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Currency Risk and Information Diffusion

This paper explores whether information asymmetry in equity markets is a determinant of information diffusion from currency markets. It provides evidence that price delay attributed to currency information is different than price delay attributed to the market risk premium. Furthermore, information asymmetry is a determinant of price delay and price delay attributed to currency information produces abnormal returns of 6.32% per year.
Optimizing microcell base station locations using simulated annealing techniques

The problem of choosing the optimum locations for base stations in a microcell communications system is considered. The factors affecting optimum selection are the non-uniform service areas in complex propagation environments, the mutual coverage and interference of multiple base stations, and the service objective which is usually defined by signal level but may also be defined by delay spread for certain digital systems. This optimization problem is addressed using simulated annealing (SA) techniques which offer a method to achieve near optimum solutions to complex combinatorial optimization problems, This research shows that SA is a viable approach for handling practical base station siting problems in an urban microcell environment. <<ETX>>
Service quality and its relation to satisfaction and loyalty in logistics outsourcing relationships

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how perceived service quality influences both a shipper's satisfaction and subsequent loyalty in third‐party logistics outsourcing relationships.Design/methodology/approach – Critical service dimensions are identified and their impact on satisfaction and loyalty are developed into a theoretical model, which in turn is examined empirically using structural equation modelling from a survey of 235 industrial companies in Finland.Findings – The results support the satisfaction‐loyalty model in a logistics outsourcing context confirming that service perceptions influence loyalty through a shipper's overall satisfaction with the service provider.Research limitation/implications – The empirical study is limited to Finland and data were collected before the financial crisis of 2008‐2009 which affected the economy and this industrial sector. The theoretical constructs and model also need to be validated and tested further across a wider empirical context.Practi.
Pleasure or utility? Time planning style and Web usage behaviors

The present research focuses on time planning style, an individual's habitual approach to time management, in relation to the use of the Web. We theorize and provide empirical evidence that highly analytic versus spontaneous planners are more likely to seek utilitarian rather than hedonic benefits from Web use. This pattern is associated with downstream relationships between the types of benefits sought and various Web usage behaviors (e.g., exploratory, entertainment, information search, and electronic shopping). A notable finding is that both planning styles are positively associated with electronic shopping, but due to different types of benefits that are sought. Implications are discussed for marketers’ customization of Web page content based on segmenting the possible audience on time planning styles.
Supply chain collaboration: what's happening?

Purpose – Collaboration has been referred to as the driving force behind effective supply chain management and may be the ultimate core capability. However, there is a fairly widespread belief that few firms have truly capitalized on its potential. A study was undertaken to assess the current level of supply chain collaboration and identify best practice.Design/methodology/approach – Supply chain executives provided insights into collaboration. Survey data, personal interviews, and a review of the collaboration literature were used to develop a conceptual model profiling behavior, culture, and relational interactions associated with successful collaboration.Findings – Positive collaboration‐related outcomes include enhancements to efficiency, effectiveness, and market positions for the respondents' firms.Research limitations/implications – The small sample size represents a limitation, but is balanced by the quality of the respondent base and their expertise/experience. Another limitation involves securin.
Divergent branches of mitochondrial signaling regulate specific genes and the viability of specialized cell types of differentiated yeast colonies

Mitochondrial retrograde signaling mediates communication from altered mitochondria to the nucleus and is involved in many normal and pathophysiological changes, including cell metabolic reprogramming linked to cancer development and progression in mammals. The major mitochondrial retrograde pathway described in yeast includes three activators, Rtg1p, Rtg2p and Rtg3p, and repressors, Mks1p and Bmh1p/Bmh2p. Using differentiated yeast colonies, we show that Mks1p-Rtg pathway regulation is complex and includes three branches that divergently regulate the properties and fate of three specifically localized cell subpopulations via signals from differently altered mitochondria. The newly identified RTG pathway-regulated genes ATO1/ATO2 are expressed in colonial upper (U) cells, the cells with active TORC1 that metabolically resemble tumor cells, while CIT2 is a typical target induced in one subpopulation of starving lower (L) cells. The viability of the second L cell subpopulation is strictly dependent on RTG signaling. Additional co-activators of Rtg1p-Rtg3p specific to particular gene targets of each branch are required to regulate cell differentiation.
Wireless Hearing Aids System Simulation

