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The impact of perceived risk towards customers' attitude in online shopping

Past researchers found there is significant relationship between customers' perceived risks, customers' attitude and online purchase intention. Besides that, many past studies only investigated the impact of perceived risk and customers' attitude towards online shopping intention. Therefore, this study shown the impact of perceived risks towards customers' attitude in online shopping. Hence, the purpose of our research is to identify the elements of perceived risks and most influential type of perceived risk towards customers' attitude in online shopping. Four independent variables such as product risk, financial risk, non-delivery risk and psychological risk are selected for two different tables. For this quantitative research, we choose 200 people to conduct questionnaire survey. For this quantitative research, we choose 200 people to conduct questionnaire survey. Those respondents are selected by using convenience sampling method at Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan, Malaysia. Based on data collected from our questionnaire survey, different SPSS analysis such as reliability, correlation and regression analysis were carried out to evaluate which of perceived risks influence towards customers' attitude in Malaysia e-commerce such as Zalora.com. As a result, participant factors has the greatest impact on customers' attitude followed by product risk, financial risk and non-delivery risk. However, psychological risk has negative impact on customers' attitude in online shopping. Therefore, the result from our research are applicable for e-commerce include Zalora.com
The Influence of Website Quality on Customer E-Satisfaction in Low Cost Airline

— The evolution of customer behavior in purchasing products or services through the Internet leads to airline companies engaging in the e-ticketing process in order to maintain their business. A well-designed website is vitally significant for the airline companies to provide effective communication, support, and competitive advantage. This study was conducted to identify the dimensions of website quality for low cost airline and to investigate the relationship between the website quality and customer e-satisfaction at low cost airline. A total of 381 responses were conveniently collected among local passengers at Low Cost Carrier Terminal, Kuala Lumpur via questionnaire distribution. This study found that the five determinant factors of website quality for AirAsia were Information Content, Navigation, Responsiveness, Personalization, and Security and Privacy. The results of this study revealed that there is a positive relationship between the five dimensions of website quality and customer e-satisfaction, and also information content was the most significant contributor to customer e-satisfaction.
Optimization algorithms for maximizing the slot filling factor of technically feasible slot geometries and winding layouts

High power density and efficiency are key factors for automotive traction machines. One possible way to reach these goals is to increase the slot filling factor. As yet, most research has either been focused on optimizing the slot geometry with a given magnet wire diameter or on finding the optimal diameter for a given geometry. Oftentimes the submitted results lead either to a magnetically suboptimal stator geometry or the suggested winding pattern and geometries are not producible. The introduction of the needle winding technology, as an alternative to the insertion technology for the manufacturing of stators of automotive traction machines, enabled a defined wire placement in the slot. To use the full benefit of this advantage an optimal and producible winding layout is necessary. Therefore, in this article new optimization algorithms are proposed and compared to algorithms found in literature with regard to reachable slot filling factors and producibility. In a case study, the best performing algorithm was used to obtain an optimal combination of wire diameter and slot geometry to maximize the filling factor. With the proposed algorithm feasible winding patterns and slot geometries with an optimized filling factor can be obtained.
Handheld optical coherence tomography during sedation in young children with optic pathway gliomas.

IMPORTANCE Monitoring young children with optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) for visual deterioration can be difficult owing to age-related noncompliance. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) measures of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness have been proposed as a surrogate marker of vision but this technique is also limited by patient cooperation. OBJECTIVE To determine whether measures of circumpapillary RNFL thickness, acquired with handheld OCT (HH-OCT) during sedation, can differentiate between young children with and without vision loss from OPGs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional analysis of a prospective observational study was conducted at a tertiary-care children's hospital. Children with an OPG (sporadic or secondary to neurofibromatosis type 1) who were cooperative for visual acuity testing, but required sedation to complete magnetic resonance imaging, underwent HH-OCT imaging of the circumpapillary RNFL while sedated. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the average and quadrant-specific RNFL thicknesses. RESULTS Thirty-three children (64 eyes) met inclusion criteria (median age, 4.8 years; range, 1.8-12.6 years). In children with vision loss (abnormal visual acuity and/or visual field), RNFL thickness was decreased in all quadrants compared with the normal-vision group (P < .001 for all comparisons). Using abnormal criteria of less than 5% and less than 1%, the area under the curve was highest for the average RNFL thickness (0.96 and 0.97, respectively) compared with specific anatomic quadrants. The highest discrimination and predictive values were demonstrated for participants with 2 or more quadrants meeting less than 5% (sensitivity = 93.3; specificity = 97.9; positive predictive value = 93.3; and negative predictive value = 97.9) and less than 1% (sensitivity = 93.3; specificity = 100; positive predictive value = 100; and negative predictive value = 98.0) criteria. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Measures of RNFL thickness acquired with HH-OCT during sedation can differentiate between young children with and without vision loss from OPGs. For young children who do not cooperate with vision testing, HH-OCT measures may be a surrogate marker of vision. Longitudinal studies are needed to delineate the temporal relationship between RNFL decline and vision loss.
Does International Commercial Arbitration Promote FDI

