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The Influence of Technology on Internet Brand Loyalty: An Exploratory Study

Acquiring new consumers is an expensive process. More often, profits are generated only during the later stage of serving loyal consumers. An increase in the number of e-businesses results in an urgency to better understand the concept of e-loyalty. This research therefore aims to provide some insights as to how technological aspects, namely Website quality and product/technology innovation, may contribute towards the building and strengthening of a loyal consumer base through the mediating influence of satisfaction. By performing confirmatory factor analysis on a set of survey data, we show that high Website quality and innovative products/services or technologies could reinforce consumer satisfaction, which in turn positively enhances the loyalty to an Internet brand.
Cognition in the Fast Lane: Ravens' Gazes are Half as Short as Humans' when Choosing Objects

Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory information. To prevent sensory overload, attentional mechanisms split up information into processable units. This portioning remains imperceptible to the individual. However, the length of these units still influences the speed of perception and the speed at which behaviors are performed. Previous studies have focused on establishing the length of these units in various mammalian species – mainly humans – by measuring different types of behaviors, including gaze. However, no such studies have been conducted on birds. We measured duration of ravens’ (Corvus corax) single gazes towards selectable objects before a choice was made, and compared it with humans in a similar set up. The raven gaze durations were approximately half those of humans (which fell slightly short of previously established ranges). We hypothesize that these differences are mainly due to the much higher so-called flicker-fusion-frequency in birds, which makes their vision faster in the sense that it picks up more information per time unit than mammalian vision does. We further discuss that the speed of perception might influence the general speed of cognitive processing in more complex tasks as well, and suggest that the addition of a temporal component in comparative cognitive studies might be informative. (Less)
On Induced Paths, Holes and Trees in Random Graphs

We study the concentration of the largest induced paths, trees and cycles (holes) in the Erdos-Renyi random graph model and prove a 2-point concentration for the size of the largest induced path and hole, for all p = Ω(n ln n). As a corollary, we obtain an improvement over a result of Erdos and Palka concerning the size of the largest induced tree in a random graph. Further, we study the path chromatic number and tree chromatic number i.e. the smallest number of parts into which the vertex set of a graph can be partitioned such that every The arguments involve the application of a modified version of a probabilistic inequality of Krivelevich, Sudakov, Vu and Wormald.
Use of CAMEL Model: A Study on Financial Performance of Selected Commercial Banks in Bangladesh

Banking sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in Bangladesh. Modern banking sector is becoming more complex than before. Evaluating Bangladeshi banking sector is challenging task. There are so many factors, which need to be taken care while differentiating good banks from bad ones. Sound financial health of a bank is the guarantee not only to its depositors but is equally significant for the shareholders, employees and whole economy of a country as well. As a result to this statement, efforts have been made from time to time, to measure the financial position of each bank and manage it efficiently and effectively. In this study, an effort has been made to evaluate the financial performance of the two major banks (one is NCB and another one is PCB) operating in Bangladesh. This evaluation has been done by using CAMEL Parameters, the latest model of financial analysis. Through this model, it is highlighted that the position of the banks under the study is sound and satisfactory so far as their capital adequacy, asset quality, management capability and liquidity is concerned.
Substance abusing mothers in residential treatment with their babies: Postnatal psychiatric symptomatology and its association with mother–child relationship and later need for child protection actions

Background: A residential treatment model has been developed in Finland, which is specifically designed for substance abusing pregnant and parenting women, and has its focus on supporting both maternal abstinence from substances and mother–baby relationship. Aims: Among mother–baby pairs in this residential treatment, to explore amount and type of maternal postnatal psychiatric symptoms, relationship with the baby, and their association with later need for child substitution care placements. Methods: Participants were 34 mother–baby pairs from three units during pre- to postnatal period. Methods included self-report questionnaires for substance abuse and background data (pregnancy and perinatal period), experienced difficulties with the baby (1 month postnatally); maternal psychiatric symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory, Edinburgh Pre–postnatal Depression Screen, Inventory of Interpersonal Problems; (pregnancy and 3 months) postnatally; videotaped mother–child interaction measure (Care Index for infants and toddlers) and standardized test of child development (Bayley Scales of Infant Development) (4 months postnatally); questionnaire for follow-up information (2 years of child's age). Results: Mothers showed high levels of different types of psychiatric symptomatology. Maternal interaction with the baby was on average weak, as 53% were within the high-risk range regarding sensitivity. Experiencing more difficulties in early care-giving of the baby was associated with higher amount of postnatal psychiatric symptomatology. Specific psychiatric symptoms were associated with later need for child substitution care. Conclusions: In designing treatment and follow-up of these mother–baby pairs, careful attention should be paid to pre- and perinatal identification and type of maternal psychiatric symptoms, and mothers’ expressions of subjectively experienced difficulties in early care-giving of the baby.
Analysis of Long-Term Prognosis and Prognostic Predictors in Severe Brain Injury Patients Undergoing Decompressive Craniectomy and Standard Care

