Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
USING EXPECTATION DISCONFIRMATION THEORY TO PREDICT TECHNOLOGY TRUST AND USAGE CONTINUANCE INTENTIONS

While the information systems (IS) community has examined the role of interpersonal trust in e-commerce acceptance, IS researchers are just beginning to examine the role of human-technology trust in technology acceptance. Trust in technology is an increasingly important concept as systems become more complex and harder for any one human to understand. IS research has also examined technology acceptance using expectation disconfirmation theory, which predicts users' satisfaction with a technology. Because trust has traditionally been defined as a set of expectations, we use the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm to predict the effects of technology trust on satisfaction with a system. Thus we join the trust and expectation-disconfirmation lenses, developing trust-related dimensions of expectations, perceived performance, and disconfirmation of expectations. We develop and test a model that posits technology trusting expectations will influence post-usage perceptions of trusting performance and disconfirmation. In turn, we examine how the post-usage perceptions influence satisfaction, technology trusting intentions, and usage continuance intentions. We find most of the research model relationships are significant. Technology trusting expectations influence trusting performance, which affects disconfirmation. We also show that satisfaction links to usage continuance intentions through technology trusting intentions in technology. A surprising finding is that satisfaction does not fully mediate the relationship between performance and trusting intentions and that performance actually has a larger total effect on trusting intentions than satisfaction. The hypothesized model explains 39% of the variance in technology trusting intentions and 41% of the variance in usage continuance intentions.
Strong Recurrent Networks Compute the Orientation Tuning of Surround Modulation in the Primate Primary Visual Cortex

In macaque primary visual cortex (V1), neuronal responses to stimuli inside the receptive field (RF) are modulated by stimuli in the RF surround. This modulation is orientation specific. Previous studies suggested that, for some cells, this specificity may not be fixed but changes with the stimulus orientation presented to the RF. We demonstrate, in recording studies, that this tuning behavior is instead highly prevalent in V1 and, in theoretical work, that it arises only if V1 operates in a regime of strong local recurrence. Strongest surround suppression occurs when the stimuli in the RF and the surround are iso-oriented, and strongest facilitation when the stimuli are cross-oriented. This is the case even when the RF is suboptimally activated by a stimulus of nonpreferred orientation but only if this stimulus can activate the cell when presented alone. This tuning behavior emerges from the interaction of lateral inhibition (via the surround pathways), which is tuned to the preferred orientation of the RF, with weakly tuned, but strong, local recurrent connections, causing maximal withdrawal of recurrent excitation at the feedforward input orientation. Thus, horizontal and feedback modulation of strong recurrent circuits allows the tuning of contextual effects to change with changing feedforward inputs.
The X-Ray-to-Optical Properties of Optically Selected Active Galaxies over Wide Luminosity and Redshift Ranges

We present partial-correlation analyses that examine the strengths of the relationships between l2500 Å, l2 keV, αOX, and redshift for optically selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We extend the work of Strateva and coworkers, which analyzed optically selected AGNs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), by including 52 moderate-luminosity, optically selected AGNs from the COMBO-17 survey with corresponding deep (≈250 ks to 1 Ms) X-ray observations from the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. The COMBO-17 survey extends ∼3 mag deeper than the SDSS and probes the moderate-luminosity AGNs that numerically dominate the AGN population in the universe. We also include recently published observations of 19 high-redshift, optically selected AGNs and 46 luminous, low-redshift AGNs from the Bright Quasar Survey. The full sample used in our analysis consists of 333 AGNs, extending out to z ∼ 6, with 293 (88%) having X-ray detections. The sample spans five decades in UV luminosity and four decades in X-ray luminosity. We confirm that αOX is strongly anticorrelated with l2500 Å (13.6 σ), the highest significance found for this relation to date, and find evidence suggesting that the slope of this relation may be dependent on l2500 Å. We find that no significant correlation exists between αOX and redshift (1.3 σ) and constrain the maximum evolution of AGN UV-to-X-ray flux ratios to be less than 30% (1 σ) out to z = 5. Using our sample's high X-ray detection fraction, we also find a significant anticorrelation (3.0 σ) between αOX and l2 keV. We make comparisons to earlier studies on this topic and discuss implications for X-ray and optical AGN luminosity functions.
Scanning electron microscope dimensional metrology using a model‐based library

