Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hedonic and Utilitarian Motivations of Social Network Site Adoption

When using Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, users experience enjoyment, which positively influences their Behavioral Intention to Use them. Whereas this finding is consistent across different studies and confirms hedonic motivations for SNS use, the question whether utilitarian motives also influence users' adoption behavior remains open. Indeed, the findings concerning the influence of Perceived Usefulness differ substantially. Building on both the hedonic and utilitarian foundations of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we study whether SNS adoption is determined by hedonic motivations, utilitarian motivations, or both. We find that SNSs are dual information technologies since both Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Enjoyment are critical influence factors of the Behavioral Intention to Use them. SNS adoption is thus determined by both hedonic and utilitarian motivations.
The Transcription Factor StuA Regulates Central Carbon Metabolism, Mycotoxin Production, and Effector Gene Expression in the Wheat Pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

ABSTRACT The Stagonospora nodorum StuA transcription factor gene SnStuA was identified by homology searching in the genome of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum. Gene expression analysis revealed that SnStuA transcript abundance increased throughout infection and in vitro growth to peak during sporulation. To investigate its role, the gene was deleted by homologous recombination. The growth of the resulting mutants was retarded on glucose compared to the wild-type growth, and the mutants also failed to sporulate. Glutamate as a sole carbon source restored the growth rate defect observed on glucose, although sporulation remained impaired. The SnstuA strains were essentially nonpathogenic, with only minor growth observed around the point of inoculation. The role of SnstuA was investigated using metabolomics, which revealed that this gene's product played a key role in regulating central carbon metabolism, with glycolysis, the TCA cycle, and amino acid synthesis all affected in the mutants. SnStuA was also found to positively regulate the synthesis of the mycotoxin alternariol. Gene expression studies on the recently identified effectors in Stagonospora nodorum found that SnStuA was a positive regulator of SnTox3 but was not required for the expression of ToxA. This study has uncovered a multitude of novel regulatory targets of SnStuA and has highlighted the critical role of this gene product in the pathogenicity of Stagonospora nodorum.
The use of collagen cross-linking agents to enhance dentin bond strength.

UNLABELLED Type I collagen is a major component of the hybrid layer, and improvement of its mechanical properties may be advantageous during bonding procedures. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of three different cross-linking agents (Glutaraldehyde [GD], Grape seed extract [GSE], and Genipin [GE]) on the tensile bond strength (TBS) of resin-dentin bonds. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-four sound human molars were collected and their occlusal surfaces were ground flat to expose dentin. Dentin surfaces were etched using a phosphoric acid and then teeth were randomly divided according to the dentin treatment: Control group (no treatment), 5% GD, 6.5% GSE, or 0.5% GE. Teeth were restored either with One Step Plus or Adper Single Bond Plus adhesive systems and resin composite. After 24 h, teeth were sectioned to produce a cross-sectional surface area of 1.0 mm(2) and tested for tensile bond strength. Data were statistically analyzed using ANOVA and Fisher's PLSD tests (p < 0.05). There was a statistically significant interaction between factors (treatment and adhesive p < 0.001). Treatment affected TBS (p < 0.0001), while no differences were observed between the adhesive systems (p = 0.6961). CONCLUSION Chemical modification to the dentin matrix promoted by GD and GSE, but not GE, resulted in increased bond strength. The application of selective collagen cross-linkers during adhesive restorative procedures may be a new approach to improve dentin bond strength properties.
Market Reaction to Director Busyness and Expertise

This study investigates how investors in Turkish capital markets react to the announcements of appointments (departures) of busy and expert directors to (from) boards and audit committees of boards of public firms quoted at Borsa Istanbul. The findings suggest that investors in Turkish capital markets do not value the existence of directors with multiple board memberships and professional expertise highly. Still, the findings do not suggest that markets value the existence of these directors lower than the existence of directors with no additional board seats or no professional expertise. However, investors appear to react lower to the departures of busy directors from boards, compared to the departures of non-busy directors in the most immediate days surrounding the departure announcements. In addition, investors appear to react positively to the announcements of appointments of financial experts and professors on the announcement days.
The Need for Surgery in an Unselected Bronchial Carcinoma Population

