association was found between FA concentration and percentage DNA methylation on the promoter area of Igβ and TLR2b. However, there was a negative association between FA and MHCII β chain. 6. There were downregulatory effects in TLR4, Igß and MHCII ß chain gene expression after 8 h of incubation, nut not at 4 h. Although incubation time did not affect TLR2b gene expression, FA concentration did, whereby it increased TLR2b expression at 1.72 mM FA (P < 0.05). 7. LPS significant downregulated TLR2b expression, while an interaction between FA and LPS concentration affected TLR4 and Igβ gene expression. 8. In conclusion, the results showed that FA can have an immunomodulatory effect on chicken B cells, possibly affecting their ability to both recognise antigens through the TLR and BCR pathways, and to present it via the MHCII presentation pathway.
Toxicity of four Cuban botanical derivatives against two stored-products coleopteran pests.

Plants are a source of substances for protection of stored products. The Cuban flora has not yet been fully studied as a source of pesticides for postharvest protection, partly due to its great diversity. The toxicity of four Cuban plant derivatives against Lasioderma serricorne (F.) and Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky was investigated. The anti-insect activity of the powders and the essential oil from plants belonging to Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Piperaceae was tested. Mortality and emergence of adult insects and the repellent effect of products were evaluated. Two products derived from Piper aduncum subsp. ossanum, caused high mortality (81,6 and 100%), reduced emergence (27,9 and 0,4%) and exhibited strong repellent activity on L. serricorne. Against S. zeamais, treatments with the highest mortality values were stems of Lonchocarpus punctatus (72,4%), seeds and stems of Canavalia ensiformis (64,9 and 69,9%), and leaves of Tithonia diversifolia (67,2%). The progeny production of S. zeamais was inhibited by powders of L. punctatus stems (31,8%), C. ensiformis seeds (40,5%), leaves (43,7%) and stems (30,6%), and T. diversifolia leaves (38,7%). The stems of C. ensiformis, leaves of T. diversifolia and L. punctatus had the highest repellent effect. These products have potential for small-scale treatments of grains for protection against both insects, and P. aduncum subsp. ossanum-based products to control L. serricorne infestation in tobacco. Identification of local candidates to develop effective and safe pesticides offers new alternatives to the Cuban agriculture in the control of storage pests.
Is it true that forest and land fires caused the extinction of biodiversity…?

Every year forest fire are raging across Indonesia, causing economic and ecological losses. The thought that forest fire is pushing species towards extinction resulted in a lawsuit against fires in industrial forest, although the lawsuit sometimes are not based on scientifically studies. Since 2015 some studies has been held to learn more about the effect of forest fire on species diversity. Based on the word meaning of extinction, it shows that forest fires did not cause an extinction of a species, when a species is extinct or gone in some areas but still can be found in another areas, it is called extirpation. Extinct is when no doubt that the last individual species in the world is died. Furthermore, based on many researches that have been held before, 29% research showed that the fire impact on the decrease of the species number, while 58% showed the increasing impact and 13% resulted in no change. In line with that, the impact on species richness resulted with 27% of decrease, 61% increase, 12% has no change. Meanwhile on the impact of species composition, 33% research mention that there are change 50-75% in species composition and 67% research mention that there are <50% change in species composition. The opposite of the most lawsuit that has been given, it showed that fire impact tends to increase the number of species and species richness, compared to the value of the decrease, with tendencies that the change in species composition is not significant (<50%). In conclusion, forest fire did not result in species extinction, it results in the form of a decrease and or even an increase in the number of species or species richness index and changes in species composition.
Robot applications for autism: a comprehensive review

