Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analyzing key determinants of online repurchase intentions

Purpose – The rapid changing internet environment has created a competitive business landscape, which provides opportunities and challenges for a variety of businesses. One of these opportunities includes conducting businesses online. Online transaction systems enable users to buy and make payment for products and services using the internet platform. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that may affect consumers' intentions to repurchase products and services online.Design/methodology/approach – The research framework is grounded in extended technology acceptance model (TAM). The authors used survey questionnaire to collect 102 valid responses from participants in Malaysia who must have made, at least, one previous online purchase. The snowball approach was used to select the participants, to ensure that participants had previously purchased online.Findings – Data collected were analysed using regression model to determine the significance of the relationship between the dependent and inde.
Customer value perception of organic food: cultural differences and cross-national segments

Purpose – Due to consumer concerns about food-related diseases and an increase in the use of genetically modified food, more and more “green consumers” integrate environmental considerations into daily purchases, asking for healthier, safer and higher quality food. Marketing managers still face the challenge of broadening the understanding of how and why consumers purchase organic food. Specifically, a deeper understanding of the value dimensions consumers perceive in the context of organic food products is required to develop and implement successful management strategies which might transfer positive consumer perceptions to actual buying behavior and satisfaction. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights on organic food consumption in different markets, this research investigates antecedents of organic food products and differences regarding the relative importance of the value-based drivers across two Western nations. Findings –.
On the Importance of Both Dimensional and Discrete Models of Emotion

We review research on the structure and functions of emotions that has benefitted from a serious consideration of both discrete and dimensional perspectives on emotion. To illustrate this point, we review research that demonstrates: (1) how affective valence within discrete emotions differs as a function of individuals and situations, and how these differences relate to various functions; (2) that anger (and other emotional states) should be considered as a discrete emotion but there are dimensions around and within anger; (3) that similarities exist between approach-related positive and negative discrete emotions and they have unique motivational functions; (4) that discrete emotions and broad dimensions of emotions both have unique functions; and (5) evidence that a “new” discrete emotion with discrete functions exists within a broader emotion family. We hope that this consideration of both discrete and dimensional perspectives on emotion will assist in understanding the functions of emotions.
Learning Requires Attention for Binding Affective Reinforcement to Information Content

5 Optimism . 10 Causes of Optimism . 14 Cognitive Biases . 15 Attention . 16 Attentional Load . 17 Attention and Affect . 18 Attentional Load Task . 19 Learning . 20 Learning and Affect . 20 The Underlying Mechanism of Optimism: Optimistic Learning Bias . 21 Paradigm . 22 Properties of the Optimistic Learning Bias . 24 Individual Differences in the Optimistic Learning Bias . 25 Age Differences . 25 Depressed Individuals . 27 Proposed Study . 28 Proposed Method . 30 Participants . 30 Materials . 31 General Task Design . 31 Affective Reinforcers . 32 ATTENTION BINDS AFFECTIVE REINFORCEMENT TO INFORMATION 4 Attentional Load . 33 Learning . 34 Optimism and Depression . 35 Properties of the stimuli . 35 Procedure . 36 Ethics . 37 Expected Results . 39 Discussion . 42 References . 45 Appendix A . 52 Appendix B . 53 ATTENTION BINDS AFFECTIVE REINFORCEMENT TO INFORMATION 5 Abstract Humans are limited in their capacity to process information about the environment; to choose the most salient details to process, we have to make rapid value appraisals and prioritize our attentional resources. In this proposed study, it is expected that attention is required to learn from affective information. Learning is measured by the difference between update (the difference between the first and second estimation) and the estimation error (the difference between the average likelihood and the first estimation). Using a belief-updating paradigm, participants willHumans are limited in their capacity to process information about the environment; to choose the most salient details to process, we have to make rapid value appraisals and prioritize our attentional resources. In this proposed study, it is expected that attention is required to learn from affective information. Learning is measured by the difference between update (the difference between the first and second estimation) and the estimation error (the difference between the average likelihood and the first estimation). Using a belief-updating paradigm, participants will be asked to estimate their likelihood of encountering a negative event, once before and once after they receive the average likelihood information. By comparing the difference in estimations after being exposed to desirable or undesirable information and a positive or negative reinforcer across three levels of attentional load, the effects of attention on learning from affective reinforcement can be examined. It is proposed that attention mediates learning from affective information. This is demonstrated by the failure to learn differentially from affective information under high attentional load, while in a no load condition participants will learn differentially according to the type of news and affective reinforcer that they receive. The expected result would indicate that attention is a necessity for optimal learning outcomes, especially when learning from affective information. This has implications in the effectiveness of communicating affective information, such as in the health care field.
Distinct Responses of Chloroplasts to Blue and Green Laser Microbeam Irradiations in the Centric Diatom Pleurosira laevis

