Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on user-generated content

User-generated content where content is created and shared among consumers is of key importance to marketers. This study investigates consumer intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to understand why people create user-generated branded video content. Specifically, we examine the role of altruism (individual difference – intrinsic motivation), social benefits (extrinsic reward), and economic incentives (extrinsic reward) on intentions to create user-generated content. Results show that extrinsic rewards (economic incentives) result in more positive intentions to create user-generated content than intrinsic motivations. However, an effect for altruism is also evident revealing that high altruism consumers are more likely to create positive user-generated content. The implication of these findings is that marketers wanting to encourage user-generated content about their brands should target high altruism consumers and offer economic incentives for content creation.
The impact of packaging, price and brand awareness on brand loyalty: Evidence from the paint retailing industry

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of packaging, price and brand awareness on brand loyalty. Rationale: The study sought to extend empirical evidence on the association between brand loyalty and product-related factors: packaging, price and brand awareness. Methodology: The study adopted a quantitative survey approach and was conducted in a paint retailing environment. Data were elicited from a conveniently selected sample of 212 consumers who purchased various brands of paint. Regression analysis and the one-way analysis of variance test were conducted to investigate the impact of packaging, price and brand awareness on brand loyalty. Findings: Packaging, price and brand awareness showed significant positive relationships with brand loyalty, which implied their significant predictive influence on brand loyalty. The results suggest that management should, inter alia, initiate and implement effective packaging, pricing and brand awareness in order to enhance consumers’ brand loyalty to the company’s products. Value of research: The research provides valuable insights to managers of companies on the need to continuously enhance their products’ packaging with competitive pricing strategies in order to improve brand awareness and brand loyalty and remain competitive in the market. The study also provides evidence of the relationship between brand loyalty and packaging, price and brand awareness in a South African context. Conclusion: The marketing success of businesses depends on their ability to continuously enhance their products’ packaging with competitive pricing and brand awareness strategies in order to improve brand loyalty. Future studies should be extended to other retailing environments and product categories.
A comparison of service quality in the banking industry: Some evidence from Turkish‐ and Greek‐speaking areas in Cyprus

Purpose – To analyze and compare service quality in the commercial banking sector of a small island economy – Cyprus and to investigate the relationship between overall bank customer satisfaction in the Turkish‐ and Greek‐speaking areas of Cyprus and positive word‐of‐mouth about their banks.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 268 commercial bank customers responded to a Greek and Turkish translated version of the SERVQUAL instrument. After descriptive and factor analysis, multivariate regression was used to estimate the impact of service quality dimensions on overall customer satisfaction and word of mouth.Findings – The responsiveness dimension failed to load and thus the SERVQUAL scale proved to be of a four‐dimensional structure in this study. Research results revealed that the expectations of bank customers in both areas were not met and that the largest gap was found in the empathy dimension. The assurance dimension had the largest influence on customer satisfaction and overall satisfaction of b.
MODERATING EFFECTS OF PRODUCT HETEROGENEITY BETWEEN ONLINE WORD-OF-MOUTH AND HOTEL SALES

In online markets, Word-of-Mouth (WOM) plays a very important role in shoppers’ online purchasing decisions, especially for experience goods. Hotels, as a form of service product, are intangible and cannot be evaluated before consumption, which makes WOM even more important. Several studies focus on the influence of online WOM on business performance. However, little attention has so far been paid to the asymmetric effect of WOM resulting from product heterogeneity in service industries. Hotel products can be classified by star ratings, with their services heterogeneous across different classifications. This study investigates the moderating effect of hotel star rating on the relationship between WOM and sales performance. To address the challenge of missing data, we conduct our empirical study using the difference-in-difference approach. Data about 1,689 hotels were collected from two major online travel agencies in China. We show that both the average rating of online WOM and rating variance have a significant impact on sales, and this effect is significantly moderated by hotel star rating. WOM has more impact on sales for hotels with lower rather than higher star ratings. The findings will help researchers and practitioners to understand more about the asymmetric impact of online WOM on service products.
Comparison of topographical patterns of ganglion and photoreceptor cell differentiation in the retina of the zebrafish, Danio rerio