The semiconductor electronics industry places significant demands upon secondary electron imaging to obtain dimensional measurements that are used for process control or failure analysis. Tolerances for measurement uncertainty and repeatability are smaller than the spatial resolution of edges in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) that is used to perform the measurements. Image processing techniques, historically used to identify edge locations, are inadequate under these conditions. An alternative approach, based upon Monte Carlo electron transport modeling to assign edge positions, has been developed. The specimen shape is parameterized, and parameters are iteratively adjusted to produce the best least squares fit to the measured image. Because Monte Carlo simulators are too slow to be used directly in such an iterative calculation, the Monte Carlo technique is used relatively few times to construct a library of results for parameters spanning the process space of interest. A function that interpolates the library then becomes a surrogate that is used to rapidly compute the model function as needed. This procedure has yielded measurement results from top‐down SEM images that are in good agreement with cross‐section measurements and that have as much as a factor of 3 better same‐site repeatability than the more traditional techniques. Published in 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Emergent Negotiations: Stability and Shifts in Negotiation Dynamics

Negotiation is a dynamic process in which negotiators change their strategies in response to each other. We believe mutual adaptation is best conceptualized as an emergent process and is a critical determinant of negotiators’ abilities to identify mutually beneficial solutions. We argue that three factors drive the process of negotiation and influence the quality of agreements: alignment of negotiators’ strategies across individuals (strategy sequences), alignment of negotiators’ strategies with the negotiation-wide dynamic (phases), and congruence of negotiators’ goals.
Specifying and Validating the Agent Performance Evaluation Methodology: The Symbiosis Use Case

Despite the plethora of frameworks and tools for developing agent systems, there is a remarkable lack of generalized methodologies for assessing their performance, while adequately addressing the unpredictable and complex nature of intelligent agents. In this paper, we present a generic methodology for evaluating agent performance, the Agent Performance Evaluation (APE) methodology that consists of representation tools, guidelines and techniques for organizing and using metrics, measurements and aggregated characterizations of performance. The main element of APE is the Metrics Representation Tree, a generic structure that enables efficient manipulation of evaluation-specific information. A formal specification of the proposed methodology is provided and its applicability is demonstrated through Symbiosis, an existing multi-agent system to be used as a testbed.
Exploring the position of curriculum studies across the continuum of teacher education in Ireland

Curriculum, while often narrowly defined, is a contested space that stimulates continuing international debate, yet the importance of curriculum studies is frequently overlooked across the continuum of teacher education. Within the Irish context a technicist interpretation of curriculum studies, focusing primarily of subject knowledge and development, has historically been adopted. More recent Teaching Council of Ireland policy documents have espoused a broader macro understanding of curriculum studies as a foundation discipline within initial teacher education. However, concerns have been raised regarding student teachers’ ability to fully engage with such material so early in their professional development. With the recently embraced continuum of teacher education in Ireland, this paper examines how curriculum studies is currently defined by Irish policy and problematises how it is addressed in practice. The paper proceeds to explore emerging opportunities to expand this area of study across the continuum. A case for the place of curriculum studies as central to the advancement of the profession through the promotion of teachers as change agents is presented.
Comparative effects of different enteral feeding methods in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy: a network meta-analysis