The centric diatomPleurosira laevis is a large unicellular alga, in which ca 200 chloroplasts migrate toward the nuclear cytoplasm through the transvacuolar cytoplasmic strands in response to blue‐light irradiation and, on the contrary, toward the cortical cytoplasm in response to green‐light irradiation. We analyzed these light‐induced chloroplast migrations using a scanning laser microbeam provided by a confocal microscope for intracellular irradiation. Spot irradiation of a blue laser microbeam induced rapid assemblage of chroloplasts into the nuclear cytoplasm regardless of the spot position and spot number. On the other hand, one or two spots of green laser microbeam induced chloroplast accumulation at the spots, although increasing spot numbers suppressed chloroplast accumulation at each spot. In our experimental condition, ca 1 min of blue‐light irradiation was sufficient to stimulate movement, whereas green‐light irradiation required uninterrupted and longer irradiation time (ca 15 min). Chloroplast assemblage induced by blue‐light required extracellular Ca2+, and was inhibited by Ca2+channel antagonists. Furthermore, higher efficiencies of chloroplast migration were obtained when a single beam spot was fragmented and scattered over wider area of plasma membrane. These observations suggested that blue‐light induced a response at the plasma membrane, which subsequently activated Ca2+permeable channels. This sequence of physiological events is identical to what was previously observed with chloroplast movement in response to mechanical stimulation. Furthermore, experiments with the cytoskeleton‐disrupting agents, colchicine and cytochalasin D, indicated that blue‐light‐induced chloroplast movement required microtubules whereas the green‐light‐induced response to beam spot required actin filaments.
Do Types of Virtual Community Matter for the Effects of Online Advertisement and Electronic Words of Mouth

With the spread of the Internet, virtual communities (VCs) have important applications for business. Moreover, advertisements (ads) and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) are central to the key strategies that firms adopt to reap commercial benefits from VCs. However, the commercial benefits of ads and eWOM is questionable in a virtual context. An increasing number of scholars suggest that firms should adopt activities that are appropriate for specific types of VCs. This study tries to examine the influences of online ads and eWOM on purchase intention according to different types of VCs. After surveying 290 valid responses, this study found that the effectiveness of online ads on purchase intention is lower in non-transaction VCs than in transaction VCs, especially static ads. Positive eWOM has a significantly positive effect on purchase intention, while negative eWOM has greater negative impact on purchase intention of non-transaction VC members.
Two Cases of VACTERL Association in Pregnancy with Lymphocyte Therapy

VACTERL association is a rare disorder with various congenital malformations. The aetiology remains unknown. Combination of at least three congenital anomalies of the following criteria is required for diagnosis: vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac anomalies, tracheo-esophageal fistula, renal anomalies, and limb defects. The first case was 1-day old male neonate with multiple congenital anomalies was bore from 28 years old mother. The mother had history of pregnancy with lymphocyte therapy. His anomalies included: defects in thoracic and lumbar vertebral, anal atresia, bilateral hydronephrosis, atrial septal defect, and lower limb abnormality. Other anomalies were cryptorchidism and nasal canal narrowing. The second case was born with 32 weeks gestational age from mother with history of pregnancy with lymphocyte therapy. He had thoracic vertebral defect, cardiac anomalies and renal defect. diagnosis based on clinical finding is VACTERL association. Early diagnosis is very important to investigation and treatment of other coexistence anomalies. VACTERL association in mothers with history of pregnancy with lymphocyte therapy has suggested possibly of relationship between VACTERL association and this method of pregnancy. Keywords―Anal atresia, tracheo-esophageal fistula, atrial septal defect, lymphocyte therapy.
Controlled repetition based communication in VANETs using IEEE 802.11e

Since message content is of high importance in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), we are proposing a network design with the message priority considered as the main factor. In this regard, we have used IEEE 802.11e protocol. As in VANETs, topology of network changes fast, wireless links between cars are unreliable. Moreover, in vehicular ad-hoc networks the Bit Error Rate (BER) is high. Thus, in this paper, we proposed to repeat the packets of the messages with the highest priority, to cope with the above mentioned problems. This idea also increases the reliability of messages with the highest priority. Nonetheless, repeating the packets leads to increased number of collisions. Hence, we should control the number of nodes, which broadcast the message, to decrease collisions. To evaluate our method, and find the optimum number of repetitions, we simulated several scenarios both for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure modes.
"An institutional perspective on participation in business ecosystems, communities, and platforms"

The competitive strategies of commercial firms increasingly include participation in business ecosystems – networked systems of innovation and production that differ in important ways from markets and organizational hierarchies. A growing body of management scholarship examines technology platforms controlled by for-profit keystone companies; however, less is known about business ecosystems anchored around community-developed technology platforms and not-for-profit foundations. This article presents results and theory development from a nested multilevel case study of a field setting comprising a platform of community-developed open source software, a community of software developers, a business ecosystem of profit-seeking companies, and a membership-based governance foundation – the Eclipse field setting anchored around the Eclipse Foundation. Through the conceptual lens of the Institutional Analysis and Design (IAD) framework, it examines the institutional structures, the relationships and interactions .
Two B-C-O Compounds: Structural, Mechanical Anisotropy and Electronic Properties under Pressure