Earlier studies suggested retinal differentiation in the zebrafish commences ventrally rather than centrally as is the case in other vertebrates. Here we describe the topographical spread of cell differentiation for ganglion cells, double cones and rods in the zebrafish retina between 36 and 72 hours postfertilization (hpf), by using immunohistochemical markers in retinal wholemounts. Staining for all three cell types commenced within the ventral retina on the nasal side of the optic nerve and choroid fissure, at 38 hpf for ganglion cells and 50 hpf for double cones and rods. Within 3 to 4 hours, the staining of ganglion cells and double cones spread in a continuous wave‐like fashion into the nasal region of the ventral retina. After this time, the staining patterns for ganglion cells and double cones progressed dorsally into the central and temporal retina. Finally, stained somata of ganglion cells were observed within the temporal‐ventral region by ∼48 hpf, more than 8 hours later than the first ganglion cells within the nasal retina. The topographical spread of double cone staining was slightly less orderly. After staining had extended into the nasal retina between 50 and 54 hpf, a small group of stained double cones often appeared at the temporal edge of the choroid fissure by 56 hpf, simultaneously with initial staining observed dorsal and temporal to the optic nerve.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is: Treasury Shares as Currency

This paper examines the historical question of whether treasury shares and newly issued shares are equivalent by considering their use in stock based M&A transactions. We quantify the differential market response to M&A announcements when bidders have sufficient currency in the form of cash or treasury shares to execute the deal versus bidders with insufficient currency. We confirm prior findings of a nonnegative market reaction to cash mergers of public targets and determine that this finding holds irrespective of the sufficiency of their currency on hand. In addition, we find that the presence of sufficient currency at the date of a stock M&A announcement leads to a significantly more favorable market reaction for public targets. Our results demonstrate that the legal equivalency of treasury and newly issued shares does not extend to these forms of currencies being economically equivalent.
Can favorable psychosocial work conditions and high work dedication protect against the occurrence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders?

OBJECTIVES This study investigated whether work dedication and job resources are longitudinally related to work-related musculoskeletal disorders and whether job resources buffer the impact of job demands on these disorders? METHODS Data were used from a longitudinal three-phase study (2004, 2005, 2006) on health at work among a sample of Dutch workers. The first survey was sent in 2004 by e-mail to 3100 members of an existing panel. For the analyses, 1522 participants were included with full longitudinal data. The analyses were performed using an autoregressive model with generalized estimating equations. RESULTS The job-resource quality of communication was found to predict the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders over time. This effect was not mediated by work dedication. A high quality of communication was also found to buffer the negative effects of a high physical workload on the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Furthermore, a low level of social support by colleagues was found to buffer the negative effect of a medium physical workload on work-related musculoskeletal disorders. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that job resources are not only important for promoting work dedication, but may also moderate the negative impact of high job demands on the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. With respect to social support, the question is raised of whether this can also work negatively. The results of this study imply that, besides avoiding or reducing risks to health in the workplace and lowering job demands, strengthening job resources may additionally buffer harmful effects of job demands on musculoskeletal health.
Pauli problem for a spin of arbitrary length: A simple method to determine its wave function.

The problem of determining a pure state vector from measurements is investigated for a quantum spin of arbitrary length. Generically, only a finite number of wave functions is compatible with the intensities of the spin components in two different spatial directions, measured by a Stern-Gerlach apparatus. The remaining ambiguity can be resolved by one additional well-defined measurement. This method combines efficiency with simplicity: only a small number of quantities have to be measured and the experimental setup is elementary. Other approaches to determine state vectors from measurements, also known as the ``Pauli problem,'' are reviewed for both spin and particle systems.
Managerial Entrenchment: Modelisation and Impact on the Shareholders' Wealth

The aim of this article is to measure the degree of managerial entrenchment and to study its impact on the performance of the firm. The modeling of the entrenchment's degree is based both on the personal characteristics of the manager and on the ownership structure of the firm. According to our empirical studies carried on 815 firms during the period 2001-2004, the entrenchment's degree depends significantly on the age and the tenure of the manager as well as the relative power of the managerial ownership. Moreover, the relation between the managerial entrenchment and the performance of the firm isn't linear. It takes the form of a harmful entrenchment then of a beneficial one as the entrenchment's degree increases. This shows that the managerial entrenchment isn't always harmful to shareholders wealth. Empirically, by exceeding a certain critical level (0.81), the managerial entrenchment becomes beneficial to the shareholders.
Long-acting atypical injectable antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: safety and tolerability review

