Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PIN1 regulates epidermal cells development under drought and salt stress using single-cell analysis

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed plasticity to acclimate to environmental stresses such as drought and salt stress. These plant adaptation measures involve the activation of cascades of molecular networks involved in stress perception, signal transduction and the expression of stress related genes. Here, we investigated the role of the plasma membrane-localized transporter of auxin PINIFORMED 1 (PIN1) in the regulation of pavement cells (PCs) and guard cells (GCs) development under drought and salt stress conditions. The results showed that drought and salt stress treatment affected the development of PCs and GCs. Further analysis identified the different regulation mechanisms of PIN1 in regulating the developmental patterns of PCs and GCs under drought and salt stress conditions. Drought and salt stress also regulated the expression dynamics of PIN1 in pif1/3/4/5 quadruple mutants. Collectively, we revealed that PIN1 plays a crucial role in regulating plant epidermal cells development under drought and salt stress conditions, thus contributing to developmental rebustness and plasticity.
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF RELATIONSHIP MARKETING UPON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN MALAYSIAN BANKING INDUSTRY

In present extremely competitive and globalize banking context, increasing customer loyalty emerges as one of the most imperative challenges faced by marketers. Cultivating loyal customers is frequently argued to be the single most important driver of organizations’ long-term financial performance, which can lead to increased customer share, lower expenditure, and higher profit. Therefore, marketing academics emphasize the effect of relationship marketing as a strategically vital tool to secure loyal customers. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of relationship marketing on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, and to test the impact of customer satisfaction as mediator on the association between relationship marketing and customer loyalty. This study was carried out using the convenience and snowball samplings comprising 162 respondents through the distribution of online structured questionnaires to retail bank customers within the area of Klang Valley, Malaysia. Data analysis was further conducted using the SPSS software, and the results of regression analysis show that relationship marketing is significant in explaining the variation in customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In addition, customer satisfaction has been proven to partially mediate the relationship marketing-customer loyalty relationship. These findings contribute to the understanding on the relationship between relationship marketing, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty which provide critical implications for retail bank managers and highlight possible directions for future research. KeywordsRelationship Marketing, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Banking.
Chapter 1 Global Trends in Organic Agriculture

Organic agriculture (OA) advocates against the application of chemical and genetically modified (GM) materials on farms except those approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) which consists of a voluntary team of 15 advisors selected by the secretary of the United States of Agriculture. Globally, OA has grown approximately by 20 % yearly as consumers and growers make healthier food choices and show more concern about the impacts of our actions on the environment. OA attempts to increase the level of food security and create a more sustainable environment for future generations. Nevertheless, OA is not without its challenges. In this chapter, we take a look at the history, the present, and the future of OA. Our focus is on outlining briefly the status of OA on various continents, their certification processes, global challenges, benefits and impacts, the way forward, the position of the government, policies and the institutions, and consumer behavior toward OA.
ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS 1 National Identification and Attitudes Towards Russian Immigrants in Finland : Investigating the Role of Perceived Threats and Gains Scandinavian Journal of Psychology ( in press )

In this cross-sectional study, we examined the relationship between national identification of majority Finns (nation-wide probability sample, N = 335) and their attitudes towards Russian immigrants living in Finland. As previous research indicates both possibilities, we tested whether this relationship was moderated or mediated by threats and gains perceived to result from immigration. The results supported the mediation hypothesis; those individuals who identified stronger with their national ingroup perceived more threats than gains related to increased immigration and these perceptions, in turn, were associated with more negative attitudes towards immigrants. The role of realistic as opposed to symbolic threats and gains was particularly pronounced. The implications of the results are discussed in terms of their theoretical relevance and practical means to improve intergroup relations, with a particular focus on the relations between Finns and Russian immigrants in Finland.
Double temperature-enhanced occupancy of metastable states in fluctuating bistable potentials

Overdamped motion of Brownian particles in an asymmetric bi sta le potential driven by an additive nonequilibrium three-level noise and a thermal noise is con idered. An exact formula for the mean occupancy of the metastable state is derived and the phenomenon of noise-enh anced stability is investigated. It is established that in a certain region of system parameters variations of temperat ure cause double resonance peaks of the mean occupancy of a metastable state at low and moderate temperatures. The p ossibility that the occupancy of a metastable state can be controlled by thermal noise at moderate temperatures is important, because temperature can easily be varied in experiments, e.g. in experimental cell biology. Key-words: Noise-enhanced stability, stochastic dynamics, trichoto m us noise, metastable state, thermal noise, bistable potential.
Effect of Housekeeping Service Qualities on Guest Satisfaction in Star-Rated Hotels in Nairobi City County, Kenya