An epidemiological study of bronchial carcinoma was carried out in the county of Uppsala, Sweden, during a five-year period. The number of cases found was 273. Of these, 25% were operated upon. The operation rate was six operations/100,000 inhibitants per year. Including additional patients with a false preoperative diagnosis of carcinoma, the operation rate was seven operations/100,000 inhabitants per yera. This figure is clearly subject to influence by the level of medical ambition. The expected five-year survival rate of the surgically treated carcinoma cases in 29%. Twenty-nine percent of the surgically treated patients and 45% of the expected survivors were detected by mass miniature chest X-ray during a general health survey. Fifty-five percent of the surgically treated patients and 75% of the expected survivors were discovered by chance. In no group comparisons with comparable non-surgically treated patients were the deceased surgically treated patients found to have a longer survival. Among the patients who were operated upon, a small tumor size, a peripheral location, clinico-anatomical stage 1 of the disease, and detection by chance were favorable prognostic indicators. Twenty-eight percent of the surgically treated patients were over 70 years of age. Their expected five-year survival rate is 21%. Active early diagnosis (increasing the need for surgery) and restriction of surgery only to those most likely to benefit from it (decreasing the need for surgery) may be expected to give maximum effectiveness in the surgical treatment in bronchial carcinoma.
Early stage biliary and intrahepatic migration of Opisthorchis viverrini in the golden hamster

Abstract In Thailand, infection with the liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini is a serious health problem, with over 8.6 million human infections each year. Early stage biliary intrahepatic migration and infection of O. viverrini in the Syrian golden hamster were used to study the growth and development of this fluke. Fifty metacercariae of O. viverrini were introduced into each hamster by gastric intubation. Worms were found to migrate rapidly from the stomach to the gall bladder and hepatic duct, where they remained in relatively constant numbers until the end of week 8. Sexual development of worms was rapid, with full development of the uterus and testes by one and one half weeks and the appearance of eggs in the uterus by the beginning of the third week of infection. Worm growth as indicated by body length had ceased by week 8. Hamsters demonstrated development of a full reproductive cycle with in three to four weeks, and this generation continued until 8 weeks.
Accommodating Nursing Students' Diverse Learning Styles

The authors present a framework for understanding diverse learning style/cognitive-style models and assessment instruments, review the literature on learning styles in general and the Dunn and Dunn Model specifically, and identify research areas for nursing educators. The authors challenge previous research with nurses and nursing students that focused on group, rather than individual interventions. They also explain why instruments that focus on only one or two constructs on a bipolar continuum, rather than on multiple learning-style constructs, restrict the possibility of revealing positive outcomes.
Trust: looking forward and back

Purpose – This paper considers ways forward in the study of trust in business relationships and networks.Design/methodology/approach – The 25 papers focusing on trust previously published in the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing are categorized as to their focus and compared to the body of work on trust concluding there is little considering the nature of trust. A model that integrates conceptualizations of the past and present and extends these to incorporate nature of trust as affective – including calculation and emotion – is presented.Findings – This broadened conceptualization of trust contains focused, interacting components enabling both holistic and well as focused study of relationships and the role of trust within them.Research limitations/implications – An important direction for business relationship and network research is consideration of the best way to conceptualize and measure trust. The way that trust components combine and vary in different settings, including in different cult.
Malaysian Halal Export Market: Case Study on Developing Countries

A standard is believed to be one of the factors that will boost international trade. Malaysia is known as a Muslim country worldwide which among the earliest initiated the Halal certification standard. Consequently, the Halal industry evolved and apparently giving Malaysia a comparative advantage in gaining global market share. However the statistics has shown that after three years, the Halal products export growth rate is declining significantly particularly in developing countries. This study aims to identify the determinants of Malaysian Halal export. The findings might be helpful to local Halal industry players to boost their Halal product export. This study employed fixed-effects model of panel data for 44 developing countries for Halal export from 2010 to 2013, GDP of the importer country is proven to be significant factor in enhancing export of Malaysian Halal products.
The Role of Suggestions and Personality Characteristics in Producing Illness Reports and Desires for Suing the Responsible Party

Abstract For this project, 92 students entered an abandoned theater room in an old basement of the university where sand was scattered throughout. The purpose of the study was to experimentally demonstrate that psychological suggestions could produce illness reports and to explore who is most likely to say that they would sue for personal damages. The students Tilled out the Trait–State Anger Scale and two subscales, Anger Temperament and Anger Reaction (C. D. Spielberger, G. A. Jacobs, S. Russell, & R. S. Crance, 1983) as well as the Costello–Comrey Anxiety Scale (G. C. Costello & A. L. Comrey, 1967), the Hardiness Inventory (S. C. Kobasa, 1982), the Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness (J. W. Pennebaker, 1982), and, embedded in the Hardiness Inventory, measures of current illness as a result of exposure to the basement room. Half the participants were met by a confederate student who claimed to be cleaning up the remains of a production of “Lawrence of Arabia,” and the other half were met by a confederate construction worker who claimed that “The stuff will tear up your skin and your lungs. ” Those in the experimental groups who perceived danger and scored low in the hardiness dimension of challenge were more likely to report symptoms of illness. Willingness to file a law suit was predicted by a model including perceived danger and the personality characteristic of anger reactivity.
The GOODS-N Jansky VLA 10 GHz Pilot Survey: Sizes of Star-forming μJY Radio Sources