This paper explores the role that international commercial arbitration plays in facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI). International commercial arbitration is a system of private commercial law that enables firms to more effectively enforce contracts by allowing them to avoid inefficiencies that arise from domestic courts. As a result, access to international arbitration should foster FDI. To explain the effect of international arbitration on FDI, this paper develops a model to explain the use and effect of resolving international disputes through arbitration. The predictions of the model are tested empirically in a gravity framework. The results of this analysis suggest that access to arbitration leads to an increase in FDI flows. This increase largely occurs through a change in volume of investment with a much smaller effect on the number of investment projects. The effect of arbitration is greater for countries with weaker institutions and for larger projects.
The Term Structure of Liquidity Provision

We examine the term structure of liquidity provision in all stocks from 100 milliseconds to 600 seconds after each trade for 2000-2015. At a one second horizon, the aggregate price of liquidity provision, net of losses to information, fell from 17 basis points of total dollar volume in 2000 to 1.5 basis points in 2015. Regulatory changes, technological shocks, and changes in the industrial organization of markets are associated with declines in the price of liquidity provision, and with changes in the term structure. Over the 16-year period, the slope of the term structure is increasingly steep, consistent with intense non-price (i.e. speed) competition. The term structure and profitability of market-making is closely tied to market, rather than idiosyncratic, risk. This is consistent with electronic market makers managing liquidity provision in large well-diversified portfolios of securities.
Retirement Saving Adequacy and Individual Investment Risk Management Using the Asset/Salary Ratio

This chapter uses the Asset-Salary Ratio (ASR) to examine the factors that increase the likelihood that defined contribution plan participants will have sufficient assets to generate adequate retirement income, similar to the defined benefit plan full-funding ratio. We apply this measure to a sample of TIAA-CREF participants, and we show that participant assets are on average consistent with at least a 70 percent income replacement ratio. Key factors explaining success are an adequate contribution rate and long tenure in the system; having a portfolio weighted to equities is beneficial but to a lesser extent. Thus good funding and early participation is more important than ‘chasing returns. ’ Measures such as the ASR can help participants make more informed choices. Disciplines Economics Comments The published version of this Working Paper may be found in the 2010 publication: Reorienting Retirement Risk Management. This working paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn. edu/prc_papers/334 Reorienting Retirement Risk Management
Alienness: Rapid Detection of Candidate Horizontal Gene Transfers across the Tree of Life

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transmission of genes between organisms by other means than parental to offspring inheritance. While it is prevalent in prokaryotes, HGT is less frequent in eukaryotes and particularly in Metazoa. Here, we propose Alienness, a taxonomy-aware web application available at http://alienness.sophia. inra.fr. Alienness parses BLAST results against public libraries to rapidly identify candidate HGT in any genome of interest. Alienness takes as input the result of a BLAST of a whole proteome of interest against any National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) protein library. The user defines recipient (e.g., Metazoa) and donor (e.g., bacteria, fungi) branches of interest in the NCBI taxonomy. Based on the best BLAST E-values of candidate donor and recipient taxa, Alienness calculates an Alien Index (AI) for each query protein. An AI > 0 indicates a better hit to candidate donor than recipient taxa and a possible HGT. Higher AI represent higher gap of E-values between candidate donor and recipient and a more likely HGT. We confirmed the accuracy of Alienness on phylogenetically confirmed HGT of non-metazoan origin in plant-parasitic nematodes. Alienness scans whole proteomes to rapidly identify possible HGT in any species of interest and thus fosters exploration of HGT more easily and largely across the tree of life.
Local management and its impact on safety culture and safety

This paper addresses safety culture on tankers and bulk carriers and which factors affect the safety culture onboard vessels. The empirical setting for the study is the Norwegian shipping industry. Safety management is a challenging issue within shipping for several reasons. First of all, life and work onboard a vessel is a 24 hour activity and the crew has few possibilities of interacting with the surrounding society. Secondly the geographical distance between the on-shore organization and the vessel may affect both the quality of those systems and plans developed on shore and their implementation on the vessels. The ship management is thus identified as a key factor to a sound safety culture along with the on shore crewing strategy.
EXPONENTIAL STABILISABILITY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL LINEAR SYSTEMS WITH FINITE DATA RATES