Nasogastric tube (NGT) and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy were frequently used in the head and neck cancer patients when malnutrition was present. Nevertheless, the evidence was inclusive in terms of the choice and the time of tube placement. The aim of this network meta-analysis was to evaluate the comparative effects of prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (pPEG), reactive percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (rPEG), and NGT in the head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy. Databases of PubMed, Web of Science, and Elsevier were searched from inception to October 2015. Thirteen studies enrolling 1,631 participants were included in this network meta-analysis. The results indicated that both pPEG and NGT were superior to rPEG in the management of weight loss. pPEG was associated with the least rate of treatment interruption and nutrition-related hospital admission among pPEG, rPEG, and NGT. Meanwhile, there was no difference in tube-related complications. Our study suggested that pPEG might be a better choice in malnutrition management in the head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy. However, its effects need to be further investigated in more randomized controlled trials.
CLINICAL STUDIES Fatigue as a Predictor of Postpartum Depression

The postpartum is a time when women commonly report increased fatigue that may contribute to depression. Studies have not examined fatigue alone as a predictor of postpartum depression. Objective: To examine whether and when fatigue in the early postpartum is predictive of post-partum depression. Design: Correlational, longitudinal study. Setting: Two hospitals and participants' homes in central Pennsylvania. Participants: Convenience sample of 38 healthy women recruited from hospital maternity units within 24 hours after an uncomplicated birth. Main Outcome Measures: Fatigue was measured using the Modified Fatigue Symptom Checklist (MFSC) on Days 0, 7, 14, and 28 after childbirth. Depression was assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depressive Symptomatology Scale (CES-D) on Day 28. Results: After adjustments for multiple comparisons , a significant correlation was obtained between fatigue as measured by the MFSC and postpartum
THE INFLUENCING FACTORS ON CONSUMER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS COUNTERFEIT BRANDED SNEAKER SHOES AND THEIR IMPACT TO PURCHASE INTENTION (Study on Undergraduate Students of University of Brawijaya Malang)

Penelitiаn ini bertujuаn untuk (1) mengetаhui dаn menjelаskаn pengаruh brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctor, dаn personаlity fаctor terhаdаp sikаp, (2) mengetаhui dаn menjelаskаn pengаruh sikаp terhаdаp minаt beli sepаtu sneаkers brаnded tiruаn, (3) mengetааhui dа menjeаskаn pengаruh brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctor, dаn personаlity fаctor terhаdаp minаt beli. Jenis penelitiаn ini аdаlаh explаnаtory reseаrch dengаn pendekаtаn kuаntitаtif. Vаriаbel dаlаm penelitiаn ini meliputi brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctor, personаlity fаctor, sikаp, dаn minаt beli. Populаsi dаlаm penelitiаn ini аdаlаh mаhаsiswа аktif Universitаs Brаwijаyа yаng pernаh membeli sepаtu sneаkers brаnded tiruаn yаng berusiа 17 tаhun keаtаs. Sаmpel dаri penelitiаn ini аdаlаh 116 reponden dengаn teknik pengаmbilаn sаmple purposive sаmpling dаn metode pengumpulаn dаtа melаlui kuisioner. Аnаlisis dаtа yаng digunаkаn аdаlаh аnаlisis deskriptif dаn аnаlisis jаlur (pаth). Hаsil аnаlisis jаlur (pаth аnаlysis) menunjukаn bаhwа brаnd imаge berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp sikаp, sociаl fаctor berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp sikаp, personаlity fаctor berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp sikаp, sikаp berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp minаt beli, brаnd imаge berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp minаt beli, sociаl fаctor berpengаruh berpengаruh signifikаn terhаdаp minаt beli, dаn personаlity fаctor berpengаruh terhаdаp minаt beli. Kata Kunci: brand image, social factor, personality factor, sikap, minat beli ABSTRАCT This study аims to (1) identifying аnd explаining the influence of brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctors, аnd personаlity on аttitude, (2) identifying аnd explаining the influence of аttitudes towаrd purchаse intention counterfeit brаnded sneаker shoes, (3) identifying аnd explаining the influence brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctor, аnd personаlity fаctors on purchаse intention. The type of this reseаrch is explаnаtory reseаrch with quаntitаtive аpproаch. Vаriаbles in this study аre brаnd imаge, sociаl fаctor, personаlity fаctor, аttitude, аnd purchаse intention. The populаtion in this study аre the University of Brаwijаyа аctive students who hаve ever bought counterfeit brаnded sneаkers shoes which 17 yeаrs old аnd аbove. The sаmple of this reseаrch is 116 respondents with sаmpling technique purposive sаmpling аnd dаtа collection method through questionnаire. Dаtа аnаlysis used is descriptive аnаlysis аnd pаth аnаlysis. The result of pаth аnаlysis shows thаt brаnd imаge hаs significаnt influence on аttitude, sociаl fаctor hаs significаnt influence on аttitude, аnd personаlity fаctor hаs significаnt influence on аttitude. Аttitude hаs а significаnt influence on purchаse intention, brаnd imаge hаs significаnt influence on purchаse intention, sociаl fаctor hаs significаnt influence on purchаse intention, аnd personаlity fаctor hаs significаnt influence on purchаse intention. Keywords: brand image, social factor, personality factor, attitude, purchase intention
Passivity degradation under the discretization with the zero-order hold and the ideal sampler