Although wireless hearing aid systems have been proposed by several research groups, no viable whole-system simulation results have been reported so far for better evaluation of this advanced hearing device. In this paper, a system-level simulation using ADStrade is presented based on one of the typical wireless hearing aid architecture. The results show that the wireless hearing aid system function can be simulated and verified. And from these results, we can get a very promising performance which can be used for further design
Choosing amine-based absorbents for CO2 capture

CO2 capture from gaseous effluents is one of the great challenges faced by chemical and environmental engineers, as the increase in CO2 levels in the Earth atmosphere might be responsible for dramatic climate changes. From the existing capture technologies, the only proven and mature technology is chemical absorption using aqueous amine solutions. However, bearing in mind that this process is somewhat expensive, it is important to choose the most efficient and, at the same time, the least expensive solvents. For this purpose, a pilot test facility was assembled and includes an absorption column, as well as a stripping column, a heat exchanger between the two columns, a reboiler for the stripping column, pumping systems, surge tanks and all necessary instrumentation and control systems. Some different aquous amine solutions were tested on this facility and it was found that, from a set of six tested amines, diethanol amine is the one that turned out to be the most economical choice, as it showed a higher CO2 loading capacity (0.982 mol of CO2 per mol of amine) and the lowest price per litre (25.70 €/L), even when compared with monoethanolamine, the benchmark solvent, exhibiting a price per litre of 30.50 €/L.
Building A Long Term Relationship Between Manufacturers And Large Retailers: Does Commitment Matter In Morocco?

This paper aims to investigate present evolution in terms of relationship governance between large retailers and manufacturers in distribution channels, with a specific focus on the viability of a shift from a transactional approach to a relational approach in business exchanges. To this end, we investigate the different partners commitment in the specific context of an emerging economy (Morocco). The findings indicate that retailers long term orientation depends far more on their satisfaction and their dependence with respect to their suppliers than on the trust that is built up in their business relationships. Satisfaction is mainly linked to financial gain (margins and turnover generated), but also to the suppliers marketing and logistical performance. Marketing performance concerns the quality of products, their degree of innovation, and the suppliers promotional activity (sales drive and conditions), whilst logistical satisfaction is based on respect for deadlines, regular deliveries and compliance with orders. Very few studies have focused on business relationships between manufacturers and retailers in the specific context of emerging countries like Morocco. The present study is designed to contribute to the debate on the issue via a representative illustration through the lens of an emerging economy with the same socio-cultural background.
The Potential Role of CO2 in Initiation and Maintenance of Estivation in the Land Snail Helix lucorum