Abstract A critical notion in the field of communication-limited control is the lowest data rate above which a given system is stabilisable. In this paper the objective is to derive this rate for a multidimensional LTI system when exponential stability with a given decay is desired. By assuming an initial state probability density, a new quantiser distortion lower bound and an asymptotic quantisation result are able to be applied to derive the infimum stabilising data rate, under very mild requirements on the initial density. Furthermore, a stabilising scheme is explicitly constructed.
Acute necrotizing encephalopathy: A comparison between influenza and non‐influenza cases

The aim of this study was to clarify the difference between influenza and non‐influenza cases in clinical symptoms, laboratory and neuroimaging findings, and outcome in children with ANE. We retrospectively studied 22 children with ANE. Eleven of them had virological proof of influenza infection and the other 11 were judged as non‐influenza infection. There was no significant difference between influenza and non‐influenza cases in sex, antipyretics use and neurological symptoms. Although laboratory data were not different between the two groups, brainstem lesions were relatively more frequent in influenza cases than in non‐influenza cases. Outcome was not different between the two groups. The results of our study suggest that the pathogenesis of acute necrotizing encephalopathy will not be dependent on infectious agents.
Expressive Writing and Wound Healing in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective To investigate whether expressive writing could speed wound reepithelialization in healthy, older adults. Methods In this randomized controlled trial, 49 healthy older adults aged 64 to 97 years were assigned to write for 20 minutes a day either about upsetting life events (Expressive Writing) or about daily activities (Time Management) for 3 consecutive days. Two weeks postwriting, 4-mm punch biopsy wounds were created on the inner, upper arm. Wounds were photographed routinely for 21 days to monitor wound reepithelialization. Perceived stress, depressive symptoms, health-related behaviors, number of doctor visits, and lipopolysaccharide-stimulated proinflammatory cytokine production were also measured throughout the study. Results Participants in the Expressive Writing group had a greater proportion of fully reepithelialized wounds at Day 11 postbiopsy compared with the Time Management group, with 76.2% versus 42.1% healed, &khgr;2(1, n = 40) = 4.83, p = . 028. Ordinal logistic regression showed more sleep in the week before wounding also predicted faster healing wounds. There were no significant group differences in changes to perceived stress, depressive symptoms, health-related behaviors, lipopolysaccharide-induced proinflammatory cytokine production, or number of doctor visits over the study period. Conclusions This study extends previous research by showing that expressive writing can improve wound healing in older adults and women. Future research is needed to better understand the underlying cognitive, psychosocial, and biological mechanisms contributing to improved wound healing from these simple, yet effective, writing exercises. Trial Registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (trial number 343095)
Passive transfer of neutralizing mAb KD-247 reduces plasma viral load in patients chronically infected with HIV-1

Objective:Neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 such as a humanized mAb KD-247 can mediate effector functions that attack infected cells in vitro. However, the clinical efficacy of neutralizing antibodies in infected individuals remains to be determined. We evaluated the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of KD-247 infusion and its effect on plasma HIV-1 RNA load and CD4+ T-cell count. Design and methods:KD-1002 is a phase Ib, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study of KD-247 in asymptomatic HIV-1 seropositive individuals who did not need antiretroviral therapy. Individuals were randomized to 4, 8 or 16 mg/kg KD-247 or placebo, and received three infusions over a 2-week period. Results:Patients were randomized to receive one of the three doses of KD-247 and the treatment was well tolerated. We observed a significant decrease in HIV RNA in the 8 and 16 mg/kg KD-247 cohorts, with two individuals who achieved more than 1 log reduction of HIV RNA. Two patients in the 16 mg/kg cohort had selections and/or mutations in the V3-tip region that suggested evasion of neutralization. Long-term suppression of viral load was observed in one patient despite a significant decrease in plasma concentration of KD-247, suggesting effects of the antibody other than neutralization or loss of fitness of the evading virus. Conclusion:The results indicate that KD-247 reduces viral load in patients with chronic HIV-1 infection and further clinical trials are warranted.
Association Between MTHFR 1298A>C Polymorphism and Spontaneous Abortion with Fetal Chromosomal Aneuploidy

Citation Kim SY, Park SY, Choi JW, Kim DJ, Lee SY, Lim JH, Han JY, Ryu HM, Kim MH. Association between MTHFR 1298A>C polymorphism and spontaneous abortion with fetal chromosomal aneuploidy. Am J Reprod Immunol 2011; 66: 252–258
When Fundamental Investors Relieve Market Pressures on Management: Evidence from France

