Living in turbulent times

Spoken metaphors such as “unstable situation” document a conceptual association between physical instability and difficult situations. Drawing on research in embodied cognition and conceptual metaphor, the present research examined whether people’s somatic experience can influence their attitudes toward the current COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that inducing a sensorimotor state such as physical instability can activate the associated abstract concepts such as the feelings of instability during a public health crisis. In Experiment 1, participants who sat at a wobbly table and chair believed more in and had greater concern about the coronavirus disease than participants in a stable workstation. Using a different manipulation of physical instability and a more diverse sample, Experiment 2 found that participants who stood on one foot rather than two were more likely to worry about the pandemic. Experiment 3 examined consequential behavior that might follow from respondents’ COVID-19-related attitudes. The results showed that participants who adopted a single-leg stance rather than a double-leg stance donated more money to the coronavirus treatment acceleration program aiming to stabilize the virus situation. Taken together, these findings indicate that seemingly irrelevant physical experiences can skew people’s opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic, exerting potential downstream effects on their actual behavior.

Trend Wisata Kuliner melalui Olahan Produk Pasta

Pasta has been the most popular foreign food among food lovers in Yogyakarta. This food mostly founded in Steak restaurant. Javanese noodle resstaurant, etc. Because of its popularity towards culinary entrepreneur, they try to combine the making of main composition of pasta that is halal-guaranted for the lovers.This writing is based on the experiment of main compotition of pasta . Pasta that is made from wheat flouris combined with Belitung caladium flour (Xanthosomasagittifolium). This experiment is did in 5 combinations as a sample experiment and each is rated in color, taste, aroma, and texture.The aim of this experiment is to find the most ideal combination for pasta based on its color, taste, aroma, and texture. As the result of this experiment, in the color aspect, the first and the fourth combination is different. The taste aspect contains differences among the first, third, and fourth combination, so do the aroma aspect and the texture aspect.It based on probability value of 95% or critical level of 0,05 in examining hypotheses. If probability value is less than 0, 05, it is said there is a significant difference. The table tells the color of first combination is different from forth combination. The smell of first combination is different from third and forth combination. The texture of first combination is different from third and forth combination.There is no different combination of 25% caladium flour. It shows pasta which is made by combination 25% of Belitung caladium flour has highest probability value from any compositions and all aspect. Probability value is higher than 0,05. It means pasta which is made by combining 25% of Belitung wheat flour has highest quality or highest significance value. The final experiment is combining 25% caladium flour and 75% shows close smell, taste, and pasty color. However, this color is more interesting to the respondents than other combination. It also has close texture to original

The Effectiveness Colonized System of Ganoderma Vaccine Compared to Trichoderma on Oil Palm Plantations That Infected by Ganoderma boninense

Basal stem rot caused by Ganoderma boninense causes fall and death of oil palm crops, and will drastically reduce plantation productivity by up to 50% and become one of the most serious problems in oil palm cultivation. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the Colonized System of Ganoderma Vaccine (CHIPS®), as a biocontrol agent against the suppression of Ganoderma disease that infects oil palm trees in-field conditions. This research was conducted from early 2016 to the end of 2020 in a plantation located in Langkat area, North Sumatra by using 216 trees on 1 block as a sample experiment. Plants that infected with Ganoderma is treated with T1 treatment (MOAF™ & CHIPS®) shows the value of Disease Severity Index (DSI) decreasing to 37.50%, compare to T2 treatment (NPK Granular Fertilizer 13-6-27 & Trichoderma bio fungicides) which has DSI value of 100% in week 232 (in 2020) and C1 treatment (control) with the highest DSI value of 100% in week 212 (in 2020). The conclusions of this study shows that the treatment of T1 (MOAF™ & CHIPS®) is more successful in eradicating Ganoderma and have the highest profit ratio than any other treatments. The results of this study are useful as references for in-field inspection and large-scale production.

SweetPea: A standard language for factorial experimental design.

Experimental design is a key ingredient of reproducible empirical research. Yet, given the increasing complexity of experimental designs, researchers often struggle to implement ones that allow them to measure their variables of interest without confounds. SweetPea is an open-source declarative language in Python, in which researchers can describe their desired experiment as a set of factors and constraints. The language leverages advances in areas of computer science to sample experiment sequences in an unbiased way. In this article, we provide an overview of SweetPea’s capabilities, and demonstrate its application to the design of psychological experiments. Finally, we discuss current limitations of SweetPea, as well as potential applications to other domains of empirical research, such as neuroscience and machine learning.