The major contributors to guest patronage in a hospitality organization are the standards of cleanliness and quality of services offered. In Kenya, despite the knowledge, set rules and guidelines of housekeeping practice, hotels have been faced with complaints from guests ranging from room cleanliness and maintenance to the quality of services offered. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of housekeeping service qualities on guest satisfaction in star-rated hotels. A cross sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The target population for the was 1298 participants comprising of 1033 hotel guests, 21 executive housekeepers and 244 guestroom attendants. Stratified random sampling techniques was used to select 149 GRAs and 221 hotel guests. Whereas purposive sampling was used to select 21 executive housekeepers to participate in the study. Questionnaires, interviews and observation checklists were used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Regression and Thematic analysis were used to analyze quantitative and qualitative data respectively. Regression analysis was used to measure the relationship between housekeeping service quality and guest satisfaction and the findings revealed that R=0.323 which indicated there existed a weak but positive relationship of housekeeping quality services and guest satisfaction. Based on these findings, the study concluded that quality of housekeeping services in star-rated hotels has a direct relationship with management decision making in that a unit change in decision making process directly influences the quality of service delivery. The study recommends there is need for hotels in Nairobi City County to benchmark with other hotels to be able to offer consistent housekeeping quality services. In addition, there is need for hotels to continually develop marketing strategies to meet the today’s guest demands. This can be done by hotels introducing guest cards in the guestrooms and ask guests to identify the housekeeping quality services they would like to experience in their rooms.
Freeway Speed-Flow-Concentration Relationships : More Evidence and Interpretations

In this paper, recent Canadian work challenging long-held theories about speed-flow-concentration relationships in freeway trafäc is verified and extended using data from San Diego. Major conclusions of these studies regarding near-constant free-flow speeds and flow-concentration relationships resembling an inverted V are confirmed; other past findings related to the effect of queuing on downstream free-flow speeds and the effect of secondary bottlenecks on flow-concentration relationships are not confirmed. When data are averaged across all lanes (both upstream and downstream of a bottleneck), speed-flow and flow-concentration relationships are found to be consistent with those predicted by queuing and shock wave theory. The functioning of the bottleneck studied is more complicated than had been assumed, however, and this creates further problems in the interpretation of the data. Finally, the inverted-V model of the flow-concentration relationship is shown to imply a simple and plausible model of driver behavior in which speeds and spacings are adjusted to keep the average front-to-back time gaps approximately constånt until some desired maximum speed is reached.
The Relation among Budgetary Participation and Budgetary Slack with Organizational Commitment and Leadership Style as Moderating Variable

This research aims at analyzing the relation among budgetary participation and budgetary slack with organizational commitment and leadership style as moderating variable. The organizational commitment and leadership style are assumed to increase the impact on relation among budgetary participation and budgetary slack. The respondents of this research are the parties related to participation being on the budgetary arrangement at the industrial companies in Makassar. The research sample are 80 respondents. Data collection is done by direct distribution and employing questionnaire as adopted from previous research, therefore the validity and reliability have been approved. The collected data, after reliability and validity have been tested and classical assumption is satisfied, is further processed by linear regression with moderating variabel and correlation test. The result of this research shows, first, there is not significant influence between budgetary participation and budgetary slack. Second, there is less significant influence of organizational commitment over the relation of budgetary participation and budgetary slack. Third, there is small leadership style influence the relation of budgetary participation and budgetary slack. In other words, the result of this research is not consistent to the previous research. This might be caused by inadequate sampling that could generally represent the result of the research. Moreover, there is other factor or variable which might have significant influence as to increase the relation between budgetary participation and budgetary slack.
LASER RANGING AS A PRECISE TOOL TO EVALUATE GNSS ORBITAL SOLUTIONS