Elevated CO2 levels are hypothesized to play a role in the initiation and maintenance of estivation in snails through disturbances of acid‐base status. The aim of our study was to identify the ambient CO2 threshold that induces disturbances in acid‐base status in the air‐breathing land snail Helix lucorum. Acid‐base parameters were determined in the hemolymph of snails acclimated to 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 4%, and 8% CO2 in air for 20 d. In addition, we evaluated the effects of long‐term acclimation on metabolic rate and on levels of d‐lactate dehydrogenase activity (d‐LDH) and of d‐lactate in snails after 20 d of exposure to increased CO2 levels. Helix lucorum proved to be unable to compensate for a decrease in extracellular pH (pHe) when acclimated to levels higher than 1% CO2 in air. The rate of oxygen consumption started to decrease when snails were acclimated to 0.5% CO2 in air. However, there was no correlation between the drops in pHe and in metabolic rate. Long‐term acclimation to elevated CO2 levels induced an increase in the activity of d‐LDH with a concomitant accumulation of d‐lactate in tissues. This indicates that long‐term acclimation to elevated ambient CO2 levels could reduce the aerobic capacity of land snails and trigger expression of anaerobic pathways of ATP turnover. The threshold levels of ambient CO2 that induce changes in acid‐base status and elicit metabolic depression in adult land snails H. lucorum are higher than the future atmospheric levels that are expected to result from human use of fossil energy resources.
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High quality acupuncture clinical trials using single blind methods have been reported; however, the results of these single blind studies are controversial. Several investigators recently invented and validated a subject masking, single blind needle which to the subject looks and feels like a real needle. These recently designed placebo devices, which overcome the inadequacies of previous control procedures, provide enhanced evidence in acupuncture studies when it is impossible to blind the practitioner to the intervention. However, the specific effects of acupuncture beyond placebo measured in such studies may still be biased due to presence of unmasked practitioners. Thus, there has been a call for a methodological advance beyond single blind studies, despite the inherent difficulties in masking the practitioner in acupuncture studies. As a development in this field, we designed the double blind (practitioner and patient masking), nonpenetrating, placebo needle together with the matched ‘real’ needle. The design of the placebo needle successfully masked the true nature of the needle from experienced acupuncturists, even though they were informed of their potential use. For patient masking, we showed that non-penetrating needles are effective when the patients are informed that two different types of acupuncture needles are being
Pharmacokinetics of Propoxyphene

Propoxyphene is rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and detectable in plasma at 5 min after administration of the napthylate and hydrochloride by mouth (Rodda et al., 1971). The peak concentration in plasma is reached at between 1 and 2 h after oral administration on an empty stomach (Verebely & Inturrisi, 1974). The absorption of the drug was delayed by standard highcarbohydrate, high-fat and high-protein meals but the overall efficiency of absorption was unaffected or slightly increased. Increased fluid intake decreased proproxyphene bioavailability (Welling et al., 1976). The systemic availability increases with increasing oral dose (Perrier & Gibaldi, 1972), suggesting that propoxyphene is subject to saturable extrahepatic metabolism at the level of the gastrointestinal lumen or mucosa. There is some evidence from animal studies that activated charcoal, given 30 min after propoxyphene, can reduce absorption but the clinical significance of this is uncertain (Glab et al., 1982).
Real-Time Processing of ASL Signs : Effects of Linguistic Experience and Proficiency

Word recognition in spoken language is known to be a dynamic, incremental, and continuous process. As words unfold in time, listeners activate a range of potential lexical candidates, including those that share semantic (Yee & Sedivy, 2006) and phonological (Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998) features with the target word. Among the methodological techniques used to probe real-time recognition, the use of eye-tracking technology has been particularly informative, in that eye movements provide a rapid and detailed metric for determining the locus of the listener’s visual attention. In contrast, much less is known about how individual lexical items in a sign language are recognized as they unfold in real time. Signed languages such as American Sign Language (ASL), which are produced manually and perceived via the visual channel, have been shown to be acquired in a similar manner to spoken language when exposure begins at birth (Mayberry & Squires, 2006; Newport, 1985). It has been a challenge to probe the on-line recognition of signs, however, due to the fact that the visual channel is required both to recognize signs and to demonstrate comprehension via eye gaze. Although sign languages share many linguistic properties with spoken language, the manual modality and visual perception of signs has led to questions regarding the degree of sub-lexical representation that exists for single signs. Commonly, signs are thought to be composed of at least three distinct parameters, namely handshape, location, and movement. These parameters have frequently been considered as contributing partial lexical information with varying degrees of salience. For example, in several gating studies, the order of parameter recognition as signs were presented in increasing segments led to the finding that location information was identified early in signs, followed by handshape, and finally movement information (Emmorey & Corina,1990; Clark
The Pictures We Like Are Our Image: Continuous Mapping of Favorite Pictures into Self-Assessed and Attributed Personality Traits