Abstract Purpose Technological advances in robotics have brought about exciting developments in different areas such as education, training, and therapy. Recent research has suggested that the robot can be even more effective in rehabilitation, therapy, and education for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In this paper, a comprehensive review of robotic technology for children with ASD is presented wherein a large number of journals and conference proceedings in science and engineering search engines' databases were implicated. Materials and methods A search for related literature was conducted in three search engines' databases, Web of Science, Scopus, and IEEE Xplore. Thematic keywords were used to identify articles in the recent ten years in titles, keywords, and abstracts. The retrieved articles were filtered, analysed, and evaluated based on specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results A total of 208 studies were retrieved, while 166 met the inclusion criteria. The selected studies were reviewed according to the type of robot, the participants, objectives, and methods. 68 robots were used in all studies, NAO robot was used in 30.5% of those studies. The total number of participants in all studies was 1671. The highest percentage of the studies reviewed were dedicated to augmenting the learning skills. Conclusions Robots and the associated schemes were used to determine their feasibility and validity for augmenting the learning skills of autistic children. Most of the studies reviewed were focused on improving the social communication skills of autistic children and measuring the extent of robot mitigation of stereotyped autistic behaviours. Implications for rehabilitation Social robots are not considered as promising tools to be utilized for rehabilitation of autistic children only, but also has been used for children and young people with severe intellectual disability. Rehabilitation for individuals with ASD using robots can augment their cognitive and social skills, but further studies should be conducted to clarify its effectiveness based on other factors such as sex, age and IQ of the participates. Robotic-based rehabilitation is not limited to the physical robots only, but virtual robots have been used also, whereas each of which can be used individually or simultaneously. However, further study is required to assess the extent of its efficiency and effectiveness for both cases.
Unmooring language for social justice: young people talking about language in place in Manchester, UK

ABSTRACT Unmooring language is a proposal for a language-based social justice concept that aims to go beyond national and local epistemologies of language in place. This article contributes to current discussions in critical sociolinguistics about how to conceptualize language bearing in mind the primacy of mobility and fluidity. Drawing on folk linguistics, local metalinguistic talk, and citizen sociolinguistics; this study explores how young people (aged 18–25 years) talk about the relationship between language and place in the urban city of Manchester, UK. Through 57 online questionnaires and eight semi-structured interviews, the study finds that participants’ descriptions of their linguistic repertoires foreground the primacy of motion and invite the fluidity of unmooring. It also indicates that while young people tend to have positive attitudes toward linguistic diversity in the city, some reported exposure to language-based discrimination, and others expressed different views on linguistic diversity. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of language-based advocacy and activism to ensure that linguistic diversity has a right to the city, a step to combat linguistic hostility and ethnolinguistic nationalism.
Fatigue in Loading and Unloading Workers at the Port

The port has a fairly dense loading/unloading activity according to the total flow of goods it manages. In addition to high work activities, environment factors such as noise and work climate can also affect the occurrence of work fatigue. Therefore, this study aims to determine factors associated with work fatigue in loading/unloading workers at the port. This study uses cross sectional study design with simple random sampling. Data analysis used the Paired Sample T-Test and Chi-Square test. The results showed that there was a difference of fatigue before and after work and as many as 71.2% of workers experienced moderate fatigue. It is known that age (p-value = 0,000), breakfast habits (p-value = 0,000), and years of service (p-value = 0,000) have a significant correlation with work fatigue, while nutritional status (p-value = 0.203), workload (p-value = 0.140), hot work climate (p-value = 0.362), and noise (p-value = 0.880) have no correlation with work fatigue. It was concluded that age, breakfast habits and work duration were related to work fatigue in loading/unloading labor. Therefore, workers are advised to be used to have breakfast with the right menu and time and workers should wear hats while working to reduce sun exposure.
Wavelet Estimation of Semi-parametric Regression Model

The semi-parametric regression model combines parametric and nonparametric regression. However, non-parametric estimation may provide flexible solutions to the problems suffers by the regression model, but the problem of dimensionality that this estimator suffers, which occurs due to the increasing number of explanatory variables, still remain, this, in turn, may reduce the accuracy of the estimation process. Estimate the non-parametric part of the semi-parametric models that can be studied using conventional non-parametric methods such as the Spline Smoothing and Kernel Smoothing. However, there are other non-parametric methods that can be used, therefore, in this paper, the semi-parametric regression model was estimated by employing the wavelet estimate for the soft threshold, according to the "Speckman" method, and then comparing it with the two methods, Nadaraya-Watson and Local Linear, through the implementation of simulation experiments that included different sample sizes and threshold values. The parametric part estimation of the partially linear model according to the least-squares method was not identical to those estimates using the Speckman method, that is because the least-squares method was not appropriate for the uneven nature of the number of weekly work hours. Simulation experiments have demonstrated the efficiency of the wavelet estimation method and its superiority over other methods. The above estimation methods were applied to real data related to the study of the production value for the public industrial sector in Iraq, and some factors affect it, such as the value of industrial supplies, the total wages of workers, and the number of workers.
Benthic platyctenid ctenophore, Vallicula multiformis Rankin, 1956, found in an aquarium on Palawan Island, the Philippines