In this paper from our poster presentation we bring up to date our use of precise laser range observations to carry out independent checks on the accuracy of published orbits of a subset of the GPS and GLONASS navigational satellites. Range measurements obtained by the ILRS tracking network to two GPS satellites and several of the GLONASS satellites are compared in two ways with precise orbits computed by the IGS; by direct comparison between SLR measurements and equivalent ranges computed from the microwave orbits, and by comparison of SLR-based orbits to the microwave orbits. Our previous work, which is outlined here, has shown that in such comparisons it is necessary to understand both the potential for systematic range ambiguity induced by the laser reflector arrays and the need for accurate on-satellite positions of the array phase centres. For the GLONASS and GPS satellites these parameters are now accurately known for the several different types of array currently in orbit, and the SLR results provide an accurate assessment of the radial quality of the IGS orbits, which is currently at a level of about 10cm RMS. Particularly for the GLONASS satellites, this quality has improved in recent months, but the well-known radial offset of a few cm remains between the laser measurements and the ranges computed from the radiometric orbits for the two GPS satellites. We further look forward to using similar techniques on the pilot satellites of the EU GALILEO navigational system, due for launch during 2005.
Research Trends in Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2016: A Bibliometric Analysis and Its Implications

Using data of articles from 42 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-indexed journals of applied linguistics, this study renders a bibliometric analysis of the 2005–16 research trends in the field. The analysis focuses on, among other issues, the most frequently discussed topics, the most highly cited publications, and the changes that have occurred in the research trends. The results show that while most of the frequently discussed topics have remained popular over the 12 years, some (especially sociocultural/functional/identity issues) have experienced a significant increase of interest, but some others (particularly certain phonological/grammatical/generative linguistic topics) have witnessed a substantial decrease of interest. There has also been an increased use of new theories including those coming from distant disciplines. Furthermore, while the number of publications from traditional publication powerhouses, such as the USA, has shown a slow, albeit steady decline proportionally, those from some other countries, such as China, have exhibited a substantial steady rise. The latter countries’ increasing publication rates appear to have contributed to the increased discussion of issues specific to their context. Implications of the findings are also discussed.
PREDICTING FAILURE IN SLIDING ISOLATION BEARINGS UNDER LONG-PERIOD MOTIONS

For the majority of structural systems, there has been a push to understand collapse behaviour and to quantify collapse margin ratios. However, for seismic isolation there is still significant work to be done in this area, especially for sliding bearings, for which little research on failure has been investigated. While it may be the goal of the designer that isolation bearing capacity is not reached, for performance based design it is essential to understand how and under what levels the bearing will fail. To investigate failure, a model based on the theory of rigid body kinematics, rigid body dynamics and contact mechanics is employed with an added parallel non-linear damper to explicitly consider the energy dissipation. Ricker pulses are extracted from long period motions and used to predict whether the bearing impacts and if that impact results in failure. The research finds that these pulses are good predictors providing that the extracted pulse periods are sufficiently long (greater than 0.5 s); otherwise the pulse does not dominate the response of the bearing. Generalized graphs are produced for use in predicting bearing performance and collapse margin ratio (assuming a rigid superstructure) at initial stages of design.
ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR DEBONDED INTERFACES ASSOCIATED WITH FIBRE FRACTURES OR MATRIX CRACKS !

An analytical stress transfer model is described enabling an estimate to be made of the stress and displacement fields that are associated with fibre fractures or matrix cracks in unidirectional fibre reinforced composites. This model represents a great improvement on existing shear-lag based methodologies. The model takes account of thermal residual stresses, and is based on a single assumption, namely, that the axial stress in the fibre is independent of the radial coordinate, and similarly for the matrix. A representation for both the stress AND displacement fields is derived that satisfies exactly the equilibrium equations, the required interface continuity equations for displacement and tractions, and all stress-strain equations except for the one that relates to axial deformation. In addition, the representation is such that the Reissner energy functional has a stationary value provided that averaged axial stress-strain relations for the fibre and matrix are satisfied. The improved representation is fully consistent with variational mechanics and provides BOTH the stress and displacement distributions in the fibre and the matrix. For an isolated fibre fracture or matrix crack, interface debonding is considered where two types of condition are investigated. Firstly, it is assumed that the shear stress is uniform within the debonded region. Secondly, it is assumed that stress transfer in the debonded region is controlled by Coulomb friction. Preliminary predictions are made for carbon fibre reinforced epoxy composites.
Study of Molecular Subtypes and Clinic-PathoLogical Features of Breast Cancer in Iraq Dr .