Our sensitive ( ), high-resolution (FWHM ), 10 GHz image covering a single Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) primary beam (FWHM ) in the GOODS-N field contains 32 sources with and optical and/or near-infrared (OIR) counterparts. Most are about as large as the star-forming regions that power them. Their median FWHM major axis is , with rms scatter . In units of the effective radius that encloses half their flux, these radio sizes are , with rms scatter . These sizes are smaller than those measured at lower radio frequencies, but agree with dust emission sizes measured at mm/sub-mm wavelengths and extinction-corrected Hα sizes. We made a low-resolution ( ) image with better brightness sensitivity, in order to detect extended sources and measure matched-resolution spectral indices . It contains six new sources with and OIR counterparts. The median redshift of all 38 sources is . The 19 sources with 1.4 GHz counterparts have a median spectral index of , with rms scatter . Including upper limits on α for sources not detected at 1.4 GHz flattens the median to , suggesting that the μJy radio sources at higher redshifts—and hence those selected at higher rest-frame frequencies—may have flatter spectra. If the non-thermal spectral index is , the median thermal fraction of sources selected at median rest-frame frequency is ≳48%.
A Staged Feasibility Study of a Novel Vaginal Bowel Control System for the Treatment of Accidental Bowel Leakage in Adult Women

Background Accidental bowel leakage, or fecal incontinence, impacts the quality of life in women of all ages. A minimallyinvasive vaginal bowel control system was designed to reduce accidents and provides a new health care option for women. Methods A feasibility study was conducted to evaluate fit, patient comfort, and ease-of-use of this novel vaginal bowel control therapy at home to better inform device design, treatment delivery, and the design of a subsequent pivotal clinical trial protocol. Staged evaluations were performed in women without and with self-reported accidental bowel leakage of any severity. Wear duration progressed from an initial one-time, in-office fitting to extended-wear periods at home. Device-related adverse events were collected in all subjects exposed to the device. Treatment responses were collected at baseline and after 1-month wear in women with accidental bowel leakage. Additionally, device comfort and satisfaction were assessed. You can submit your Manuscripts at: https://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/submitManuscript.php
Carboxy-terminal cleavage of the human foamy virus Gag precursor molecule is an essential step in the viral life cycle

Foamy viruses (FVs) express the Gag protein as a precursor with a molecular mass of 74 kDa (pr74) from which a 70-kDa protein (p70) is cleaved by the viral protease. To gain a better understanding of FV Gag protein processing and function, we have generated and analyzed mutants in the C-terminal gag region of an infectious molecular clone. Our results show that p70 is an N-terminal cleavage product of pr74. However, we were unable to identify a p4 molecule. A virus mutant expressing p70 only was found to be replication competent, albeit at very low titers compared to those of wild-type virus. A strong tendency to synthesize and cleave a pr74 molecule was deduced from the occurrence of revertants upon transfection of this mutant. Substitution of the p6gag domain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 for the p4 domain of FV resulted in a stable chimeric virus which replicated to titers 10 times lower than those of wild-type virus. FV Gag protein was found to be phosphorylated at serine residues. Mutagenesis of serines conserved in the p4 domain had no influence on viral replication in cell culture. The p70/p74 Gag cleavage was found to be required for viral infectivity, since mutagenesis of the putative cleavage site led to replication-incompetent virus. Interestingly, the cleavage site mutants were defective in the intracellular cDNA synthesis of virion DNA, which indicates that correct FV particle formation and the generation of virion DNA are functionally linked.
Comparing Values of Manufactured and Equivalent Site-Built Homes in the Rural United States

Abstract This study examined the owner-reported market value of owned manufactured homes on owned land at the time of the survey and compared those data to self-reported market values for equivalent site-built homes. The data came from the 2009 American Housing Survey, and the sample included owned manufactured homes and site-built homes situated on owned properties that otherwise had equivalent characteristics. We considered homes located in rural areas (non-Metropolitan Statistical Areas) because rural areas comprise a majority of the manufactured home market. The hedonic price analysis was enhanced by the propensity score technique to compare property values of each type of home while accounting for the differences in house characteristics between the two structural types. The findings confirmed the owner-reported market value of manufactured homes were about a quarter of the value of otherwise comparable site-built homes located in rural areas, and the measured difference in owner-reported market values was slightly more when the propensity score technique was not utilized.
Foreign-owned versus domestically-owned firms: evidence from Greece