AbstractDecompressive craniectomy (DC) is widely used to treat acute subdural haematoma and hemispheric swelling following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The therapeutic effect of DC on severe TBI treatment is still controversial. The aim of our study was to evaluate effectiveness of DC treatment and seek some prognostic predictors. According to the therapy method, we divided the patients into 2 groups: DC group and standard care group. Between 2010 and 2014, a total number of 223 severe TBI patients, containing 112 patients undergoing DC and 111 patients undergoing standard care, were enrolled into the study according to Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). The long-term prognosis was evaluated by Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale 12 months after discharging from hospital. We used univariate analysis and receiver operating characteristic curves to explore prognostic predictors. The results showed that patients in the DC group had a lower mortality, but there was no statistical significance in long-term prognosis between these 2 groups. It seemed that admission GCS, platelet, neutrophile granulocyte, total protein, and albumin were associated with long-term prognosis in DC group and reactivity of pupils in standard care group. Simultaneously, using the multivariable logistic regression model, we confirmed that admission GCS and albumin were independent prognostic predictors for patients undergoing DC, and reactivity of pupils for those undergoing standard care. Our data suggested that DC was an effective therapy for severe TBI patients in reducing mortality, but it failed to improve long-term prognosis. Through our study, we could comprehend the characteristics of the 2 treatments and provide more scientific individuation therapy for severe TBI patients.
Resveratrol increases the bone marrow hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell capacity

Resveratrol is a plant‐derived polyphenol that has shown protective effects against many disorders including, several types of cancers and other age‐associated diseases as well as blood disorders in cultured cells and/or animal models. However, whether resveratrol has any impact specifically on normal blood stem cells remains unknown. Here, we show that a 3‐week treatment of resveratrol increases the frequency and total numbers of normal bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) without any impact on their competitive repopulation capacity. In addition, we show that resveratrol enhances the bone marrow multipotent progenitor capacity in vivo. These results have therapeutic value for disorders of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) as well as for bone marrow transplantation settings. Am. J. Hematol. 89:E235–E238, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
The CAHP (Cardiac Arrest Hospital Prognosis) score: a tool for risk stratification after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

AIMS Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains disappointingly low. Among patients admitted alive, early prognostication remains challenging. This study aims to establish a stratification score for patients admitted in intensive care unit (ICU) after OHCA, according to their neurological outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS The CAHP (Cardiac Arrest Hospital Prognosis) score was developed from the Sudden Death Expertise Center registry (Paris, France). The primary outcome was poor neurological outcome defined as Cerebral Performance Category 3, 4, or 5 at hospital discharge. Independent prognostic factors were identified using logistic regression analysis and thresholds defined to stratify low-, moderate-, and high-risk groups. The CAHP score was validated in both a prospective and an external data set (Parisian Cardiac Arrest Registry). The developmental data set included 819 patients admitted from May 2011 to December 2012. After multivariate analysis, seven variables were independently associated with poor neurological outcome and subsequently included in the CAHP score (age, non-shockable rhythm, time from collapse to basic life support, time from basic life support to return of spontaneous circulation, location of cardiac arrest, epinephrine dose, and arterial pH). Three risks groups were identified: low risk (score ≤150, 39% of unfavourable outcome), medium risk (score 150-200, 81% of unfavourable outcome) and high-risk group (score ≥200, 100% of unfavourable outcome). The AUC of the CAHP score were 0.93, and the discrimination value in the validation data sets was consistent (respectively, AUC 0.91 and 0.85). CONCLUSION The CAHP score represents a simple tool for early stratification of patients admitted in ICU after OHCA. A high-risk category of patients with very poor prognosis can be easily identified.
Behaviour of two demoiselle species (Calopteryx splendens, C. virgo) during social interaction: a signal or a symptom?