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide constituting 25.1% of all new cancer cases. In 2012, worldwide breast cancer deaths were approximately 521,907 as reported by GLOBOCAN data base. The histopathological classification essentially plays a role in identifying the various histologic variants of breast carcinoma; namely, tubular, medullary, mucinous/colloid carcinomas, and others. A new therapeutically relevant molecular classification has been developed, based on gene expression profiling using complementary DNA microarrays. This observational retrospective study was carried out in Al-Amal national hospital for cancer treatment / Baghdad during the period from January 2012 to December 2016. A total of 250 women were selected with excluding male patients, recurrent cases. The following archival information were obtained from each patient using KHUH's laboratory information system: age at diagnosis, tumor size, histopathological subtype, presence or absence of carcinoma in situ, lymph node status and immunohistochemical profile of the hormonal receptors ER and PR, and immunohistochemical profile of HER2 in the invasive malignant cells. The tumor size measurement was obtained on ultrasound reports of the breast prior to biopsy. The number of lymph nodes identified and the number of lymph nodes positive for metastasis were determined. The immunohistochemical antibodies used for estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 are anti-estrogen receptor antibody (SP1), anti-progesterone receptor antibody (1E2), and anti-HER-2 (4B5) rabbit monoclonal primary antibody. The diagnosis, SBR grading, and hormonal receptor and HER2 status assessment were carried out and verified independently by at least 2 qualified histopathologists. Results of this study showed that breast cancer classification by immunohistochemistry revealed that in our community luminal A tumors were the most common subtype, followed by the rest tumors. Breast cancer subtypes exhibited particular characteristics. Luminal A tumors were associated with an increased frequency of ductal carcinomas. The HER2-positive and triple negative tumors were associated with an increased frequency of a large tumor size and poorly differentiated carcinomas and are thereby more aggressive. In addition, triple negative tumors least frequently showed a component of carcinoma in situ. It can be concluded from our study that there is no correlation between lymph node status and molecular subtypes.
The Role of Attention in Choice of Referring Expression

Many models suggest that the use of pronouns and other underspecified forms of reference is supported when the referent is in the listener’s focus of attention, but it is unclear whether the mechanisms of production are conditioned by psychological attention, independently from the discourse structure. To get at this question, we examined effects of speaker and listener distraction on choice of referring expression during a narrative task. In all conditions, we observed the expected effects of discourse status: pronouns and zeros were used recently-mentioned referents, especially those that were previously in subject position. On top of this, distracted speakers used more specific referring expressions, and in particular fewer zeros. When the listener was distracted, speakers used less specific referring expressions, i.e. more pronouns and zeros. These results suggest that psychological attention does affect reference form. However, speakers do not condition form choice on the listener’s focus of attention, or at least not in the expected direction.
Exploring the temporary employment-product innovation nexus.∗

This work explores the relationship between temporary employment and product innovation focusing on five major European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) observed between 1998 and 2012. Building on the conceptual framework proposed by Kleinknecht et al. (2014), the analysis distinguishes sectors according to their technological characteristics and regimes finding that industries using temporary employment tend to have a weaker product innovation propensity. The negative correlation between temporary employment and innovation is stronger in medium and hightech sectors, identified using both the "Cumulativeness" proxy stemming from Peneder’s classification (Peneder, 2010) as well as distinguishing between different Schumpeterian regimes Schumpeter Mark I vs II of knowledge accu-
Narcissism , loneliness and social networking site use : relationships and differences

During the last 10 years, there has been tremendous growth in Social Networking Sites (SNS) on the internet like Twitter (http://www.twitter.com), Myspace (http:/ www.myspace.com) and facebook (http:/ www.facebook.com). Of these facebook, the most popular site has about 1.5 billion active users as reported. [1] Every new form of communication brings both positive and negative feedback along with it. On one hand the Internet has been said to have created a new, different approach towards interpersonal interaction improving individuals’ lives, and on the other it has also been said to have eroded psychological wellbeing (by increasing loneli-ness and depression), weaken real-world ties and reduce any sense of community involvement. No matter how important the advantages or disadvantages of this new form of communication, it is still a fact that 80 percent of U.S. adults go online, whether at home, work or elsewhere. [3] This has led psychologists to explore how personality traits are expressed online. Narcissism and loneliness are the current issues related to Social Networking Sites which has caught attention of researchers. [4-7] Narcissism, loneliness and social networking site use: relationships and differences