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ABSTRACT Sixteen commercially wet‐extracted protein isolates and 13 commercially air‐classified protein concentrates were evaluated for their particle size, physicochemical properties (protein solubility, differential scanning calorimetry, surface hydrophobicity, and surface charge) and functional properties (water holding capacity, oil absorption capacity, emulsifying capacity and stability, foaming capacity and stability, and least gelling concentration). Protein concentrates exhibited lower average values for particle size, surface charge, surface hydrophobicity, and water holding capacity, but higher values for oil absorption capacity, protein solubility, emulsion capacity and stability, as well as foaming capacity and stability, compared to protein isolates. Intensive processing appeared to denature proteins in most isolates, leading to reduced functional properties. Changes in pH and the addition of 2% NaCl influenced the properties of both protein isolates and concentrates. Protein solubility, emulsion capacity and stability, and foaming stability of the protein samples were superior at pH 10, followed by pH 3. The addition of 2% NaCl enhanced foaming capacity and reduced the least gelling concentration. A significant interaction between sample and treatment conditions ( p < 0.001) in protein isolates and protein concentrates was observed. Crop type differences in protein solubility, oil emulsion capacity and foaming stability of protein concentrates under certain conditions were detected using maximum likelihood factor analysis (MFLA). However, these differences were not evident in protein isolates, possibly due to more variable processing conditions.

Digital financial inclusion has become a key priority in efforts to reduce economic disparities, particularly among underserved populations by formal financial institutions. This study aims to examine the role of mobile technology in expanding access to capital by reviewing recent literature. Mobile technology offers practical solutions for individuals and small businesses to access financial services, such as microcredit, money transfers, and savings, without relying on traditional banking infrastructure. Furthermore, the adoption of this technology has been shown to accelerate financial inclusion in developing countries, where access to financial services is often constrained by geographical and economic factors. However, this study also highlights emerging challenges, such as low digital literacy, limited network coverage, and data security concerns. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, financial service providers, and technology stakeholders to develop more inclusive and sustainable strategies. Thus, mobile technology has significant potential to become a key driver in achieving broader financial inclusion in the future

<p>The report collects and analyses the documentation on CH digitization and identification of cutting-edge technologies, with a focus on 3D digitisation. It explores the actual advancement in the field, proposing an attempt of a common workflow for the lifecycles a 3D resource.</p>

<p>The report analyses the landscape of digitization of cultural heritage in Europe considering EU policy documents, past EU-funded research and forthcoming programmes such as the Digital Europe one. It examines the situation of the most important actor in this framework, Europeana, and the requirements of increasing the number and quality of digitized assets with a special attention to 3D digitization. Finally, it summarizes some research results about some relevant aspects of 3D modelling. As preliminary results, it lists actions to be undertaken to guarantee that the targets are achieved not only in the numbers, but mainly concerning data quality, establishing opportunities for their re-use in other economic sectors and complying with the needs of researchers, heritage professionals and institutions, education and the public at large.</p>

La mayoría de los investigadores que diseñan experiencias innovadoras de aprendizaje digital y luego realizan investigaciones que investigan la utilidad de esas experiencias de aprendizaje, no aplican completamente la teoría de la instrucción (Reigeluth, 1983, 1999; Reigeluth y Carr-Chellman, 2009a) como la base de sus diseños y El foco de su investigación. Esta elección impacta negativamente el juicio de diseño de los investigadores (Boling, et al.2017) y su credibilidad como garantes del diseño (Stolterman y Nelson, 2000). Esto finalmente conduce a barreras de difusión cuando se difunden sus innovaciones de aprendizaje digital. El propósito de este documento es ayudar a los investigadores y diseñadores de experiencias de aprendizaje a superar estas barreras de difusión al adoptar la teoría de la instrucción como base para sus diseños y utilizar seis principios para realizar investigaciones alineadas con la teoría de la instrucción: 1) Conocer los sistemas complejos cualitativamente, 2) Valor los fundamentos del diseño del tratamiento, 3) Practique una consideración imparcial de los métodos de instrucción, 4) Respete el triángulo de hierro del diseño de instrucción, 5) Distinga entre métodos y medios, y 6) Conozca su teoría de diseño de instrucción personal. Most researchers who design innovative digital learning experiences, and then conduct research that investigates the usefulness of those learning experiences, fail to fully apply instructional theory (Reigeluth, 1983, 1999; Reigeluth & Carr-Chellman, 2009a) as the foundation of their designs and the focus of their research. This choice negatively impacts researchers’ design judgment (Boling, et al. 2017) and their credibility as the guarantor of design (Stolterman & Nelson, 2000). This ultimately leads to diffusion barriers when disseminating their digital learning innovations. The purpose of this paper is to help researchers and learning-experience designers overcome these diffusion barriers by embracing instructional theory as the foundation for their designs and using six principles for conducting research aligned with instructional theory: 1) Know complex systems qualitatively, 2) Value the treatment design fundamentals, 3) Practice unbiased consideration of instructional methods, 4) Respect the instructional design iron triangle, 5) Differentiate between methods and media, and 6) Know your personal instructional design theory.