Quantitative study is made on how much passivity is lost when a continuous-time nonlinear system is discretized for digital implementation of a controller. The standard discretization with the zero-order hold and the ideal sampler is mainly considered though other types of discretization are also considered. The result can be used for the choice of the sampling period. Namely, the sampling period has to be small when the original continuous-time system is oscillatory. The general input-output framework is used for the discussion.
Penrose limits versus string expansions

We analyze the relation between two a priori quite different expansions of the string equations of motion and constraints in a general curved background, namely one based on the covariant Penrose–Fermi expansion of the metric Gμν around a Penrose limit plane wave associated with a null geodesic γ and the other on the Riemann coordinate expansion in the exact metric Gμν of the string embedding variables around the null geodesic γ. Starting with the observation that there is a formal analogy between the exact string equations in a plane wave and the first-order string equations in a general background, we show that this analogy becomes exact provided that one chooses the background string configuration to be the null geodesic γ itself. We then explore the higher-order correspondence between these two expansions and find that for a general curved background they agree to all orders provided that one works in Fermi coordinates and in the lightcone gauge. Requiring moreover the conformal gauge restricts one to the usual class of (Brinkmann) backgrounds admitting simultaneously the lightcone and the conformal gauge, without further restrictions.
What drives failed policy at the World Bank? An inside account of new aid modalities to higher education: context, blame, and infallibility

ABSTRACT This article analyses recent World Bank interventions aimed at improving higher education and local research capacity in low-income countries. Our empirical entry point is a critical analysis of the Development and Innovation Grant (DIG) scheme the Bank rolled out in Cambodia (2010–2015), a virtual carbon copy export of its Academic Initiative Fund in Bangladesh. Offering a rare insider perspective, we argue that the DIG scheme ultimately failed because the Bank so glaringly misunderstood the Cambodian context. We use this case to contemplate the deeper flaws in how the Bank ‘thinks’, highlighting how the world’s most powerful development institution manages to maintain faith in its own infallibility despite failure.
Notch1 Signaling Regulates the Proliferation and Self-Renewal of Human Dental Follicle Cells by Modulating the G1/S Phase Transition and Telomerase Activity