Importance of the field: Although atypical antipsychotics have beneficial efficacy and tolerance, non-adherence and partial adherence remain in patients treated for schizophrenia. Long-acting injectable or depot atypical antipsychotics offer better medication adherence and tolerability advantages. Currently, two drugs are available for the treatment of schizophrenia, risperidone long-acting injectable (RLAI) and olanzapine pamoate (OP). Areas covered in this review: Short- and long-term safety and tolerability data on RLAI and OP from January 2006 through September 2009 were reviewed by performing Medline and PubMed searches, reviewing abstracts and poster presentations, and viewing available material from the FDA and European Medicines Agency. What the reader will gain: RLAI and OP show good short- and long-term safety when treating patients with schizophrenia, with uncommon discontinuation due to adverse effects. RLAI and OP data show rare problems with injection site reactions and patients exposed to injectable treatments prefer to continue injections. Infrequent but serious post-injection delirium sedation syndrome occurred after 1% of OP injections. Weight gain was generally higher among patients treated with OP versus RLAI. Take home message: Healthcare providers, patients and family members should be made aware of the safety and benefits of long-acting injectable atypical antipsychotics in order to diminish the unnecessary restrictions of these therapies for patients with schizophrenia.
Effects of the stage and number of lactation on milk yield of dairy cows kept in open barn during high temperatures in summer months

Abstract. Objective of this paper was evaluating the effect of high temperatures on production of milk of dairy cows in southern Moravia (Czech Republic, East Central Europe). We tested hypotheses that the milk efficiency of dairy cows kept in free-stall open barn without supplemental cooling is influenced of a month of summer period, lactation stage (LS) and lactation number (LN) of dairy cows. 193 Holstein cows were used. Three stages were stated according to the days in milk at the July 1: Stage 1-peak (0-50 d); Stage 2-mid lactation (51-120 d); Stage 3-late lactation (121-200 d). We found 63 summer (SumD) and 14 tropical days (TropD), 86 days with the temperature-humidity index (THI) above 72.0, and 26 days with the THI above 78.0, from May to September. The average monthly milk yields were statistically differed (P
An empirical study of the effects of uncertainty on SME manufacturers

This research examines how and to what extent uncertainty affects SME manufacturers who plan and schedule their production using MRP, MRPII or ERP systems. The results show consistent tardy delivery performance, reinforcing that there is a shortage of guidance and knowledge on how to tackle uncertainty in these SMEs. We propose a business model for SME manufacturers to enable diagnosis of causes of uncertainty so that they can be dealt with effectively and efficiently. The business model is applied using a questionnaire survey in 51 SMEs in the UK and the empirical results provide the SME manufacturers with a reference on which causes of uncertainty are more likely to result in tardy delivery. Using a real case study, simulation modelling and experimental study, the results show that knowing the significant causes of uncertainty does add value to the decision-making of the SME manufacturers in tackling uncertainty.
Umbilical Cord Blood Changes in Neonates from a Preeclamptic Pregnancy

During pregnancy, mother's well-being affects directly the newborn development. Some maternal and placental complications, such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia (PE), preterm delivery and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), may contribute to fetal growth deviations or fetal development modifications. Usually the newborn weight correlates positively with placenta weight, showing the interaction between the development of placenta and fetal growth.
A unified deep modeling approach to simultaneous speech dereverberation and recognition for the reverb challenge

We propose a unified deep neural network (DNN) approach to achieve both high-quality enhanced speech and high-accuracy automatic speech recognition (ASR) simultaneously on the recent REverberant Voice Enhancement and Recognition Benchmark (RE-VERB) Challenge. These two goals are accomplished by two proposed techniques, namely DNN-based regression to enhance reverberant and noisy speech, followed by DNN-based multi-condition training that takes clean-condition, multi-condition and enhanced speech all into consideration. We first report on superior objective measures in enhanced speech to those listed in the 2014 REVERB Challenge Workshop. We then show that in clean-condition training, we obtain the best word error rate (WER) of 13.28% on the 1-channel REVERB simulated evaluation data with the proposed DNN-based pre-processing scheme. Similarly we attain a competitive single-system WER of 8.75% with the proposed multi-condition training strategy and the same less-discriminative log power spectrum features used in the enhancement stage. Finally by leveraging upon joint training with more discriminative ASR features and improved neural network based language models a state-of-the-art WER of 4.46% is attained with a single ASR system, and single-channel information. Another state-of-the-art WER of 4.10% is achieved through system combination.
Improving the service operations of container terminals