In this paper, using an original database of investors operating on the French stock market, we investigate the real effect of ownership structure. We call fundamental investor an investor who, on average, holds on average his shares for at least two years, is in the top quartile of a firm ownership, and has an active allocation strategy. We show that firms with greater fundamental investor ownership experience lower market reactions to earnings surprises and lower mispricing. Moreover, we show that a long/short portfolio on fundamental ownership generates significant positive shareholder value over time. Our findings are consistent with greater fundamental ownership generating shareholder value by allowing management to focus on the long-term drivers of firm intrinsic value rather than on market sentiment. We finally look at the determinants of the presence of fundamental investors.
Multidisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation following cardiac revascularization or valve surgery: patient-related factors for uptake

Background: There are concerns in Europe regarding the service provision and accessibility of multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation (MDCR) in general, and particularly in ambulatory settings. This paper analyses the utilization of outpatient MDCR and its determinants after cardiac revascularization or valve surgery in Belgium. Methods: Claims rehabilitation data for all patients discharged in 2007 after a percutaneous cardiac intervention or cardiac surgery were available from the Belgian Common Sickness Funds Agency. Logistic regressions were performed to identify patients demographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated with the uptake of outpatient MDCR during the year following the hospital discharge. Results: A total of 29,021 patients were included. During the hospitalization for the cardiac procedure, 44% were offered inpatient MDCR. After discharge, only 15.6% followed at least one session of outpatient MDCR. The chance of attending outpatient MDCR was lower for female, disabled, and older patients, as well as unemployed patients. The absence of an authorized MDCR centre in the neighbourhood of the patient’s residence decreased the chance of attending outpatient MDCR, while living in a neighbourhood with a high education and income level increased this probability. Conclusion: These results confirm the low rates of MDCR attendance found in a previous study performed by the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. The study shows specific patient groups that should be targeted in priority, i.e. women, elderly, unemployed patients, disabled persons, and patients with a low socioeconomic status.
The Axl receptor tyrosine kinase confers an adverse prognostic influence in pancreatic cancer and represents a new therapeutic target

Pancreatic cancer is a near uniformly lethal disease and a better understanding of the molecular basis of this malignancy may lead to improved therapeutics. The Axl receptor tyrosine kinase is implicated in cellular transformation and tumor progression, although its role in pancreatic cancer has not been previously documented. The immunohistochemical expression of Axl protein was assessed in a panel of 99 archival pancreatic cancers. Axl labeling was present in 54 of 99 (55%), and was absent in 45 of 99 (45%) cases, respectively. Axl expression in pancreatic cancer was significantly associated with lymph node metastases (P
Measuring Crime in and around Public Housing Using GIS

For many people, the phrase “public housing” conjures up images of serious violent crime. However, the neighborhood surrounding public housing may be a greater factor in crime than the housing itself. Because most police departments do not routinely keep statistics on small parcels of land like public housing developments or neighborhoods, measuring the incidence of crime in public housing has proved difficult. Consequently, there is little hard evidence with respect to whether public housing is more or less crime-ridden than the neighborhoods that surround it. This chapter explores the application of geographic information systems (GIS) technology in measuring reported crime levels in and around public housing developments. GIS technology was used to extract crime counts from police IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING This chapter appears in the book, Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, edited by Fahui Wang. © 2005, Idea Group Inc. 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200, Hershey PA 17033-1240, USA Tel: 717/533-8845; Fax 717/533-8661; URL-http://www.idea-group.com ITB10856 312 Holzman, Hyatt, and Kudrick Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. data bases of reported incidents for (1) public housing developments and (2) the surrounding neighborhoods. Rates of reported Part I crimes in public housing developments are compared with those in the surrounding neighborhoods and in the respective municipal jurisdictions. Odds ratios are used to compare the risk of victimization in public housing with that in the respective neighborhood and municipal catchment zones. The GISbased analysis of reported crime in and around public housing communities reveals that risk of falling victim to aggravated assault in public housing communities is much higher than in the surrounding neighborhoods or in the parent jurisdictions as whole. Conversely, risk of property crimes such as burglary, larceny and car theft appears to be much lower. These crime patterns are discussed in the context of routine activity theory.
Effects of Oral Alendronate on BMD in Adult Patients With Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A 3‐Year Randomized Placebo‐Controlled Trial

A 3‐year, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial evaluated the effect of oral alendronate on the BMD of 64 adult patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The mean increases in the lumbar spine BMD were 10.1 ± 9.8% (p < 0.001) and 0.7 ± 5.7% in the alendronate and placebo groups, respectively. Oral alendronate increases BMD in adult patients with osteogenesis imperfecta.