ного характера. Подвержены серьезной критике трактовки функциональных объяснений поведения стрекоз, господствующие в современной литературе по этим насекомым и основанные на откровенном антропоморфизме. Этому подходу противопоставлен совершенно иной, призывающий к возврату к оставленным в последние десятилетия методам и принципам, разработанным ранее в рамках полевой и аналитической этологии.
Flower Development under Drought Stress: Morphological and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal Acute Responses and Long-Term Acclimation in Arabidopsis[C][W]

Drought dramatically affects plant reproductive development and crop yield, but previous research has primarily focused on vegetative development. This work uses a scheme that allows plant growth with limited water to study plant responses to drought during reproductive development. The authors examine floral developmental defects and identify key genes affecting this process. Drought dramatically affects plant growth and crop yield, but previous studies primarily examined responses to drought during vegetative development. Here, to study responses to drought during reproductive development, we grew Arabidopsis thaliana plants with limited water, under conditions that allowed the plants to initiate and complete reproduction. Drought treatment from just after the onset of flowering to seed maturation caused an early arrest of floral development and sterility. After acclimation, plants showed reduced fertility that persisted throughout reproductive development. Floral defects included abnormal anther development, lower pollen viability, reduced filament elongation, ovule abortion, and failure of flowers to open. Drought also caused differential expression of 4153 genes, including flowering time genes FLOWERING LOCUS T, SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1, and LEAFY, genes regulating anther and pistil development, and stress-related transcription factors. Mutant phenotypes of hypersensitivity to drought and fewer differentially expressed genes suggest that DEHYDRATION RESPONSE ELEMENT B1A may have an important function in drought response in flowers. A more severe filament elongation defect under drought in myb21 plants demonstrated that appropriate stamen development requires MYB DOMAIN PROTEIN 21 under drought conditions. Our study reveals a regulatory cascade in reproductive responses and acclimation under drought.
Constitutive parameter extraction and experimental validation of single and double negative metamaterials

In this study, two independent methods to extract the constitutive parameters of large-scale (more than a wavelength long) metamaterial (MTM) structures are described. One method is based on fitting the simulated inner electric/magnetic field to the electric/magnetic field computed with an analytical model, whereas the other method is based on the scattering matrix parameters. The extraction methods are tested on three MTM structures [two single negative and one double negative (DNG)] and show results that are in good agreement. The extracted parameters were used to predict a focusing effect in a simulated spherical concave lens made of DNG MTM. The three MTM structures were experimentally measured for insertion loss in an anechoic chamber. For practical reasons, the experimental models were fabricated on Duroid substrates and scaled to operate in X-band. Detailed explanation of the construction of the MTMs and the anechoic chamber measurement setup is given. The transmission characteristics were measured at different frequencies and at different incident angles. The measured and simulated results are found to be in good agreement. In the DNG MTM, a peak transmission of -0.7 dB was measured, which to these authors' knowledge is the highest reported to date for such an MTM structure. Good transmission is maintained for incident angles of up to 45° from boresight.
Investigation, treatment, and monitoring of late-onset hypogonadism in males: ISA, ISSAM, EAU, EAA, and ASA recommendations.

Christina Wang *, Eberhard Nieschlag , Ronald Swerdloff , Hermann M. Behre , Wayne J. Hellstrom , Louis J. Gooren , Jean M. Kaufman , Jean-Jacques Legros , Bruno Lunenfeld , Alvaro Morales , John E. Morley , Claude Schulman , Ian M. Thompson , Wolfgang Weidner, Frederick C.W. Wu Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute, Torrance, California, USA Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Hospital Halle, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany Department of Urology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Department of Endocrinology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Endocrinology, Academish Ziekenhuis, Gent, Belgium Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium h Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Centre for Applied Urological Research, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Division of Geriatric Medicine, St. Louis University, and GRECC, St. Louis VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Department of Urology, Erasme Hospital, University Clinics Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Hospitals, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany Department of Endocrinology, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
Retrieval of absorptive potential variation in electron beam sensitive specimens using a single energy‐filtered bright‐field TEM image