Purposes – In the relevant literature about container terminals (CTs), most studies focused on the internal operational management of CT operators. In practice, for improving the performance of CT operators, the external customers’ requirements should also be considered. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the improvement of service operations of CTs from users’ requirement perspectives.Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the customer requirements for container terminal are first examined. Based on the customer requirements, a quality function deployment (QFD) model is then constructed to translate the customer requirements into service operations of the container terminals, by which CT operators may make policies to improve their service operations. As an empirical study, the container terminal of Yang‐Ming Shipping Line (YML CT) at Kaohsiung Port and its users were investigated to validate the model.Findings – The result proposes 19 customer requirement attributes from users’ perspectives a.
Does Board of Director’s Characteristics Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from Malaysian Public Listed Companies

The aim of this study is to answer the question: “do board characteristics affect firm performance? ” There are six board of directors’ characteristics being studied, including managerial ownership, board size, board independence, CEO duality, gender diversity and ethnic diversity. Return on Equity (ROE) is used as a measurement for firm financial performance. There are 300 Malaysian public listed companies being randomly selected from each sector. The results show that board size and ethnic diversity have positive relationship with ROE while board independence has negative relationship. There is no significant relationship between managerial ownership, CEO duality and gender diversity on firm performance. The findings may provide some implications for future research regarding the effectiveness of board of directors towards firm performance.
Effects of Information Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Continuous Intention to use in Social Commerce

Social commerce has not been studied in depth as it is a more common recent phenomenon. Especially, social commerce has not been examined academically in terms of information quality despite its importance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of information quality on customer satisfaction and continuous intention to buy in social commerce market. This study addresses two research questions as following. First, this study aims to examine the effects of information quality on customer satisfaction and then investigate the relationship between customer satisfaction and continuous intention to use in social commerce market. According to the result of analysis, all aspects of information quality except price information quality were found to be significantly related to the customer satisfaction. Finally, customer satisfaction was shown to be significantly related to the continuous intention to use. This study has academic and practical significance in that it analyses the customer satisfaction in terns of information quality and then provides strategic guide for enhancing customer satisfaction in rapidly developing social commerce market.
Strategies for achieving success for innovative versus incremental new services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether managers should have a different approach for the development of very innovative services from that of incremental new services.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a large‐scale survey to examine hotel innovation projects to gain insight about the impact of level of innovativeness on the factors that are linked to new service success and failure.Findings – The research results show that there are two global success factors regardless of their degree of newness – market attractiveness and strategic human resources management. Several other factors, however, are found to influence the outcome of incremental projects, such as: service advantage, empowerment, training of employees, behavior‐based evaluation, tangible quality and marketing synergy. For very innovative new hotel services, market responsiveness and pre‐launch activities are found to be related to success.Research limitations/implications – Further research should investig.
A 25-year longitudinal, comparison study of the outcome of depression

Background. There is still a relative paucity of information about the long-term course of depression. Methods. Consecutive patients admitted to a teaching hospital psychiatry unit with symptoms of depression, previously assessed at 6 months and 2, 5 and 15 years after index admission, were reviewed at 25 years (N = 49, including eight informants of deceased probands, of an original 145 with major depression (DEPs)). Prospective psychiatric (N = 22) and retrospective surgical (N = 50) control groups assessed after 25 years were used for comparison. Results. A further decade of follow-up confirmed the chronicity of depression. Of depressed patients (DEPs) followed for the full 25-year-period only 12% of the 49 original DEPs recovered and remained continuously well, 84% experienced recurrences, 2% experienced an unremitting course and another 2% died by suicide. Note that in the first 15-year-period 6% (9/145 DEPs) committed suicide, a further 38 died and 32 were lost to follow-up. They experienced an average of three episodes of depression over the 25 years. In the decade since the 15-year follow-up, 27% improved in clinical outcome (including four of five previously chronically depressed patients), 55% remained unchanged and 18% worsened; and the number of episodes per year declined. Patients initially diagnosed with neurotic or endogenous depression had similar long-term outcomes. The criteria for a current DSM-III-R disorder were met by 37% of DEPs, including 11% with depression or dysthymia. On the global assessment of functioning scale 78% of the DEPs had some impairment compared to 62% of psychiatric controls and 40% of surgical controls. Conclusion. Even after 25 years, severe depressive disorders appear to have poor long-term outcomes. Patients with chronic outcomes over 15 years can improve when followed over longer periods.