Multipotent human dental follicle cells (HDFCs) have been intensively studied in periodontal regeneration research, yet the role of Notch1 in HDFCs has not been fully understood. The aim of the current study is to explore the role of Notch1 signaling in HDFCs self-renewal and proliferation. HDFCs were obtained from the extracted wisdom teeth from adolescent patients. Regulation of Notch1 signaling in the HDFCs was achieved by overexpressing the exogenous intracellular domain of Notch1 (ICN1) or silencing Notch1 by shRNA. The regulatory effects of Notch1 on HDFC proliferation, cell cycle distribution and the expression of cell cycle regulators were investigated through various molecular technologies, including plasmid construction, retrovirus preparation and infection, qRT-PCR, western blot, RBP-Jk luciferase reporter and cell proliferation assay. Our data clearly show that constitutively activation of Notch1 stimulates the HDFCs proliferation while inhibition of the Notch1 suppresses their proliferation in vitro. In addition, the HDFCs proliferation is associated with the increased expression of cell cycle regulators, e.g. cyclin D1, cyclin D2, cyclin D3, cyclin E1, CDK2, CDK4, CDK6, and SKP2 and the decreased expression of p27 kip1. Moreover, our data show that the G1/S phase transition (indicating proliferation) and telomerase activity (indicating self-renewal) can be enhanced by overexpression of ICN1 but halted by inhibition of Notch1. Together, the current study provides evidence for the first time that Notch1 signaling regulates the proliferation and self-renewal capacity of HDFCs through modulation of the G1/S phase transition and the telomerase activity.
Composite fermions and Landau-level mixing in the fractional quantum Hall effect.

The reduction of the energy gap due to Landau-level mixing, characterized by the dimensionless parameter \ensuremath{\lambda}=(${\mathit{e}}^{2}$/\ensuremath{\epsilon}${\mathit{l}}_{0}$)/\ensuremath{\Elzxh}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\omega}}}_{\mathit{c}}$, has been calculated by variational Monte Carlo for the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions \ensuremath{\nu}=1/3 and 1/5 using a modified version of Jain's composite-fermion wave functions. These wave functions exploit the Landau-level mixing already present in composite-fermion wave functions by introducing a partial Landau-level projection operator. Results for the energy gaps are consistent with experimental observations in n-type GaAs, but we conclude that Landau-level mixing alone cannot account for the significantly smaller energy gaps observed in p-type systems.
Microcalcification detection using combination of wavelet transform and morphology

In this paper, we present a novel approach to detect microcalcifications (MCCs) in the mammograms. Microcalcification has approximately a size of several pixels in diameter on early cancer mammograms and has low contrast. So it is difficult to detection the microcalcifications. The essential idea of propose approach is to apply morphological and wavelet transform to locate the micro calcifications in digital mammograms. The presented method overcome higher true positive rate (TPR) but higher false positive (FP) problem by using single wavelet transform or morphology. The experiment results show the presented method has higher TPR and reducing FP obviously. Using the mammogram data form the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database the TPR is 80.2% at the cost of average 2.5 false microcalcifications per region of interest (ROI)
Extinction at 7??m and 15??m from the ISOGAL survey

The extinction laws at 7μm and 15μm are derived for more than 120 sightlines in the inner Galactic plane based on the ISOGAL survey data and the near-infrared data from DENIS and 2MASS. The tracers are the ISOGAL point sources with [7] - [15] < 0.4 which are RGB tip stars or early AGB stars with moderate mass loss. They have well-defined intrinsic color indices (J - Ks) 0 , (Ks-[7]) 0 and (Ks-[15]) 0 . By a linear fitting of the observed color indices Ks-[7] and Ks-[15] to the observed J - Ks, we obtain the ratio between the E(Ks-[7]) and E(Ks-[15]) color excesses and E(J - Ks). We infer the selective extinctions at 7 and 15μm in terms of the near-infrared extinction in the Ks band. The distribution of the derived extinctions around 7 micron (A 7 ) is well represented by a Gaussian function, with the peak at about 0.47A KS and ranging from 0.33 to 0.55A KS . There is some evidence that A 7 /A KS may vary significantly depending on the line of sight. The derived selective extinction at 15μm suffers uncertainty mainly from the dispersion in the intrinsic color index (Ks-[15]) 0 which is affected by dust emission from mass-losing AGB stars. The peak value of A 15 is around 0.40A KS .
Psychosocial factors involved in memory and cognitive failures in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome

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