Attention Towards Emotions is Modulated by Familiarity with the Expressor. A Comparison Between Bonobos and Humans

Why can humans be intolerant of, yet also be empathetic towards strangers? This cardinal question has rarely been studied in our closest living relatives, bonobos. Yet, their striking xenophilic tendencies make them an interesting model for reconstructing the socio-emotional capacities of the last common ancestor of hominids. Within a series of dot-probe experiments, we compared bonobos’ and humans’ attention towards scenes depicting familiar (kith and kin) or unfamiliar individuals with emotional or neutral expressions. Results show that attention of bonobos is immediately captured by emotional scenes depicting unfamiliar bonobos, but not by emotional groupmates (Experiment 1) or expressions of humans, irrespective of familiarity (Experiment 2). Using a large community sample, Experiment 3 shows that human attention is mostly captured by emotional rather than neutral expressions of family and friends. On the one hand, our results show that an attentional bias towards emotions is a shared phenomenon between humans and bonobos, but on the other, that both species have their own unique evolutionarily informed bias. These findings support previously proposed adaptive explanations for xenophilia in bonobos which potentially biases them towards emotional expressions of unfamiliar conspecifics, and parochialism in humans, which makes them sensitive to the emotional expressions of close others.

Losing your footing, losing your morality

What influences how people render their moral judgment? Focusing specifically on the conceptual metaphors “moral is upright” and “immoral is tilted”, we sought to investigate whether physical slant can influence people’s harsh moral judgment. Experiment 1 induced physical slant by having participants complete the questionnaire at a tilt table. We observed a significant effect with participants who experienced physical slant rendering a less severe moral judgment than did those who wrote their responses at a level table. Using a new manipulation of physical slant and a larger, more diverse sample, Experiment 2 asked participants to complete the questionnaires with rotated text or normal text. We observed a difference between the two groups: compared to participants who read the normal text, those with a visual experience of slant lessened the severity of their moral judgments. Taken together, the results showed that the consequence of tilted experience exerts downstream effects on moral reasoning, which suggests that incidental bodily experience affects how people render their decisions.

A novel fluorescent sensor based on 4-(diethylamino)-2-(hydroxy)-phenyl imine functionalized naphthalimide for highly selective and sensitive detection of CN– and Fe3+

In this work, a novel sensor molecule HB1, based on a 4-(diethylamino)-2-(hydroxy)-phenyl imine functionalized naphthalimide derivative, was successfully designed and synthesized. Interestingly, the HB1 showed fluorescence identification ability for CN– in DMSO/H2O (8:2, v/v) solution. After addition of CN– into the HB1 solution, the fluorescence intensity of HB1 solution could be enhanced obviously. The anti-disturbance experiments demonstrated that other anions could not interfere in the detection of CN–. On the other hand, HB1 was capable of dual-channel (absorption and fluorescence) detection of Fe3+ in DMSO solution. With the addition of various metal ions into the HB1 solution, only Fe3+ induced the fluorescence emission of HB1 solution quenching and the colour change, and other metal ions could not interfere in the detection of Fe3+. The limits of detection (LODs) of HB1 for CN– and Fe3+ were 6.30 × 10−8 and 3.95 × 10−8 mol/L, respectively. Importantly, the real sample experiment was carried out by detecting CN– in bitter almonds. Additionally, ion test strips based on HB1 were fabricated, which could act as convenient and efficient test kits for detecting CN– and Fe3+.

TREND WISATA KULINER HALAL MELALUI OLEHAN PRODUK PASTA

Pasta has been the most popular foreign food among food lovers in Yogyakarta. This food mostly founded in Steak restaurant. Javanese noodle resstaurant, etc. Because of its popularity towards culinary entrepreneur, they try to combine the making of main composition of pasta that is halal-guaranted for the lovers. This writing is based on the experiment of main compotition of pasta. Pasta that is made from wheat flouris combined with Belitung caladium flour (Xanthosomasagittifolium). This experiment is did in 5 combinations as a sample experiment and each is rated in color, taste, aroma, and texture. The aim of this experiment is to find the most ideal combination for pasta based on its color, taste, aroma, and texture. As the result of this experiment, in the color aspect, the first and the fourth combination is different. The taste aspect contains differences among the first, third, and fourth combination , so do the aroma aspect and the texture aspect. It based on probability value of 95% or critical level of 0,05 in examining hypotheses. If probability value is less than 0, 05, it is said there is a significant difference. The table tells the color of first combination is different from forth combination. The smell of first combination is different from third and forth combination. The texture of first combination is different from third and forth combination. There is no different combination of 25% caladium flour. It shows pasta which is made by combination 25% of Belitung caladium flour has highest probability value from any compositions and all aspect. Probability value is higher than 0,05. It means pasta which is made by combining 25% of Belitung wheat flour has highest quality or highest significance value. The final experiment is combining 25% caladium flour and 75% shows close smell, taste, and pasty color. However, this color is more interesting to the respondents than other combination. It also has close texture to original