The structural, stability, mechanical, elastic anisotropy and electronic properties of two ternary light element compounds, B2CO2 and B6C2O5, are systematically investigated. The elastic constants and phonon calculations reveal that B2CO2 and B6C2O5 are both mechanically and dynamically stable at ambient pressure, and they can stably exist to a pressure of 20 GPa. Additionally, it is found that B2CO2 and B6C2O5 are wide-gap semiconductor materials with indirect energy gaps of 5.66 and 5.24 eV, respectively. The hardness calculations using the Lyakhov-Oganov model show that B2CO2 is a potential superhard material. Furthermore, the hardness of B6C2O5 is 29.6 GPa, which is relatively softer and more easily machinable compared to the B2CO2 (41.7 GPa). The elastic anisotropy results show that B6C2O5 exhibits a greater anisotropy in the shear modulus, while B2CO2 exhibits a greater anisotropy in Young’s modulus at ambient pressure.
Deconstructing DID.

The author contends that a psychoanalytically informed approach to the patient with dissociative identity disorder (DID) can be very useful. However, there are difficulties in conceptualizing this condition without extending existing theory or applying in new ways what is already known. It is also difficult to put DID in a proper context relative to all the other disorders known to occur in the human mind. Depending on one's clinical experience, level of skepticism, and appreciation of history, DID may be seen as either: a) the psychological "missing link" that realizes Freud's goal of uniting the psychology of dreams with psychopathology, or b) a fraudulent condition that is wittingly or unwittingly manufactured in the therapist's office or c) a population of disturbed and disturbing patients, once the subject of great scientific interest, which, exiled like a "Lost Tribe," is now back in the fold of legitimacy. The author has had extensive clinical experience with psychic trauma, and bases his own views of DID on three assumptions: 1. that dissociation may be seen as a complex defense; 2. that DID may be thought of as a "lower level dissociative character"; and 3. that there is a unique psychic structure, the "dissociative self" whose function is to create "alter personalities" out of disowned affects, memories, fantasies, and drives. This "dissociative self" must be dissolved in order for integration of "alter personalities" to occur. A clinical vignette is offered to illustrate how he addresses some of the challenges of developing a therapeutic alliance at this end of the dissociative-character-pathology continuum, and how he grapples with the difficulty of integrating clinical phenomena, such as the appearance of "alters," with the psychoanalytic model of the mind.
An investigation of the new generic consumer

Purpose – This research is designed to characterize new generic consumers and assess their willingness to purchase generic brands in non‐generic product categories.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 500 generic consumers participated in the study. Participants were customers of two large private chain stores in central Israel, known for their abundance of generic products.Findings – the paper finds that new generic consumers have a somewhat different profile than that of generic consumers of the 1980s. Furthermore, generic consumers are prepared to purchase generic brands even in categories not defined as generic.Research limitations/implications – The study focused on a market characterized by economic instability, which may contribute to strong readiness to purchase generic brands even in product categories not generic by definition. Future research is needed to study the profile of the new generic consumer from the perspective of cultural differences among countries and not within countries.Pract.
WOMEN AND FOREST NURSERIES IN GANESHPURA VILLAGE

SUMMARY The success of social forestry programmes in Gujarat raised demand for seedlings from 0.2 million in 1970 to 211.5 million in 1985. This stretched the limited personnel resources of the Forest Department, which therefore decided to decentralise seedling production by encouraging schools and farmers to establish nurseries. In 1986 a similar scheme was launched nationwide by the National Wastelands Development Board with a particular focus on disadvantaged members of society, who receive a small wage and also earn money when they sell the seedlings. This paper describes the experiences of six landless women from the village of Ganeshpura, Gujarat, who joined the scheme. Each raised 25,000 seedlings during 1986–87 and received a net wage of Rs. 5,000 and an additional Rs. 2,392 from the sale of seedlings. The nursery scheme has given the landless women a new self- confidence and has also improved the standards of living of their families. Privatising seedling production frees Forestry Department staf.
Fine‐needle aspiration biopsy: Pitfalls in the diagnosis of spindle‐cell lesions