A comprehensive set of Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable is focusing on the topic of common policies. This compact guide offers twenty guidelines to align the efforts of data producers, data archivists and data users in humanities and social sciences to make research data as reusable as possible based upon the FAIR Principles. Each guideline has recommendations for both researchers and archives as it is recognised that different priorities may apply to each case. The guidelines result from the work of over fifty PARTHENOS, ARIADNEplus and SEADDA project members. They were responsible for investigating commonalities in the implementation of policies and strategies for research data management and used results from desk research, questionnaires and interviews with selected experts to gather around one hundred current data management policies (including guides for preferred formats, data review policies and best practices, both formal as well as tacit). Other versions of the guidelines are available in the following languages: <em><strong>English</strong></em>: "PARTHENOS Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3368858) <strong><em>French</em></strong><em>:</em><strong> </strong>"PARTHENOS Recommandations pour FAIRiser vos données" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3463521) <em><strong>German</strong>:</em><strong> </strong>"PARTHENOS Leitfaden zur "FAIRifizierung" des Datenmanagements und der Ermöglichung der Nachnutzung von Daten" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3363078) <strong><em>Greek:</em></strong> "PARTHENOS Οδηγίες για την εφαρμογή των αρχών FAIR στη διαχείριση και επανάχρηση δεδομένων" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3363386) <strong><em>Hungarian:</em></strong> "PARTHENOS A tudományos adatok újrafelhasználhatóságának és FAIR kezelésének irányelveii" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3363355) <strong><em>Italian:</em></strong> "PARTHENOS Linee guida per l’applicazione dei principi FAIR alla gestione e al riuso dei dati" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3363243) <strong><em>Turkish</em></strong>: "Veri Yönetimi ve verinin yeniden kullanımı için FAIR Prensipleri Rehberi" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3937149) <em><strong>Czech:</strong></em> "ZÁSADY zajištení FAIRové správy a využitelnosti dat" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946100)

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;In recent years there has been rapid growth both in the development of digital methods and tools and in their application across a wide range of disciplines within humanities and cultural heritage studies. The future development of this landscape depends on a complex and dynamic ecosystem of interactions between a range of factors: changing scholarly priorities, questions and methods; technological&amp;nbsp;advances and new tool development; and the broader social, cultural and economic contexts within which both scholars and infrastructures are situated.&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;\n\n&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This foresight study investigates how digital research methods, technologies and infrastructures in digital humanities and cultural heritage may develop over the next 5-10 years, and provides some recommendations for future interventions to optimize this development.&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;\n\n&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;For a summary see: &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;PARTHENOS Foresight - Executive Summary&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; (&amp;lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3460653"&amp;gt;DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3460653&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;).&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;\n\n&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;All PARTHENOS&amp;nbsp;deliverables&amp;nbsp;are available at:&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;a href="http://www.parthenos-project.eu/resources/projects-deliverables"&amp;gt;http://www.parthenos-project.eu/resources/projects-deliverables&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

Abstract On‐site and off‐site forecasts for the CFB Summerside aerodrome, written coincidentally over a six‐week period, are verified using the Ranked Probability Score and compared by means of a two‐tailed test of paired differences. The results show that, at a 10% level of significance, forecasts made on‐site are significantly better than forecasts made off‐site for at least four hours into the forecast period. When compared with persistence, both forecast offices were superior. At no time did the persistence forecasts score significantly better than those issued by a meteorologist. When compared with climatology, on‐site forecasts were significantly better for the first nine hours, while off‐site forecasts were significantly better for the first ten hours.

Protein-tannin complexes isolated from barley, malt and beer by adsorption on nylon or A.T. (insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidone) were compared with chill haze material. The amino acid compositions of these products were determined quantitatively by a Moore-Stein column chromatography procedure and closely resembled the analytical results for chill haze obtained by the Carlsberg and Louvain groups. Starch-gel electrophoresis of the proteins showed that they contained tannins and that the protein and tannin moieties were heterogeneous. There was a marked similarity in electrophoretic pattern of the major components for all isolates. This indicates that a water-soluble protein complex associated wih a tannin complex, characteristic of chill haze, is present in barley and persists relatively unchanged through malting and brewing to beer.