A method is presented for retrieving the variation of the absorptive potential in electron beam sensitive soft material. The absorptive potential is directly related to the variations in atomic density and in chemical composition fluctuation. In our approach only a single zero‐loss energy‐filtered bright‐field transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image is sufficient to obtain this information. The accuracy and the effectiveness of this proposed method has been tested using both simulation and experiment. As an experimental example of soft (organic) material, the variation in absorptive potential in an unstained tissue sample of zebrafish gill has been determined. Microsc. Res. Tech., 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Progesterone vs placebo therapy for women with epilepsy

Objective: To assess progesterone treatment of intractable seizures in women with partial epilepsy. Methods: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III, multicenter, clinical trial compared the efficacy and safety of adjunctive cyclic natural progesterone therapy vs placebo treatment of intractable seizures in 294 subjects randomized 2:1 to progesterone or placebo, stratified by catamenial and noncatamenial status. It compared treatments on proportions of ≥50% responders and changes in seizure frequency from 3 baseline to 3 treated menstrual cycles. Results: There was no significant difference in proportions of responders between progesterone and placebo in the catamenial and noncatamenial strata. Prespecified secondary analysis showed that the level of perimenstrual seizure exacerbation (C1 level) was a significant predictor of responders for progesterone but not placebo. With increasing C1 levels, responders increased from 21% to 57% with progesterone vs 19% to 20% with placebo. Reductions in seizure frequency correlated with increasing C1 levels for progesterone but not placebo, progressing from 26% to 71% for progesterone vs 25% to 26% for placebo. A prespecified clinically important separation between progesterone and placebo responders (37.8% vs 11.1%; p = 0.037) was realized among 21.4% of women who had C1 level ≥3. Conclusion: There was no difference in the primary outcome of ≥50% responder rates between progesterone vs placebo for catamenial or noncatamenial groups. Post hoc findings suggest that the level of perimenstrual seizure exacerbation is a significant predictor of responder rate with progesterone and that progesterone may provide clinically important benefit for a subset of women with perimenstrually exacerbated seizures. Classification of evidence: This study provides Class III evidence that cyclic progesterone is ineffective in women with intractable partial epilepsy. Post hoc analysis identified a subset of women with higher levels of perimenstrual seizure exacerbation that were responsive to treatment.
The Institutional Foundations of China's Reforms and Development

China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over personnel, whereas sub-national governments run the bulk of the economy; and they initiate, negotiate, implement, divert and resist reforms, policies, rules and laws. China’s reform trajectories have been shaped by regional decentralization. Spectacular performance on the one hand and grave problems on the other hand are all determined by this governance structure.
User acceptance of long-term evolution (LTE) services: An application of extended technology acceptance model

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose an integrated path model in order to explore user acceptance of long‐term evolution (LTE) services by examining potential causal relationships between key psychological factors and user intention to use the services.Design/methodology/approach – Online survey data collected from 1,344 users are analysed with the structural equation modelling (SEM) method.Findings – Results reveal that satisfaction is the most crucial factor contributing to user intention to use LTE services. Other factors, including perceived usefulness, attitude, and system and service quality, also have notable impacts on user intention. Furthermore, system and service quality is affected by both perceived processing speed and perceived mobility, while perceived usefulness is primarily influenced by perceived adaptivity. In addition, four factors (perceived usefulness, adaptivity, processing speed, and system and service quality) are found to be major determinants of the user attitudes towar.
Why teach?

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Abnormal ocular motor control in Huntington's disease

We studied eye movements in 50 patients with Huntington's disease. Fixation was impaired in 73% of patients; such individuals had difficulty in suppressing saccades toward novel visual stimuli. Impaired initiation of saccades was manifest by increased reaction time (89%) and inability to make a saccade without head movement (89%) or blink (35%). Saccades and quick phases of nystagmus were slowed in 62%. Smooth pursuit was abnormal in 60%, and vergence in 33%. The vestibulo-ocular reflex and the ability to hold eccentric gaze were preserved even late in the disease.