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether foreign-owned firms perform significantly better than domestically-owned firms using panel data for 177 Greek manufacturing and trading firms listed on the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece, for the period 1995-2000. The t-test results indicate that there are significant differences in terms of return on assets, return per employees, size, age and efficiency index. Moreover, the fixed effects method is applied to investigate if there are differences in those factors affecting the profitability of foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms. The Chow test proves that the two different groups exist. The results show that the profitability of domestically-owned firms increases when there is a high level of growth and an efficient use of borrowed capital, while the profitability of foreign-owned firms increases with an efficient use of sales promotion expenditures and an efficient access to the innovation activity of its parent organization, without spending on R&D in the host country.
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF TURKISH CAPITAL MARKETS: INSTITUTIONS, LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS

It is argued in the law and finance literature that legal framework is an important determinant in the development of capital markets. With this in mind, this study aims to classify the Turkish financial system according to an institutional and legal framework and offers a possible explanation for the underdevelopment of the Turkish capital markets. First, the current legal system in Turkey with respect to shareholder rights is quantified and then a cluster analysis is employed on this quantified data. The findings suggest that Turkey’s current legal system is closer to that of civil-law countries, where the legal protection of shareholders is the worst. However, forthcoming regulations in the financial sphere have the potential to transform the usual way of doing business in Turkey. A crude interpretation of the cluster analysis shows Turkey converging to the common law countries with respect to the protection of shareholders rights after the new commercial law takes effect on 01.07. 2012.
Social Marketing: An Approach to Planned Social Change

I 1952, G . D. Wiebe raised the quest ion " W h y can ' t you sell brotherhood like you sell s o a p ? " ( l ) This s ta tement impl ies that sellers of commodi t i e s such as soap are general ly effective, whi le "se l le r s" of social causes are general ly ineffective. Wiebe examined four social campa igns to de te rmine what condi t ions or characterist ics accounted for their relat ive success or lack of success . He found that the more the condi t ions of the social campa ign resembled those of a product campaign , the more successful the social campaign . However , because many social campaigns are conSOCIAL MARKETING: AN APPROACH TO PLANNED SOCIAL CHANGE
Use of Dual-Wavelength Radar for Snow Parameter Estimates

Abstract Use of dual-wavelength radar, with properly chosen wavelengths, will significantly lessen the ambiguities in the retrieval of microphysical properties of hydrometeors. In this paper, a dual-wavelength algorithm is described to estimate the characteristic parameters of the snow size distributions. An analysis of the computational results, made at X and Ka bands (T-39 airborne radar) and at S and X bands (CP-2 ground-based radar), indicates that valid estimates of the median volume diameter of snow particles, D0, should be possible if one of the two wavelengths of the radar operates in the non-Rayleigh scattering region. However, the accuracy may be affected to some extent if the shape factors of the gamma distribution used for describing the particle distribution are chosen far from the true values or if cloud water attenuation is significant. To examine the validity and accuracy of the dual-wavelength radar algorithms, the algorithms are applied to the data taken from the Convective and Precipita.
Evaluating Psychosocial and Behavioral Mechanisms of Change in a Tailored Communication Intervention

This study examined the impact of a tailored nutrition intervention at 3 and 6 months postintervention. In all, 357 Latinas were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a control condition comprised of previously developed Spanish language targeted materials, (2) tailored print materials, or (3) tailored print materials accompanied by personalized dietary counseling via lay heath advisors ( promotoras). At 6 months postintervention, significant group by time interactions were observed on the dietary behavioral strategies scales. The promotora condition resulted in significant behavior change initially; however, receipt of tailored and control materials was instrumental in continued behavior change after intervention activities had ceased. Group main effects suggested that the promotora condition was superior at reducing barriers and improving family interactions supporting healthy behaviors. The promotora model is an effective method for changing important dietary behaviors and psychosocial determinants, but longer term behavior change is achievable with less expensive intervention methods.
Multicentric B-cell Lymphoma and Disseminated Atherosclerosis in

| A 5-year old, 258-kg-weight, mixed thoroughbred gelding was found acute death with abdominal enlargement caused by hemorrhagic strangulated enteritis and colic. Necropsy and histopathology revealed multicentric lymphoma involving spleen and abdominal lymph nodes, disseminated atherosclerosis of vena cava, aorta and myocardium and metastatic calcification. Immunohistochemistry was performed in order to categorize immunophenotype of T-cell and Bcell lymphoma. This case was diagnosed as multicentric low grade B-cell lymphoma. In addition, pathogenesis of lymphoma associated with disseminated atherosclerosis of this case was discussed.