Flickr allows its users to tag the pictures they like as “favorite”. As a result, many users of the popular photo-sharing platform produce galleries of favorite pictures. This article proposes new approaches, based on Computational Aesthetics, capable to infer the personality traits of Flickr users from the galleries above. In particular, the approaches map low-level features extracted from the pictures into numerical scores corresponding to the Big-Five Traits, both self-assessed and attributed. The experiments were performed over 60,000 pictures tagged as favorite by 300 users (the PsychoFlickr Corpus). The results show that it is possible to predict beyond chance both self-assessed and attributed traits. In line with the state-of-the-art of Personality Computing, these latter are predicted with higher effectiveness (correlation up to 0.68 between actual and predicted traits).
Reduced glucose uptake precedes insulin signaling defects in adipocytes from heterozygous GLUT4 knockout mice

Decreased GLUT4 expression, impaired insulin receptor (IR), IRS‐1, and pp60/IRS‐3 tyrosine phosphorylation are characteristics of adi‐pocytes from insulin‐resistant animal models and obese NIDDM humans. However, the sequence of events leading to the development of insulin signaling defects and the significance of decreased GLUT4 expression in causing adipocyte insulin resistance are unknown. The present study used male heterozygous GLUT4 knockout mice (GLUT4(+/–)) as a novel model of diabetes to study the development of insulin signaling defects in adipo‐cytes with the progression of whole body insulin resistance and diabetes. Male GLUT4(+/–) mice with normal fed glycemia and insulinemia (N/N), normal fed glycemia and hyperinsulinemia (N/H), and fed hyperglycemia with hyperinsulinemia (H/H) exist at all ages. The expression of GLUT4 protein and the maximal insulin‐stimulated glucose transport was 50% decreased in adipocytes from all three groups. Insulin signaling was normal in N/N adipose cells. From 35 to 70% reductions in insulin‐stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of IR, IRS‐1, and pp60/IRS‐3 were noted with no changes in the cellular content of IR, IRS‐1, and p85 in N/H adipocytes. Insulin‐stimulated protein tyrosine phos‐phorylation was further decreased to 12–23% in H/H adipose cells accompanied by 42% decreased IR and 80% increased p85 expression. Insulin‐stimulated, IRS‐1‐associated PI3 kinase activity was decreased by 20% in N/H and 68% reduced in H/H GLUT4(+/–) adipocytes. However, total insulin‐stimulated PI3 kinase activity was normal in H/H GLUT4(+/–) adipocytes. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that hyperinsulinemia triggers a reduction of IR tyrosine kinase activity that is further exacerbated by the appearance of hypergly‐cemia. However, the insulin signaling cascade has sufficient plasticity to accommodate significant changes in specific components without further reducing glucose uptake. Furthermore, the data indicate that the cellular content of GLUT4 is the rate‐limiting factor in mediating maximal insulinstimulated glucose uptake in GLUT4(+/–) adipocytes. —Li, J., Houseknecht, K. L. , Stenbit, A. E. , Katz, E. B. , Charron, M. J. Reduced glucose uptake precedes insulin signaling defects in adipocytes from heterozygous GLUT4 knockout mice. FASEB J. 14, 1117–1125 (2000)
Broadcasting and Narrowcasting: How Audience Size Affects What People Share

Does the number of people with whom someone communicates influence what he or she discusses and shares? Six studies demonstrate that compared with narrowcasting (i.e., communicating with just one person), broadcasting (i.e., communicating with multiple people) leads consumers to avoid sharing content that makes them look bad. Narrowcasting, however, encourages people to share content that is useful to the message recipient. These effects are driven by communicators’ focus of attention. People naturally tend to focus on the self, but communicating with just one person heightens other-focus, which leads communicators to share less self-presenting content and more useful content. These findings shed light on the drivers of word of mouth and provide insight into when the communication sender (vs. receiver) plays a relatively larger role in what people share.
AN IMPLICIT ITERATION SCHEME WITH ERRORS FOR COMMON FIXED POINTS OF GENERALIZED ASYMPTOTICALLY QUASI-NONEXPANSIVE MAPPINGS

In this paper, we study an implicit iteration scheme with errors for a finite family of generalized asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive mappings and give the necessary and sufficient condition to converge to common fixed points for the said scheme in Banach spaces. The results presented in this paper generalize, improve and unify the corresponding results in [3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18].
Susceptibility of the Chesapeake Bay to environmental contamination with Cryptosporidium parvum.