The benthic ctenophore Vallicula multiformis Rankin, 1956 (Ctenophora, Platyctenida) was originally described from Jamaica. We found the species in an aquarium during our survey of jellyfish from Palawan Island, the Philippines. Molecular analysis of the species confirmed the morphology-based identification of the samples. This discovery is the first report of the occurrence of species from the western Pacific area.
COLOR MATCHING CONSIDERATION ON THE EFFECT OF IPRGC FOR COLOR REPRODUCTION ON DISPLAY DEVICE

At the beginning of this century, intrinsically photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), new photoreceptors different from cones and rods, were discovered. The aim of this study was to experimentally verify the influence of ipRGCs on the colour reproduction of a display. In the experiment, we performed perceptual colour matching between colour patches and displays. Although colorimetric reproduction of the colour patch was used for the initial image of the display, the colour matching results were largely out of colorimetric colour reproduction. Since this result suggests that ipRGCs may affect colour reproduction of displays, a correction equation that accounts for the influence of ipRGCs was derived. Applying this correction formula improved the results. It is considered possible to accurately display the colour of a real object on a display using a correction equation that accounts for the effect of ipRGCs.
Possibilities of ultrasonography in diagnosing causes of dyspnea in palliative care cancer patients

Dyspnea is an ailment which is relatively frequently reported by cancer patients, and it can be difficult to determine the cause of the symptom at home hospice. Thanks to the application of mobile ultrasound scanner, the physician can often determine the cause of dyspnea during a home visit, which makes it unnecessary to carry out diagnostic procedures at the hospital. The article presents two cases of female patients in whom the application of at-home ultrasound proved to be useful in determining the cause of dyspnea. The first patient was diagnosed with pericardial tamponade at home — pericardial cavity puncture was performed at the hospital — while in the case of the second patient, pneumonia was both diagnosed and monitored at home with the use of ultrasonography.
Abrupt Climate and Weather Changes Across Time Scales

The past provides evidence of abrupt climate shifts and changes in the frequency of climate and weather extremes. We explore the nonlinear response to orbital forcing and then consider climate millennial variability down to daily weather events. Orbital changes are translated into regional responses in temperature, where the precessional response is related to nonlinearities and seasonal biases in the system. We question regularities found in climate events by analyzing the distribution of interevent waiting times. Periodicities of about 900 and 1,150 yr are found in ice cores besides the prominent 1,500 yr cycle. However, the variability remains indistinguishable from a random process, suggesting that centennial‐to‐millennial variability is stochastic in nature. New numerical techniques are developed allowing for a high resolution in the dynamically relevant regions like coasts, major upwelling regions, and high latitudes. Using this model, we find a strong sensitivity of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation depending on where the deglacial meltwater is injected into. Meltwater into the Mississippi and near Labrador hardly affect the large‐scale ocean circulation, whereas subpolar hosing mimicking icebergs yields a quasi shutdown. The same multiscale approach is applied to radiocarbon simulations enabling a dynamical interpretation of marine sediment cores. Finally, abrupt climate events also have counterparts in the recent climate records, revealing a close link between climate variability, the statistics of North Atlantic weather patterns, and extreme events.
Evaluation of the mechanical properties of graphene-based nanocomposites incorporating a graded interphase based on isoparametric graded finite element model

ABSTRACT The effective mechanical properties of graphene-based nanocomposites considering a graded interphase are evaluated by using nanoscale sandwich representative volume element (RVE) and embedded RVE based on finite element method (FEM). Both sandwich RVE and embedded RVE are considered as a three-phase composite structure, in which the material properties of interphase are represented as a linear or an exponential function of the thickness direction coordinate z. The FEM is used to model the RVEs in order to evaluate the mechanical properties of graphene-based composites. The graphene and the matrix are discreted by shell elements and solid elements respectively and the interphase is discreted by isoparmetric graded elements. The RVEs analyzed by isoparmetric graded finite element model (IGFEM) are used to evaluate the mechanical properties. The performance of the proposed model is assessed with some examples available in published literature. The numerical results show that the proposed model has a high accuracy and computational efficiency. It is also demonstrated that the factors, such as interphase material properties and thickness, bonding interface and matrix material properties, can affect the mechanical properties.