Seven cases of spindle‐cell proliferations in which fine‐needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) did not correlate with subsequent histology are presented. Three cases were considered low‐grade sarcoma, one a dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), one a spindle‐cell tumor with malignancy not excluded, and one a rhab‐domyosarcoma vs. a fibrosarcoma. Two of the these three were histologically nodular fasciitis and one an inflammatory pseudotumor. Two cases were diagnosed cytologically as fibromatosis or nodular fasciitis (NF). One of these histologically was an intramuscular hemangioma, the other a DESP. The last two cases were diagnosed by FNAB as spindle‐cell lesion, undetermined if benign or malignant, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH). Histologically both of these case were leiomyosarcoma. The cyto‐logic features of each case, differential diagnosis, and potential pitfalls are discussed. In the evaluation of FNAB smears dominated by spindle cells, cellullarity, individual cells and cell patterns,and background stromal features coupled with a precise clinical history may allow a narrow differential diagnosis with a focus on whether the lesion is benign or malignant. Caution is warranted in the exact classification of spindle‐cell tumors from FNAB as this may have a major impact on patient management. © 1994 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Small Business Management: Entrepreneurship and Beyond

Part I: THE CHALLENGE. 1. Small Business: An Overview. 2. Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship, and Ownership. Part II: PLANNING IN SMALL BUSINESS. 3. Social Responsibility, Ethics, and Strategic Planning. 4. The Business Plan. Part III: Early Decisions. 5. Franchising. 6. Taking Over an Existing Business. 7. Starting a New Business. Part IV: FINANCIAL AND LEGAL MANAGEMENT. 8. Accounting Records and Financial Statements. 9. Small Business Finance. 10. The Legal Environment. Part V: MARKETING THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE. 11. Small Business Marketing: Strategy and Research. 12. Small Business Marketing: Product. 13. Small Business Marketing: Place. 14. Small Business Marketing: Price and Promotion. Part VI: MANAGING SMALL BUSINESS. 15. International Small Business. 16. Professional Small Business Management. 17. Human Resource Management. 18. Operations Management.
MYOCARDIAL NOREPINEPHRINE CONCENTRATION IN MAN. EFFECTS OF RESERPINE AND OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.

THE rauwolfia alkaloids have been widely used in clinical practice, but relatively little information concerning the mechanism of their circulatory action in man is available. Reserpine has been extensively studied in laboratory animals, and it has been demonstrated that after the parenteral administration of relatively large doses of this drug, postganglionic sympathetic nerves are no longer able to transmit impulses across the neuroeffector junctions.1 Also, in animals, a profound fall in the concentration of norepinephrine, epinephrine and serotonin throughout the body occurs after reserpine administration,2 3 4 and the sympathetic blockade produced by reserpine in laboratory animals has been attributed to the .
Therapy Taping Method: Therapeutic Approach in Two Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Objective: To assess the effect of elastic bandage through the Therapy Taping Method on the execution of motor functions of children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Methods: Two children with confirmed clinical diagnosis of DMD that visited the physiotherapy clinic at Metrocamp College were selected. Their degree of motor function was assessed by Motor Function Measure -20 Scale (MFM-20), performing then a month of physical therapy in the therapy pool without the use of bandage, in order to verify the primary functionality degree. After this period, the subjects were reassessed according to the mentioned scale, starting the application of the bandage technique in oblique muscles and quadriceps bilaterally, in conjunction with the treatment in hydrotherapy. The bandages were exchanged weekly, in a total of 24 weeks. The data was analyzed by comparing results before and after the treatment. Results: The scores of the MFM-20 scale remained the same as the initial assessment after the
In-vitro screening of antifungal activity of plants in Malaysia

Twelve species of local Malaysian plants and 5 strains of medically important fungi were se-lected for this study. Antifungal susceptibility test was performed to screen the antifungal activity of these plants against the selected fungi. Piper betel produced the best result in anti-fungal susceptibility testing and showed to possess antifungal property against 4 out of 5 strains of the fungus. Solid Phase extraction (SPE) technique was applied to Piper betel to achieve initial separation of active antifungal compound in the form of methanol fractions. These fractions were tested for their antifungal property. Piper betel showed the best anti-fungal activity especially against Trichophyton rubrum.
An Empirical Two-Stage Choice Model with Varying Decision Rules Applied to Internet Clickstream Data

In this article, the author proposes and applies an empirical two-stage choice model to Internet clickstream data that captures observed choices for two choice stages: products viewed and products purchased. The model allows for interdependences between choices within a stage as well as the use of varying decision rules in each stage. The author accommodates heterogeneity in preferences and in decision rules. The proposed model uses observed choices to infer both attribute preference ratings and criterion attributes. The results show empirically, in a field setting, that the product attributes evaluated in Stage 1 differ from those evaluated in Stage 2. Consistent with existing theory, consumers tend to use simpler decision rules based on a subset of attribute information in earlier stages. The author also finds some preliminary evidence that attributes such as price and size tend to be considered in only one of the two stages, whereas ingredient attributes tend to be considered in both stages. From a managerial perspective, the identification of criterion attributes, coupled with the preference parameters estimated by the model, can assist with the targeting and positioning of promotional strategies.