SummaryofTestingof Some PathogensCausing InfectiousDiseasesofthe OystersType of reactionDisease/parasite Pathogen stages Infection site AFS a IFA b MSX disease/ Plasmodia Alltissues 77Haplosopridiumnelsoni Spores Digestive tubule epithelium + 7SSO disease/ Plasmodia Alltissues 77Haplosporidiumcostale Spores Alltissues exceptthe epithelia + 7Dermo disease/ Zoospores Alltissues 77Perkinsus marinus Trophonts Alltissues 77Meronts Alltissues 77Juvenile osyter disease/unknown Unidenti¢ed Mantle 77MiscellaneousprotozoaNematopsisostrearum Spores Alltissues 77N. prytherchi Spores Alltissues 77Marteliaregringens Spores Alltissues 77Hexamitanelsoni Trophozoites Instestine 7 +Bonamiasp. Spores Alltissues 77Gregarine sp. Oocysts Intestinalepithelium 77Pseudoklossia sp. Oocysts Kidneyepithelium 77Trematodiasis/ Sporocysts Gonads, gills 77Bucephaluscuculus Cercariae Digestive glands 77Source. Modi¢ed from Graczyk et al.,1998b. a Acid-fast stain. b Combination direct immuno£urescent monoclonalantibodies of the MERIFLURTMCryptosporidium/Giardiatest kit.
Understanding the Effect of Seams on the Aerodynamics of an Association Football

Abstract The aerodynamic properties of an association football were measured using a wind tunnel arrangement. A third scale model of a generic football (with seams) was used in addition to a ‘mini-football’. As the wind speed was increased, the drag coefficient decreased from 0.5 to 0.2, suggesting a transition from laminar to turbulent behaviour in the boundary layer. For spinning footballs, the Magnus effect was observed and it was found that reverse Magnus effects were possible at low Reynolds numbers. Measurements on spinning smooth spheres found that laminar behaviour led to a high drag coefficient for a large range of Reynolds numbers, and Magnus effects were inconsistent, but generally showed reverse Magnus behaviour at high Reynolds number and spin parameter. Trajectory simulations of free kicks demonstrated that a football that is struck in the centre will follow a near straight trajectory, dipping slightly before reaching the goal, whereas a football that is struck off centre will bend before reaching the goal, but will have a significantly longer flight time. The curving kick simulation was repeated for a smooth ball, which resulted in a longer flight time, due to increased drag, and the ball curving in the opposite direction, due to reverse Magnus effects. The presence of seams was found to encourage turbulent behaviour, resulting in reduced drag and more predictable Magnus behaviour for a conventional football, compared with a smooth ball.
PENGARUH DPK, CAR, NPF, DAN SWBI TERHADAP PEMBIAYAAN MURABAHAH PADA BANK UMUM SYARIAH TAHUN 2008-2012

Abstract: This research has done to know the influence of DPK, CAR, NPF, and SWBI with murabahah financing to syariah bank during 2008-2012. Dependent variable of this research is third party fund (DPK), capital adequacy ratio (CAR), non performing financing (NPF), and Indonesia bank wadiah certificate (SWBI). This research sample is financial report during three month of public syariah bank during 2008-2012. It uses saturated sample method. The data is using secondary data that get from financial report that published by Indonesia Bank. Analysis data method is using multiple linier regression. Analysis result is showing that variable simoultantly DPK, CAR, NPF, and SWBI get influence to murabahah financing. Partially DPK has positive influence to murabahah financing. NPF get negative influence to murabahah financing. While CAR and SWBI hasn’t influence to murabahah financing. Variable explaining independent variable is get 92% while the rest 8% can influenced by other variable. Keywords : Murabahah financing, third party fund (DPK), capital adequacy ratio (CAR), non performing financing (NPF), and Indonesia Bank Wadiah Certificate (SWBI).